08.03.2010

Telehandler tip in Florida

A telehandler tipped across a road in Melbourne Florida, south west of Orlando, today, the road was blocked for some time but no one was seriously injured.
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The telehandler was spralwed across the road

The operator was travelling on the road near Melbourne airport, with the boom fully elevated and a primitive jib or special fork extension fitted on which a number of long steel joists/roof beams were suspended.

The road was closed while the emergency services recovered the stricken telehandler. The operator received minor injuries.
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The lift was carrying roof trusses

Vertikal Comment

This looks like a classic case of a swinging load on a fully raised, although retracted boom pulling the telehandler over sideways. There is one thing doing this manoeuvre on a closed job site, quite another doing it on the public highway. It is lucky that the machine did not fall on to a car or pedestrian.