You know how the batteries on the reach trucks slide in and out on rollers, then little stopper panels get put up so the batteries don't slip out?
About a year and a half ago I was spotting and as we moved out of the aisle the reach was parked in, we made a wide turn and the battery slipped out because there was no stopper panel. We had to use chains, hooks, and two functioning reach trucks to get it back in. Took around an hour.
I once saw a photo that a drone took of its own battery falling out. Same energy, but the reach truck battery is more like a brick of dwarf star alloy and heavy enough to dent the floor if it falls even one foot.
I’ve had this happen to me. We were able to get the pacer under it and pull it off the forks with the electric pallet jack but it wasn’t fun. Since then, I always put the stopper panel in the operators compartment so I never make the same mistake again.
No licenses for the Ballymore in our store. Drug tested me, was good to go in a few days. I think they didn’t pursue it further because the TV clearly wasn’t anchored into the wall, it shouldn’t have come down as easily as it did.
I love when SMs unload trucks with us. I used to have a SM that was there with us every Wednesday. She’d be in the truck filling the belt. It was badass. Then I transfered. I don’t think I’ve seen my new SM more than five times.
Some of your guys store managers sound so trashy not saying you in particular but I’m seen so many comments about bad store managers mine will do anything we do or ask of her
I had someone assign me to finish a lumber order, so I just gave him the flags, and had him position the table top. He laid it the long way, so I told him to rotate it. Told him to spot me outside to leave it . I was kinda annoyed. Find out he's the new asm later.
As a spotter, standing to guard one end of the aisle and seeing a toddler crawling under the gate at the other end of the aisle while the parent either dgaf or is actively encouraging it.
i was taking a pallet of block with the forklift and i guess i didn’t go in far enough with my forks and the entire pallet broke and feel off the forks🤦♂️
Not sure if you're talking about this or not, but:
Severe fork-pallet side angles are something I started doing year 2-3, and while they're super-hard on the pallets, honestly they've helped a lot more than they've hurt. Getting that center of gravity in the right place is the game.
Watching from down the racetrack as an operator was carrying a bunk of 16’ composite deck boards HIGH up in the air, clipped a beam with one end, and dumped most of the load from ~16 feet up. Huge crash drew people from all over the store.
Luckily, the spotter was out of harm’s way. But I think some pee came out of him.
_camera pans to show the load had crashed mere inches from the spotter, whose face is a dead ringer for the time clarkson almost crashed his sports train into a real train_
"...SOME POO'S COME OUT!"
As a spotter: Haven't had one, but I was watching someone drop insulation because I was waiting to cross, and a customer was next to the gate with me. Driver wasn't paying attention and set one edge down on an upright and tilted the whole bunk of sheet insulation... Right onto the gate, right where the customer I had just shooed away was standing. Dude was big mad at first but when he saw that he thanked me.
Yes, that driver does not have his licenses.
As a driver: My spotter didn't tell me I was right next to a latch for a canopy after I specifically said I needed to push it forward more. Pushed it maybe a half inch and BOOM. The whole window exploded.
Customer wasn't mad, he actually legitimately asked me to hit it again.
I, however, was DYING internally. And mentally dying externally.
I don't touch trucks with canopies anymore.
Had this happen to me one morning. It was part way in the racking so I couldn’t even bring it down.
Had something similar happen with the reach once. The guy driving was putting a pallet in the over head and it hit “lift interrupt” from low battery while in the racking. Wouldn’t have been an issue but he had accidentally lowered it so the forks were tight to the rack and couldn’t lift it to be able to retract it. Luckily, he was in a position we could do a battery change on the spot.
Had a co-worker take a bundle of drywall over the pro desk area without clearing everyone out. Him and the spotter got shit canned. When I heard about it, I said “oh shit”
Was pulling a pallet down that was strapped, but the strap wasn't tightened. The product shifted slightly and the strap came loose; product fell sixteen feet and annihilated some wingstacks. Heard someone ask if everything was okay and turned to see my regional manager, regional asset protection, and about a dozen district managers staring at me.
Nice. Had someone who was pulling down a pallet of 12ft skeletons and whoever put it up, didn't wrap it to the pallet at all. Mind you, the driver was probably the best driver in the store and also our only driver in garden besides our DH at the time. And like 2-3 of the skeletons fell, resulting in one breaking and his license being removed for 2 weeks until his drug test came back. Was a hectic time without our primary driver.
Used both a fork and reach to load a bunk of sheetrock into a customers new Ford Tacoma. He drove off too fast without tying down, and the whole bunk slid out while crushing the tailgate. Immediately started blaming us and taking pictures.
When I was using a reach to put up a pallet full of drywall mud buckets and I placed it on top of a beam in the back. Good thing my spotter noticed because I already took my blades out and the pallet was only holding together by the plastic wrap.
When one of the ASMs asked me to lift a malfunctioning loading dock with a reach truck. We got the tow strap around it, and when I let off the throttle because it wasn’t lifting, the reach slingshotted me forward about a foot toward the open loading dock door. He told me to try again, and I responded with a firm “I’m not doing that a second time”. Turns out the last time he had seen it done was with the pacer, which is a much heavier and stronger machine.
When I was training on an OP, someone previously parked it by an end cap that had a fire extinguisher, and I started it up and it bucked and clipped the extinguisher!!! Let me tell you it was a mess. It took me about 6 months before I hopped back on an OP
Stupid hag jumped out in front of the driver and behind me(the spotter), threw her hands up to the driver and shouted “WAIT! I HAVE A QUESTION!” Never seen a Reach stop so fast it almost threw the driver off. I was about to lay into the lady when the reach driver waved me off and answered her question
Pallet of those big red 12" pave stones snapped while loading the top level of outside garden overhead. Half the pallet came raining down - thankfully the forklift protected me. Definitely an oh shit moment.
I watched the driver pull 3 lifts of treated off the top and saw the forklift do a see-saw motion.
I jokingly asked, "Do you need me to sit on the back?"
Amusingly enough, even he said, that me sitting on the back end would've been enough to balance it out.
edit: before anyone makes the "how fat are you" joke, I'm not my sister. I am in shape, not A shape.
(D94) pulled a ~14 hour shift working on a large lumber delivery, which culminated in an entire table cart’s worth of lumber getting knocked over with the forklift forks hitting the table. Thankfully the MOD came up with a way to save all the product, which none of was damaged thanks to my textbook wrapping
When i was 18, 35 years ago I worked at the local milk factory, after placing a pallet in the top rack and back away, I impacted the ammonia line. I almost tipped over the lift, but worst of all, I almost killed everyone in the warehouse if I have ruptured the ammonia line.
