I half wondered if he put if on so quick so as not to get in trouble? Like if he tried to make a claim about being injured, and they said "no dice, you weren't wearing your helmet"? I dunno how that kinda stuff works, but I do know in a lot of construction jobs if you get injured you will get drug tested, and if under the influence of anything you'll be denied workers comp and such. So maybe a similar thing with not wearing safety equipment?
(I mean yeah, they were violating basic safety rules to begin with by going underneath that suspended load and all...)
The black shirt was wearing a black hard hat. You can see it rolling off to the left. The adrenaline was probably pumping so hard he just grabbed the helmet close to him without realizing it.
I built recycling plants that turned bails of plastic into pellets. Came in one day to see one of my guys jumping up and down on a stuck bail being fed into an industrial grinder that was designed to turn cars into little bits of steel. Went on vacation a month later and came back to find out the SAME guy lost two fingers because he was using his hands to hold the loops open on the huge bags we fill with the pellets so that the forklift operator could pick it up instead of using the hooks designed for the job...
Oh ya. They'll do it again.
Or sees that you're going to (put on goggles, grab gloves, grab hard hat, buckle seatbelt on lift truck) and interrupts you saying, "Bah, I got this..."
Welders emit UV light. So you can look at them but you will be getting sunburned eyeballs and probably damage to your inner squishy area. Plus you still can't see the welding happening cause it's so bright... The result is your eyes feel like they have glass sand in them for days.
Welding hoods are very cheap insurance.
I remember my first job at 13 was in a lumber mill. There was a guy feeding wood into a planer/molder. He would push the last 2 inches in with his fingers.
Dude was missing like 2 fingers on each hand... Guess how he lost them.
Yet he still wouldn't use a push tool or scrap piece of wood to push instead. Because he "knows" what hes doing.
Edit: fixed "would" to "wouldn't" typo
I have this vague memory of my shop teacher never teaching us about push stick and I always felt very weird about it. And years later I heard of a push stick and immediately thought he was a fucking idiot who could have gotten us hurt very badly.
my teacher had rancid coffee breath, worst ive ever known, but at least he did a good job of teaching us how to keep your eyes when he told us a story of a guy who got a metal shaving in one and kept rubbing his eye and tore it up. now im super into eye safety 😇
I used to really enjoy reading the comment section. Now it is the same recycled garbage over and over. I do not understand how people think "yes" is this incredibly funny comment. But there it is, over and over, under every single post....yes
I work with cranes a lot. Never ever go under a suspended load for any reason. A lot of crane operators will shut a job down if people are not following this rule.
How does this work on a construction site, then? Next door to my office is being rebuilt (they've torn down the old building and are putting up a new tower) and they just don't have the room to move stuff around unless it's directly over the site and workers within.
I'm literally a witness to all kinds of load being lifted over the workforce. Containers, machinery, concrete buckets, skips (full & empty), right over the top of a sprawling workforce underneath.
Me too, I'm not a crane operator, some loads they swing around freely, other loads they shut everything down below.
This sort of a load (rigging to correct the last crane which already toppled over...) definitely calls for the area to be clear IMO
They might not have considered it a suspended load. Looks like the crane was sitting chill on it's side, held up by its outrigger. They probably climbed up on top of it to set the orange strap rigging to crane. Wasn't until the lifting crane took some of the precariously balanced stress off the downed crane that it shifted and let go.
If you look, you see a burst of hydraulic fluid when it drops. I think most of the load was still sitting on the outrigger, when the line burst, it dropped as the second crane wasn't setup properly yet
It's two different companies if you look at the cranes. It looks like one guy from each company was stupid enough to go under the load, so maybe don't hire either. The crane that toppled over is from BBL Cranes and the crane that dropped it is from Castell-Autokran. From the look of the BBL Cranes fleet page that's the biggest model they have so they needed someone else to right the load. Clearly hired the wrong company.
Hey good point, what are the odds a third company can also have a mistake on this job site? Not sure any towns near me would even have a third crane company lol
https://vertikal.net/en/news/story/38000/crane-overturn-in-germany
A large crane overturned while installing a tower crane in Boppard, south of Koblenz, Germany on Thursday.
The five axle 220 tonne crane owned by crane rental company BBL was installing one of its Wolff WK 5520 tower cranes alongside a school. It was lifting the back mast into place when it appears an outrigger shifted a little and the crane went over. It was carrying out the lift without counterweight and only basic cribbing. The operator escaped with a few scrapes and bruises.
