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.

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 ...

NEW YORK -- The crane of a boom truck broke off the vehicle at a construction site in the Bronx Tuesday, crushing a car that was stopped at a traffic light. It happened around 10:30 a.m. The driver, ...

The boom of a tower crane, with its engine on fire, collapsed July 26 at a high-rise construction site in midtown Manhattan—hitting the face of the building across the street as it dropped its 16-ton ...

BOROUGH PARK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A part of a construction crane snapped and fell onto a roof in Brooklyn on Thursday afternoon. It happened 1442 44th St. just after 2:30 p.m. Department of Buildings ...

Training to operate the crane is up next, followed by attracting a new cargo to the port, he said. The crane has a 124-foot tower and a 173-foot boom and can lift 140 metric tons, Faucher said. “It’s ...

BARTOW, Fla. (WSVN) — A Florida homeowner couldn’t believe his eyes when part of a massive crane came crashing down on his house. The 80-ton crane’s boom snapped, sending a huge chunk of a tree ...

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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: ...