“When used correctly, Dura Crib brand of products can create a compliant and safer work environment by providing technicians who repair equipment with a proper ‘lock out tag out’ of stored energy. This type of hazardous energy is created when hoisted or jacked equipment is not given a secured platform. Wood cribbing does not interlock, is not tested and is subject to unseen degradation via environmental factors or absorption of fluids. All these factors create an unsafe and unpredictable work surface that cannot contain stored energy… Under 29 CFR 1910.147 LOTO, for stored energy not being controlled and ‘locked-out’ can also be used as the basis of a citation.” – Angelique Bracer, COHC, SHS, Region 11 Safety, Health & Environmental Manager, Sunbelt Rentals
