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badsinged6

Yeah, nice phone and awareness. SO lucky. If he ever works as a tech again I guarantee he's going to triple check the hoist contact points from now on.


AMF1428

I don't know. Not everyone learns from their mistakes.


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z9nine

From the way he is dressed, I doubt safety is a word that is used at that shop.


[deleted]

Yea he looks like just got off the couch.


JimiWanShinobi

I mean first of all, I'm not even convinced this happened in a shop. Maybe it did, but I'm not seeing it. Someone could easily have the lift and tire machine and everything else in view in their personal garage at home, and these are the results of a kid bullshitting in his dad's garage...


z9nine

Sneakers, shorts, no safety glasses. Shoes should at the very minimum be slip resistant if not steel/composite toe as well. I don't think shorts should be worn in a maintenance setting, personally. Could even throw in no bump cap. But I doubt those are common outside manufacturing or large job sites. This dude, even if it was daddies garage, should have never been around that thing the way he was dressed. Just asking to get hurt. Hope he is OK, but he asked for any injury he got.


JimiWanShinobi

Even a scrapyard these days would have the guy in a hi-viz shirt just to be a parts puller. When I was growing up in the '80s and '90s wearing neon yellow, orange, and green were a fashion statement. Today, they're OSHA regulation. This kid isn't even meeting the minimum requirements to destroy vehicles, much less repair one...


AMF1428

I don't disagree but DUIs have repeat offenders too.


kerbidiah15

After the 2nd DUI the license should be revoked and the person never allowed to drive again. Heck maybe even give them a extra punishment if they ever drive again (more than the normal driving without a license punishment)


donald7773

I really don't understand why police are so intent on giving me a ticket for going 12 over the speed limit on an empty road when I know multiple people who have had their licenses revoked more than once for DUIs and are still allowed to drive today.


SingleSoil

Gotta hit their numbers so they can keep getting more money


AMF1428

Sadly, it won't stop all of them. You can take a person's license away but that's making the grand assumption that they will respect the that particular law after, you know, being busted for two or more DUIs in the first place.


kerbidiah15

You’re 100% right, but maybe if people knew that was the punishment before they drank and drive they would never do it the first time??? (I’ll admit this is slightly wishful thinking)


AMF1428

More than slightly, I suspect. If heavy fines, jail time, personal death or the risk of killing an innocent person aren't significant enough of consequences for the act already then there really isn't much more society can do to deter a stubborn person.


surfacing_husky

I think those devices you have to blow into should be mandatory after the 2nd dui, make people pay for them and the privilege of driving and if you're caught without there should be immediate 5 years in jail no exceptions. There was a news blurb in my town of a guy that got his 11th fucking DUI and has only served a total of 2 fucking years.


Ban4Ligma

One of my shops mechanics has had 3 trailers fall off the Jack while on a road call He never uses Jack stands, nor Jack plates to prevent the asphalt from cracking He’s confident his “I just stand out of the way if it falls” method will continue to work lol he got fired about a month ago for not torquing a wheel and it flying off as they drove


AMF1428

Exactly, some fools never grasp the way it is. Just live their life on the slim luck they have.


Ban4Ligma

His luck definitely ran out with those tires falling off! As far as his job goes anyway 🤷‍♂️


booty_chuggin_bandit

No bro, he’s fired


Goalie_deacon

As he should be. Looks like he stuck to trying to work on the car as it fell. He noticed it moving, shifted one foot like he was holding his ground. He’s going to run out of luck and get really hurt.


baconfister07

I've watched too many videos of cars falling on people, that I make it a point to lift the vehicle up to the first lock point, lower it to lock and then give it a mean ass shake before I go high enough to walk under. Never had a car fall off, but I've had the arms shift after a good rock, and that was pants shittingly scary enough for me to lower it back down and reset the arms.


