It was the previous shift to mine, so I didn’t see it. I did know the driver, though.
Vietnam Era, Port Chicago Naval Weapons Station, California. We were all Civil Service DOD longshoring employees.
The forklift got hauled to the fork driver school, as a reminder to trainees. It joined the destroyed boxcars from previous accidents that were there when I took the class.
There were other reminders, too. They never removed the burned stumps of the pilings from the WWII explosion that destroyed the entire waterfont. An anchor from one of those ships was recovered from 20 some miles away, and placed at the main gate to the base.
Wow, 20 miles away. that would even impress Timothy McVeigh.