In recent weeks, one of my co-workers injured himself while trying to lift a box containing a crib for his new born baby boy. Vince told me not to mention his name in the blog so I told him I won’t. What I will do is tell you how he hurt himself. First off, he is about 5’6 inches tall and about 150lbs soaking wet trying to lift a box a bit more then half his weight. He told me he did not stretch or prepared for the lift because he did not realize how heavy it was. He barely bent his knees and when he lifted the box which was bit further from where he was so he had to reach a bit over on front to lift, and the rest was history. This is totally the wrong way to lift any heavy object. Now, I am going to explain how to lift a box properly without hurting yourself so when you recieve a package from UPS containing R1 Concepts rotors, you know what to do:
