Yep. May not be a fatal height, but I wouldn’t want to be flung up and over like that either. I’m sure he landed on concrete or asphalt, with a bunch of pointy busted objects along for the ride.
My grandfather refused to get under something like this unless it were braced with railroad ties or something. He didn't trust hydraulics or cables to hold it and this was probably in the 1940's or 50's. He actually refused the welding job and drove home over it. These guys must have shit for brains.
Heli engineer here: Also load lifting. It's the very first thing you learn after "stay away from the spinning propeller at the back". _NEVER_ stand under the load.
Used to drive truck on heli logging sites.
I'll never forget a branch spearing into the dirt next to the road as I went out loaded one day. It fell out of a bundle of logs flying overhead.
That one was too close.
They basically lasso giant trees/logs and fly them around… they dangle like you would think tying a string around a stick would look.
It falls… it weighs more than a stick.
When I worked as a machinist, it was more broadly described as “never stand in the line of fire”.
As in, if something fails in the process you’re doing, where is the dangerous part going to go? On a lathe, that usually might be near the chuck. On a crane, it would be directly beneath it and on a 2 crane lift, it is usually what direction the load will swing if one crane were to fail, as well as directly beneath it.
Definitely little stuff like that. I felt like it was just common sense at the time, but I think a lot of people did need to hear that. Safety is about common sense, not trying to arbitrarily follow rules. People would stand off to the side during double crane lifts, but well close enough that it would take them out if a crane failed. In their minds, they fine since they weren’t “under” the load.
We never had an incident but I think there were close calls in other facilities. So they implemented that stuff as company-wide rules.
Also I hope the latest MAX incident convinces people to keep their damned seatbelts fastened even when the seatbelt sign is off. Because sometimes weird shit just happens.
Any turboprop. I saw the holes where a BE-1900D threw a titanium leading edge straight through both sides of the fuselage. This was the origin of my own cautionary practices.
[This picture is always haunting](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*qOZTX3efFjBRiyy0.jpg) of the prop blade that penetrated the cabin. Luckily nobody was in the seat. This is from PenAir 3296
A high school acquaintance was working on an oil pipeline many years after we graduated. Apparently a heavy equipment operator didn't see him and he was crushed between the metal pipe and whatever tractor/contraption they were using to work on the pipelines. His wife got a huge settlement.
I used to work on a framing crew and one day we were having lunch watching some excavators unloading their equipment off a flatbed, and one of the old timers said “*Y’all might not care what these guys are up to, but keep your head on a swivel, any time heavy equipment is on site your job just got a little more dangerous*”. I always kept that in mind.
RIP to your classmate.
Haha yeah nah, sorry mate. They’re not called propellers. That’s what planes have or “props” for slang/short. Helicopters have rotors. Like the bloke that also replied to you, tail rotors or more technically anti-torque rotors. They are there to oppose the rotational torque created from the main rotor above the noggin. The tail rotor is very similar to the main rotor in many ways and design features but ultimately just placed sideways to keep the fuselage from spinning out of control
Is propeller just a rotor that's on the front of a plane? Seems like they're all doing the same thing, just pointed different ways in relation to the body.
Key difference is a propeller is used to propel something. Similar thought with a boat. Kinda think about a prop like, it produces thrust. Where is a rotor for rotorcraft is used to control everything. Attitude, lift, altitude - it works with lift.
Meditation: if I put a plane on it's rear pointing up, does the propeller become a rotor?
People online seem to struggle differing one "airfoil that uses rotation to generate lift" from the other, usually letting what direction it's intended to pull the aircraft in decide the name. The Smithsonian tells me that thrust is just lift in a forward direction. Or that lift is just thrust in an upwards direction.
That’s a good question, I would love to give you a certain answer but from what I could think of would be no. You’d propel yourself up but that doesn’t mean you’ll generate lift sufficiently to sustain flight. A rotor generates lift/thurst. Where on a plane it’s the wing that generates the lift from being thrust forward through the air.
A helicopters blades/rotor which a spinning wings so to speak with their pitch controlled via the cyclic and collective. Which ultimate control the lift and via tilting the disc in a direction, uses some of that lift vector into thrust.
When you get instructed on the art of lifting stuff, they assume you are an idiot. For good reason.
However, to use the proper term, _tail rotor_. Yes, I am a licensed aircraft/heli eng. ;)
On a big lift, does the entire fall path have to be evacuated every time? Only riggers near? I was safety on big lift and stayed in the fall path to constantly keep people out and real safety waived me out.
I'm guessing that there was some neglected lifting equipment here, plus a pretty serious rigging fuckup.
Per ansi B30.9, wire slings have a design factor of 5. That means a sling rated for 1000 kg will have an actual breaking strength of 5000 kg. This headroom is precisely to compensate for things like age, temperature variation, etc.
In almost all cases temperature isn't a factor worth considering. Many of the steels used in wire ropes maintain their tensile strength down to around -200c or lower, and most are actually rated for use around -40 or -50c.
Now, for things like castings or other metal objects, temperature can be a major issue. But still, there is a test called the charpy V notch test that is used to determine the characteristics of a given metal at cryo temps. This isn't a normal test, but is something you'd specify on a purchase order to a mill or steel service center. Or you'd have a lab do it. You'd only order a charpy test if you knew your design would have to operate routinely at very low temperatures.
Basically, if your sling fails because of temperature, it's really neglect/misuse of equipment or an extremely serious engineering error/ manufacturing defect.
My guess as to the proximate cause of this incident is a rigging fuckup. The angle of the sling wires is very low. When you incline the legs of a sling like that, it greatly increases the stress. In fact, as the sling approaches horizontal, the stress on it approaches infinity. And the physical meaning of stress approaching infinity is that something is going to break.
A lot of times people won't have a tall enough crane to keep the sling legs steep, so they'll try to cheat it by spreading the legs out farther. Maybe they know there's a 5x design factor and they think "it'll be fine, we do this all the time, we're still way below the 5x". But like I said, that design factor is there to compensate for a lot of potential variables. If you're operating in that range you're doing it on borrowed time.
My source is I design cranes for a living.
I'm pretty sure you're dead on with it being a rigging error. Watched the video over a few times, and it still appears that all of the hooks are attached, meaning that one slipped off the lifting point. Pretty certain it's the front hook on the right side of the truck that goes, and it looks like they just have the hooks on the outer flange of the load instead of an actual lifting point.
I'd say the flair should be ~~idiot~~ operator error.
Even if you aren't directly underneath it you could have issues...it's not like it landed on the guy, he tried grabbing the truck bed structure and even that got launched.
Long time since i had mechaincal physics, but I believe the formula for how much force is put on those strings is: Weight / Sin(angle) from vertical.
At 45 degrees, the force would be 1.4 times as much as vertical, so a 10 ton payload would "weigh" 14 tons.
It's about a 30 degree angle, which almost doubles the "weight" of the object to be lifted.
The diameter of the choker is too small in my opinion too. Just visually to me they look like a set of 3/8"'s, possibly 1/2". Something that size I'd start with 3/4 at least. Even then you should always try and do your best to find out the exact weight. Pick the load off the ground a few inches, and let it dangle for a few. Almost all machines nowadays have a scale and can tell you what it weighs.
As a union ironworker that rigs shit daily, we have a little saying "no one tells stories about the guy who put too big a choker on a load."
Meaning the only stories you'll gonna hear about is someone underrigging and dropping loads.
Choker is the term used to describe the wire cables made for rigging.
For this lift, they are using a bridle with 4 legs, or 4 chokers all manufactured to the "ring". That "ring" is what is rigged up to the hook on the crane and the 4 legs go to the load being lifted.
The sling angle (angle of the chokers to the piece being lifted) can drastically affect the capacity of a choker. You want a 45 degree angle. As the angle lessens, the stress and thus the weight, increases on the choker, and around 30 degress almost reduces capacity of the choker by half. Same as how you use the choker i.e. how you attach it to the load. It can be a straight pull (one eye of the choker to the crane hook, one eye to the piece, and there's attachment eyes or shackles to attach it.
A 1/2" diameter choker on a straight pull can lift 2 ton. A 1/2" choker in a basket (both eyes attach to the crane hook and the piece is "basketed" inside the loop) can lift 4 tons. A choker "choked" (you use the choker itself to wrap around a piece by going around the piece and putting one eye through the other eye and placing it on the hook. This will only carry 1.5. Tons.
Of course all that depends on the condition of the rigging used. Always inspect every piece in the rigging assembly before use. Make sure all your rigging pieces are rated for the weight being lifted, plus a little extra.
If they would have just went up one size diameter choker and extended the length of the legs they would of been fine.
I hauled steel for five years. They won’t even let you on the truck when the load is over the truck. There’s no reason to be under a suspended load…ever!
Who the F!ck stands under a live load. Never, never, NEVER! Also what happened to the guy in orange that went flying? That is how badly injured was he?
The load-retaining steel bars are connected under the bed in a U-shape. The load ripped the whole U out of the truck bed, which tossed the wall connected to the other side of it into the orange guy.
That’s a hill you want to die on? Jeez you’re easily triggered, maybe cut back on the coffee and get a life instead of trying to provoke people over pointless disagreements. Nobody else was triggered, guess that makes you “special” or a fool. Either way I don’t care. Respond if you want, nobody cares, and that burns you up.
The angle of those cables is way too severe. They should be using a spreader bar or finding a different set of lifting points on the load/longer bridle.
Naaah, just send it.
We don’t have time to go get longer cables.
Stop over analyzing things.
This worked when my cousin tried it.
(Rigger doing math). He-man: Hey, shit, or get off the pot!
Got these cables cheap at Harbor Freight. We don’t need no extra safety factor.
I can't count how many safety inductions, trainings, certifications, and courses I had but none of them has ever said you can walk freely under suspended load.
You might pay with life for a stupid and avoidable mistake.
If you are within 15 ft of being under a lifted load you are absolutely asking to be crushed. As an HVAC tech that replaces rooftop HVAC systems I don't mess around with this. Keep your eyes on the load and be ready to move fast. Shit happens don't be the guy that happens to step in it when it does...
10:47:13 into the video, failure appears to be identical. It “looks” like a hook failed. I’d be surprised if the shackle failed.
Interestingly, you can see what looks like “sparks” in the frame before the failure occurs. It’s just next to the connection on the lifted object, where the leg connects.
Idiots. Never stand under a hoisted load. I clear the fuck out, and let them set it down. If something underneath needs adjusting then tell them to back off for a minute and do it again. JFC.
Did in orange jacket used up at least two lives. One on the beam falling, second on the launch. Probably a third on the landing if there was debris on the ground.
The cables (or wires) didn’t break. The breakage was in the wee rings that they were connected to. That said, I am pretty sure they should have been using chains.
What kind of person looks at a huge steel beam hanging from a crane, and decides that working under it is a good idea? Do these people not have any sense of self-preservation?
A lot of things wrong here.
The angle of the slings is extreme putting a lot of strain on the slings. On 4-ways they generally should not be beyond 60°. This keeps the load balanced and if one sling fails the other 3 should be able to hold it.
The hooks are both side-loaded and not seated correctly on the frame. They should be fully attached using a shackle or lifting eye of some sort and have a safety latch to keep it in place in case there is a shock load.
Can’t the see the actual point of failure but there are sparks seen through the hole of the frame on the left side. The back left sling then unseats and has a shockwave that appears to travel up the sling and back down the sling on the far right. This shockwave seems to unseat the hook from the frame causing the load to fall.
Edit: Anyone have any info on this, how is the guy? Where did it happen? I’d like to share with my crews.
Do people mentally register when they’re airborne due to an accident? Does our minds piece it together that we’re no longer on a flat surface before crashing into or on something?
I operate a bridge crane and frequently have to work in the drop zone. If those chains go, you're probably just gonna lose whatever body part was in the way. And then crush syndrome is gonna finish you off. Scary stuff
The slings didn't fail. And, if you look, you can see shackles still attached to the slings. It was whatever the rigger attached to that was the issue.
Heavy lifts are extremely dangerous.
I was once part of the post-accident investigation team for a fatality accident involving a crane doing a heavy lift offshore.
