It's actually the main reason you're supposed to be buckled in, because your first instinct would be to jump out. If the forklift falls over and lands on you, you're dead. Can't fall on top of you if you're buckled in.
I remember a safety briefing ages ago about fork lift safety and every example of an avoidable fatality was someone being crushed by the cage that would’ve protected them if they were buckled in
Whenever I see a video of someone getting out of a forklift when shit goes down, I'm reminded of that guy who got crushed in half by his forklift and somehow survived, albeit losing half his body and one of his arms.
If you're riding a forklift, stay in the fucking cage all the time.
This is a pointless appeal for conscious behavior in a rare extreme situation. The solution is to wear a seat belt or keep the doors to the driver's cab closed.
And nobody else near by wearing PPE. Guy wearing a mask, if you're concerned about your health to wear a mask, why not wear a helmet, and cut resistent gear when dealing with glass?
I saw that the forklift appears to have no 'windshield' or whatever it should be called. I wonder if this forklift isn't normally used to unload glass.
Due to the nature of feet-long shards of glass, I'm guessing the cage won't be as useful compared to something big and solid like a bunch of lumber or metal.
Seatbelt, stay in the cage, grab the wheel, and brace your feet. The cage is there to protect you. Loads are being slung well above their heads so hardhats should be in play here too imho
Depending on the loft and the operator a hardhat might not be necessary just due to the face of your a tall dude the hat might be hitting the ceiling of the cage so it'd actually make it harder to see and operate safely.
So many people get hurt or killed trying to bail out of heavy machinery. Stay seat belted inside the machine and you will be much safer. That dude got out and almost immediately got nailed with the boom that deflected off the safety cage on top of the forklift cab.
I am sure he got slammed by the glass too. But yeah, the best thing to do around broken glass is to stay still and don't adjust your weight until you know where the glass is.
If you're a proper operator, you'll be buckled in, so clutching the wheel and tucking your body is the safest response to a forklift falling off a dock or tilted from not checking the data plate for capacity limitations at each height.
Yup. Your stuck in a cage but on the plus side you have a heavy metal cage between you and other stuff that falls.
They also had the weight a little far out on the forks. Looking at the trailer and angles it probably wasn't that easy to avoid. But if they get a lot of glass they probably should have had a jug to get the weight closer the leverage point.
Working with glass i would like a much larger margin than i usually have for steel.
If you're buckled in like OSHA wants you to be? Yes. If not get the fuck out, preferably from the side thats not heading towards the floor. You'll slide out of the seat get your arms/legs pinned. This is why you're supposed to be buckled.
Yeah, you’re supposed to stay inside the forklift, buckled in, and if the forklift begins to tip, you’re supposed to grab onto and lean into the steering wheel.
Yes, FOPS and ROPS (Falling Object Protective Structure and Roll Over Protective Structure) on heavy vehicles are designed to protect you in case of falling objects or your vehicle rolls over.
Human instinct is usually to get away from danger, but leaving your seat during an incident can get you killed.
Yes absolutely, but I think the storm of heavy glass shards made him think twice about doing this. More than one way he could have died in this scenario. Lots of mistakes were made before we got to this point, however.
Yeah people get crushed by hopping out during a tipping event. Hes lucky to be alive since something fell down pretty much right on the side he hoped out of.
Yup. One of the common injuries/fatalities in warehouses is when dummies bail out of the cage as soon as something goes wrong. It's taught as basic safety before forklift certification in every warehouse that I've managed.
It wasn't the fact it was over capacity, its the fact the raised the load so high the center of gravity shifted toward the front, and well, gravity took over.
That is what we call over capacity in forklifts. It is either too heavy to lift or makes the forklift unstable ie. it is not capable to handle the load safely.
'max capacity' doesn't necessarily mean the forklift will physically fail to hold the weight up, it means the forklift can't be safely operated when loaded beyond this weight
I used to work in a cabinet shop that cut a lot of corners and a lot of generally unsafe practices. I was the only one who really knew how to drive the forklift, so it was only me when wood loads arrived. Every single time we'd get a new order of Melamine, I would feel the back get super light, if not lift off if I lifted it wrong.
