As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 14, 2026

Registration Statement No. 333-     

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

COLUMBUS McKINNON CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

13320 Ballantyne Corporate Place, Suite D

Charlotte, NC 28277

(Address of Principal Executive Offices and Zip Code)

COLUMBUS McKINNON CORPORATION SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED 2016 LONG TERM INCENTIVE PLAN, AS AMENDED

(Full title of the plan)

Alan S. Korman

Senior Vice President Corporate Development, General Counsel and Secretary

Columbus McKinnon Corporation

13320 Ballantyne Corporate Place, Suite D

Charlotte, NC 28277

(716) 689-5400

(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copies to:

Craig M. Fischer, Esq.

Hodgson Russ LLP

The Guaranty Building

140 Pearl Street, Suite 100

Buffalo, New York 14202-4040

(716) 848-1266

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed by Columbus McKinnon Corporation (the “Company”) with the Securities Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) to register 1,450,000 additional shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Shares”), under the Columbus McKinnon Corporation Second Amended and Restated 2016 Long Term Incentive Plan, as amended (the “Plan”) pursuant to the amendment of the Plan approved by the board of directors of the Company on June 1, 2026, and by the Company’s shareholders at the Company’s Annual Meeting of Shareholders held on August 14, 2026. The Shares are in addition to the shares previously registered on the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 with respect to the Plan filed with the Commission on July 22, 2024 (File No. 333-280936) (the “Prior Registration Statement”). This Registration Statement relates to securities of the same class as those to which the Prior Registration Statement relates and is filed in accordance with General Instruction E to Form S-8. Accordingly, pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of the Prior Registration Statement are incorporated herein by reference and made part of this Registration Statement, except as amended hereby.

Part II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents previously filed with the Commission are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement:

In addition, any and all documents subsequently filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement that indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all such securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents.

Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified, superseded or replaced by a statement or information contained in any other subsequently filed document incorporated herein by reference. Any such statement so modified, superseded or replaced shall not be deemed, except as so modified, superseded or replaced, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

Item 8. Exhibits.

The following exhibits are filed herewith or incorporated by reference as part of this Registration Statement.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Charlotte, State of North Carolina, on August 14, 2026.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each of the undersigned constitutes and appoints David J. Wilson and Alan S. Korman his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each acting alone, with full powers of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign the Form S-8 Registration Statement of Columbus McKinnon Corporation relating to the Columbus McKinnon Corporation Second Amended and Restated 2016 Long Term Incentive Plan and any or all amendments or post-effective amendments to the Form S-8 Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, each acting alone, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, each acting alone, or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates listed below.