I work around these fuckers every day and I have personally seen two of them roll off a stack and hit the ground rolling when I was ten feet away. Thank God they went the opposite direction.
Some things, you only do once.
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That prolly dint hurt much!
Only hurt for the rest of his life
Which was probably very short.
China wins again. Idiot did not jump away fast enough, heck even appeard he thought he could stop it. Probably slept through Physics at school or the commissars lecture on safety.
That reminds me of the first album from Head East.
Flat as a pancake 🙂
China? Where the words OSHA and safety don’t exist.
One thing stressed to new employees at steel mill I worked was caught between, pinch points, sharpness of coil edges and running strip and lastly weight of things. Roll sets, backups and especially coils. Had to pick up pieces of people twice in 45 years I worked there. You ain’t gonna stop a moving coil, stand off and toss a 4 x 4 in it’s path.
That is what is known as having a bad day. Not sure what those coils weigh, but used to see them all the time hauled upright chained to the flatbed trailer. Knew I didn’t want to be around if/when one got loose
40,000 lbs is a light one.
When I was working at Airgas and we delivered to where you worked, I was filling 500 L Dewar tanks and a steel coil came off a truck and was heading in my general direction of my filling and I high footed it out there after slamming the valve shut, fuck the tanks, the truck and O2 tanker…
Probably right. They are very heavy. Used to work in a plant where we stamped some car parts out a rolls like that.
Yep, I used to pull those out of ship holds when I was a longshoreman years ago. We’d hook them up and the crane world lift them out. Heavy fuckers at least 20 tons. Steel slabs were were heavier.
Oh..he daid.
That one was probably 20000 to 25000 pounds max.
Been in a few coil processing plants. Where was that and who trained the former dumbass?
I hate to say it but even dead, he’s still a dumbass.
The guy jumped in front of it to stop it.
His boss should be in prison for manslaughter at least.
Retardation is strong in this one
So was Darwin.
Funny how that works.
Well, that didn’t work.
fuckn brutal, but should be shown to every new employee and long timers even if they dont work with coils or steel
theres something that will kill you quick in every trade
Some mistakes get made only once…Like a 1st marriage.
One of my cousins was married seven times, last I knew, but then again I haven’t heard from him in about 30-years and the rest of the fambly doesn’t talk about him so who knows what his record is now.Â
Some mistakes can be made twice, but not a third time.
Clearly, the man who tried to stop the coil was unable to channel his inner Chuck Norris.
Doesn’t have to be china for shite like that to happen.
As a young man I worked in a plant that turned damaged coils into cut to size usable sheet. I had a 300 pound coil get dropped 15ft while pulling it from a rack and land 6 ft from me. Coil was kinda oval after that, and it didn’t bounce. 300 pound is tiny compared to the full coils but it would have flattened me.
Another time I helped stack a skid with 10K pounds of cut sheet onto the back of a Hyster forklift so they could bump and drag a 40K pound coil with a machine rated to lift 30K pounds. The coil line could handle the weight, but we had no good way to get it to the line. The 10K pounds was a cube about 2.5 ft on a side iirc. Steel is dense.
Another time a fork driver didn’t band a skid of cut sheet before moving it. He stopped hard and the whole 15K pounds slid off the pallet like fanning a deck of cards… it would have cut you off at the ankles if you were in its path. There was a river of sheet steel extending for 40 ft or more in front of the fork.
Humans can’t really appreciate the density and weight of things like a coil of steel or a 3ft block, nor the momentum involved if it’s moving. Our ape brains don’t get it.
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You should see some of the safety films we got as engineers designing industrial plants (P&G) to see what our screw ups would do.
Poor kid didn’t even slow it down, and the colleague who watched it happen just runs off out of frame, I’m guessing to go puke in the bushes. Imagine what that sounded like.