Lifting a person with a forklift looks like a solved problem the moment somebody welds a railing onto a steel box. The equipment that makes it defensible is specific, and almost none of it is about the railing. A forklift work platform carries requirements that a fabricated cage does not meet, and the difference shows up in exactly the situations the platform exists for. The load center moves when the person does A forklift carrying a work platform is rated at a stated load center, usually twenty four inches from the fork face. That rating assumes the weight sits in…