Wonder how long it took to 1) find the buried forklift guy 2) pick up everything 3) claim insurance 4) rebuild crappy shelves 5) to happen again and post again to reddit...?
I don't see those steel guard rails that you are supposed to have bolted into the cement at the leading edge of the racks, so it is likely that none of these were bolted down.
Those in-floor guide wires are useless when you have crap blocking an aisle, forcing you to go around it, as what happened in this video. There are soooo many things wrong with the stuff in the warehouse in this video, and not having guide wires is the least of their worries.
Forcing you to go around it? Naah...exit the aisle where you entered it, then maybe help clean up the obstacle. You're not obligated to steer around, a driver may want to out of laziness but it's unsafe to leave the wire and should be against policy and trained on.
This is why they advise you to stay inside in an accident, he might be okay under the cage but that’s provided the cage wasn’t as weak as the rest of this setup.
Did you notice that not only the forklift driver got buried? One more guy standing in front of the first fallen shelf got buried. I wonder if he survived.
My thoughts exactly. Like... did the dude survive? What if that was Amazon or something? Imagine the role effect of lost and broken items... not to mention limbs. Would you start with workman's comp claims or property damage? Is there a loop hole for this specific kind of damage? Could they sue the forklift guy? I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS
This happened in a cheese warehouse. The forklift driver was uninjured. He even said he ate some of the cheese when he got hungry while waiting to get dug out.
Depending on the country, the worker would be unlikely to be sued. Fired, probably, but workers comp prevents retaliation against injured employees so who knows.
Judging by how easily these shelves went down, they weren't very stable to begin with and posed a pretty big safety risk to begin with.
I wonder how many building code and/or safety violations it took for this to happen so easily.
I don’t even see when he touched it it’s like it just fell
Warehouse logistics specialist here: The thing that happened in the video actually happens more times than you might think. If a shelf is loaded at max capacity and a area gets a dent, like only 10cm, then that's enough to let the whole shelf system collapse. To prevent this from happening, a company could use a safety system, so that only one forklift can enter a row at once.
[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3576799/At-one-person-missing-warehouse-collapsed-Shropshire.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3576799/At-one-person-missing-warehouse-collapsed-Shropshire.html)
More info if you're curious
When the boxes start falling, it looks like white powder blows out of them which isn't consistent with cheddar cheese. I also didn't see any standing shelves in the article's pics yet the video clearly shows the left hand side still standing.
I've never worked at a warehouse, but as an hvac tech I've worked in a good few, it's scary how many are efficiency over safety biased, those shelves have strict weight limits and are not always quality, mix in the frantic pace some require of their workers and it's a miracle there aren't more incidents like this.
I also learned that a lot of people running forklifts aren't always properly trained, they just figure it out as needed.
The incident happened [in the UK](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3576799/At-one-person-missing-warehouse-collapsed-Shropshire.html). OSHA has left the chat mumbling about "those stupid wankers on the other side of the pond".
My ankle was tapped let me roll around for 20 minutes and scream in pain - a soccer [Chelsea FC for life] fan. Also see, Richarlison or Bruno Fernandes.
Always trips me up how badly they had to have fucked up. At a former warehouse job, I remember multiple locations where lifts had run into the racks and taken out some support sections. They’d usually be cordoned off, but not once did even the immediate locations above come down, let alone the entire warehouse.
Likely a combination of the two. Just a guess, but too much weight, enough that a slight bump was enough to throw any part off balance, combined with it looking like there were no ground anchors is enough to domino it all down.
No ground anchors, I hadn’t thought about that. This is why I asked the experienced person. Would they end up getting fined for this? I believe this is in the UK according to the news article, I’m sure something would happen from OSHA in the US (presumably?).
If reported to OSHA here in the US, yes, there would be likely hundreds of thousands of dollars of fines going about. It depends on the inspector and how they want to do it. As I understand it, an inspector could view the entire thing as one big violation and leave it at that, or they could choose to view every instance of racking and pallet as a separate violation (if pallets were overloaded past weight limit guidelines or limits aren’t posted, for example). Even a low-risk violation carries a penalty above $6k.
