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Health & Safety
Health & Safety is not generally a popular topic, until after an accident.
Health & Safety Health & Safety Man crushed under car http://www.google.com/search?q=Man+crushed+under+car&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1 preventing accidents http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&q=preventing+accidents&aq=0&oq=preventing+acci&aqi=g10 Have a great day.
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And broken everything else - game over.
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We bought a 40,000lb diesel motorcoach from a widow, the jacks collapsed while he was under it, ... trapped and couldn't inhale.
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Was he using a set of 3-ton Harbor freight stands or something??
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while welding on a gas tank
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Plenty of capacity, rolled forward off of the jacks.
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Did he not even chock the wheels?
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Probably not. Many people don't, I dropped my first Mercedes onto a brake rotor using the standard jack and parking brake, ... and I do such things fairly frequently / should know better (I still believe that these post-style M-B jacks are among the worst design in the industry).
The coach had 4 built-in hydraulic jacks that swing rearward when retracted, and the parking brake is on the drive axle only. I've had one fall off also (but not while under it, I keep chocks and 20-ton jack-stands for that). They're made for leveling the coach, not for lifting it to work beneath (although they will lift it off-the-ground so people do it).
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I see it as on unwanted opportunity to kiss his posterior goodby if the truck falls.
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I am constantly surprised by the amount of people who will work on a car supported by a jack only.
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I am down the street from me died a few years back in this manner. The truck he was working under fell on him. Accidents like this probably happen more often than we think.
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So in some ways, pits are safer than jacks, jackstands and lifts. Anybody have a pit in their garage?
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My wife claims my garage is a "pit"-does that count?
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My neighbor in the RV storage lot had his trailer up on concrete blocks and at least 3 of them cracked and crumbled into pieces.
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Never thought about that. I usually leave the jack underneath. And always leave the car in neutral.
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