Dangerous renting: lack of training poses risks.Accidents involving rented items such as lifts, fork-lifts, trailers, tents and chairs posed pose 1 v. posed, pos·ing, pos·es v.intr. 1. To assume or hold a particular position or posture, as in sitting for a portrait. 2. To affect a particular mental attitude. the greatest risks for consumers and were associated with the highest numbers of fatalities, injuries and damages in the equipment rental RENTAL. A roll or list of the rents of an estate containing the description of the lands let, the names of the tenants, and other particulars connected with such estate. This is the same as rent roll, from which it is said to be corrupted. industry, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a St. Paul St. Paul as a missionary he fearlessly confronts the “perils of waters, of robbers, in the city, in the wilderness.” [N.T.: II Cor. 11:26] See : Bravery Travelers study. The study, "Renting Dangerously: Injuries, Fatalities and Losses in the Equipment Rental Industry," examined more than 3,500 incidents involving rental equipment occurring between 1996 and 2002. Tony Kuehn, senior risk control consultant for St. Paul Travelers, said the company has had a niche niche: see ecology. niche Smallest unit of a habitat that is occupied by an organism. A habitat niche is the physical space occupied by the organism; an ecological niche is the role the organism plays in the community of organisms found in the insuring rental equipment companies for 20 years. Some companies rent just to commercial construction companies, others rent only to homeowners, while some companies rent equipment to both types of consumers, he said. "Anybody can go and rent this equipment. That's where the danger is, if they're they're Contraction of they are. they're be not trained to use it," Kuehn said. He said St. Paul Travelers conducts the study to help reduce general liability claims for this business segment. Among the findings: * Accidents associated with rental lifts were the leading cause of fatalities. Five of the 18 rental-equipment related fatalities were attributed to personnel lifts. Of those fatalities, four involved power line contact. * Personnel lifts also ranked No. 1 in severity, meaning lift accidents accounted for the highest costs of rental equipment insurance claims. Lifts have held this top severity ranking for the past 20 years. * Forklifts were responsible for four fatalities, with operator error being a factor in all four of these incidents. Bystanders accounted for three of the four fork-lift fatalities. |
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