Shiva Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 This was said to have occurred last year, but if your packages were late or came broken back then, perhaps this is why. A fairly impressive chain of events over a small little bump. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6409331/Forklift-driver-causes-entire-warehouse-fall-like-dominoes-nudges-shelving-unit.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJkizak Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 Interesting. Double rows are usually secured with cross braces. Something doesn't seem right here. I have seen much more violent collisions which just caused some bending. Our shelving was creamed about 10 times per day at my workplace and I spent hours straightening out the bends. JJK 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schu Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 isnt that a really old video? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted November 20, 2018 Moderators Share Posted November 20, 2018 Either cheap shelves or really overloaded, but funny. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptorman Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 I wonder if anyone was hurt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilbert Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 23 hours ago, Shiva said: This was said to have occurred last year, but if your packages were late or came broken back then, perhaps this is why. A fairly impressive chain of events over a small little bump. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6409331/Forklift-driver-causes-entire-warehouse-fall-like-dominoes-nudges-shelving-unit.html I see a super sale Black Friday just around the corner from that warehouse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuzzzer Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 On 11/20/2018 at 11:16 AM, Schu said: isnt that a really old video? The article said it happened a year ago but was just uploaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babadono Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 back to Physics 101. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiva Posted November 22, 2018 Author Share Posted November 22, 2018 I just took a closer look at the vid. If you look closely at the bottom right corner of the image, underneath the shelf on the right, you will see some movement and a guy escaping the fall at the last minute. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted November 22, 2018 Share Posted November 22, 2018 6 minutes ago, Shiva said: I just took a closer look at the vid. If you look closely at the bottom right corner of the image, underneath the shelf on the right, you will see some movement and a guy escaping the fall at the last minute. It looks to me like he did not escape. It looks like it killed him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted November 22, 2018 Share Posted November 22, 2018 On 11/20/2018 at 11:12 AM, JJkizak said: Interesting. Double rows are usually secured with cross braces. Something doesn't seem right here. I have seen much more violent collisions which just caused some bending. Our shelving was creamed about 10 times per day at my workplace and I spent hours straightening out the bends. JJK Yeah, I am surprised they went down like that. Surely, they could not have been cross-braced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiva Posted November 22, 2018 Author Share Posted November 22, 2018 12 minutes ago, Jeff Matthews said: It looks to me like he did not escape. It looks like it killed him. To my eyes, I see him escaping the collapse and living through it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted November 22, 2018 Share Posted November 22, 2018 8 minutes ago, Shiva said: To my eyes, I see him escaping the collapse and living through it. I'm afraid you're just not seeing him die. He was much too close, and there's no way he could outrun gravity. Pay attention to how fast that pile gets very high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiva Posted November 22, 2018 Author Share Posted November 22, 2018 If you look closely, you see the center pile come to rest, him step away from the collapsing shelving he was under, the last of the boxes falling and coming to rest at his heels. evading the pile. My take, He lives to tell the tale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willland Posted November 22, 2018 Share Posted November 22, 2018 10 hours ago, Jeff Matthews said: Yeah, I am surprised they went down like that. Surely, they could not have been cross-braced. Yes me too. I have worked in a food distribution environment for 34 years and have seen many forklift drivers plow into racks and have never seen any of them crumble the way these racks did. I think Amazon needs to reconsider their engineering firms moving forward. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woofers and Tweeters Posted November 22, 2018 Share Posted November 22, 2018 I have seen other videos like that one If they are similar to the shelve at my workplace, those will have a rating close to 9000 pounds per shelf. A few years ago, I had to retag all of our shelves because my old boss only guessed as to how much to rate their load capacity. Still the small shelves we store dynamometer fixtures and parts on are rated at 800 pounds per shelf, and they're 7 shelf units. I tell people that they need to imaging a Cadillac Escalade on each one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjptkd Posted November 22, 2018 Share Posted November 22, 2018 14 hours ago, Shiva said: I just took a closer look at the vid. If you look closely at the bottom right corner of the image, underneath the shelf on the right, you will see some movement and a guy escaping the fall at the last minute. *EDIT* After watching again I see at the very last couple seconds of the video it looks like another guy in a black shirt jumps out of the way on the right side right at the last second, he looks like he's probably ok. I see three people in the video, forklift driver and two workers, one worker who appears to escape on the left side of the screen and one near the middle who appears to be overtaken by the pile and likely seriously hurt or possibly killed. Even after several seconds I don't see any movement from the forklift operator but he is somewhat protected in the frame of the forklift, would be interesting to find out what happened to the people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted November 22, 2018 Share Posted November 22, 2018 11 minutes ago, jjptkd said: and one near the middle who appears to be overtaken by the pile and likely seriously hurt or possibly killed. Yep. That's the guy. If you look carefully, it seems to appear as if you can see the right side of his body abruptly snap in a tiny fraction of a second. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
windashine Posted November 22, 2018 Share Posted November 22, 2018 … I saw that from Dave Barrys News Blog - Opps … nevertheless, aside from the hurt involved … o O ( imagine 2 sections of pallet rack, so that's 3 legs to hold what appear to be 5 section high, all the way down the aisle) ... each section hold two 2500 lb pallets max... so 5 high, with one on the floor, 4 in the air, maybe even 5 or 6 if it's really a 40' ceiling.. that 10000 lb's by theory at four loaded bays or 15,000 crazy pounds if 6 high - then remove one set of leg's and the two adjacent racks have 20,000 lbs each, (or more) then the domino effect displays what the overloaded pallet rack can do in a few seconds, with racks falling into each other, furthermore overloading the capacities... you know, a while back, there was a scratch and dent sale going on for speakers... come to think about it, everything has a dent on it, that I've seen lately.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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