Merlo has announced five new smaller ‘Roto’-360° telehandlers replacing the existing K and KS series.
22.01.2007
A new tower crane is being erected at Tower 333, in Bellevue, the site of a fatal accident in November 2006.
20.01.2007
Heavy storms in Europe this week have brought at least two tower cranes crashing to the ground.
Merlo UK has appointed two new construction distributors in central and southern England.
19.01.2007
The owners of the bus that crashed into an aerial lift in Manchester in November killing the operator, has had its licence permanently revoked.
The UK Health and Safety Executive has placed a prohibition notice on most tower cranes in Falcon Crane Hire’s fleet after two fatal accidents in less than 15 weeks.
A man was hurt earlier today when a crane fell onto scaffolding.
Youngman has joined the OSEM the system scaffold organisation whose aim is to curb the copying and mixing of scaffold components.
18.01.2007
Firefighters on Humberside have been told that HSE rules forbid them from using step ladders
Konecranes is to start manufacturing straddle carriers
A brand new $3 million yacht was destroyed on Tuesday when the crane lifting it toppled over
New UK legislation that came in this month requires trucks to be fitted with speed limiters, some older vehicles will need to be recalibrated
A tower crane collapsed while being dismantled in Bucharest yesterday killing four erectors and injuring two others.
Martin Ainscough of Ainscough Crane Hire has launched what he claims is the U.K.’s first on-line hire auction,
17.01.2007
Barry Walker the driver of the tower crane that collapsed in Liverpool on Monday has left hospital.
Skyworks Equipment, the Buffalo based rental company owned by Jerry Reinhart has won the auction for the 100,000th JLG boom lift.
16.01.2007
Universal Spain has been sold to Yardbourne the company owned by Alexander Harvey that also owns PAS.
A man died yesterday after a tower crane collapsed in Liverpool city centre, the crane driver was seriously injured but survived.
Liebherr has delivered its 20,000 Ehingen built crane to Hovago, the Dutch based crane company.
IPAF is organising an international – English language safety conference in Basel in September.
15.01.2007
Snorkel has appointed Roman Heindl to head up its European product support efforts.
5,000 crane operators, in British Columbia (BC), Canada must soon be certified.
A new lifting device called Orangutan looks set to reduce wind turbine maintenance costs.
12.01.2007
Powered access equipment hirer EPL Access has taken the first SkyKing E228TJ truck-mounted access platform.
