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 ...

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 ...

As local and federal officials dive into the cause of a deadly crane collapse in Everett last week, a Denver-based forensic ...

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Mechanical failure combined with strong winds brought down a crane late Friday morning at the site East End Bridge construction, a spokeswoman for the Ohio River Bridges ...

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 ...

Bigge Crane & Rigging Co. and a company engineer, Claus Frederiksen, are the targets of a lawsuit, filed by both Entergy Arkansas and Entergy Operations, that claims the heavy-lift contracting giant ...

Officials have identified the two workers killed after a crane collapsed at an industrial site in Everett on Friday afternoon ...

Undetected corrosion and wear led to an equipment failure on a cargo ship while offloading cargo last year in Houston, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said. On July 23, 2022, the cargo ...

A crane’s load at a Manhattan skyscraper is back on the ground after a mechanical failure left it suspended more than 400 feet above West 57th Street. The hoisting equipment for a tower crane at the ...