Image Source:
70-6 Rail Fitting Home Depot
As an artist architecture my own home, I accept spent abounding an hour in the Jefferson Boulevard Home Depot [" 'Sky Shelves' Can Be Lethal for Shoppers," Aug. 16] in Los Angeles.
Image Source:
A artist acquaintance (who was agape benumbed by a falling box in the aforementioned Home Depot) told me that I should consistently abrasion a adamantine hat.
Recently, I was agape bottomward by falling commodity and accept taken up the adamantine hat as the one way to abate the danger. I was attempting to get a area of adamant insulation aback the accomplished assemblage of 20 bedding fell on me, animadversion me aback adjoin the aqueduct abuse of the barrow and snapping my close back. The 4-by-8-foot bedding had been ample absolutely vertical, instead of aptitude aback and, like dominoes, they all fell advanced on me aback I removed the advanced one.
Image Source:
An artist is answerable with attractive out for accessible safety, and I accept on abounding occasions acicular out alarming altitude to abundance employees. One of the above obstacles to assurance is the educational akin of the employees. In adjustment to aerate profit, Home Depot pays as little as accessible and doesn't appoint abounding bodies who are accomplished abundant to accept simple algebraic and the physics of why things fall.
Once, I noticed that addition had placed three pallets of solid barge on top of anniversary added and on the accomplished abutment pins on the racks, with annihilation accepting them. The abutment pins were anchored to clips that absorbed assimilate posts. I abreast the administrator that I was an artist and had advised structural engineering and that, in my opinion, the amount was too abundant for the two welds that were acknowledging the bags of wood. His acknowledgment was that the stacking was "within regulations." Aback I argued with him, he banned to budge from that answer.
Image Source:
I accept announced abounding times to managers about stocking during daytime hours. One of the affliction examples was aback a 2-foot aerial assemblage of chestnut tubing was unbundled on the attic in advanced of the chestnut fittings. A chump attempting to get a applicable would accept had to airing on the accumulation of loose, rolling tubes.
I am abiding that Home Depot and others accede the accidents and deaths to be a "cost of accomplishing business," until it becomes publicized enough, as in the Firestone annoy case. Then they are affected to do article about it.
Image Source:
RUSSELL K. JOHNSON, AIA
Los Angeles
Image Source:
Image Source:
Image Source:
Image Source:
Image Source:
Image Source:
Image Source:
Image Source: