Having driven a forklift myself, I was expecting a stupider mistake. This was a spatial-judgment error. Epic fail anyway, but I've seen some pretty stupid things that involved more user error.
As some folks on the YouTube site pointed out, those shelves had to be pretty darn precarious to start with to have them all fail at once. I would guess they were never put up right.
Yeah, having all the shelves fall indicates much more fail than just the driver. However, forklifts don't exactly *give* when a force is applied. They make other things give.
The one summer I worked around them, someone poked 2 holes into a concrete overhang ~10 ft up. Driving with the forks up, big No-No. Another guy tipped the pallet too far forward and a half-ton roll of paper started slooowly rolling my way. Thankfully the wall stopped it.
eeeeeeps... that would be my luck on a forklift... so i'll refrain... although I'm hoping poor guy wasn't hurt and stupid people who put up the shelves learned their lesson and checked the other shelves like that... eeeps.
If you watch the video closely you can see the forklift driver bailing out and running like crazy moments after he hits the shelves, and long before the stuff lands on his cab. Thus the advantages of good reaction times!
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Date: 2009-02-24 09:43 pm (UTC)The one summer I worked around them, someone poked 2 holes into a concrete overhang ~10 ft up. Driving with the forks up, big No-No. Another guy tipped the pallet too far forward and a half-ton roll of paper started slooowly rolling my way. Thankfully the wall stopped it.
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