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A 1,200-pound steer steps onto your scale. The platform is smooth from years of use. His back legs slide. He scrambles. Your crew jumps back. You get no clean weight reading, a shaken animal, and a handler with a bruised hip. This is not a freak accident. It happens on farms every week, and almost always traces back to the same root cause: a platform that was never built for animal safety in the first place. The problem goes deeper than slip risk. A cattle animal that panics during weighing will …