How not to unload a truck

[480sparky40 39]

 

[pgriz]

I'd say that was a masterful face-plant. Notice the technique used to make sure the handle didn't remove the "jewels".

 

[Rick50]

Thats gotta hurt!

 

[Nevermore1]

Bet he was more than a little sore!

 

[bribrius]

umm. yeah.
a. he had the forks all the way in on a short pallet
b. he was't paying attention to where the end of the plate wasin accordance wih the jack wheels causing the wheels to go off the edge.
c. he had the jack too high, just enough to get it off the floor is safest (you can see that short pallet wobbling)
d. for some reason unknown to me, he didn't understand the weight of the product and somehow thought he could hang on to it and keep it from going over. NOT a smart choice. He should have just let go of the handles and watched it fall.
e. doing it to start with was a mistake. Looking at the facility that is a dockheight trailer he is loading it into. so he is pulling it from a truck in the building, and putting it on a truck which is backed up to a loading dock out side of the building. would have made more sense to back up this truck to the dock and not used the plate, unload from that dock height loading door into this dock height loading door, so he stayed on level ground all the time.Up and down this plate with cargo is less safe but mostly a lot less efficient as you are waiting for it to go up and down. You have a dock height truck do yourself and the company a favor and put it in a dockheight door for a easy roll off.

whatever supervisor told him to do this, should be fired. He should to for stupidity and unsafe work practice. Imagine if someone was standing just off this gate and this landed on them. so inefficient, poor training, poor directions from someone supervising this, and just down right unsafe practice.

 

[480sparky40 39]

......... so inefficient, poor training, poor directions from someone supervising this, and just down right unsafe practice.

 

[bribrius]

them boys just have the wrong type of forklifts. they need a high lift. They go up seven levels high. Teaming up two short masts doesn't really make a long mast...

 

[snerd]

LOL! You sound just like my soon-to-be-ex-wife!! Gotta analyze it to death!! Dude..... just enjoy it! It's FUNNY!!!

umm. yeah.
a. he had the forks all the way in on a short pallet
b. he was't paying attention to where the end of the plate wasin accordance wih the jack wheels causing the wheels to go off the edge.
c. he had the jack too high, just enough to get it off the floor is safest (you can see that short pallet wobbling)
d. for some reason unknown to me, he didn't understand the weight of the product and somehow thought he could hang on to it and keep it from going over. NOT a smart choice. He should have just let go of the handles and watched it fall.
e. doing it to start with was a mistake. Looking at the facility that is a dockheight trailer he is loading it into. so he is pulling it from a truck in the building, and putting it on a truck which is backed up to a loading dock out side of the building. would have made more sense to back up this truck to the dock and not used the plate, unload from that dock height loading door into this dock height loading door, so he stayed on level ground all the time.Up and down this plate with cargo is less safe but mostly a lot less efficient as you are waiting for it to go up and down. You have a dock height truck do yourself and the company a favor and put it in a dockheight door for a easy roll off.

whatever supervisor told him to do this, should be fired. He should to for stupidity and unsafe work practice. Imagine if someone was standing just off this gate and this landed on them. so inefficient, poor training, poor directions from someone supervising this, and just down right unsafe practice.

 

[bribrius]

you know while I would not advise the second pic. It is all about capacity there and the load weight rating on the lifts. I have picked up a forklift with a forklift and working for my uncle in tractor trailer leasing picked up a entire trailer with a forklift (had monster lift out there). The first pic is actually as dangerous in my mind for the jack operator plus if anyone was standing at the bottom of the gate they could be seriously hurt or killed. The problems in the second
a. it isn't smart to do anyway.
b. the people on it I don't think are harnessed so if they fall, splat
c. I am not sure what the weight capacity is on the lifts or the product. Product on the second lift is light no prob. if it is heavy they run the risk of the bottom lift toppling right. On the good side. they have the mast tilted all the way back on that bottom lift so it is pretty planted and probably isn't going anywhere.
d. clear osha violations there....
The first pic actually I thought was just as dangerous.

 

[Trever1t]

funny chit mang!

 

[bribrius]

LOL! You sound just like my soon-to-be-ex-wife!! Gotta analyze it to death!! Dude..... just enjoy it! It's FUNNY!!!

umm. yeah.
a. he had the forks all the way in on a short pallet
b. he was't paying attention to where the end of the plate wasin accordance wih the jack wheels causing the wheels to go off the edge.
c. he had the jack too high, just enough to get it off the floor is safest (you can see that short pallet wobbling)
d. for some reason unknown to me, he didn't understand the weight of the product and somehow thought he could hang on to it and keep it from going over. NOT a smart choice. He should have just let go of the handles and watched it fall.
e. doing it to start with was a mistake. Looking at the facility that is a dockheight trailer he is loading it into. so he is pulling it from a truck in the building, and putting it on a truck which is backed up to a loading dock out side of the building. would have made more sense to back up this truck to the dock and not used the plate, unload from that dock height loading door into this dock height loading door, so he stayed on level ground all the time.Up and down this plate with cargo is less safe but mostly a lot less efficient as you are waiting for it to go up and down. You have a dock height truck do yourself and the company a favor and put it in a dockheight door for a easy roll off.

whatever supervisor told him to do this, should be fired. He should to for stupidity and unsafe work practice. Imagine if someone was standing just off this gate and this landed on them. so inefficient, poor training, poor directions from someone supervising this, and just down right unsafe practice.

keep in mind I am on stroke from working in warehouse. was in warehouse operations before in the office , was a leadman, and was once part of the corporate safety committee about warehousing. I seen people do dumb chit all the time. "wtf do you think you are doing?"

 

[snerd]

Oh, I was more or less just razzing you.

 

[bribrius]

Oh, I was more or less just razzing you.

lol we had a guy go out the dock door once and straight down with a lift. There wasn't a trailer there apparently he didn't notice. I myself forgot to put the plate down once between a dock and a trailer, went flying to go in a trailer on a lift and because of that space between the building and trailer I ate the mast pretty much.

 

[snerd]

I had one azzhat pull his truck up a bit............ before I was completely off!! Did a half somersault (no tuck position) onto the gravel lot. We unloaded semis by hand with rollertrack.

 

[Roba]

Ouch, that would of smarted!