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I don't know how many people have been killed by forklifts at Menards, but it has to be greater than zero. Home Depot will shut down aisles and have flaggers guiding forklifts around on the floor. Menards just lets 18 year olds fly around inside and out at top speed. They also don't follow the best safety practices for themselves:  Winds were blowing at 30 MPH with 50 MPH gusts while he was up there on that bundle of 2x4's. Witnessed another forklift operator about 20 minutes later riding around on a raised platform. He was wearing his fall protection harness, but it wasn't clipped to anything.
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brugroffil posted:I don't know how many people have been killed by forklifts at Menards, but it has to be greater than zero. Home Depot will shut down aisles and have flaggers guiding forklifts around on the floor. Menards just lets 18 year olds fly around inside and out at top speed. One of the best/worst parts about shopping at WinCo at 6AM is dodging forklifts driven by sleep deprived cashiers who have been pressed into restocking.
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Apr 5, 2016 22:10
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That reminds me, a while ago the discussion involved forklifts and how far the forks should be raised while driving. I said I was going to pull out my training institute's publication on forklifts, but I forgot. I'll grab a copy right now while I'm still at work.
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Apr 5, 2016 22:25
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chitoryu12 posted:That reminds me, a while ago the discussion involved forklifts and how far the forks should be raised while driving. I said I was going to pull out my training institute's publication on forklifts, but I forgot. I'll grab a copy right now while I'm still at work. Please read the manual in one hand while posting a transcript in the other to this thread and driving with your knee. tia
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Apr 5, 2016 22:45
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brugroffil posted:I don't know how many people have been killed by forklifts at Menards, but it has to be greater than zero. Home Depot will shut down aisles and have flaggers guiding forklifts around on the floor. Menards just lets 18 year olds fly around inside and out at top speed. It's a forklift slaughter of savings at Menards! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bDLBCdcqEA
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Apr 5, 2016 22:57
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chitoryu12 posted:That reminds me, a while ago the discussion involved forklifts and how far the forks should be raised while driving. I said I was going to pull out my training institute's publication on forklifts, but I forgot. I'll grab a copy right now while I'm still at work. I was taught keep them low as possible and angled up like ~15° but this is a big diesel fucker that's really hard to miss, not one of those toyotas zipping around a plant Edit: one of these guys, not sure of the series, but it's the exact same profile it looks like 
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Apr 5, 2016 23:00
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The book advises to keep the forks as low as possible to keep the center of gravity low (avoiding tipping), but to check the driving area for hazards and uneven ground before driving as well as driving in reverse whenever the load is blocking your view. Some fun statistics! Non-operator deaths by forklift * Struck by load: 37% * Struck by truck: 31% * Caught in between: 18% * Fall from forks: 10% * Overturn: 4% Operator deaths by forklift * Overturn: 49% * Fall: 15% * Caught in between: 15% * Struck by load: 11% * Electrocution, fires, explosions, collisions: 8% * Struck by truck: 2% I think "struck by load" is exclusively or almost exclusively unsecured loads falling off the forks. I'm wondering why "struck by truck" and "collision" are separate for operators, though. Maybe the former are impaled by the forks of an incoming vehicle?
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chitoryu12 posted:I'm wondering why "struck by truck" and "collision" are separate for operators, though. Maybe the former are impaled by the forks of an incoming vehicle? I'd wager collision is "I crashed the forklift and died" where struck by truck is "I somehow managed to hit myself with my own forklift"
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Apr 6, 2016 00:05
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Klaus did it.
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KoRMaK posted:Welp, guess its time to start taking that cholesterol medicine now that I'm 30. For serious get some Omega 3 capsules. It has for real non-woo health benefits, and the most common side-effect is fish burps. http://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/omega-3-fatty-acids-fact-sheet Fish burps are pretty unpleasant tho.
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Karma Monkey posted:It's a forklift slaughter of savings at Menards! This is 100% awesome. And about 90% harmless.
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chitoryu12 posted:The book advises to keep the forks as low as possible to keep the center of gravity low (avoiding tipping), but to check the driving area for hazards and uneven ground before driving as well as driving in reverse whenever the load is blocking your view. I think "struck by load" can just mean that the operator drove into someone load-first and killed them. That and "struck by truck" are a result of operators speeding around without paying attention, especially around blind corners. As for overturn being the leading cause of death for operators: This is why you have to wear your seat belt. It's not to protect you in a crash, it's to prevent you from jumping out when it tips over. The instinct is to jump in the direction the truck is falling, which means that it falls on you. When in fact the safest place to be when a forklift tips over (after "way the hell over there") is in the forklift.. Boat posted:I'd wager collision is "I crashed the forklift and died" where struck by truck is "I somehow managed to hit myself with my own forklift" This can happen when the operator doesn't set the park brake, then gets out and walks behind/in front of the truck. I had a coworker who would use a forklift occasionally and basically every time he would fail to set the park brake. Even when we got new forklifts that have a constant beeping any time you shut them off without engaging it, on several occasions I saw him spend 10-30 seconds trying to figure out why it was making noise. That is the type of person who gets run over by their own forklift.
