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Stagecraft Digest, Issue #1081

 1. Re: stacking truss on spansets
    by Rigger <rigger [at] tds.net>
 2. Steven E. Hawkins v. The Waynesburg College
    by "Tim Catlett" <catlett.lizardsdream [at] gmail.com>

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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 00:39:44 -0500
From: Rigger <rigger [at] tds.net>
Subject: Re: stacking truss on spansets

At 9:35 PM -0800 1/8/07, Robert Bell wrote:

>   So.... what can be done about this. How can this
>unsafe practice be stopped and what happens when I say
>no we won't hang this show with unsafe equipment.


You could lay a piece of 2x4 between the truss sections prior to 
stacking them. That'd keep the Spansets from getting smooshed, while 
not adding all that much extra height to the stack of truss sections 
(provided you're not already stacking it stupid-high).

Food for thought...

-- 
Dave Vick
rigger [at] tds.net

         "That's one of my pet peeves.  OK, maybe not a pet,
          more like a feral peeve, or a peeve that you feed
          scraps to but don't take to the vet or anything."

                                  -- Steve Bream

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Message-ID: <c9f556360701082249x232c8412r15f51c732a8cbf4e [at] mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 00:49:37 -0600
From: "Tim Catlett" <catlett.lizardsdream [at] gmail.com>
Subject: Steven E. Hawkins v. The Waynesburg College

Below is a slightly more detailed report about this incident. I am
still suspicious of the claims made by Mr. Hawkins but I am waiting
and seeing, as it were.

Tim Catlett
Asst. Technical Director - Shorewood High School Drama
Technical Director - Milwaukee Shakespeare
Director of Outreach/Membership  - ISETSA (International Secondary
Education Theatre Health & Safety Association)
Cell: 414.975.4424
EMAIL: catlett.lizardsdream [at] gmail.com

_____________Quoted Article follows:

THE WEST VIRGINIA RECORD
Theatre worker lost thumb, blames college

Friday, November 10, 2006

By John O'Brien - Morgantown Bureau
MORGANTOWN - A Morgantown man says that while he was working on props
for a musical play at Waynesburg College in Pennsylvania, he cut
himself with a saw, lost his thumb and nearly lost his hand.

Steven Hawkins filed a lawsuit Oct. 31 in Kanawha Circuit Court
against Waynesburg College, alleging that the incident was the fault
of the college's.

He says the college failed to provide training, supervision,
operator's manuals or warnings of the "inherent dangers of operating
miter saws."

Hawkins was a nursing student taking Introduction to Theatre in
February 2005 when the alleged incident occurred.

"On Feb. 23, 2005, as Plaintiff was operating a Craftsman 10-inch
compound miter saw in the Performing Arts Center, suddenly and without
warning, his left shirt sleeve was pulled into the blade area of the
saw, resulting in severe and serious injuries involving fractures of
the left thumb and small fingers; traumatic amputation of the left
hand at the forearm; subsequent re-plantation of the left hand;
subsequent surgical amputation of the left thumb; scar tissue
contractures, injuries to the tendons, muscles, ligaments, arteries,
veins and tissue of the left forearm and hand; and shock and injury to
the nerves and nervous systems," the complaint says.

Hawkins is seeking compensation for medical expenses, great pain and
suffering, inconvenience, embarrassment, loss of enjoyment of life,
impairment of health, strength and vitality, loss of earnings and
earning potential and disfigurement.

He adds that Waynesburg was negligent in "failing to adequately
inspect the miter saws for evidence of mishandling, misuse and/or
abuse by students who were allowed and/or required to use the miter
saws."

Cindy Stine of Pittsburgh law firm Goldberg, Persky and White is
representing Hawkins.

Monongalia Circuit Court case number 06-C-702

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