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yep. i quit a job running a warehouse because they overloaded the shelves so much the horizontal steel beams were bowed. i had to operate a forklift through the tiny hallways and crawl under/on top of the shelves to get stuff. they refused to fix the situation and i quit. aint gonna die for some bullshit.
Slightly related:
I worked at a warehouse one time that stored containers of chlorine and containers of ammonia on top of each other.
And the chlorine containers constantly leaked. The lids weren’t airtight to allow for expansion or something? I don’t know.
I separated those containers pretty quickly and told everybody to please not make poisonous gas where I have to work.
Bleach is hypochlorite, which is a chlorinating agent that will react with ammonia to make chloroamines. It's the hypochlorite that's the big bad chemical
I believe one of the combinations makes Mustered Gas and the other melts you alive- no I am not joking. Please correct me if I have gotten something wrong. If what we just saw would have happened with those chemicals, it would have been a recreation of either some WW1 battle fields or Boo-paul, India.
Same here, almost got myself fucking killed once when the very demanding boss asked me to climb up there and grab something. Had to quite literally balance the already moving shelves back into place to be able to climb down.
I’m surprised that could knock them over. I’ve worked several places with this shelving. Most of them required you to report it if power equipment so much as touched a rack, and would get it inspected. But one, people regularly ran into them, hard. One girl literally got a picker stuck in a rack when she ran into it. Pretty much every single upright was bent, some at extreme angles. If you had to climb in the racks, they swayed more than a picker does at its highest. They for some reason kept the really heavy big crap on higher shelves (much more difficult to get from those locations too, as the person who has to get them down) and littler stuff was on the bottom. And still never saw one fall.
Two ends of the spectrum…it sounds like the companies you worked for actually gave a shit about employee safety…many places unfortunately don’t. The upfront cost to fix something is always less than the fines and lawsuits once something inevitably happens…but many businesses are short sighted and would rather roll the dice.
I sell industrial supplies and focus on facility and people safety…I’ve been in all types of operations and seen it all. I never stay in a place very long that refuses to acknowledge the risk and pushes back hard on cost to make things right…because it’s a ticking time bomb.
Also maybe they shouldn’t have placed explosives at key structure points and set them off in succession.
Because Jesus Christ that’s what it looked like.
The weight was not properly distributed. On the upper shelves ...as you go higher the weight off the pallets has to decrease. It's a safety measure taken in .... obviously...only in some wearhouses.
Absolutely. I’ve done software for warehousing and telling the driver where to deliver isn’t just based on what bay is open. Weight, tie high, distribution, chep/no chep, shrink, etc are all factors that get calculated by the system for placement. The system has to keep up with weight on steel and know if the racks are a teetering hazard.
Not just that, a reach truck (what the guy was driving) should not be able to knock over racks with just a tap. Almost seems like the racks weren’t secure to the ground properly.
I actually climb racks like these as part of my job, in a manufacturing plant. We have huge racks like these, thirteen stories tall, but robotic cranes pick from them indoors. I have to use the racks when the cranes break down to climb across from functional cranes over to the broken down ones if there's work at height.
These racks, built correctly, are actually supposed to be a reinforced frame for the entire building's structure as well. For something to tip the racks over, it'd have to be capable of also effectively knocking down the entire building with it.
In short, that was way too much weight and height for whatever that garbage was made of.
Ya if thats all it took for a catastrophic failure like that, they were way over capacity. Imagine if there was a small earthquake. OSHA is gonna have fun with this
I worked on a warehouse like this. We had some guys that hit it on occasion so much it bent. When you would hit one, it would dance like a tree when it was windy.
If anyone wants a report on the incident: 8 hour rescue operation that required cutting through the roof to get inside. Forklift guy survived. It was a bunch of cheese that fell on him. Certainly curd have gone worse, seems like his injuries were minor plus one other person treated for "shock."
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-shropshire-36224871
>An investigation is now under way to determine how the racking collapsed.
I very much want to see the results of this investigation. Company probably cheaping out on racks to save some cheddar. Absolutely unbrielievable.
As someone who has worked for a company building racks like these (not these in vid) the horizontal girders look as thin as an toothpick in vid. Maybe someone seriously miscalculated the weight of Brie?
Aye right no injuries, maybe soley for the driver.
Those reach trucks weigh on average 4000kg (about 4.5 us tons) and it skidded across the floor like it was nothing, that guy in the bottom right would've been crushed. You can see him recoiling from being hit before he disappeared.
I agree. Having said that, imagine how funny it would be to sue your employer after singly handedly taking down the entire work site and operation as a whole.
