chitownpeddler
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Complain to the boss OR kick the **** out of bozo driving the jeepVery sad. Every time I walk across one of our docks I fear for my life. These guys running those things up and down at high rates of speed. You have to wonder...
Please explain how a fork lift can tip over and crush someone when sitting still !!!!This forklift was sitting still when the accident happened.
The father being there and finding him makes a bad thing even worse. My brother-in-law witnessed a truck accident that crushed and killed his 20 yr old son about 40 yrs ago. He was never the same after that. I saw what it did to a man. I feel for this father. Nobdy knows the pain he's going through. Support him, but give him space,too.The young man was caught under the mask. I don't know the specifics but he'd somehow done it accidentally with no one around. He was there for quite some time before his father, also employed there, found him. It's clearly an accident and an extremely tragic one. Lets please be gentle with the comments.
Prayers going out to his family. They need them.
Had their been a windshield though it wouldn't have happened.
What were flipping burgers yesterday are driving forklifts today. Like you, I tread VERY carefully when I walk on one of these docks. I trust none of them.Very sad. Every time I walk across one of our docks I fear for my life. These guys running those things up and down at high rates of speed. You have to wonder...
However a moving forklift can kill a person innocently walking down the dock.This forklift was sitting still when the accident happened.
You don't know the whole story. Maybe it didn't turn over. As a matter of FACT it didn't turn over.Please explain how a fork lift can tip over and crush someone when sitting still !!!!
The young man was caught under the mask. I don't know the specifics but he'd somehow done it accidentally with no one around. He was there for quite some time before his father, also employed there, found him. It's clearly an accident and an extremely tragic one. Lets please be gentle with the comments.
Prayers going out to his family. They need them.
Had their been a windshield though it wouldn't have happened.
I heard he stuck his body thru the front of the forklift where the opening ls above the steering wheel and the forks came down or up and crushed him. I heard something like that. Was lookin at somethin on pallet and clothing or something hit controls while leaning forward and the mast crushed him.
Where in the world do these wild rumors get started?
His father did NOT find him, a fellow dockworker found him. His father IS a supervisor on the HOU dock but on a different shift. This 19 year old man's head was caught IN between the two horizontal bars on the mast (not mask). When he leaned over to read a label on a skid, his right leg caught the lever and the mast came down. It crushed his skull and no doubt killed him instantly. He was in the nose of a trailer, others had ridden by but looked in the trailer and thought nothing of seeing the man there. Looked like he was reading a bill or messing with his phone or whatever. From a qiuick glance, nobody could tell.
OSHA has been on site and now all of the forklift riders have been wearing seat belts. Yes that will keep you from leaning forward but a steel rebar screen across the front would be superior to the seatbelts. Seatbelt fastening is clearly a time consuming futiole effort. A Lexan screen would be rendered opaque in a short amount of time due to the dust and would be a bad idea.
Yes, the same thing happened in MFS several years ago.