Boulder, CO
It was my post that suggested death as a possibility. I'm glad we haven't heard about it in this thread.
My main location has a long stairway down to the front door. I haven't counted, but it's longer than a normal stairway, probably 18-20 steps. The walls are brick, the stairs are concrete, and the door at the bottom is glass.
Sometimes I move games during business hours, but try to keep it to slow times. I'll set up a garbage can barricade at the door to prevent anyone from coming into the stairwell while I'm moving. On occasion, someone will come into the stairwell from the street behind me (or make it past my barricade at the bottom), and either try to pass me as I'm moving, or offer to help. (Which I always refuse).
I definitely have visions of something going wrong right at one of those moments and the machine falling down the stairs onto someone below who isn't supposed to be there. Nothing even remotely bad has happened before, but I can envision a pretty ugly worst-case scenario.
Pro-tip: if you see a stranger in the middle of moving a machine up the stairs: stay away! They probably know what they're doing and you're putting yourself in danger (and distracting them) by offering to help.
The only time I've ever hurt myself was the final 20 feet of moving IMDN into place. It was on an appliance dolly (because I didn't need my Escalera because I was only going down stairs, not up), but forgot that there is one single step to go up. I thought heaving it up one step should be fine, but I pulled something in my back that bugged me for weeks. I'll never do that again.
