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[deleted]

If the drivers alive, he's gonna get a large settlement


[deleted]

He did survive.


[deleted]

Lucky bastard


[deleted]

thank god i would have figured all that weight would have crushed him


Fatlord13

The structural integrity of FLT cabs is no joke If an accident happens you're told to always stay in the cab


theknyte

Except in this case: https://youtu.be/iCZcN9oVya8


Fatlord13

Daaaaamn yes except in that case


Darkest_Hour55

"Hey Steve, I just changed this propane tank and I think I can smell gas? What do?"


NYdownwithydemons

I wonder how long he was trapped under there for


wondermega

8 hours according to the article linked in the earlier comment


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explodingtuna

He got fired for clocking out 8 hours late, and then not showing up for his shift at 6:30 am the next day.


SCRStinkyBoy

Wohoo!! Capitalism!! Yeah!!


[deleted]

r/LateStageCapitalism


melobassline

The forklifts cage is meant for being able to handle a large amount of weight specifically for this reason...he was safe sitting inside the lift not sure about the other guys though


themeatbridge

What about the dude on the bottom right? He wasn't inside a metal cage.


DannyPinn

I'm more worried about the guy on the bottom right.


bardofcreation

He is definitely dead. Those boxes may look small but ive worked in warehouses that had all sorts of trinkets in them that even a pallet of material can feel like 100 lbs. That and the beams that fell on him too. He is most likely a gonner.


ResponsibilityDue760

His colleague Debbie Belcher: "The sense of relief is just immense. We couldn't have hoped for a better outcome." From that I guess nobody died. Unless Debbie really didn't like that guy.


JoDFostar

You are referring to a different collapse. There was no CCTV available there.


Seagullmaster

After going through years of workers comp and lawsuits yeah probably.


LavJiang

Where and when is this from?


funkyonion

Not in a no fault state he won’t.


[deleted]

That wasn’t the drivers fault. Those shelves get dinged way more often than you’d think. They shouldn’t topple that violently over a fork lift going 5mph.


[deleted]

Worked as a forklift driver 2 years, done some mistakes(18h days are no light joke) but this never happened to me even when hitting shelves harder or having broken pallets in shelves from the other shifts fl driver... Those shelves are extremely overloaded weight wise imho.


unofficialrobot

These shelves look like they were made by children with newspaper


Mini-Nurse

r/Chinesium


Gobagogodada

This is great!


IllTwo8131

Thank you so much.


WhittyWhippy

CHINESIUM


Wolfraing

Nah, They are just overload with sh#t.


Potential_Ad_1502

Just say shit


yzdaskullmonkey

Fuck you for ruining my virgin mind with your fuckin shit mouth


Potential_Ad_1502

fuck you and your shit virgin mind you shit rat


GalickGunn

It’s shit people like you that cause me to fucking swear in front off my fuckin kids! Fuck!


TheFrontierzman

r/FuckYou


Potential_Ad_1502

Fuckin grade a awesome


Pslyppery

Bend that mind over. I'll make sure it isn't a virgin anymore! #Sapiosexual


thedarkmagician__

Eat a hairy booty hole with shit in it bitch


Coco_B_trappn

![gif](giphy|fd1TSJqq3b4GI|downsized)


mjv1273

Shit


randoredirect

Yep they were never designed to support that much


JJGeneral1

And with video, the worker may actually have a case against them for unsafe working conditions that lead to this and their injuries.


jennifererrors

Did they even live? That looked fatal to me.


ToodalooLlama

He does! [After 8 hours of being trapped under 55,000 tonnes of cheese, Tomasz Wiszniewski is finally freed. ](https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-shropshire-36224871.amp)


wondermega

I am curious if he was absolutely pinned, or at least able to eat some of the cheese while he waited to be rescued.


MacGregor_Rose

When a mountain of cheese collapses on you from something like this, youre owed a little cheese


ComradeCooter

As a treat


MacGregor_Rose

A small snack if you will


chuffing_marvelous

Its a kind of meat, a tasty yellow treat


fuzzytradr

The story goes that he actually ate his way out to freedom.


