An articulated boom lift overturned on Saturday in Folsom, near Sacramento California.
19.08.2011
Catherine Stratton has published the 2010/2011 Plant Hire Investment Report of the UK rental market.
We have received some photographs of a structural failure on a crane that we have never seen before.
Teupen will unveil four new developments at Apex in September, including two spiders a truck and a trailer lift.
Italian manufacturer Multitel says that it will unveil three new models at Apex in making it six for the year.
A double deck bus collided with a load of rebar being lifted by a tower crane on a site in Sidcup, Kent yesterday.
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A Rough Terrain crane overturned in Travis on Staten Island New York yesterday, no one was injured.
18.08.2011
California based rental company Pacific High Reach is seeking an investor after filing under Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
UK based general rental company Speedy Hire has ordered 250 Skyjack slab scissor/mast lifts.
Telehandler and light equipment manufacturer Wacker Neuson has announced first half revenues up 34.6%.
A reader in the UK has sent is a fine example of what is known as a ‘bodge’ or make do solution for stair access.
A man died on Tuesday after he was struck by a falling crane boom off the coast of Texas.
17.08.2011
A truck crashed through the third floor wall of the New York Sanitation workshops in Queens yesterday.
Danish based glass handling company HH-Intellitech is moving into North America with the Robertsons.
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A man died on Monday after he touched an overhead power line as he operated an aerial lift in Minnesota.
Ernst van Hek, previously of Alimak-Hek has established a new trading company- van Hek & Partner - in Austria.
The International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) will hold its first-ever national convention in the USA this November.
While unemployment continues to be a fact of life there are a good number of crane and access jobs available.
Terex has completed the purchase of the Demag shares under its tender offer and now owns 82% of the company.
Polish based Herkules crane rental has purchased four black mobile cranes with fire-red boom noses.
A man working on a large advertising hording has died after falling around 24 metres from a work platform in Texas.
16.08.2011
German based rental company Mietpark Gushurst has taken delivery of a number of Snorkel scissor lifts.
The operator who died in the crane accident yesterday at the Scout Moor wind farm in Edenfield, UK has been named.
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Cumberland UK has agreed to represent access equipment manufacturer Niftylift in Iraq.