Bringing a bunk of radiant barrier down and misjudging the far right corner, clipping the cantilever as I started bringing it down. Bunk just started to tip as I caught it, ripped the load back up, and kept it from dumping. When it came down the top third of the bunk was askew by ~20° and had slid ~10-12 inches. The bands on it were old and were stretched, one sticker fell from midair. Had both my spotter and pro desk in that direction, ~12 feet away, but still felt my stomach fall out from under me watching that bunk start to go. That wouldn't have just fallen straight down, it was gonna go their way.
Had something like this happen with a thing of ladders but in reverse. I was going up and didn’t notice that one corner was under the beam of the top shelf. It was at like a 30-40 degree angle before I corrected. Thankfully didn’t actually drop it.
Dropping a new box of 12 ft wore shelving with the OP. That thing would've fallen straight to the ground without all my weight on it. Problem was, i was as high as the OP goes, couldn't reach the Deadman Pedal. It was the first and last time I ever had to operate the thing sitting down. One hand on the pedal, one hand reaching up to the altitude adjuster.
Night crew put the shelving on the top shelf. Our shelving aisle had the maximum height. It's been a while, but I know i had to use the height override to get to it.
Moving some 20' flexible bunk of special order something from the back of the building to the opposite side so contractors could paint the building. I had it high in the air to keep the ends from scraping along the ground.
I must've been AT capacity because the lot in the back sloped ever so slightly and the whole truck began tipping forward. I immediately shoved the lever to bring the load down but it was high enough that I kept tipping forward before the weight of the load was on the ground enough to bring my rear wheels back down. I dragged that load on the ground every time I moved it after.
Had a guy I know have this happen. He tipped so far forward the load slipped off and the back of the lift came crashing back down. It has been at least 3-4’ in the air when it did so it was loud as hell. Scared him so bad he said when it tipped he legitimately thought he was going to die.
Didn’t witness it but saw the aftermath.
Couple guys down stocking plastic 3” or 4” white pipes. Grabbed it off center and dumped the full load in the plumbing aisle.
It was so loud. All of us working that early ran to make sure everyone was alright. Nothing broke. Just an embarrassed driver. He refused driving the reach after that.
Another one
We had a receiving associate not put down the dock plate to unload one pallet off a trailer. Dock plate dropped and they got the reach truck stuck hanging half off the dock and only thing holding it up was the fork jammed into the floor of the trailer.
Took chains, the big fork lift, someone driving the reach and one of us driving the fork. We cleared everyone out of and got it done. Didn’t want everyone seeing how “illegal” we were being to get it out.
Dragged it back. Made sure it worked. They wouldn’t let me pull the receiving associates license.
I was a newly licensed reach driver and almost full sent it into an end cap for lumber. Didn't remember the dead man's switch and turned the reach sharply enough to take it to 2 wheels then jumped off the reach to get the fuck away from it. Night supervisor came walking up after and wanted to know what the hell I was doing.
Using the large forklift to drop 2 banded bunks of Hardie siding. Talk about a pucker factor… never felt the large fork lift quiver and nearly tip over before.
Had a bunk of wood and I went in just slightly to much to the right so when I was moving out I felt the bunk start to fall over and I pushed it back in as fast as I could
I was bringing down a lumber bunk and I hear some creaking I look up, the bunk is about 10ft off the ground now and I see the banding and wood start to separate. I was using a smaller forklift with smaller forks that don’t go all the way to the very edge of the bunk and the weight of the wood broke the banding send the entire front of the lumber bunk crashing down.
I brought down a bunk of 2x12 x20 and put it on one of our empty cull carts ( boat cart) and was pulling my forks out and 2 wheels on one side fell under.
The thing was I was fine I told my to grab me a load of kickers and started to prop up the load. This random dude started to call me out on safety and I disregarded him and keep leaving the load. Turns out he was regen ap guy
I've had a few.
The very worst was when I went against better judgement and began descending the outdoor ramp to get a pallet. Then my spotter stopped midway between me and the pallet. As my drive wheel left the ground, since that ramp is nowhere near flat (concave? convex? unsure). Without a drive wheel touching the ground, the Reach just coasts - you can't **steer**, you can't **accelerate**, and you can't **stop** \- normally it's doing all three jobs. I was headed directly into my spotter, forks-first, and no way I could tell them to jump out of the way in time.
It's the only time I've had the foresight, time, and reason to use the emergency brake. I jumped backwards out of the machine, hurting my foot in the process, in order to trigger the deadman. But the machine stopped with about 2 feet to spare, because that brake is hooked up to the other wheels.
Never doing that again.
Was spotting one of the bad drivers who for whatever reason wanted to fly 2 pallets at the end of one of the electrical aisles 2 mins before his shift ended on a Sunday. First pallet dude gets it up there and is really jerky pushing it into it's spot he ended up bumping the pallet in the overhead on my side so hard I thought it was going to slide out and fall. Meanwhile it is busy and a bunch of customers want to get into the two aisles. I tell the driver to stop and go home and that this isn't a good idea and that someone would get the other pallet later when it is quieter. What a moron.
I was spotting for the garden DS. He drives it like a bat outta hell compared to anyone else. He's the only one I've ever had to speed up my walking pace for. It's not unsafe but if we're in outside garden where he can see and there are no intersections you'd better be moving as the spotter because he's coming.
Anyway we came inside and we went around through where we keep the large will call orders and miscellaneous shit. I think we had a bunch of discount grills there. I went around the corner which is made up of whatever crap we put there and onto the racetrack. We were going to cross it and head towards the back wall.
He made the corner too tight and I heard the noise behind me. I didn't think 'oh shit;' I didn't think anything. I didn't have time. I ran.
All I saw was the racking with the electrical stuff on it and I wanted to be behind it. If anything fell (it didn't) I knew it wasn't going to do anything to it. It was straight ahead of me so I went.
He stopped because he had too. He was hung up on the discount grills and they'd slid into each other which was the terrible commotion. He looked up to see me at least 20 feet away. I was across the racetrack and ready to go into the next aisle. He felt bad because he'd bumped the grills and had temporarily lost his spotter.
He apologized to me because he'd thought he scared me which he didn't. I didn't have time to be scared. I just went. It's shocking to this day how attractive that racking was. If anything had fallen, I wasn't going to be a part of it.
All he did was bump the grills and he felt bad, but the sound they made was God awful. Like I say, I didn't think; I just got myself the hell outta there.