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I don’t know if the camera person is on the job, but I’m going to assume so because  http://i.imgur.com/jsXbIjI.gifv
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Platystemon posted:I don’t know if the camera person is on the job, but I’m going to assume so because https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Yu-3N7UhY Now with handrails and everything!
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Angela Christine posted:For serious get some Omega 3 capsules. It has for real non-woo health benefits, and the most common side-effect is fish burps. http://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/omega-3-fatty-acids-fact-sheet Lift some weights too.
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Platystemon posted:I don’t know if the camera person is on the job, but I’m going to assume so because This was the worst level in the original Half Life
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Gotta drill past 3 high pressure oil lines today for a Bell job. Pulling a 14" reamer and we needed esso (well imperial oil which esso owns I think) and another guy from a Canadian company (something about needing 2 groups for insurance or something). We have the hole made and reamed but they are still required to stay for every time we pass them, kinda annoying cause I've been sitting in my truck for almost 2 hours waiting for these guys so we can finish today!
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"an old lada" is always, categorically the right tool for the job
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Apr 6, 2016 17:05
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Just add some orange flags to the ends and it's good to go! Make sure you use your hazards
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Someone overlay this with Runnin' in the 90s.
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Conspire to violate federal mine safety standards resulting in the death of 29 people? Get a whole year in jail. What a victory for safety.
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Platystemon posted:I don’t know if the camera person is on the job, but I’m going to assume so because Ah, I remember that place from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmDhRvvs5Xw Dude's loving nuts.
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Platystemon posted:Conspire to violate federal mine safety standards resulting in the death of 29 people? Get a whole year in jail. It's better than a fine at least, though he should be serving life imo Also, if you're canadian, april 28th is National Day of Mourning for workers killed and injured on the job
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Top of a residential building in my town, what is going on here. I can't see if the dude is wearing any gear but this feels a bit off.
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chitoryu12 posted:That reminds me, a while ago the discussion involved forklifts and how far the forks should be raised while driving. I said I was going to pull out my training institute's publication on forklifts, but I forgot. I'll grab a copy right now while I'm still at work. Testicle height... if i recall correctly.
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8 track betamax posted:Testicle height... if i recall correctly. Who's though, the drivers or the average of the people in the wearhouse
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Platystemon posted:Conspire to violate federal mine safety standards resulting in the death of 29 people? Get a whole year in jail. The Defense Attorney posted:“The worst that can be said is that Mr. Blankenship knew about the violations and, in the government’s view, that he didn’t do enough to prevent them,” said Mr. Taylor, who had sought a sentence of a fine and probation. “The one thing you cannot conclude is that Don Blankenship was not interested in, and didn’t care about, the safety of his miners.” That 1-year sentence is lame. I don't normally have an opinion about criminal sentencing, but if he'd straight-up murdered those workers - like, just shot them - the prosecutor would have filed 29 separate charges of murder. Is there some reason the prosecutor in this case didn't file 29 separate charges?
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ReagaNOMNOMicks posted:They fixed the Caminito del Rey in 2015. Is that just smoke and mirrors though, they originally could have put in a wooden platform instead of concrete?
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Leaves out the fun part where there's a woman's car parked on the side (all that mess on the road is from her car hitting that log) and the fact that when that truck comes around, she's right outside the driver's door of the parked truck. Thankfully, she managed to get away unscathed. From the Dashcam thread in AI: drunkill posted:Country roads in Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKQYRen_MIA&feature=youtu.be
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Platystemon posted:I don’t know if the camera person is on the job, but I’m going to assume so because If he fell at least everyone would know what happened to him (if they find the body)
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ExecuDork posted:That 1-year sentence is lame. I don't normally have an opinion about criminal sentencing, but if he'd straight-up murdered those workers - like, just shot them - the prosecutor would have filed 29 separate charges of murder. Is there some reason the prosecutor in this case didn't file 29 separate charges? The judge gave him the maximum possible sentence for the crime he was actually convicted of. He was found innocent by a jury of the 3 more serious crimes he was charged with that could have seen him spending most or all of the rest of his life in prison.
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ExecuDork posted:That 1-year sentence is lame. I don't normally have an opinion about criminal sentencing, but if he'd straight-up murdered those workers - like, just shot them - the prosecutor would have filed 29 separate charges of murder. Is there some reason the prosecutor in this case didn't file 29 separate charges? huh
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Platystemon posted:Conspire to violate federal mine safety standards resulting in the death of 29 people? Get a whole year in jail. Compared to what 9/11 conspirator Mounir El Motassadeq got sentenced to in Germany, that's positively draconian.
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p7hk9 posted:This was the worst level in the original Half Life This actually looks like the Tomb Raider reboot
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That pallet is half-rotted, too. Good job, Klaus.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:I was taught keep them low as possible and angled up like ~15° but this is a big diesel fucker that's really hard to miss, not one of those toyotas zipping around a plant I saw one even bigger than that moving an electric motor that weighed around 30,000lbs (rotor and stator). Some of those are freaky-huge. These riggers are amazing, you can make incredibly large, heavy objects (like motors, transformers, generators) and they are the people who can move them around, sometimes using fairly simply machines and equipment too. I'm sure if you looked at their DNA going far back enough they were the guys putting together the Pyramids and Stonehenge. Three-Phase fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Apr 8, 2016 |
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