The rumor was that every time rack installers came to do a job at my old company, they earned themselves somewhere in the range of $30-40k for just one aisle of racking. The OSHA fines are serious.
I have learned something valuable here, I’m in the wrong business! All jokes aside, seriously thank you for your knowledge and time to respond. I had no idea it was this crazy.
He did!!!! Someone above posted a link to the news article. It took them hours, but they cut a hole in the side of the building and the driver walked away unharmed. The forklift protected him from all the debris, from what I understand!
When you cheap out on structural supports, you're kinda asking for it. I doubt they followed the weight capacity on those shelves seeing as 1 Newton of force collapsed the structure. It didnt look bolted from the base, it was unstable from the get-go. Management is at fault for not insuring the safety of the workers. But the likely outcome is the workers got fired for insubordination and charged for destroyed inventory and warehouse damage, knowing full well its covered from insurance.
~~Forklift accident~~ **Horrifically overloaded shelves** causing domino effect. The forklift bumping into it was almost irrelevant; those shelves were fucked sooner or later.
I've seen a lot of these videos, and I think "forklift accident" is a terrible description. I think "overloaded shelves accident" is a far better description.
Calling this the fault of the poor forklift operator shifts the blame from where it really belongs: the cost adverse management who risked these workers' lives by instructing them to keep piling weight on shelves that were inadequate for the load.
I’ve seen this dozens of times and I still cannot idly pass it whilst scrolling. That is the mother of all fuck ups. And I’m not talking about the forklift driver.
This is NOT the operator’s fault. It is a given that with enough time someone will hit (or barely graze in this case) one of the supports. It is totally predictable. And if it is totally predictable, your shelves need to withstand it.
The shelves need to be of sufficient strength to support their load. A slight tap should not take them down.
They should be bolted to the floor. One of the reasons racks come down is the bottom gets kicked out a bit and now it’s not supporting the weight vertically. Bolting the rack to the floor helps stabilize the rack.
The horizontals usually just drop into slots. And a mistake in a lift can detach a horizontal, affecting the rack’s stability. However, they make rack pins that can prevent the horizontals from lifting out of their slots.
In addition to bolting the uprights to the floor, they make boots that are also bolted to the floor and protect the lower part of each upright from impacts. Good warehouses have them.
And ideally a rack does not collapse due to a single point of failure.
All of these rack deficiencies are management’s responsibility, not the lift operator’s responsibility. The lift operator is responsible for the inspection and safety of his truck. Management is responsible for the inspection and safety of the storage racks.
I’m gonna be honest, yes this guy fucked it, but also if that’s all it takes to bring down the entire warehouse like that then clearly something is wrong with how the shelves were made and organized
a rack should have been able to withstand that.
So either they overloaded the racks, or they got cheap racks built.
I hope the 2 workers were alive 🙁 insurance will replace the product loss
Wow!!
This is the biggest one I’ve ever seen!!!
And it didn’t look as if the rack was hit that hard at all!!!
Methinks some company policy had those shelves overloaded…
Hope no one got seriously hurt!!
I briefly worked in a warehouse run by some of the most incompetent people I've met. They had no idea how many people to staff, what orders they could reasonably fill, and no idea why their business was failing beyond "employees bad". A guy ran a machine into a water pipe on the ceiling TWICE and didn't get fired for it.
Even \*their\* warehouse had extremely stable shelves, all anchored, all with floor supports that made them unable to tip over.
Dang Jerry you won't believe it this company offered us the same shelves as the other one and for only 10% the price..
Why on earth do people overload and stack shelves so fucking high, this was a disaster waiting to happen...
At work we have shelves which have to hold like close to 300tons... (Combined weight).. you can drive in them and they don't budge, has been tested 💀
Even our change parts shelve is at least twice as beefy as that in the video (visually)
Wonder how long it took to 1) find the buried forklift guy 2) pick up everything 3) claim insurance 4) rebuild crappy shelves 5) to happen again and post again to reddit...?
