How excavator safety is evolving
07 September 2026
In May 2006, International Construction’s then-editor Chris Sleight (now managing director of Off-Highway Research) was just back from the Intermat exhibition in France and reported on a new range of compact excavators from JCB.
A fold-back door that could be clipped to the counterweight to keep it within the machine’s footprint and tracks caught his eye.
“It is a useful safety feature that should prevent the door getting caught and broken when slewing the upper structure in tight spaces,” he wrote.
It was a…
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