An emergency suspension of heavy-lift operations at the Hinkley Point C nuclear construction site averted what safety experts describe as a potentially lethal accident after a crane load failure sent ...

What are the common causes of crane accidents? Cranes are fundamental to various industries, including construction and manufacturing. Operating heavy equipment like cranes involves risks that can ...

Master rigger Mike Parnell walks up to a rack and picks up what looks like a giant rubber band. In reality, it is a 10-ft-long, 2-in.-wide lifting sling made of thin, yellow nylon webbing. Parnell ...

Four fines totaling $62,500 leveled by federal safety officials against the operators of a Harbor Bridge project crane that malfunctioned and burned last year have been challenged and an appeal ...

A rigging failure caused the air conditioning unit being lifted into place at 261 Madison Ave. in Manhattan to fall to the street 28 stories below on May 31, according to an investigator on the scene.

BRATTLEBORO -- After a cooling tower cell collapsed last August at Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, the efficacy of the plant's inspection and maintenance program was called into question by ...