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Telehandler tip in Florida
A telehandler tipped across a road in Melbourne Florida, south west of Orlando, today, the road was blocked for some time but no one was seriously injured. The operator was travelling on the road near Melbourne airport, with the boom fully elevated and a primitive jib or special fork extension fitted on which a number of long steel joists/roof beams were suspended. ...
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Back at it.
On February 26th we carried a Death Wish story of two men using an industrial fork truck and pallet to work on the roof of a house near the Olympic Park in London. Close to at least four good sized aerial lift rental yards. Another reader passed by on Friday last week and the two were back out with their inefficient and dangerous access equipment....
A truck mounted scaffold
Spotted by a reader on a job site in Glasgow, Scotland, scaffold in action on the back of a van. The two men clearly needing to gain access to work on a wall some four metres above the ground, used a 1.8 metre room scaffold on the back of a van/pick up and then worked half on half off. While they have all the PPE gear on… helmets, hi-viz vests ...
Crane owner charged with Homicide
Following the report we carried yesterday the Manhattan District Attorney has charged New York Crane Corp and J.F. Lomma inc, their owner James Lomma and Tibor Varganyi, a former mechanic with New York Crane, with criminally negligent homicide and manslaughter, among other related charges. The accused were described as ‘reckless’ by district atto...
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