Supporting Funeral Professionals
David P. Murphy
David P. Murphy has been a lifelong resident of a Newark and a family funeral home. He has worked in the business since 1994. Dave grew up working with his dad at the funeral home. He has 3 degrees: an Associates degree from Paul Smith College, a Bachelors from Syracuse University, and a second Associates degree from Simmons Institute in Mortuary Science. He is a licensed funeral director in New York State and is a partner at Paul L. Murphy & Sons Funeral Home in Newark, NY. David has done thousands of embalming and has done over 10,000 transports, working on behalf of many local funeral homes. David invented LoadAlone™ after a life-changing motor vehicle accident left him unable to walk without the use of 2 canes. "My mission is to make the job of funeral professionals easier, safer, and more profitable."
How We Began
President, Inventor David P. Murphy, has been a lifelong resident of a Newark and a family funeral home. He has worked in the business since 1994. Licensed in New York State and partner in the Paul L. Murphy & Sons Funeral Home in Newark, NY, in 2013, David was in an MVA with critical injuries, including 2 complete spinal cord injuries. With less than a 1% chance of walking again, David. He taught himself to walk again. Walking with 2 canes and fighting to regain his position at his family owned funeral business, David needed to perform all the duties he did before the injury. He was hiring friends to help him load at hospitals and at the funeral home for transports to the airport and crematory. In the early 1990s, David worked as a fisheries' biologist in Alaska. Using winches to pull the nets up the back ramp of fishing vessels onto the deck. The winch and ramp were the answers to his problem of loading. He invented a remote control multi-position winch system to pull the body boxes or cots with straps on the frame into his vehicle. While selling to a local association director who expressed his difficulty pulling a 500-pound body out of a car, David invented the tipping feature to help unload.
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Demand for LoadAlone™
LoadAlone™ is a patented, multi-position winch pulling system to load human remains in vehicles for removals and transportation to funeral homes, airports and crematories. The funeral service is experiencing change to higher rates of cremation, larger remains, older and smaller employees (in 2006 52% of funeral school graduates were female).
The medical field has four times the risk of back injuries, resulting in an average of 12 days missed work. OSHA has overlooked the funeral industry in the NIOSH recommendation that “employees will not lift more than 35 pounds without the employer providing an assistance device, when available”. The only product helping body transporters are a $35–40K hydraulic ambulance cot loading system. Hospitals and ambulances spare no expense to reduce the injury rates from lifting. Why should funeral workers ware out their bodies? Funeral directors have a high instance of back, knee, and shoulder injuries from a career of lifting. David Murphy has trouble standing, but he commonly loads and unloads cots, cases, and caskets with only the help of his loading device—minimal lifting, pulling, and pushing a button.
Multiple Products
More products are being patent-protected and manufactured by David Murphy CanesAndAble.com 2 canes become one, and one cane becomes 2 with magnets. Helping people recover while maintaining safer balance and placement while using one hand for carrying, railings, opening doors, or holding hands. Canes and Able give better posture by standing straighter instead of leaning on one cane or walker, resulting in shrinking and recessing. Recover with Canes and Able. More than a 'game changer', Canes and Able is a 'Life Changer"!!!