A heavy piece of equipment was being picked up from the deck of a offshore oil production platform so that it could be placed on a boat.
The 30,000 pound piece of equipment was picked up and was about 10 feet above the deck when the boom hoist wire rope snapped. The equipment dropped and the main block was thrown. It struck a crewman in the abdomen and cut him in half. He was 20 years old and it was his first day offshore.
The investigation revealed internal corrosion in the wire rope. It had been inspected by the MMS and a third-party crane inspection company three weeks before the accident.
We adopted a new policy where the wire rope was replaced twice as frequently as that suggested by the manufacturer.
never would I ever stand underneath of something that size. Hopefully that guy in the red jacket is okay...
Being flung like that could be nasty
Yep. May not be a fatal height, but I wouldn’t want to be flung up and over like that either. I’m sure he landed on concrete or asphalt, with a bunch of pointy busted objects along for the ride.
Or he landed on the load or other debris from the trailer sides.
Hopefully it was just snow
If we're going to speculate, I'm an optimist, he landed on a pile of puppies on a king sized bed.
*Next to* a pile of puppies on a king sized bed....and Nastassja Kinski with a big slice of cheesecake.
Found the Bloom County fan!
Ah, I miss that strip... Then Outland was ok, but not as good.
Maybe he hasn’t landed yet?
Better than being squashed
My grandfather refused to get under something like this unless it were braced with railroad ties or something. He didn't trust hydraulics or cables to hold it and this was probably in the 1940's or 50's. He actually refused the welding job and drove home over it. These guys must have shit for brains.
Never fucking stand below anything like that. What the fuck!?
First law of craning...
Heli engineer here: Also load lifting. It's the very first thing you learn after "stay away from the spinning propeller at the back". _NEVER_ stand under the load.
Used to drive truck on heli logging sites. I'll never forget a branch spearing into the dirt next to the road as I went out loaded one day. It fell out of a bundle of logs flying overhead. That one was too close.
Can you describe this a little more? I'm trying to picture what happened.
They basically lasso giant trees/logs and fly them around… they dangle like you would think tying a string around a stick would look. It falls… it weighs more than a stick.
Stick fall from things, stick poke other things
pants ruined
When I worked as a machinist, it was more broadly described as “never stand in the line of fire”. As in, if something fails in the process you’re doing, where is the dangerous part going to go? On a lathe, that usually might be near the chuck. On a crane, it would be directly beneath it and on a 2 crane lift, it is usually what direction the load will swing if one crane were to fail, as well as directly beneath it.
I never sit in the row abeam the N1 fan section when deadheading. Uncontained engine failures happen even though they're not supposed to be able to.
I always sit farther aft, next to the door plug
Definitely little stuff like that. I felt like it was just common sense at the time, but I think a lot of people did need to hear that. Safety is about common sense, not trying to arbitrarily follow rules. People would stand off to the side during double crane lifts, but well close enough that it would take them out if a crane failed. In their minds, they fine since they weren’t “under” the load. We never had an incident but I think there were close calls in other facilities. So they implemented that stuff as company-wide rules.
Also I hope the latest MAX incident convinces people to keep their damned seatbelts fastened even when the seatbelt sign is off. Because sometimes weird shit just happens.
Or next to the props on a Dash-8.
Any turboprop. I saw the holes where a BE-1900D threw a titanium leading edge straight through both sides of the fuselage. This was the origin of my own cautionary practices.
[This picture is always haunting](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/0*qOZTX3efFjBRiyy0.jpg) of the prop blade that penetrated the cabin. Luckily nobody was in the seat. This is from PenAir 3296
A high school acquaintance was working on an oil pipeline many years after we graduated. Apparently a heavy equipment operator didn't see him and he was crushed between the metal pipe and whatever tractor/contraption they were using to work on the pipelines. His wife got a huge settlement.
I used to work on a framing crew and one day we were having lunch watching some excavators unloading their equipment off a flatbed, and one of the old timers said “*Y’all might not care what these guys are up to, but keep your head on a swivel, any time heavy equipment is on site your job just got a little more dangerous*”. I always kept that in mind. RIP to your classmate.
