The three major causes of death when using these lifts are falling off, being on it when it tips over, and being electrocuted while on it. Here are best practices for avoiding these hazards when using ...

Over a one-year period, OSHA investigated ten preventable fatalities and more than 20 preventable injuries resulting from a variety of incidents involving scissor lifts. OSHA’s investigations found ...

Falling off a lift is often a fatal error. But it’s not the only way in which electricians die when making mistakes in how they use a lift. Electrocutions also ...

Aerial lifts are having a moment. Not only have they started to replace ladders and scaffolding on jobsites everywhere, but they’ve also garnered attention due to their mobility, flexibility, and ...

After investigating hundreds of scissor lift accidents, OSHA says that using proper fall protection, with the correct stabilization and positioning techniques, is the most effective way to prevent ...

The hazard alert issued July 6 stems from the Oct. 27, 2010, death of Declan Sullivan, a University of Notre Dame student employee who died while filming a football practice from a scissors lift that ...

Colleges across the country have tightened their use of aerial lifts — or outright eliminated them — a year after a University of Notre Dame student from Long Grove was killed when wind gusts toppled ...

The PA Turnpike has deployed two new truck-mounted, swappable aerial maintenance lifts thanks to a collab with U.S.

Scissor lifts can be dangerous if not used properly. That point was made again by an Oct. 4 accident at a Frito-Lay North America facility in Irving, Texas, where a worker in a lift died and two ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) – Colleges across the country have tightened their use of aerial lifts – or outright eliminated them – a year after a University of Notre Dame student was killed when wind gusts ...