Fork Lift Operator Has a Real Bad Day at Work (Video)

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[OneVike]

This happened in Russia, and from what I understand it is supposed
to be a warehouse for a vodka bottling company, but I never see any
fluids from broken bottles so I question that. Either way, this guy
had a very bad day at work. No knowledge if he was hurt or not. If it
was me, and it was vodka warehouse, and I was not too injured...
Well they may find an empty bottle or two in my lap.

[OneVike]

Reminds me of that scene in Giant in the wine cellar when a drunken Jett Rink Falls into one of the racks, and they all go tumbling like dominoes.

I remember watching that movie one late night in the early 70's when I was a teen. It was like the last movie of the night before the test pattern came on. I was real sleepy, but because it had Elizabeth Taylor when she was younger in it, I forced myself to stay up.

Besides Taylor, it had a few other big names in it like Rock Hudson and James Dean, and if I'm not mistaking it even had a very very young Dennis Hopper in it. One of his first rolls if I am not mistaking. Also, I learned years later that it was actually James Dean, the original bad boys last movie, before he died in the car wreck.

Oh, and yes I do remember the scene where Rock Hudson's character knocks over a wine shelf that slowly makes all of the rest fall like dominoes. However, I really cannot remember why he did it, or much other than bits and pieces of the whole movie. I kept dozing off because there was so much talking as many older movies had. Now that I am older I appreciate the old classics more because they could act and did not need a lot of props to distract you from the bad acting of today's actors.

Talk about a blast from the past, now I want to find it and watch it again. Thanks for the memory.

[OneVike]

When I was in college my summer job was driving a lift truck for a dairy. I dropped a pallet of milk once, but nothing like than. Still, I can sympathize.

The first job I had, besides my paper route, was working at Anderson's Lumberyard in Proctor Minn. It's a suburb of Duluth.

A very interesting story made short, I was dating his daughter and he wanted to keep an aye on me. He taught me to drive the fork lift. I was 16 at the time, can you imagine the trouble a business would get in letting a 16 year old driving a forklift today?

After I broke up with his daughter I was fired like a month later. To this day I am convinced he kept me on until he knew his daughter was not pregnant, because he knew what she was like. As I said that is the only reason he hired me in the first place, he wanted to keep me real close just in case.

He was a big Swede, and he had us all work a half a day on Sundays. Thing is, he liked his whiskey, and I learned that I too liked it. Something that would take me almost 30 years to get under control.

[PLMerite]

First image is best - forklift, meet cluster bomb.

http://onemansblog.com/2007/09/05/wheres-osha-when-you-need-em/

[OneVike]

My product was on those shelves, and I had just been there earlier in the day, so the joke became that I really must have needed some sales...LOL! Seriously, it was a miracle that no one was killed.

Interesting, God watches out for us all. Even if we don't think about him.

[OneVike]

Amazing photos. We humans surely do test the limits.

[ApplegateRanch]

At 10:18 p.m., witnesses reported hearing a noise described as "a metallic sound and rending timbers, such as made by a falling boom."[26] Immediately afterward, an explosion occurred on the pier and a fire started. Five to seven seconds later[16][30][31], a more powerful explosion took place as the majority of the ordnance within and near the SS E. A. Bryan detonated in a huge fireball some 3 miles (4.8 km) in diameter.[31] Chunks of glowing hot metal and burning ordnance were flung over 12,000 feet (3,660 m) into the air.[16] The E. A. Bryan was completely destroyed and the Quinault was blown out of the water, torn into sections and thrown in several directions; the stern landed upside down in the water 500 feet (150 m) away. U.S. Coast Guard fire boat CG-60014-F was thrown 600 feet (180 m) upriver, where it sank. The pier, along with its boxcars, locomotive, rails, cargo and men, was blasted into pieces. Nearby boxcars, waiting within their revetments to be unloaded at midnight, were bent inward and crumpled by the force of the shock. The port's barracks and other buildings and much of the surrounding town were severely damaged. Shattering glass and a rain of jagged metal and undetonated munitions caused many additional injuries among both military and civilian populations, although no one outside the immediate pier area was killed.[32] Nearly $9.9 million worth of damage ($124 million in current value) was caused to U.S. Government property.[33] Seismographs at the University of California, Berkeley sensed the two shock waves traveling through the ground, determining the second, larger event to be equivalent to an earthquake measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale.[34]

,Wiki article about it

National Park site...it's now a "National Memorial"

[TheOldLady]

One of the worst fictional tragedies in movie history.

[JadeEmperor]

They import the same made in China things today as does everyone else. There is also a wide influx of western goods, unlike the soviet days. Russian high speed trains are made by Siemens, for instance. You're thinking the days of the Iron Curtain.

[Erasmus]

Perhaps you also remember the cookout scene where Rock Hudson brings his high-toned, white-bread, Easterner bride (Elizabeth Taylor) and she faints when they get to the cow brains served in-place, as it were.

I saw it when it first came out in the theaters. I guess it made me who I am today.

Years later, I stayed at the (then-named) Shamrock Hilton, the hotel used in the movie. It was across the street from Rice Univeristy. Then, they tore it down. (I refuse responsibility for that, BTW.)

≤}B^)

[cunning_fish]

It was a Russian supermarket and it was imported liquor (whiskey, rum) worth some $180,000. I heard that company has fired a driver and demanded to pay damage but he or she has sued too and the court ruled company to pay instead. They ruled that company haven’t provided proper training and violated safety rules there (at the same time it is clear to me it was a drivers fault).

[OneVike]

Thanks, I will now edit my information for the video to reflect the facts.

OV

[cunning_fish]

Yep, modern Russia is less communist than US is under Obama, but all that American union crap is based on Soviet labor legislation from post-Stalinist late 50s Russia. So their Russian courts are still affected with an idea to make worker a victim at any cost.