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<blockquote data-quote="MrFedEx" data-source="post: 5572689" data-attributes="member: 12508"><p>We used to have a station that was side-load into curtain-side CTV. You could only get the trailer about a foot away from the decking, otherwise you couldn't get it around the 90 degree corner that exited the station without having the trailer overhang whack the dock. RTDs that weren't very skilled had about a 2-foot gap, which was sometimes angled because they couldn't get the trailer straight. The solution was to use thin aluminum plates to bridge the gap, which had no means to securely lock into the deck grating. They were also only about 2 feet wide, and a mis-step was about 5 feet straight to the concrete after bashing your head or other body part on the truck on the way down.</p><p>We had 2 people fall through and get badly injured. One sued, received a settlement, and left the company. The second, who was very badly hurt, accepted a job that was specifically created for him servicing FedEx facilities. He didn't sue. As soon as their official liability period was over for reporting an OTJ injury, they terminated this guy, who just fell off a cliff in terms of it affecting his life. Besides the life-changing aspects of his injury, he lost his home and had some other bad things happen. Last I heard, he was on the street and homeless.</p><p></p><p>All calculated. If he had only sued and gotten some justice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrFedEx, post: 5572689, member: 12508"] We used to have a station that was side-load into curtain-side CTV. You could only get the trailer about a foot away from the decking, otherwise you couldn't get it around the 90 degree corner that exited the station without having the trailer overhang whack the dock. RTDs that weren't very skilled had about a 2-foot gap, which was sometimes angled because they couldn't get the trailer straight. The solution was to use thin aluminum plates to bridge the gap, which had no means to securely lock into the deck grating. They were also only about 2 feet wide, and a mis-step was about 5 feet straight to the concrete after bashing your head or other body part on the truck on the way down. We had 2 people fall through and get badly injured. One sued, received a settlement, and left the company. The second, who was very badly hurt, accepted a job that was specifically created for him servicing FedEx facilities. He didn't sue. As soon as their official liability period was over for reporting an OTJ injury, they terminated this guy, who just fell off a cliff in terms of it affecting his life. Besides the life-changing aspects of his injury, he lost his home and had some other bad things happen. Last I heard, he was on the street and homeless. All calculated. If he had only sued and gotten some justice. [/QUOTE]
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