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.

Liebherr has developed a boom system, designated SX, for its 750t lattice boom cranes: the LR 1750/2 and LG 1750, to allow them to erect wind turbines beyond the normal limits of their weight class.

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 ...

Texas failed to get through 2021 without more fatal crane accidents, continuing a trend that began decades earlier, public records show. Following a 2019 crane collapse in Dallas that killed a woman ...

The new Link-Belt RTC-80130 Series II 130-ton rough-terrain crane is the largest rough-terrain Link-Belt has ever produced, it says. The new crane uses a five-section, 162-foot formed boom that is ...

National Crane’s NBT45 truck-mounted crane can reach up to 142 feet with its five-section boom. When equipped with a 55-foot boom extension, the combination provides a lifting tip height of 204 feet ...

Side view shows the three interconnected boom sections of the fully assembled and operational “proof-of-concept” CompoTech/RTI carbon fiber composite telescopic crane. Photo Credit, all images: ...

The Scharrel community wind farm at Saterland’s Ostermoor bog in Germany needed to install wind turbines that reach a hub height of almost 489 feet – the largest models of the E-101 series. For the ...