10 Jan 2018

In December 2017, a 22 year old worker was killed while operating a boom elevating work platform (EWP) on a construction site. The EWP basket was approximately 8-10 metres in the air being lowered when it caught on a steel support beam, causing two wheels of the EWP to lift off the ground. In an attempt to disengage the basket of the EWP, the worker raised the boom causing the basket to...