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Article: State's elevator inspectors spread too thin, some say.
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- The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH)
- Article date:
- October 29, 2006
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Byline: Mark Ferenchik , Jodi Andes and Tim Doulin
Oct. 29--Each state elevator inspector examines an average of 1,155 elevators per year. That's about 22 a week, or four to five each day. "I think they have a full day," said Norman Martin, Ohio's chief elevator inspector. "We want them to be busy. As of today, we're adequate." But Maryland mechanical and structural safety engineer Allen Bissell, who has studied elevator incidents such as the one that killed an Ohio State University student Oct. 20, called that "a huge workload." "It's a big job. It's tedious," Bissell said. And when told about the number of inspections Ohio performs, a spokesman for ...