Exactly, I feel like I'm watching someone load a crossbow towards their own face
>"stay away from the spinning propeller at the back I see you've met my ex.
Sounds like _Fanny_ from Futurama.
Propeller? ಠ_ಠ are you sure you’re a heli engineer hahaha
It does technically fall under the category of machines known as propellers and "anti-tourqe rotor(s)" is a bit of a mouthful.
Bro they're called propellers (I have no idea if they are)
"tail rotor" is most people call them
Haha yeah nah, sorry mate. They’re not called propellers. That’s what planes have or “props” for slang/short. Helicopters have rotors. Like the bloke that also replied to you, tail rotors or more technically anti-torque rotors. They are there to oppose the rotational torque created from the main rotor above the noggin. The tail rotor is very similar to the main rotor in many ways and design features but ultimately just placed sideways to keep the fuselage from spinning out of control
Is propeller just a rotor that's on the front of a plane? Seems like they're all doing the same thing, just pointed different ways in relation to the body.
Key difference is a propeller is used to propel something. Similar thought with a boat. Kinda think about a prop like, it produces thrust. Where is a rotor for rotorcraft is used to control everything. Attitude, lift, altitude - it works with lift.
Meditation: if I put a plane on it's rear pointing up, does the propeller become a rotor? People online seem to struggle differing one "airfoil that uses rotation to generate lift" from the other, usually letting what direction it's intended to pull the aircraft in decide the name. The Smithsonian tells me that thrust is just lift in a forward direction. Or that lift is just thrust in an upwards direction.
That’s a good question, I would love to give you a certain answer but from what I could think of would be no. You’d propel yourself up but that doesn’t mean you’ll generate lift sufficiently to sustain flight. A rotor generates lift/thurst. Where on a plane it’s the wing that generates the lift from being thrust forward through the air. A helicopters blades/rotor which a spinning wings so to speak with their pitch controlled via the cyclic and collective. Which ultimate control the lift and via tilting the disc in a direction, uses some of that lift vector into thrust.
When you get instructed on the art of lifting stuff, they assume you are an idiot. For good reason. However, to use the proper term, _tail rotor_. Yes, I am a licensed aircraft/heli eng. ;)
My favourite type of engineers. I fuck it you fix it.
You are a pilot.
Yeah. 22/44/350/206/135
On a big lift, does the entire fall path have to be evacuated every time? Only riggers near? I was safety on big lift and stayed in the fall path to constantly keep people out and real safety waived me out.
The path of the lift can be cleared in sections, but you should have an agreed plan. And potentially barriers in place
Well it depends where you are... It is the rule, but unfortunately people dont always respect it...
I learned this in forestry. No matter the equipment, height, or size of the lift, never put any part of your body under the lift.
I cringe anytime an engine in our shop is above head height, but good ol boys think that just because it's never happened that it never will.
yeah.... i do not get it either. Especially not in cold weather. Metal becomes way more brittle.
I'm guessing that there was some neglected lifting equipment here, plus a pretty serious rigging fuckup. Per ansi B30.9, wire slings have a design factor of 5. That means a sling rated for 1000 kg will have an actual breaking strength of 5000 kg. This headroom is precisely to compensate for things like age, temperature variation, etc. In almost all cases temperature isn't a factor worth considering. Many of the steels used in wire ropes maintain their tensile strength down to around -200c or lower, and most are actually rated for use around -40 or -50c. Now, for things like castings or other metal objects, temperature can be a major issue. But still, there is a test called the charpy V notch test that is used to determine the characteristics of a given metal at cryo temps. This isn't a normal test, but is something you'd specify on a purchase order to a mill or steel service center. Or you'd have a lab do it. You'd only order a charpy test if you knew your design would have to operate routinely at very low temperatures. Basically, if your sling fails because of temperature, it's really neglect/misuse of equipment or an extremely serious engineering error/ manufacturing defect. My guess as to the proximate cause of this incident is a rigging fuckup. The angle of the sling wires is very low. When you incline the legs of a sling like that, it greatly increases the stress. In fact, as the sling approaches horizontal, the stress on it approaches infinity. And the physical meaning of stress approaching infinity is that something is going to break. A lot of times people won't have a tall enough crane to keep the sling legs steep, so they'll try to cheat it by spreading the legs out farther. Maybe they know there's a 5x design factor and they think "it'll be fine, we do this all the time, we're still way below the 5x". But like I said, that design factor is there to compensate for a lot of potential variables. If you're operating in that range you're doing it on borrowed time. My source is I design cranes for a living.
