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Need a lift

2009 Reader Submission
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After going from job to job Nick finally thought he found something that intrested him. A week prior he was hired as an apprentist to a security company, installing survalience, security, fire and other protection services. When work was slow that day while installing equipment in walmart he was told to pull the old cameras and wire out from the celings. So Nick went over and hopped in the siccor lift(which he had never used before)After pulling out old wire for about 4 hours he figured that was enough. But was then asked to pull down some more that was ran along steel beams. So the lift was moved to that area and Nick started pulling some wire out. Because of the awkward path of the wires the lift was raised so high that he was feet away from the beams along the celing. While leaning over the steel frame of the sicor lift something jamed the controll and raised him up. Within a second the lift was crushing his chect and back with an emense force between the siccor lift frame and beams. And the lift kept trying to lift. Fortunatly I survived. After a minuete of withstanding the force a worker below saw me and used the toggle switch on the side of the machine to save my life. There was a hole in the celing and a pan was made to catch water that might be falling into the store. And above that was pvc pipe wrapped in foam. The pan was demolished and my chect and back are all bruised up. If I had been above a steel beam everyone agrees that I would have been snaped in half like a twig. I have learned my lesson about safety.

Submitted on 05/16/2009

Submitted by: Nick Pollard
Reference: Personal experience May 13 2009

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Bruce said:
Definitely Toss: No Self-Selection
Thanks for an interesting story, Nick, but I don't blame it (entirely) on you. You don't indicate how the controls were jammed so it's not clear that you were the cause. More importantly, lifts like these should always be monitored by somebody else and it sounds like it wasn't in your case. I've used similar types of aerial lifts and it's always been with somebody on the ground watching to ensure it doesn't tip, jam, etc. Given you had never used a lift like this before you probably weren't aware that this sort of safety measure should be taken. It's the fault of your employers that proper safety methods weren't taken.


Candi said:
Definitely Toss: No Self-Selection
What Bruce said. Novices aren't expected to be experts (at least not around here).


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