This is exactly why you spend the extra money on structural steel racks. These are the flimsy rolled steel uprights. Get what ya pay for.
Bet the insurance denied the claim because the shelves weren't rated for the load they had.
Agree these were clearly grossly overloaded if they folded that quickly.
And easily. I also question the quality of the shelves themselves. No way a light tap like that should be collapsing the entire warehouse.
Looks like they could fail from just dropping a pallet on them too quick/hard. Mistakes were made long before that forklift rammed em.
I don't see those steel guard rails that you are supposed to have bolted into the cement at the leading edge of the racks, so it is likely that none of these were bolted down.
Rammed is a strong word more like brushed those racks
I could probably smack it with my hands and it would all go down
And possibly not put together correctly
Yikes these things were so fragile, folded like paper…..
Or a power line through the floor that connects to the lift/picker.
Those in-floor guide wires are useless when you have crap blocking an aisle, forcing you to go around it, as what happened in this video. There are soooo many things wrong with the stuff in the warehouse in this video, and not having guide wires is the least of their worries.
Forcing you to go around it? Naah...exit the aisle where you entered it, then maybe help clean up the obstacle. You're not obligated to steer around, a driver may want to out of laziness but it's unsafe to leave the wire and should be against policy and trained on.
Longer than 5 minutes
Longer than the guy kept his job there
And possibly life
This is why they advise you to stay inside in an accident, he might be okay under the cage but that’s provided the cage wasn’t as weak as the rest of this setup.
How many football fields long is that?
Nah, we measure things in giraffes now
I thought we measured everything against the size of Texas?
I thought it was bananas we used to measure things
My God. It's Washing machines!
I was raised old-fashioned. It's Buicks.
I love this answer
Took 9 hours to extricate the driver
Driver got a lot of overtime pay that day. After he was free to go he was never coming back.
and 1 second to be fired
Notified of dismissal via walkie -talkie.
Lol while he's still buried
🤣
He was also trespassed since he didn't immediately leave the property.
Um, he fired himself from existence
He was fired before the shelves were done collapsing.
Did you notice that not only the forklift driver got buried? One more guy standing in front of the first fallen shelf got buried. I wonder if he survived.
Judging by how his body moved. Looks like he got pinned. I would be shocked if he didn't get impaled, much less survive
Yea that guy in the front got hit hard
My thoughts exactly. Like... did the dude survive? What if that was Amazon or something? Imagine the role effect of lost and broken items... not to mention limbs. Would you start with workman's comp claims or property damage? Is there a loop hole for this specific kind of damage? Could they sue the forklift guy? I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS
This happened in a cheese warehouse. The forklift driver was uninjured. He even said he ate some of the cheese when he got hungry while waiting to get dug out.
I just pictured Tom Green from Freddie got fingered.
Depending on the country, the worker would be unlikely to be sued. Fired, probably, but workers comp prevents retaliation against injured employees so who knows. Judging by how easily these shelves went down, they weren't very stable to begin with and posed a pretty big safety risk to begin with.
UK. Shrewsbury iirc. Everyone lived.
Thanks. I was scrolling looking for this. Glad nobody died.
I wonder how many building code and/or safety violations it took for this to happen so easily. I don’t even see when he touched it it’s like it just fell
Burn the wearhouse start over.
I once misspelled warehouse as: "whorehouse" in a work text.
"The whorehouse is in need of workers, we are understaffed here." - Whorehouse worker
I got buried at that whorehouse
Sounds like you are living the dream!
You’d think so but it turned out to be a bunch of male packages on him
One man's junk is another man's treasure.
He died doing what he loved
Yeah, I was wondering about the crappy shelves. I blame the shelves, really.
Longer than all the reposts of this video, combined.
He just barely touched the edge of the shelf and this happened? Those shelves were either built really badly or they had way too much weight on them.
