Hill Engineering Reports İncreasing Demand For Safety First Auto-Loc Quick Hitch

Hill Engineering Ltd has announced it is experiencing an ever increasing demand for its products in the UK and Ireland, as well as from across Europe and the USA.

Ireland-based Hill Engineering provides top quality, highly reliable attachments, including the 'Safety First' Auto-Loc quick hitch, together with a range of durable excavator buckets.

With the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) having issued a number of safety alerts and now proposing a ban on the production of semi-automatic hitches, following four fatalities over the past year where attachments have accidentally become detached from such devices (generally attributed to incorrect operator use), some contractors and plant hirers are recommending that only fully automatic versions be allowed on their machines/sites.

The Hill Auto-Loc has been purpose-designed to put operator safety first and is fully compliant with and actually exceeds all existing UK and international safety standards and legislation. As the Auto-Loc is fully automatic, there is no need for the operator to leave the excavator cab to remove or insert a safety pin when changing from one attachment to another. This completely eliminates the risk of a safety pin being inserted incorrectly or not being inserted at all.

Its advanced design also enables the operator to visually confirm from within the cab that the bucket or other attachment is securely locked in position - a vitally important and potentially life saving safety feature.