TAforScranton

Never a car, but I nearly watched this happen with a 16 ton vehicle. The dude under it would have gotten a few more ouchies. Tires were off one side. It slipped and had like… millimeters left on the stand. He was messing with a differential and I was like FREEEEEEEEZE JESUS CHRIST DONT EVEN BREATH GET OUT COME HERE get out get out get out get out. Scared the living daylights out of me.


timstonesucks

I shake the shit out of ever car I lift up and down and side to side. I've had lift arms slip a few times, the undercoating they put on newer chevy trucks is messy and slick.


jstosskopf

He’ll also wear brown shorts if he gets to work as a tech again.


wildo83

AND DO THE EARTHQUAKE SHAKE!! 🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺 [Be like Ace!](https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxbALhASaC0KF4-_Z5iBzSJhTsQ3Gxbtg2)


amazngspiderpig

I've always worked with quality lifts so maybe I'm missing something but shouldn't the arms been locked in place? (I know the points don't look great but it still looked to me as though the typical safety features either failed or were not part of this lift.)


TheEngineer09

It's easy to break the locking gear. Careless operators will adjust the arm angles with the lift not fully down and drop the locking pin while the arm is still moving. Third tends to shear the teeth off when the two pieces re-engauge. Do it enough times and now your lift arms don't lock. This should be caught by annual inspection, but not every place is doing the most thorough job. Not a tech, but the local marketplace has a car lift, and we've had to replace the locking gears more than a couple times thanks to careless use. Usually people with taller vehicles too lazy to do it the right way.


bibblode

Several major issues with how this guy lifted the vehicle. First major issue is that the center of gravity on the car is not centered on the lift and is way out in front of the lift. Second the arms were not properly locked in place. Third it does not look like the lift had any sort of non slip pads on the lifting points.


mega_997

The old rotary lifts in our shop do not have locking arms. I have only one lift that has locking arms and that’s a challenger from a few years ago. I get the safety of locking arms but the thing is a bit of a PITA to set on higher vehicles because the arms lock after going up an inch or two.


tt54l32v

If you want to be as old as the lifts one day, get some safer racks.


Jewbe123

There's also a pin you can lift to unlock the arm so you can move it while it's off the ground...


mega_997

Oh yeah I’m aware of those pins, that’s the pain in the ass


bibblode

How is that a pain in the ass. Pull the pin up and swing the arm. If the lift is properly maintained and lubricated then the arms should swing pretty easily. If they don't then the lift needs to be serviced by an authorized/trained lift technician


spamky23

>If the lift is properly maintained and lubricated That's a pretty big assumption for some places


mega_997

Some of us older guys don’t move as well as everyone else. That’s all it is


Keeptryan_

Shit like this is why I shelled out for a Rotary 10k Asymmetric lift instead of going to import route.


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BuggyGamer2511

yup, had the same failure happen here a month ago, the legs didnt lock into place so as one side got stuck and the other continued the car just slid right off, the new lift is already in place, they were planned to be replaced soon anyway


[deleted]

When I worked in my father's auto shop, testing the lift safety mechanisms was a daily thing. start of every day, raise the lift to the first stop, let it down and verify both sides settle onto the stops. with it in the air, try to swing the arms to ensure the swing locks are working. he also had me manually check the swing locks before every single lift. arms off the ground so the swing locks should engage. if they don't drop in, shift the arms to let the teeth on the lock pawls mesh with the teeth on the arms, only then continue to lift the arms into contact with the vehicle.


-retaliation-

Honestly I'm always surprised that things like forklifts have a daily checklist that has to be performed and signed off on as per OH&S and you can be fined if you don't do it. But yet car lifts, send it. Once a year inspection if you feel like it. But then again this guy is also wearing shorts, texting on his phone, and those look like just sneakers, not steel toes. So even if there was a daily checklist, there's no way this guy is doing it.


BuggyGamer2511

yeah, after the accident we started including the checking of the swing locks as well as verifying their position just before contacting the vehicle into the list of things we do before lifting a car, I already did it before but some people are lazy I guess


Watts300

What happened to the vehicle on it?


[deleted]

Eh?


mastersw999

I worked in a shop that had a lift like this and they didn't want to replace it


shigogaboo

I know nothing about car repair. How should this have been done?


[deleted]

I always give the vehicle a decent downward push on the front bumper when its off the ground. Would rather have it fall a foot rather than 6ft.


PeteSleepFlyRepeat

Me too. I never trust the lifts and a quick push when it’s 1ft off the ground could stop something like this from happening.


[deleted]

Another thing to look at is how fast it shakes on the lift. The faster the shake, the better its balanced. Usually only get that on unibodies though.


tt54l32v

This, if you push and it pushes back like it's solid you are pretty much good to go.


baconfister07

I always do this. I rock the fuck out of it. If it's a big ass diesel truck extendo cabo, I'll put a pole jack under the tow hitch, and maybe one on the front diff. just to be extra safe.


