This was actually handled pretty well. The big point, no one got hurt! They cleared the area. The forklift cage did its job and protected the operator. All is fine. It's just wooden pallets at the end of the day.
0:12 At this point, he should have brought the forks down to put the weight back on that bottom pallet, drove the forks in more, then re-lifted. But regardless of what happens now, the top got toppled onto the forklift from an action previous to the camera. He fudged up.
@@firebirdude2 Oh no I get it. He definitely could have handled his actions better prior to the video. My comment was referring to how it was handled in the video. Yes, he could have re-lifted as you said and it would have been much better BUT in an emergency situation, it is OKAY to settle for no injuries. It's just pallets. Let them break. Just keep everyone around it safe and out of the way.
@Justin because he is supposed to manage the labor and keep the warehouse not looking like this. He could have also instructed the guy to not try and bring down the full stack at once (assuming the lift could go that high).
Sometimes it's not savable. I've driven forklifts for a long time and I still drop shit, things happen. Sometimes all you can do is make sure nobody is around to get hurt and give it your best shot, and be thankful it's not something expensive.
This is ABSOLUTELY true. Of course the idiots who've NEVER driven are the experts who DON'T KNOW a damn thing about the physics of it all. These SHOULD have probably been strapped but I have seen things go bad when I pallet of boxes badly stacked and then wrapped catches on the wrap of the one BESIDE it. We have had some odd ones including a pallet of boxes full of foam chairs that come off and ARE STILL all perched up on the racks. We had another one with worthless stock, it was stainless steel trays and the stuff got stuck BETWEEN 2 racks in double deep. I kept slamming a pallet against the box for 5 minutes until the box burst and the trays come cascading down. Only bent the edge of one. Saved the stock but nobody has bought it on years and likely never will. My company hangs onto unsaleable crap.
Stop giving excuses!! You got yer azz in that job SO YOU BETTER DO IT WELL SON!! if ya WERE PROFESIONALS yall know the FIRST RULE OF THIS JOB! if you drop it you stop it!!!! That means placing your body in between the objects and floor!! Even if it means ye DIE!!! BUNCHA SLACKERS!!
Genius to put all those unsecured pallets on the top tier. Someone's gonna get a huge settlement if they can survive the barrage of items crashing over their fucking head
@@morrisonandrew2521 sure, but that’s like saying there’s vehicle types (cars .. trucks.. vans) and saying “oh I drive a automobile” 7 years experience with various forklifts
I worked at a walmart warehouse, as an order filler we stacked pallets on the top rack in a pallet return slot. Only thing is we had to make sure the pallet on the very bottom was in the up right position so the forklift could grab on to it and we could only stack the pallets i believe 6 high. This looks like a mess at this warehouse
Orderfiller at 6048, what up dawg. Yeah we can only stack 6 high for these reasons, drivers can stack up to 12 high if they are stacking on the floor. These wimpy pallets are the worst, they’re terrible for stacking.
The warehouse I work at we only place stacked pallets on the floor and we almost rarely ever use the forklift to carry stacks of pallets. That's where we use the pallet jack to do that. We also use those forklifts where we go up with the machine (order picker) as it goes to reach for a pallet. In case anything we're up there to check numbers with the scanner.
This is the equivalent to in a movie when someone is talking then they get cut off by the comedy relief, they try to talk again and still get cut off until they burst into utter madness
according to my 10 years of forklift driving experience. Management loves to put heavy loads (like a skid of apple juice in glass bottles) on the higher or top shelf and lighter loads (like paper cups) on the lower shelves. Is it safer that way?
As a 30+ year lift truck operator veteran and other material handling equipment I've seen it all including similar incidents to this. Whoever stacked those pallets violated safety rules exceeding the height of items stored on the top level. This guy was put into an impossible situation the only blessing being empty pallets instead of skids of product coming down.
At least it was only empty pallets. I used to pick up metal baskets full of iron/steel blanks at a machine shop. They could be stacked 6-8 high. I would test the top basket with one of those smaller, stand up fork lifts and if the back started rising up even a little... nope, getting the big fork lift.
I used to work at grocery store. We would use shrink wrap to wrap those pallets if they are being stack on top. It just a common sense thing. One time , our Coke vendor was too stupid. He stacked 3 pallets of Cokes on top of each other without shrink wrap. Then when he tried to get one of the top pallet down , everything just came falling. It took 2 guys 4 hours to clean up everything.
