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Strong winds on the east coast of the USA caused structural damage to a tower crane in Atlantic City on Saturday. Local reports differ in the level of damage to the crane, which is one of two on the Revel Casino project in the city. Some say that jib came down with part of it landing on a police patrol car that was keeping people away from the building, causing minor injures to an officer, others suggest that parts came off of one of the cranes but that it remained erect...

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Strong winds bring down crane

Strong winds on the east coast of the USA caused structural damage to a tower crane in Atlantic City on Saturday. Local reports differ in the level of damage to the crane, which is one of two on the Revel Casino project in the city. Some say that jib came down with part of it landing on a police patrol car that was keeping people away from the bu...

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 bea...

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....

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