[SML] Ringling Brothers Accident

[Blackfaer]

Great link, looks like the tri-axial loading of a caribeaner was the problem. Not being a rigger, my thought was that should have been a shackle at that point instead of a beaner, right?

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> On Jul 5, 2016, at 4:33 PM, Ray Gibson via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
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> I guess this has been around for some time now, but hadn't made its way to the SML.  The OSHA report on this incident was published on their website and may be of interest to many of the SML readers:
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> https://www.osha.gov/doc/engineering/2014_r_05.html
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> It's dated October 2014 but I think only made its way to the Internet in the last few months.
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> Ray
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>> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Ryan Mutton <ryan.mutton at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Happened an hour or two ago. 8 girls women dropped during the "Human Chandelier"
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>> Brief article: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ringling-brothers-performers-injured-aerial-act-report-article-1.1779060
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>> Video from the above article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3CfEbvFpjM
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>> I've got a friend out with another unit, this one was the Blue Unit.
>> 
>> rdm
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>> --
>> Ryan Mutton
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