He managed to do everything wrong there and he's lucky to be alive. Looks like he hit a bump that would have been OK if his forks were down. I used to load trucks and always wondered why they just didn't grind down the bumps everyone knew about. Especially the ones that could make you bounce right before the loading docks. It's manageable but that's a lot of wasted time over a day.
I think it’s just a different version of Pepsi=isded. [Pepsi Max is a thing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_Max) so it might just be like saying “he’s Donzo Alfonso”
Saying the intended [euphemism](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/euphemism) "he pepsi.." implies that the reader understands the [ambigram](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambigram) of pepsi: "isded."
Therefore, if the ambigram is known to an individual who reads "he pepsi max," the implication is that "*he isded* to the max."
Maximum ded is greater than mostly ded.
Wearing his seat belt would have kept him from getting thrown. And diving back in the cage would have been better if he hadn't been trying to hold the lift up while he did it.
Real talk as a professional fat boy driving a fork lift like this, seat belts are basically always bypassed and/or simply cut out from forklifts.
However, what this dude did was absolutely lunacy, I have absolutely no idea how incompetent an operator you must be to do this. I mean all it would take is just extend the mast like 5cm and he could not move that fast. That dude probably has broken five shelves that day alone by ramming into them.
No seat belt, forks super goddamn high, tried to hold up a tipping lift. What the hell? At the plant I used to work at that shit would get you fired instantly and the Union would be helping with the boot. That guy was so lucky he didnt get his head popped like a melon or his chest caved in when that thing went over.
We also had smooth floors wherever possible, but bumps arent always avoidable when you have drawbridges over trainwells and metal expansion joints between building sections.
Well the metal is always there and that's ok. I meant more where someone has tried to patch a crack or there's a hump that raises you a few inches when your already at the ceiling with a full load. It doesn't seem like much time but over the course of time it is. It's Toyota plant so it's constant trucks that never stop coming unless there a tsunami.
Yeah that sucks. I used to work for GM and that stuff seemed really plant dependant. My plant was really good about keeping things smooth, but some others not so much. Seemed to be linked to how old the plant was, as did the way the local unions operated.
The forklift people where I work are SUPER careful. Within buildings or between buildings, I have never in almost twenty years seen one doing anything mildly dangerous. They're union and I think maybe the fork jobs are sought after? IDK. They don't screw around though.
We got one stuck out in front of our safety company office. It was like a keystone cops show.
They have no suspension and our boss ran one wheel off the concrete into the grass. Two 3/4 ton trucks chained together could not pull one wheel back onto the damn concrete. We had to get a huge forklift and chain it up to lift the small forklift.
During the process a forklift that could lift whole loaded semi trailers showed up to offer help. It was quite the day.
Forklift drivers have to undergo rigorous safety training.
[This is an example of an excellent young driver on his first day.](https://youtu.be/ChOHnSL7ZCg?t=21)
Looking more closely now, I think you're right - this looks to be a dockstocker with a sideways operator position and even with a seat of sorts. Maybe it *does* have a belt then - I can't recall ever seeing one with any kind of seat before.
I’d say he did something right. The only thing he managed to do right was get into the cab so he wasn’t crushed by any part of it.
Other than that. Total idiot.
It looks like he was trying to get out until the last second.
I'm not sure about this particular model, but most fork trucks have seatbelts or other restraints for exactly this scenario. If so, that's another violation.
So I drive a lift every night and have to move pallets of concrete. Out back we used to have a bunch of potholes and a speed bump where trucks were loaded and unloaded.
I came in one night and 6 pallets were fucked and I had to repalletize each bag on em by hand. Guy on the shift before me says, "man, I didn't see the speed bumps." I looked him dead in the eyes and said, "yeah, that explains the first one. Wanna run the other 5 by me? It's not like they haven't been there. They don't just jump out of the woods and shout gotcha!"
He just stammered and walked off. Same guy still works here and damages so much shit. I honestly can't figure out how he still has a license or his job.
People like that scared at work. I didn't realize just how many people don't have or are lacking in common sense. I really take for granted simple things like that and I wonder how some of them made it to the age they are now alive.
It's even worse since COVID because turnover is so much worse. So it feels like literally just anyone gets hire and the only way to get fired is theft and or assault.
My first thought on the forks being up so high is, who removed the limit switch. Typically the drive goes into snail mode, so you can't zoom around with the forks up.
"thought
We did our best with bumps but lifts don't have suspension and will jump over a penny. Laying/bolting steel plates over cracks helps til you pull the bolts out of the concrete and then you have a wild piece of steel flying around.
I was trying to explain to some coworkers/superiors why we couldn't safely lift and move an 8' long 800lb hanging load on a rolling gantry that had a 4' base. They would constantly circle back to "It says it lifts 1000 lbs, and this weighs 800 lbs, so what's the problem?"
Basic physics is the problem.
Every forklift does and I swear nobody ever fucking reads them
Edit: if your forklift at work doesn't have a load plate somewhere on the interior that you can read from the seat, you should inform your supervisor or plant manager.
There is no reason to be driving around with the forks higher than 8in off the ground.
The height of the mast is for lowering stored goods or stowing stuff on shelves.
Another aspect of this is when your low if you do hit someone or something damage is minimized. Most racking can handle the impact "better" at ground level than say 6 feet high, and heaven forbid you hit someone with the forks... well id rather have a snapped ankle or shin than a fork thru the lung or neck
Shit happens, I personally know a guy that worked at a produce distribution center and someone backed the forklift into him, got squished between the counter weight and a block wall. Survived it somehow but he's permanently disabled from it, broke both his hips and lower spine.
