| ILE: ADVISOR | THINK YOU’VE PROTECTED


YOUR COMPANY FROM A WRONGFUL DEATH SUIT… THINK AGAIN!


BY: LARRY DUNVILLE, OVERHEAD CRANE CONSULTING, LLC


THE PROBLEM: Tink you’ve done everything a prudent person should do to make sure your workers are safe? Tink you’ve done everything necessary to protect yourself and your company against a wrongful death suit? Well, I’ve got news for you, it’s not good and here’s why.


In late 2017, I was one of four members of a committee that was charged with creating a test for EOT crane inspectors to attain Inspector Certification by the CCAA (Crane Certification Association of America). I had arranged our first meeting to be a two-hour teleconference between the four members of the committee. Te committee were all CCAA members, and the team was comprised of; • one PE with 40+ years crane experience, • one 30+ year former crane manufacturing company owner (me),


• one inspector that started out with P&H and spent the last 20 years as an owner of his own EOT crane inspection company


• a former EOT crane service manager of 15+ years All in all, over 100 years of EOT crane experience. Part of putting a test together is getting agreement, not only on the test questions but also the answers to those questions. After an hour of discussion, we could only agree on answers and wording to one of the first five test questions. At that point, we stopped and took a step back. We decided it made sense to get agreement on precisely what spec(s) we’re going to use as the our “bible,” before we argue the specific issues.


The specs we tossed about included;


• OSHA 1910.179, Overhead and Gantry Cranes • ASME/ANSI B30.2, Overhead and Gantry Cranes, Top Running Bridge, Single or Multiple Girder, Top Running Hoist


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• ASME/ANSI B30.10, Hooks • ASME/ANSI B30.11, Monorail and Underhung Cranes


• ASME/ANSI B30.16, Overhead Hoists (Underhung)


• ASME/ANSI B30.17, Overhead and Gantry Cranes, Top Running/ Single Girder Underhung Hoists


• ASME/ANSI B30.20, Below the Hook Lifting Devices


• ASME/ANSI BTH, Design of Below the Hook Devices


• CMAA Spec 70, Specification for Top Running & Gantry Type Multiple Girder Electric Overhead Traveling Cranes


• CMAA Spec 74, Specification for Top Running & Under Running Single Girder Electric Traveling Cranes Utilizing Under Running Trolley Hoist


• NEC 70, Article 610, Cranes & Hoists • AIST TR-06, Specification for Electrical Overhead Traveling Cranes for Steel Mills


• AIST-TR-13, Guide for the Design and Construction of Mill Buildings (with cranes)


• Te OSHA Clarifications: periodic letters of clarification issued by OSHA in response to questions submitted to them


• Te ASME B30 Clarifications: periodic letters of interpretation issued by the committee in response to questions sent to them


• Te CMAA Clarifications: periodic letters of clarification published by CMAA in response to questions submitted to them


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