A 51 year old safety inspector was killed on Friday while carrying out an annual inspection on a steam railway crane at the Bodmin and Wenford railway in the UK.
29.08.2006
Gotwald has announced the appointment of Mathias Dobner, former chief technical officer as its new chief executive officer, replacing Dirk Kiessling.
28.08.2006
Finnish Rental company RK, has released its first half 2006 numbers, which now includes Cramo and RK following their merger earlier this year.
Maxim crane has agreed to pay the family of Emilio Talavera $3.1 million after he was killed by a falling crane boom extension in 2000.
Here are a few more advance photos of equipment at Platformers days in Germany this weekend.
The High speed internet lines to Platformers days are still down, but here are a few tasters of the news and views from the best ever Platformers.
26.08.2006
Platformer Days the German access industry event opened this morning, with more exhibitors and pre-registered visitors than ever before. But all high speed internet connections are down.
25.08.2006
Scissor lift manufacturers Omega lift and HTN are to be merged into a new company - Omega Platforms PLC. A new 6,000 sqm facility is planned for 2007.
24.08.2006
The managing director of a top 20 UK access rental company has completed the Iron man triathlon
Trevor Chinn and Grant Rogers of LTC, the Plymouth based Scaffold and powered access company, set off on Sunday to walk from Lands End to John O’Groats to raise money for charity.
23.08.2006
A team of 33 scaffolders has raised £5,000 for cancer charities in an unusual manner.
When a boom lift broke down last week, stranding two men in the platform, the local fire brigade was called out to get them down.
The world’s tallest aerial lift, the 99 metre platform height Bronto F101HLA fire fighting unit is being prepared for shipment to Belgium.
22.08.2006
Many of you have noticed that a number of our website features are currently out of action. This due to a series of Spam Attacks.
Tadano has released its first quarter results which show revenues up by 14% leading too profits up by 55%. The company is forecasting that full year revenues will increase by 12%.
Kesla has sold its self propelled boom lift designs and business to Nostolift the Finnish truck mounted lift producer.
While the HSE and Merseyside police commence their investigation, we have been informed that the truck mounted lift involved in yesterdays fatal accident, was a Versalift VST4000 owned by Highland Access.
21.08.2006
A man fell to his death yesterday after the articulating jib gave way on the truck mounted lift he was using for street light maintenance.
Nations Rent the North American rental company being acquired by Ashtead has reported a significant improvement in profitability.
20.08.2006
An 80 ton crawler crane toppled into a creek in Oregon this week when a beam under it buckled and gave way.
19.08.2006
Thomas equipment’s Canadian manufacturing arm is to file for a court supervised restructuring under the Canadian bankruptcy and Insolvency laws. 141 employees have gone as part of this plan.
18.08.2006
A tree surgeon from Halewood died earlier this month after falling from his truck mounted lift. He was not wearing a harness.
17.08.2006
A painter working at a Suffolk theatre, in the UK, fell six metres from scaffolding suffering serious head injuries
The total number of fatal injuries at work in the UK has decreased by 5% in 2005/2006 , however falling from height continues to be the most common accident
