Would you trust your life to a hydraulic jack? You shouldn’t. Workers have been killed by vehicles and other heavy objects falling off jacks and improperly-placed jack stands. In one such fatality, a mechanic was doing a repair under a forklift supported only by a hydraulic jack and one wheel chock. He did not use jack stands, wood blocks or any other rigid stable form of support for the forklift. The area of the shop yard where he was working was on a slight slope. He was on a creeper underneath the forklift when the heavy machine slipped. The forklift frame struck him […]
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