The operator of a 12 metre straddle carrier crane was seriously injured when it toppled over at Southampton (UK) docks on Saturday.
09.04.2007
One of the men in the aerial lift accident last week has died in hospital.
07.04.2007
Tourist sites such as St Marks in Venice will be packed this Easter, a Palazzani spider lift is there too.
06.04.2007
AJ Access Platforms has been won the IPAF Rental + quality award
Chinese police used an truck mounted aerial lift and a high-pressure water cannon to flush out a murder suspect from the eighth floor of a hospital.
05.04.2007
Two men died after being catapulted from a boom lift in Transylvania County, North Carolina yesterday, neither were wearing a harness.
A boom lift fell over in Manchester last night injuring two men who were in the platform
Miami based Neff corp the eighth largest rental company in North America has changed hands again, as Odyssey partners sells it to Lightyear capital.
An articulated truck smashed into an aerial lift on the highway near Albuquerque today, the operator was wearing a harness and is alive although critical.
04.04.2007
Dutch rental company Sijtsma Hoogwerkerverhuur has added another Bronto Skylift to its fleet.
Panther Platform Rentals’ has moved its Kent branch into new larger premises.
The April issue of Cranes&Access is on line and available to read
03.04.2007
A near miss occurred last night in Florida when a man working over a busy road dropped a large bushing which crashed through a cars windscreen.
Chinese access platform manufacturer Beijing JingCheng Heavy Industry Co (JCHI) is eyeing up the UK market
A man was seriously injured in Maidenhead (UK) yesterday when he was trapped between the guardrails of his aerial lift and an overhead pipe.
Yes its true Vertikal.Net achieved another new record in March with just under 2 million hits.
02.04.2007
We have received a brief update on last weeks fatal crane accident in Liverpool.
The ex directors of Elevation Equipment of Belfast and Dublin have been disqualified for periods of up to 10 years.
Maurice Flitcroft a crane driver and would be golfer from Barrow-in-Furness, who became famous for gate crashing the British Open, has died from a lung infection.
01.04.2007
Two cranes dropped a massive concrete beam they were lifting for an elevated highway at San Antonio airport after a boom collapsed.
Durham County Council has been fined a total of £20,000 plus more than £3,000 in costs after a mobile crane it had rented turned over.
30.03.2007
Bradgate Containers was hit with £11,600 of fines, compensation and costs this week for contravening the work at height rules, after an employee fell off a ladder.
A man died yesterday in Liverpool England after a mobile crane tipped over
A Southport company and a self employed subcontractor were charged £17,245 in fines and costs today after a man was electrocuted when a crane came into contact with overhead cables.
