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Contractors found guilty

Two UK contractors, Bowmer & Kirkland and Bingham Davis have been found guilty of breaching health and safety laws following the collapse of a tower crane in Liverpool in 2009...

Man injured loading boom

A man was seriously injured yesterday while loading a large boom lift in Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The man was loading a Terex (Marklift) telescopic boom onto ...

Miraculous escape

We have been sent some photos of a car crushed by a telescopic loader crane that overturned onto it in China. Miraculously the occupants escaped with minor injuries. The acci...

Trailer overturns

A 13 tonne trailer carrying a self-propelled boom lift overturned as the towing vehicle, reportedly a dump truck, took a corner too fast in the town of Plenty, Victoria – Nort...

End of the road for an old boom?

A road accident near Zaandam north of Amsterdam on Wednesday possibly marked the end of the road for an aging Grove boom lift? A tractor trailer was transporting an 86ft Grov...

Jail for trailer lift thieves

Two thieves who stole a trailer lift in Newmills, Fife, Scotland in 2010, have been jailed after they were caught with the help of You-Tube. The two, William Allison, 44, and...

Cranes celebrate Titanic

Last weekend the city of Liverpool staged a massive outdoor spectacular - a ‘Sea Odyssey’ - which came to life thanks to 10 mobile cranes. The event brought the city centre t...

Dangling in Birmingham

Spotted at Birmingham airport, in the UK, last week, workmen putting up London Olympics promotional signs on a building. Rather than using the any form of powered access, who...

Dicing with death

A man was spotted recently working from a step ladder in on a busy street in the town of Rugby, England. The conditions are misty and passing traffic is coming perilously clo...

Accident reporting should be mandatory

IPAF’s new accident reporting database has got off to a good start, following its launch at the end of last month, but should it be mandatory for IPAF members? The confidenti...