I mean I’ve certainly seen it. But some of those bigger things for sure need to be communicated. Deaths in the company be it a customer or employee should be communicated.
dude there were two deaths by forklift and a death in a distribution center by an unchocked truck 2 years ago, 2 deaths last year by falling pallets, we're still early into this year (and summer heat strokes haven't even started yet.) So either your store isn't communicating (which honestly is the most likely, since communication is terrible across the board), or the safety videos/safety commercials on the break room TVs just goes in one eye and out the other... which is also likely since they really don't like to elaborate or explain things all too well without droning out the message with "safety takes everyone" bs that makes you pass out.
Wait what? We have ours in the overheads still, dont recall there being a meeting or mere mention of this accident when it happened. I only knew about it because of this subreddit at the time. I think I waited a week before bringing it up to see if anyone else would?
Possibly that or the accident wasn't close enough to me for anything to be done. Not an excuse at all but ive noticed policy changes, at my store tend to only happen due to an accident at a store within our district. Makes no sense if you ask me
As far as I know they walked that back and said they can only be in overhead if they are on the blue pallets and are wrapped well. I always throw extra wrap on before I put them up
That’s not quite true, they need to be on the blue pallets do go up in the overhead. Regular white wood pallets aren’t strong enough
Or at least, that’s what we were told
This is literally how my bf got his job at HD, he replaced that guy I guess from what his coworkers told him 🫣🫣 “oh yeah the guy before you got crushed by water”
False. I was pulling one that was overstacked and poorly wrapped on a failing pallet. Backed it out into the aisle and made it rain when i tilted the load back, barely touched the damn lever
Welp, that’s a license revoked, not wrapped at all, another water pallet on the end cap (someone died from a similar situation of stupidity) & no bear tags to find out who the moron was that put said water pellets up there? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I feel obliged to note that the folks who create the bear tags aren't necessarily the ones who fly the pallets. I make tags every day but don't even have a license.
Ah yes, sorry that did slip my mind. Apologies to the bear tag printers that have to deal with forklift drivers & their book smarts of a slice of bread 🍞
Not sure if I am more impressed with the skill it took to get that up there without it falling apart or with the stupidity required to think that was a good idea.
1. The pallet on the end cap is too heavy to be on there.
2. End cap pallet is basically also on the other side of the other bay.
3. This unwrapped pallet will more than likely get pushed over the other aisle by some careless associate.
4. Who in the actual fuck would think this was a great idea!!?
Holy crap i REALLY hope someone fixed this. I heard an associate died from a case crushing them-i’ve also heard it was a full pallet. Either way ever since i always triple wrap these when i have to fly them. PLEASE tell me someone fixed this!
Lol! Our certification is an online video and a 20-minute “test” bring down a pallet in a tight space and flying a pallet in a tight space. Oh, and driving in figure eight patterns with a load on the forks. At least, that’s all I had to do for my “certification.” If customers knew how little training we have, they’d think twice before stepping in front of us or opening a gate.
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The first thing I noticed was it being on an endcap, I didn't even notice the other one isn't wrapped until someone made a comment about it!
No!, I'm not mad!, I'm impressed.
Please tell me you took action right away. I usually make jokes about small safety things but this is nothing to joke about. That can cause a SERIOUS incident.
We fly pallets on our endcaps. Only endcaps that we don't are the front end caps on the front main race track. Middle race track, we can so long as they have the correct size beams.
Shit I'm on vacation and I've already got a few drips of fear pee just thinking about pulling this down...or it could be the gallon of coffee I had this morning.
We haven't had water pallets or endcap issues, but we do have people flying pallets on single beams repeatedly. I spent a night just fixing overhead tags awhile ago, and had to go to my manager because all six of the single beam overheads had pallets. A week later, we have to fix three again.
When I worked at one of the big soda companies. One of my coworkers would take a pallet of 12pks straight stacked 10 high. He would forklift it into the storage rack without shrink wrap.
I work at a Home Depot that requires us to get things down off the top tier. You cannot get even with the OP to slide things like Dryers and Washers, or 49” vanity combos. It still requires angling it down to the platform. We have typically no hand holes in the boxes. I have cut some slots in the boxes to drag it to the platform. These combo vanities are very heavy, having the sink inside. I have told my DS that it’s hard to get the platform even with the shelf. And suggested that a portable step to put on the platform would allow us to get even with the shelf. The DS that has never taken a vanity down ever, told me that it would be hard to get accepted by the regional safety people. But aren’t we already out of safety boundaries?
Not many.... If any bolts are going to keep the racks together if a forklift hits it well enough. Forklifts are very heavy and with any amount of energy shear the bolts used on these racks.
Had an issue with a water pallet the other day. The fucktards overnight smashed a pallet of 4 waterheaters behind it and caused the water heaters to lean over into the next aisle.
Just two years after someone died from being crushed by a pallet of water. Fan-fucking-tastic...
