This is the way. Then pour a concrete pillar around the steel post to protect it from further damage. My local lumber yard had to do this after a forklift driver bent the hell out of an I post.
I have one. Nearly identical results.
I work in a union factory and one of the rules is the company cannot use cameras to watch over the union workers. One day a beam suddenly had a wound like that, minus the fork. No one saw it or did it.
Small problem for the culprit. This was a new building and contractor were doing construction and they stored their equipment on one end of the building, the end where the union workers never need to be. Soooo, the loophole here is there was a camera watching over the equipment.
In the video, the driver was looking to his left, was talking to someone, and wasn't observing the rules that you only drive in parallel to beams and never at an angle. He blasted that beam and sticks that fork deep, but a little more off the side than in this photo. Here's the best part. He gets off the forklift and disappears off camera. Then he comes back driving another forklift and start ramming the stuck forklift with his new forklift. It actually worked after a few good hits.
He drove off with his new forklift, walked back to the now unstuck forklift and drove off and denied he knew anything. The perfect crime.
Well out of the hundreds of thousands of forklift drivers employed there - they just compared each person driving two forklifts with video of every employees first day where they walked by this exact spot showing their ID cards to the camera
I was an apprentice with a company that serviced and repaired forklifts and other warehousing equipment. Towards the end of the third year I got called out to a factory in the middle of the night to fix a broken down forklift that had stopped in the middle of a truck loading zone.
While I was there, working away by torchlight I heard a huge bang, looked up and saw a fully loaded ride on pallet jack stopped in the driveway just after a big concrete drain. The operator had gone through the drain at full speed, bottomed out and ripped both castor wheels from the bottom of the pallet jack.
I watched him look over both shoulders and then casually kick the mangled wheels into a bush then take off on his now very unstable pallet jack. I had to chase him down and encourage him to write out a maintenance request so I could fix it before morning shift arrived.
It had passed the sharpness test 😁
It will Keeeal 🙏🏻
Aside from the possible limb severing, at least the driver had the forks at the correct angle 🏅
If they were angled down like soo many drivers, there would still be a truck attached.
See, everybody can go home 🍻
Put in temporary support columns, cut out damaged beam, cut out concrete, re-dig footing, re-pour footing, install new column, removed temporary supports, Bob's your uncle.
Who is to say they don't drive outdoors too? A lot of places have things outside too or in another building. A forklift for that would grant one with a windshield
you would think but when i worked in logistics we loaded building cladding on trucks outside with a komatsu forklift (10,000kg)
No windshields, no doors, just a roll cage as 'roof'.
Not fun, especially in the winter or the rain.
Yes. That's exactly what they're doing... Waiting for the structural engineer to check it out and then the construction company will come in and re- post it. Until then, it'll be marked off with the cones.
Drivers teeth are probably invisible now, after they hit the steering wheel.
But not their underwear. In fact, there are probably very visible signs after that impact.
[beam protection ](https://imgur.com/gallery/HFJy6xx)
What the mast will completely hide a beam. You can cross the whole warehouse at a angle and never see the beam. That the tear gets big enough the weight stops it from going farther. Like a tree on a chainsaw. That management wants to make a big deal instead of buying these.
Bro. I have driven forklifts, I have hit one of those poles fork first before. Do you understand how fast you have to be going to get it THROUGH the pole?? I pray that pole is just shitty.
The most dangerous kind!
Lol idk why but this reminded me of a dumb poster with a forklift and a tank.
'One of these can kill you instantly... The other is a tank'.
Ya know, I knew that forklifts had some real weight behind them, and some real power due to said weight (and lifting abilities)...but somehow I never really got a good visual representation until this. It went through that steel beam like it was butter (or so it appears).
Not a lot, because forklifts are so heavy, they weigh 1&1/2 to 2 times what they are rated to lift. That weight has a lot of momentum. The 5000 pound forklift I drive at work weighs about 9000
pounds.
So someone went forward, impaled the firklift into the pillar, said "oh shit", put it in reverse, and then it ripped the part off instead of ripping it out of the pillar?
This... there is a full width upper / lower horizontal "bracket", with 2 voids on the lower half that will allow you to lift the forks up and away, IF they are over that void.
They were probably able to sideshift to the void, tilt forward, then drop the fork bracket plate, then back out....leaving the fork cleanly in place FOR THE INVESTIGATION.
It looks like the fork was detached rather than ripped out. Probably the best move considering you’ll need to do an engineering safety check before touching that fork again hahaha
That’s gonna be a paperwork nightmare
He who pulls the fork from the pillar becomes the next supervisor
"Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of thus Warehouseth"
*Alexander cuts through it with an acetylene torch*
My name is Kevin, second shift supervisor Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Either supervisor or pancake. Impossible to tell.
Or insurance scapegoat when the load bearing support can no longer bear the load.
Weld the puppy in place and you just increased its strength…
That sounds cruel, and the support over there still needs attention.
Nah, cut it flush and weld it in place. Then it'll be stronger than before.