Whole place was sketchy as fuck, but I was young and dumb, and didn't think to speak up, not that they would have listened
Please stay inside the forklift if it tilts. Most death or heavy injuries happen if you jump out because of reflexes. You are much safer in the design safety cage what a forklift is.
I noticed that too he was not wearing the seat belt; the lift cage would have shielded him from whatever was falling there at the end. He got very lucky.
In case any of you needed a reminder: wear your seatbelt, grab the wheel tight, and brace your feet flat on the floor of the lift. Do NOT jump out of the cab!!!
The driver is an idiot, he was overloaded, didn't immediately start lowering the forks and tilting back, and on top of that got out of the forklift while it was crashing putting his life at risk. A guy where I work died because of this same shit
If the glasses were crated he wouldn’t have raise it so high. Secondly, he obviously didn’t check the manifest to verify the weight. The weight combined with the height of the lift point created an obvious off balance situation. He ignored his training if he ever had any.
Glass like that doesn’t get crated. It’s for a large cutter that cuts smaller lites from the large sheet of glass. You need a crane rated for 10k to maneuver those large stoch packs.
None of the forklifts I operated told you the weight of the load. However there's a safety sticker that tells you load capacities at height, and the shipping documents should have clued the operator in to how much it weighed. A little grey matter effort could've put two and two together, but this guy's attitude was clearly, "Fuck it. It'll probably be fine."
Not overweight glass, but under trained forklift driver. There's a couple osha things going on here. And a procedure/common sense failure also. Dude ain't getting on a forklift truck on my shift again.
I know someone who used to work at a glassworks that made shop windows, and had to move a bunch of these things around using a forklift with special air-powered suckers on them, to hold them in place.
If the suckers failed (as was sometimes the case) the official company instruction to the forklift driver was very simple…
I have worked with this. We had them delivered with a top and bottom of wood, then a lot of steel bands securing it like a frame, and the crane operator lifted these 21m² big sheets, stacked about 20 cm thick (different number of "sheets" depending on the thickness of the glass), so they were lifted to a special stack before removing the tops and bottom. Very secure and no risk of errors like this.
IF we got the small sheets delivered, they'd be securely tied to a steel frame that could be lifted off with a forklift, but it was a heavy mofu that wouldn't tip forward unless they really tried, I guess. Nobody did this, though.
In this situations we germans like to say "schade, schade, Marmelade" which loosely translates to "shame, shame, marmalade" to piss off everyone even more. We dont have much fun here in germany
I don’t understand why there isn’t an auto stop that detects the weight overload and won’t let the object extend past a certain point. With all the stupid safety crap we have on cars now I would think forklift manufactures would have made a device like this standard for the past 2 decades.
I worked at a Safelite warehouse in the early 2000's and we never wore safety glasses. Granted auto glass is all either tempered or safety glass so there wasn't too much risk from things breaking.
When shit goes bad with that lift, my guess is standard procedure is ride the storm staying inside the metal cage. Right?
I mean, he almost got slammed by a huge metal thing.
Ya your supposed to be buckled in and one of the major rules is stay in the cage.
It's actually the main reason you're supposed to be buckled in, because your first instinct would be to jump out. If the forklift falls over and lands on you, you're dead. Can't fall on top of you if you're buckled in.
Literally called Mouse Trapping. My instructor did not hold back on Videos/Photos when I did my license
Was one of the videos Gabelstaplerfahrer Klaus?
Klaus was a psychopath. And that was with his tow motor license.
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I've had forklift training before a few times, it's basically like that except way less funny. hehe
hurk
I remember a safety briefing ages ago about fork lift safety and every example of an avoidable fatality was someone being crushed by the cage that would’ve protected them if they were buckled in
Yep. We had a family member whose hip got crushed.
But in this case, we've got falling glass and shit I don't know
Whenever I see a video of someone getting out of a forklift when shit goes down, I'm reminded of that guy who got crushed in half by his forklift and somehow survived, albeit losing half his body and one of his arms.
If you're riding a forklift, stay in the fucking cage all the time.
This is a pointless appeal for conscious behavior in a rare extreme situation. The solution is to wear a seat belt or keep the doors to the driver's cab closed.
