UK based access rental company Platform Hire has taken delivery of a number of new Niftylift boom lifts
21.02.2012
Russian rental company L-TECH has opened an office in Yekaterinburg, central Russia.
Spotted last week, travelling south from Aberdeen, Scotland, a boom lift on the back of a truck.
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JLG has received another order from the US Army to build ATLAS II telehandlers.
A fatality has occurred this morning in Perth, W. Australia, after a long jib failed on a truck mounted lift.
21.02.2012 1
Crane manufacturer Link-Belt has announced its top five dealers for 2011.
Construction sites in the UK carrying out refurbishment or repair works are being targeted by the HSE
New Zealand based rental company Hirepool has acquired New Zealand Access Hire.
Law firm Schiff Hardin has won a ruling for client JLG, in a trade secrets battle against an ex-employee.
20.02.2012
A tower crane operator was rescued yesterday in Montreal, Canada, after he fell around five metres.
CTE has delivered three new fire fighting platforms - two 33m in Algeria and one 36m to Thailand.
A crane failure while lifting a 5 tonne box on Sunday, caused the closure of six streets in San Francisco.
20.02.2012 1
Italian spider and truck mounted lift manufacturer Easy-Lift has appointed Hek & Partner as its Austrian dealer.
Willi and Isolde Liebherr have assigned some of their shares in the company to their children.
We have received the sad news of the death of crane man Alf Sparrow at 9:15 this morning.
UK based aerial lift rental company, Horizon Platforms has achieved Safe Contractor accreditation,
Australian crane rental company Freo,is taking delivery of two new Liebherr All Terrain cranes this week.
UK based Speedy Hire has won a 3 year extension to its preferred supplier agreement with Carillion.
Jimmy Lomma, owner of New York Crane/J.F. Lomma Crane has formally waived his right to a trial by jury.
19.02.2012
We have been sent a story from December in which a crane was subjected to a serious shock loading.
A man using an aerial lift was electrocuted last week in the village of Asch, in Gelderland, the Netherlands
18.02.2012
Another example of the capacity of an industrial fork truck being boosted by human counterweight.
18.02.2012 2
A 20 year-old has died in a crane accident at a pipe and steel distributor’s facility in Leary, Texas.
17.02.2012
Australian crane rental company Metcalf Crane Services has taken delivery of a new 55t Grove GMK3055.
