A container of three-leg chain slings arrives tagged "Grade 80, 3/8 in." and nothing else. No serial number, no proof-test record, no heat number, and two latches that will not close. The price was 1...

A two-leg Grade 80 sling has been lifting steel plate in the same bay for four years. It gets a glance every morning, nobody writes anything down, and the identification tag disappeared sometime in y...

Two slings on the same rack can look almost identical and still carry completely different limits. A 10 mm wire rope sling and a 10 mm Grade 80 chain sling are not interchangeable, and neither one ha...

A crew leader on a commercial roof needs to tie off a worker near the edge. The anchor point looks solid—a steel beam bolted to the structure. But when the safety engineer asks for the load rating, n...

A maintenance supervisor walks the yard before the morning shift. A wire rope sling pulled from the rack has an oil-stained, nearly unreadable tag. When the OSHA inspector asks for the rated load, no...