Accidents in the Data Center

According to the National Safety Council, every 7 seconds, a worker is injured on the job. These numbers are staggering, and the worst part is that each one is preventable. Taking preventative action can spare worker's needless pain and suffering. During 2017 more than 104,000,000 production days lost due to work-related injuries. Most common types of injuries keeping workers away from work are:
 

• Sprains, strains or tears.
• Soreness or pains.
• Cuts, lacerations or punctures.

 
The top 3 injuries are: 

• Overexertion with 33.54% of injuries. 
• Contact with objects and equipment with 26% of injuries.
• Slips, trips and falls with 25.8% of injuries.

 
In the Data Center industry, we can see this situation, many worker’s results injured when trying to move heavy server cabinets and/or IT cabinets without the right equipment. This injured can cause the death of life long-suffering. All these situations are completely preventable using the right equipment.
 
Other commons accidents in Data Center are related to fallen Racks or Server Cabinets, let’s see the following photos:

Now, could you calculate the cost of these accidents 
Cost of the equipment, in average the cost of the equipment installed in a common server cabinet in Data Center is tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Cost of downtime, According to Gartner, in 2014, the average cost of IT downtime is $5,600 per minute. Because there are so many differences in how businesses operate, downtime, at the low end, can be as much as $140,000 per hour, $300,000 per hour on average, and as much as $540,000 per hour at the higher end. 98% of organizations say a single hour of downtime costs over $100,000. 81% of respondents indicated that 60 minutes of downtime costs their business over $300,000. 33% of those enterprises reported that one hour of downtime costs their firms $1-5 million.
But other costs don’t often show up in dollar form. That’s the cost of interruptions, especially when IT professionals are interrupted from what might be more productive work.

As once reported in the Washington Post, interruptions consume, on average, 238 minutes per day. Also, the time to get started back up after an interruption consumes another 84 minutes a day. The time lost to stress and fatigue steals another 50 minutes a day.
All that adds up to about 6.2 hours per day, or 31 hours per week lost to interruptions! Is it any wonder we’re spending most of our time treading water?

What about the damage to your brand reputation? We all see the stories in the news. A prominent bank recently experienced a two-day outage (subscription required) that caused its stock price to drop 2.3%. Black Friday caused retailers to scramble as their websites crashed. A popular ride-hailing service had a deadly accident due to software in its prototype self-driving car set to ignore objects on the road.​

And the most important is the lost the information. What happens if your storage system crash like this photo.  The entire business could be completely in risk due to this accident.

Accept it or not, at this moment the most valuable active is the information, almost every company running today depends of its IT System, every time we move a server cabinet or IT cabinets we are taking huge risk due to the probability that the cabinet fall.
 
With Cabinet Lift, an operator can move a fully integrated cabinet controlling the lower and lifting. Cabinet Lift is adjustable to fit different cabinet widths.  This ​battery powered set is designed to work in tandem.
 
 ​Able to lift to 5000 pounds (2267Kg). One operator can move a fully integrated server cabinet long distances.
 
 Both units are connected using a control cable or wireless connection, the operator just uses a switch to control the lifting and lowering movement.
 
Built in structural aluminum that provides the strength to support heavy server cabinet but also is lightweight. Each side is powered using a 24 VDC motor and a control unit designed a built thinking in this cabinet lift.
 
 Eight dual castor make easy and smooth the movement.
 
Cabinet Lift protects people and IT assets in Data Centers.
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​More information at CabinetLift.com, Cabinet Lift is a product of NDC Solutions LLC.