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Tom Barth has dedicated his life to crane safety. A crane operator, inspector, trainer and accident investigator with 38 years in the industry, Tom is committed to helping operators and companies make their workplace safer. With his background in tower cranes, crawlers, truck cranes, harbor cranes and more, and working in some of the harshest conditions on the planet, he brings a unique combination of knowledge, skills and dedication to the field of crane safety.
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Heavy winds folded a construction crane over a building. The ball of the crane landed on the jail next door. When in doubt, Don't Whip it out! |
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On land or water you have to stay in the load chart. See the results of not staying in the load chart on water. |
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This accident happened when the operator was on a cell phone and operating in override mode on the computer. After the accident the crane operator was told to leave his cell phone in his car, and he had to keep his headset on all the time to keep in touch with the signal people and to keep his cab clean. This was too much for him and he quit and found another job in two days. Doesn't management know how much stress they put on this crane operator expecting him to do the right thing? |
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A brand new crane was to remove a cap off the coker unit. Lucky no-one was hurt, but someone lost their pride as a crane operator. |
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Images courtesy of www.liftandaccess.com. |
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Yes, you are seeing this correctly; the crane truck IS driving along a road with the boom raised; and YES, that is a load of roof trusses swinging on the hook! | |
Crane operator may get 30 years in prison for running a defective crane without a load chart, and a home made boom. Look at the boom. | |
Only in South Carolina would a contractor use a home-made jib on a school project while the children are in the classroom. |
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Two accidents for one crane. The first accident happened because of the wrong function of the limit switch of the boom angle. Middle jib was broken in the welded part joint. After the construction of the middle jib for not obeying the static rules & using the alloy with inferior quality the second accident happened. |
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A Must Read If You Are Taking Short CutsArticle published Friday, April 7, 2006Fru-Con has paid $11.25M in crane-collapse deathsBy MARK REITER BLADE STAFF WRITERFru-Con Construction Corp. paid a total of $11.25 million in wrongful death claims, attorney fees, and other expenses to the families of three of four ironworkers killed in the 2004 collapse of a truss crane used to build the new I-280 bridge. |
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No information available about this mishap. |
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