Lift Flipped Over

[Dan Cobb]

Story has no details other than the injured is in stable condition. Accident location is 2 miles from my house.

 

[VenasNursery]

Setup is so important
If that was the problem

 

[MA Arborist]

At least in this case, I’d say definitely operator error.

 

[VenasNursery]

At least in the case I’d say definitely operator error.

I’m pretty confident that the picture tells all

 

[VenasNursery]

This was us yesterday fully extended

 

[Reach]

Wow is that a steep hill! Just because the lift will level on a hill so steep does not mean you should operate on it. My guess also is that the hill was simply too steep, and slippery, and it looks like they were boomed over the outrigger that was set lowest.

 

[evo]

That’s one dead spider

 

[Njdelaney]

Looks like that scraped up tree may have prevented a full speed crash to the ground.

 

[flushcut]

You have to dig into the hill and make level spots for the outriggers to sit in. I have leveled out on many steep hills that I have had to dig into. One I needed to bring in a SDS hammer drill and chisel out foot holds in rocky frozen ground.
But part of this accident looks to me like an outrigger failed on how it is folded under the lift in what appears to be the same plane as when you stow the outriggers . It also looks like an CMC 83hd or their 90 some footer.
Anyway I pray for a full recovery to the injured.

 

[Reach]

You have to dig into the hill and make level spots for the outriggers to sit in. I have leveled out on many steep hills that I have had to dig into. One I needed to bring in a SDS hammer drill and chisel out a foot holds in rocky frozen ground.
But part of this accident looks to me like an outrigger failed on how it is folded under the lift in what appears to be the same plane as when you stow the outriggers . It also looks like an CMC 83hd or their 90 some footer.
Anyway I pray for a full recovery to the injured.

The outrigger is definitely pointed the wrong direction, but I would expect it to fail/fold if the lift slid down the hill. All that force laterally on an arm that is made only for vertical weight will do that for sure. Watch a crane slide down a hill, it will do the same thing.

 

[flushcut]

Yeah hopefully it was just poor placement. But either way it's not good.