CHAMPAIGN – Operating a tower crane isn't for everyone – especially if you're acrophobic, claustrophobic or clumsy. Your whole day is spent in a compact "cabin" about 200 feet in the air. Part of the ...

Chris Stephen doesn't have a job out of this world but it's way up there. "I've been running tower cranes on and off since 2007," he told me in his "office" three hundred feet in the air. Chris is one ...

The winds were out of the south-southwest gusting to 23 miles per hour. At 155 feet in the air, tower crane operator Michael Collins struggled against the cross winds while moving a load of lumber.

Raymond "Paul" Lacrouts' workday begins with a cup of coffee from 7-Eleven and a brief chat with co-workers. The Lehigh Acres resident then grabs his lunchbox and heads up to his office. Way up. As a ...

An RMS Cranes tower located at 21st and California in downtown Denver. It is operated by Aaron Genova. The highest-profile job in Denver these days might just be operating one of the many tower cranes ...

Joe Mondloch’s workplace hinges on where his employer deploys him, confined high in the air like a bat in a cage. Navigating a crane while mounted anywhere from 150 feet to over 800 feet above ground ...

Working 14 hours a day more than 400 feet in the air is just part of the job for tower-crane operator Dennis Herman. But his current gig at the construction site of Ohio State University’s new cancer ...

DENVER — The secret is out: Denver is a great place to live. That’s one reason why Colorado’s population continues to explode. To show that growth, tower cranes dot the city’s landscape. “Five years ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER — If you live in Denver, you know the ...

The National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) has named Sammy Cossairt, a tower crane operator for Maxim Crane Works in Nashville, Tennessee, as its 2025 Tradeswoman of the Year. The award ...