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Side Pulling: What is it, and How Can We Prevent it?
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Side Pulling: What is it, and How Can We Prevent it?

Randy Flippen - Technician In normal operation, overhead crane hoists are designed to lift an object at a vertical angle. A side pull is when a…
Crane training: an essential part of crane safety
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Crane training: an essential part of crane safety

Mike Giebler, Technician - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma In today’s industrial environment there is decreasing tolerance for employers and facilities that…
Crane Incident Study
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Crane Incident Study

The Konecranes Training Institute conducted a study to determine the source of overhead crane incidents including an analysis of fatalities and…
Crane safety technology essential part of improving productivity
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Crane safety technology essential part of improving productivity

Marty Walters - Safety Manager Advances in crane safety technology can greatly reduce the risk of accidents that result in injury and property…
Crane safety techniques reduce risks of crane operation
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Crane safety techniques reduce risks of crane operation

Advances in crane safety technology have lowered the risks associated with crane operation, but proper crane safety techniques practiced by crane…
Crane modernization provides the benefits of new equipment at much less than the cost of new
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Crane modernization provides the benefits of new equipment at much less than the cost of new

Theodore Haalstra Director of Modernizations & Technical Support Overhead crane modernizations provide crane owners more functional, productive…
Bar is raised in accident prevention at Nucor Steel
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Bar is raised in accident prevention at Nucor Steel

Nucor Steel Kankakee, one of 14 mini steel mills in the Nucor Bar Mill Group, uses electric arc furnaces to produce reinforcing bars and merchant bar…
Crane technologies that changed history
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Crane technologies that changed history

Scott McCauley - Technical Support Engineer In my nearly 20 years in the overhead crane industry, I have witnessed many revolutionary crane…
How to prevent side pulling on cranes and hoists
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How to prevent side pulling on cranes and hoists

Overhead crane hoists are typically designed to lift objects vertically. Sometimes, however, operators attempt to make a side pull, or use the hoist…