The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued a final rule extending by three years the deadline for crane operators to be tested. Operators will now have until Nov. 10, 2017, to ...

Companies that test crane operators disagree with each other on the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration's proposal to push back by three years mandatory certification for these workers.

Container cranes are used to load and unload ships in ports and are critical to port operations. Past earthquakes have highlighted the vulnerability of container cranes to damage from even moderate ...

This is part of an occasional series about how companies and emerging technologies are reacting to California’s drought. David Shultz had a 625,000-pound problem on his hands. Or, to be more precise, ...

Crane accidents have risen in New York but declined nationwide May 30, 2008 — -- Tower crane collapses, like the one that killed two people in New York City today, are a relatively infrequent yet ...