Lift Safety Inspections

Automotive Lifts pose a serious danger in your shop when they are in need of repair or maintenance. Lifts are heavy equipment. A vehicle can easily fall and crush your service technician or customer with only a split second’s notice. Indeed, every year over 15,000 accidents causing hospitalization or death come from lift related accidents (and this doesn’t count the countless accidents that are handled without involving a hospital or the insurance companies).

In fact, during this last year, we have been called out to service and inspect many failed lifts that either caused damage or were about to. This is a lot more common than you would imagine. Sometimes it doesn’t end with just damaging the vehicle, sometimes it ends with death. A lift inspection is very inexpensive and becomes a miniscule cost when compared to a disaster caused by an accident.

For example:

· A 30 Year-old man sustains life-threatening injuries when a lift with a Ford Escort collapses.

· A 19 Year-old man has his fingers amputated when the vehicle on the lift he was operating tipped while he was adjusting the kick out device.

· A 28 Year-old man died when the lift he was operating failed and the vehicle fell and crushed him.

Here is a small sampling of the accidents listed on this OSHA claims web site: http://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/AccidentSearch.search?acc_keyword=”Auto%20Lift”&keyword_list=on

Lifts fail and cause accidents all the time, and the causes of failure vary. Some lifts fail because of improper installation, improper use by the operator, poor maintenance (yes, lifts require maintenance), and even sometimes poor manufacturing. To keep your shop safer, it becomes imperative to conduct regular safety inspections and maintenance.

That’s what our Lift Safety Inspector, Craig Heidenthal, does for shops like yours. Craig has over 30 years of automotive service equipment experience and has owned Service Tech for over 20 years. In that time, he has conducted 100′s (maybe over 1000) of safety inspections on vehicle lifts. This experience makes him a true expert in the field.

Craig conducts safety inspections on lifts for very large companies with their own fleets as well as many municipal auto service shops. Craig is also called upon to regularly inspect the vehicle lifts of an underground goldmine in Nevada.

Avoid the disaster that could cost your company $1000′s or $1,000,000′s. Invest in a simple safety inspection at least annually to get the peace of mind you deserve from knowing your lifts are safer for use.

Another important point to mention relates to employee training. Every lift is different, and often your lift operators are not trained well enough to operate the lifts safely. This is a common issue that causes accidents regularly. Service Tech provides operator training to ensure you are keeping your staff safer while operating this heavy equipment. Training can be scheduled as a group, saving you money. This training can be performed at the same time as the inspection too, which saves you more money.

Call us today to schedule your Lift Safety Inspection!

(800) 446-2254

And of course, if your equipment needs repair, call on us to quickly arrive, and get your equipment up and running fast.

Our expert staff has the experience and the equipment to get your equipment installed and ready to use, faster than our competitors.  This speed saves you money, and gets your shop operational faster so you can make money too.

We are extremely well qualified to provide the very best installation and setup on automotive equipment — even when you don’t buy it from us.  From cement, to air reels, to air hoses, to electrical, we can do it all.

Our staff has the special expertise that is important to shop efficiency.  We can help you design a shop that maximizes your potential to service the maximum amount of cars quickly.  We interface with all the supporting experts in the related installation tasks such as electricians and cement experts.

We truly are your one-stop business for all your equipment installation needs.

The accidents caused by lifts can be fatal.  You would be surprised how many lifts have problems with them and pose a very real threat to life and limb.  Craig Heidenthal is a lift inspector with over 30 years of experience.  He has inspected hundreds of lifts for all types of shops.  From independent shops to large fleet shops, his direct experience is vast and comprehensive.  Craig has completed the OSHA safety program.  All of your lifts should be inspected with Craig’s careful eye once a year.  Our inspection program is affordable and painless, plus it gives you the peace of mind you need.  Read more about lift inspections here.

It is estimated that over 80% of all accidents involving automotive service equipments is caused by operator errors.  Our company provides your organization with the training needed that helps keep accidents out of your facility.  (Here’s a link that lists a few closed cases of automotive lift accidents that even involve fatalities, it is some eye-opening reading for everyone at an automotive repair facility).

Get your employees trained and keep the new ones trained, it can save a life.

Just like the vehicles that your company services, preventative maintenance saves you money, saves you downtime, and keeps your equipment safe.

Service Tech services all kinds of automotive service equipment, such as brake lathes, wheel aligners, lifts, tire changers, wheel balancers and so much more.  Keep your equipment from breaking down, causing accidents, and costing you too much by having one of our highly experienced service techs provide you with the proper maintenance