Lifting gear failures not always the equipment’s fault
Given an unexpected crane failure, crew might assume the problem lay with the equipment – but that’s not always justified: “Operators can sometimes spend a lot of money pursuing the designers for a design fault, but we often find it’s been caused by exceeding the crane’s parameters,” said Chris Dyson of Brookes Bell.
Given an unexpected crane failure, crew might assume the problem lay with the equipment – but that’s not always justified: “Operators can sometimes spend a lot of money pursuing the designers for a design fault, but we often find it’s been caused by exceeding the crane’s parameters,” said Chris Dyson of Brookes Bell.
