Oh jeeez..... I did a lot of installs while at Exodus Communications for
EMC gear, I remember doing a massive storage upgrade for Fortune City
and it was 4 massive cabinets, fully populated... man if one those had
ever tipped, it would crush a person like a bug on a windshield!!!!
Curt
Michael Lee wrote:
I have seen and felt, from one floor below, an fully
populated EMC
Symmetrix cabinet fall on it's side. Someone, who shouldn't have
been, decided it needed to be moved, and rolled a wheel into a cutout
in the raised flooring, and down it went. Luckily the guy moving it
fell off to the side through an open tile, and the cabinet came down
on it's side breaking several floor tiles and dislodging/shattering
all the drop ceiling tiles nearby on the floor below. Had he fallen
under it, that would probably been the end of him.
I also had an arcade cabinet fall on me before, not fun. First time
was trying to get one out of a Uhaul by myself, I was lowering it down
and the top heavy monitor just went tumbling over. Wasn't too bad, I
decided to just let go and get out of the way, and machine came to a
rest on it's front unharmed, and second was lowering it down a set of
stairs by myself, and it decided to just slide down the whole way
pushing me down the rest of the stairs along with it.
On 1/12/2010 1:16 PM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Sridhar and I were moving a DEC cabinet up some
stairs behind my
house a few years back and we all lost grip of it and it nearly took
out Sridhar, yeah --- cab's are big and heavy!!! I also had an
Asteroids upright arcade come down on my chest while loading it into
a u-haul back in 2001, not fun I can tell you, hurt like h*ll
Curt
Simon Fryer wrote:
> Man crushed to death by computer gear
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/12/2790875.htm
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> Simon
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