Treaded hand truck created as class project is now making downstairs deliveries safer and easier
Thursday, July 28, 2016 - 07:31
in Physics & Chemistry
Delivering beer and other beverages to bars in Boston and other cities with old infrastructure—where many storage cellars have no elevator access—can damage workers' health and businesses' bottom line. Repeatedly bouncing 160-pound kegs down flights of stairs can cause chronic injury for delivery professionals, resulting in time off work, and the impacts can damage the stairs and break the hand truck.