A crane failure while lifting a 5 tonne box on Sunday, caused the closure of six streets in San Francisco.
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Italian spider and truck mounted lift manufacturer Easy-Lift has appointed Hek & Partner as its Austrian dealer.
20.02.2012
Willi and Isolde Liebherr have assigned some of their shares in the company to their children.
We have received the sad news of the death of crane man Alf Sparrow at 9:15 this morning.
UK based aerial lift rental company, Horizon Platforms has achieved Safe Contractor accreditation,
Australian crane rental company Freo,is taking delivery of two new Liebherr All Terrain cranes this week.
UK based Speedy Hire has won a 3 year extension to its preferred supplier agreement with Carillion.
Jimmy Lomma, owner of New York Crane/J.F. Lomma Crane has formally waived his right to a trial by jury.
19.02.2012
We have been sent a story from December in which a crane was subjected to a serious shock loading.
A man using an aerial lift was electrocuted last week in the village of Asch, in Gelderland, the Netherlands
18.02.2012
Another example of the capacity of an industrial fork truck being boosted by human counterweight.
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A 20 year-old has died in a crane accident at a pipe and steel distributor’s facility in Leary, Texas.
17.02.2012
Australian crane rental company Metcalf Crane Services has taken delivery of a new 55t Grove GMK3055.
The February issue of Cranes & Access is now online and available to read or download.
UK rental company AA Access has ordered its third 70 metre Bronto S70XDT truck mounted lift.
Italian truck mounted and spider lift manufacturer Socage has reported another record year in 2011
Spotted in the UK a national window replacement company using questionable access equipment.
Romanian rental company Industrial Access has added a 150ft JLG 1500 SJ boom lift to its fleet.
Link Belt cranes has appointed North Dakota dealer, General Equipment & Supplies in Minnesota.
16.02.2012
Ramirent is to buy back up to 350,000 of its own shares as authorised at last year’s AGM.
Lifting and safety equipment supplier Certex UK has appointed Mark Hoggard as training manager.
A failed crane hoist cable dropped three large steel beams around 140 metres at the WTC site in New York.
A dockside crane overturned into the harbour at a Seattle, Washington shipyard today,
German truck mounted lift manufacturer Ruthmann has reported sales of €75.7 million in 2011, a new record.