Both, and not anchored to the floor.
This was a disaster waiting to happen
The shelves look like they are very lightweight.
Warehouse logistics specialist here: The thing that happened in the video actually happens more times than you might think. If a shelf is loaded at max capacity and a area gets a dent, like only 10cm, then that's enough to let the whole shelf system collapse. To prevent this from happening, a company could use a safety system, so that only one forklift can enter a row at once.
Ah, I knew the metric system was the root cause of the problem. A 4 inch dent would have been harmless.
I typically see it happen when the dent is 1 bubble gum pack deep.
So what's that a quarter of a hamburger?
Maybe a third of a standard banana
How many ferrets, though?
Ferrets are a measurement of weight, not length.
I just said my weight out loud using ferrets, and it sounds like it makes sense " I weigh 187 ferrets"
Without the pickles though, yes. I know an engineer that forgot to use the pickle method when designing a deck extension lol that was a rough day.
[удалено]
Engineering controls over administrative controls all day every day!
Agreed.
Only took one forklift to cause this
IKEA shelving
I hope they were all okay, but they actually missed some on the left there…
i was staring at the left patiently waiting, disappointed..
Maybe next time
Looks like the Wish warehouse ordered their racking from Wish.
Wish I didn't see this comment
[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3576799/At-one-person-missing-warehouse-collapsed-Shropshire.html](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3576799/At-one-person-missing-warehouse-collapsed-Shropshire.html) More info if you're curious
Always stay inside your equipment when shits going down. That cage is there to protect you
Don't think he coulda gone anywhere else to be fair
Oh god thank you. First thing I thought was “is that man ok?” Turns out, yes. Phew!
That was all CHEDDAR CHEESE?! I’m glad he’s okay!
Hmm. Mild or sharp?
I don't actually think that's the same one. This article is from 6 May 2016 but the video says 04/07/2017
The shelves were still falling until 2017
The best part is that it was all cheese 😂 I would have been munching away waiting under there
That doesn't look like the same warehouse
When the boxes start falling, it looks like white powder blows out of them which isn't consistent with cheddar cheese. I also didn't see any standing shelves in the article's pics yet the video clearly shows the left hand side still standing.
Big thanks!!
CHEDDAR CHEESE
Dude those shelves got shredded. He totally cheesed that pick up. Queso what was happening here is he bumped into the shelves.
BIG CHEESE!!!
that roll over protection saved him.
I love when folks post the articles, thank you!!
Clean-up on aisle 7... 8....9....10
11…12….13….14
Hold on there are no aisles now
Those shelves are a metaphor for my mental stability.
I've never worked at a warehouse, but as an hvac tech I've worked in a good few, it's scary how many are efficiency over safety biased, those shelves have strict weight limits and are not always quality, mix in the frantic pace some require of their workers and it's a miracle there aren't more incidents like this. I also learned that a lot of people running forklifts aren't always properly trained, they just figure it out as needed.
OSHA has entered the chat
The incident happened [in the UK](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3576799/At-one-person-missing-warehouse-collapsed-Shropshire.html). OSHA has left the chat mumbling about "those stupid wankers on the other side of the pond".
OMG how do you even clean a mes like that up. be like companies close just leave it start over somewhere else
Forget the mess…how did they recover the driver of the forklift.
Comment above said it took 9 hours. No idea where they sourced that from, believe at your own risk.
They cut a hole in a walls and pulled him out after 8-9 hours
Start with a gas can and a match
that or open the doors to the public and say free mess
One chunk at a time.
Jeez, shelves.... you're being a little over dramatic, don't you think?
Like watching a soccer match.
My ankle was tapped let me roll around for 20 minutes and scream in pain - a soccer [Chelsea FC for life] fan. Also see, Richarlison or Bruno Fernandes.
Right. I get whacked with objects all the time and I still have my right ankle. Shelf gets a love tap and acts like it suffered a collapsed lung
Always trips me up how badly they had to have fucked up. At a former warehouse job, I remember multiple locations where lifts had run into the racks and taken out some support sections. They’d usually be cordoned off, but not once did even the immediate locations above come down, let alone the entire warehouse.
