Another Stage Collapse

Re: Another Stage Collapse

Apparently caused by a forklift driving into the stage.

4 Injured In Partial Stage Collapse At Schottenstein Center - WCMH: News, Weather, and Sports for Columbus, Ohio[/QUOTE
I actually (this is a REAL "no shitter") had a run run into my scaffolding (that was holding up the PA)-2 sections, and hit the leg and down came 1/2 of one side of the PA.

It rolled off a hill-down between 2 cop cars (who estimated the speed at 35MPH) and through the crowd-right to the scaffolding.

It was a large crowd and was quite amazing that nobody was injured (except some PA cabinets and cables that got ripped apart).

A few feet in one direction and it would have plowed directly into the back of the crowd and a few feet the other right into all our vehicles.

The whole story is quite a bit longer-but that is the jest of it.

You can't plan against everything-you never know.

As soon as you make it idiot proof-they will make a better idiot.
 
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As soon as you make it idiot proof-they will make a better idiot.

As I tell people at work: Always assume that everybody else are complete idiots and/or consciously trying to kill you.
In other words; the guy in the vehicle might run you down, the guy working overhead might drop something heavy or sharp, and the one strapping the load and building the scaffolding might be incompetent, hungover or both. Obviously, you learn to trust some people, but until they have earned that trust, you don't want to risk your life and health.
When rigging and unrigging, one should really follow the accepted guidelines from other industries and traditional behaviour in the theatre field (when there isn't a tension-grid), that the potential drop-zone is a no-go area that is either cordoned off, or controlled by only allowing one group of workers at a time. The problem with that is of course the time factor, so the next best thing is to learn a behaviour where everyone is alert and no one steps into a potential danger-zone.
 
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Tomorrow's news: Forklift Drivers Across The Nation Furious Over New Federal Licensing Procedures

Max,

I know you're probably too young to know this, but powered industrial trucks (i.e. forklifts) are already regulated by OSHA:

Truck Specific:
https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/poweredindustrialtrucks/standards.html

Additional Powered Industrial Truck Standards and Directives:
https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/poweredindustrialtrucks/standards.html
 
Re: Another Stage Collapse

Max,

I know you're probably too young to know this, but powered industrial trucks (i.e. forklifts) are already regulated by OSHA:

Truck Specific:
https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/poweredindustrialtrucks/standards.html

Additional Powered Industrial Truck Standards and Directives:
https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/poweredindustrialtrucks/standards.html

No, I know they are. Hence NEW regulations… it's… you know… a joke…

Yeah, I'll be keeping my day job. :D~:-D~:grin: Thanks for the actual regs, though. Useful to know
 
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That's called heckling :razz: Now shut up and drink your beer while I tell you about the rabbi and the penguin.

Is the penguin a Calvinist ("Reformed"), Lutheran or agnostic?

So 2 riggers walk into a bar... you'd think the second rigger would have noticed... Bada bing, bada boom. I'll be here all week, folks....