Took this pic near work yesterday. Business next to us is a reloader. They bring in various products by rail and reload them onto local trucks.
This truck had just been loaded with large bundles of rebar......he made it out the gate and down the street but when he made the turn onto a major street he lost part of his load. It grazed a light pole shaking it so that both globes fell out and hit the pavement in front of an on coming vehicle.
As the steel was laying across two lanes of traffic a frantic call went out to the reloading company to come pick up the steel out of the street and put it back on the truck.
The company dispatched a HUGH forklift(half the size of a locomotive). It sprinted down the street to the accident scene but the operator forgot to lower the forks. He hit some overhead phone lines which tangled in the mast. While he was trying to extract himself the company dispatched two more smaller forklifts to get the truck reloaded as seen in the photo.
Note there are no chains, binders or straps present.........none were put on the load before of after the accident. The second he was reloaded he sprinted down the steet away from the scene before the police got there.
What is sad.............the same thing happened last Friday on the street outside the gate. These people are dangerous. Same folks have turned over forklifts lifting large bundles of rebar and 40k rolls of steel out of train cars.
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This truck had just been loaded with large bundles of rebar......he made it out the gate and down the street but when he made the turn onto a major street he lost part of his load. It grazed a light pole shaking it so that both globes fell out and hit the pavement in front of an on coming vehicle.
As the steel was laying across two lanes of traffic a frantic call went out to the reloading company to come pick up the steel out of the street and put it back on the truck.
The company dispatched a HUGH forklift(half the size of a locomotive). It sprinted down the street to the accident scene but the operator forgot to lower the forks. He hit some overhead phone lines which tangled in the mast. While he was trying to extract himself the company dispatched two more smaller forklifts to get the truck reloaded as seen in the photo.
Note there are no chains, binders or straps present.........none were put on the load before of after the accident. The second he was reloaded he sprinted down the steet away from the scene before the police got there.
What is sad.............the same thing happened last Friday on the street outside the gate. These people are dangerous. Same folks have turned over forklifts lifting large bundles of rebar and 40k rolls of steel out of train cars.
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....you would think they would have learned the first time(about tying down a load) just imagine what the fine would have been if they were caught....luckily no one was injured
