A diversity hire, possibly female, as their useless college degree in some field of ‘study’ could not produce gainful, 6-figure income right out of the chute.
Hunger, and a warm place to stay forced a mundane job, but still a task requiring skills. Fail.
Shame it wasn’t an Amazon warehouse. Doubtful that the lift jockey survived.
The shelving structure engineer should also be a casualty of that episode, too.
Dutchman
November 27, 2018 10:42 am
I’m waiting for the conspiracy nuts to tell us it was an inside job.
You on tour? I’ll attend, if you’re coming to my town.
The poor sap was depressed…he felt the walls were closing in on him / her.
FXE
November 27, 2018 11:12 am
Result when IKEA shelf instructions don’t come in the box…
MrLiberty
November 27, 2018 11:57 am
Our warehouse racks were bolted to the floor. Who installed these? Ours got hit a couple of times, and no issues beyond the immediate shelf. I find it hard to believe that the manufacturers of these shelving units have not ALL provided the means to make sure this doesn’t happen. Indeed the driver is the cause of the initial issue, but beyond that, others are clearly to blame. Safety and risk management are about planning for the worst case scenario, NOT counting on the best case scenario.
No, this was management’s fault … entirely. Those are cheap, shitty racks, grossly overloaded. Somebody made the decision to put entirely too much weight on racks that could never be expected to hold it — hence the domino effect. Whoever signed-off on that decision should soon be sitting in prison for negligent homicide.
My husband laughed, then said “this has to be China.”
FXE
November 27, 2018 12:08 pm
Apparently the driver and another person died in the aftermath. This happened in Perth AU over two years ago and has only gone viral recently.
TJF
November 27, 2018 12:20 pm
Did those boxes come down at free fall speed? Must’ve been a direct energy weapon or thermite involved.
Administrator
Author
November 27, 2018 12:38 pm
clean up in aisle 4…..5,6,7, and 8
DavidC
November 27, 2018 12:54 pm
Um… oops…. my bad…
overthecliff
November 27, 2018 2:35 pm
In my days as a supervisor of packaging I had about 10 fork truckers working for me. They could break a 600 lb. stainless steel ball. Including their boss.
Suds
November 27, 2018 4:13 pm
Texting while driving?
Hydraulic power steering failure?
A few too many Fosters the night before, mate?
Tie me shelf unit down, sport.
Tie me shelf unit down.
Or I’ll bang my head
and be dead, Fred.
When all the shelving comes down.
All together now…
if you know the tune, it will stay in your head for the next couple of days.
Right, nkit?
Gosh, dong, dong…you did it again, dang it…fuckin’ roos..
Llpoh
November 27, 2018 6:17 pm
Managers/owners ofthis facility are probably screwed. A small bump causing all that destruction means that the design and use of those racks was inappropriate. Liability falls to the company. Sucks to be them. If the driver or anyone else died, perhaps in the aisles we cannot see, it really sucks to be them. It will be absolutely considered to be a foreseeable event.
IluvCO2
November 27, 2018 7:10 pm
Looks like the controlled demolition of WTC 7.
mark
November 27, 2018 7:23 pm
I was over Loss Prevention and Safety in a large retail Distribution Center.
We had a young black fork lift driver…drive out an open bay at full speed in broad daylight. Amazingly he was not seriously injured but was drug tested in the hospital.
He tested positive for alcoholic, pot, and cocaine…it was 8:30 am.
that happens more than you realize,guy forgets to put down the safety mat or forgets that the truck has pulled away,etc–
being high that early in the am is from the night b4–i was a drinker,no other junk,but i could not tell you how many x i was out till 3/4 am drinking w/buddies,on the job in the sawmill by 7am,small bottle of mouthwash & multiple packs of mints in my pocket–
Boat Guy
November 27, 2018 11:13 pm
Catastrophic failure of shelving by raming one section or two should not have lead to such a failure unless their were some lack of anchoring and fastening
robert h siddell jr
November 28, 2018 1:11 am
Analogy for several future social system collapses: the country from Affirmative Action Pomotees all reaching their Peter Principle Position and a National Crisis Occurs (the Public Education System already collapsed). The Financial System when every Smuck owes every Himey every penny ever minted and nobody could buy the Hope Diamond if it was a dime and you could finance it if your Credit Rating was over 3. The MSM when there aren’t any Liberals that can read a Teleprompter above a Second Grade Level.
