Forklift causes warehouse collapse

They don't build warehouses like they used to anymore.

 

JUST WOW.

Another reason texting and forking is bad.

 

Texting and forking causes accidents that stick with you for life.

 

The new American Dream. Cause an accident and hope you get rich from it.

 

You need to watch it a few more times. The pallet moves in several inches. That was way more than a light tap.

 

Regardless, those racks should have been able to take way more movement before collapsing.

Its not like the other catastrophe where the forklift tips one rack over and they all topple like dominos; that rack to the right especially just completely blows out.

Was either way overloaded or (probably) underspecced from the start to save money...

I will stay clear of those things from now on, the fall was insanely quick.

 

I was at a customer's location where they kept their packed molds on racks like that while they were setting up, then they would take them off, flip them and take off the tops before they were prepped and poured them.

The rack was over 60 feet long, 10 feet tall along the wall connecting wall to the other departments and setup to allow people to go thought one part of the building to another with a bridge where they put the "light" molds - those were under 4000lbs.

So one afternoon was returning their truck, pulled it into the loading area which was on the other side of the area. As I was getting my stuff unloaded, I watched as someone was trying to get a 4X6 box off the rack, seeing he caught the corner of the rack with the pivot on the box, not looking up as he should just kept going, dragging the box's top and center section off the bottom plate, tumbling off the forklift, hitting the rack and collapsing all 60 feet of the rack, what a mess. It took them a week to get it fixed, the racks were all bent up and scrapped, and they had to repack all the molds which pissed off their customers.

 

Hope they had insurance. Basically shut that place down for while and costing ?? Money.

 

I thought the same. Funny how people think nowadays.

If any of you are in to this kind of thing there's a whole video of different ones on Youtube. Saw it years ago.