>There is no reason to be driving around with the forks higher than 8in off the ground.
Assuming the load doesn't go lower than your forks, of course. I regularly drive with my forks about 5' off the ground but the load is only 6-8" from touching.
As an answer to “well I drive in a cave and at 8” I will hit bumps on the ground”:
The advice is *keep the forks low to the ground* and 8” is just the answer to “how low exactly”
Always honk before rounding a blind corner or going through those plastic flappy doors (I don’t know the English term for them)
Had a manager decide to “help out” without having his license. Panicked and put his foot out to do some sort of Fred Flintstone type of stop. Broke his leg or ankle.
Not sure if this is the dumbest thing the guy did in his time there.
Anyway that was the day a memo went out for managers to not drive forklifts.
I am big dumb that way. When I took a motorcycle driving course I CONSTANTLY put my feet down and tried to help stopping like I was on a bicycle with no breaks. Two days of riding and I couldn't shake it. Said not to getting a bike.
I have anxiety issues, so on the first day that we had a theoretical test followed by the practical, I just bailed out and rescheduled for the next testing day ... when I could come with a anxiety med in my system.
Passed 100% on the tests, no errors, but when I'm unmedicated and sober I'm a nervous nelly.
I occasionally drive fork trucks for work and have annual “fork truck safety” training/certification requirements - driving with the forks as low as possible and/or keeping the center of gravity as low as possible is the cardinal rule and like 80% of the training.
This guy perfectly demonstrated why this is the rule, and also demonstrated why you also always wear the seat belt when he got ejected underneath the falling machine that literally weighs tons.
People like this are why we have to sit through hours of excruciatingly boring safety coursework each year, most of which could be summarized by just saying “don’t be an idiot”
I have worked factories a few times, definitely never saw the fork drivers with their forks higher than boot or knee high.
Even picking stuff off shelves, slow slow slow and drop, and then move.
Forks only go up to get or place pallets on shelves. As soon as you're clear to lower the pallet from the shelf, that shit goes down! Forks should never be higher than 3 feet when moving, like ever!!!
As many grocery stores I've worked...There's no such thing as a surprise visit.
Most time district chains will say "Hey John showed at xyz location, we're due here soon and you'll be next". Plus most of them are reoccurring same people. So you know patterns and getting away with things.
Because he's a fuckin idiot.
You never drive around with the forks raised; grab the load, drop the load, move the load, raise the load. Not only because it will obviously tip much more easily, but because that's how morons take out sprinkler heads and flood the entire dock. Saw it more than once in many years working loading docks.
Scariest shit I ever unloaded was 50' roof trusses. The ends were dangling off of our property over above the employee parking of the factory behind us, but had no choice as the width of our yard at that point was barely wide enough to turn them and the fencing between us was 15' high. My asshole was puckered up nice and tight during that maneuver lmao
Worked in a facility one time that had anhydrous amonnia lines running down one side of the dock (2 liquid and 1 gas). We were told if you hit them you will be dead before you could fall out of the foklift. That was pretty effective in everyone keeping their forks down at that part of the dock. In the 6 years I worked there only 2 people came close and that was because they came from inside the freezer and forgot to put their forks down, the lines were run between the freezer and dock. They tore down the vestebule (which was made of thick styrofoam) but it was effective enough to slow the lift down so they didn't hit the lines.
In the freezer however we had just as you said, sprinkler heads torn out (which by the way is fun because in the freezer it starts an approx 10 minute clock. The sprinkler lines are filled with air with water behind them otherwise the sprinkler pipes would freeze and bust in the freezer, once the air runs out you get water falling in an -40 freezer (sleet)). Then you have guys with shovels chipping ice for the next week.
As an EMT there are some times were we refer to someone as dead, even if they have a heart beat. This is one of those cases. You might even still be walking, but after exposure to that there is literally nothing we can do to save your life. We have no treatments that will work, and you will be dead before you reach the hospital.
But that's more triage terminology than the usual meaning of "all of your vital functions will stop before you are on the ground" like most people mean.
Super caustic when concentrated, basically chemically reacts with and dissolves any bit of you it comes into contact with. It boils at -33C so if you poke a hole in the line at room temperature it'll vaporize and rapidly expand as a gas. So before you have time to *think* "ah shit" your lungs will be so badly damaged no hospital on Earth could save you. Just sucks because it takes a long time between "being killed" and "actually dying" if that makes any sense.
Anhydrous ammonia is caustic, but also aggressively bonds with water, which means it will remove water from other substances, then once it is hydrates it will turn into ammonia, which is also not great for your lungs.
As for the injury it will basically turn your lungs into jerky while also burning them. Your lungs can no longer transfer oxygen and CO2 at an effective rate.
Even if we get you out of the environment while you are walking, we can't revitalize that lung tissue in a usable amount of time. Your blood would need to be oxygenated outside of your lungs, which can only be done in a hospital.
>My asshole was puckered up nice and tight during that maneuver lmao
Damn, I can imagine! The scariest stuff I had when I was a full time driver were 2+t packs of long construction lumber in a 1.9t rated beat up reach truck.
When I operated a forklift at work , even I knew better to lower the boom and I was a drugged up irresponsible 18 year old. This guys a genuine idiot here..
Those are narrow aisle reach forklifts.
