Dive summary:
- An alarm to warn of tipping danger had been filled with spray foam and wires appeared to have been disconnected before a Genie S65 boom lift rented from Hertz tipped over and killed a worker at a Canadian bridge project in 2011, a Hertz mechanic told a coroner's inquest in Canada's Northwest Territories.
- The mechanic, Tim Ebert, told the inquest he didn't think the wires could have been broken off by the impact of the fall, and that the sound-and-light alarm should have activated whenever the lift was on a slope greater than 4.5 degrees.
- Gustavo Argueta, 24, from Thunder Bay died in the June 2011 tip-over at the site where Teranorth Construction was working on a bridge over the MacKenzie River.
From the article:
The court saw photos taken by OPP Const. Mark Maltais from the scene of the incident that afternoon that showed the lift had fallen onto its side. The machine had been operated under the bridge on a severe slope. ...