Yeah you're
Yeah, I'm what?
Hope you are Oll korrect, pal.
Indeed I am, and thank you for wishing me so, brick. (Which, if memory serves, is a good thing by 19th Century standards.)
Anyway, thanks for making me smirk!
And nobody else near by wearing PPE. Guy wearing a mask, if you're concerned about your health to wear a mask, why not wear a helmet, and cut resistent gear when dealing with glass?
People that deal with glass like this on the daily NEED to be wearing Kevlar sweaters. This shit can kill you in seconds.
I saw the certified, flat brim backwards cap so he was protecting where his brain would otherwise be…
I saw that the forklift appears to have no 'windshield' or whatever it should be called. I wonder if this forklift isn't normally used to unload glass.
Perhaps what they were trying to unload was a consignment of new windshields.
Could very well be wearing it because he's sick.
Due to the nature of feet-long shards of glass, I'm guessing the cage won't be as useful compared to something big and solid like a bunch of lumber or metal.
But it will protect you from the rigging equipment that almost hit the operator in the video
Seatbelt, stay in the cage, grab the wheel, and brace your feet. The cage is there to protect you. Loads are being slung well above their heads so hardhats should be in play here too imho
Depending on the loft and the operator a hardhat might not be necessary just due to the face of your a tall dude the hat might be hitting the ceiling of the cage so it'd actually make it harder to see and operate safely.
So many people get hurt or killed trying to bail out of heavy machinery. Stay seat belted inside the machine and you will be much safer. That dude got out and almost immediately got nailed with the boom that deflected off the safety cage on top of the forklift cab.
The amount of idiocy on display here is impressive
'Should I stay in the strong metal cage designed to prevent injury? No! my squishy body made of meat will save me'
I am sure he got slammed by the glass too. But yeah, the best thing to do around broken glass is to stay still and don't adjust your weight until you know where the glass is.
If you're a proper operator, you'll be buckled in, so clutching the wheel and tucking your body is the safest response to a forklift falling off a dock or tilted from not checking the data plate for capacity limitations at each height.
Yup. Your stuck in a cage but on the plus side you have a heavy metal cage between you and other stuff that falls.
They also had the weight a little far out on the forks. Looking at the trailer and angles it probably wasn't that easy to avoid. But if they get a lot of glass they probably should have had a jug to get the weight closer the leverage point.
Working with glass i would like a much larger margin than i usually have for steel.
If you're buckled in like OSHA wants you to be? Yes. If not get the fuck out, preferably from the side thats not heading towards the floor. You'll slide out of the seat get your arms/legs pinned. This is why you're supposed to be buckled.
Yeah, you’re supposed to stay inside the forklift, buckled in, and if the forklift begins to tip, you’re supposed to grab onto and lean into the steering wheel.
Yes, FOPS and ROPS (Falling Object Protective Structure and Roll Over Protective Structure) on heavy vehicles are designed to protect you in case of falling objects or your vehicle rolls over.
Human instinct is usually to get away from danger, but leaving your seat during an incident can get you killed.
Stay buckled in and ride it out.
Yes it's called a ROPS (rollover protective structure) and it's designed to support the entire weight of the machine
Yes absolutely, but I think the storm of heavy glass shards made him think twice about doing this. More than one way he could have died in this scenario. Lots of mistakes were made before we got to this point, however.
Yeah people get crushed by hopping out during a tipping event. Hes lucky to be alive since something fell down pretty much right on the side he hoped out of.
Guessing he's not forklift certified.
Yup. One of the common injuries/fatalities in warehouses is when dummies bail out of the cage as soon as something goes wrong. It's taught as basic safety before forklift certification in every warehouse that I've managed.
1 million percent. Supposed to be strapped in. Wait for all the heavy shit to stop smashing stuff before you get out.
You are probably safer in the cage, yes.
Unless there's also giant shards of glass coming at you, then I think it's down to instincts and fate.
The forks that were on the forklift
The lift fork literally falls on the cage and bounces off
Shit probably went down his leg actually
Bro has a second birthday
Does seem like he was born yesterday.
But now 7 x 20 years of bad luck
That's multiplication. Need to see some addition and subtraction here
Billy: Glass shattering noises
The sticker stating the max capacity of the load: am I a joke to you?