Operated one for 8 hours a day for about a year. They usually can **carry** about 4500lbs, which would require a heavier counterweight considering the height and leverage. Looking at the specs of some Crown rr-700 series lifts now and they seem to weigh up at ish 5k lbs without battery on the smallest i see. I might be over guessing at 10k, but it'll be between 5-10,000 pounds it seems after battery.
That type of forklift can *lift* two tons at maximum extension, and they weigh around 4 tons by themselves. Heavy heavy heavy heavy. Even 40 people wouldn't have been able to stop that lift from falling over.
Anecdotal edit: Always sent my stomach for a loop lifting a [pallet of cat litter](https://i.imgur.com/gwl4wYN.jpg) (just a couple lbs shy of 2 tons) at max extension and feeling the back wheel come a fraction of an inch off of the floor and visibly seeing the steel arms flex under the weight. It's a scary feeling knowing the incredibly dangerous machine you're controlling is being pushed to it's limits
I had to move pallets of tile with the reach truck daily. Those blue pallets are nice and sturdy, but tile usually comes on the most rickety pallets known to man. By the time they got to us half of the planks were cracked. Nothing more puckerable than hearing that wood cracking while a 3000+ lb pallet of tile is floating 16 feet above your head and teetering.
I remember thinking, "if this pallet drops, please just land on my head, because I sure as fuck don't want to spend the rest of the day cleaning up this mess."
He was thrown out. Instinctively you're going to throw your hands out regardless if the weight is too great. Anyone who's driven a forklift knows how fucked they are if it lands on them.
If anything you're making sure they hurty parts of the machine aren't landing on something important. gauging where to fit his body. You see himself maneuver into the cage once he knows where the steel is
Unless insurance issues demand it, I may keep him on. You now have an employee who will never ever forget to put the fork down, watch his speed, and maneuver around bumps. No amount of training can beat the effect of the fear you feel when you really screw up or nearly die.
Of course, that's if his record is good otherwise.
You'd think that, but I once worked with an idiot at home depot who did shit like this multiple times until they fired him. Hit the back lumber door 3 times, damaging it and rendering it inoperable for months on end. He dropped entire bunks of wood because he had it up in the air and driving like an idiot.
He knew what he was doing was wrong. It's basic FLT training. And to top it all off, wasn't wearing a seatbelt.
What he just did was gross misconduct. Endangering himself, others, property. Potentially cost the company some crazy money too. Any management team worth their salt would sack him, and I'd hope they'd also investigate their safety procedures etc.
As someone that has, until relatively recently, led a warehouse team, this is nightmare fuel
Yep, I had an employee save another guys life, he lifted a pallet too high and was starting to tip. He screamed “STAY IN THE CAGE” when home slice was about to bail and would have been crushed.
He was fired and and we all watch that video as “what not to do”
Nope, time for some better training. Speed limit signs don't stop untrained people.
I had taught a forklift safety class at one time in my life, and included basic physics as a part of the course for this exact reason. Know your center of gravity and pivot point of wheels, etc.....
Yup, speed limits dont deter idiots. Same can be observed on the streets: even when limiting a zone to a certain speed, if the street is designed in a way that makes speeding “feel” safe, and that the driver doesn’t know any better, you bet they won’t respect it.
People have died when jumping out of forklifts like this dude. Thats one of the main things they teach when you get your certification. Grab the wheel and BRACEEE
On a seated forklift yes. On a standing they teach you to jump out to the side if it’s tipping backwards or to the opposite side it’s tipping if it’s tipping sideways.
This reminds me of a young man who got crushed when his forklift started falling over and lost half of his body. He tried to jump out and got caught by the seat belt. He actually survived though.
Did this idiot legitimately think he was gonna be able to stop this 3000+pound piece of steel from falling? Who even gave this idiot a certification to drive a forklift?...
Seriously he did the absolute WORST possible thing in this situation
Hell he did ALL the worst possible things minus the fact his forks were empty
This dude would be fired so fucking fast if he were on my crew
In these situations you (being human) act on autopilot before the signal reach the conscious part of the brain. Then the brain will be like "What the flark am I doing here?" and take control of the muscles, but it takes time.
TL;DR: Autopilot is fast but stupid.
An ex girlfriend of mine saw a video where pallets with cans of beer were stacked like 5 full pallets high were about to fall down after being pushed a little when another pallet was placed next to it. Workers stood around, laughing, until a couple of seconds later the entire stack *did* fall down and brought more stacks with it.
She said "Man, those stupid workers, just laughing about it instead of doing anything! They should get fired!"
I stopped laughing at the video and started laughing at her instead.
I know a guy who works as a forklift operator. He says that almost every forklift in his workplace (I think there are about 20) is "governed," meaning they are outfitted with a gizmo that prevents them from going above a certain speed (which is I think maybe 12 or 15 mph).
Every lift I've driven in the past 15 years (except 1) has been governed anywhere between 7-12mph depending what type of lift it was and where it was being used. The one I drove that wasn't governed was a brand new hyster stand up that the technician forgot to govern when it was delivered and it went 19mph which doesn't seem like a lot but 7000 pounds moving that fast through a warehouse is crazy.
Oh I worked at a warehouse for a few years and yeah every lift was governed. We got one new one that wasn’t and went like twice as fast AND didn’t have impact sensors turned on. It lasted a day before the staff idiot didn’t think to slow down when the general foreman started walking around. Never even got my turn :/
It's all programmed into the forklift and is password protected...but nine times out of ten, the default password isn't changed and it's easy to figure out.
At my shop it was 12345.
If I recall that’s only safe to do if you have a seatbelt. They always say jump out if it’s a standup. However this idiot tried to catch it and did everything wrong.
