Watching it a second time, actually it looks like those shelves should have been replaced ages ago and the only reason they weren't was to save money. Some businesses need to realise that it's worth paying some to prevent this sort of thing. Accidents like this cost a lot more than the expense and labour of replacing shelves early.
If I had more time, patience, and esophageal fortitude I'd scribble up a "Loose Change" parody for that... but I'm just peeking between job-stuff, I'm short of sleep, and there's just not enough Tums in the universe for me to go through that stupid vid again.
-- Steve thinks that the driver wasn't terribly prudent to try moving that load through that narrow gap, but the driver's far from the only one to screw the pooch in that warehouse.
Considering that he can easily jump out one side of it, it would be just as easy for something to come in the other side and make with the stabbity, as duncan mentioned.
A friend of mine was nearly killed at Home Depot when a pallet of heavy-duty garbage cans, all shrink-wrapped together in a mass that probably weighed as much as a grand piano came crashing down on him. He jumped out of the way, but the load still scraped across is back causing severe bruising. More scary was that his wife and small child were nearby and thankfully just out of range of the falling debris. It was his wife's warning that saved my friend from what would have been undoubtedly more severe injuries. It probably saved his life.
Dozens of people are killed by falling pallets at warehouse stores (Home Depot, Lowe's, etc.). It doesn't take an errant forklift to show you how poorly these things are often constructed and stacked.
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Date: 2009-02-28 03:45 pm (UTC)Watching it a second time, actually it looks like those shelves should have been replaced ages ago and the only reason they weren't was to save money. Some businesses need to realise that it's worth paying some to prevent this sort of thing. Accidents like this cost a lot more than the expense and labour of replacing shelves early.
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Date: 2009-02-28 04:40 pm (UTC)-- Steve thinks that the driver wasn't terribly prudent to try moving that load through that narrow gap, but the driver's far from the only one to screw the pooch in that warehouse.
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Date: 2009-02-28 05:31 pm (UTC)(This was very obviously accelerated after filming -- look at the speed with which he falls to the ground.)
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Date: 2009-03-01 05:32 pm (UTC)Dozens of people are killed by falling pallets at warehouse stores (Home Depot, Lowe's, etc.). It doesn't take an errant forklift to show you how poorly these things are often constructed and stacked.