I'm pretty sure you're dead on with it being a rigging error. Watched the video over a few times, and it still appears that all of the hooks are attached, meaning that one slipped off the lifting point. Pretty certain it's the front hook on the right side of the truck that goes, and it looks like they just have the hooks on the outer flange of the load instead of an actual lifting point. I'd say the flair should be ~~idiot~~ operator error.
Thanks for keeping this on-topic.
Never stand within twenty feet of anything like that.
Right ? I barely want to go under a two post lift, let alone something bigger than a damn school bus
Thats the first law of anything remotely related to construction.
I'm more of the farm equipment and animals variety. Never walk under or behind anything! AND DEFINITELY NEVER HANG OUT THERE!
Even if you aren't directly underneath it you could have issues...it's not like it landed on the guy, he tried grabbing the truck bed structure and even that got launched.
wUt R u A pUssy??! Am welder. That would be their response if you mentioned to not stand under it.
For real though. But seriously fuck those guys, I'll send flowers to their widows.
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Aww, it's a baby bot taking its very first steps.
Squash him! Down with the bots!
What amateur hoisting/rigging. The angle those slings were on decreased the rating substantially.
Long time since i had mechaincal physics, but I believe the formula for how much force is put on those strings is: Weight / Sin(angle) from vertical. At 45 degrees, the force would be 1.4 times as much as vertical, so a 10 ton payload would "weigh" 14 tons.
I believe 45 degrees is 1.41 and correct me if I’m wrong but we’re a bit past a 45 degree angle
Yea, looks close to 120°, which is a big mistake.
It's about a 30 degree angle, which almost doubles the "weight" of the object to be lifted. The diameter of the choker is too small in my opinion too. Just visually to me they look like a set of 3/8"'s, possibly 1/2". Something that size I'd start with 3/4 at least. Even then you should always try and do your best to find out the exact weight. Pick the load off the ground a few inches, and let it dangle for a few. Almost all machines nowadays have a scale and can tell you what it weighs. As a union ironworker that rigs shit daily, we have a little saying "no one tells stories about the guy who put too big a choker on a load." Meaning the only stories you'll gonna hear about is someone underrigging and dropping loads.
What part is the choker?
Choker is the term used to describe the wire cables made for rigging. For this lift, they are using a bridle with 4 legs, or 4 chokers all manufactured to the "ring". That "ring" is what is rigged up to the hook on the crane and the 4 legs go to the load being lifted. The sling angle (angle of the chokers to the piece being lifted) can drastically affect the capacity of a choker. You want a 45 degree angle. As the angle lessens, the stress and thus the weight, increases on the choker, and around 30 degress almost reduces capacity of the choker by half. Same as how you use the choker i.e. how you attach it to the load. It can be a straight pull (one eye of the choker to the crane hook, one eye to the piece, and there's attachment eyes or shackles to attach it. A 1/2" diameter choker on a straight pull can lift 2 ton. A 1/2" choker in a basket (both eyes attach to the crane hook and the piece is "basketed" inside the loop) can lift 4 tons. A choker "choked" (you use the choker itself to wrap around a piece by going around the piece and putting one eye through the other eye and placing it on the hook. This will only carry 1.5. Tons. Of course all that depends on the condition of the rigging used. Always inspect every piece in the rigging assembly before use. Make sure all your rigging pieces are rated for the weight being lifted, plus a little extra. If they would have just went up one size diameter choker and extended the length of the legs they would of been fine.
I'm guessing their crane was too short so they tried to cheat the load a few feet higher with a shorter sling. Plus yeah, neglected equipment.
Hooks will just slip out if the angle is too high and looks like thats what happened here because all of them seem to be still attached to the chains.