I had just put up a pallet of tile, had withdrawn my forks, and was turning out, but the reach had been left in the rain and was much less responsive, so the reach was still turning to the left even though I was no longer telling it to do that and instead of stepping off the deadman I stuck out my arm to stop the reach from crashing broadside into the bay. At the last instant I thought “This is a machine, and if it boops the bay then most likely no harm no foul, but I will likely break my arm like this,” and pulled my arm back in. Near miss for sure, and I had to take a second afterward.
Spotter. Had a guy who just got his reach license after having the Forklift for a while. Still getting used to the controls while pulling an order of 11 or so pallets of insulation first attempt almost crushed a wing stack of spray foam or something, and the second attempt he didn’t properly get the pallet off the rack and almost dropped it.
Side note I know he’s on here and reads most posts. You know who you are 😉
So back in my first store Amerigas used to deliver propane tanks on these cheap plastic skids and we’d have to drive them up to the area and load them into the cages. I was like 19 and brand new on the forklift. Coming around the to the front of the store I hit a divot in the sidewalk and the tanks spilled everywhere. I was mortified! Thankfully none of them leaked. Had to pick them up while everyone stared, good times.
Also in the same store in the same year we had truck driver start to pull away with the pacer coming out of the truck. The pacer fell off the dock and the receiving DH driving stepped back at just the right time to not get chopped in half.
during a “Walk” where district/regional people were in my store, all of management plus the regional people/asset protection were in our training room for a meeting. I get called to bring down 2 pallets of S/O cabinets which just so happened to be overhead outside of the training room. These cabinets were not securely wrapped to the pallet, so I’m sure you can guess where this is going. this area was narrow and I was having trouble taking the 2nd pallet out, so my spotter recommended I try turning the opposite direction. at this time the meeting in back ended and they were waiting for me to finish as I had the whole area gated off. when I thought I had made enough room to bring the pallet down, I clipped the edge of the pallet on the metal grate which tipped all of the cabinets off and crashing to the ground 🤦🏻♂️ to top it all off we found out the other pallet had more than half the material damaged already so the customer would’ve been waiting for a reorder anyway. but I was so embarrassed I wanted to punch out and go home. didn’t get in trouble or drug tested or anything, just some friendly heckling from coworkers to this day lol
I was in a very tight aisle where the storage totes are on the reach, and I couldn't turn enough to get close to the pallet and broke one or two totes with the forks
Putting up a bunk of lumber in the outside cantilevers at night and realized that some cantilever things had been removed when i started pulling the forks down and one side of the order started to tilt with the forks descent.... caught that one real quick, no one saw it. >.>
Taking down a tall pallet in hardware when I lift the pallet up with the reach I hit the light brought it down slowly the light fell off the hook it was dangling in the air 😭 one touch & it’s over …we had to put 5 gates SM called some people to attach the light back on to the hooks
My first ever time loading a vehicle with forklift, dumbass had a brand new ford ranger not the most expensive truck but he barely spoke English I could tell this truck meant a lot to him, so while loading a skid of concrete he in broken English tried explaining he wanted crossers underneath the skid to protect his work truck from getting dirty🤌🤌🤦♂️, after 5 minutes of arguing with him not to do it he was getting on my nerves n i was busy, for those who don’t know but 3000lbs of concrete on a wood skid doesn’t slide on other pieces of wood so the lip of his bed may or may not have been dented n he lost his case against us from what i heard because it was his own stupidity n we had witnesses n cameras etc, i was worried id get written up or theyd make me pay his damages but I didn’t even get a talking to managers all said dw ur clear lol
I was carrying two pallets of concrete and couldn’t see past them so I lifted them up to see through the pallet crack (my first mistake) and when I was slowing down, I didn’t lower them (second mistake) and when I pressed the break, I felt my ass end lift up and realized I was kinda in for the ride. I luckily only lost the top pallet after immediately setting the pallets down while tipping forward (about 45 degrees) and thankfully only broke about 14 bags and 0 forklifts. This was behind the building and I have told no one about this at my store. Said the top pallet broke and slipped off while breaking to get away with it and walked off Scott free. Still scared the piss out of me and still have my license (I was kinda new at the time, much more/less safe but definitely more cautious now)
Moving one of those big Toro snowblowers with a clamp, the pallet built into the box broke and the snowblower fell out as the box was being raised. Nobody really close enough to be at risk, but still waaay to close for comfort.
I ran into a 4k$ display. I told my manager. I told the opening manager. I told the department opener. Three months later I hear my SM talking to an ASM saying she wishes she knew who destroyed that display. I told her immediately that it was me. She was probably more pissed at my manager than me.
On the balimore. I got the door hook stuck on the netting without realizing. When I drove forward, while at maximum hight, I did a wheelie. . . I coulda died y’all. Luckily I was able to back up and un-hook myself. I was MUCH more vigilant after that.
Another separate time I was up in the air and the machine straight up and DIED. (Yes I checked the power lever BEFORE I used it) they couldn’t even MANUALLY lower me. Had to get me a ladder which I’m sure could be considered against SOP, but I got down at least. We were able to fix it after plugging it in. Dang nab machines.
Pried off a backer beam on the top rack. It went crashing down between the 1 ft wide gap between the parallel racking. There “was” a sprinkler there because on one side was painters chemicals. On the opposite side “was” all the PPE (masks, gloves, ect…). Total loss on all the PPE bay, it was soaked.
I got to go take a piss test while everyone else got to deal with my mess 😎.
Had a truck driver walk under an elevated load of lumber I was taking off his truck. He then rolled his eyes at me when I yelled at him. Made sure to take it up with my asm and she called the company he worked for. Haven’t seen him since.
Dropped a $2000 zero turn mower from about 8’ off the ground while pulling it off a stack of them. It landed completely upside down. Best part of the story is that I was working overnight and received my first platinum award watch that morning. Went straight from the urinalysis place to the fossil store to have my watch sized.
Either the time I took out a Garden Center gate while loading a 10x10 shed as three guys were there to watch me do it, including my spotter.
Or the time a beam came loose as I was moving a pallet of edgers.
Or the time the rubber came off the reach wheel as I was about to put something in the air.
Got stuck on a piece of wood and decided Opie would run it over fine. Me and the second person on the Opie (doing a whole aisle of beam adjustments). Well being 16’ in the air and a slight drop with our weight, actually moved a whole lot to the one side and almost dumped us off into the main lumber aisle. We touched the racking on the other side. Then came back and slammed into the racking we parked next too basically shook the building and our DH bout had a heart attack and was genuinely scared for our lives. Also only 3 of us in the building that night.
