osceola county

• Dead Weight

We've run into people ... they've kind of spread out and completely filled the table," [Steve Hanson] said. "We had people hanging over the sides. The Orange-Osceola Medical Examiner's Office's bariatric autopsy table cost $3,367. It also bought a specialized hydraulic table to help with heavier bodies. A foot pump similar one on a beauty-salon chair raises and lowers its telescoping legs by a foot pump so technicians can roll bodies onto the new autopsy table from above instead of lifting them. It cost $3,544. "We called them 'floor-topsies,"' [Joseph Prahlow] said.

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• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 22, 2009