The construction crane for the building project at 550 10th Ave. was lifting 14,000 pounds of concrete 500 feet above Hudson ...

New York City officials cited an equipment failure as the inciting incident in a chain of events that sent a tower crane's ...

A machine deck fire sent a 180-foot construction crane boom plunging 45 stories to the Midtown Manhattan streets, with terrified pedestrians running for their lives to the terrifying sound of the ...

Manitowoc is expanding its boom insert offering with the new Wide Boom Plus kit for its MLC300 lattice-boom crawler crane. The new inserts will give crane operators extra reach by lengthening their ...

400-ton cranes are common in city centers and industrial zones; they rely on these engineering and construction elements to ...

Terex Cranes has launched an upgrade to its Boom Booster kit for the Demag CC 3800-1 lattice boom crawler crane that increases the maximum system length to 183m and increases lift capacities by up to ...

A Link-Belt HTC-8675 Series II 70 tonne hydraulic truck crane lifting a 27 tonne long-stroke pumping system for sucker-rod pumps in the Bakken Formation near Williston, North Dakota, USA The latest ...

The 150-ton-capacity Link-Belt 238 HSL crawler crane can use a main boom ranging from 50 to 260 feet, in combination with a fixed jib that can range from 30 to 80 feet. Maximum tip height is 310 feet ...

The man, who was a carpenter's helper, was killed on Jan. 30, 2006, while assisting the crane operator in removing pins that secured the lattice boom's 40-foot center section to the base boom section.