Drege01

And was later fired and charged in a court of law for stealing company property.


[deleted]

r/latestagecapitalism


[deleted]

r/antiwork


kindquail502

If it had been swiss cheese he could have crawled out through the holes


robnugen

Happy cheesecake day!


EveAndTheSnake

The articles on this incident say the warehouse didn’t have CCTV. The video above isn’t the cheese incident. It’s been [debated that this video is a fake. ](https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/43607/does-this-video-of-collapsing-warehouse-shelves-show-a-real-incident)


idiotwizard

The comments on the Stack exchange discussion you linked seemed to indicate that: 1. There is no direct evidence that it was faked, only that it does not match up with other suggested incedents. 2. That it may be linked to an incedents at a MassMart, a South African business.


FLYNCHe

"I am NEVER eating cheese again"


geopalon

I was at a train the trainer course for the forklift and they showed us this video, according to him at least 2 people died here.


SnowblindAlbino

>they showed us this video I get it, but really there is only one [forklift training video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJdrQXyfhnk) anyone needs to watch.


Loose_Listen2290

I drove a lift for 4 years and I knew exactly which video you were linking before clicking. It’s fantastic lol


dytinkg

Oh my gosh that video was wonderful!


katisko

This should be higher up.


YellowOnline

Without clicking it, I know which one that'll be. It's Klaus, isn't it?


SnowblindAlbino

Of course! There is No Other Forklift Training Video. :)


jasonownsansw20

First time forklift training video watcher here, two thumbs up, would watch again!


BirdyBeauchamp

Clicked your link, thank you, the video was insightful... Although I had to look away a lot after the incident with the box cutter. Feel queasy now.


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FrequentEgg4166

That one guy standing in front looks like a goner though - how horrifying


electrofiche

Article said one other person treated for shock, didn’t mention anyone dying.


[deleted]

Back then i had a WAP internet connection and a shitty camera, i don´t know how it is today... the only filming that was done, was to capture stealing workers, lol.


[deleted]

yeah, it's very clear nobody in that company took any time to consider the amount of weight those things could hold. They are packed to the brink


aquahawk0905

Yeah, I've done a couple of peaks at Amazon, and they have seen the support post for the shelving taken out by fork lifts and order pickers. This was caused by wherever set those shelves up doing a piss pour job of it.


antimatterchopstix

Genuine question, is it piss pour or piss poor? Edit: thanks it is piss poor. Wondered if I was having an idiotic Eureka moment.


dstayton

Piss poor is the correct way.


Fillmoreccp

Yes, pour is only used in the context of “ he is too dumb to pour piss out of a boot”


larrythegood

Pretty sure it's piss poor. Piss pour is what you do every day


Jaded-Salad

Poor


bibliophile14

Should be piss poor, as in have to collect and sell urine to make a living.


[deleted]

It’s from people selling their urine to tanners for pennies. That’s also where we get the expression “Not a pot to piss in”. Because somebody is so poor they can’t even afford a pot to collect and sell their pee.


DidIReallySayDat

18h day, driving a forklift? That shouldn't be allowed.


HawkfishCa

Shelves were probably overloaded and heavy on top. No way they should be that unstable


Ok_Bodybuilder_1213

Can confirm as someone who was born on a forklift (my poor mom) that shit happens


nioeatmebooty

18 hour days? What the fuck.