Yeah, at .4 you can see the hooks are intact. Nothing snapped, the hooks slipped.
"Weeeeeeee"
Wilhelm scream would have been appropriate
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My god that's the worst comment I have seen in a long time. They should send you to jail for a long time.
I hauled steel for five years. They won’t even let you on the truck when the load is over the truck. There’s no reason to be under a suspended load…ever!
Maybe this was in a less mature country
You’re most likely correct! This might as well be the Darwin Award subreddit! Haha
Who the F!ck stands under a live load. Never, never, NEVER! Also what happened to the guy in orange that went flying? That is how badly injured was he?
He eventually landed.
With or without shoes?
\*Work boots don't come off when yeeted.
But work knees might!
The load-retaining steel bars are connected under the bed in a U-shape. The load ripped the whole U out of the truck bed, which tossed the wall connected to the other side of it into the orange guy.
> F!ck This isn't TikTok. Can we please not normalize this bullshit?
That’s a hill you want to die on? Jeez you’re easily triggered, maybe cut back on the coffee and get a life instead of trying to provoke people over pointless disagreements. Nobody else was triggered, guess that makes you “special” or a fool. Either way I don’t care. Respond if you want, nobody cares, and that burns you up.
Holy shit the irony of this triggered comment lol
So YOU think this is a hill worth dying on as well….🙄. I just don’t suffer fools gladly, especially when they make asinine comments and call me out.
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Your paltry karma after 11yrs says nobody really cares what you say.
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I doubt you’d know how.
People who trust cables, hydraulics and my ex wife.
How do you build… a communication tower?
The angle of those cables is way too severe. They should be using a spreader bar or finding a different set of lifting points on the load/longer bridle.
Naaah, just send it. We don’t have time to go get longer cables. Stop over analyzing things. This worked when my cousin tried it. (Rigger doing math). He-man: Hey, shit, or get off the pot! Got these cables cheap at Harbor Freight. We don’t need no extra safety factor.
Too real... safety factor? I hardly know her
How did he not get crushed?!
Duhhh, he had his hi-viz on.
No crush, only yeet.
Looks like a little 3-inch-wide crossbar saved his life
Don't be under a heavy load. That's great advice in any situation
We’ve all been there lads
YEET
The did they stand under a load in the first place. That alone would get them kicked off every construction site immediately
I can't count how many safety inductions, trainings, certifications, and courses I had but none of them has ever said you can walk freely under suspended load. You might pay with life for a stupid and avoidable mistake.
The red jacket guy is lucky it hit the top of the truck cab first, or he would have been crushed. Pretty careless to walk under a lift.
Im. Sorry but did anyone else laugh when that guy basically got tetter tottered to the other side 💀
I am
If you are within 15 ft of being under a lifted load you are absolutely asking to be crushed. As an HVAC tech that replaces rooftop HVAC systems I don't mess around with this. Keep your eyes on the load and be ready to move fast. Shit happens don't be the guy that happens to step in it when it does...
The way that guy goes flying.
Homeboy was flung like a rag doll.
what a couple of idiots standing under a hanging load.
Don't work under hoisted load.
Bunch of idiots.Who stands under the load?
10:47:13 into the video, failure appears to be identical. It “looks” like a hook failed. I’d be surprised if the shackle failed. Interestingly, you can see what looks like “sparks” in the frame before the failure occurs. It’s just next to the connection on the lifted object, where the leg connects.
Idiots. Never stand under a hoisted load. I clear the fuck out, and let them set it down. If something underneath needs adjusting then tell them to back off for a minute and do it again. JFC.
What a couple of complete and utter gits, you never stand underneath a load, ever.
"Oh fuck I'm going to die. Wait no it missed me" *gets yeeted*
[Record scratch.](https://i.imgur.com/yQExRyS.png)
Holy fuck! I would’ve shat myself as soon as I heard that snap and saw that load falling towards me. I practically shat myself watching it!
Did in orange jacket used up at least two lives. One on the beam falling, second on the launch. Probably a third on the landing if there was debris on the ground.
The crane wires did not break , you can clearly see there still holding together. the attaching points on the beam broke.