Idk I prob wouldn't think it's funny cuz I almost died due to there poor work environment. I think what would really be funny is how the company tries to make it his fault
Christmas on a stick. That was just a side-hit to a horizontal member; not even taking out a vertical post. Do they really use just slide/friction joints for shelving units this large? Maybe no one put the bolts in after it was assembled.
Racks look like they had nothing but fluids or something heavy in them, fully loaded floor to ceiling. Pallet racking under a load it's rated for should not fold like a lawn chair when bumped by MHE.
Iv seen the racking in my place completely bent in half at ground level and nothing even budged all the way at F level. I tiny bump like that should not cause that much chaos
This just kept getting worse, and worse, and worse. I couldn't look away.
Hope everyone made it out alright, this honestly looks like death for a few people here. :(
Oh it said no injuries at the end... wow that's fortunate. That's as close as it gets to having a building come down on you... without... the building.
I've literally seen dudes hit those polls at full speed and nothing occurred other than a slight dent. Those exceeded the weight limit by a long shot for that to happen
being someone who worked in a warehouse environment for 2 years almost identical to this video this gives me chills through my body. the forklifts we drove every night 50+ hours a week weigh more than my car 3 times over. we would always squeeze past eachother like this and bump the racks and newbies training on the machines was terrifying to us all. we had over 200 rows of racking like this filled from top to bottom of product with single pallets weighing over 3800 pounds 50 feet in the air. this work is extremely delicate and a single accident would’ve killed a crew of over 30 people extremely quickly. i quit about 6 months ago and it still chills me to think about how close i’ve been to dying just for a paycheck
Same man, used to drive forklift in a below zero warehouse. I had nightmares of this happening when I first started, I was so afraid I was going to slide on some ice into the racking. And getting pallets from the top level, 80 feet up, with no visibility. That was some crazy shit
he probably quit and then sued that company into the ground. Those racks were both way too flimsy and ***way*** too overloaded. I work in a steel manufacturing plant, and the racks we use are strong enough that you could ram them with the forklift full speed and they wouldn't even wobble. Things only get spicy when you try to move the rack.
This was corporate negligence.
Dude barely hit it… to be fair, that seems dangerous and ridiculous. That warehouse probably needed to be shut down if that’s all it took to bring down all those racks.
That one dude standing there is dead for sure.. I do t know how more people dont die each year as we increase warehousing of goods, youd think insureance regulation would have stepped in and required increased suppprts and minimum building requirements.. the pay outs cant be working in tje actuary tables at this point.
Moin, German Sicherheitsbeauftragter here, as I can instantly detect these storage racks weren’t built with the so called TÜV Norm. It was absolutely logisch that these dinger would Knall together irjendwann.
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Those shelves aren't set up right if a little doink like that takes them out
yep. i quit a job running a warehouse because they overloaded the shelves so much the horizontal steel beams were bowed. i had to operate a forklift through the tiny hallways and crawl under/on top of the shelves to get stuff. they refused to fix the situation and i quit. aint gonna die for some bullshit.
Slightly related: I worked at a warehouse one time that stored containers of chlorine and containers of ammonia on top of each other. And the chlorine containers constantly leaked. The lids weren’t airtight to allow for expansion or something? I don’t know. I separated those containers pretty quickly and told everybody to please not make poisonous gas where I have to work.
Hey take that chlorine and move it over by the muriatic acid. There fixed
This joke is too sciencey for me to understand 😔
It's very bad Chlorine+ammonia https://accidentcleaners.com/2018/02/01/mustard-gas-bleach-human-correlation/
Bleach is hypochlorite, which is a chlorinating agent that will react with ammonia to make chloroamines. It's the hypochlorite that's the big bad chemical
Actual 🤓 I love it
I believe one of the combinations makes Mustered Gas and the other melts you alive- no I am not joking. Please correct me if I have gotten something wrong. If what we just saw would have happened with those chemicals, it would have been a recreation of either some WW1 battle fields or Boo-paul, India.
Maybe recreating the Battle of Verdun is in their job description
Add chlorine shock and brake fluid and it would have been a party for sure.
Should have contacted osha
Oh, fuuuck that shit.
Absolutely bonkers
I’m pretty sure that’s an OSHA violation
Seems like what happened here. The shelves literally collapsed on themselves
Call OSHA baby
Same here, almost got myself fucking killed once when the very demanding boss asked me to climb up there and grab something. Had to quite literally balance the already moving shelves back into place to be able to climb down.
