There was a question in another forum regarding how to convince another interested party that using 120v Cable hoists to fly a video wall was a bad idea. Seriously, there are people that need to be "sold" on the idea that using the cheapest materials and methods has some kind of drawback.And this is what I see - a high school copying it - with "not for overhead lifting" loadstars and a radio transmission tower. Just crap.
The Station fire was 20 years ago, out of site, out of mind. The Indiana State Fair roof collapse was blamed on weather in the eyes of most folks - an act of God. That there was no engineering study done for the way it was erected that year, or the use of Jersey Barricade (K-rail) guy ballast instead of the permanent guy points, etc was disclosed but in the minds of the public, was an unfortunate weather circumstance (that led to Jim Digby founding the Event Safety Alliance). Pit fillers? I read about those here, but they didn't make the national news.Well, the Station was certainly a major pyro failure. And the Indiana fair truss failure. And a trio of pit filler collapses a few years ago. Outside of US a number of assembly large loss of life fire incidents reported, but all seem to be the lack of more than one means of egress.
That being said, "I've never seen a problem here" is a really bad basis for not putting a safety feature in to place.
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