Vol. 4, Issue 10

Maximum Capacity Media LLC: publisher of Lift and Access, Crane Hot Line and Lift and Access 360, announces the first annual SAF-T Conference! The one-day Safe Access, Fall Protection & Training Conference is scheduled on July 20, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency in Long Beach, Calif...Read More Here

Florida Crane Operator Certification Bill Killed as Senate
Session Ends

May 9, 2007- At the Florida Crane Owners Council meeting on April 28, the mood was optimistic as the group discussed the pending tower crane operator certification bill, which had swiftly moved through the House and was waiting for the Senate's approval. FCOC members had expected the bill to pass the first week in May. "It's unprecedented how this bill has scooted through so quickly," Bruce Whitten, chairman of the FCOC, said at the meeting. "It's in the hands of the Senate now."

Further boosting the FCOC's confidence that the bill would quickly become law was the fact that the Senate waived three commission meetings in order for it to be voted on before the session ended, and once it passed, Governor Charlie Crist said that he would sign it into law. However, the FCOC's push for statewide tower crane operator certification came to an end last week after the Florida Legislature's session came to a close - and the bill, still under review by the Judicial Commission, did not make it to the voting stage...Read Full Story

Manitou North America Expands Parts and Service Center

New Inspection Criteria for Round Slings

Crane Manufacturers and Dealers Make Major Management Shifts

JLG ServicePlus to Open California Location

AerialWrap Maintains Safety and Security in Unoccupied Lifts

The AerialWrap was designed to prevent kids from climbing on aerial lifts.

May 9, 2007 - While attending his 11-year-old son's basketball game, Adrian Stevens noticed the close score wasn't the only thing holding the crowd's attention. The school district owned a small fleet of aerial work platforms, and one of the machines was parked in the school gymnasium while the game was in play. "Kids were climbing all over it." he said. "I thought that someone was going to get hurt." Stevens' concerns led to a meeting with the school, which later gave him an idea for a product that would increase aerial lift safety and deter theft.

Semi-retired from the restaurant business, Stevens had no previous experience with the lifting equipment industry, but the wheels started turning after his conversation with the school. His idea: Designing an aerial cover that would keep the machine safe from unwanted users and protect it from the elements...Read Full Story

Bil-Jax Celebrates 60th Anniversary with New Products

SSMCA Sponsors Health & Safety Training Week

Lift-It and InfoChip Join to Offer Sling Tracking Technology

Perkins Celebrates 75 Years

JLG Names New Dealer for Telehandlers

Lakeland , Fla. , May 2007 - A contractor was fined $16,000 by OSHA for an April 2006 accident in which a construction worker was killed during a roofing job. According to OSHA, at the time of the accident, the 34-year-old worker was standing on the roof's wooden trusses waiting to receive a bundle of plywood from a crane. The worker was standing out of the crane's way, but before the plywood could be placed, the crew leader determined that a staging area needed to be made on the roof for the plywood.

While the crane was in motion, the worker moved to where the crane was to catch materials that another worker tossed to him, and then he tried to move out of the way. However, at the same time he tried to move, the plywood was coming toward him, and the man was then under the load. The crane operator told OSHA officials that the crane spun out of control, causing the plywood to fall on the worker and kill him.

Read the rest of this accident here.



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