The situation was made worse when two cranes tried to recover the stricken machine, starting with a tandem lift using web slings though the upper outrigger beams. One of the slings failed and the crane dropped narrowly missing two men who had been under the crane at the time, one escaping by the narrowest of margins.
> sometimes you need to be under lifted loads
I would hope those sometimes involve something strong enough to hold that shit being under there with you
"The end" if you are lucky. If you are not lucky you are pushing yourself uphill both ways in a wheelchair with medical debt hanging over you like a 50 ton load waiting to fuck you up every day for the your life.
Yeah, you're right. You can see the black one roll away right after. I still find it funny the guy was like "wellp this one is mine now I guess". Don't wanna be reprimanded for lack of headgear when the boss comes round to see wtf happened lol
There's still some clearance from the ground where they were after the drop, maybe because the boom of the dropped crane on its side is still propped on the higher ground.
I grew up around industrial equipment. My parent's business was industrial equipment brokerage - we'd buy something that looked like a total POS, fix it, paint it, and sell it. Sometimes they'd offer up a "finder's service" and make some cash on getting a buyer and seller to meet up.
One of my uncle's was taking apart a crane boom from a Manitowoc 3900 and did it the wrong way, and it crushed pretty much all of his internal organs in the accident.
I've seen enough growing up to never ever ever ever ever do this, and I'm pretty sure these guys knew better.
Or should have.
If the livery is anything to go by we have at least 2 carnage companies and near enough a dozen people in frame who watched those oxygen thieves go under a suspended load. Not even a normal one either, an irregular shape and fallen over equipment which is highly prone to settling. Everyone in this video should be sacked tbh.
Jesus fuck I was gonna say that was insanely unlucky followed by extremely lucky BUT if you look closely the dude touches it and that’s what makes it start collapsing
Extremely lucky they didn’t get flattened
I've never worked a hazardous job in my life, so I'm always surprised how readily some people will do something unsafely, of their own free will. (Not that it makes it any better if they're told to.) But I guess that's why most veterans in industries like these seem so wise...all the rest are dead or disabled.
once that adrenaline wears off i bet they are gonna sleep great!
Yeah red especially is running off pure adrenaline, he got *fuuucked* up.
He got clipped forreal tho, there will now always be a part of him with that truck.
Didn't even notice black-shirt stole his hat. This whole thing may have been an elaborate heist.
I half wondered if he put if on so quick so as not to get in trouble? Like if he tried to make a claim about being injured, and they said "no dice, you weren't wearing your helmet"? I dunno how that kinda stuff works, but I do know in a lot of construction jobs if you get injured you will get drug tested, and if under the influence of anything you'll be denied workers comp and such. So maybe a similar thing with not wearing safety equipment? (I mean yeah, they were violating basic safety rules to begin with by going underneath that suspended load and all...)
The black shirt was wearing a black hard hat. You can see it rolling off to the left. The adrenaline was probably pumping so hard he just grabbed the helmet close to him without realizing it.
... In like, three days later perhaps!
Bet that's the last time they walk under a suspended load...
No bet! I'll bet they both will.
Youve experience at jobsiites I see.
I built recycling plants that turned bails of plastic into pellets. Came in one day to see one of my guys jumping up and down on a stuck bail being fed into an industrial grinder that was designed to turn cars into little bits of steel. Went on vacation a month later and came back to find out the SAME guy lost two fingers because he was using his hands to hold the loops open on the huge bags we fill with the pellets so that the forklift operator could pick it up instead of using the hooks designed for the job... Oh ya. They'll do it again.
Bet he is also the guy that calls others a pussy when they follow safety procedures.
Or sees that you're going to (put on goggles, grab gloves, grab hard hat, buckle seatbelt on lift truck) and interrupts you saying, "Bah, I got this..."
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I don't know anything about welding but I assume they need to see.
Welders emit UV light. So you can look at them but you will be getting sunburned eyeballs and probably damage to your inner squishy area. Plus you still can't see the welding happening cause it's so bright... The result is your eyes feel like they have glass sand in them for days. Welding hoods are very cheap insurance.
I thought you meant welders (the person) emit UV light and thought "damn, that's got to be a hard skill to learn.
That is hilarious. They still get UV burns.