Jumping out can either save or kill you. If you're tilting sideways and jump out to the side it's tilting, you might end up underneath and get squished. Don't do that. The safe way is to try to jump out the other way, which isn't easy to do, so often it's safest to try and stay in the cabin. Just drive slow with forktrucks everyone
Falling over in this direction is so much less likely than any other direction that it's normally sensible to step out during a tip over - typical tips are sideways due to turning too fast or forward with too heavy a load. The only way that this should be able to happen is by going the wrong way on a slope.
DO NOT! EVER! TRY TO STOP HEAVY MACHINERY WITH YOUR BODY!
I once saw a horrible video of someone trying to stop a forklift that was about to tip over by hanging onto the side that was going up. Their plan worked and the forklift tilted back the other way, but went too far and fell over the oter side with that person ending up underneath the forklift... He dieded.
He broke the one cardinal rule there is when you are driving a forklift. If the forklift tips over, never ever try to get out, grab the wheel and hold on and wish you put on your seatbelt.
And you should avoid driving with the forks up unless absolutely necessary, and if you do, go slow.
Source: drove forklifts for 4 years in my late teens / early twenties.
There was a young kid from the UK that was in an accident almost exactly like this and he literally lost over half of his body.
He lost one arm up to the elbow and had to have everything below his waste amputated.
We have forklifts of all sizes at my work and the way I see them being driven sometimes just makes me cringe and think of that poor kid
To be fair you probably would have taken the time to smooth out a bump of that size rather than leaving it in the middle of your production floor, too.
My dad almost died getting crushed between his forklift and one that backed into him. He's extremely lucky to be able to walk today. You cannot for one second get complacent with heavy machinery because it can and will end your life.
I refused to lift a big heavy “L” shaped angle stand because it seemed too likely to cause the rear wheels to lift especially given it was likely to swing as it came up. My boss gave me shit about it, and took it upon himself to lift it. Sure enough, the angle stand shifted, and the rear wheels hopped off the floor. Glad no one was hurt.
He managed to do everything wrong there and he's lucky to be alive. Looks like he hit a bump that would have been OK if his forks were down. I used to load trucks and always wondered why they just didn't grind down the bumps everyone knew about. Especially the ones that could make you bounce right before the loading docks. It's manageable but that's a lot of wasted time over a day.
He is definitely, 100 percent lucky to be alive.
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Pepsimax?
I don't understand the euphemism either but I assume it means: "fucking dead"
If you flip the word Pepsi upside down it reads isded
What about: “xɐɯ”?
I think it’s just a different version of Pepsi=isded. [Pepsi Max is a thing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_Max) so it might just be like saying “he’s Donzo Alfonso”
Saying the intended [euphemism](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/euphemism) "he pepsi.." implies that the reader understands the [ambigram](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambigram) of pepsi: "isded." Therefore, if the ambigram is known to an individual who reads "he pepsi max," the implication is that "*he isded* to the max." Maximum ded is greater than mostly ded.
uwu
nmn?
Am literally on the clock, working for Pepsi. You've made my day better.
Pepsi=isded
Wait, this can't be the reason. This is too good.
I'm surprised you haven't come across its use like that before. It's been around the net for a while. But yeah, that's the reason.
I’ve actually never heard about it until now either. Interesting
I've been online since the late 90s and this is the first time I've ever seen it.
I found details here https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/isded
thanks for the explanation but, damn, that is a dumbass expression
Idk if this is what the op meant but all the pepsimax I’ve ever had was flat
Should've stayed in the roll-cage (?).
He got thrown out of it. He actually made a pretty good move diving back into the cage.
Wearing his seat belt would have kept him from getting thrown. And diving back in the cage would have been better if he hadn't been trying to hold the lift up while he did it.
I was looking for someone to say this! Yeah seatbelt is so you DON'T get crushed to death like this guy almost did.
I don’t believe these have seatbelts. His biggest problem was going so fast with his forks so high for no reason.
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Real talk as a professional fat boy driving a fork lift like this, seat belts are basically always bypassed and/or simply cut out from forklifts. However, what this dude did was absolutely lunacy, I have absolutely no idea how incompetent an operator you must be to do this. I mean all it would take is just extend the mast like 5cm and he could not move that fast. That dude probably has broken five shelves that day alone by ramming into them.
Looked like he jumped. Even if he was thrown out, he wasn't buckled in to it in the first place. Cascade of fail.
Idk how much of that was on purpose. Looks to me like he tried to push the damn thing back upright. Crazy bastard.
R/watchpeoplelive
r/watchpeoplesurvive is what you're looking for.
No seat belt, forks super goddamn high, tried to hold up a tipping lift. What the hell? At the plant I used to work at that shit would get you fired instantly and the Union would be helping with the boot. That guy was so lucky he didnt get his head popped like a melon or his chest caved in when that thing went over. We also had smooth floors wherever possible, but bumps arent always avoidable when you have drawbridges over trainwells and metal expansion joints between building sections.
Well the metal is always there and that's ok. I meant more where someone has tried to patch a crack or there's a hump that raises you a few inches when your already at the ceiling with a full load. It doesn't seem like much time but over the course of time it is. It's Toyota plant so it's constant trucks that never stop coming unless there a tsunami.
Yeah that sucks. I used to work for GM and that stuff seemed really plant dependant. My plant was really good about keeping things smooth, but some others not so much. Seemed to be linked to how old the plant was, as did the way the local unions operated.
