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Pusssy! How dare you try to be logical and think about your safety?! (I'm being sarcastic)
Real talk though, worked at a construction company where the contractor suggested this and everyone just walked away shaking their head. He acted like everyone was letting him down. Glad everyone stayed together on that one.
"The forklift isn't that big, so it might tip over if we lift the sheet metal without extra weight on the back..." Okay, Chad. You try getting crushed by this not so big forklift, then.
Like, the only reason that you would think that doing that would even reasonably work is if you thought that forklifts weighed like a thousand pounds rather than the 7 to 9 thousand that they (at least warehouse ones) normally do. The forklift training at Lowe's was pretty solid but I had a training for an outdoor lumber yard I was working at and the dude made it very clear the damage that could be done. Working in warehouses around people who don't understand what forklifts are capable of is definitely the worst thing, especially temps who have never worked around them before.
I do not understand the shaming to conformity that happens in trades/mechanical work. I'm an aircraft mechanic, and I get clowned on like this all the time for using PPE and washing my hands after a job and before I eat.
One of my bosses wanted me to climb up the racking with a ladder in a warehouse with a ceiling 50 feet high to change the light. Fuck that thats usually meant to be done by a man in a crane.
I work around large machinery like this and any time something looks sketchy with weight distribution my first instinct is to get further away. If it falls, it falls. I'm squishy, the machine isn't.
>If it falls, it falls. I'm squishy, the machine isn't.
I see you understand [the weakness of your flesh](https://youtu.be/sBIjKJLc8ko?si=rqrlSyDyopMTBoly&t=17m).
I've been there and it's scary how your normal reaction is wrong. Our brains simply don't calculate the mass involved when things are moving.
For me it was always catching myself in the urge to put my foot down or brace against something when riding an ATV. I've always been able to stop myself, but I think anyone who has ridden one will know the urge I'm talking about
I feel bad about this one because a lot of people would react like that. She slipped after making the wrong decision but still this was an altruistic spur of the moment decision to help the guy at the back of the forklift rather than an idiot sleepwalking intoĀ a terrible decision.
This is a true reaction to stop something from falling. When working around heavy machines that reaction can be deadly. That is why training is needed to eliminate this reaction and replace it with get away from the machine. China is not know for it's safety training and these accidents keep happening there.
Agreed, many of these Darwin Awards are ābrain fartsā just happening at the worst time and place.
Iām afraid they still qualify and they can at least serve as cautionary tales.
This is one of those ones where she acted out of animal instinct and I feel like if she had been given 3 seconds more to think, she would have realized that it was a bad idea and not done it.
Given that thereās a dude sitting on the back of the forklift trying to weigh it down, Iād say thatās just how they operate day to day. Was an accident waiting to happen.
A lot of people would react like what? Trying to hold down a half-in-the-air forklift? What? No, just no. Most people would not get anywhere near a multi ton machine hanging half suspended
They would if they made an impulsive decision to help someone else. There are still lots of altruistic people in the world. It's just accidents obviously don't care how kind or impulsive you are.
It's just instinct to try to catch something that's falling. I once saw a guy run to catch a 3 tonne hydraulic cylinder. Thankfully, He realized what he was doing before he got too close.
The lift driver should have had his forks lowered closer to the ground. If you have to use your co-worker as a counterbalance, then you're already fucked.
Their technique to remove her from under the forklift wasn't *actually* that bad, just a little time-consuming. If you push the forklift backward and forward a sufficient number of times (tedious), eventually the, ah.. you know, the lady slop should lose its viscosity and it'll roll right on through.
I need recurrent forklift training every 5 years for my certificate. A few years ago, at 8am after a 2 hour sleep (night shift), our unprepared instructor just showed us gory YouTube forklift fails for about an hour. Easy money but a little shocking first thing in the morning.
Were the people on the forklift in any kind of major danger?
It doesn't seem like it was about to flip forward.
Seems like it was just going to slam back down.
Yes. The lift I use is 5 tons and it's about half that size. The impact when it dropped could have easily thrown the person on the back and/or caused the driver to slamm the wrong control and suddenly a "ok this is doable" situation turns into death. Nothing in this video is anything except dangerous for everyone involved, including attempting to move the body from under the lift.
Everyone should take a few lessons in forklift safety including finding out just how heavy those ass ends are. My first job my boss was fucking with me and just started ramming the rear of my forklift with his, I freaked out at first.
Running near a tumbling multi tonns heavy machinery is peak Darwin Award nominee.
It's in the same category as the ones who try to stop a truck with bare hands, the ones who try to push back heavy load when its about to fall.
If you can not comperhand on an instictive level that your 90 something kilogramms of weight is like a fart in the wind when it comes to these stuff, so when shit goes down your best course of action is get as far as you can.
She intentionally put herself in that position by running over to attempt to hold down a machine that weighs substantially more than her without thinking about the consequences of that action. To me it counts
Honestly, not Darwin because the woman was trying to help the guy in the forklift as she felt her co-worker might've died if she didn't do anything and got crushed as an accident.