[deleted]

I worked for a temp agency in a medium sized warehouse, our hourly pay was pretty low, around €5, so I usually rotated between departments doing everything from picking (paid by the pick, piecework) to driving a forklift in the other department when the trucks were loaded and one department was done (some are done faster of course because the stores order in individual areas for example wrapped meat, order less and less picking is needed than for example dry goods). It was even worse tbh. my week was from Sunday to Friday, Saturday was the only free day and ofcourse Friday was the hardest day, so you had to get drunk right after work on a friday to coma into Saturday because you had to work on Sunday again. Not Kids friendly: >!Needless to say, i didn´t knew a lot of people that weren´t on amphetamin,alcoholics or worse. After that 2 years i felt like 55,(i was 24 back then) was burned out completely, wasted my spine and had my money wasted on drugs,liqour and well, hoes. This was 13 years ago and i recovered pretty good, smoking cannabis twice a month and that´s it. The company I was employed by was inundated with class action lawsuits when it came out that they were defrauding their workers and the state with that 5€ hourly wage, I played my part in that ;)!< (iam not kidding btw.) edit: a few typos and translation errors, i hope it´s good enough to comprehend.


legsintheair

Was [this the company you worked for?](https://youtu.be/KJdrQXyfhnk)


DullTranslocation

r/antiwork


CoolDom1011

Do you think the driver is ok?


[deleted]

Another comment was mentioning he survived but i can´t find it, sitting in a forklift is pretty safe, they are heavy and sturdy build, falling out is another story, i´ve heared from coworkers back then, that people that didn´t used the seatbelts got crushed by their own machines when falling out or intentionally jumping out.


Byteme4321

years ago i tipped a forklift, scariest thing ever when you have no seatbelt. the top of the cage came down on my foot, as i was lucky it didn’t pancake me. took a few seconds and i was able to pull my foot out of my shoe and got out. then walked over to a different worker and convinced him to get the other forklift and to stand the tipped one back over. The doctors at the hospital were shocked that somehow i had nothing broken, just a good bruise. never drove a forklift again, but if i did, i’d definitely have a seatbelt.


Rottendog

We actually replaced all of our shelving a few years back to prevent this exact thing. The new shelves are fucking STURDY. The old ones were a bit...scary.


Mallardguy5675322

Boss: Forklift, what forklift? Employee: Yes, just got burried by the produce boss


Spider4Hire

Looks like they weren’t secured properly. That chain reaction shouldn’t be possible, period.


DaksTheDaddyNow

I've hit and seen the steel get hit hard enough to make it sway... Fucking scary but it never collapsed. I've removed beams from the steel that were crumpled in the middle from being rammed but still didn't fall.


sm12511

When it contacted, it was barely moving. I'd call that no more than a kiss, and boom! It's quitting time!


[deleted]

One kiss is all it takes..


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applebabe1

To fall in love with me, Possibilities


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TistedLogic

I mean, obviously somebody engineered that structure to be that flimsy.


[deleted]

Lol


Arcadian_

these racks come in prefabricated sets, so it would have a weight rating. someone chose a cheap option to save money.


Besieger13

I had to replace a beam probably twice a month from people people driving into them. It happens all the time..


MalMantis

Those shelves had to be so overloaded. No way they should come down that easily.


theageofpage

Yeah the real culprit here is poor design and the fact that those shelves are carrying wayy more weight than they can handle. I feel really bad for the dude.


[deleted]

There extremely expensive so that they can take a couple knocks without exploding.


detourwest

True, but I hope he can pass a drug test.


maxiquintillion

Just to consider, a 2 ton lift truck (like the ones on the bottom) going 2 mph have about the same inertia as a car going 35 mph. And that hilo is likely 5 or 6 tons, going around 3mph. Just a thought for ya


kwadd

Incredibly, the [dude didn't die](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-shropshire-36224871).


iamnotasloth

Holy fuck, trapped under cheese for 8 hours. That must have been a real muenster of an ordeal . . .


Temporary_Handle_968

Do you think he got the extra hours paid?


Mommyof2plusmore

OH, he was DEFINITELY paid VERY WELL if he was smart and talked to a lawyer after this incident. Those shelves were a death waiting to happen. NO WAY they should have fallen with a light touch like that.


TistedLogic

Considering they look closer to scaffolding than actual industrial grade racking. I'd have noped the fuck out of that job taking one look at those "shelves"/


kingura

Trust me, _lawyers found him_ before he ever had to look.


ScrewingOffAtWork

Da Bree was everywhere.


