Posted by mb58 on May 02, 2019 at 12:45:53 from (192.234.241.107):
In Reply to: What good is a ROPS posted by John in La on May 01, 2019 at 19:39:21:
Several years ago I was an inspector on a job where the contractor was building a new road. They had a 17 year old driving the self-propelled sweeper which had a 4-post ROPS with a piece of 1/8 inch sheet metal for a top. The boy had been warned to stop clowning as he liked to go fast and swerve from side to side. He went around a curve that hid him from sight of everyone and in a few minutes one of the workers came along in a truck and saw the sweeper laying on its side. With no set belt on, the young man was laying on his back, crushed across the chest by the sheet metal top. Ironically, he had been fired earlier, but his mother came to the contractor and begged them to re-hire him because the young man had gotten a girl pregnant and needed a job.
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