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Dartford, UK-based Select was fined £100,000 plus costs of £33,000 at a case at the Old Bailey in Central London after being prosecuted over the incident, which saw the top of the Comedil tower crane fall into the Croydon Park Hotel. This left the crane’s operator with multiple injuries, although no one was killed.
The crane’s cab fell after an erection crew, working to extend the tower, removed fittings and failed to secure the cab with the required bolts and washers.
A crane binder is a structured collection of all safety, operational, and compliance documents related to a specific tower
Safe Work Practices, or SWPs, describe the agreed upon steps crews follow when they operate, inspect, or maintain a tower
Crane attachments play a key role in improving how materials are handled on construction sites and industrial projects. The right