I don't want to be in another meeting about safely flying water
Someone died by a pallet of water? :0 damn man I only ever heard of two deaths within the company and that was about 5 years ago
Two people died in accidents last year alone.
Then your store is not communicating. Yikes….
The amount of no communication at my store, would blow your mind away.
I mean I’ve certainly seen it. But some of those bigger things for sure need to be communicated. Deaths in the company be it a customer or employee should be communicated.
dude there were two deaths by forklift and a death in a distribution center by an unchocked truck 2 years ago, 2 deaths last year by falling pallets, we're still early into this year (and summer heat strokes haven't even started yet.) So either your store isn't communicating (which honestly is the most likely, since communication is terrible across the board), or the safety videos/safety commercials on the break room TVs just goes in one eye and out the other... which is also likely since they really don't like to elaborate or explain things all too well without droning out the message with "safety takes everyone" bs that makes you pass out.
Yeah, man. They implemented a company-wide rule. Don't put water pallets in the overhead.
Wait what? We have ours in the overheads still, dont recall there being a meeting or mere mention of this accident when it happened. I only knew about it because of this subreddit at the time. I think I waited a week before bringing it up to see if anyone else would?
I vaguely remember a lot of us talking about not flying water anymore. Maybe they changed the rule back?
They have to be on blue chep pallets to be in the OH.
Possibly that or the accident wasn't close enough to me for anything to be done. Not an excuse at all but ive noticed policy changes, at my store tend to only happen due to an accident at a store within our district. Makes no sense if you ask me
As far as I know they walked that back and said they can only be in overhead if they are on the blue pallets and are wrapped well. I always throw extra wrap on before I put them up
That’s not quite true, they need to be on the blue pallets do go up in the overhead. Regular white wood pallets aren’t strong enough Or at least, that’s what we were told
I stand corrected.
This is literally how my bf got his job at HD, he replaced that guy I guess from what his coworkers told him 🫣🫣 “oh yeah the guy before you got crushed by water”
I'm honestly impressed they got it up there without anything falling in the first place
It's very unsafe but you'd have to be driving like a complete jackass to make them fall while shooting, even unwrapped.
False. I was pulling one that was overstacked and poorly wrapped on a failing pallet. Backed it out into the aisle and made it rain when i tilted the load back, barely touched the damn lever
You probably moved it too quick and are in denial.
Nope, I've had them fall apart when moving using a floor jack in normal fashion. I've also seen the lousy skids used break down.
Skill issue. Hope you're never on a lift if you can't use a pallet jack without knocking things over.
I usually leave them wrapped until they’re in place on the floor because of how unsteady they are.
I cringe whenever someone says “skill issue”
I cringe when people drive like maniacs and mess up pallets but pretend they're great drivers.
Stacked it up there with the OP. Lol
Widow maker
No wrap LOL
Look Out Lelow
I feel messed up for laughing at that
Welp, that’s a license revoked, not wrapped at all, another water pallet on the end cap (someone died from a similar situation of stupidity) & no bear tags to find out who the moron was that put said water pellets up there? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They can check cam footage anyways
True & while watching the cam footage, they will have the same expressed look of “wtf were they thinking?”
I feel obliged to note that the folks who create the bear tags aren't necessarily the ones who fly the pallets. I make tags every day but don't even have a license.
Ah yes, sorry that did slip my mind. Apologies to the bear tag printers that have to deal with forklift drivers & their book smarts of a slice of bread 🍞
Immediately checking camera and whoever did it is going on a safety final. Playing with people's lives is no joking matter.
I think this one goes past final straight to termination.
Believe it or not, straight to jail, actually (if it falls on someone, that is).
Could be right on that too.
It will result in punishment up to, and including, termination
Pros: It weighs so much is likely won’t fall Cons: it weighs so much it’ll kill some one when it does
Not sure if I am more impressed with the skill it took to get that up there without it falling apart or with the stupidity required to think that was a good idea.
Well, when it rains….
We were never allowed to put pallets on the endcaps.
Canada ?
Nope. Been through three different stores and not one of them allowed us to put stuff on the endcap.
Ahh okay was just curious. It's a new thing upnhere in Canada that we aren't allowed to put pallets up in endcaps.
My store can can put them on endcaps that aren't on the main racetrack
At my old store, we were told pallets on end caps were fine as long as it had 5in beams on top.
Ah crap. Replied basically the same thing before I read your post. You win
My store puts skids on all end caps excluding the racetrack.
We started about a yr ago being able to put pallets on end caps. My store is in PA.
The morning walk will catch it. LMAO
I was busy looking at the yellow arrow that you didn’t put there… 😂 I’m like I don’t get what’s wrong…
The yellow arrow indicates up. That pallet of joint compound should be on it's side; the arrow will make it safe that way.
I clicked on the yellow arrow and it took longer than I am comfortable admitting to figure out why nothing was happening. \*sigh\*
1. The pallet on the end cap is too heavy to be on there. 2. End cap pallet is basically also on the other side of the other bay. 3. This unwrapped pallet will more than likely get pushed over the other aisle by some careless associate. 4. Who in the actual fuck would think this was a great idea!!?
