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
The tower cranes owned by bankrupt UK contractor Henry are to be sold off this week
02.08.2023
A family involved in a tower crane incident in the UK in 2020 is suing the companies that it believes are responsible
10.07.2023
ESTA has written to the German government and EU, requesting urgent action to resolve the crisis facing heavy transport and road permits in Germany
20.06.2023 1
Tower cranes on several London sites are standing idle due to non payment by a large UK contractor
02.06.2023
South Korea is investigating a large number of tower crane operators for illegally withholding or slowing work in order to exract extra cash
12.04.2023 1
The inquest into the fatal crushing incident at a recycling centre in St Helens, UK in 2019 was held last week, shedding light on what actually happened
27.03.2023 1
An Australian crane company has been fined $400,000 following a fatal incident in 2018 caused by a missing split pin
07.03.2023 2
A court in Saudi Arabia has found the Saudi Binladin Group guilty of negligence relating to the 2015 crane overturn in Mecca, which killed 111
02.03.2023
JLG has settled with Niftylift over the latter's patent infringment complaint
13.02.2023
Tanfield the previous owner of Snorkel has amended its legal claim against the current owners pushing it into 2024
07.02.2023
Oliver Arnold - the owner of Quinto Crane Hire in the UK until it went into administration last year - has been arrested, charged and held on remand
02.02.2023
A new 250 tonne All Terrain crane belonging to Australian rental company Century Cranes was vandalised over the weekend
31.01.2023 3
Rental companies in Germany have received requests not to supply equipment for the demolition of Lützerath, NRW to make way for a coal mine expansion
09.01.2023