A diversity hire, possibly female, as their useless college degree in some field of ‘study’ could not produce gainful, 6-figure income right out of the chute.
Hunger, and a warm place to stay forced a mundane job, but still a task requiring skills. Fail.
Shame it wasn’t an Amazon warehouse. Doubtful that the lift jockey survived.
The shelving structure engineer should also be a casualty of that episode, too.
I’m waiting for the conspiracy nuts to tell us it was an inside job.
It was an ‘inside the warehouse job…’
Did lucky Larry take out a $3.5B insurance policy 7 weeks before the warehouse “incident?”
That forklift driver really has their work piling up on them…
You on tour? I’ll attend, if you’re coming to my town.
The poor sap was depressed…he felt the walls were closing in on him / her.
Result when IKEA shelf instructions don’t come in the box…
Our warehouse racks were bolted to the floor. Who installed these? Ours got hit a couple of times, and no issues beyond the immediate shelf. I find it hard to believe that the manufacturers of these shelving units have not ALL provided the means to make sure this doesn’t happen. Indeed the driver is the cause of the initial issue, but beyond that, others are clearly to blame. Safety and risk management are about planning for the worst case scenario, NOT counting on the best case scenario.
No, this was management’s fault … entirely. Those are cheap, shitty racks, grossly overloaded. Somebody made the decision to put entirely too much weight on racks that could never be expected to hold it — hence the domino effect. Whoever signed-off on that decision should soon be sitting in prison for negligent homicide.
Given the rickety shelves and poor driving, perhaps Chinee?
My husband laughed, then said “this has to be China.”
Apparently the driver and another person died in the aftermath. This happened in Perth AU over two years ago and has only gone viral recently.
Did those boxes come down at free fall speed? Must’ve been a direct energy weapon or thermite involved.
clean up in aisle 4…..5,6,7, and 8
Um… oops…. my bad…
In my days as a supervisor of packaging I had about 10 fork truckers working for me. They could break a 600 lb. stainless steel ball. Including their boss.
Texting while driving?
Hydraulic power steering failure?
A few too many Fosters the night before, mate?
Tie me shelf unit down, sport.
Tie me shelf unit down.
Or I’ll bang my head
and be dead, Fred.
When all the shelving comes down.
All together now…
if you know the tune, it will stay in your head for the next couple of days.
Right, nkit?
Indeed… ; ^)
Gosh, dong, dong…you did it again, dang it…fuckin’ roos..
Managers/owners ofthis facility are probably screwed. A small bump causing all that destruction means that the design and use of those racks was inappropriate. Liability falls to the company. Sucks to be them. If the driver or anyone else died, perhaps in the aisles we cannot see, it really sucks to be them. It will be absolutely considered to be a foreseeable event.
Looks like the controlled demolition of WTC 7.
I was over Loss Prevention and Safety in a large retail Distribution Center.
We had a young black fork lift driver…drive out an open bay at full speed in broad daylight. Amazingly he was not seriously injured but was drug tested in the hospital.
He tested positive for alcoholic, pot, and cocaine…it was 8:30 am.
that happens more than you realize,guy forgets to put down the safety mat or forgets that the truck has pulled away,etc–
being high that early in the am is from the night b4–i was a drinker,no other junk,but i could not tell you how many x i was out till 3/4 am drinking w/buddies,on the job in the sawmill by 7am,small bottle of mouthwash & multiple packs of mints in my pocket–
Catastrophic failure of shelving by raming one section or two should not have lead to such a failure unless their were some lack of anchoring and fastening
Analogy for several future social system collapses: the country from Affirmative Action Pomotees all reaching their Peter Principle Position and a National Crisis Occurs (the Public Education System already collapsed). The Financial System when every Smuck owes every Himey every penny ever minted and nobody could buy the Hope Diamond if it was a dime and you could finance it if your Credit Rating was over 3. The MSM when there aren’t any Liberals that can read a Teleprompter above a Second Grade Level.