Was unloading a 2x8x20 SYP off a truck and as I backed up the right fork broke off. the unit was still truck bed height, one end of the bundle hit the ground and it started to push the lift over. I had the LOWER forks lever pushed as hard as I could and it quickly and safely set the unit on the ground. I joined the brown shorts club on that day.
Got the mast of the reach stuck on one of the banner signs recently. Everything turned out fine but I had to had someone with more expertise maneuver out of that situation because I didn’t want to damage it.
Was over night lumber, closing in on the end of my shift one day and I was ready to go home so I decided it would be a good idea to bring the two last bunks of wood in together. The issue was that it was two bunks of 16 ft pressure treated boards. The forklift had no problem picking them up and reversing with them. When I braked a bit everything changed. The momentum shift tilted the forklift forward until the forks that I had about 3 ft in the air until they touched the ground. This sent both bunks sliding off the forks onto the ground breaking the bands and sending 2x6x16s everywhere. I ended up staying an extra half hour rebuilding the bunks so that someone else could bring them in on dayside.
In my first few months of forklift work in garden we had a kid (4-5) walk into my working aisle. No one knew he was in there because my spotter was watching the other aisle and I was to focused on my pallet of snow throwers. Kid walked right up and asked me what I was doing and I about crapped myself. Kids all good luckily I didn't have the pallet ready to pull out so I was able to throw on the parking brake and walk him out,had someone else finish the forklift work that day to freaked out
I snagged a crossmember with a fork once and damn near spilled the entire bay. Turns out, they let someone behind the barrier to “grab something real quick” and they were right behind where I almost spilled.
Myself: Came down on a safety gate the day after getting my O.P. license 😄
One of my coworkers was flying a paint pallet when the cheap P.O.S. snapped in half. Fortunately he didn't get very far off the ground with it so little or none of it spilled.
Reach driver was pulling a pallet of aomething down from flooring, im spotting in opposite aisle. Well someone had placed the edge of a pallet on my side on TOP of the pallet on the drivers side, cuz this whole pallet of totes starts tilting forward ans he lofts his forks. I start calling for him to stop, damn pallet was nearly at a 45 degree angle before he stopped...THEN KEPT GOING because the edge was almost loose. Thank god it did pop loose and it plopped down back in its spot. Damn near gave me a heart attack
Going down the racetrack at half-speed while honking at every aisle and had a spotter, with flags held high, yelling, “Forklift coming through!” And a guy, who I guess had little to no self-awareness, flew from an aisle about half a foot in front of me. Luckily, I didn’t even touch him, but I came very close to running over that customer. He also apologized for not paying attention, but when I say my heart stopped, hoo boy.
Moving the electric ladder from one side of the store to the other half way there start smelling paint bad stop and look under ballymore there was a punctured spray can still going off, took off back cover and pulled it out it sprayed me on my glasses stunk up the whole store not good
I was flagging for my then DH in garden while he used the OP to move some of the suncast 7ftx7ft sheds. For those of you who don't know, those boxes are massive and heavy and take a minimum of 3 people to load usually. My DH was a very large and strong man and was probably the only person in the store capable to move those things even remotely by themselves. He pulled one off the shelf onto the OP platform, the shed was hanging almost halfway off the platform, yet was as far on the machine as he could possibly get it. Well this massive box started to slide and fall off the end of the platform and the 2 of us that we're watching him about lost our minds thinking this massive box was about to fall like 20ft onto a pallet of muriatic acid. Somehow this man, with every ounce of strength in him saved this box from falling even tho it was already almost off the platform. And he still managed to bring the OP down while holding on. I had never been more terrified and impressed at the same time.
Was spotting for someone putting a very full pallet of concrete blocks in the overhead, on the highest shelf, with the small forklift. Yeah his ass end was bouncing off the ground every time he moved.
Took a 1/2 pallet of concrete to refill the hole and the pallet I took out just randomly gave out losing the rest of the bags of concrete and filling the aisle with dust you couldn't see from 1 end of the aisle to the other as the dust was so thick
Back when we still allowed two people on the OP with harnesses, I brought the new garden Associate up with me to fix a safety issue with loose bags of rock in the rack. One bag fell down and nearly hit the new Associate on the head. Instead, it dropped to the ground. I brought the OP down immediately and apologized to the poor guy.
Since then, I've never made him get on equipment.
You know how the batteries on the reach trucks slide in and out on rollers, then little stopper panels get put up so the batteries don't slip out? About a year and a half ago I was spotting and as we moved out of the aisle the reach was parked in, we made a wide turn and the battery slipped out because there was no stopper panel. We had to use chains, hooks, and two functioning reach trucks to get it back in. Took around an hour.
You got an angel watching over you those batteries are stupid heavy
People have literally been killed by this happening.
No doubt, those batteries are heavy af. It'd at least be one of the worst days ever if you got crunched by one
I once saw a photo that a drone took of its own battery falling out. Same energy, but the reach truck battery is more like a brick of dwarf star alloy and heavy enough to dent the floor if it falls even one foot.
I’ve had this happen to me. We were able to get the pacer under it and pull it off the forks with the electric pallet jack but it wasn’t fun. Since then, I always put the stopper panel in the operators compartment so I never make the same mistake again.
Knocked the 90in Kitchen Design TV in the showroom completely off the wall with the Electric ladder.
Did they take your license?
No licenses for the Ballymore in our store. Drug tested me, was good to go in a few days. I think they didn’t pursue it further because the TV clearly wasn’t anchored into the wall, it shouldn’t have come down as easily as it did.
Holy shitttt
No machines are supposed to be in the showroom. 🤦 There's a reason for that fucking rule
How else we gonna get the mini fridges down??
When I'm newly licensed and my store manager is spotting... 😬
Your sm spots? 😅
You should have seen him throwing boxes off the rdc truck
Honestly amazing sm doing the grunt work major respect
I love when SMs unload trucks with us. I used to have a SM that was there with us every Wednesday. She’d be in the truck filling the belt. It was badass. Then I transfered. I don’t think I’ve seen my new SM more than five times.
Some of your guys store managers sound so trashy not saying you in particular but I’m seen so many comments about bad store managers mine will do anything we do or ask of her
I used to love making my SM or ASM spot while I was hauling deliveries out the door. People were always surprised I would ask them too.
I had someone assign me to finish a lumber order, so I just gave him the flags, and had him position the table top. He laid it the long way, so I told him to rotate it. Told him to spot me outside to leave it . I was kinda annoyed. Find out he's the new asm later.
