Can’t fail much worse than this…
An IBM server worth $1.4 million was wrecked after it fell off a forklift during shipping. Now the customer is suing — claiming that the computer maker failed to properly package the high-end business system.
Federal contractor T.R. Systems says its workers were moving the server from a freight truck into its warehouse in Alexandria, Va., when the mishap occurred. “The rear wheels of their forklift hit the raised surface at the entry door of the warehouse, causing the forklift to rock, and subsequently causing the server to rock,” T.R. Systems says in court papers filed last month.
“As a result of the rocking motion, the base of the pallet and the crate broke and the crate fell onto the curb, damaging the server packed inside,” the contractor states in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va.
