Spencer Hill from a Salt Lake City, Utah facility of Boeing Co has won the eighth annual forklift rodeo of the Utah Manufacturers Association with a near-perfect score.
Hill receives USD500, and Boeing can display the forklift rodeo's travelling trophy for the next year.
The association conducted the rodeo on 25 September in a West Valley City warehouse of publicly traded USANA Health Sciences Inc, a developer and manufacturer of science-based nutritional and personal care products.
The Salt Lake City site of Arnold Machinery Co provided two Yale and two Hyster forklifts, each with lifting capacity of 5,000 lbs (2,250 kg). "Each contestant (of 52 entrants) used one of each brand of forklift," says Teresa Thomas, managing director of the Salt Lake City-based association.
The forklift operators competed in safety inspection, obstacle course, loading and unloading a trailer and stacking and shelving pallets with 300 possible points for the rodeo. Hill lost one point, giving him a final result of 299.
Two operators had final scores of 298 with elapsed time breaking the tie. Jason Clark with Morton Salt Co. of Grantsville, Utah was second, receiving USD300, and Richardo Basulto with Schiff Products Inc. of Salt Lake City was third, receiving USD100.