Safety load hook

A safety load hook, comprising:

• a lower part, which defines a hook throat;
• an upper part pivotably fastened to the lower part by a connecting bolt, the upper part pivotable to an open position to allow a load to be suspended in the hook throat of the lower part and pivotable to a closed position that blocks the hook throat of the lower part such that an introduction of the load to be received into the hook throat or removal of a load held in the hook throat is prevented,
• wherein in the closed position, the upper part is blockable in relation to the lower part by a locking arrangement which includes a locking lever with a receiving bore, the locking lever being pivotable about a support bolt arranged in said receiving bore into a release position and into a vertical locked position, is pretensionable into the vertical locked position by a tensioning spring, is fastened to the lower part via the support bolt together with the tensioning spring and is engageable by way of a shaped projection in an associated shaped receiver to the upper part in the locked position,
• wherein the locking lever includes, at a side opposite the shaped projection with reference to the receiving bore, a lever portion, a center of mass of the locking lever lying substantially on the lateral surface of the receiving bore for the support bolt or inside the cross sectional area surrounded by the lateral surface, and the lever portion comprises a free end surface by way of which it is supported on an associated support counter surface on the lower part in the locked position.