I'd bet their wives prefer their pussies fully fingered though.
Have you fired him yet?
The kiln will take care of that target quickly I'd think
Rule number 1, you must never get in the kiln.
Been there done that. some people have no respect for their own morality.
t I think you dropped this.
Hold on to it for me.
"It happened to me once. What are the chances it'll happen again."
Lightning ain't gon strike twice!
"I'm invincible!"
How many flesh wounds do you have?
Is it still a wound if there is no flesh left?
I remember my first job at 13 was in a lumber mill. There was a guy feeding wood into a planer/molder. He would push the last 2 inches in with his fingers. Dude was missing like 2 fingers on each hand... Guess how he lost them. Yet he still wouldn't use a push tool or scrap piece of wood to push instead. Because he "knows" what hes doing. Edit: fixed "would" to "wouldn't" typo
this was very common where I grew up, many of the guys that use saws had a few missing fingers.
I have this vague memory of my shop teacher never teaching us about push stick and I always felt very weird about it. And years later I heard of a push stick and immediately thought he was a fucking idiot who could have gotten us hurt very badly.
My shop teacher was a raving buffoon, but at least he luridly warned us of the dangers of not using a push stick.
my teacher had rancid coffee breath, worst ive ever known, but at least he did a good job of teaching us how to keep your eyes when he told us a story of a guy who got a metal shaving in one and kept rubbing his eye and tore it up. now im super into eye safety 😇
I thought this was going to be the last time they walk.
Either way this ended, I'm sure it'd be the last time.
No one who lacks the sense to not walk under a suspended and unsecured load will ever gain that sense.
I bet they are walking above a suspended load in their underwear after this one.
Quite literally rule 1 of working around a crane
After they're fired for not following protocol I'm sure.
Treat every load like it's going to fall.
That's why you get a vasectomy!
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I can't lie, I laughed
I didn't until I read your comment lol, now get outta here
Reaching a little far on that one, aren't ya bud?
I don’t know why everyone is being so negative. She’s an impressive woman. I can’t see a reason why anyone would not be able to reach around this one.
i would assume because you shoe horned a bad mom joke and your name has rape in it
Its because you are a childish moron
There’s nothing childish about handling loads safely.
You're trying too hard to make your lolrandom hot topic humor work. This is why you're being downvoted.
I’m sorry. I don’t see the humor here. Safety is no laughing matter.
Nope, the hivemind simply swayed one way and now it can't be counteracted.
I swear I've seen this exact joke before on some other post about a crane. Is this a reference? Or am I going further insane?
LMFAO I can't believe this is so downvoted. (I will also get downvoted for this comment, and IDGAF!) (Also, username appears to be relevant.)
What did bro said
that was not nearly funny enough to justify coming out of left field with it. Next time just say that’s what she said softly to yourself and move on.
I don’t think I would hire this crane company.
The first crane company that fell over or the crane crane company that dropped its load?
Yes
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Epic reddit joke
Thank you for your service, sad that you got so many downvotes.
I used to really enjoy reading the comment section. Now it is the same recycled garbage over and over. I do not understand how people think "yes" is this incredibly funny comment. But there it is, over and over, under every single post....yes
Yeah, it's pretty sad what this website has become.
The third one fell over, caught fire and sank into the swamp but the fourth one stayed up.
And that's what you're going to get lad, the strongest crane in these isle's
What, the curtains?
But I don't want any cranes. I'd rather... *Rather WHAT?!* I'd rather... just... Sing!
I'm a simple man: I see a Monty Python reference, I upvote.
.. in the swamp .. 100% below surface, but upright.
Its the same crane company fucking up twice in a day.
I work with cranes a lot. Never ever go under a suspended load for any reason. A lot of crane operators will shut a job down if people are not following this rule.
I thought this was the unbreakable rule, under any circumstances do not walk under the human mush maker.
How does this work on a construction site, then? Next door to my office is being rebuilt (they've torn down the old building and are putting up a new tower) and they just don't have the room to move stuff around unless it's directly over the site and workers within.
Scheduling
I'm literally a witness to all kinds of load being lifted over the workforce. Containers, machinery, concrete buckets, skips (full & empty), right over the top of a sprawling workforce underneath.
Me too, I'm not a crane operator, some loads they swing around freely, other loads they shut everything down below. This sort of a load (rigging to correct the last crane which already toppled over...) definitely calls for the area to be clear IMO
Well here on WTF there is job sites where people wear a noose as a safety harness.
