OT Forklift Driver Has A Bad Day. - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: rx8pilot
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 02:38:35 am
content: And a quick check of gravity.......seems to work just fine.

author: jwm_
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 03:53:39 am
content: Someone didn't pay attention to the training videohttps://youtu.be/-oB6DN5dYWo

author: ataradov
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 04:03:39 am
content: That's why they have those pipes embedded into concrete guarding corners in gas stations. The blame goes to whoever designed this warehouse.

author: rx8pilot
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 04:15:09 am
content: Quote from: jwm_ on December 01, 2015, 03:53:39 amWow, that was hilarious.

author: Cubdriver
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 04:34:37 am
content: Whoof!! That made quite the mess!-Pat

author: AF6LJ
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 05:03:05 am
content: Wonder if they took the cost of those damaged goods out of his paycheck.

author: Tomorokoshi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 05:24:28 am
content: The way it collapsed, it almost looks as if the securing bolts between the cross-frames were not installed. However, at least it seems to be bolted to the floor.

author: Vgkid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 05:39:32 am
content: He'll get promoted to management.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 06:17:05 am
content: The new Batteriser ASIC chips were in there! There goes xmas delivery!

author: timb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 07:38:04 am
content: Quote from: Homer J Simpson on December 01, 2015, 02:29:54 amSo, that's why my Amazon package was late!Fun Fact: I used to manage a pallet plant. (Skids, for those not in the US.) We bought, refurbished and sold used ones. There was a huge lot behind the building where we kept them, stacked 40 or more high. Now, we'd have to move these stacks around from time to time and weren't supposed to go more than 20 at a time. Being a skilled forklift driver, I got cocky and started moving entire stacks. Worked great the first 5 stacks. Until it didn't.You have no idea how terrifying it is to see hundreds and hundreds of pounds of 48x48" shipping pallets raining down on you like confetti is. Thankfully the forklift had steel bars across the top.Sent from my Tablet

author: pickle9000
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 08:02:39 am
content: Quote from: AF6LJ on December 01, 2015, 05:03:05 amI'm sure he's pleased not to be as flat as his paycheck.

author: Cubdriver
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 08:15:03 am
content: Quote from: timb on December 01, 2015, 07:38:04 amI'm going to go out on a limb and take a wild guess that you didn't give it a seventh try after emerging from beneath the resulting pile of kindling. That's the sort of thing that makes you appreciate the fact that they use really thick steel when they make forklifts, huh? (And perhaps take a bit of the hurt away on other occasions when one barks tender shins against said really thick steel and is reminded that in shin vs steel, steel wins.)-Pat

author: Kjelt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 08:32:12 am
content: After flunking my first year in university I worked as a picker for 8 months in such a warehouse till the next academic year.The boss there gave us each week on monday the same speech: even if you very lightly hit a stander of the racks contact him to inspect.Now i know why

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 08:39:00 am
content: That one has been around for a loooong time.How about this for a bad day:Brick chimney demolition gone wrong. (no one hurt)But my all time favorite 'someone having a bad day' is this:Also no one hurt. But that's why you don't put an apprentice at the controls of a multi-million dollar crane move. He pulled the wrong lever.

author: timb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 08:47:06 am
content: Quote from: Cubdriver on December 01, 2015, 08:15:03 amOh yes, didn't try that again! I was doubly lucky, as we had a piece of plexiglass attached to the top of the lift, to keep you a bit drier in the rain. When pallets fall from that height, boards break, which can go right through the steel bars.I saw all sorts of forklift related insanity when I worked there. You know that Forklift Driver Klaus video posted earlier? It might be a parody, but it's all true.The previous manager lost a finger trying to repair a lift himself. (The carriage took it off; it's like a big, pneumatic chopping block.)We routinely lifted people on the forks, or on a pallet.There was a set of holes (well, concrete patches) in the side of the (cinder block) building from the forklift tines. Someone had jumped off the lift without putting it in neutral.The rolling door to the warehouse's side entrance was destroyed when the forklift driver came tearing around the corner and into the building, but didn't realize the door was partially down.I once had a forklift catch on fire while I was using it. Did I mention we used LP powered lifts? It happened with a dozen or so stacks of kindling, I mean pallets, on either side of me. I couldn't have been further from a fire extinguisher, too.I was at a customer site once making a delivery; they were a very large warehouse. I watched as an 18-wheeler pulled away from one of the bays and a forklift drove out the back. The lift driver was in a coma for two weeks.Someone backed over my foot at another customer site once. If you don't know, forklifts have very heavy counterweights on the back. No, I wasn't wearing steel toed boots, but thankfully this particular lift had pneumatic tires, instead of solid ones.It's really sad, forklifts are like big, heavy cars with two very sharp knives sticking out the front and basically any idiot can operate one. Yes, most companies will only hire lift drivers with a certificate, but it's laughably easy to obtain one. It's harder to get a real driver's license in the US, and that's saying a lot.Sent from my Tablet