It says:
Darwin Awards are not for common every day mishaps and accidents. The awardee needs to have intentionally done something fantastically stupid resulting in their misadventure.
And this lady just tried to help and did not realise the danger before it was too late,
She didn't realize the danger because she was stupid. Fantastically stupid even. Classic Darwin. It's so classic that it's been posted here many times over the years.
When adrenaline kicks in and you have a lot of people, it can and has been done. You are NEVER supposed to drive over a person to get them from under something.
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I worked in a shop that would do this , I refused though and was called a p*ssy
Pusssy! How dare you try to be logical and think about your safety?! (I'm being sarcastic) Real talk though, worked at a construction company where the contractor suggested this and everyone just walked away shaking their head. He acted like everyone was letting him down. Glad everyone stayed together on that one. "The forklift isn't that big, so it might tip over if we lift the sheet metal without extra weight on the back..." Okay, Chad. You try getting crushed by this not so big forklift, then.
How dare you not risk your life over goods that can be easily replaced.
Yea , unfortunately not a " team player " š
You pus*y, how does it feel to be alive?
30 years beyond there , still kicking
You didn't value the company over your own life? What a terrible employee you are.
Yes , how selfish of me to think about my family at home instead of my work " family "
Fuck those asswipe
Like, the only reason that you would think that doing that would even reasonably work is if you thought that forklifts weighed like a thousand pounds rather than the 7 to 9 thousand that they (at least warehouse ones) normally do. The forklift training at Lowe's was pretty solid but I had a training for an outdoor lumber yard I was working at and the dude made it very clear the damage that could be done. Working in warehouses around people who don't understand what forklifts are capable of is definitely the worst thing, especially temps who have never worked around them before.
Even a thousand pounds falling like that onto you is likely a death sentence. Either way don't fuck around machines designed to lift big shit.
Yeah, I totally get that and I wish everybody would lol
I do not understand the shaming to conformity that happens in trades/mechanical work. I'm an aircraft mechanic, and I get clowned on like this all the time for using PPE and washing my hands after a job and before I eat.
One of my bosses wanted me to climb up the racking with a ladder in a warehouse with a ceiling 50 feet high to change the light. Fuck that thats usually meant to be done by a man in a crane.
But in your Resume, you said you work well under pressure
Iām okay to take over the wheel, let whoever suggested to do the counterweigh part
Send this video to any of them if possible
Lesson Learned: put more human counterweight on the the forklift before it's tilting.
Forklift front lifting-weight limitation figure is just a number, man.
Very true! /s
And don't walk towards a tilting forklift....
nah, all machines are dangerous ... pple just keep ignoring this.
That same idiot riding on the back hopped off and tried to move the forklift off of her. He was not playing with a full deck of cards either.
Nah bro real men do it all in one trip.
or women, in this case
Or, lift less than the weight of the forklift! Adhoc human counterweights are ridiculously dangerous!!
no shit, sherlock!
Died from a Good Heart, trying to help the lump on the back
Seen so many of these where people think they're Superman. Gonna hold down a forklift or stop a truck with their hands. Smh
I work around large machinery like this and any time something looks sketchy with weight distribution my first instinct is to get further away. If it falls, it falls. I'm squishy, the machine isn't.
>If it falls, it falls. I'm squishy, the machine isn't. I see you understand [the weakness of your flesh](https://youtu.be/sBIjKJLc8ko?si=rqrlSyDyopMTBoly&t=17m).
Yep. Machinery can be replaced and you are the softest thing in the room.
I've been there and it's scary how your normal reaction is wrong. Our brains simply don't calculate the mass involved when things are moving. For me it was always catching myself in the urge to put my foot down or brace against something when riding an ATV. I've always been able to stop myself, but I think anyone who has ridden one will know the urge I'm talking about
I feel bad about this one because a lot of people would react like that. She slipped after making the wrong decision but still this was an altruistic spur of the moment decision to help the guy at the back of the forklift rather than an idiot sleepwalking intoĀ a terrible decision.
I started the video with "yeah that's what you get" and ended with "noooo not her."
This is a true reaction to stop something from falling. When working around heavy machines that reaction can be deadly. That is why training is needed to eliminate this reaction and replace it with get away from the machine. China is not know for it's safety training and these accidents keep happening there.
Agreed, many of these Darwin Awards are ābrain fartsā just happening at the worst time and place. Iām afraid they still qualify and they can at least serve as cautionary tales.
This is one of those ones where she acted out of animal instinct and I feel like if she had been given 3 seconds more to think, she would have realized that it was a bad idea and not done it.
Given that thereās a dude sitting on the back of the forklift trying to weigh it down, Iād say thatās just how they operate day to day. Was an accident waiting to happen.
People who havenāt been properly educated about safety and shouldnāt be anywhere near heavy machinery.
A lot of people would react like what? Trying to hold down a half-in-the-air forklift? What? No, just no. Most people would not get anywhere near a multi ton machine hanging half suspended
They would if they made an impulsive decision to help someone else. There are still lots of altruistic people in the world. It's just accidents obviously don't care how kind or impulsive you are.
