From: http://www.rickross.com/reference/scientology/scien243.html
also on: http://www.parishioner.org/osha/ Page 09

"According to OSHA's investigation report, completed Friday, Meyer looped electrical wire through a slot on a 230-pound steel manhole cover to slide it off the vault on the northeast side of the film studio."

Although a heavy duty electrical wire may indeed be strong enough to withstand 230 lbs. of pressure, how can an electrical wire, looped through one hole, be strong enough to leverage a 230 lb. piece of steel? If the wire was looped through the slot, wouldn't it have come back out when it was pulled on to move the cover?

If there was a second slot in the manhole cover, and the wire was looped into one hole and out the other, and held at both ends, it could be strong enough to lift the cover. This would be easy enough to do if the manhole cover was off the hole, but with the cover in place and no access to the bottom of the manhole cover, once the wire was inserted into the first slot, how would she have gotten the wire back out of the second slot?

Also, wouldn't putting an electrical wire through a slot in the manhole cover (which she could not see through) and into a vault containing exposed high power wires be extremely dangerous?

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