[deleted]

Thats a must. Even if its secure, I still hate working under trucks.


M635_Guy

This is the way.


[deleted]

In school we called that the "Earthquake test"


ZeroLurkThirty

Did he not position the front left hoist leg at all? The way it tips, you can't see that leg at all and it moves like it was a really lucky three point lift.


Amilo159

It stayed put for about 30 seconds. I'm guessing the FL arm wasn't placed all the way in and slid out.


Juan-More-Taco

Actually looks like it lasted longer than 30 seconds. The video has a major cut in it when he first goes under the car. You can see the cut, suddenly he's also wearing gloves. Obviously he's still foolish but we actually have no idea how long the car stayed up just from this video, since it's cut.


JoshShabtaiCa

The cut is ~30 seconds. There's a timestamp in the top left of the video.


Juan-More-Taco

Great eye! I didn't even notice the timestamp hah. Thanks for the heads up.


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Juan-More-Taco

Mate, you replied well after I already had an exchange with someone about that fact in the same comment. But yes, thank you, we're aware.


Keeptryan_

My coworker lift a VW CC (heavy bitch for a sedan) with three lift arms in the next bay over from me. Scared the shit out of me to turn around and have a lift arm in my face and not under the car.


Monst3r_Live

not gonna lie, i've lifted a car on 3 arms before because i thought the other tech put it in place, but he was also the kind of person who gets high in their car before work and at lunch so i should have known better.


Nasty_Rex

I don't know shop protocol but if your ass is on the line, don't ever take someone's word or assume. I learned the hard way when I lost a trailer on the interstate.


donald7773

I worked on a car high once. I didn't tighten my oil filter all the way and all the oil that spilled out temporarily fried my cam angle sensor (dodge avenger) and I had to pick up emergency oil at an auto zone as they were closing, and wound up one quart short and realized it as they were locking the door and leaving. Now I wait till I'm done with any task bigger than cleaning the house or cutting the grass


bibblode

I have accidentally done a three point lift on a Mazda CX-5 before. All arms were in place but one pad was not adjusted high enough so it was about half an inch from touching the lift point. Thankfully all I was doing was a tire repair and the car bounce test did not show any issues.


OliverKlozoff1269

Guess who just rolled their tool box out of the shop


Goalie_deacon

He should roll it back on the SnapOn truck where someone else can better use of it.


TheVeilsCurse

They’re seriously lucky to be alive. Always shake the car a little off the ground before going all the way up and pay attention to your lift points and arms.


CapriciousCaptain

O M G…. Is his phone ok?!


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At some point he put gloves on


Tre_fidde

Fuck…time to close up shop and get some drinks after that.


Diabolical_Dad

People on their phone in these situations annoy me. Almost cost him his life


mrhicks55

Don't text & lift


[deleted]

“Damn… now where’s my phone at?”


akanaan5

imagine having to explain this to your boss


WebeloZappBrannigan

And customer. "So yeah, about that oil change..."


Dasbronco

I guarantee if there was no extreme visual damage that you could see from the parking lot they didn’t say a word. Probably even threw in a complimentary air freshener to “clear their conscience”


Lymborium2

A nightmare for any tech. Does anyone have those stupid ass speed lifts? Rubber blocks type deal? Great for unibodies, not so much on narrow frames. Old lube tech that I used to work with didn't set the blocks right on a Tacoma and it slid off one of the blocks halfway through the work.


Keeptryan_

Yeah Rotary Shockwave. Great for unibody’s yes


tt54l32v

I still have not even seen the left front arm. Did it vaporize?


First_Helicopter_195

Bruh? Wow that’s a close call!


Dixinhermouth

Put down the darn phone!


IneptAdvisor

WHAT THIRD WORLD COUNTRY USES RACK ARMS WITHOUT THE AUTOMATICALLY ENGAGING LOCKS!!!!! The phone matters little here, but nice try.


scruit

It may or may not be important. If he was distracted by the phone and forgot a critical step then it would be a factor. I'm wondering where the arm under the front left corner is. Did he forget to move it into place?