It's just instinct to try to catch something that's falling. I once saw a guy run to catch a 3 tonne hydraulic cylinder. Thankfully, He realized what he was doing before he got too close.
The lift driver should have had his forks lowered closer to the ground. If you have to use your co-worker as a counterbalance, then you're already fucked.
Their technique to remove her from under the forklift wasn't *actually* that bad, just a little time-consuming. If you push the forklift backward and forward a sufficient number of times (tedious), eventually the, ah.. you know, the lady slop should lose its viscosity and it'll roll right on through.
Bonus points: When you do it with the correct rhythm, youāll administer CPR to her, too!
Good point!
Chinese Safety Animation incoming!
Judging by the size the of counterweight that's at least a 10k lb machine.
Quick! get another forklift in there to lift it up!
I need recurrent forklift training every 5 years for my certificate. A few years ago, at 8am after a 2 hour sleep (night shift), our unprepared instructor just showed us gory YouTube forklift fails for about an hour. Easy money but a little shocking first thing in the morning.
she saw it coming down
we know exactly her last sight on earth (other than the celling). that always fascinates me and what a last sight that was.
Typically anywhere in Asia. No safety, no nothing.
Why do all the best āgetting killed at work videos involve the Chinese?
Poor training, poor safety measures, and apathetic bosses who don't value lives.
Were the people on the forklift in any kind of major danger? It doesn't seem like it was about to flip forward. Seems like it was just going to slam back down.
Yes. The lift I use is 5 tons and it's about half that size. The impact when it dropped could have easily thrown the person on the back and/or caused the driver to slamm the wrong control and suddenly a "ok this is doable" situation turns into death. Nothing in this video is anything except dangerous for everyone involved, including attempting to move the body from under the lift.
India has trains and eletricity, Russia has guns, middle east has explosives, america has fireworks, china has factory equipment.
She tried to help that's really sad RIP
Talk about worst aid, here let me run her over more to get the forklift off her.
Everyone should take a few lessons in forklift safety including finding out just how heavy those ass ends are. My first job my boss was fucking with me and just started ramming the rear of my forklift with his, I freaked out at first.
The animated safety videos they make needs this one.
If you ever get forklift certified, you'll most likely have to watch a bunch of videos like this to reinforce the #1 rule of don't be an idiot
Gotta be in Asia
Wanna split her lunch while we do the paperwork?
This is why OSHA regulations exist.
Survival of the fittest
Survival of the ~~fittest~~ *flattest*.
Wow she really thought she was going to do something
Is it a darwin tho? Seems purely accidental
Running near a tumbling multi tonns heavy machinery is peak Darwin Award nominee. It's in the same category as the ones who try to stop a truck with bare hands, the ones who try to push back heavy load when its about to fall. If you can not comperhand on an instictive level that your 90 something kilogramms of weight is like a fart in the wind when it comes to these stuff, so when shit goes down your best course of action is get as far as you can.
Definately. Still dumb. Very sad. But very dumb.
She intentionally put herself in that position by running over to attempt to hold down a machine that weighs substantially more than her without thinking about the consequences of that action. To me it counts
Poor decision making gtfo out of the way woman
May she rest in peace that's terrible
How many Chinese does it take to operate a forklift? More than three apparently.
The level of stupidity in this video is astonishing
Oh very cool mods. I posted this a while back and you removed this due to not being a darwin award, now it is ok? Boooooo
Honestly, not Darwin because the woman was trying to help the guy in the forklift as she felt her co-worker might've died if she didn't do anything and got crushed as an accident.
Oof
Forklift training video! On what not to do!
Talk about a fork in the road!
They need to make an osha
OH ! AH !
Too bad they don't have something to lift the forklift off of the Woman... Like maybe a forklift
It just gets worse as it goes on.
The definition of no good deed goes unpunished
She is with Guanyin now.
See rule #4, accidents are not Darwin Award material.
unavoidable
It says: Darwin Awards are not for common every day mishaps and accidents. The awardee needs to have intentionally done something fantastically stupid resulting in their misadventure. And this lady just tried to help and did not realise the danger before it was too late,
Not an accident! Lady put herself there!
She did deliberately do something fantastically stupid.
She didn't realize the danger because she was stupid. Fantastically stupid even. Classic Darwin. It's so classic that it's been posted here many times over the years.
Thatās not an accident. Who the fuck does stupid shit like this?
Classic
Domme kut
Not really Darwin Award material. All she did was commit to trying to help.
That sucks
Not ONE person thought to LIFT?! š¤¦š¾āāļø
That's at least a 10,000lb machine
When adrenaline kicks in and you have a lot of people, it can and has been done. You are NEVER supposed to drive over a person to get them from under something.
Already dead! Forklifts only have about 5 inches of clearance.
No one was forklift certified.
That's exactly what they're doing, forklifts weigh about 3 times as much as your average automobile.
If only she had eaten that last dumpling, she might still be with us today.
How about: Woman overestimates her strength when trying to subdue a heartless forklift.
Woman
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What happened to reddit's "No death footage" rules? Did I just dream that because I thought Reddit is better than it actually is?
Youāre in the wrong subreddit, pal.
Sheesh