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Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:26 am Post subject: One for Blarno

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

SpecB · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:40 am Post subject:

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DradusContact · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:41 am Post subject:

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.
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Martin · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 10:11 am Post subject:

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.
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Pkh72 · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 10:18 am Post subject:

DradusContact · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 10:20 am Post subject:

The longer clip

http://uk.video.yahoo.com/watch/6338139/16440695
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Humphrey The Pug · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 10:23 am Post subject:

Boxer6 · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 1:14 pm Post subject:

Blarno · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 1:55 pm Post subject:

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!
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BeN · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:04 pm Post subject:

That was quite funny, to be honest.

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DradusContact · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:08 pm Post subject:

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!
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Blarno · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:19 pm Post subject:

*whispers* for the first 7 years, I didn't have a licence....
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"him" · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:32 pm Post subject:

Blarno · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:37 pm Post subject:

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.
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Dr. Hfuhruhurr · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:40 pm Post subject:

scamper · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:48 pm Post subject:

Nothing like a safe racking system is there?

Big TC · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 3:27 pm Post subject:

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
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scamper · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 3:40 pm Post subject:

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

Martin · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 3:44 pm Post subject:

Not guilty...!
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DradusContact · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 3:50 pm Post subject:

Blarno · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 4:10 pm Post subject:

Matt · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:29 pm Post subject:

Blarno · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 9:39 pm Post subject:

Clean wounds, too.
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Gooner · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:30 pm Post subject:

Big TC · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 12:03 am Post subject: