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IBM says not its fault

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- 6 Sep 2007 ( #326 ) - United States

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IBM insists it is not liable for a forklift accident that damaged a USD1.4 million computer.

As reported last week in Forkliftaction.com News, TR Systems is suing IBM in the US District Court in Alexandria, claiming poor packaging resulted in the server's damage after it fell off a forklift in transit to a warehouse (Forkliftaction.com News #325).

According to media reports, IBM says in its court filing it was the customer's own clumsiness that wrecked the computer.

IBM notes that TR Systems had conceded in its complaint that its own employee was operating the forklift at that time.

TR Systems, a federal contractor, is arguing that the computer would have withstood the jolt if it had been packaged properly.

So far, there's been no comment from the driver involved in the costly "mishap".

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