forklift driver nudges racking, and well, you can guess the rest

https://www.valleynewslive.com...video-501008601.html

So the question becomes: Do you fire him immediately, or make him help clean it up and then fire him?

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
So the question becomes: Do you fire him immediately, or make him help clean it up and then fire him?

You dig him out, bring him back to life, make him clean it up THEN fire him.

Wow.....

There has to be something substandard with that shelving system or they are way overloaded, or both

Why exactly were the people of the Today show laughing at that? That could easily have been fatal for any or all of the three people shown in the video.

Was everyone OK?

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Originally posted by deepocean:
Why exactly were the people of the Today show laughing at that? That could easily have been fatal for any or all of the three people shown in the video.

Was everyone OK?

Because the Today show can’t imagine being a plebeian warehouse worker. This is comedy to them, not involving “real” people. That forklift driver does not live in Manhattan among the beautiful people. He’s probably a deplorable.

While I don’t disagree with any of the above, people have been watching, cursing, laughing, etc at videos like this forever. Shoot, there is a thread here where a guy complies video footage of car wrecks and sells them.

If nobody died or was seriously hurt, I too might chuckle a bit. It was a heck of a video.

I can fairly easily say, "Now that is a major aw shit!"

Sad for the driver but that whole situation was far too fragile. Real pallet racks would not have done that. Back in the 80s my little brother tipped a fork lift over with a load elevated. It knocked down row after row of crated casters. When it was over there were 10s of thousands of casters of all types and sizes spilled across the floor. It was a true disaster. It took two weeks for 10 employees to sort it all out.

Mistake number one never leave a pile in the middle of traffic lane. Who ever left that should be fired. Number two for that forklift operator to get out of bed that morning. That right there is one of those moments in your life you wish you could have back to make a different choice.

Ive crashed my fair share of forklifts, cherry pickers, and high reach equipment, that racking was fucked. Something isn't right there.

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Those people on the today show can fuck themselves. The facility engineer that approved those racks should be fired IMO. Those are some very wimpy racks for the job. People die from bad engineering more often than you would think.

I’ve worked driving forklifts before. Those racks were way overloaded, and should have absorbed a tap from the forklift without collapsing.

It sucks to be him, but that doesn’t warrant firing him in my opinion. He wasn’t being reckless or careless. Not that I saw anyway.

I'd bet that was in Asia somewhere.

I'm with the above posters that say that tap should not have caused the domino effect. Either everything was way overloaded or those were some POS shelves.

I’ve been the cause for several safety briefings at work before, but not like that.....

Damn IKEA shelving units. No one can figure out how they go together.

I side with the folks who are saying the racking was sub par or not installed correctly. At my current job we had some guy who lied about his forklift experience hit the shelving uprights several times and the racks did not do that.

That being said, I drove lift truck at a lumber mill for about 9 years. Everything from receiving and shipping to production floor operations.

Shit happens fast. The guy made a mistake. I did to.

Problem is, managers and hiring supervisors have no respect for most forklift positions with the common theme being "anyone can do it". I can't tell you how many assholes looked at us drivers and thought that the job was easy because we are sitting down. They pass the tests, get a position, then all hell breaks loose as they destroy property, freeze up right in the middle of the production plant because they are overwhelmed, or hit someone.

They put the cheapest turd on a 6000 pound sledge hammer and then are shocked when something like this happens.

I could tell some stories from back in the day. Even had a person killed at a different plant within the company during my driving days.

Shit, when I drove production on the cut line I had to drive a rotator so I could rotate bins of finger joint block into the re rip accumulator. A rotator allows you to rotate the forks 360 degrees.

I was one of the most popular fixers because someone would knock over a 20 foot stack, which would then be leaning against other stacks if they were lucky, and I could usually fix the stacks versus clearing out a whole production line to re stack all the wood.