Hewden has sold its tool hire business to Speedy Hire for £115 million, roughly equivalent to its net book value.
14.06.2007
A couple were released from police custody last night without charge after they were caught having sex on the top of a 30m tower crane
A man thrown from an aerial lift after hitting a power line yesterday survived thanks to his harness.
13.06.2007
We can now bring you more details of the crane accident in Lurgan this weekend.
HSS has confirmed that the business has been acquired by a group of investors headed by ex Asda boss, Archie Norman
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.
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