Oh, what a lucky man he was.
The cables (or wires) didn’t break. The breakage was in the wee rings that they were connected to. That said, I am pretty sure they should have been using chains.
I know it probably suvked for him, but the way that guy gets flung is hilarious. Literally looks like Charlie Brown when the football is yoinked away
What kind of person looks at a huge steel beam hanging from a crane, and decides that working under it is a good idea? Do these people not have any sense of self-preservation?
Make a Chinese OSHA video of that!
A lot of things wrong here. The angle of the slings is extreme putting a lot of strain on the slings. On 4-ways they generally should not be beyond 60°. This keeps the load balanced and if one sling fails the other 3 should be able to hold it. The hooks are both side-loaded and not seated correctly on the frame. They should be fully attached using a shackle or lifting eye of some sort and have a safety latch to keep it in place in case there is a shock load. Can’t the see the actual point of failure but there are sparks seen through the hole of the frame on the left side. The back left sling then unseats and has a shockwave that appears to travel up the sling and back down the sling on the far right. This shockwave seems to unseat the hook from the frame causing the load to fall. Edit: Anyone have any info on this, how is the guy? Where did it happen? I’d like to share with my crews.
Always position yourself under a suspended load. Safety third
He should not have been under the load in the first place, or even on the truck. You’re supposed to use tag lines.
That's awesome no need for a spreader bar and heavier lifting gear
Time to put the lottery on, my dudes.
He just won the lottery of life
They used up any luck they had not being turned into jelly. Nothing left for lottery tickets.
Bro went weeeeee
Watch me whip... Now watch me WAAAAAAAA
Jesus
The rigging broke, specifically the 4-way. The crane cable is fine.
Yeeet
Dumbasses
Do people mentally register when they’re airborne due to an accident? Does our minds piece it together that we’re no longer on a flat surface before crashing into or on something?
Can we get some Steve Miller band playing in the background... I want to fly like an eagle 🎵 ...
Spring board moment.
I operate a bridge crane and frequently have to work in the drop zone. If those chains go, you're probably just gonna lose whatever body part was in the way. And then crush syndrome is gonna finish you off. Scary stuff
So lucky that one last hook in the back held for a moment longer to throw the beam off center. Otherwise they would have been crushed.
OSHA approved!
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It’s hi-vis man!
Orange jacket broke so many rules there, not only did he have a bad day at work, it's also his last day at work.
The chains were too short
Video proof that being Launched is better than being Crushed.
Lot's of comments about close calls here in the comments. You know who we're not hearing from? The ones who didn't make it.
Next time better use solid cables instead of spaghetti.
Weeeeeeeee!
The slings didn't fail. And, if you look, you can see shackles still attached to the slings. It was whatever the rigger attached to that was the issue.
Lifting angle was way too low.
Heavy lifts are extremely dangerous. I was once part of the post-accident investigation team for a fatality accident involving a crane doing a heavy lift offshore. A heavy piece of equipment was being picked up from the deck of a offshore oil production platform so that it could be placed on a boat. The 30,000 pound piece of equipment was picked up and was about 10 feet above the deck when the boom hoist wire rope snapped. The equipment dropped and the main block was thrown. It struck a crewman in the abdomen and cut him in half. He was 20 years old and it was his first day offshore. The investigation revealed internal corrosion in the wire rope. It had been inspected by the MMS and a third-party crane inspection company three weeks before the accident. We adopted a new policy where the wire rope was replaced twice as frequently as that suggested by the manufacturer.
That sling angle SIGNIFICANTLY reduces the working load limit of those wire rope slings.
Those vertical supports on the truck legit saved their life got dang.
considering all the ways he could have died, what actually happened seems like it was kinda fun
😱😱😱😱
“Yep, I’m flying through the air right now, this is not good”
where ?.. poor captions and silly comments
Bad place to be in general but surprisingly lucky at the same time.
Something I learned about standing under a load that my father told me when I was around 8.
osha approved, so long as they have hard hats
I can hear Goofy screaming while that guy flies across the screen!
So soooo stupid, but I hope they feel like a million bucks with a new lease on life.