Another accident that could have been prevented with Precision Endgate Safety's products
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUK_g3VY1ho
Monday, March 8, 2010
Trucking company to safeguard fleet with BC technology
February 22,2010: A BC company is helping ensure accidents like the one that closed a Manitoba mine recently never happen again.
Precision Endgate Safety has been awarded the contract to supply Smook Contractors with its Elevation Indicator System, an alarm system that warns drivers when their truck box has risen unexpectedly.
Smook Contractors contacted Precision after an accident last month at Vale Inco's Manitoba Operations, where a dump truck with a raised box slammed into a trestle carrying the mine's tailings including both gas and water. Damage was substantial and closed surface operations for five days.
Truckshop Supervisor Dave Naylor said the driver was unaware the box was going up slowly as he drove. He said precision's alarm system will prevent similar incidents from taking place in the future.
"We showed it to Inco the other day and they were quite happy with the alarm system, very happy actually. We are putting it on all the trucks we own," Naylor said.
Precision Endgate president Mark Deverson says the incident that occurred at Inco is far from unique. Just recently in Turkey, a truck travelling with its box raised obliterated a pedestrian overpass and caused injury to a least one pedestrian crossing the footbridge at that time. The preventable accident is among the many that occur each year.
"No dump truck should be without this crucial piece of safety equipment," Deverson says.
Naylor agrees. "We should have done this a long time ago."
Precision's Elevation Indicator System is potentially life-saving technology that provides a visual and audible warning to drivers unaware the bed of their dump truck, tilt box garbage truck, or lifting flat deck has risen to a potentially deadly position. Precision also manufactures the Endgate Locking System that prevents the tailgate of a dump box from opening while the truck or trailer is in transport to prevent cargo from escaping. The company is headquartered in Grand Forks, BC.
Precision Endgate Safety has been awarded the contract to supply Smook Contractors with its Elevation Indicator System, an alarm system that warns drivers when their truck box has risen unexpectedly.
Smook Contractors contacted Precision after an accident last month at Vale Inco's Manitoba Operations, where a dump truck with a raised box slammed into a trestle carrying the mine's tailings including both gas and water. Damage was substantial and closed surface operations for five days.
Truckshop Supervisor Dave Naylor said the driver was unaware the box was going up slowly as he drove. He said precision's alarm system will prevent similar incidents from taking place in the future.
"We showed it to Inco the other day and they were quite happy with the alarm system, very happy actually. We are putting it on all the trucks we own," Naylor said.
Precision Endgate president Mark Deverson says the incident that occurred at Inco is far from unique. Just recently in Turkey, a truck travelling with its box raised obliterated a pedestrian overpass and caused injury to a least one pedestrian crossing the footbridge at that time. The preventable accident is among the many that occur each year.
"No dump truck should be without this crucial piece of safety equipment," Deverson says.
Naylor agrees. "We should have done this a long time ago."
Precision's Elevation Indicator System is potentially life-saving technology that provides a visual and audible warning to drivers unaware the bed of their dump truck, tilt box garbage truck, or lifting flat deck has risen to a potentially deadly position. Precision also manufactures the Endgate Locking System that prevents the tailgate of a dump box from opening while the truck or trailer is in transport to prevent cargo from escaping. The company is headquartered in Grand Forks, BC.
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