Is it legal for a dock to not have doors?

Have you seen the warning on box cutters "warning sharp blade"

 

In my career, I have seen forklifts in trailers as they are moved. I have seen forklifts fall off docks. I think the hardest I have ever laughed was one day in Atlanta a forklift driver had a bad case of the runs, decided to drive the forklift all the way across the dock, was going so fast he could not get stopped in time. Yes, he took out the restroom and it was occupied at the time. To this day I have no idea what happened to the guy, that day I know for a fact he had to change his diaper. A while before I retired a remember watching a restroom go up in flames, yes, somebody lit too much TP on fire and it caught the trashcan on fire. The Lakeland Florida FD had to come out.

 

In my ltl days I once pull away from a door closed, chained off dock ...when I went to close the doors there was a forklift in the trailer ...RUNNING !

 

And Preparation H is for external use only. Someone probably tried it in a tuna salad sandwich.

 

I thought it would work on my ex-gf the way it did in the Tom and Jerry cartoon. Lips shrink up and she'd have been forced to shutup.

 

A couple weeks ago a forklift driver unloaded my trailer and wasn't wearing a mask. I still lay awake at night traumatized by that.

 

He was that ugly, eh?

 

I still don't know for sure if those chains across dock doors are OSHA or insurance requirements, but they're not MEANT to "stop a forklift".

They're there to "Raise Awareness" of the big-### HOLE in the wall........

 

Deploy the orange cones.