A man cleaning windows on the 12th storey of an apartment block fell to his death yesterday after his attachment points gave way.
27.08.2008
A truck crane tipped onto an occupied house in Singapore yesterday fortunately no one was injured. Singapore is also stepping up the penalties for such accidents.
MEC has confirmed that Gary Crook will join the company as director of new product development.
Horizon Platforms, the Wakefield, UK, based powered access rental company has placed a further order with JLG.
The front page of yesterday’s Gulf News business section carried a great picture of state of the art scaffold erection techniques,
Four construction workers were seriously injured after the tower crane they were erecting collapsed on Sunday afternoon near Lapu-Lapu City, Phillipines.
26.08.2008
A concrete pump tipped over on a job site at The Bridge of Allan in Scotland last week, due to poor outrigger set up.
MacGregor the marine crane business owned by Cargotec, has won an order for two 150-tonne offshore cranes from Finnish shipowner Finstaship.
Today’s example comes from a reader in the Baltic states, you have all heard of standing on the roof of a van to reach something, this example goes one further.
Finning Canada has acquired the assets of privately-owned equipment rental company Fort Saskatchewan Rentals from owners Dave and Judy Dickson.
A 26 year old construction worker working from a truck mounted lift was electrocuted last week after he touched a high voltage power line in Oklahoma.
25.08.2008
A US based mast climber company was recently called on to audit some platforms in use on a plastering job…..here is what was discovered.
Manitowoc has launched an online rental site for dealers and customers interested in renting the ‘chopper’ bike it launched at Conexpo.
The Genie Blue song, written by employee Scott Owyen has been awarded a Silver Communicator Award by the International Academy of the Visual Arts.
Rob Hime has joined the MEC Aerial Work Platforms sales team covering Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky.
23.08.2008
The will of Cora Grove, the late widow of John L. Grove, founder of JLG and Grove crane, is headed back into court.
22.08.2008
A small dock crane tipped over at a dry dock facility in Hoboken New Jersey
The number of examples of inappropriate and dangerous working at height continue to come in.
Davis Access has expanded its Joystick controller rebuild programme with a range of new options including service exchange.
High winds in the UK over the past week ripped out many a tree, one in Littlehampton needed teetered over a road and required a lift to help deal with it.
The UK’s HSE has published a new guide ‘The selection and management of mobile elevating work platforms’
21.08.2008
The Gatwick Group of the UK has purchased nine more Hiab loader cranes, taking its fleet to 16 units – All Hiab.
Cranimax the lift planning software company has released the latest Version - V3 – of its Crane Manager Cranimation system.
20.08.2008 1
Oshkosh, the parent company of JLG, has laid off around 10 percent of its worldwide work force - in order to reduce costs and realign its operations with slower markets.
20.08.2008
