Safety Talk

What’s at Stake? As end-dump truck bodies and/or semi-trailer dump rigs get longer, instability of the vehicle gets higher and higher.  With high instability comes more of a chance of trucks tipping over.  This risk is greater in semi-trailer rigs than in straight trucks due to the length of the semi-trailer rig. So, what can happen after a dump truck tips over?  In early May of 2017 an El Paso worker suffered life-threatening injuries after being trapped inside a tipped over dump truck.  Luckily for him, first responders were notified almost immediately, yet it still took over an hour to free […]