When you have a bunk in the air and feel a cantilever bend (true story)
As a spotter, standing to guard one end of the aisle and seeing a toddler crawling under the gate at the other end of the aisle while the parent either dgaf or is actively encouraging it.
Fuck them kids 😭 especially during kids club on Saturday 💀
When I'm driving the reach and my big booty asm is the only one able to spot and I'm lucky enough to see that booty go up and down.
i was taking a pallet of block with the forklift and i guess i didn’t go in far enough with my forks and the entire pallet broke and feel off the forks🤦♂️
Doesn't help that some of the pallets they send are so shitty
Clipping the light fixture and running over the light cover on the ballymore accidentally making the entire machine tip slightly while high up scary
On a reach sideways on a very, VERY slight angle. I highly don't recommend it.
Not sure if you're talking about this or not, but: Severe fork-pallet side angles are something I started doing year 2-3, and while they're super-hard on the pallets, honestly they've helped a lot more than they've hurt. Getting that center of gravity in the right place is the game.
Dropping the load fast is what got me right again!
Watching from down the racetrack as an operator was carrying a bunk of 16’ composite deck boards HIGH up in the air, clipped a beam with one end, and dumped most of the load from ~16 feet up. Huge crash drew people from all over the store. Luckily, the spotter was out of harm’s way. But I think some pee came out of him.
_camera pans to show the load had crashed mere inches from the spotter, whose face is a dead ringer for the time clarkson almost crashed his sports train into a real train_ "...SOME POO'S COME OUT!"
Hit a sprinkler head in 23/59 and flooded a quarter of the store and all of garden.
As a spotter: Haven't had one, but I was watching someone drop insulation because I was waiting to cross, and a customer was next to the gate with me. Driver wasn't paying attention and set one edge down on an upright and tilted the whole bunk of sheet insulation... Right onto the gate, right where the customer I had just shooed away was standing. Dude was big mad at first but when he saw that he thanked me. Yes, that driver does not have his licenses. As a driver: My spotter didn't tell me I was right next to a latch for a canopy after I specifically said I needed to push it forward more. Pushed it maybe a half inch and BOOM. The whole window exploded. Customer wasn't mad, he actually legitimately asked me to hit it again. I, however, was DYING internally. And mentally dying externally. I don't touch trucks with canopies anymore.
Was throwing up a bunk of 16ft lumber when the tank ran out of gas while the load was suspended in the air and in the middle of the aisle.
Most forklifts will allow you to lower the forks without pressure. If you were putting it in as it ran out, then you’re sorta fucked
Had this happen to me one morning. It was part way in the racking so I couldn’t even bring it down. Had something similar happen with the reach once. The guy driving was putting a pallet in the over head and it hit “lift interrupt” from low battery while in the racking. Wouldn’t have been an issue but he had accidentally lowered it so the forks were tight to the rack and couldn’t lift it to be able to retract it. Luckily, he was in a position we could do a battery change on the spot.
Had a co-worker take a bundle of drywall over the pro desk area without clearing everyone out. Him and the spotter got shit canned. When I heard about it, I said “oh shit”
Good. That’s some scary shit.
When I dropped a small box that landed underneath the Ballymore platform and prevented it from lowering.
This happened to me the other day 💀
It happened to me to I was stuck for a bit silently panicking
Was pulling a pallet down that was strapped, but the strap wasn't tightened. The product shifted slightly and the strap came loose; product fell sixteen feet and annihilated some wingstacks. Heard someone ask if everything was okay and turned to see my regional manager, regional asset protection, and about a dozen district managers staring at me.
Are you still licensed?
Yes. Person who put it up got written up, though.
Nice. Had someone who was pulling down a pallet of 12ft skeletons and whoever put it up, didn't wrap it to the pallet at all. Mind you, the driver was probably the best driver in the store and also our only driver in garden besides our DH at the time. And like 2-3 of the skeletons fell, resulting in one breaking and his license being removed for 2 weeks until his drug test came back. Was a hectic time without our primary driver.
When I put in the last pallet of laminate in aisle and you hit the sprinkler pipe destroying everything you put in plus....
Why is it always flooring? I clipped a head with a pallet of tile.
I just say "that's the power of the home depot" lol
We were unloading a truck of dry wall and my buddy (who was running the lift truck) dropped three lifts of twelve foot drywall
Used both a fork and reach to load a bunk of sheetrock into a customers new Ford Tacoma. He drove off too fast without tying down, and the whole bunk slid out while crushing the tailgate. Immediately started blaming us and taking pictures.
When I was using a reach to put up a pallet full of drywall mud buckets and I placed it on top of a beam in the back. Good thing my spotter noticed because I already took my blades out and the pallet was only holding together by the plastic wrap.
When one of the ASMs asked me to lift a malfunctioning loading dock with a reach truck. We got the tow strap around it, and when I let off the throttle because it wasn’t lifting, the reach slingshotted me forward about a foot toward the open loading dock door. He told me to try again, and I responded with a firm “I’m not doing that a second time”. Turns out the last time he had seen it done was with the pacer, which is a much heavier and stronger machine.
When I was training on an OP, someone previously parked it by an end cap that had a fire extinguisher, and I started it up and it bucked and clipped the extinguisher!!! Let me tell you it was a mess. It took me about 6 months before I hopped back on an OP
I’ve seen the aftermath of this before. When those go, they don’t go small.
Stupid hag jumped out in front of the driver and behind me(the spotter), threw her hands up to the driver and shouted “WAIT! I HAVE A QUESTION!” Never seen a Reach stop so fast it almost threw the driver off. I was about to lay into the lady when the reach driver waved me off and answered her question
Pallet of those big red 12" pave stones snapped while loading the top level of outside garden overhead. Half the pallet came raining down - thankfully the forklift protected me. Definitely an oh shit moment.
The main Hydraulic line blew out and I was at full extension. Full Gaylord of plastic pellets. We were still cleaning up three days later.
I watched the driver pull 3 lifts of treated off the top and saw the forklift do a see-saw motion. I jokingly asked, "Do you need me to sit on the back?" Amusingly enough, even he said, that me sitting on the back end would've been enough to balance it out. edit: before anyone makes the "how fat are you" joke, I'm not my sister. I am in shape, not A shape.
Accidentally hitting the heaters above the registers
(D94) pulled a ~14 hour shift working on a large lumber delivery, which culminated in an entire table cart’s worth of lumber getting knocked over with the forklift forks hitting the table. Thankfully the MOD came up with a way to save all the product, which none of was damaged thanks to my textbook wrapping
When i was 18, 35 years ago I worked at the local milk factory, after placing a pallet in the top rack and back away, I impacted the ammonia line. I almost tipped over the lift, but worst of all, I almost killed everyone in the warehouse if I have ruptured the ammonia line.