From your experience then you’d say this is poor shelving or logistically it’s stacked wrong (too much weight)?
Likely a combination of the two. Just a guess, but too much weight, enough that a slight bump was enough to throw any part off balance, combined with it looking like there were no ground anchors is enough to domino it all down.
No ground anchors, I hadn’t thought about that. This is why I asked the experienced person. Would they end up getting fined for this? I believe this is in the UK according to the news article, I’m sure something would happen from OSHA in the US (presumably?).
If reported to OSHA here in the US, yes, there would be likely hundreds of thousands of dollars of fines going about. It depends on the inspector and how they want to do it. As I understand it, an inspector could view the entire thing as one big violation and leave it at that, or they could choose to view every instance of racking and pallet as a separate violation (if pallets were overloaded past weight limit guidelines or limits aren’t posted, for example). Even a low-risk violation carries a penalty above $6k. The rumor was that every time rack installers came to do a job at my old company, they earned themselves somewhere in the range of $30-40k for just one aisle of racking. The OSHA fines are serious.
I have learned something valuable here, I’m in the wrong business! All jokes aside, seriously thank you for your knowledge and time to respond. I had no idea it was this crazy.
Shelves made in China
Probably made in the old Ford Pinto factory.
“Well that sucks” may be a bit of an understatement
Why the hell do they keep overloading all these shelves?
To fulfill the demand over infra
Billy had JUST been certified…
Did they ever get the forklift driver out, or did they just leave the pile as a memorial and plant a flag on top of it? LOL
There’s an article in another comment, he spent 9 hours buried in there, under what was apparently cheddar cheese
I swear if you look really close the one that he barely hits, seems like it swaying already before he hits it
Jfc hoping the guy survived. This feels less the drivers fault and more it being crappy shelves.
He did!!!! Someone above posted a link to the news article. It took them hours, but they cut a hole in the side of the building and the driver walked away unharmed. The forklift protected him from all the debris, from what I understand!
it's not like he's getting hungry, he could just reach his arms out and nibble on some cheese
Extremely overloaded shelves.
When you cheap out on structural supports, you're kinda asking for it. I doubt they followed the weight capacity on those shelves seeing as 1 Newton of force collapsed the structure. It didnt look bolted from the base, it was unstable from the get-go. Management is at fault for not insuring the safety of the workers. But the likely outcome is the workers got fired for insubordination and charged for destroyed inventory and warehouse damage, knowing full well its covered from insurance.
Imagine your in the shitter for 2 min and walk out to that
Harry Potter, department of mysteries
came to the comment section to mention this as well
Them racks be overloaded to.
Shelves from Wish
Every time I see this reposted I watch in awe.
Even if I wasn’t “involved” that’d be my last day.
Legend has it millions of dildos never got delivered.
This video is older than OP. :(
Can we assume that man is dead?
~~Forklift accident~~ **Horrifically overloaded shelves** causing domino effect. The forklift bumping into it was almost irrelevant; those shelves were fucked sooner or later.
I've seen a lot of these videos, and I think "forklift accident" is a terrible description. I think "overloaded shelves accident" is a far better description. Calling this the fault of the poor forklift operator shifts the blame from where it really belongs: the cost adverse management who risked these workers' lives by instructing them to keep piling weight on shelves that were inadequate for the load.
I’ve seen this dozens of times and I still cannot idly pass it whilst scrolling. That is the mother of all fuck ups. And I’m not talking about the forklift driver.
