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#2641 - 02/15/12 02:25 PM
This should make your blood run cold
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#2700 - 02/22/12 03:10 PM
Re: This should make your blood run cold
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It's very similar to the death (Nov, 2011?) at Cal State Long Beach, where the elevator was moving with the doors open, during a rescue attempt. This event could easily have ended the same, or worse.
Greenpants- When you say "gate switch monitor", I assume you are not talking only about standard door lock contact monitoring, but rather, a special gate switch monitoring device, that you hang on the controller during a rescue? Like a meter, or a light of some kind?
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#2718 - 02/23/12 11:57 PM
Re: This should make your blood run cold
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hey broke, im sure this light/buzzer system is not seperately powered bc if it was it may short the car door. the other brake lifter you described i would never use. whats wrong with using the mechanical brake lifter?
Last edited by uppo72; 02/23/12 11:58 PM.
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#2737 - 02/27/12 12:00 AM
Re: This should make your blood run cold
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Yep UPPO..I walk in and see this "Seasoned Mechanic??" and 2 T.M.'s, and the building manager, surrounding the "Seasoned Mechanic" while he tried to get a pair of 420 channel locks, on the spring tension nut...Sorry...But I just lost it...
And then there was the time I went on an overtime call back. Call was severe leveling problems. Old Otis slim line stuff..Car was in service when I arrived. Rode the car to the top and it did a buffer test. let me out then closed the doors and went about it's merry old way picking up passengers...
I'm thinking "What the Hell?" as I ran up to the machine room. Caught the elevator and pulled the the knife switch. Looked down and seen a bright yellow jumper, jumping out the entire safety ciruit. Removed the jumper, fixed the elevator, I can't remember but I think I recall an HX contact on the selector. Then I just sat in the machine room and boiled on a not so slow simmer...
Call me a snitch, goon, etc..Don't really give a damn. I marched into the bosse's office the next morning and embedded the jumper in a wall, from throwing it. Then I told him the entire story.
He called the guy in, and he admitted he had put the jumper on the car because he got tired of having to get the car off the limits. He was fired immediately...
I will say my old boss called EVERYONE in that afternoon, and embedded the jumper in the wall again, and explained to ALL, why so and so wasn't here anymore, and the same fate would fall to anyone in his employ if they thought this was good troubleshooting practice...
I know people forget and stuff happens. Hell I was doing some re-adjusting on a car, and after I got home I talked myself into the notion that I had left the bottom final jumped out. I got into the car and drove 30 miles back to the job at midnight to check it. It wasn't on, but I could finally get back to sleep when I got back home....
I know about those kind of things, but when I see just see sheer stupidity and laziness, I just can't stand it, when it comes to safety. Fortunately 99.99% of the guys out there do give a damn about this stuff. This should be evident by my rant, that I've only blown up like this 2 times in 34 years...But when you see it 1st hand it just makes my blood run cold...
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#2739 - 02/27/12 04:11 AM
Re: This should make your blood run cold
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In November, a woman was killed in Long Beach, partly because a mechanic had the door locks jumped out.
First, I heard he was in jail, and unable to live with himself.
Evidently, he made bail, because a couple of days ago, the next thing I hear, was that he jumped off a building to his death, such was his feelings of guilt.
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#2745 - 02/28/12 12:17 AM
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