Gold and Silver Winners

E-Line Platform

Gold Award

Elliot Equipment Company’ s new Elliot E-Line Platform is a self-leveling material handling platform with a working height of 160 feet, designed to combine aerial lift capability, precise crew positioning, and material handling without sacrificing reach or capacity.

The platform can reduce the need for a second truck or extra personnel, with 1,200-pound personnel capacity and 2,000-pound combined capacity for a two-person crew working with material at height. It features a hydraulic self-leveling design, 165-degree rotation, and an independently rotating 1,500-pound material handler to keep operators stable.

The Elliot E-Line platform is built around a software-defined control system, and Elliot’ s DynaSmooth controls use real-time boom-position awareness to adjust the machine response. This provides greater control at full extension, finer positioning, and a smoother operator experience. The platform also offers one-button automated slow and deploy to let a single operator pack or unpack the unit from the ground, on top of onboard, Bluetooth-enabled remote diagnostics for quick access to troubleshooting data.

The platform is available on the Elliott E145, E160, or E190 E-Line Transmission Aerials.

Judges’ Comments

Finally, someone listened to the people actually riding in the platform. Integrated crane, large platform capacity, full basket rotation, automatic leveling, and a“ Made in America” badge; what else can someone ask for?

Innovative design that combines personnel and material handling while improving productivity and efficiency.

Franklin Stabilizer Safety System

Silver Award

The Franklin Stabilizer Safety System from Franklin Safety Group, LLC, is a dedicated, protected hand-placement system for scissor lift operators working near fixed overhead obstructions, designed to help mitigate unsafe hand placement.

This system prevents operators from placing their hands in pinch, crush, or entrapment exposure zones near steel, ductwork, piping, cable tray, sprinkler lines, racking, or door headers, which can be a recurring and overlooked hazard. The system instead changes the physical placement environment and creates a clear, repeatable, protected location to hold.

The Franklin Stabilizer Safety System uses an operator-centered design, with high-visibility placement to make the intended behavior obvious and intuitive. Through use of the system, operators have reported reduced top-rail hand placement without operational interference.

The system is designed with removable pressure-fit rail capture, requiring no drilling, welding, cutting, or permanent fasteners, and supports pilots, project reassignment, rental-fleet rotation, and multisite scaling. The Franklin Stabilizer Safety System is applicable in congested environments, such as data centers, manufacturing, warehouses, healthcare, airports, and renovation projects.

Judges’ Comments

Identifying a hazard that until now has not been addressed— crushing and pinching of hands while holding guardrails with MEWP in movement in confined spaces.

The pressure-fit design makes installation fast and easy, and it also enables users to move the stabilizer from machine to machine as needed. Seems like an effective solution.

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