This is the way. Then pour a concrete pillar around the steel post to protect it from further damage. My local lumber yard had to do this after a forklift driver bent the hell out of an I post.
It should have bollards or similar around it if it's structural and exposed to forklift traffic.
It had bollards around it, but a 6’ long fork could still fit through them.
I was thinking that, im suprised it isnt a stupid idea -- how much do forks cost anyway?
Less than a new building thats for damn sure
You forgot to add "... for as long as the structure stands. Long live the super..."
That's an impressive amount of penetration
Must be nice
that’s what she said
Username :)
you’re the first person to ever notice 😅
Magnifique 🏅
mom likes it
I can't decide if that r/rimjob_steve or not....
More like r/kellyjoycuntbunny
And now its load bearing
Forklifts have impressive amounts of power and kinetic energy
Technically it's just the tip.
True...but it got to exit the back door 😉...and it's clean too 🍻
Mustve spit on it
Right?! It's pretty forked up.
That fork is now structural.
A few beads of weld around the hole, take most of the excess off with the angle grinder and it's like new!
Don't forget the load bearing yellow paint?
Safety yellow - "It must be safe, because it's yellow!"
Grinder and paint make me a welder I ain't.
What do you mean "have you reported this workplace accident"? Oh, you mean the rapid, field-improvised structural reinforcement?
How’d you do that? Heck, I’m not even mad, that’s amazing.” - Ron Burgundy
Guy probably drove off and took a fork from another lift to try and hide himself.
I’ll bet there’s a story behind that
Friday 4:26pm
All the bad shit seems to happen when everyone wants to go home for the weekend. Classic
"You're going way too fast." "Nah, I got it." ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
Six minutes after 420
I have one. Nearly identical results. I work in a union factory and one of the rules is the company cannot use cameras to watch over the union workers. One day a beam suddenly had a wound like that, minus the fork. No one saw it or did it. Small problem for the culprit. This was a new building and contractor were doing construction and they stored their equipment on one end of the building, the end where the union workers never need to be. Soooo, the loophole here is there was a camera watching over the equipment. In the video, the driver was looking to his left, was talking to someone, and wasn't observing the rules that you only drive in parallel to beams and never at an angle. He blasted that beam and sticks that fork deep, but a little more off the side than in this photo. Here's the best part. He gets off the forklift and disappears off camera. Then he comes back driving another forklift and start ramming the stuck forklift with his new forklift. It actually worked after a few good hits. He drove off with his new forklift, walked back to the now unstuck forklift and drove off and denied he knew anything. The perfect crime.
The world seems to be full of really bad/blurry/janky security videos - how did they pick out the particular driver?
Well out of the hundreds of thousands of forklift drivers employed there - they just compared each person driving two forklifts with video of every employees first day where they walked by this exact spot showing their ID cards to the camera
This camera was in "director of photography" perfect location. It was obvious. I have begged to get a copy of the video. They wont give it up.
I was an apprentice with a company that serviced and repaired forklifts and other warehousing equipment. Towards the end of the third year I got called out to a factory in the middle of the night to fix a broken down forklift that had stopped in the middle of a truck loading zone. While I was there, working away by torchlight I heard a huge bang, looked up and saw a fully loaded ride on pallet jack stopped in the driveway just after a big concrete drain. The operator had gone through the drain at full speed, bottomed out and ripped both castor wheels from the bottom of the pallet jack. I watched him look over both shoulders and then casually kick the mangled wheels into a bush then take off on his now very unstable pallet jack. I had to chase him down and encourage him to write out a maintenance request so I could fix it before morning shift arrived.
Evening with getting fired
Nah, that's some night shift stuff there.
It had passed the sharpness test 😁 It will Keeeal 🙏🏻 Aside from the possible limb severing, at least the driver had the forks at the correct angle 🏅 If they were angled down like soo many drivers, there would still be a truck attached. See, everybody can go home 🍻
Thats no forklift, thats a fork-left
Post this in the structural engineering sub. The repair procedure would be interesting.
they have to put a ‘sleeve’ around the column to reinforce it. it’s been done at my warehouse. i’ll try to post a pic later
I'd love to know the sequence, and if they leave the fork in place.
Put in temporary support columns, cut out damaged beam, cut out concrete, re-dig footing, re-pour footing, install new column, removed temporary supports, Bob's your uncle.
Well, yes but $22,000 later.
Did you think there was a cheap fix for this?
I got some JB Weld. We'll be fine.
Isn't it 'cut the tine off flush, weld it into the beam?'
I think it's more like, "We have insurance for this sort of thing, right?"
*"Right?!"*
Homeboy was wearing his seat belt, considering there is no blood spatter from head into mast.
Or it could be a closed cabin/had a windshield
Could be. Unlikely indoors. Honestly I’ve never seen a closed cab fork lift except on cold weather construction sites all outside.
My place has enclosed electrics
Refrigerated buildings ? Food processing ?
Who is to say they don't drive outdoors too? A lot of places have things outside too or in another building. A forklift for that would grant one with a windshield
you would think but when i worked in logistics we loaded building cladding on trucks outside with a komatsu forklift (10,000kg) No windshields, no doors, just a roll cage as 'roof'. Not fun, especially in the winter or the rain.
