David Anthony: Very correct. I work for United and I don't like running these machines out because of idiots like this. I promise you United could care less, they are here for the BUCK!
Fish-Squatch Angling the bucket is too close to the ground, he would still hit the ground even with the harness. But yes, he should be wearing a harness anyway
Miriam Mejia no the harness is to prevent you from hitting the ground! Of course you are going to go flying when u drop off a 2 foot ledge like that . He’s a moron that has no clue how to operate that machine
I've had some wild experiences in much bigger versions of this piece of equipment myself. but man you are obviously going to get hurt doing that. Some of them drive quite fast when the boom is at just the right angle. If you take a turn too hard you can throw yourself out that way too. I have never been thrown out of one but I've definitely had a few sweaty experiences learning to drive one on very uneven Terrain.
Risk management was not used that day that's for sure...Lol...heavy machine is no fun and games. but after hearing the camera man laugh, I couldn't help it by laughing to. :D
Ahhh...the temptation of being the cameraman to just stay quiet when you could have warned the subject of impending doom. "He'll be FIIIINE," You say to yourself. Pfft.
The scary part is that you don't know how much you will be launched, so you don't know whether to let go and just land on your feet or hold on for dear life because if not you are getting catapulted
1 Why wasn't the guy wearing a harness? I hope this man is alright. 2 He should have worn a harness and 3 he should have put some ramps under the machine. If the lift over turned, he would be thrown out, possibly crushed and definitely severely injured excluding the other people who could have been hurt.
Definitely not someone I would want on my jobsite. I’m sure there will be plenty of critics on this, but yes. None of these lifts were made to operate like this guy did. However, as someone already wrote, there should have been ramps. Even just a dirt ramp. Option B, if you ABSOLUTELY MUST drive over something like this(not sure how that would ever be the case, but anyway)he should have used the override switch, so that he could have still driven while hanging 90 degrees straight out the side. The action would have been almost none in comparison, when the tires dropped down. And last, worst option, that still would have been better than what he did, would have been to swivel 180 degrees, instead of 90. Then when the tires dropped, as long as he had the boom high enough to not smash into the ground, it would have been the opposite action as the ‘catapult’ effect he experienced. But hey, you can’t fix stupid.
That's pretty good advice, if I ended up in this situation idk that I would have thought of ground controls. I'll try to keep that in the back of my mind. But hopefully I never need to do something this unsafe.
One beeper ok, but the multiple beepers going off were an indication that you are about to get fucked!!! Never ignore the beeps man. Never ignore the beeps
Hope the guy recording got fired for not preventing this it could of went a million times worse I used to operate these boom lifts and I heard so many story's of people getting catapulted from them cuz they weren't certified like they were supposed to be in the first place although it's hilarious I am glad it didn't go as bad as it could of been.