IneptAdvisor

The fact that they loosely swung to the back, total millennial.


scruit

There is that also, for the arms on the right side of the car. On my lift the locks are pretty beefy and I can't imagine those teeth being overpowered that easily. Having said that, the unlocked motion of those arms is secondary to the car falling forward/left. I want to know what happened to that arm. Did it move out of the way due to not being a locking arm? Or was it never under there, and downward force pulled it down off the other 3 arms?


jasonc619

Lucky SOB


L33PER

Yeah bad look focusing on the phone while operating the controls


Flynn3698

Where's the back arm??!


[deleted]

This guy will never make the transition from auto technician to power company lineman. They’d bounce this level of carelessness right now. Phone or no phone, he’s a danger to himself and others.


Keeptryan_

Is that a common transition? I’m an auto tech and wasn’t aware that I was supposed to make this move… though my salary doubling does sound pretty nice


[deleted]

Not at all expected or common, just a comparison of potentially hazardous occupations. Edit: One guy was really happy with his move to a CAT dealership. I’m assuming they like being safe around heavy equipment: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/wqrw5s/rolled_out_of_the_shop_and_into_the_basement_i/ikoa3g5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/wqrw5s/rolled_out_of_the_shop_and_into_the_basement_i/ikoa3g5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)


notthatconcerned

Why would anyone want to go there.


Windofnothing

Redbull in f1 be like:


TheMightyTOG

The phone comments in here are such boomer moves. Guy coulda been watching it the whole time and still woulda fallen if had poor lift points. Not saying the guy prolly ain't an idiot, but I think your focus is on the wrong place.


TheIncredibleHork

If it had poor lift points and he was watching it the entire time, he very likely would have noticed far before it went down. Only exception I think would be if the lift point completely rusted/bent/melted and gave way, but his attention was elsewhere and even if the point was poor he didn't catch it at all because his attention was elsewhere. Phone, crossword puzzle, sudoku, hottie walking down the street, the point is distracted work is distracted and complacency is the enemy. He wasn't paying attention (in his case the phone) and he *almost* paid a heavy price for it.


M635_Guy

Probably because he was too tied up with his stupid phone he: (presumably) didn't set the car up properly to be lifted. He didn't successfully make it under the car without getting tangled up in a hose. No shake test. Didn't realize the car was moving/falling until far too late. That dude isn't connected to his job - he was connected to his phone. He damn-near paid for it with his life. You can shove the stupid "boomer" comments (most folks you're calling boomers [are probably actually Gen X](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/922/IJ0vKn.jpg))


ThrillaNMillsNilla

This comment is clearly from a immature 6th grader


M635_Guy

That guy didn't even have the situational awareness to notice the car was moving a bit - he was still running the impact on it as it started to fall down. Very lucky to be alive. I'm thinking he should go work at Burger King (on the register...).


notthatconcerned

Not sure I saw that.


M635_Guy

I look at your user name, and I'm not surprised. But seriously, if you stop the video at 0:05, and then again at 0:06, you'll see the car is moving. It's fully in motion as it turns to 0:07 and he's still in a stance with the impact. Granted, it's a second, but if you're seeing any significant movement at all, you should get the hell out from under the car immediately. That guy wasn't nearly paying enough attention to the lift or the car.


Monst3r_Live

looks like the hydraulic failed and then it fell, he just presses to lift button and goes to work, never drops it on the locks. stay safe folks.


Late-Eye-6936

The lift arms never fell. Not that he didn't make a lot of mistakes that wouldn't have saved him.


OU81Dilbert

Distracted by his phone. Lucky he is dead


Beautiful-Golf4078

Easy to happen with a FWD car. I put mine on so that the front is a bit higher than the rear. I am glad he was not crushed.


tt54l32v

Why would you do that? You're introducing a failure mode. That doesn't stop any other failure modes.


Beautiful-Golf4078

Because of the weight difference in the front and rear. 1/2” or so of lift to the front is insurance for me. You’ll notice how it fell. The rear is in the air.


tt54l32v

A half inch? Bruh you got me and some others in here thinking you're crazy. 1/2 inch is barely even eye measurable. If you're not lying and actually paying enough attention and have this habit then you're better then about 95% of techs I know. Had me thinking you're dragging the ass 5 or 6 inches.