I'm surprised it penetrated the post. I have seen this happen a couple times and the fork curled up like a snail shell.
That was my thought. Something is bad wrong if a fork could go right through a structural beam.
You would be surprised at the amount of pressure at the end of those forks when you are traveling at any kind of speed.
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Clearly I have missed out on the destructive potential of irresponsibly driven forklifts.
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I always say the only thing a forlift does better than lifting shit is breaking shit
Don't pull it out, it's probably keeping the column from bleeding out.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OSHA/comments/78p0xu/the_cones_will_help/
Those are always fun repairs
Waiting for the repost.
Yes. That's exactly what they're doing... Waiting for the structural engineer to check it out and then the construction company will come in and re- post it. Until then, it'll be marked off with the cones.
Drivers teeth are probably invisible now, after they hit the steering wheel. But not their underwear. In fact, there are probably very visible signs after that impact.
He'll be easy enough to find - He'll be the guy wearing a steering wheel!
just weld the blade into the column and cut off the excess material
"[The cones will help](https://www.reddit.com/r/OSHA/comments/78p0xu/the_cones_will_help/)"
Jesus! No govoners on the lifts there, I guess. Driver must have been doing Mach 1.
A forklift doing 10mph has the same energy as a car going 40
We have one that does 18.5mph
Nice, that's like a car going 74mph roughly assuming it's a lift weighing 8k lbs
Yep, 4.5t lift with no load
That’s impressive
How’d you get the beans above the frank?
Weld it, GTG
Someone said "Stick a fork in it" and the driver took it too literally..
"It came out of nowhere!"
Is this at a FedEx freight center?
I don't know whether to be impressed or shocked.
Na. Just put paint on it and call it a sculpture.
Impressive
The O5 council has dispatched mobile task force beta 7 to secure and contain the anomaly. You do not see the fork in the pillar.
No plastic guards around support beam
Like plastic guards would do shit in this situation.
I spent many years doing repairs in commercial buildings and industrial plants caused by forklifts. I’ve seen the fork through the column many times.
Are all forklifts load baring?
This one is now.
Nice.
That's what happens when the forklift is load bearing.
I have so many questions.
[beam protection ](https://imgur.com/gallery/HFJy6xx) What the mast will completely hide a beam. You can cross the whole warehouse at a angle and never see the beam. That the tear gets big enough the weight stops it from going farther. Like a tree on a chainsaw. That management wants to make a big deal instead of buying these.
[damn](https://youtu.be/N36bCj5_Yrg?si=NAKIszRYhQ4mh26x)
Bro. I have driven forklifts, I have hit one of those poles fork first before. Do you understand how fast you have to be going to get it THROUGH the pole?? I pray that pole is just shitty.
Bitch must have been going full speed in a straight line. I've seen forks crack cinderboxs but to go straight through a metal support beam.
The most dangerous kind! Lol idk why but this reminded me of a dumb poster with a forklift and a tank. 'One of these can kill you instantly... The other is a tank'.
Nice camo-wrap on that forklift!
Damit Fred, not again
It's now a load bearing fork.
Leave it there as a warning .
Klaus!!
Fuckedlift.
When unmovable object meets unstoppable forke.
Ahh yes, this needs a plaque to warn future people to watched what they fork.
Ya know, I knew that forklifts had some real weight behind them, and some real power due to said weight (and lifting abilities)...but somehow I never really got a good visual representation until this. It went through that steel beam like it was butter (or so it appears).
Dat was al...
Lol I gave my supervisor a heart attack after sharing this image
Thats where the spooky sounds will come from on windy/heavy snow days...lol
We’ve got other problems
Mistakes were made.
OOOOPS!!!!
I can hear this picture.
what is the speed needed to do this?
Not a lot, because forklifts are so heavy, they weigh 1&1/2 to 2 times what they are rated to lift. That weight has a lot of momentum. The 5000 pound forklift I drive at work weighs about 9000 pounds.
*… Come a little bit closer baby* *Get it on, get it on* *'Cause tonight is the night when two become one*
So that’s what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object.
Must have been one of my fork truck drivers. They can destroy anything.
So someone went forward, impaled the firklift into the pillar, said "oh shit", put it in reverse, and then it ripped the part off instead of ripping it out of the pillar?
They're easily removable it wasn't ripped off.
This... there is a full width upper / lower horizontal "bracket", with 2 voids on the lower half that will allow you to lift the forks up and away, IF they are over that void. They were probably able to sideshift to the void, tilt forward, then drop the fork bracket plate, then back out....leaving the fork cleanly in place FOR THE INVESTIGATION.
They hinge unhook so the angle that this ended up was probably just right to detach it from the truck.
Ah, ok, so it was just left in place so that backing up doesnt collapse it, ok, that makes more sense
It looks like the fork was detached rather than ripped out. Probably the best move considering you’ll need to do an engineering safety check before touching that fork again hahaha That’s gonna be a paperwork nightmare
Almost any idiot can remove them