Category: scaffolding
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Equipment Today’s Annual Equipment Showcase: Lift Equipment
With a working height of 71 feet 6 inches and a basket capacity of 1000 lbs. through 80% of the working envelope and 660 lbs. through 100%, JCB’s T65D Telescopic Boom Lift provides operators with the reach and stability needed for construction, maintenance and industrial tasks. JCB Equipment Today’s Annual Equipment Showcase highlights industry-leading equipment and solutions…
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Company fined £30k after workers climbed rungs of unsafe scaffold
A scaffolding company has been fined £30,000 after failing to ensure a tower scaffold was constructed correctly. The HSE identified serious issues with a scaffold at a block of flats in Rice Hey Road, Merseyside, including a failure to follow assembly instructions during its erection. Workers climbed the rungs of the scaffold to access it…