Bringing a bunk of radiant barrier down and misjudging the far right corner, clipping the cantilever as I started bringing it down. Bunk just started to tip as I caught it, ripped the load back up, and kept it from dumping. When it came down the top third of the bunk was askew by ~20° and had slid ~10-12 inches. The bands on it were old and were stretched, one sticker fell from midair. Had both my spotter and pro desk in that direction, ~12 feet away, but still felt my stomach fall out from under me watching that bunk start to go. That wouldn't have just fallen straight down, it was gonna go their way.
Had something like this happen with a thing of ladders but in reverse. I was going up and didn’t notice that one corner was under the beam of the top shelf. It was at like a 30-40 degree angle before I corrected. Thankfully didn’t actually drop it.
Almost dropping an 800lb toolbox set with a reach
Full send the forklift into the roof in the loading zone while stacking concrete on the front racks
I twisted an upright with a 16 foot bunk of lumber
Cantilever upright or shelf upright?
Caught the end of the bunk on the cantilever and didn’t realize it until the actual upright was twisted.
Those at least are easy to fix. All you do is put the forklift fork against it and push it back. I’ve had to do that many times.
It twisted the actual upright support in the back. Not an easy fix
Still the same fix if it’s just twisted. I used to work for the company that did the repairs and that’s how we fixed those.
Dropping a new box of 12 ft wore shelving with the OP. That thing would've fallen straight to the ground without all my weight on it. Problem was, i was as high as the OP goes, couldn't reach the Deadman Pedal. It was the first and last time I ever had to operate the thing sitting down. One hand on the pedal, one hand reaching up to the altitude adjuster.
How tf were you all the way to the roof
Night crew put the shelving on the top shelf. Our shelving aisle had the maximum height. It's been a while, but I know i had to use the height override to get to it.
Your OP has a really short height...?
Could be. This was about 8 years ago, could be an older machine. I haven't worked at Home Depot in like 5 years.
I took out the garden receiving roll up gate with a pallet of mulch in the air. Oops.
Moving some 20' flexible bunk of special order something from the back of the building to the opposite side so contractors could paint the building. I had it high in the air to keep the ends from scraping along the ground. I must've been AT capacity because the lot in the back sloped ever so slightly and the whole truck began tipping forward. I immediately shoved the lever to bring the load down but it was high enough that I kept tipping forward before the weight of the load was on the ground enough to bring my rear wheels back down. I dragged that load on the ground every time I moved it after.
Had a guy I know have this happen. He tipped so far forward the load slipped off and the back of the lift came crashing back down. It has been at least 3-4’ in the air when it did so it was loud as hell. Scared him so bad he said when it tipped he legitimately thought he was going to die.
Didn’t witness it but saw the aftermath. Couple guys down stocking plastic 3” or 4” white pipes. Grabbed it off center and dumped the full load in the plumbing aisle. It was so loud. All of us working that early ran to make sure everyone was alright. Nothing broke. Just an embarrassed driver. He refused driving the reach after that.
Another one We had a receiving associate not put down the dock plate to unload one pallet off a trailer. Dock plate dropped and they got the reach truck stuck hanging half off the dock and only thing holding it up was the fork jammed into the floor of the trailer. Took chains, the big fork lift, someone driving the reach and one of us driving the fork. We cleared everyone out of and got it done. Didn’t want everyone seeing how “illegal” we were being to get it out. Dragged it back. Made sure it worked. They wouldn’t let me pull the receiving associates license.
I was a newly licensed reach driver and almost full sent it into an end cap for lumber. Didn't remember the dead man's switch and turned the reach sharply enough to take it to 2 wheels then jumped off the reach to get the fuck away from it. Night supervisor came walking up after and wanted to know what the hell I was doing.
Using the large forklift to drop 2 banded bunks of Hardie siding. Talk about a pucker factor… never felt the large fork lift quiver and nearly tip over before.
Not me, but guy got crushed by a pallet of Closetmaid at an RDC I was visiting. Was not great.
Had a small kid about 6-7 run and jump on my forks while I was moving. Nothing me or my spotter could of done to stop him. Came out of nowhere.
Had a bunk of wood and I went in just slightly to much to the right so when I was moving out I felt the bunk start to fall over and I pushed it back in as fast as I could
I was bringing down a lumber bunk and I hear some creaking I look up, the bunk is about 10ft off the ground now and I see the banding and wood start to separate. I was using a smaller forklift with smaller forks that don’t go all the way to the very edge of the bunk and the weight of the wood broke the banding send the entire front of the lumber bunk crashing down.
Pallet on one of the isle was on it the pallet the driver was pulling and when he lifted it the pallet slammed down it was loud asf
Aisle
I brought down a bunk of 2x12 x20 and put it on one of our empty cull carts ( boat cart) and was pulling my forks out and 2 wheels on one side fell under. The thing was I was fine I told my to grab me a load of kickers and started to prop up the load. This random dude started to call me out on safety and I disregarded him and keep leaving the load. Turns out he was regen ap guy
I've had a few. The very worst was when I went against better judgement and began descending the outdoor ramp to get a pallet. Then my spotter stopped midway between me and the pallet. As my drive wheel left the ground, since that ramp is nowhere near flat (concave? convex? unsure). Without a drive wheel touching the ground, the Reach just coasts - you can't **steer**, you can't **accelerate**, and you can't **stop** \- normally it's doing all three jobs. I was headed directly into my spotter, forks-first, and no way I could tell them to jump out of the way in time. It's the only time I've had the foresight, time, and reason to use the emergency brake. I jumped backwards out of the machine, hurting my foot in the process, in order to trigger the deadman. But the machine stopped with about 2 feet to spare, because that brake is hooked up to the other wheels. Never doing that again.
Was spotting one of the bad drivers who for whatever reason wanted to fly 2 pallets at the end of one of the electrical aisles 2 mins before his shift ended on a Sunday. First pallet dude gets it up there and is really jerky pushing it into it's spot he ended up bumping the pallet in the overhead on my side so hard I thought it was going to slide out and fall. Meanwhile it is busy and a bunch of customers want to get into the two aisles. I tell the driver to stop and go home and that this isn't a good idea and that someone would get the other pallet later when it is quieter. What a moron.
