Driver Killed While Helping Unload

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  1. mjd4277

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  3. x1Heavy

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    I tell you right now those beams are just waiting to kill people.

    I usually back away from these kinds of loads, thankfully I haven't done that but two or three times. They can always fire me but I aint gonna. I wonder why they cannot make nice plain beams like they use in cartoons and bolt them together on site.
     
  4. VantaiTatted

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    RIP to that man. Those steel beams always scare me when I see them.
     
  5. againstthewind

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    at least he wasnt a "door swinger". lol
     
  6. camionneur

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    Trying to picture it... there's a visual of a stack in a similar accident report here (it doesn't look particularly dangerous, but looks can be deceiving)... and that was the plant manager who was not expecting it to happen, so you have to expect these things to fall if you look at them wrong (which would be anywhere within falling distance).
     
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  8. Bud A.

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    I have hauled a lot of loads of steel beams. You never, ever stack wider beams on top of narrower beams, as was done in this case.

    I have stood on top of loads of steel beams while they were being loaded and while they were being unloaded. Sometimes they shift a little. You have to be a little stupid and crazy to do it, frankly.

    Two or three times it was at a dumpy little place in Laredo called Wheeler Metals where if you didn't direct the loaders by pointing and gesturing from up there, there was a good chance you'd end up with a really unstable, unbalanced mess on the deck. (Point and gesture because I don't speak Spanish.) Ask some Texas flatbedders sometime. Half of them will cuss and say "I don't go there anymore!"

    A couple of other times it was when I was helping do-it-yourselfers unload the steel building they ordered onto their property. Even then it would sometimes take them three or four hours to get it off my truck.

    I never stood next to beams on the ground. When the forklift is moving, I'm going to be somewhere way off to the side of it. They don't fall over often, but when they do, they fall hard.
     
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