Boom Truck Safety

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• Corporate Authors:
  CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Heavy items can be lifted safely if the boom truck crane is operated properly. Each time the boom lifts a load, its angle changes as it extends, and the crane’s upper deck rotates to swing the load. With that motion, the distance from the load’s center of gravity to the crane’s tipping axis changes. These movements can make a boom truck unstable, especially if the crane’s lift capacity is exceeded. The crane can overturn and the boom can collapse.
  
  CPWR_Boom_Collapse_1.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Construction Materials Containment Of Biohazards Hazardous Substances Occupational Exposure
• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Subseries:
  Toolbox Talk
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  cooperative agreement OH 009762
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20061663
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ee73f3566ae29c2e47f6827db2fbe49c6a1c3af4fdc31d42bc24e1370c7d2a8ce6b7878db1f1c11debf167c2c5fff05631d1ca80cbad93f57d7ded91b07f3b13
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/147137/cdc_147137_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 252.88 KB ]