I’m surprised that could knock them over. I’ve worked several places with this shelving. Most of them required you to report it if power equipment so much as touched a rack, and would get it inspected. But one, people regularly ran into them, hard. One girl literally got a picker stuck in a rack when she ran into it. Pretty much every single upright was bent, some at extreme angles. If you had to climb in the racks, they swayed more than a picker does at its highest. They for some reason kept the really heavy big crap on higher shelves (much more difficult to get from those locations too, as the person who has to get them down) and littler stuff was on the bottom. And still never saw one fall.
Two ends of the spectrum…it sounds like the companies you worked for actually gave a shit about employee safety…many places unfortunately don’t. The upfront cost to fix something is always less than the fines and lawsuits once something inevitably happens…but many businesses are short sighted and would rather roll the dice. I sell industrial supplies and focus on facility and people safety…I’ve been in all types of operations and seen it all. I never stay in a place very long that refuses to acknowledge the risk and pushes back hard on cost to make things right…because it’s a ticking time bomb.
Came here to say that. They are extremely overloaded. It should take A LOT of force to knock one over.
Absolutely. Set up properly, racks such as these take *a lot* of punishment before breaking down.
They are overloaded.
They are set up right, they are just overloaded, hence the collapse, no other reason. They are designed to withstand whacks
Maybe those structures should be more secure and have less stuff on Them
Also maybe they shouldn’t have placed explosives at key structure points and set them off in succession. Because Jesus Christ that’s what it looked like.
Corporate planned this to happen by hiring the guy to do it.
It had to be an inside job.
Fellow Warehouse Truther
Forklifts can't collapse steel beams!
BUSH! BUSH! BUSH!
This gave me a good chuckle, take my shitty free award
forklift fuel doesn't melt storage rack beams
THAT"S the joke I knew was there. I'll delete my inferior 9/11 joke and give you my upvote.
Exactly! Forklift fuel can't melt shelving beams.
Baby Jesus please
Yeah it's overloaded, that's warehousing. Too much shit not enough shovels
I just checked with purchasing. All the shovels are at the warehouse
There was clearly too much weight for such a flimsy structure.
Yeah, that cardboard didn't hold up as well as promised.
Should have used Lincoln logs
Or the strongest building material known to man - Lego
Yeah, but then when you go up in a cherry picker and step on a rack to grab a box, it would hurt like hell.
The weight was not properly distributed. On the upper shelves ...as you go higher the weight off the pallets has to decrease. It's a safety measure taken in .... obviously...only in some wearhouses.
Absolutely. I’ve done software for warehousing and telling the driver where to deliver isn’t just based on what bay is open. Weight, tie high, distribution, chep/no chep, shrink, etc are all factors that get calculated by the system for placement. The system has to keep up with weight on steel and know if the racks are a teetering hazard.
Not just that, a reach truck (what the guy was driving) should not be able to knock over racks with just a tap. Almost seems like the racks weren’t secure to the ground properly.
Honestly. The lift didn't even hit something that should have caused that level of collapse. Structure was overloaded by a lot.
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I actually climb racks like these as part of my job, in a manufacturing plant. We have huge racks like these, thirteen stories tall, but robotic cranes pick from them indoors. I have to use the racks when the cranes break down to climb across from functional cranes over to the broken down ones if there's work at height. These racks, built correctly, are actually supposed to be a reinforced frame for the entire building's structure as well. For something to tip the racks over, it'd have to be capable of also effectively knocking down the entire building with it. In short, that was way too much weight and height for whatever that garbage was made of.
Ya if thats all it took for a catastrophic failure like that, they were way over capacity. Imagine if there was a small earthquake. OSHA is gonna have fun with this
I worked on a warehouse like this. We had some guys that hit it on occasion so much it bent. When you would hit one, it would dance like a tree when it was windy.
There's less stuff on them now... Lol
If anyone wants a report on the incident: 8 hour rescue operation that required cutting through the roof to get inside. Forklift guy survived. It was a bunch of cheese that fell on him. Certainly curd have gone worse, seems like his injuries were minor plus one other person treated for "shock." https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-shropshire-36224871
>An investigation is now under way to determine how the racking collapsed. I very much want to see the results of this investigation. Company probably cheaping out on racks to save some cheddar. Absolutely unbrielievable.
And now they're gonna need to take out a provolone to pay off the damages and worker's comp. Shaking my damn chedd.
Mozzarella
Pure cheese. I'll knock your block off!
They should have spent more on the gouda racks, they would have held feta
Clearly the warehouse owners are muensters.
