An inspector has concluded that a fatal accident at Mittal Steel U-S-A's Minorca Mine near Gilbert was caused by a crane operator's failure to set the cranes outriggers.
13.06.2007
Two directors of Outreach, the Palfinger distributor for Scotland, have purchased the business from its current owners.
Two men have died this morning in separate work at height accidents in Western Australia.
UK access rental company AFI-UpLift will feature in a programme on the Discovery channel in September.
12.06.2007
Speedy Hire, the UK and Ireland’s largest tool rental business has launched an apprentice scheme for potential equipment maintenance engineers.
More information from the 'Chill Factor' project in Manchester.
The UK government has today published new regulations which boost minimum vacation entitlement.
3i is close to agreeing a deal to sell UK rental company HSS to Och-Ziff Capital Management, a hedge fund.
For those readers living in the UK, Fifth Gear tonight includes Alex James of Blur attempt to operate a crane.
11.06.2007
Hewden Instant Access, the fourth largest powered access company in the UK/Ireland has completed the fitting of Clunk Click stickers to its boom fleet.
An out of balance tower crane jib in Lurgan on Saturday created a near miss and left it tangled around the mobile cranes boom.
We can now confirm details of the accident in Hull last week.
OSHA has ruled that the crane operator was at fault in a March accident in Grand Junction, Colorado.
09.06.2007
A site in Jakarta has suffered three serious accidents in three weeks.
A man was crushed under a crane yesterday at Minorca Mining’s Laurentian pit in Gilbert, Minnesota.
08.06.2007
Larry Bryce has been appointed as executive vice president of Manitowoc Crane Care.
A boom lift being used by two painters fell over sideways today seriously injuring the two men.
A precarious boom lift caused police to shut down a highway near Poole in Dorset England yesterday.
Ashtead, owner of A-Plant in the UK and Sunbelt in the USA, has appointed a new non-executive director
VP the UK based telehandler to tool hire company saw revenues rise by 22 percent to £122 million in the fiscal year to the end of March 2007.
07.06.2007
A photographer on the scene of the Croydon tower crane accident, caught the whole thing on camera as it happened.
In the USA the Association of Crane and Rigging Professionals has voted for the development of a new self-erecting tower crane standard.
Rogue hauliers face fines and vehicles immobilised under new safety measures.
A new design of re-usable safety overshoes is now available