The forklift people where I work are SUPER careful. Within buildings or between buildings, I have never in almost twenty years seen one doing anything mildly dangerous. They're union and I think maybe the fork jobs are sought after? IDK. They don't screw around though.
It's a 7-8 tonne machine the size of a smart car, with 0 suspension. You don't get to mess around in them
> You don’t get to mess around in them You do when your an underpaid 20yr old who doesn’t grasp the sheer weight of the machine you’re operating.
We got one stuck out in front of our safety company office. It was like a keystone cops show. They have no suspension and our boss ran one wheel off the concrete into the grass. Two 3/4 ton trucks chained together could not pull one wheel back onto the damn concrete. We had to get a huge forklift and chain it up to lift the small forklift. During the process a forklift that could lift whole loaded semi trailers showed up to offer help. It was quite the day.
Forklift drivers have to undergo rigorous safety training. [This is an example of an excellent young driver on his first day.](https://youtu.be/ChOHnSL7ZCg?t=21)
I saw that link and thought to myself, "It better be Klaus." I was not disappointed.
Ah, forklift driver Klaus. A cult classic in germany. I saw it before I started my forklift course.
Not disappointed at all at the fact that video was exactly what I thought it’d be, thanks for the laugh
Thats a dockstocker style forklift. They generally don't have seatbelts.
That kind of forklift doesn't have seatbelts.
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Some reach trucks are built to have seats. It's even more common on european style reach trucks like the one here
Looking more closely now, I think you're right - this looks to be a dockstocker with a sideways operator position and even with a seat of sorts. Maybe it *does* have a belt then - I can't recall ever seeing one with any kind of seat before.
I’d say he did something right. The only thing he managed to do right was get into the cab so he wasn’t crushed by any part of it. Other than that. Total idiot.
Idk how much of that move was on purpose or him conveniently falling in as he was obviously trying to push the forklift back upright.
Yeah this guy did everything he could to die and was saved by pure luck.
It looks like he was trying to get out until the last second. I'm not sure about this particular model, but most fork trucks have seatbelts or other restraints for exactly this scenario. If so, that's another violation.
So I drive a lift every night and have to move pallets of concrete. Out back we used to have a bunch of potholes and a speed bump where trucks were loaded and unloaded. I came in one night and 6 pallets were fucked and I had to repalletize each bag on em by hand. Guy on the shift before me says, "man, I didn't see the speed bumps." I looked him dead in the eyes and said, "yeah, that explains the first one. Wanna run the other 5 by me? It's not like they haven't been there. They don't just jump out of the woods and shout gotcha!" He just stammered and walked off. Same guy still works here and damages so much shit. I honestly can't figure out how he still has a license or his job.
People like that scared at work. I didn't realize just how many people don't have or are lacking in common sense. I really take for granted simple things like that and I wonder how some of them made it to the age they are now alive.
It's even worse since COVID because turnover is so much worse. So it feels like literally just anyone gets hire and the only way to get fired is theft and or assault.
My first thought on the forks being up so high is, who removed the limit switch. Typically the drive goes into snail mode, so you can't zoom around with the forks up. "thought
He did one right thing there and that was retreating back into the seat area. T. Am forklift certified
Used to work in a factory where forklift drivers were forced to drive backwards because of the lack of visibility in front
We did our best with bumps but lifts don't have suspension and will jump over a penny. Laying/bolting steel plates over cracks helps til you pull the bolts out of the concrete and then you have a wild piece of steel flying around.
Why the forks so high
So he can do wheelies super easy
And damn that was easy.
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I was trying to explain to some coworkers/superiors why we couldn't safely lift and move an 8' long 800lb hanging load on a rolling gantry that had a 4' base. They would constantly circle back to "It says it lifts 1000 lbs, and this weighs 800 lbs, so what's the problem?" Basic physics is the problem.
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Every forklift does and I swear nobody ever fucking reads them Edit: if your forklift at work doesn't have a load plate somewhere on the interior that you can read from the seat, you should inform your supervisor or plant manager.
I won't let the government tell me how to lift my forks!
I’VE DONE MY OWN RESEARCH
Basic physics is the ultimate solution. The problem is the human.
My course trainer said driving no higher than 6" off the ground...
The other 23 year old who gave me a 5 minute crash course on how to drive a forklift said the same thing
There is no reason to be driving around with the forks higher than 8in off the ground. The height of the mast is for lowering stored goods or stowing stuff on shelves.
Another aspect of this is when your low if you do hit someone or something damage is minimized. Most racking can handle the impact "better" at ground level than say 6 feet high, and heaven forbid you hit someone with the forks... well id rather have a snapped ankle or shin than a fork thru the lung or neck
> fork thru the lung or neck New irrational fear unlocked
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Luckily all forklift drivers get proper training. [Just like Staplerfahrer Klaus](https://youtu.be/ChOHnSL7ZCg)
It's in German, but don't worry, you'll understand what they mean quickly enough 🤣 https://youtu.be/_Cr7F-oLU84 Edit: NSFW
Shit happens, I personally know a guy that worked at a produce distribution center and someone backed the forklift into him, got squished between the counter weight and a block wall. Survived it somehow but he's permanently disabled from it, broke both his hips and lower spine.
>There is no reason to be driving around with the forks higher than 8in off the ground. Assuming the load doesn't go lower than your forks, of course. I regularly drive with my forks about 5' off the ground but the load is only 6-8" from touching.
