Training Minutes: Pin Under Railcar

In this Training Minutes video, Paul DeBartolomeo and company demonstrate a method for removing a patient pinned under a railcar using cribbing, air bags, and a strut. Among other things, they discuss identifying the adequate air bag and point for the lift, constructing a viable lift stack, and determining how much weight is going to be lifted.

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Elevator Rescue: Rope Gripper Entrapment

Mike Dragonetti discusses operating safely while around a Rope Gripper and two methods of mitigating an entrapment situation.
Delta explosion

Two Workers Killed, Another Injured in Explosion at Atlanta Delta Air Lines Facility

Two workers were killed and another seriously injured in an explosion Tuesday at a Delta Air Lines maintenance facility near the Atlanta airport.