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Dr. Hfuhruhurr

One for Blarno

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8345940.stm
SpecB

     
DradusContact

Been all round the net this week.  In one of the longer clips you see the fork lift start up and it looks like its a diesel, im sure thats good for everyones lungs inside.
Martin

I should probably know this, but surely using a diesel truck inside is a big no no H&S wise?  If we need a truck that works inside and outside, then we use a gas powered truck otherwise everything is electric.
Pkh72

Martin wrote:
I should probably know this, but surely using a diesel truck inside is a big no no H&S wise?  If we need a truck that works inside and outside, then we use a gas powered truck otherwise everything is electric.


I don't know the ins and outs of health and safety but it may be okay if there is an extraction system.
Our train shed has an extraction system on it for when some of the smaller stuff is fired up.
The locomotives have to be fired up outside though as the smoke they produce when started up has to be seen to be believed!  
DradusContact

The longer clip

http://uk.video.yahoo.com/watch/6338139/16440695
Humphrey The Pug

Pkh72 wrote:
Martin wrote:
I should probably know this, but surely using a diesel truck inside is a big no no H&S wise?  If we need a truck that works inside and outside, then we use a gas powered truck otherwise everything is electric.


I don't know the ins and outs of health and safety but it may be okay if there is an extraction system.
Our train shed has an extraction system on it for when some of the smaller stuff is fired up.
The locomotives have to be fired up outside though as the smoke they produce when started up has to be seen to be believed!  


This is Russia so I should imagine that their H&S laws are probably not as strict as here.
Boxer6

Humphrey The Pug wrote:
Pkh72 wrote:
Martin wrote:
I should probably know this, but surely using a diesel truck inside is a big no no H&S wise?  If we need a truck that works inside and outside, then we use a gas powered truck otherwise everything is electric.


I don't know the ins and outs of health and safety but it may be okay if there is an extraction system.
Our train shed has an extraction system on it for when some of the smaller stuff is fired up.
The locomotives have to be fired up outside though as the smoke they produce when started up has to be seen to be believed!  


This is Russia so I should imagine that their H&S laws are probably non-existent.


FYP!
Blarno

In 10 years of driving an FLT, I've never hit anything bigger than a 200 litre drum!

Diesel trucks are usually outdoor jobbies, gas are fine indoors, unless it's in an environment like where I work. Everything has to be intrinsically safe due to the huge explosion risk, so we have a Pyrobanned electric FLT. Which is a bag of shit.

I remember a similar incident at my first employers about 8 years back. Another operator was reversing an FLT inside some racking and he caught the corner like the driver in the clip, causing every rack to tumble in a domino effect. 36 tonnes of concrete screed wiped out in 15 seconds!
BeN

That was quite funny, to be honest.

DradusContact

There was a fork lift truck driver when i worked in Asda who only had a class II license but due to staff shortages drove the class I as well.  I remember one time he was lifting a pallette of shampoo off a truck and he didnt put the forks all the way under it.............crash!
Blarno

*whispers* for the first 7 years, I didn't have a licence....
"him"

Blarno wrote:
*whispers* for the first 7 years, I didn't have a licence....

As Clarkson might say "...how hard can it be?"

Blarno

Piss easy, as it happens. The average FLT driver has the IQ of a walnut. If you can reverse a car, you can pretty much drive an FLT.
Dr. Hfuhruhurr

Blarno wrote:
If you can reverse a car, you can pretty much drive an FLT.

That would rule out quite a lot of people for starters.
scamper

Nothing like a safe racking system is there?
Big TC

I used to work in the 'distribution centre' (warehouse) that Dixon Photographic had in Stevenage. Someone noticed that a pallet was not sat squarely on the very top rack, so a worker was sent up in a cage to level it.

Said guy was a bit of a twat, so the FLT driver thought he'd give him a bit of a ride, so started jerking the truck as he reversed it out, still at full height. It set up a pendulum moment, culminating in the FLT toppling over.

The driver jumped clear before he was crushed to death, the guy in the cage fell out and landed on his head. The resultant coma lasted for a week or so....

He was off work for about 10 months and his personality had taken a dive in the meantime - he was even more of a twat when he came back
scamper

If i recall a certain home and garden outlet have a habit of running over and killing customers with fork lifts.  
Martin

Not guilty...!
DradusContact

Big TC wrote:
I used to work in the 'distribution centre' (warehouse) that Dixon Photographic had in Stevenage. Someone noticed that a pallet was not sat squarely on the very top rack, so a worker was sent up in a cage to level it.

Said guy was a bit of a twat, so the FLT driver thought he'd give him a bit of a ride, so started jerking the truck as he reversed it out, still at full height. It set up a pendulum moment, culminating in the FLT toppling over.

The driver jumped clear before he was crushed to death, the guy in the cage fell out and landed on his head. The resultant coma lasted for a week or so....

He was off work for about 10 months and his personality had taken a dive in the meantime - he was even more of a twat when he came back


 Bloody hell, tops my story!
Blarno

Big TC wrote:


The driver jumped clear before he was crushed to death...


The first rule should an FLT tip over is:

STAY INSIDE THE BLOODY THING!

You won't get clear before it mushes you into a paste. Just hang on and pray that it only crushes a limb...
Matt

Quote:
The driver escaped with a minor leg injury.


It's OK, he didn't feel it as he was drenched to the tits in vodka which numbed the pain.
Blarno

Clean wounds, too.
Gooner

Big TC wrote:
I used to work in the 'distribution centre' (warehouse) that Dixon Photographic had in Stevenage. Someone noticed that a pallet was not sat squarely on the very top rack, so a worker was sent up in a cage to level it.

Said guy was a bit of a twat, so the FLT driver thought he'd give him a bit of a ride, so started jerking the truck as he reversed it out, still at full height. It set up a pendulum moment, culminating in the FLT toppling over.

The driver jumped clear before he was crushed to death, the guy in the cage fell out and landed on his head. The resultant coma lasted for a week or so....

He was off work for about 10 months and his personality had taken a dive in the meantime - he was even more of a twat when he came back


I'd be interested to know how he explained his actions to the HSE. Surely one of the more interesting reports submitted under RIDDOR.

Regarding fork-lift drivers for a certain orange logo'd DIY store: that happened just down the road from where I grew up in Poole at their Fleetsbridge store. Cost them £500,000 in fines if I remember right.
Big TC

Gooner wrote:
I'd be interested to know how he explained his actions to the HSE. Surely one of the more interesting reports submitted under RIDDOR.

Regarding fork-lift drivers for a certain orange logo'd DIY store: that happened just down the road from where I grew up in Poole at their Fleetsbridge store. Cost them £500,000 in fines if I remember right.


This happened in 1980 (did RIDDOR exist then?), and Dixons were sued by the victim. They ended up paying out some serious compensation - he splashed quite a lot of it on a new car. kid was about 21 or 22 - and he bought a Mitsubishi Galant (a 'basic' one - not a 4wd turbo version). You can make your own comments to that descision.....

The driver of the FLT wasn't disciplined, as far as I know. He kept his job, anyway.
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