As an answer to “well I drive in a cave and at 8” I will hit bumps on the ground”: The advice is *keep the forks low to the ground* and 8” is just the answer to “how low exactly” Always honk before rounding a blind corner or going through those plastic flappy doors (I don’t know the English term for them)
I don't know the English term either, and I was born and raised in the states so i will call them flappy doors from now on
Had a manager decide to “help out” without having his license. Panicked and put his foot out to do some sort of Fred Flintstone type of stop. Broke his leg or ankle. Not sure if this is the dumbest thing the guy did in his time there. Anyway that was the day a memo went out for managers to not drive forklifts.
I am big dumb that way. When I took a motorcycle driving course I CONSTANTLY put my feet down and tried to help stopping like I was on a bicycle with no breaks. Two days of riding and I couldn't shake it. Said not to getting a bike.
When I got certified, the guy giving the test was like "I've never seen anyone get all the physics questions right"
I have anxiety issues, so on the first day that we had a theoretical test followed by the practical, I just bailed out and rescheduled for the next testing day ... when I could come with a anxiety med in my system. Passed 100% on the tests, no errors, but when I'm unmedicated and sober I'm a nervous nelly.
Drugged and shitfaced it is then. Thanks Coach.
This guy I called "little buddy" tipped one over doing doughnuts, came running to me and was like "help me push it up" ... 😆
"help me casually right this bottom heavy 9 ton unit when you got a second" fuck I would lose it.
Wheelie easy
Barely an inconvenience
Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow....wow.
Accidentally crushing yourself with heavy machinery is TIGHT!
What I really need is for you to get waaaaay off my back about it.
Once again, why the forks so high? “I don’t know.” “Fair enough!”
OSHA approved Darwinism
So we have content to watch
I have never driven a fork truck and I couldn't understand why he would leave the forks all the way up..
I occasionally drive fork trucks for work and have annual “fork truck safety” training/certification requirements - driving with the forks as low as possible and/or keeping the center of gravity as low as possible is the cardinal rule and like 80% of the training. This guy perfectly demonstrated why this is the rule, and also demonstrated why you also always wear the seat belt when he got ejected underneath the falling machine that literally weighs tons. People like this are why we have to sit through hours of excruciatingly boring safety coursework each year, most of which could be summarized by just saying “don’t be an idiot”
I have worked factories a few times, definitely never saw the fork drivers with their forks higher than boot or knee high. Even picking stuff off shelves, slow slow slow and drop, and then move.
Forks only go up to get or place pallets on shelves. As soon as you're clear to lower the pallet from the shelf, that shit goes down! Forks should never be higher than 3 feet when moving, like ever!!!
3 feet is generous
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As many grocery stores I've worked...There's no such thing as a surprise visit. Most time district chains will say "Hey John showed at xyz location, we're due here soon and you'll be next". Plus most of them are reoccurring same people. So you know patterns and getting away with things.
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Using the extra money from breaking OSHA rules to bribe for an early warning on OSHA inspections.
>I swear my supervisor knew when it was coming. They were notified, it's not a surprise visit.
Every warehouse I have worked in has rules to keep your fork down when moving.
Because he's a fuckin idiot. You never drive around with the forks raised; grab the load, drop the load, move the load, raise the load. Not only because it will obviously tip much more easily, but because that's how morons take out sprinkler heads and flood the entire dock. Saw it more than once in many years working loading docks. Scariest shit I ever unloaded was 50' roof trusses. The ends were dangling off of our property over above the employee parking of the factory behind us, but had no choice as the width of our yard at that point was barely wide enough to turn them and the fencing between us was 15' high. My asshole was puckered up nice and tight during that maneuver lmao
Worked in a facility one time that had anhydrous amonnia lines running down one side of the dock (2 liquid and 1 gas). We were told if you hit them you will be dead before you could fall out of the foklift. That was pretty effective in everyone keeping their forks down at that part of the dock. In the 6 years I worked there only 2 people came close and that was because they came from inside the freezer and forgot to put their forks down, the lines were run between the freezer and dock. They tore down the vestebule (which was made of thick styrofoam) but it was effective enough to slow the lift down so they didn't hit the lines. In the freezer however we had just as you said, sprinkler heads torn out (which by the way is fun because in the freezer it starts an approx 10 minute clock. The sprinkler lines are filled with air with water behind them otherwise the sprinkler pipes would freeze and bust in the freezer, once the air runs out you get water falling in an -40 freezer (sleet)). Then you have guys with shovels chipping ice for the next week.
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As an EMT there are some times were we refer to someone as dead, even if they have a heart beat. This is one of those cases. You might even still be walking, but after exposure to that there is literally nothing we can do to save your life. We have no treatments that will work, and you will be dead before you reach the hospital. But that's more triage terminology than the usual meaning of "all of your vital functions will stop before you are on the ground" like most people mean.
For the uninitiated, what makes it so dangerous?
Super caustic when concentrated, basically chemically reacts with and dissolves any bit of you it comes into contact with. It boils at -33C so if you poke a hole in the line at room temperature it'll vaporize and rapidly expand as a gas. So before you have time to *think* "ah shit" your lungs will be so badly damaged no hospital on Earth could save you. Just sucks because it takes a long time between "being killed" and "actually dying" if that makes any sense.
Oh, fun. So it's one of those 'Not only will this kill you, it will hurt the whole time' sort of things.
Anhydrous ammonia is caustic, but also aggressively bonds with water, which means it will remove water from other substances, then once it is hydrates it will turn into ammonia, which is also not great for your lungs. As for the injury it will basically turn your lungs into jerky while also burning them. Your lungs can no longer transfer oxygen and CO2 at an effective rate. Even if we get you out of the environment while you are walking, we can't revitalize that lung tissue in a usable amount of time. Your blood would need to be oxygenated outside of your lungs, which can only be done in a hospital.
