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Dude was over 200kg. They're heroes for even trying to evacuate him during the hurricane. Too bad neither himself nor his family could property care for him.
Hurricane, UT. It's just a city name, not an incredibly out-of-place weather event.
My mistake then 😄 I think my point might still stand. Handling a man with such a tragically disfigured body will always be risky.
I don't I agree that the point stands
If an elevator is rated for 1500lbs and fails with 1000lbs of people on it, I'm not absolving the operators and maintainers and somehow blaming the 7 people on the elevator for not magically knowing the "true" safe limit was 6.
If he was too large for the equipment, the company shouldn't have made the attempt. It was thier fault.
If he was not too large and the equipment failed due to improper usage or maintenance, it again was the company's fault.
If he was not too large and the equipment was properly operated and maintained, it was the fault of the manufacturer.
There are a great many ways that people (overweight or not) can be ultimately responsible for thier own deaths. This is not one of those cases. I believe it is dismissive and callous to jump to the conclusion that it was.
It will always be risky but if they cannot do it safely, they have no business doing it in the first place.
He was very large but not so large that he was an aberration in modern America.
Ambulances have had to be built on larger and larger truck chassis to accommodate our fat asses.
Hambulance