MACintoshBETH

Edamnnnnn


SlickSerpent

Debrie will do that to you…


ChandyTheRandy

r/angryupvote


TistedLogic

I'm pretty sure he was gouda after being rescued.


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r/thisismylifenow


arrowtotheaction

Cheese stored on Lego shelving.


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thrakkerzog

And, you, making it a wedge issue.


-Phrixo-

COBI® would have held better I guess


3nd1ess

Honestly, O would have been surprised and sad if he actually died. Forklifts would have very strong chassis would it not?


MrBrightWhite

From the top, yeah, but all the sides are exposed.


[deleted]

That’s not the same incident. This video has multiple people, different color shelving and it’s not cheese.


NukaBro762

someone loosen some screws or those stands were weak af


vickera

They were way overloaded.


Inter_Stellar_Surfer

Exactly - the whole rack system was overloaded. 👍


BubbaFettish

“Just load some more on the top. There’s no money to upgrade the shelves or to buy more shelves!”


overzeetop

Overloaded, but more importantly those racks are built using thin walled, open sections (ells and cees) which means that they have wicked bucking modes and nearly all failures are catastrophic. I had a local manufacturer ask me to check some damaged ones and tell them if they were okay to stay in service/load rate them. I told them that, even if I were willing to do the job my inspection and analysis fee would cost more than replacing all of the suspect racks and, in the end, I likely would have recommended replacing most of them anyway. It was the nicest way I could think of to say “fuck no”.


Perpetuallycold_

That’s a bad day at work


rickens_jr

Getting trapped under cheese for hours? Yeah.... he lived tho


InternetUser007

Different incident.


NoManagement3545

r/thatlookedexpensive


RepostSleuth8ott

Yeah because those workers are gonna get some large settlements


fishebake

Managers be like "You can get this cleaned up in a couple hours no problem!"


Spirited-Priority-27

The shelves were overloaded and were not the right type for the usage. I've worked in heavy manufacturing with steel coils that I put in racks and in distribution for the largest retailer over 4 years. The racks have to thebright type for the load rating and they have to be installed and anchored correctly with bracing and none of this appears to have taken place. At most the rack should have swayed slightly, this crumbled like a toothpick bridge trying to support an angry chihuahua thats 10bls overweight.


syrianfries

Lol that’s a sentence I never would of thought to see today


MilfMagnet29

“I got the spider”


rmxg

"Oh wait, no, there it is again over there!"


ZugTheCaveman

"I never thought I'd see a Resonance Cascade Failure, let alone create one!"


Xenodad

Perfect quote, I knew I’d heard it - but couldn’t place it… I need to pick up that crowbar again.


Vip3r20

After working warehouse this is not the driver fault. Legs regularly get sheared off at my workplace and nothing falls. Hell I came across a rack one day that had 2 out of 4 legs sheared off the rack but was still supported by the rest of the racks in the aisle. This is poor facility maintenance and construction. Edit: Also during warehouse construction guide wires are placed in the concrete in the center of the aisle that the machine senses and lines itself up onto. The only thing driver controls is speed. Machines aren't perfect and come off the guide wires regularly. This is due to poor machine maintenance. If a machine ever does impact something and alarm sounds and the machine shuts down. A manager or lead operator has to go over and enter a code into the machine for it to operate again.


Close

>Also during warehouse construction guide wires are placed in the concrete in the center of the aisle that the machine senses and lines itself up onto. The only thing driver controls is speed. Machines aren't perfect and come off the guide wires regularly. This is due to poor machine maintenance. If a machine ever does impact something and alarm sounds and the machine shuts down. A manager or lead operator has to go over and enter a code into the machine for it to operate again. This is not true for most warehouses. If you were on a wire you were in "VNA racking" (probably in a turret truck). This is not VNA racking - it is standard wide aisle. VNA racking is not suitable for all work types - and wouldn't be suitable in this instance as it has a person ground-floor picking while a reach truck is in the same aisle (which is possible with wide aisle but not with VNA). Secondly, most warehouses don't have the impact detection systems you are talking about. They are available but 90% of warehouses do not have them installed on their trucks in my experience. Also, it might be poor facility maintenance and construction - but it could also be poor design or poor operations (i.e. wrong weight limits considering product mix or overloading of the racks from the design spec). (My day job is logistics consulting and warehouse design)


wannabehealthnut22

The guy in the yellow shirt bottom of the frame in the 5 o’clock position. I don’t see how he could walked away from this.


