Two workers injured in crane accident

Two workers at a company in Kanagawa Prefecture were injured when the 60-meter-long arm of a crane on the premises broke and fell, police said. The...

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Housing market unlikely to bottom before 2012

- U.S. home values posted their largest quarter-over-quarter decline since Q42008, falling 3 percent. Home values have fallen 29.5 percent from their ...

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Jury Awards $1.45 Million in Crane Collapse Case

Crane operator disabled in collapse that killed another man had sought $12 million The Seattle Times reports that a King County jury...

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Essex Crane to restate 2010 results to reflect corrections of errors in accounting

Essex Rental Corp. (Nasdaq:ESSX - News) ("Essex") today announced that the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, based on the recommendation of m...

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Largest Demag shareholder says Terex offer is inadequate

Cevian, the biggest shareholder in Demag Cranes, said an 884-million-euro ($1.3 billion) takeover offer by Terex (TEX.N) was too low, upping the press...

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Construction worker seriously injured by crane on South Side bridge

A construction worker was seriously injured after a crane apparently became tilted and struck him in the chest as he worked on a South Side bridge Mon...

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Fatal accident at National Stadium raises doubts over safety

A construction worker at the National Stadium in Warsaw has died after he fell off a scaffold and plunged 30 metres while assembling the stadium’...

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Private Nonresidential Construction Spending Continues to Climb in March

"The expectation is that privately financed construction volumes will continue to rebound gradually into the summer." —ABC Chief Economist Anirban Bas...

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Appeals Court Upholds OSHA Fall Protection Directive

A federal appeals court has rejected a legal challenge by the National Roofing Contractors Association to OSHA’s directive on the use of fall pr...

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Manitex wins approval to acquire CVS Ferrari

Manitex International, Inc. (Nasdaq: MNTX), a leading provider of engineered lifting solutions including boom truck cranes, rough terrain forklifts, c...

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