Another reminder about being SAFE when working on our coaches!

[Busted Knuckle]

I found another article about someone else getting hurt while working under their coach!

"Metro Briefing
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Man run over by RV at resort

A man who was working on his motorcoach at a Gulf Shores recreational vehicle park was run over by the vehicle late Monday morning, a fire department spokesman said.

Firefighters responded to the Luxury RV Resort about three blocks north of the beach off Alabama 59 about 11 a.m., Gulf Shores Fire Marshal Keith Martin said.

The man, whose identity and age were not released, was in town on vacation, Martin said. Firefighters did not know the man's condition.

Martin said he wasn't sure whether the RV was in gear or if someone was behind the wheel, but it rolled backward and ran over the man's chest before becoming lodged in adjacent wetlands.

Once they arrived, rescuers decompressed the man's chest -- a process in which a needle is stabbed into a victim's chest to let air out -- and he was flown to the University of South Alabama Medical Center via helicopter, Martin said. "

the above story was quoted from a search that emails me daily reports of any news involving motor coaches!

Please folks remember to safely block and chock yer bus anytime you get under it! Better yet find someone/place with a pit and eliminate the deadly possibility of being crushed! We are already a rare endangered species, and don't need accidents like this lowering our #'s!
FWIW! BK

[superpickle]

 

Ya mean, He LIVED 

Thats what Tire Blocks are for... Duhhh
And appenently he was parked on a grade
What a Maroon... 

[gumpy]

Thats what Tire Blocks are for... Duhhh

How do you know he wasn't using them? 

I've see instances where blocks can slide along in front of the tire and not grab hold. Happens
pretty easily on concrete where there might be a bit of sand or such. Might not even be noticable when you put the block in
place, and it doesn't take much of an incline to start a heavy bus rolling. Also possible his block wasn't big enough and the tire just
rolled over it.

Don't condemn the man with only fragments of information regarding the accident.

craig

[superpickle]

Thats what Tire Blocks are for... Duhhh

How do you know he wasn't using them? 

I've see instances where blocks can slide along in front of the tire and not grab hold. Happens
pretty easily on concrete where there might be a bit of sand or such. Might not even be noticable when you put the block in
place, and it doesn't take much of an incline to start a heavy bus rolling. Also possible his block wasn't big enough and the tire just
rolled over it.

Don't condemn the man with only fragments of information regarding the accident.

craig

OK, Yes we dont have a lot of Facts.. BUT, For it to Run completly over him and keep going, it either had to be a farily steep incline ( at least Much to steep for cawling under it, or it had to have built up some momemntun.. Could have had it Up on leveling blocks, in which case He was Doubly a Maroon for not makeing Sure it would not, could Not roll.!!!
Paul...

[white-eagle]

Easy Gumpy, he was  just mak'n a comment.  Have a chocalate dessert.  

hey, did you see your name in print?? check out bcm articles.

it's too easy to get sidetracked and miss doing something.  i parked the other day and put high idle on to cool off the engine/tranny.  we had been climbing some hills and it was 92 deg out.  high idle did not kick in.  thinking it was stuck, i moved it in and out a couple times, then touched the accelerator to see if it would accelerate.  that's when i noticed still in "d".  high idle worked once i put it in nuetral. oops.

chocks, blocks, park brake set, and stands in place if it's on air bags.  i've been under my bus behind the duals and i'll bet it'd take more than a needle to decompress me if it rolled back.

[oldmansax]

What is a "maroon"?

[cody]

I think a maroon is a cocoanut cookie?  but seriously, I've just began to make some friends here and I don't want to loose any of them yet, we all have to make sure we are doing things as safely as we can, murphy can show up at any time so we have to do what we can.

[Slow Rider]

I believe the reference is from Bugs Bunny and is his mispronunciation of the word moron.........but it is only a guess.


Frank

[Hi yo silver]

I'm glad I kept reading...you guys said what I was trying to talk myself out of saying.  Well handled.  Tee Hee!
Dennis

[gumpy]

hey, did you see your name in print?? check out bcm articles.

You mean the reference in your bus article?  I wasn't going to say anything so as not to publicly embarass you, but hey, you brought it up   

I know it was just an oversight on your part, but I appreciate the thought anyway   A good editor would have caught it, but when you're
publishing on a tight budget, you take what you can get.

BTW, other than that glaring little mistake, the rest of the article was really good.