About Us

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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 1% chance of walking again David. He taught himself to walk again. Walking with 2 canes, 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 1990’s David had worked as a fisheries biologist in Alaska. Using winches to pull the nets up the back ramp of fishing vessels onto the deck. Winch and ramp was the answer to his problem loading. He invented 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 500 lb body out of car David invented the tipping feature to help unload. 

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 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 fields have four times the risk of back injuries resulting on average 12 days missed work. OSHA has overlooked the funeral industry in the NIOSH recommendation of “employees will not lift more than 35 pounds without employer providing an assistance device, when available”. The only product helping body transporters is 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 injury 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...pushing a button.