Two workers killed unloading trailer at Xpo.

Imagine being a car driver beside it when it breaks through a wall on a corner.

 

I'm suprised you don't hear about this type of stuff from Central Transport.

 

This OSHA report explains how dangerous unloading slabs can be....

Safety and Health Information Bulletins | Hazards of Transporting, Unloading, Storing and Handling Granite, Marble and Stone Slabs | Occupational Safety and Health Administration

 

Ive never looked at their record, but I know they are offering some good rates in my area for their ltl ,linehaul p&d and such.

 

Yes you can be crushed absolutely in a trailer very easily.

In the Aluminum Smelter about 12 miles west of Frederick Md as the crow flies we used to have van trailers and pups loaded at a dock. Billets and large solid forms are slid into these trailers.

No one cared what the trailers were, only that they aint flatbed trailers and someone is going to get killed.

During my time there loading in the flat bed side of the lot across a paved access road from that building with that dock there was a scream and a smash of physics.

Within hours of the bodies plural being removed from that trailer they called in a professional chain link fencer who fenced off the access way, doors, stairs and built a cage inside that second door so that NO one without authroization from a staff will ever enter that trailer.

And they continued on loading billets and such into those box trailers. They are seriously stupid overall to keep doing that when it's flatbed country. No place for Vans of any kind.

My usual loads from there came out to be solid alumium 40 feet long 4 high 7 wide and thump onto my freuhauf flatbed and day cab mack. THOSE go to west Lancaster for further milling into coils and other objects. I have actually hauled coils out of there eye to sky made from these solid aluminum in rolling mills that contains miles upon miles of conveyer making a hundred miles of aluminim foil thickness wrapped into a coil about 12 miles worth a time. (Or 14000 per coil give or take a little bit) That's three for a total payload of about 42000 pounds give or take 5 thousand.) I had the ability to scale single 52000 pound half inch steel plate for ships that is made into a single coil. Those go into the exact middle of the trailer deck, both lengthwise and also not even a inch to this side or that side.

People dies in trailers all the time during my time in trucking in a variety of very interesting deaths which they brought on themselves when several dock workers tell them DO NOT go into that trailer. Ever.

And so they go in and MASH. The biggest chunks are the bones the rest of it are shoveled out with the assistance of a local fire pumper on a three inch line hose. They get poured into a body bag and sent into the coroner to disposed of usually by cremation. There is no point in having a closed coffin funeral.

A power jack with three tons on it got away from my spouse, slammed into the wall of our reefer and still under acceleration hit the plate and part of the rubber dock shock absorbers for the building. I screamed at her to drop that pallet right effing now or DIE. as it tipped over towards her.

She dropped it to the floor. The whole building heard it. (And me.) I consider that lesson with a power jack a total and complete failure. FFE in LA agreed with me and made sure that was the end of our cross country trips to avenel with those loads.

I saved her twice. That was the first time. The second time will never see the internet.

 

Guessing one person was bracing the freight while another tried to adjust the tie down straps before it came crashing down? That's the only thing I could think of that would cause this type of accident .

 

The only reason I say that is because their equipment and facilities. When I worked there you were lucky if your forklift had brakes on it. The way they unloaded "sketchy" freight was to tell the supervisor to look the other way and then just cowboy the freight out, usually destroying 2 or 3 skids in the process. Not gonna lie, I had a lot of fun working there because of how relaxed and careless the management was. But there were a LOT of sketchy situations on the dock.