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 01:18:52 pm
content: QuoteBut sometimes you can go too far...

author: PA0PBZ
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 01:53:43 pm
content: Quote from: TerraHertz on December 01, 2015, 08:39:00 amWe had our national moment of Oops... earlier this year:(action starts at 0:40 for the impatient)https://youtu.be/k2Da6FoWh3k

author: AF6LJ
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 01:59:15 pm
content: Quote from: PA0PBZ on December 01, 2015, 01:53:43 pmYou have to ask yourself;If someone like me who is not a rigger or a crane operator can see from thestill image that is not going to end well.. Why can't the crane operator.

author: Radio Tech
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 02:07:27 pm
content: I work for Hyster-Yale Materials Handling formerly known as Nacco Material Handling. We build both Hyster and Yale industrial fork lifts. I have seen about every folk lift accident video you can imagine covered in our safety meetings. Some accidents are pretty gruesome when a human body is trapped between a lift truck and the floor.We have VNA trucks running down isles with 2 inches of clearance from the racks on either side. These trucks use what is called "wire-guidance" and takes the human equation out of the picture. One mistake in the controller or electrical failure could lead to a catastrophe and bring the ware house down. So far this has not happened.

author: Ian.M
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 02:32:47 pm
content: We had a discussion about the Julianabrug craning incident shortly after it happened.https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/how-not-to-floating-crane-(video)/

author: Marco
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 03:12:01 pm
content: Quote from: timb on December 01, 2015, 08:47:06 amOn a temp job I had we had a safety cage for that, of course the forklift operator preferred just standing on the forks and let the temps operate the lift.As for rolling doors partially being down I don't understand why companies let doors be installed which can be stopped halfway, so many near misses because of that. I don't see any value in the option being available by default.

author: Galenbo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 03:32:09 pm
content: From all accidents, I prefer the multi-machine setups with a domino effect.But a Heli and a rope isn't bad either.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 05:00:25 pm
content: Now you know why those cages are built so strong.Good demo of why you really want to have the top of the racks firmly attached to the building structure as well, along with the bollards at the base that prevent the forklift from being able to cause such an incident as well.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 05:24:13 pm
content: Quote from: timb on December 01, 2015, 08:47:06 amTry a pair of holes in a rammed earth and steel blast proof wall, left by the nose of an aircraft after the tow bar did what it was designed to do and snapped, because the nosewheel steering was still engaged. One night somebody took the tractor off road rallying, and dropped the entire engine and transmission, along with the 5 ton composite alternator, out the bottom.I rewired a tractor after the fire, and made damn sure the wiring would never catch fire again, mostly involving an acetylene cutting torch making the 20mm hole they originally had ( with bare metal edges as well) a 6 inch by 6 inch hole, and then put in some flexiform grommet as well, along with some really tough sleeving made from old hydraulic hose. They used around 50 fire extinguishers on that one, seeing as it had a fully fuelled and armed fighter aircraft attached at the time. Then there was the time somebody did not strap a 200 pound bomb down.....I know about those tyres, both really heavy, and you need a crane to change them. Did not help the forklift was towed 12km by the back, because they could attach a tow bar there, and the SAMIL 100 tow truck did not notice the front wheels did not turn, making them a nice D shape. Those tyres are really expensive, and I drove 300km with a friend to have them remounted after we got the 3 quotes. The remoulder was happy as well, he just took the old ones, and simply cut them down on a tyre lathe to recap. the military does not use recaps. That change there was 10 minutes, we barely had time to drink the coffee they gave.

author: rollatorwieltje
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 10:00:41 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on December 01, 2015, 06:17:05 amThey had an issue in the factory, right? Probably caused by Elektriker Horst:

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 11:08:21 pm
content: Quote from: AF6LJ on December 01, 2015, 05:03:05 amWhat puzzles me is that they didn't cross link the racks or fixate them to the roof. Poor weight distribution could also make a rack tip over.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2015, 11:16:06 pm
content: Quote from: timb on December 01, 2015, 08:47:06 amHow about walls? When I was a kid I used to visit a paper recycling company (one of my family members did steel construction for them) and they drove around with bales of paper all day long and used the fork lifts as bulldozers as well. I helped several times to make L shaped re-enforcements for the doorways from 150x150x15 steel. Anyway, after a fire I saw the building empty. All the brick side walls where pushed outwards...Oh, and when I turned 16 my family member let me drive around on a fork lift as a first lesson to drive a car in an industrial areaBack then you didn't need a driver's license for a fork lift.

author: jwm_
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 02, 2015, 01:04:09 am
content: Quote from: nctnico on December 01, 2015, 11:08:21 pmAnthropic principle. If they had done that then the video wouldn't have been posted to YouTube and we wouldn't be discussing it.John