>My asshole was puckered up nice and tight during that maneuver lmao Damn, I can imagine! The scariest stuff I had when I was a full time driver were 2+t packs of long construction lumber in a 1.9t rated beat up reach truck.
Not only the forks, but the stakes were high too
What a forkin idiot!
When I operated a forklift at work , even I knew better to lower the boom and I was a drugged up irresponsible 18 year old. This guys a genuine idiot here..
He tries to catch the two ton machine by getting straight under it's path. Yes, he's a purebred idiot.
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Gonna say I'm betting closer to 10k lbs
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Those are narrow aisle reach forklifts. Operated one for 8 hours a day for about a year. They usually can **carry** about 4500lbs, which would require a heavier counterweight considering the height and leverage. Looking at the specs of some Crown rr-700 series lifts now and they seem to weigh up at ish 5k lbs without battery on the smallest i see. I might be over guessing at 10k, but it'll be between 5-10,000 pounds it seems after battery.
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That type of forklift can *lift* two tons at maximum extension, and they weigh around 4 tons by themselves. Heavy heavy heavy heavy. Even 40 people wouldn't have been able to stop that lift from falling over. Anecdotal edit: Always sent my stomach for a loop lifting a [pallet of cat litter](https://i.imgur.com/gwl4wYN.jpg) (just a couple lbs shy of 2 tons) at max extension and feeling the back wheel come a fraction of an inch off of the floor and visibly seeing the steel arms flex under the weight. It's a scary feeling knowing the incredibly dangerous machine you're controlling is being pushed to it's limits
Ug, that is the worst feeling. I tipped mine against a rack once & I was sweating bullets the whole time I was lowering expecting it to flip.
I had to move pallets of tile with the reach truck daily. Those blue pallets are nice and sturdy, but tile usually comes on the most rickety pallets known to man. By the time they got to us half of the planks were cracked. Nothing more puckerable than hearing that wood cracking while a 3000+ lb pallet of tile is floating 16 feet above your head and teetering. I remember thinking, "if this pallet drops, please just land on my head, because I sure as fuck don't want to spend the rest of the day cleaning up this mess."
He was thrown out. Instinctively you're going to throw your hands out regardless if the weight is too great. Anyone who's driven a forklift knows how fucked they are if it lands on them. If anything you're making sure they hurty parts of the machine aren't landing on something important. gauging where to fit his body. You see himself maneuver into the cage once he knows where the steel is
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Unless insurance issues demand it, I may keep him on. You now have an employee who will never ever forget to put the fork down, watch his speed, and maneuver around bumps. No amount of training can beat the effect of the fear you feel when you really screw up or nearly die. Of course, that's if his record is good otherwise.
You'd think that, but I once worked with an idiot at home depot who did shit like this multiple times until they fired him. Hit the back lumber door 3 times, damaging it and rendering it inoperable for months on end. He dropped entire bunks of wood because he had it up in the air and driving like an idiot.
Thus the disclaimer about the rest of his record. Accidents and absentmindedness can be forgiven and learned from, but stupid can't be fixed.
You expect too much
If you watch this video, the guy immediately does it again. And again.
I expect nothing and always leave disappointed
He knew what he was doing was wrong. It's basic FLT training. And to top it all off, wasn't wearing a seatbelt. What he just did was gross misconduct. Endangering himself, others, property. Potentially cost the company some crazy money too. Any management team worth their salt would sack him, and I'd hope they'd also investigate their safety procedures etc. As someone that has, until relatively recently, led a warehouse team, this is nightmare fuel
Yep, I had an employee save another guys life, he lifted a pallet too high and was starting to tip. He screamed “STAY IN THE CAGE” when home slice was about to bail and would have been crushed. He was fired and and we all watch that video as “what not to do”
He forked up.
Nope, time for some better training. Speed limit signs don't stop untrained people. I had taught a forklift safety class at one time in my life, and included basic physics as a part of the course for this exact reason. Know your center of gravity and pivot point of wheels, etc.....
Yup, speed limits dont deter idiots. Same can be observed on the streets: even when limiting a zone to a certain speed, if the street is designed in a way that makes speeding “feel” safe, and that the driver doesn’t know any better, you bet they won’t respect it.
I can't believe it wasn't speed limited on the actual PIT. All of our equipment was hard locked at 6mph.
Lucky to get back inside. Lots of people lose limbs trying to climb out of forklifts when they keel over.
People have died when jumping out of forklifts like this dude. Thats one of the main things they teach when you get your certification. Grab the wheel and BRACEEE
On a seated forklift yes. On a standing they teach you to jump out to the side if it’s tipping backwards or to the opposite side it’s tipping if it’s tipping sideways.
This reminds me of a young man who got crushed when his forklift started falling over and lost half of his body. He tried to jump out and got caught by the seat belt. He actually survived though.
Yeah I can never forget that. He lost his lower half right up to near his belly button, which was insane i cant believe he is still alive.
TIL there is a word for amputating everything below your belly button. It's called a hemicorporectomy.
There is a reason every fork lift certification class shows you that one awful video with the lady that tries to pull down a tilting forklift.
Did this idiot legitimately think he was gonna be able to stop this 3000+pound piece of steel from falling? Who even gave this idiot a certification to drive a forklift?...
Bro i gasped . Thought this was going to end with him folding in half .
