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
A man died in West Grey, Ontario, Canada, on Tuesday after the boom lift he was working from came contacted an overhead power line
30.07.2026
An electrician died on Saturday in a scissor lift entrapment incident
28.07.2026
A man has died in a crane incident at a wind farm construction site in Blackford County, northeast of Indianapolis in Indiana
27.07.2026
A man died on Saturday after taking the platform of his truck mounted aerial lift too close to live high voltage overhead power lines in El Dorado, Kansas
23.07.2026 1
An STS, Ship to Shore gantry crane collapsed on Sunday at the Port of Tyne in the UK after it was struck by a ship
23.07.2026
A lineman working for a utility in New Jersey was thrown from his platform after the lower boom of his truck mounted lift was clipped by a passing truck
14.07.2026
A number of readers have sent us information about a tragic incident that occurred in the Puzhal area of Chennai, India, on Saturday evening
13.07.2026
A man died in Hong Kong last week when an excavator lifting bundles of steel tubes overturned
08.07.2026 2
A fire crew in Ann Arbor, Michigan were called on to rescue a man stranded in the platform of a trailer lift on Wednesday
03.07.2026
German rental company MeyerLift has taken delivery of a second 70m Ruthmann T 700 HF truck mount
A regular visitor was caught up in a loader crane overturn in Luxembourg last week
24.06.2026 1
An incident involving the uncontrolled descent of a boom at a site in the UK has now been confirmed as a case of a rare one-off human error
18.06.2026 1
