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We had a customer who put the forks on a S7.00XL Hyster to give him extra clearance to move an injection moulding machine on a fork mounted crane jib in a low ceiling area. They lifted the £150.000 machine over the top of another £150.000 machine when the fork bottom (or top as it then was) hook snapped off and smashed both machines to pieces!! A very costly accident!!!
  • Posted 15 Feb 2012 00:03
  • By danny_k
  • joined 3 Mar'05 - 310 messages
  • Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

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