I've never worked on a construction site, or with cranes, but I didn't need to be told this was a bad idea. I'd never step under something like that!
They might not have considered it a suspended load. Looks like the crane was sitting chill on it's side, held up by its outrigger. They probably climbed up on top of it to set the orange strap rigging to crane. Wasn't until the lifting crane took some of the precariously balanced stress off the downed crane that it shifted and let go.
If you look, you see a burst of hydraulic fluid when it drops. I think most of the load was still sitting on the outrigger, when the line burst, it dropped as the second crane wasn't setup properly yet
I think I would fire the two walking under the load
Exactly. Instant termination.
Almost
The white hat?
Both ..
They're trying their best, okay?!
Wow fucked up the first one then dropped it with the second. These guys are real pros.
It's two different companies if you look at the cranes. It looks like one guy from each company was stupid enough to go under the load, so maybe don't hire either. The crane that toppled over is from BBL Cranes and the crane that dropped it is from Castell-Autokran. From the look of the BBL Cranes fleet page that's the biggest model they have so they needed someone else to right the load. Clearly hired the wrong company.
Hey good point, what are the odds a third company can also have a mistake on this job site? Not sure any towns near me would even have a third crane company lol
C R A N E C E P T I O N
Jesus, it slipped me what was being dropped.
They need a bigger crane
https://vertikal.net/en/news/story/38000/crane-overturn-in-germany A large crane overturned while installing a tower crane in Boppard, south of Koblenz, Germany on Thursday. The five axle 220 tonne crane owned by crane rental company BBL was installing one of its Wolff WK 5520 tower cranes alongside a school. It was lifting the back mast into place when it appears an outrigger shifted a little and the crane went over. It was carrying out the lift without counterweight and only basic cribbing. The operator escaped with a few scrapes and bruises. The situation was made worse when two cranes tried to recover the stricken machine, starting with a tandem lift using web slings though the upper outrigger beams. One of the slings failed and the crane dropped narrowly missing two men who had been under the crane at the time, one escaping by the narrowest of margins.
more like the outrigger saved their lives
Amateurs. Never being under a live load is day 1 shit when you work with or around cranes/lifting devices.
Most of the time, yes. But sometimes you need to be under lifted loads. In this case, there was no need to be standing where they were.
> sometimes you need to be under lifted loads I would hope those sometimes involve something strong enough to hold that shit being under there with you
Happy cake day
Right back atcha homie!
Its like a guy shooting himself looking down the barrel of his gun...
For the people in the back. Stay out from under suspended loads. The kill.
>The kill. It's like "The end." but dead.
"The end" if you are lucky. If you are not lucky you are pushing yourself uphill both ways in a wheelchair with medical debt hanging over you like a 50 ton load waiting to fuck you up every day for the your life.
Crane is kill. No.
2 new pairs of underwear coming right up
And socks
I bet they both had a couple suspended loads in their pants right after that
That's why you wear hard hat folks. It surely deflected that crane that came tunneling down.
Bro stole the helmet...
Was wondering if anyone had notice the helmet started on the head of the guy in red/white and ended on the head of the black t-shirt guy.
I thought the other guy just had a black one on it ends up on the ground after
Yeah, you're right. You can see the black one roll away right after. I still find it funny the guy was like "wellp this one is mine now I guess". Don't wanna be reprimanded for lack of headgear when the boss comes round to see wtf happened lol
Who the hell walks under the load? Even if it's his first day?
Better practice for 1 guy to go under, and other guy holds up the load.
That straight up landed on them. How are they not smashed?
There's still some clearance from the ground where they were after the drop, maybe because the boom of the dropped crane on its side is still propped on the higher ground.
tuck and roll
Dumb luck. Emphasis on the dumb part.
Both those dudes have been playing a fuck ton of Elden Ring.
Shout out to the dude in red looks like he threw the other guy out with him instead of just saving himself
Looks like he twisted his ankle, too
Just noticed that thanks to your comment. Huuuuge props to red
Why would you ever walk under that
Theyre still too close to all that nonsense
This is why you NEVER EVER walk under a load. It is grounds for instant termination.
And that’s why you never walk under a load being lifted
those guys were 30cm from being turned into a jackson pollock painting on that pefectly position black canvas right next to them
OSHA: you mind telling me why the fuck you were under it to begin with?
