Posted on 12/06/2011 4:03:49 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
PALM SPRINGS — A man died Tuesday after he was crushed by a tortilla oven behind an out-of-business supermarket.
The man was part of a three-person crew attempting to load the 3,000-pound commercial oven onto a truck when it fell off a manual forklift, said Palm Springs Lt. Sal Abruscato.
"We do not suspect any foul play at all," Abruscato said. "This is a horrible accident."
The oven was one of many items auctioned off at the supermarket Monday, he said. The person who bought it hired the crew to deliver it.
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When I lived in the NW quadrant of Atlanta I would see vehicles (either cargo vans or pickup trucks loaded with rolls of carpeting, probably 2-3.5x the gross carrying capacity of the vehicle, with the carpet roll extending beyond the tailgate of back bumper and nearly dragging on the road surface. The front tires would only be making intermittent contact with the road surface, the vehicle's center of gravity having been shifted so far to the back. Inside, you would see several folks who might be Mexicans or Central Americans, hard to tell. But in addition to not being able to read and understand the carrying capacity limits of these vehicles, you knew they had no concept of fundamental physics (center of gravity, inertia, etc.) and were just a really bad accident waiting to happen.
This guy with the oven, same thing. In his case there may have been no externalities (he may have been directing the move - Doh!), on I-75 in Atlanta, a lot of innocent folks could get hurt.
I hate it when that happens.
His nickname wasn't "Tortilla Flats" by any chance, was it?
Sometimes, you're the nail.
You just know he and Rachel Corrie are swapping some stories at the moment.
You might be an illegal redneck.
This really is BREAKING News.
Let’s hope for this poor man’s sake, he is no where close to where I bet Corrie ended up.
What a terrible way to go.
Smashed flat like a tortilla..
Freak accidents happen all the time .
I recall one case at the ports, where a trucker waiting in line for a container, jumps out of his truck to go pee, and runs across the roadway between stacked containers..
As he’s peeing, the trucker behind the guy that went to go pee, stands on his air horn as the guy peeing forgot to set his truck brake and his truck was slowly rolling back towards the horn honker.
He’s done peeing, hearing the horn and likely seeing his truck slowly rolling backwards, runs out between the tall containers, and is immediately run over by another tractor trailer driving by the row of containers where he was peeing.
It was a very ugly scene.
Live by the tortilla die by the tortilla
Good point.
Casey Dilla.
-PJ
#fail
BERRIEN SPRINGS, Mich. — A semi-tractor trailer overturned and spilled its load of molten aluminum on a car Tuesday, killing two people in the auto, authorities said.
Witnesses said the car was nearly encased in the hot metal before its gasoline tank exploded.
The accident occurred during the noon hour on U.S. Highway 31 near here.
The truck driver, Daniel T. Roeder, 24, of Three Oaks, was rescued by passers-by Mike Gordon and George Sammons, Police Chief James Kesterke said.
Betcha molten metal became the concept for the Terminator movies
A plaintiff’s attorney’s wet-dream!
3000 lbs is nothing for your average forklift to handle. It is a problem for a group of idiots to handle though.
IIRC the two killed were a couple of college students, which probably jacked up the settlement fees even higher.
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