Once he realised this was going to happen he should have walked away. Bring in a scissor lift or VNA and work from the side removing the loose pallets one by one!!
Yeah, that will NEVER happen. You've obviously NEVER worked at the average warehouse. ESPECIALLY haven't stacked pallets by hand. Most places you can't get the boss to spend $20 and you think they'll hire a $200 a day machine over A FEW PALLETS? What fairy world do you live in...
An expert behind a camera. An unstable stack of pallets, do you put a ladder up or push some stepladders to it, climb up and try and manhandle them with certain risk. Or do you take possession of the area/isle and offer the fork truck to the job, 50% you lower them down, 50% they crash to the floor, drivers cab is protected. They crash to the floor, now they are safe to be manhandled at ground level and debris to be swept up. Job done.
as someone who drives forklifts 10 hours a day this isn’t an uncommon occurrence, often times pallets will be left unbalanced, damaged, or stacked inefficiently. We are just taught to work around the circumstances and adapt to whatever situations may pop up in the DC.
All dude had to do was let it back down on the weight of it and then oush forward. Either the pallets align or 1-4 gets knocked off instead of the stack. Not entirely operator fault but could of done better. THIS GUY DIDNT EVEN GRAB THE BOTTOM PALLET
@@younggoose7315 he could have done that if he was on a reach truck. This is a stand up. The forks dont move forward, just the machine. But none of that explains why he didnt position the forks all the way in the bottom pallet. Smh.
If I was him I would tilt front and go in with the forks, making them go inside a little more and maybe get half of the pallet and slowly bringing it down.
yea ive worked in a few warehouses. this is completely normal stuff that happens all the time. Things fall things get stuck things break things dont work and things are deadly. If you follow the rules you might still end up hurt or worse. God bless the warehouse workers bro they work hard and dont get enough for it.
This is normal in the warehouse. It's all empty pallets that the leadership and managers ignore the problems that led to this. Plus, they were not using the proper forklift to pull uneven empty pallets.
Not only a driver and stacking fail but that is the shttest reach truck i have ever seen. I driver a brand new beasty Toyota one. It's absolutely quality and top notch.
I'm glad when I did warehouse work, we had turret trucks to deal with that occasional nonsense. Wouldn't have even attempted that with a regular lift, let alone without fixing the stack first.
So you're telling me you'd be up there trying to straighten the pallet with 5 other pallets above it. You EVER TRIED that ON THE GROUND let alone up THAT HIGH? No.... it weights a TON and is NOT possible when the planks interlock. You've obviously NEVER spent significant time on a reach. Maybe NEVER if it's "where I worked"... another know all ground picker with a hand trolley. In my country most of them are housewives.
@@OffGridInvestor Maybe look up what a turret truck is/does before you overreact like this with your caps lock. Calling other people a female lol. Take a Midol bro. Also yeah I've done it, but I don't have noodles for arms and I took my time.
I’ve been in warehouses where it was dangerous just to walk through because there were so many high stacks of heavy materials and a lot of them were leaning precariously.
as a former warehouse employee myself, its a pretty stupid idea putting empty skids on a top rack. They belong on ground level for easy access. If you dont need them, put them out by the road so someone can use them for fire wood.
Why didn't someone grab another forklift and help stabilize the pallets? Also, if he knew the pallets were unstable, he should've tried to reposition them instead of just bringing them down. Maybe he tried before the video started; but from where I'm sitting, this just seems very avoidable. I work in a shop and use a forklift every night. We occasionally have instances where we're moving something and it ends up in a bad spot. When that happens, we rush over another forklift to aid the situation. Sometimes more than one.
The scary thing are the people in the comment-section - that don't understand it was (99%) his fault. I guess their "thinking" is - anything can happen; accidents happen. Or they are shifting the blame on the person who have put it badly in the first place. These are the kind of people causing "accidents"; like on a road.
No it was GOING TO GO because of the PREVIOUS guy who screwed up when he put it in. Not his fault. They KNEW it was going to fall. That's why they had the camera on.
YES. BUT the comments are full of people who never drove one but "know" because they worked in a warehouse. Likely ground pickers with their little trolleys. Who think they're a big shot. In my country most ground pickers are literally housewives.
Notice how they don’t wear hard hats either. Also any legitimate warehouse should have a reach truck capable of bringing a person up there to fix it. I used to do this at my last job .. I’ve seen double stacked pallets of yogurts fall from 30 ft up.. That took a month to clean off all the shelving. Luckily they made all the newbies do that.