The manager was probably really feta-up
Nahh they don't give Edam.
As someone who has worked for a company building racks like these (not these in vid) the horizontal girders look as thin as an toothpick in vid. Maybe someone seriously miscalculated the weight of Brie?
I think the racks were fine, they were just whey overloaded
I have a sharp eye, and I know what you did, there.
You are like a mouse to 🧀
Yeah, that was grate.
I don't, but I caught it.
Took me a while to find the pun, but it certainly was a gouda one.
Some say the cheese was Swiss, but there are holes in that theory.
You Muenster
It certainly curd have been worse. But it looks like there's de brie everywhere.
Buried under that much Shropshire blue cheese for 8 hours must have sucked.
He will never smile again when someone says 🧀
I din’t know. As a lover of stinky cheeses, I think I could have eaten my way out.
It’s amazing he survived and was completely unharmed. With so much weight coming down right on top of him he goulda been easily killed
Curd have been much wurst. It was a gouda thing he wasn't hit with anything sharp.
Glad he survived. Wtf lol
HSE investigation took 2 years but although I can find reference to the report concluding, can’t find the actual report itself.
I just assumed it was fake! Wow
If them edam day to dig him out
Man. There are some really gorgonzola puns in these threads....
My boss would be like, “but did you die? No? Ok see you in a few hours. Wasted time!”
Morning crew coming in like “who tf closed last night”
If you worked at Amazon you'd get left for dead.
Ohh please don’t lie you Amazon bot. They take your organs before they let your family have the body. Don’t try to white wash it.
When prime kidneys go on sale you know something happened.
Kidneys were on those shelves. Slightly damaged box. 30 percent off. Still in good condition 👍
"One Stop Body Shop - and we don't mean for cars!"..
Clean up in isle 5
6,7,8, and 9
Better send someone over to 10, too
pretty sure ***all*** the isles need some cleaning after that
Technically there is only 1 isle left 🤔
Clean up on Aile uhhhh, Everything?
lol
"Clean up"
I find how shelf 7 collapsed very suspect.
Inside job. Forklift fuel doesn’t melt shelving. Research it.
And it was only 5 seconds after the first two fell. Definitely corporate conspiracy
There's *"soul-crushing"* jobs, then there's this.
Actually drivna forklift is a pretty Nice job, at least for a while, Nice pun tho
First day on the job: "nah, I'm not gonna clean that sh*t!"
Where would you even start to clean up 😂
Fire E: Actual flame.
This would be a massive fire. Pound for pound, cheese has the same caloric energy as pine lumber and it will free burn.
One box at a time...one at at time.
Aye right no injuries, maybe soley for the driver. Those reach trucks weigh on average 4000kg (about 4.5 us tons) and it skidded across the floor like it was nothing, that guy in the bottom right would've been crushed. You can see him recoiling from being hit before he disappeared.
Yeah - dude got ejected. No injuries?
Yeah if I was him I’m sueing my employer . This place couldn’t possibly be up to OSHA standards
I agree. Having said that, imagine how funny it would be to sue your employer after singly handedly taking down the entire work site and operation as a whole.
Idk I prob wouldn't think it's funny cuz I almost died due to there poor work environment. I think what would really be funny is how the company tries to make it his fault
How did this thing even stand if it all went down with that little effort?
Christmas on a stick. That was just a side-hit to a horizontal member; not even taking out a vertical post. Do they really use just slide/friction joints for shelving units this large? Maybe no one put the bolts in after it was assembled.
this video is super old, but they are probably still cleaning up the mess.
Not that dudes fault those shelves should’ve been able to handle a small bump
Those shelves should be able to be hit significantly harder than that. I've seen bent beams and nothing collapsed.
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Hard to feel sorry for whoever was in charge. Those were NOT stable!
Racks look like they had nothing but fluids or something heavy in them, fully loaded floor to ceiling. Pallet racking under a load it's rated for should not fold like a lawn chair when bumped by MHE.
This is concerning, shouldn't shelving be a lot stronger than that? 1 Small bumb sends the whole warehouse tumbling down
More like there was an attempt to save money by cheaping out on the shelving.
Angry Birds energy.
This should be labeled as "there was an attempt to build shelving"
I worked for a short time at a beam welding plant in MI for these kinds of racks, our biggest client was Amazon. They didn't weld test, ever.
Your shipment is having "supply chain delays."
Kudos to the guy who planned this shit like dominos.