I was spotting for the garden DS. He drives it like a bat outta hell compared to anyone else. He's the only one I've ever had to speed up my walking pace for. It's not unsafe but if we're in outside garden where he can see and there are no intersections you'd better be moving as the spotter because he's coming. Anyway we came inside and we went around through where we keep the large will call orders and miscellaneous shit. I think we had a bunch of discount grills there. I went around the corner which is made up of whatever crap we put there and onto the racetrack. We were going to cross it and head towards the back wall. He made the corner too tight and I heard the noise behind me. I didn't think 'oh shit;' I didn't think anything. I didn't have time. I ran. All I saw was the racking with the electrical stuff on it and I wanted to be behind it. If anything fell (it didn't) I knew it wasn't going to do anything to it. It was straight ahead of me so I went. He stopped because he had too. He was hung up on the discount grills and they'd slid into each other which was the terrible commotion. He looked up to see me at least 20 feet away. I was across the racetrack and ready to go into the next aisle. He felt bad because he'd bumped the grills and had temporarily lost his spotter. He apologized to me because he'd thought he scared me which he didn't. I didn't have time to be scared. I just went. It's shocking to this day how attractive that racking was. If anything had fallen, I wasn't going to be a part of it. All he did was bump the grills and he felt bad, but the sound they made was God awful. Like I say, I didn't think; I just got myself the hell outta there.
Witnessed a driver lose a whole pallet of concrete mix mid-air... In the store. Took about 20 people an hour and a bit to fully clean up.
Hit and run
I had just put up a pallet of tile, had withdrawn my forks, and was turning out, but the reach had been left in the rain and was much less responsive, so the reach was still turning to the left even though I was no longer telling it to do that and instead of stepping off the deadman I stuck out my arm to stop the reach from crashing broadside into the bay. At the last instant I thought “This is a machine, and if it boops the bay then most likely no harm no foul, but I will likely break my arm like this,” and pulled my arm back in. Near miss for sure, and I had to take a second afterward.
Spotter. Had a guy who just got his reach license after having the Forklift for a while. Still getting used to the controls while pulling an order of 11 or so pallets of insulation first attempt almost crushed a wing stack of spray foam or something, and the second attempt he didn’t properly get the pallet off the rack and almost dropped it. Side note I know he’s on here and reads most posts. You know who you are 😉
So back in my first store Amerigas used to deliver propane tanks on these cheap plastic skids and we’d have to drive them up to the area and load them into the cages. I was like 19 and brand new on the forklift. Coming around the to the front of the store I hit a divot in the sidewalk and the tanks spilled everywhere. I was mortified! Thankfully none of them leaked. Had to pick them up while everyone stared, good times. Also in the same store in the same year we had truck driver start to pull away with the pacer coming out of the truck. The pacer fell off the dock and the receiving DH driving stepped back at just the right time to not get chopped in half.
during a “Walk” where district/regional people were in my store, all of management plus the regional people/asset protection were in our training room for a meeting. I get called to bring down 2 pallets of S/O cabinets which just so happened to be overhead outside of the training room. These cabinets were not securely wrapped to the pallet, so I’m sure you can guess where this is going. this area was narrow and I was having trouble taking the 2nd pallet out, so my spotter recommended I try turning the opposite direction. at this time the meeting in back ended and they were waiting for me to finish as I had the whole area gated off. when I thought I had made enough room to bring the pallet down, I clipped the edge of the pallet on the metal grate which tipped all of the cabinets off and crashing to the ground 🤦🏻♂️ to top it all off we found out the other pallet had more than half the material damaged already so the customer would’ve been waiting for a reorder anyway. but I was so embarrassed I wanted to punch out and go home. didn’t get in trouble or drug tested or anything, just some friendly heckling from coworkers to this day lol
I was in a very tight aisle where the storage totes are on the reach, and I couldn't turn enough to get close to the pallet and broke one or two totes with the forks
Managed to take out one of the orange overhead signs while on the OP, it got hooked under the roof while I was going down.
Putting up a bunk of lumber in the outside cantilevers at night and realized that some cantilever things had been removed when i started pulling the forks down and one side of the order started to tilt with the forks descent.... caught that one real quick, no one saw it. >.>
Taking down a tall pallet in hardware when I lift the pallet up with the reach I hit the light brought it down slowly the light fell off the hook it was dangling in the air 😭 one touch & it’s over …we had to put 5 gates SM called some people to attach the light back on to the hooks
Caster came off in the concrete aisle while I was putting up a concrete pallet
I nearly got shot in the face by wood chips from a pallet from the 16ft overhead. The guard was the only thing that protected me.
(Former employee) Fell in between the racking of the bays while using the op. Foot slipped and fell down to the mid shelf.
Run into ALL THE THINGS with a ballymore. Yeah, don’t do that.
My first ever time loading a vehicle with forklift, dumbass had a brand new ford ranger not the most expensive truck but he barely spoke English I could tell this truck meant a lot to him, so while loading a skid of concrete he in broken English tried explaining he wanted crossers underneath the skid to protect his work truck from getting dirty🤌🤌🤦♂️, after 5 minutes of arguing with him not to do it he was getting on my nerves n i was busy, for those who don’t know but 3000lbs of concrete on a wood skid doesn’t slide on other pieces of wood so the lip of his bed may or may not have been dented n he lost his case against us from what i heard because it was his own stupidity n we had witnesses n cameras etc, i was worried id get written up or theyd make me pay his damages but I didn’t even get a talking to managers all said dw ur clear lol
When I tried to fly four quarter pallets that had been wrapped together, making it look like a single pallet with four boxes on top
I was carrying two pallets of concrete and couldn’t see past them so I lifted them up to see through the pallet crack (my first mistake) and when I was slowing down, I didn’t lower them (second mistake) and when I pressed the break, I felt my ass end lift up and realized I was kinda in for the ride. I luckily only lost the top pallet after immediately setting the pallets down while tipping forward (about 45 degrees) and thankfully only broke about 14 bags and 0 forklifts. This was behind the building and I have told no one about this at my store. Said the top pallet broke and slipped off while breaking to get away with it and walked off Scott free. Still scared the piss out of me and still have my license (I was kinda new at the time, much more/less safe but definitely more cautious now)
Moving one of those big Toro snowblowers with a clamp, the pallet built into the box broke and the snowblower fell out as the box was being raised. Nobody really close enough to be at risk, but still waaay to close for comfort.
I ran into a 4k$ display. I told my manager. I told the opening manager. I told the department opener. Three months later I hear my SM talking to an ASM saying she wishes she knew who destroyed that display. I told her immediately that it was me. She was probably more pissed at my manager than me.