It wasn't the fact it was over capacity, its the fact the raised the load so high the center of gravity shifted toward the front, and well, gravity took over.
That is what we call over capacity in forklifts. It is either too heavy to lift or makes the forklift unstable ie. it is not capable to handle the load safely.
The sticker literally displays this info. It literally says what weight can be lifted and at what height...
So YES it absolutely was over capacity at that height.
Thank you for explaining what the sticker says 🤣🤣🤣
It said boom height and they were moving glass there should be no Boom!!!
Well probably it wasn't a boom but a kshkshksh
Big bada boom!
Multipass! Yeah, yeah, she knows, Multipass!
'max capacity' doesn't necessarily mean the forklift will physically fail to hold the weight up, it means the forklift can't be safely operated when loaded beyond this weight
That’s what over the capacity means - the machine is no longer safely operable
If he is stationary, the height of the load doesn't make a difference. The issue was when the load started swinging as he drove backwards.
I used to work in a cabinet shop that cut a lot of corners and a lot of generally unsafe practices. I was the only one who really knew how to drive the forklift, so it was only me when wood loads arrived. Every single time we'd get a new order of Melamine, I would feel the back get super light, if not lift off if I lifted it wrong.
Whole place was sketchy as fuck, but I was young and dumb, and didn't think to speak up, not that they would have listened
Anyone ever look at those?
Sometimes. If I'm unsure of a load.
Watch on mute
People turn mute off?
The sound of that smashing glass should have been fun
True, though I've been on Reddit long enough to know there is a 95% chance the nice sounds you want to hear have been replaced by loud crappy music.
And a laugh track, or that godawful wheezing chuckle on infinite loop.
The TikTok shittery has beshitted us all.
at least the war criminals using the 'oh no' song have gone into hiding, for now
Please stay inside the forklift if it tilts. Most death or heavy injuries happen if you jump out because of reflexes. You are much safer in the design safety cage what a forklift is.
I noticed that too he was not wearing the seat belt; the lift cage would have shielded him from whatever was falling there at the end. He got very lucky.
"Dear customer, your delivery will be delayed for some days."
Postal worker here:
Don't worry because they'll just blame us.
Ups store employee here. They'll find a way to blame us too even if we didn't send it.
Guess he's in a world of pane now
He walks around with a glazed expression
The opposite, actually. Never had so little pane.
His hopes for a bonus were shattered.
World of Pain is (was) a great band
In case any of you needed a reminder: wear your seatbelt, grab the wheel tight, and brace your feet flat on the floor of the lift. Do NOT jump out of the cab!!!
Do you have any idea how many idiots I know at work that don’t want to wear their seatbelt just so they can jump out of the lift if they need to?
/r/ThatLookedExpensive
Yeah. I wonder what that cost?
I use to work at a retail store in a mall that used glass sliding doors. Was told each panel cost like 10k… that looks like a lot of panels 🤣
Will be a nice insurance claim.
The driver is an idiot, he was overloaded, didn't immediately start lowering the forks and tilting back, and on top of that got out of the forklift while it was crashing putting his life at risk. A guy where I work died because of this same shit
You can feel the imbalance way before this point. He went ahead and tried anyway.
Need to lower them forks, man
Need to put them all the way into the load as well.
Is he forklift certified?
Yes, Klaus trained him!
Does that have something to do with the 45 minute video they played in the breakroom while he scrolled TikTok on his phone? Then yes.
I wanted to hear the sound of the glass shattering.
Well, that's the fastest way to get them down, clearly not recommended but certainly the fastest.
forklift fail analysis
Shouldn’t the crane/forklift guy be wearing a hard hat with a big ass face shield or something?
Not overloaded anymore....
I expect this to happen in every episode of Grand Designs, but it never does. Kind of cathartic seeing it happen now.
Thank god he was wearing a mask 😷
It's because he wasn't wearing his seatbelt
I guess everybody saying stay in the cage didn't notice the large amount of glass shards being flung in that direction.