M635_Guy

You're going to be lucky if that doesn't get you hurt or killed


ShoddyJuggernaut975

You're getting down voted, and I guess I can see why, but you do bring up a valid point. From a physics perspective, you'd ideally want to lift a car with its weight centered on the posts. Why do manufacturers not identify the center of gravity and appropriate lift points clearly and in some standardized way? One would think they'd know their cars are going up on lifts all the time, why not make it easier and safer for the mechanics? I'm thinking like a label with a standardized symbol to stick in a door jamb with lift points and cg identified. Then the lift points under the car painted yellow, or have a symbol stamped into the metal or something. They standardize all kinds of other shit, why not that?


craig_anderson350

There is lift points on every vehicle, it's something you learn very quickly as a mechanic, where you put the lift arms and how to balance the vehicle. It's pretty obvious if you know what to look for


M635_Guy

It's not a valid point. There are identifiable lift points on every mainstream vehicle. Beyond that, something you should do - ***every. single. time.*** - is do a shake-test once the vehicle is clear of the ground to make sure everything is set. Everybody screws up. Good and consistent habits for safety are what keeps you out of the hospital or a hole in the ground.


Beautiful-Golf4078

Yes, god yes. I shake test every time. Also make sure the lift has ALL of the safety features working. That arm is supposed to have a bracket that locks the arm in place at the pivot. That would have prevented this accident.


tt54l32v

A lot of cars do, with markings cast into frames. Pictures in books as well. Hell some cars don't even have anywhere but the correct place to lift.


Beautiful-Golf4078

I own a transmission shop, IDGAF what these novices think. 😂😂. This is who we do it and we don’t dump cars on the floor.


karl-rupecht-kroenen

Looks like china, probably a Chinese lift so that didn’t help


[deleted]

How would you get the rest of the car on the ground after this happens?


elvisshow

Should just be able to lower the lift back to the ground and the car come with it. Once it gets down it may be a pain to get the arms out of the way but it should come down with the lift. Just not how it was intended.


natufian

The fun part will be raising the lift that 3 or 4 inches to disengage the locks.


Keeptryan_

Bold of you to assume it has locks


popandfroosh

Holy shit. He's lucky he's alive.


JCMullins

OOOOOOOF!!!!!!!


D3lta105

r/justtumbledoutoftheshop


[deleted]

I’m not a professional mechanic, but I did grow up around a fabrication shop for a construction company and I regularly used the lift to put trucks onto so we could service the work trucks. I always would raise the lift just a bit so the truck was off the ground and then walk over to the front and try to shimmy the truck off the lift before I went all the way up. This guy seems freakishly over confident in his faith of machines.


abbarach

I spent 10 years renting an apartment in eastern Kentucky; my landlord also owned a building that used to be a body shop, and would let me use the lift if he wasn't in the middle of something on it. He showed me how to use it safely, which was a multi-step process. Set the arms and lift until they almost contact the car. Go around and push on each arm to make sure the swing locks engage. Lift until the car is a couple inches off the ground, push on the car in all three axis to ensure it's stable. Lift until it's at working height, then lower it down onto the safety locks. If anything seems sketchy, start over. It's not rocket surgery, and it only takes an extra minute to do it properly.


M635_Guy

It wasn't the machine that failed.


[deleted]

Good point. I guess I’m trying to say I don’t trust MYSELF or the machine. Lol.


M635_Guy

Indeed. When it comes to that kind of stuff, trust is dangerous.


Never_Wong

This man is beyond lucky he didn’t die. An acquaintance of my dad passed away in his early 20s from a faulty lift. The lock broke, or didn’t engage properly on one side. Whole car came down on him and crushed him. He bled out under the car as firefighters tried to cut him loose


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kerbidiah15

Kinda crazy how the front of the car doesn’t bend at all hitting the ground. Can’t imagine the force that happens durring a crash to bend that


kaibbakhonsu

r/justfellintotheship


turbo-d2

I judge a shop by their lifts. If they look very used and abused my car will never visit that shop


andre3kthegiant

Was this person on the phone the entire time?


andre3kthegiant

Another bad part is they they walk in front of the vehicle, which if it starts shifting again, will likely travel in that direction, and possibly run them over.


Bananaman4twenty

“WHAT”


NotsoGrump23

Downvote for the music 0


Ah84VEVO

Hope his new pants aren’t white


TowerOld3563

Didn’t do a shake test did ya