Monday, February 22, 2010

Correction

Recently some friends at Ring Power kindly distributed an article first seen from Forkliftaction.com, highlighting a rare incident involving a Toyota Forklift. The article seen below summarizes a  lawsuit in which Toyota Industrial Equipment Manufacturing(TIEM) lost an appeal in an isolated case in which a tire split on a 7-Series Toyota and rolled over. 

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On the second page, Ring Lift suggests that someone has claimed that the SAS system will prevent a roll over in any situation. This in fact is not true and is unfortunate that Ring Lift is merely playing on the emotions of the recent Toyota Car recalls.(See Feb.9th Blog entry)
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No, Toyota Industrial Equipment Manufacturing does not claim the SAS system will prevent a Roll Over in any situation. However, they do claim that it will prevent a Roll Over in most situations, that it is the safest system on the market, and lift trucks with this system installed have the best safety record. See below.

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If it is not the safest, What Is?

 We would also like to point out that SAS system is not intended to stabilize a lift truck in midair.

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2 comments:

  1. For what it's worth, here is the slide show from Worksafe BC involving the tip over they point to. You can see from your photo the tip over hazards that led to the accident. Slide show is here:

    http://www2.worksafebc.com/media/fss/forklift/slideshow.htm

    We've all known Ring for decades, it seems a little disappointing they would be so unclear to the facts when developing their promotional copy.

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  2. Thanks for the link Kyle. This provides some insight as to why it actually tipped over. We appreciate your following!

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