A utility man was electrocuted in Shakopee, Minnesota, while three colleagues received serious shocks.
17.07.2012
An All Terrain crane overturned near Oxford yesterday, becoming the latest in a series of such occurrences.
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Lifting Gear Hire (LGH) has opened a new warehouse in Charlotte, North Carolina, its 14th in the USA.
16.07.2012
The government of Ontario, Canada has announced a safety blitz for cranethis month and next.
Xenia Kolign, European region marketing communication manager at JLG has given birth to a baby boy –Saul.
Tanfield has raised a further £2 million, to provide a loan to Smith Electric Vehicles in the USA.
A job that went wrong last week in Istanbul took a man’s life and damaging a large crane.
15.07.2012
The owners of New Zealand based rental company HireQuip have been placed in receivership.
Spotted in Manchester, UK, a man trimming a hedge with access equipment that is far from safe or efficient.
Suzanne Wood has taken over today as group finance director for Ashtead, owner of Sunbelt Rentals and A-Plant.
Manitowoc has appointed RMB Service Group as dealer for South Australia and the Northern Territories.
Web traffic for Vertikal.net hit a new record in June with 170,000 visitors and 33 million hits.
If you are based in the UK South East don’t forget to register for this week’s regional meeting and event.
Here is a Death Wish to beat them all, no idea when but apparently from China is shows a lone man taking down a tall smoke stack/chimney.
Wynne Systems, owner of RentalMan software has appointed Sebastien Lopes as European project manager
13.07.2012
Danish aerial lift manufacturer Omme Lift has shipped seven 19 metre tracked spider lifts to Saudi Arabia.
Easi UpLifts provided a 150ft JLG boom for TV and security works at this week’s Volvo Ocean Race grand finale
Reports regarding an overturned crane in North London today actually refer to a crawler mounted piling rig.
UK crane rental company Dewsbury & Proud has taken delivery of three new Liebherr All Terrain cranes.
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UK based Emerson Crane Hire adds a 200 tonne Liebherr and expands its operations.
12.07.2012
Terex Utilities has launched its HyPower Hybrid system for retrofitting almost any make of truck mounted lift.
Two men were saved by their harnesses earlier this week after a suspended platform dropped in Manhattan.
Manitex International has announced a rights issue in order to raise just over $4 million in new equity
Cargotec/Hiab, has agreed a joint venture with China National Heavy Duty Truck Group for loader cranes.