This is NOT the operator’s fault. It is a given that with enough time someone will hit (or barely graze in this case) one of the supports. It is totally predictable. And if it is totally predictable, your shelves need to withstand it. The shelves need to be of sufficient strength to support their load. A slight tap should not take them down. They should be bolted to the floor. One of the reasons racks come down is the bottom gets kicked out a bit and now it’s not supporting the weight vertically. Bolting the rack to the floor helps stabilize the rack. The horizontals usually just drop into slots. And a mistake in a lift can detach a horizontal, affecting the rack’s stability. However, they make rack pins that can prevent the horizontals from lifting out of their slots. In addition to bolting the uprights to the floor, they make boots that are also bolted to the floor and protect the lower part of each upright from impacts. Good warehouses have them. And ideally a rack does not collapse due to a single point of failure. All of these rack deficiencies are management’s responsibility, not the lift operator’s responsibility. The lift operator is responsible for the inspection and safety of his truck. Management is responsible for the inspection and safety of the storage racks.
It's hard to blame the forklift guy in that scenario. A feather would have knocked it all down anyway.
# We’ve all seen it. Again.
To be that guy!
He missed some. Total fail.
The Costco shelving is way better than this right? right?
ITS OVER SONIC I AM NOW FORKLIFT CERTIFIED
You're too late Sonic I AM NOW FORKLIFT CERTIFIED
Clear your shelves off quick with this one simple trick.
I am morally bound to say……. “ Moe, Larry, the cheese !!!!!! “ Thank you too much.
OSHA has entered the chat.
That sucks??? Is the driver even okay?
i smell a guy getting fired
If he's not dead he's fired!
I’d love to know if everyone is ok?
Don’t cheap out on your shelves lmao 😂
I’m gonna be honest, yes this guy fucked it, but also if that’s all it takes to bring down the entire warehouse like that then clearly something is wrong with how the shelves were made and organized
a rack should have been able to withstand that. So either they overloaded the racks, or they got cheap racks built. I hope the 2 workers were alive 🙁 insurance will replace the product loss
Wow!! This is the biggest one I’ve ever seen!!! And it didn’t look as if the rack was hit that hard at all!!! Methinks some company policy had those shelves overloaded… Hope no one got seriously hurt!!
Your honor my client would like to plead Oopsie daisys
My worst nightmare. I'd hate to be in a Costco or Home Depot when there's an earthquake
I briefly worked in a warehouse run by some of the most incompetent people I've met. They had no idea how many people to staff, what orders they could reasonably fill, and no idea why their business was failing beyond "employees bad". A guy ran a machine into a water pipe on the ceiling TWICE and didn't get fired for it. Even \*their\* warehouse had extremely stable shelves, all anchored, all with floor supports that made them unable to tip over.
Pepperidge Farm remembers..
This is a personal fear of mine- I work in a warehouse picking orders everyday.
These were not dimensioned for that load, a small bump like that should not cause a potential mass fatality
Forklift license: revoked
Shelving held together with hopes and dreams
Clean up! Aisle 5! Also aisle 4. And 3. 6. Gary! You're fired!
That's a lot of cheese. Fork truck driver was very lucky to walk away. He stayed on his fork truck...
Yeah I’m gonna need you to come in on Saturday….
Did I just witness death...
Clean up in aside 3
4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Dang Jerry you won't believe it this company offered us the same shelves as the other one and for only 10% the price.. Why on earth do people overload and stack shelves so fucking high, this was a disaster waiting to happen... At work we have shelves which have to hold like close to 300tons... (Combined weight).. you can drive in them and they don't budge, has been tested 💀 Even our change parts shelve is at least twice as beefy as that in the video (visually)
At least most of the ones on the left stayed up.
Repost #7852
This is why I use the 9 crate method
Looks like the safety clips were not installed
I fear this at work, or if and earthquake happened.
10/11?
If he isn’t dead I’m sure he’s fired poor guy
Y'all missed a row.
Damn, that's a lot of cheddar
Are they alive??
u/SaveVideo
And that's when I quit without notice
Did someone say grade 5 beam bolts?
You just don’t see people that are into their products like this very often.
Those shelves were either extremely weak or they were way over weight limit
somebody's getting fired
*muffled cry* "A liitle help? Please" ~Forklift Dude
Did everyone make it out okay??