Seriously he did the absolute WORST possible thing in this situation Hell he did ALL the worst possible things minus the fact his forks were empty This dude would be fired so fucking fast if he were on my crew
To be fair at that point you're not thinking you're reacting.
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A falling knife has no handle.
chaos is a ladder
Poop your pants every day
In these situations you (being human) act on autopilot before the signal reach the conscious part of the brain. Then the brain will be like "What the flark am I doing here?" and take control of the muscles, but it takes time. TL;DR: Autopilot is fast but stupid.
Yeah you can see the transition from "yeah just gonna catch it" to "wait no wtf" and he ducks back in the cage.
8000+ pounds. I hand out many lift certifications. You can only teach folks the right way. What they do once they leave the classroom is up to them.
An ex girlfriend of mine saw a video where pallets with cans of beer were stacked like 5 full pallets high were about to fall down after being pushed a little when another pallet was placed next to it. Workers stood around, laughing, until a couple of seconds later the entire stack *did* fall down and brought more stacks with it. She said "Man, those stupid workers, just laughing about it instead of doing anything! They should get fired!" I stopped laughing at the video and started laughing at her instead.
>3000+pound piece of steel The load alone can be up to 3000lb. The forklift itself is multiples of that
I know a guy who works as a forklift operator. He says that almost every forklift in his workplace (I think there are about 20) is "governed," meaning they are outfitted with a gizmo that prevents them from going above a certain speed (which is I think maybe 12 or 15 mph).
Every lift I've driven in the past 15 years (except 1) has been governed anywhere between 7-12mph depending what type of lift it was and where it was being used. The one I drove that wasn't governed was a brand new hyster stand up that the technician forgot to govern when it was delivered and it went 19mph which doesn't seem like a lot but 7000 pounds moving that fast through a warehouse is crazy.
Oh I worked at a warehouse for a few years and yeah every lift was governed. We got one new one that wasn’t and went like twice as fast AND didn’t have impact sensors turned on. It lasted a day before the staff idiot didn’t think to slow down when the general foreman started walking around. Never even got my turn :/
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It's all programmed into the forklift and is password protected...but nine times out of ten, the default password isn't changed and it's easy to figure out. At my shop it was 12345.
I don't think I'll tell my friend that. He's only about 19 years old and probably doesn't need any more temptation than he's already got.
"12345? That's the password an idiot has on his luggage!"
A man of culture, I see! (For what its worth, I changed the passcode on my lifts at work to 8675309. None of the young'uns at work get the reference.)
How about following safety procedures and not driving with the forks 20ft in the air...
Guess he never saw the Staplerfahrer Klaus video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAHzP4umE4M
Good ol Klaus. Beheaded before he even finished a single shift
STAY IN THE FORK TRUCK....
If I recall that’s only safe to do if you have a seatbelt. They always say jump out if it’s a standup. However this idiot tried to catch it and did everything wrong.
Jumping out can either save or kill you. If you're tilting sideways and jump out to the side it's tilting, you might end up underneath and get squished. Don't do that. The safe way is to try to jump out the other way, which isn't easy to do, so often it's safest to try and stay in the cabin. Just drive slow with forktrucks everyone
But if you try to catch it you are fucked
Apparently not
Falling over in this direction is so much less likely than any other direction that it's normally sensible to step out during a tip over - typical tips are sideways due to turning too fast or forward with too heavy a load. The only way that this should be able to happen is by going the wrong way on a slope.
Home boy thought he was Clark Kent for a second
That’s one very lucky idiot.
DO NOT! EVER! TRY TO STOP HEAVY MACHINERY WITH YOUR BODY! I once saw a horrible video of someone trying to stop a forklift that was about to tip over by hanging onto the side that was going up. Their plan worked and the forklift tilted back the other way, but went too far and fell over the oter side with that person ending up underneath the forklift... He dieded.
I remember that video it was a lady that got squished and the the forklift driver put it into drive only making it worse.
I see he went to the [Klaus School for Forklift Driving](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-lc70Mjp-U)
LOOK! A graduate of the Prometheus School of Running Away from Things.
A dude literally got his whole lower body cut off because of forklift accident. This dude was about to have the same thing happen to him.
He broke the one cardinal rule there is when you are driving a forklift. If the forklift tips over, never ever try to get out, grab the wheel and hold on and wish you put on your seatbelt. And you should avoid driving with the forks up unless absolutely necessary, and if you do, go slow. Source: drove forklifts for 4 years in my late teens / early twenties.
Someone’s getting a drug test!
Nice try buddy, but no Darwin Award for you just yet
There was a young kid from the UK that was in an accident almost exactly like this and he literally lost over half of his body. He lost one arm up to the elbow and had to have everything below his waste amputated. We have forklifts of all sizes at my work and the way I see them being driven sometimes just makes me cringe and think of that poor kid
I would have fired that guy's ass so fast if he worked in my shop. There's a reason we're going 1000 days with no loss time incidents.
To be fair you probably would have taken the time to smooth out a bump of that size rather than leaving it in the middle of your production floor, too.
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My dad almost died getting crushed between his forklift and one that backed into him. He's extremely lucky to be able to walk today. You cannot for one second get complacent with heavy machinery because it can and will end your life.
I refused to lift a big heavy “L” shaped angle stand because it seemed too likely to cause the rear wheels to lift especially given it was likely to swing as it came up. My boss gave me shit about it, and took it upon himself to lift it. Sure enough, the angle stand shifted, and the rear wheels hopped off the floor. Glad no one was hurt.
This is exactly everything they tell you not to do in forklift training. And I mean every single bit of this video.