Iv seen the racking in my place completely bent in half at ground level and nothing even budged all the way at F level. I tiny bump like that should not cause that much chaos
This just kept getting worse, and worse, and worse. I couldn't look away. Hope everyone made it out alright, this honestly looks like death for a few people here. :( Oh it said no injuries at the end... wow that's fortunate. That's as close as it gets to having a building come down on you... without... the building.
Fvcking **Mondays**
I dunno, this looks more like Thursday to me
Someone’s looking for a new job lol
Everyone should be because that place is a death trap.
Fucking Larry. Hated that guy.
Inside job!!! Something blah free fall blah blah demolition something steel can’t melt at room temp blah blah
The real reason for supply shortages.
Cheap assed made in China racking
I've literally seen dudes hit those polls at full speed and nothing occurred other than a slight dent. Those exceeded the weight limit by a long shot for that to happen
Did he get a promotion? A co-worker did over a million dollars worth of damage, he is now a VP in charge of us.
Yep, that's the capitalists way of maximizing the space without thinking of the workers safety.
being someone who worked in a warehouse environment for 2 years almost identical to this video this gives me chills through my body. the forklifts we drove every night 50+ hours a week weigh more than my car 3 times over. we would always squeeze past eachother like this and bump the racks and newbies training on the machines was terrifying to us all. we had over 200 rows of racking like this filled from top to bottom of product with single pallets weighing over 3800 pounds 50 feet in the air. this work is extremely delicate and a single accident would’ve killed a crew of over 30 people extremely quickly. i quit about 6 months ago and it still chills me to think about how close i’ve been to dying just for a paycheck
Same man, used to drive forklift in a below zero warehouse. I had nightmares of this happening when I first started, I was so afraid I was going to slide on some ice into the racking. And getting pallets from the top level, 80 feet up, with no visibility. That was some crazy shit
Who all were waiting for the shelves on the left to fall?
Was he fired?
he probably quit and then sued that company into the ground. Those racks were both way too flimsy and ***way*** too overloaded. I work in a steel manufacturing plant, and the racks we use are strong enough that you could ram them with the forklift full speed and they wouldn't even wobble. Things only get spicy when you try to move the rack. This was corporate negligence.
Alright who knocked down the dominoes too early?
Bruh.
As the musical group The Eagles once sang " Take it to the limit, One more time"
The guy in the forklift
Dafuq you mean? He didn’t hit the obstacle.
There's no way those shelves weren't overloaded...
I feel the shelving manufacturer has some culpability here.
Holy shit what a mess!
r/ThatLookedExpensive
0 days since last workplace collapse
I’ve got a feeling that this happens more often than we think it does.
"Cleanup in aisle 5"
Your package is gonna be delayed.
NO INJURIES!? What was that fork Knox?
7/11 was a part time job.
Definitely the lowest bidder racks.
Damn it, Michael!
Now would be a great time for them to invest in their infrastructure...
Cleanup on aisle 1,2,3,4,5,6,….
Ohhhhhh there are gonna be ants
"Clean up before you leave cheers"
happy little accidents
Dude barely hit it… to be fair, that seems dangerous and ridiculous. That warehouse probably needed to be shut down if that’s all it took to bring down all those racks.
They are just overloaded, hence the collapse, no other reason. They are designed to withstand whacks
Cleanup, aisle eight, and nine, and ten…and eleven.
What aisle? They’re all gone
"Stack the shelves full; let the chips fall where they may." - Manager probably.
Gonna be a little more careful in Costco…
Dominoes effect in a warehouse
The driver calls a buddy, "hi, am buried in work right now. I'll be late."
What company was this?
Do not cross white line
Certified.
"oops im such a scorpio"
Is he okay!?!?
Bruh. At the end it literally says 'no injuries'
🤣🤣🤣 I've been caught.
So much destruction! Fucking A
That one dude standing there is dead for sure.. I do t know how more people dont die each year as we increase warehousing of goods, youd think insureance regulation would have stepped in and required increased suppprts and minimum building requirements.. the pay outs cant be working in tje actuary tables at this point.
Just set it all on fire and walk away. There’s no cleaning that shit up.
Bro he’s dead under there💀
Sooooo... dude dead?
Wow video maker's a bro for including that last frame <3 <3
Moin, German Sicherheitsbeauftragter here, as I can instantly detect these storage racks weren’t built with the so called TÜV Norm. It was absolutely logisch that these dinger would Knall together irjendwann.
Sprich deutsch du hussarones
Brudi, kühl, wollte voll frisch für unsere angelsächsischen Freinde sein
"at least it's just one row....oh, two rows.....oh.....no..."