A façade scaffold collapsed earlier today in Banbury, Oxfordshire, injuring two, one of them seriously
22.10.2026
Two people were rescued from the platform of an articulated boom lift yesterday in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
A man died in Austin, Texas, on Friday, October 9th, after taking a platform too close to overhead power lines
20.10.2026
A man died last Wednesday evening in Houston, Texas, after contacting a power line while working on telecommunication lines
19.10.2026
A crane inspector died last Thursday while carrying out a routine inpection of a tower crane in Bangkok, Thailand
13.10.2026
On Tuesday a mobile self-erecting tower crane collapsed on a site in Ipsach, Biel/Bienne in the Swiss canton of Bern, with the jib coming down across a railway line and a road
08.10.2026
A man died after coming into contact with overhead power lines while using an aerial work platform at a food processing plant in La Calera, near Valparaiso northwest of Santiago, Chile
06.10.2026
The port of Gaum was forced to take three of its ship-to-shore gantry cranes out of service this week, after they were damaged in high winds
It is seven years since John Mackay of Nationwide Platforms and Tommy Williams died in a work platform - still no news from the HSE investigation!
28.09.2026
A boom truck placing tenting onto the roof of a house in Fort Lauderdale overturned onto the building yesterday, while the boom of a rescue crane buckled during the recovery lift
25.09.2026 4
A man died last Monday in the Ostia suburb of Rome, following a structural failure on a small truck mounted work platform
22.09.2026
Two men died in Zurich last Wednesday when a mast sections of the construction hoist they were travelling in parted with the main mast
21.09.2026
A truck driver died in Le Châble, in the Valais, Switzerland on Wednesday, after he was struck by part of a tower crane which fell or overturned while it was being erected
07.09.2026
IPAF has published its Global Safety Report 2026, which shows electrocution & electric shock as the leading cause of fatal and major injury involving powered access equipment
A man was seriously injured earlier this week when he was thrown from an overturning boom lift in the foothills of the Alps, south of Bolzano, Italy
28.08.2026
A man was electrocuted on Tuesday while pruning trees from an aerial work platform in the Ahuntsic district of Montreal, Canada
27.08.2026
A tower crane working on the new ArcelorMittal headquarters in Kirchberg/Luxembourg dropped its load from 60m onto an EU convention centre
26.08.2026
A judgement has been handed down by a court in Melbourne, Australia for a fatal overhead crushing incident that involved the disabling of an anti-entrapment device
25.08.2026
A lineman was electrocuted last week while working from a platform in Henderson, Shiawassee County in Michigan
21.08.2026
A man was injured on Tuesday when a bus clipped the platform he was working from in Glasgow Scotland
20.08.2026 2
Two men died earlier today in Portugal when the boom lift they were working from overturned rearwards, throwing them from the platform
19.08.2026
A man is fighting for his life after surviving an electrical shock and a six metre fall in Tlaquepaque, central Mexico on Tuesday
06.08.2026
We have received photographs and basic information on a crane overturn at a new data centre in Farnborough, southern England
05.08.2026 1
A man was badly injured on Wednesday in the small town of Sunrise Beach, Missouri, between St Louis and Kansas City in the USA
31.07.2026
