The failure of a $40 rigging sling, torn and tattered from years of misuse, was the apparent cause of the East Side crane collapse that killed seven in March, a federal probe reveals. The synthetic ...

...operation, sending a worker falling 39 stories to his death. A brace was also knocked loose in that accident. That mishap, and perhaps the New York City one as well, spurred Miami-Dade County ...

Investigators suspect that a nylon strap may have started a horrifying chain reaction of events that caused a crane to collapse onto other buildings. Yesterday, emergency workers found the bodies of ...

An architect was “lucky to be alive” after a nylon sling snapped off a crane at a downtown construction site yesterday, sending seven tons of steel plunging 25 stories into his office, officials and ...

After four weeks of technical testimony about a deadly crane collapse, a prosecutor tried Monday to focus a judge’s attention on the piece of evidence that has been the center of the prosecution’s ...

I was recently asked a question relating to the installation of a long beam. The beam was to be lifted with one crane using a pair of slings and it had to be installed with one end lower than the ...

The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) recently issued an equipment/safety hazard alert about an incident in which a mechanic sustained injuries when the boom of his service-truck’s ...

Work again has stopped on the Royal Adelaide Hospital construction site after another incident involving cranes. The building consortium says a load being lifted from level four dislodged from a sling ...

Investigators in New York City are focusing on what happened during the jump of a 205-ft-tall tower crane on March 15 when workers apparently lost control of a six-ton bracing collar at the 18th floor ...