US Customs and Border Protection has launched a formal investigation into Sinoboom North America
15.10.2024 3
UK port operator A&P Falmouth has been fined over £750,000 for a crane incident that occurred in 2017.
14.10.2024
Tadano and its employees have reached an agreement on the future of the Zweibrücken facilities, with employees returning to work this morning.
02.10.2024
At the inquest into the fatal Liverpool mastclimber incident the jury was told that the pinion shafts on both drive motors fractured and then failed UPDATED
19.09.2024
The inquest has started into the death of David and Clayton Bottomley in the UK after their mastclimber dropped 14 floors
18.09.2024
A serious boom lift loading incident in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 2022, has now come to court
16.09.2024
London, UK, based recycling company Veolia ES (UK) has been fined £3 million, plus £60,000 in costs, following a fatal incident almost five years ago involving a boom lift
26.07.2024 2
Oliver Arnold, former owner of UK rental company Quinto Cranes has skipped the country and received a 10 year prison sentence in his absence
19.07.2024 3
Three men were arrested after 3,000kg of cocaine was discovered in a crane at the port of Moerdijk in the Netherlands.
02.07.2024 6
The EU has issued its initial findings into the complaint that Chinese manufacturers have been selling aerial work platforms in Europe at ‘dumping’ prices
17.06.2024 5
In the UK the CPA has written a letter of appeal to the secretary of state for transport regarding the implemantion of movement embargos for cranes and heavy equipment
14.05.2024
Finland’s public prosecutor has decided to press criminal charges against Hiab board member Tapio
03.04.2024
An Italian court has ruled that Manitou Italia infringed a patent held by Magni Telescopic Handlers
05.03.2024
Crane manufacturer Tadano will close its plant in Wallerscheid, Zweibrücken and expand production at its other plants - Updated
15.02.2024
UK rental company Nationwide Platforms, part of Loxam, has been fined £900,000 following a fatal scissor lift incident in 2021
03.01.2024 7
The UK Office for Nuclear Regulation has served an improvement notice on Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure
19.12.2023
Manitou and JCB have called a truce in their legal battle over patent infringements
08.12.2023
UK rental company GAP has won an appeal against the UK’s tax authority - HMRC - over VAT on diesel supplied in its equipment
Alloy tower manufacturer Instant UpRight has cancelled its distribution agreements with Zip-Up Svenska and Instant Norge
28.11.2023
Following requests from JCB, the UK Trade Remedies Authority has opened two investigations into imports of excavators from China
16.11.2023 1
Two French aerial work platform manufacturers have acknowledged the opening of an ‘anti-dumping’ investigation by the European Commission
13.11.2023 9
The UK HSE is taking over the investigation into the explosion at the Teesworks in 2019 which killed two men in a truck mounted platform
10.10.2023
The UK Health and Safety Executive – HSE – has said that it will prosecute Falcon Tower Cranes for the fatal crane overturn in 2017 STATEMENT ADDED
02.10.2023 4
Japanese crane manufacturer Tadano has reached a $43.2 million settlement with the U.S. EPA and Department of Justice
01.09.2023
