Two men sandblasting a highway bridge from a truck mounted lift in Elgin, Illinois, were electrocuted on Wednesday after coming in to contact with power lines
15.06.2008
An accident involving an aerial lift caused serious disruption last week to rail services in East Anglia.
The two Sun tower cranes closed down in Seattle two weeks ago are still blocked, due to disagreements regarding mixed components, a third crane in Renton is back at work.
14.06.2008
IPAF has reached an agreement with Balfour Beatty in the UK, regarding a clarification on aerial lift policy it issued in April.
13.06.2008
Niftylift says that it has obtianed full Russian type approvals for its full range of aerial lifts
12.06.2008
Liebherr will launch its latest state of the art mobile crane control system, Liccon2, at Vertikal Days this month.
Fitness Engineering of Kent, UK, has bought a PM30025SP mounted to a Mercedes Unimog 500 chassis for unparralled off road ability.
Upward Powered Access is a new name on the UK aerial lift rental market, founded by Paul Johnson the company is up and running near Oxford.
Potain launched several new models at an event at Disneyland, Paris last week.
Doosan Infracore Portable Power opens new head office.
A worker in Texas, USA was killed when a crane hook plummeted to the ground.
A man working from a truck-mounted boom lift in Texas, has died after his lift was hit by a large truck. He was not wearing a harness.
11.06.2008
We have been sent a series of aerial views of the 1,100 Lampson Transilift that collapsed at the end of May.
The Effer production line for models 20 and 35 cranes has been transferred to Rovereto, in order to handle a major order from the Italian State Railways.
Mastclimber and hoist manufacturer, Alimak Hek has sold its underground mining Raise climber business to Arkbro Industries of Canada.
Investigators have provided an update into the recent tower crane accident in New York focusing on the supply and welding of the faulty part.
10.06.2008
Locatelli has launched a new rough terrain crane, the 30 tonne capacity GRIL 8300T.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned companies that they must control the risks from falls in the workplace.
Terex has announced that Eric A. Nielsen has been appointed as president, Terex Materials Processing & Mining, effective today.
New York’s Department of Buildings has issued stop-work orders on the 14 cranes operating in the city that are owned by Nu-Way Cranes.
The luffing jib of a lattice tower boom on a mobile crane dropped yesterday injuring a crane worker in Miami.
Bryan Cronie has joined Ainscough Crane Hire as its safety, health, environment, quality and training director.
09.06.2008
A truck crane tipped over on soft ground in Hong Kong last week, sending its load of steel rods through the wall of a house.
A 40 metre Bronto was called in to bring a man down from a tower crane after he scaled the crane and threatened to jump.
