SINGAPORE — A boom lift operator who died after being crushed in a workplace accident last year was not formally trained to carry out his job, a coroner's court heard. The death of 34-year-old ...

Aerial lift equipment operators face a myriad of safety issues both overhead and on the ground, as well as the challenge of conducting their work high in the air on somewhat small operating platforms.

Telehandler or boom lift operators have been trained to know the weight and load center of each load they lift. There are cases where, despite following procedure, telehandlers have tipped due to ...

Boom lifts (more recently monikered as MEWPs) have gained significant rough-terrain capabilities in recent years. Although scissor lifts (another discussion) are explicitly referred to being "rough ...

Genie has announced new safety accessories designed to improve awareness and encourage the use of fall protection on aerial equipment. The first system, called Lanyard Alert, is available in two ...

A recent accident investigation and safety enforcement in the Midwest illustrates the problem of “entrapment”—that is, when an operator of an aerial work platform is crushed between the machine and a ...

Description: The JLG 670SJ self-leveling boom lift is now available in North America. Equipped with JLG’s self-leveling technology, the 670SJ is engineered to automatically adapt to terrain on slopes ...