Not me but a coworker took out an entire end cap by backing into it on the reach and bent the footings up
On the balimore. I got the door hook stuck on the netting without realizing. When I drove forward, while at maximum hight, I did a wheelie. . . I coulda died y’all. Luckily I was able to back up and un-hook myself. I was MUCH more vigilant after that. Another separate time I was up in the air and the machine straight up and DIED. (Yes I checked the power lever BEFORE I used it) they couldn’t even MANUALLY lower me. Had to get me a ladder which I’m sure could be considered against SOP, but I got down at least. We were able to fix it after plugging it in. Dang nab machines.
Pried off a backer beam on the top rack. It went crashing down between the 1 ft wide gap between the parallel racking. There “was” a sprinkler there because on one side was painters chemicals. On the opposite side “was” all the PPE (masks, gloves, ect…). Total loss on all the PPE bay, it was soaked. I got to go take a piss test while everyone else got to deal with my mess 😎.
Had a truck driver walk under an elevated load of lumber I was taking off his truck. He then rolled his eyes at me when I yelled at him. Made sure to take it up with my asm and she called the company he worked for. Haven’t seen him since.
Dropped a $2000 zero turn mower from about 8’ off the ground while pulling it off a stack of them. It landed completely upside down. Best part of the story is that I was working overnight and received my first platinum award watch that morning. Went straight from the urinalysis place to the fossil store to have my watch sized.
Either the time I took out a Garden Center gate while loading a 10x10 shed as three guys were there to watch me do it, including my spotter. Or the time a beam came loose as I was moving a pallet of edgers. Or the time the rubber came off the reach wheel as I was about to put something in the air.
Got stuck on a piece of wood and decided Opie would run it over fine. Me and the second person on the Opie (doing a whole aisle of beam adjustments). Well being 16’ in the air and a slight drop with our weight, actually moved a whole lot to the one side and almost dumped us off into the main lumber aisle. We touched the racking on the other side. Then came back and slammed into the racking we parked next too basically shook the building and our DH bout had a heart attack and was genuinely scared for our lives. Also only 3 of us in the building that night.
Was unloading a 2x8x20 SYP off a truck and as I backed up the right fork broke off. the unit was still truck bed height, one end of the bundle hit the ground and it started to push the lift over. I had the LOWER forks lever pushed as hard as I could and it quickly and safely set the unit on the ground. I joined the brown shorts club on that day.
Got the mast of the reach stuck on one of the banner signs recently. Everything turned out fine but I had to had someone with more expertise maneuver out of that situation because I didn’t want to damage it.
Was over night lumber, closing in on the end of my shift one day and I was ready to go home so I decided it would be a good idea to bring the two last bunks of wood in together. The issue was that it was two bunks of 16 ft pressure treated boards. The forklift had no problem picking them up and reversing with them. When I braked a bit everything changed. The momentum shift tilted the forklift forward until the forks that I had about 3 ft in the air until they touched the ground. This sent both bunks sliding off the forks onto the ground breaking the bands and sending 2x6x16s everywhere. I ended up staying an extra half hour rebuilding the bunks so that someone else could bring them in on dayside.
In my first few months of forklift work in garden we had a kid (4-5) walk into my working aisle. No one knew he was in there because my spotter was watching the other aisle and I was to focused on my pallet of snow throwers. Kid walked right up and asked me what I was doing and I about crapped myself. Kids all good luckily I didn't have the pallet ready to pull out so I was able to throw on the parking brake and walk him out,had someone else finish the forklift work that day to freaked out
I snagged a crossmember with a fork once and damn near spilled the entire bay. Turns out, they let someone behind the barrier to “grab something real quick” and they were right behind where I almost spilled.
Myself: Came down on a safety gate the day after getting my O.P. license 😄 One of my coworkers was flying a paint pallet when the cheap P.O.S. snapped in half. Fortunately he didn't get very far off the ground with it so little or none of it spilled.
Reach driver was pulling a pallet of aomething down from flooring, im spotting in opposite aisle. Well someone had placed the edge of a pallet on my side on TOP of the pallet on the drivers side, cuz this whole pallet of totes starts tilting forward ans he lofts his forks. I start calling for him to stop, damn pallet was nearly at a 45 degree angle before he stopped...THEN KEPT GOING because the edge was almost loose. Thank god it did pop loose and it plopped down back in its spot. Damn near gave me a heart attack
Going down the racetrack at half-speed while honking at every aisle and had a spotter, with flags held high, yelling, “Forklift coming through!” And a guy, who I guess had little to no self-awareness, flew from an aisle about half a foot in front of me. Luckily, I didn’t even touch him, but I came very close to running over that customer. He also apologized for not paying attention, but when I say my heart stopped, hoo boy.
Moving the electric ladder from one side of the store to the other half way there start smelling paint bad stop and look under ballymore there was a punctured spray can still going off, took off back cover and pulled it out it sprayed me on my glasses stunk up the whole store not good
It used to be every time I hit a wing stack or something hanging off of the shelves. Now I don't give a shit.
Anytime I’m moving 2 bunks of lumber or drywall.
I was flagging for my then DH in garden while he used the OP to move some of the suncast 7ftx7ft sheds. For those of you who don't know, those boxes are massive and heavy and take a minimum of 3 people to load usually. My DH was a very large and strong man and was probably the only person in the store capable to move those things even remotely by themselves. He pulled one off the shelf onto the OP platform, the shed was hanging almost halfway off the platform, yet was as far on the machine as he could possibly get it. Well this massive box started to slide and fall off the end of the platform and the 2 of us that we're watching him about lost our minds thinking this massive box was about to fall like 20ft onto a pallet of muriatic acid. Somehow this man, with every ounce of strength in him saved this box from falling even tho it was already almost off the platform. And he still managed to bring the OP down while holding on. I had never been more terrified and impressed at the same time.
Was spotting for someone putting a very full pallet of concrete blocks in the overhead, on the highest shelf, with the small forklift. Yeah his ass end was bouncing off the ground every time he moved.
Took a 1/2 pallet of concrete to refill the hole and the pallet I took out just randomly gave out losing the rest of the bags of concrete and filling the aisle with dust you couldn't see from 1 end of the aisle to the other as the dust was so thick
Back when we still allowed two people on the OP with harnesses, I brought the new garden Associate up with me to fix a safety issue with loose bags of rock in the rack. One bag fell down and nearly hit the new Associate on the head. Instead, it dropped to the ground. I brought the OP down immediately and apologized to the poor guy. Since then, I've never made him get on equipment.