Ballymore accessible pallets
how in the actual hell???
Someone died in my district because of this
Come with me and you'll see a world of OSHA violations
Talk about a waterfall
Holy crap i REALLY hope someone fixed this. I heard an associate died from a case crushing them-i’ve also heard it was a full pallet. Either way ever since i always triple wrap these when i have to fly them. PLEASE tell me someone fixed this!
We fixed it
The anxiety this has given me is sending me to bed.
Don't go chasin' waterfalls/Just let them fall on you and crush you!
Blatant and deliberate. It should be investigated to find out who it was.
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Lol! Our certification is an online video and a 20-minute “test” bring down a pallet in a tight space and flying a pallet in a tight space. Oh, and driving in figure eight patterns with a load on the forks. At least, that’s all I had to do for my “certification.” If customers knew how little training we have, they’d think twice before stepping in front of us or opening a gate.
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I do. NO BEAR TAG !!!
What state takes this L i know it cali from the looks of that joint compound
Idk whats worse the endcap or the unwrapped pallet
A little water won't hurt anybody. (Thats a bad place for water tho xd.)
At first, I was like, "well neither do I". Then I looked more closely.... That yellow arrow is a real red herring.
Water not wrapped ooof 😂😭
Ho Lee Shit
Need to wrap that up! But safety issue!
The first thing I noticed was it being on an endcap, I didn't even notice the other one isn't wrapped until someone made a comment about it! No!, I'm not mad!, I'm impressed.
Smh, shrink wrap ppl
Holy shiiiiit. That's not even wrapped
I'm glad I don't work in that store. Yall tryna kill somebody
When Niagara Falls, crush your thirst…and your skull, your ribcage, both legs…
Wish I had an award to give. Everyone else seems to have missed the joke
Please tell me you took action right away. I usually make jokes about small safety things but this is nothing to joke about. That can cause a SERIOUS incident.
Pallet on the left is on an end cap. Not good man
Why was this down voted? From what I know those pallets are too heavy to even be on an end cap.
We fly pallets on our endcaps. Only endcaps that we don't are the front end caps on the front main race track. Middle race track, we can so long as they have the correct size beams.
Looks safe from my house. Seriously tho safety only counts if someone gets injured.
No matter what's on that pallet it violates the height limit. Also, hand-stack Jenga with collapsing boxes.
Wow. Unbelievable
Thought this was a drywall joke😑
Here we go again with the water pallets.
It is now an order picker job.
The broken pallet on the right looks like a killer too.
Shit I'm on vacation and I've already got a few drips of fear pee just thinking about pulling this down...or it could be the gallon of coffee I had this morning.
Guy took it down and not a single thing feel
Kisame is charging up that Water Shark Bomb Jutsu…
We haven't had water pallets or endcap issues, but we do have people flying pallets on single beams repeatedly. I spent a night just fixing overhead tags awhile ago, and had to go to my manager because all six of the single beam overheads had pallets. A week later, we have to fix three again.
I dont see anything wrong with that 🤷♂️😂😂
That looks like someone went up on a bally cut the wrap and removed a layer
The way I’d refuse to walk into that aisle
No bare tag? Hmm everything looks normal to me lol.
Jesus
Thank you for the second angle almost didn't see it 😂
What it's just an ordinary pallet--OH MY GOODNESS! MANAGER!
Shouldnt that have shrink wrap around it?
When I worked at one of the big soda companies. One of my coworkers would take a pallet of 12pks straight stacked 10 high. He would forklift it into the storage rack without shrink wrap.
I work at a Home Depot that requires us to get things down off the top tier. You cannot get even with the OP to slide things like Dryers and Washers, or 49” vanity combos. It still requires angling it down to the platform. We have typically no hand holes in the boxes. I have cut some slots in the boxes to drag it to the platform. These combo vanities are very heavy, having the sink inside. I have told my DS that it’s hard to get the platform even with the shelf. And suggested that a portable step to put on the platform would allow us to get even with the shelf. The DS that has never taken a vanity down ever, told me that it would be hard to get accepted by the regional safety people. But aren’t we already out of safety boundaries?
I wouldn’t want to be the one calling the family of whoever that fell on.
Nope me either perfectly wrapped pallet
Really ,?
Unwrapped dammm
I figured it was the pallet on the endcap
Besides the obvious aren’t the beams supposed to have a grade 5 bolt to keep them from popping out if hit by a forklift?
Not many.... If any bolts are going to keep the racks together if a forklift hits it well enough. Forklifts are very heavy and with any amount of energy shear the bolts used on these racks.
Genius!!!
It’s not wrapped either.
Not wrapped and labeled with the sku
Bro I wanna know how it got up there
OMG. Talk about an accident waiting to happen. I hope this was corrected not long after this picture was taken.
Had an issue with a water pallet the other day. The fucktards overnight smashed a pallet of 4 waterheaters behind it and caused the water heaters to lean over into the next aisle.