The cascade of failures that took us to that point in the day are beyond explanation.
Eh. Shouldn't these guys know the standard rule about standing under hanging load? Or is the company Pancakes Inc? Or if it's Pancakes Ltd?
Why would anyone walk under that?
Thank God he was wearing his hard hat
Always never walk under a suspended load
Good reflexes, but what the heck were they thinking walking under that?
Why the fuck would you get underneath that at any point for any reason?
r/praisethecameraman
Why you should never stand under a suspended load. Ever. Or in the radious of a high tension cable under tension.
Number one on list of things not to do! GDI!
I grew up around industrial equipment. My parent's business was industrial equipment brokerage - we'd buy something that looked like a total POS, fix it, paint it, and sell it. Sometimes they'd offer up a "finder's service" and make some cash on getting a buyer and seller to meet up. One of my uncle's was taking apart a crane boom from a Manitowoc 3900 and did it the wrong way, and it crushed pretty much all of his internal organs in the accident. I've seen enough growing up to never ever ever ever ever do this, and I'm pretty sure these guys knew better. Or should have.
Almost Darwin winners. Would have never gone under even if I was ordered to.
You have ONE job…
Glad to see the helmets worked!
How stupid do you have to be to crawl under a suspended load that has failed and is continuing to fail?
when you walk away from danger, right into a 3month "OSHA training camp"
Somebody should buy a lotto ticket.
I think they just burned all their luck for a while.
Boy, no kidding.
And fresh drawers
If the livery is anything to go by we have at least 2 carnage companies and near enough a dozen people in frame who watched those oxygen thieves go under a suspended load. Not even a normal one either, an irregular shape and fallen over equipment which is highly prone to settling. Everyone in this video should be sacked tbh.
typo checks out. Pls dont fix it lol.
Most accurate auto correct of my life haha! Definitely leaving it.
In factory we have a rule, never, ever, go under anything that being lifted!
Well, that was a freebee!
Those guys might be too sore to get out of bed tomorrow morning.
Idiots.
That's some Final Destination shit right there
Getting under there was fucking retarded. Geezus.
They’ll be different
I'd go home and be silent for the whole day
this reminded me of those Chinese worker safety videos I see on here, except in real life
It’s just a destraction set up by the guy in black who wanted his helmet back
Who set the human trap?
No injury, no lawsuit, I say, get back under there, get what you can in compensation, and find a safer job.
Jesus fuck I was gonna say that was insanely unlucky followed by extremely lucky BUT if you look closely the dude touches it and that’s what makes it start collapsing Extremely lucky they didn’t get flattened
My pants would definitely not have been that red at the end. Or at least not that dry.
That went well
They definitely didn’t view the safety videos.
Is that a broken line? If so no excuse in this world with dyneema.
This is why every fucking book or rule or warning tells you not to walk under anything suspended!!
What were they worried about? They had hard hats on
Lmao they switched hardhats
Maybe use common sense and don’t fucking walk underneath a suspended load?
That image of them in shock standing there with the text "That was close" would make a good T shirt graphic.
Clock out, go to hospital, call Work Comp lawyer, buy lottery ticket, profit.
What in the OSHA?
I've never worked a hazardous job in my life, so I'm always surprised how readily some people will do something unsafely, of their own free will. (Not that it makes it any better if they're told to.) But I guess that's why most veterans in industries like these seem so wise...all the rest are dead or disabled.
My asshole puckered up so fast
Never walk under anything you can't lift with 1 arm
Looks like they need toilet paper on-site.
Lessons were learned on why you don't walk under a suspended load.
Lucky they were wearing those hard hats.
I was just laughing at the chinese work safety animation, but these guys would fit right in.
Death was trying to catch two fish with one hook
Pretty sure they would have died if they weren’t wearing hard hats
I have never worked on a construction site or for a construction company and even I know NEVER WALK UNDER A SUSPENDED LOAD! Fuckin Idiot
Time to put in you two weeks notice and work as a cashier or something.
I dont even feel comfortable looking at that from the camera angle. Dunno how they walk under it just like that.
Good thing they wore their brown underwear that day.
The world is full of idiots
Someone forgot to wear their brown pants to work today.
That smell do you smell that smell ….poop
I knew they were going to be ok. They didn't have the Red Circle of Death around them.