On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 08:10:17 -0400, Stuart Wheaton
wrote:

On 7/9/2011 5:12 AM, DougC wrote:
On 7/9/2011 1:49 AM, Steve wrote:


wrote in message ...
FFS....just spot how many basic rules of fork-lift safety are being
violated in this video.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b0c_1310175148

The guy in the "man cage" wasn't killed, which was certainly lucky for
him. I wasn't aware that a "man cage" type device was even permitted
under OSHA rules.....in fact, I doubt that it is.
Dave

What OSHA rules? That is Plymouth England!


Steve R.

Did OSAH rules on these things change [relatively] lately?

The (USA) grocery store chain I work for sent forklift man-platforms out
to all the stores a few years ago. They got used only very occasinally.
Usually the stock clerks would just get the whole pallet down, since
they'd need a bunch of whatever was on it anyway.

Then after about a year, corporate HQ sent an email around not to use
them anymore. So now every store has a bright-orange,
nearly-new-condition forklift platform sitting in the storage room. And
has for the past, oh, five years or so.

I wonder how many got crushed into trusses in those. I think I've seen
even more lousy forklift drivers than crazy VW drivers, and that's
saying a lot. My Tundra was cut off TWICE by an idiot blind bitz in a
VW van yesterday. Had I been in my old Ford, I'd have let her take
what she had coming. She changed into my lane with less than 4' and I
was accelerating both times, so I had to use the 4-wheel disc brakes
hard, on short notice, each time. It didn't matter how big my truck
was because she simply did not look to see if it was clear to change
lanes. She was too busy making hand gestures and talking with the
other lady in the POS to pay attention to that little detail. Feh!


From the looks of it, it is functionally not very different from a
Genie AWP type lift. The problem in the video was taking a fairly
high-speed turn with a load elevated on the forks. IF you must move
with a man in the basket, you do so at a creep. That lift would have
toppled no matter what load was up high. Not a tool problem, an
operator problem.

Absolutely. I'll bet that when the electrician is back to normal, he
tracks down and kicks the **** out of that idiot driver who hurt him
and nearly killed him.


http://www.craneandforkliftattachments.com/page7.htm

Seems to be a legal device in the UK/Ireland

That's amazing. Butter knives are banned there. =:0


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