- Location
- Tasmania, Australia
If it\'s just been serviced assume nothing
After having experienced a nasty incident years ago just after a 40m Cherry Picker / EWP / bucket truck had been serviced another incident I heard of recently which happened after a service on a tower falls into the same category.
Incident 2: The hydraulics had been connected the wrong way around and the slew operation was reversed--leaving the operator who was assuming all was as it always had been finding himself heading towards the conductors.
Obviously you can rant at the service mechanic. You can also endeavor to check and not assume anything--if indeed you can think of all the things that you are assuming--no mean feat perhaps.
Incident 1 was when a 40m tower was extended to full reach for the first time after service and a long piece of metal tubing or pipe rattled all the way down to the deck of the truck leaving the guy on the deck running for his life.
Another friend had a wheel come off her car and head down the road years ago just after work done, fortunately without incident.
So my point is that after a service any machine just might not be the way we expect and it is us that could have the final chance to prevent a catastrophe.
Pete
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After having experienced a nasty incident years ago just after a 40m Cherry Picker / EWP / bucket truck had been serviced another incident I heard of recently which happened after a service on a tower falls into the same category.
Incident 2: The hydraulics had been connected the wrong way around and the slew operation was reversed--leaving the operator who was assuming all was as it always had been finding himself heading towards the conductors.
Obviously you can rant at the service mechanic. You can also endeavor to check and not assume anything--if indeed you can think of all the things that you are assuming--no mean feat perhaps.
Incident 1 was when a 40m tower was extended to full reach for the first time after service and a long piece of metal tubing or pipe rattled all the way down to the deck of the truck leaving the guy on the deck running for his life.
Another friend had a wheel come off her car and head down the road years ago just after work done, fortunately without incident.
So my point is that after a service any machine just might not be the way we expect and it is us that could have the final chance to prevent a catastrophe.
Pete
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