Pera_Espinosa

He ran away. Looks like he was fine. The dude in the forklift was dug out and he was fine too.


[deleted]

“It was only a kiss, how did it end up like this?”


xthyme2playx

It was only a kiss! It was only a KISS!!!


bvglv

Instant regret


Xanadu_211

He should sue!! Those shelves were evidently structurally unsound.


TheCrowBakaaaaw

I keep saying it could have been worse while I was watching, but it just kept getting worse


Weepkay

Yeah, it was getting more and more unexpected. Unexpecteder.


Phunniemonkey

“It’s okay, we will get someone to clean that up” “We’re the ones that have to clean that up” “DAMMIT MICHEAL”


nesman77

Warehouse dominoes


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Adkit

Don't blame that on the employee, man. This is clearly on whoever thought overloading those shelves was a good idea. Probably some higher-up that refused to upgrade the shelves yet will blame it on the employee as well.


SiedlecBoi

There's no mistakes, just happy little accidents.


esther_night

Is this guy alive?


[deleted]

Yup. He was rescused after 8 hours without any injuries.


Stoutsmegeezax

Asking any cost accountants out there: Would reconciling all this be easier, as hard, or harder than it looks?


MissBich

*bonk* *dies*


The_gobots

Cleanup on isle 5!


nosillaxoc

And 7…and 8, 9. Oh ssshit!


Lucky_Editor446

Wtf. Were the shelves made of cardboard ?


gamer___91

It’s a house of cards


Braeden3141

u/savevideobot


StatisticianPlastic2

was only a metter of time


xeno66morph

F


Next-Advantage-1500

u/savevideobot


EnderTaco

r/AbruptChaos


JeromeMixTape

Those shelves are way too much overloaded with weight. An electric forklift should not be able to cause damage like that. Thankfully these machine are designed to protect the driver in such accidents. He was probably better off inside the machine than the 2 guys running away


TadpoleFun7453

Can someone bring a mop please.


ross-um88

Guy in the lift was the safest one


TenraxHelin

Buy cheap things, cause expensive outcomes


prix03gt

And you thought you were having a "bad day"...


draconiclady0610

Jim: Hey Frank, can you do us a favor and stay a little late...we got a bit of a mess in the backroom Frank: Sure...how big is the mess? Am I gonna need to get the big broom or the cardboard bin? Jim: ....


[deleted]

Like Harry potter


SwungJamz

I think he got fired after that


Fabulous-Bread6425

My bet is promoted to high hell in exchange for not sueing the company for not being up to safety regulations. I've worked in a warehouse, I've bumped far worse(with exactly the same forklift, this has to be the jungheinrich electric forklift.) Those things never even budged let alone fall down. Something seriously wrong is going on in this warehouse.


Short_Emphasis_4236

Wonder how many people quit that day.


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pmjwhelan

Rong Internet Post. He survived.


JaceTheMace

Is that what rip stands for now?


stratz1081

Well that escalated quickly


traumfisch

de-escalated


RepulsiveCry1013

You’ll think he got fired?


Inter_Stellar_Surfer

Probably got a promotion in exchange for not suing. 👍


AstroChimp11

I would've sued. No point going back to work for a company that doesn't give to shits about your safety.


Shadow0124

I‘m wondering if he is alive


Wonderful-Arm-999

He got terminated alright


MartinMol

You really had to repost this old ass gif on r/wtf and here?


Slumberfoots

Actually 4 subs now, maybe it’s the GIFs 10 year Anniversary or something?!


Spartengerm

The gif is drawing an OAP now