Old Blogger. New Blog.

This is only day two for me at Sacramento State University, and already I am back to my old muckraking ways.

Like today. I had classes for the first time in the Tahoe, Amador, and Mendocino buildings, and observed that the inspection certificates in the elevators had all expired in 2004. This probably isn't a big deal, the elevators clearly still work, but it doesn't sound quite right and is probably illegal. I also wonder about the insurance issues -- god forbid there be some sort of accident, but I would suspect that the school's insurance would cover such a thing so long as the inspections were up to date, I bet the school would be directly held liable for a ton of money if they were to be found negligent in their elevator inspection duties... If I were a real journalist instead of a lame wanna-be, I would have looked into this before posting. But I'm a full time student, who has time to be responsible?

I took pictures of the certificates but they came out blurry due to the moving elevators, I'll try again tomorrow when I have some time to kill between classes, if I can get one to hold still long-enough.

UPDATE: This is old-news, the State Hornet reported back in 2002 that this has been going on for a while, and apparently isn't considered a serious problem.

A few people told me, off the record, that the school is self-insured, so the expired certificates wouldn't be an issue if someone were to get injured.