August 28, 2007

Fork lift truck drops $1.5 million server

We have seen accidents where couriers and removal men drop valuable items, but this one takes that onto a different level.

TR Systems may well be a little embarrassed at the moment, as one of their workers was moving an item from a federal contractors truck into the warehouse at Alexandria, VA. When somehow the rear wheels of the fork lift truck knocked a raised surface, this caused the forklift to move slightly from side to side, and yes you know what happened next. The crate fell to ground damaging the server inside.

As a result IBM refused to take the server back, or even send out any technicians, meaning that TR Systems had to buy another server from IBM for $1.5 million.

TR Systems claim that just because the sever fell off of one of their fork lift trucks, does not mean that they are to blame for damaged server, in fact it was IBM who failed to put the server in a proper palleted crate who are to blame.

Naturally this is going to court and the outcome decided in due course.

Source [Information Week]