The poor condition of brakes on a 57-ton crane caused an accident that killed two people in Slatington two years ago, an expert witness said yesterday during a preliminary hearing for criminal charges ...

Boeing Co. will pay $18.9 million to Crane Co. for extra work on the 787 Dreamliner's brake software and will gain more control over the system by working directly with the subcontractor in the future ...

German brake manufacturer Pintsch Bubenzer has installed a series of Twin Safe TS800 brakes on two 10,000 tonne capacity cranes, and auxiliary hoists, aboard the semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV), ...

USA-headquartered producer of steel and related products Nucor Corporation has retrofitted its hot metal cranes with emergency brakes from disc and drum brake manufacturer Pintsch Bubenzer in order to ...

Crane Aerospace, a subcontractor to GE Aviation that supplies the brake control system for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, said today that it has to develop a new version of the brake control system ...

A company faces an unlimited fine for corporate manslaughter after the brakes failed on a 130-tonne crane. Operator Lindsay Easton, 49, was crushed to death. He had quit the firm once before because ...

Lindsay Easton was driving the 130-tonne vehicle when he crashed into an earth bank in 2011 A crane hire company has been found guilty of causing a brake failure that killed one of its employees in a ...

A crane hire company has been found guilty of causing a brake failure that killed one of its employees in a crash. Lindsay Easton, 49, was driving a mobile crane at Scout Moor quarry, Edenfield when ...