Anyone ever here of a shop lift snapping?

[83burban]

Just as the title reads - got a call that makes any mechanic (be it professional or shade-tree cringe). While the shop was rebuilding my steering and brakes the shop lift that they had my suburban on broke a leg and it toppled over the side.

Shop owner has cameras in the bays and showed me the video - luckily it fell on the passenger side and not the drivers side where 3 people were standing.

And as an additional stroke of luck - the car toppled onto the lift next to it, which caught it and prevented it from being a total loss. All it needs is a new passenger front door and a new drive shaft - which the shop owner was kind enough to replace no questions asked.

So lets here similar stories of close calls that just made you realize how dangerous working on old iron is, and what you can do to prevent mis-haps.