International Business News - Crane http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif The federal government is to announce it will require crane operators nationwide to pass a certification test in its first update of crane regulations in nearly four decades, officials said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080918/apnewsbreak-feds-to-release-new-crane-rules.htm Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:51:10 EDT A federal agency hit three construction firms with penalties totaling $313,500 on Monday for alleged safety violations leading to a tower crane collapse that killed seven people last March. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080916/3-construction-firms-fined-for-nyc-crane-collapse.htm Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:08:32 EDT A federal agency hit three construction firms with penalties totaling $313,500 on Monday for alleged safety violations leading to a tower crane collapse that killed seven people last March. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080915/3-construction-firms-fined-for-nyc-crane-collapse.htm Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:00:41 EDT Crane Co., a diversified maker of highly engineered industrial products, said Monday it acquired Delta Fluid Products Ltd. for $28 million cash. Delta, which makes regulators and fire safe valves for the gas industry, and safety valves and air vent valves for the building services market, employs about 220 people at its base in St. Helens, England. Its sales this year will be an estimated $37 million, Crane said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080915/crane-buys-delta-fluid-products-for-28-million.htm Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:08:59 EDT The crane company involved in a fatal accident at Kansas City Power & Light's Iatan power plant in Platte County has been fined $14,000 for two serious violations. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080909/crane-company-fined-in-fatal-accident-at-mo-plant.htm Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:51:05 EDT A crane lowering a heavy length of pipe toppled Thursday morning at a city water pumping station on the Trinity River in Dallas, injuring two city workers. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080828/2-injuries-reported-after-crane-topples-in-dallas.htm Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:22:04 EDT The boom of a construction crane smashed into a light-rail commuter train Wednesday, injuring the driver and five passengers, including a 10-year-old girl, officials said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080828/crane-hits-canadian-commuter-train-injuring-6.htm Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:51:48 EDT The boom of a construction crane smashed into a light-rail commuter train Wednesday, injuring the driver and five passengers, including a 10-year-old girl, officials said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080827/crane-hits-canadian-commuter-train-injuring-6.htm Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:42:12 EDT Fred Crane, the one-time actor whose Southern accent won him a slot as one of Scarlett O'Hara's beaux and the opening line in "Gone With the Wind," has died. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080825/actor-with-gone-with-the-wind-opening-line-dies.htm Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:55:48 EDT The leg of a giant crane being dismantled at a shipyard collapsed on Thursday, killing an ironworker, a city official said. Workers had been dismantling the 25-story crane known as Goliath for several weeks at the Fore River Shipyard in preparation for its shipment to Romania. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080815/crane-leg-collapses-in-mass-shipyard-1-dead.htm Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:14:45 EDT The leg of a giant crane being dismantled at a shipyard collapsed on Thursday, killing an ironworker, a city official said. Workers had been dismantling the 25-story crane known as Goliath for several weeks at the Fore River Shipyard in preparation for its shipment to Romania. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080814/crane-collapses-in-mass-shipyard-1-dead.htm Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:30:56 EDT The crane division of manufacturer Manitowoc Co. Inc. has told operators of one of its models to shut the cranes down because of problems the company says could affect their structural integrity, according to a company bulletin obtained by The Associated Press. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080804/manitowoc-warns-of-problems-with-crane-model.htm Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:30:13 EDT A crane that was removing steel beams to dismantle an old river bridge became overloaded and toppled Wednesday, killing one worker and injuring another. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/101065-crane-collapse.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080730/crane-collapses-on-bridge-in-central-texas.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080730/crane-collapses-on-bridge-in-central-texas.htm Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:06:03 EDT Industrial products company Crane Co. said Monday that its net income rose 29 percent in the second quarter due partly to increased spending for Boeing's 787. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080728/crane-co-income-rises-29-percent-in-2q.htm Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:45:07 EDT Industrial products company Crane Co. said Monday that it will increase its quarterly dividend by 11 percent in the third quarter. That will increase the regular quarterly dividend from 18 cents a share to 20 cents a share, for an indicated annual dividend rate of 80 cents a share. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080728/crane-co-raises-dividend-by-11-percent.htm Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:37:28 EDT Industrial products company Crane Co. said Monday that it has appointed Timothy MacCarrick as its vice president of finance and chief financial officer. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080728/crane-appoints-maccarrick-new-cfo.htm Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:36:07 EDT The state Labor Department plans to develop a set of minimum standards for licensing cranes and crane operators following a crane collapse in which a 79-year-old man was crushed to death in southwest Oklahoma City, Commissioner of Labor Lloyd Fields said Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080728/oklahoma-agency-to-propose-crane-standards.htm Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:03:22 EDT Church members watching the steeple being raised on their new building looked on in horror Thursday as a crane holding the structure toppled, crushing a car and killing a 79-year-old man who had been watching from inside the vehicle, firefighters said. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/97303-crane-collapse.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/okla-crane-fall-kills-man-watching-construction.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/okla-crane-fall-kills-man-watching-construction.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:56:34 EDT Federal investigators on Saturday began trying to figure out why one of the world's largest mobile cranes toppled over, killing four contract workers and injuring seven others. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/94238-refinery-crane-collapse.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080719/crane-collapses-at-houston-refinery-killing-4.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080719/crane-collapses-at-houston-refinery-killing-4.htm Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:38:22 EDT One of the nation's largest mobile cranes collapsed at a Houston oil refinery Friday, killing four workers and injuring seven others in the latest of several fatal accidents that have raised concerns about the safety of construction cranes. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/93836-crane-collapse.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080718/crane-collapses-at-houston-chemical-refinery.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080718/crane-collapses-at-houston-chemical-refinery.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:02:29 EDT