I presented the details of a fatality resulting from improper sling usage for the Associated Wire Rope Fabricators at their October 2013 meeting in Los Angeles. My presentation followed Todd Peterson, an attorney, who presented the events surrounding a serious injury that occurred in Omaha, Nebraska. The economic impact from injury is generally more of a serious consequence to a manufacturer than a fatality. I began my career in the rigging industry at the ripe old age of seventeen. Seven years later I founded Lift-It Manufacturing. My training career began when I was twenty-six and I have been “practicing” for the past thirty-three years to perfect a message that will educate, inspire and challenge my students to adopt a quest for excellence that does not allow compromise.