Smart. By breaking the load down into smaller peices, they can be transpirted by hand, since clearly no one here is capable of using the lift
If the glasses were crated he wouldn’t have raise it so high. Secondly, he obviously didn’t check the manifest to verify the weight. The weight combined with the height of the lift point created an obvious off balance situation. He ignored his training if he ever had any.
Glass like that doesn’t get crated. It’s for a large cutter that cuts smaller lites from the large sheet of glass. You need a crane rated for 10k to maneuver those large stoch packs.
What a pane to clean up.
Why did he drive when his arm was up?
This guy didn't listen to the forklift training
“Hello… Mr. George…”
Do these machines display the weight of what it's lifting?
None of the forklifts I operated told you the weight of the load. However there's a safety sticker that tells you load capacities at height, and the shipping documents should have clued the operator in to how much it weighed. A little grey matter effort could've put two and two together, but this guy's attitude was clearly, "Fuck it. It'll probably be fine."
He also should have put his forks all the way into the load instead of hanging it off the end of the forks and shifting the center of gravity.
Some have built in scales on the forks, but it was just used to quickly weigh a pallet and not really meant for loading
Not overweight glass, but under trained forklift driver. There's a couple osha things going on here. And a procedure/common sense failure also. Dude ain't getting on a forklift truck on my shift again.
🎶Walking on, walking on, walking on broken glass
Something something about center of gravity
At least his airway was protected from glass shards.
I know someone who used to work at a glassworks that made shop windows, and had to move a bunch of these things around using a forklift with special air-powered suckers on them, to hold them in place.
If the suckers failed (as was sometimes the case) the official company instruction to the forklift driver was very simple…
“RUN…!!”
I have worked with this. We had them delivered with a top and bottom of wood, then a lot of steel bands securing it like a frame, and the crane operator lifted these 21m² big sheets, stacked about 20 cm thick (different number of "sheets" depending on the thickness of the glass), so they were lifted to a special stack before removing the tops and bottom. Very secure and no risk of errors like this.
IF we got the small sheets delivered, they'd be securely tied to a steel frame that could be lifted off with a forklift, but it was a heavy mofu that wouldn't tip forward unless they really tried, I guess. Nobody did this, though.
Ya, that sucks.
"An' how the hell did you do that?"
FunkFPV incoming
Atleast now it’s easier to carry.
It was the torque, not the weight.
Now take 3 deep breaths
In this situations we germans like to say "schade, schade, Marmelade" which loosely translates to "shame, shame, marmalade" to piss off everyone even more. We dont have much fun here in germany
The wrapping for that glass was a joke
Not forklift certified!!!!
Stay in your safe little safety cage.
Hey bud, question. How did you undo your lap belt so fast?
Nice.
It was overweight for only a couple of seconds.
Mic drop and walk away...
Seems like homie was definitely not forklift certified
I’m concerned about the amount of glass dust he may have gotten in his eyes
this is why there are licences to operate a forklift.
That is going to be a HUGE pane to clean up.
Dude, fack the music, I want to hear the boom!
How many PC glass cases is that equal to?
Truck’s unloaded boss!
Atleast the problem was solved quickly. The glass didnt stay heavy for long
Was that glass dust????!!???
NOW HIRING!
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This load is too heavy. Let me break that down for you.
He needs a lot of superglue now.
How it feels to chew 5 gum
Always tilt all the way back, slowly come down, THEN you can move.
I don’t understand why there isn’t an auto stop that detects the weight overload and won’t let the object extend past a certain point. With all the stupid safety crap we have on cars now I would think forklift manufactures would have made a device like this standard for the past 2 decades.
At least he had a mask on!
Lego forklift for the win—overweight glass? no problem!
haha, math skills on point—addition and subtraction for the win!
Payroll deduct.
If only there where weight restrictions written for someone so they could avoid these things.
Probably lied on his resume
NO SAFETY GLASSES AT A GLASS FACTORY!!????? OSHA can shut the whole place down.
I worked at a Safelite warehouse in the early 2000's and we never wore safety glasses. Granted auto glass is all either tempered or safety glass so there wasn't too much risk from things breaking.
Oh man, that's one heavy delivery—hope the forklift's got good insurance!
That forklift had a roll cage but not protective screen. Not standard, but if you’re lifting major glass… cmon