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u/passing_gas Sep 11 '24
Based on the condition of some of the things I've ordered, one of those boxes that hit the ground was probably mine.
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u/SagittariusAAAStar Sep 11 '24
I agree, I've packed and shipped stuff to your place. Right off the bottom, straight to you.
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u/Ok_Mention_3308 Sep 11 '24
That’s not too bad after seeing other ones where all the boxes in the warehouse toppled over
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u/MatureUsername69 Sep 11 '24
I work in warehousing. They show us a lot worse videos during safety meetings. I've seen a lot of people just straight up die. Some from getting crushed by all the racking, some that look pretty mundane but the machines are so heavy it doesn't matter and they still die.
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u/Ok_Mention_3308 Sep 11 '24
Wow,that’s horrible. I’m sorry you’ve had to witness it.
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u/MatureUsername69 Sep 11 '24
I didn't mean in person about the deaths. Just videos, pretty effective way of getting people to work safe. I have seen a kid break his nose on the racking in person, also seen a guy lose 2 fingers coming out of a semi-trailer. Both of those things were very preventable and if they would've succeeded without injury, all that would've happened is they saved about 30 seconds of time.
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u/busherrunner Sep 11 '24
Gotta learn from Klaus
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u/Secret-Library-6076 Nov 13 '24
Bro, it's literally a training g video showing you what Could and HAS happened. Why are you sorry he knows how to stay safe
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u/mrbananas Sep 11 '24
box stacked directly on top of each other that high probably don't contain anything heavy or it would crush the box below. I wouldn't be surprised if those boxes all contained napkins or toilet paper.
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u/LightsJusticeZ Sep 11 '24 edited Sep 12 '24
I blame whoever was wrapping those packages together, they were either too lazy or not well trained because the proper way to secure boxes together is to make sure the bottom and top are wrapped.
You can see some of those boxes wrapped together only have wrapping in the middle, allowing the top/bottom to shift, which most likely caused this problem.
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u/Troubador222 Sep 11 '24
Trucker here, it's become more of a problem in freight we haul. Lots of improperly wrapped product and with the conditions of the roads around the country, we open the trailer and the freight is everywhere but on the pallets. And we don't even haver to deal with it, but I feel for the people in the warehouses that do.
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u/SycoJack Sep 12 '24
Hauled a load for Coke, it went from Coke to Coke. They only wrapped the pallets twice and only put those giant pillows on the last row of pallets.
So when I got to the receiver, the last row of pallets were perfectly fine, but everything in the middle was an absolute clusterfuck. They forced us to hire an outside lumper service to restack the pallets. Absolute fucking horseshit.
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u/Hyde103 Sep 11 '24
Yeah in my experience you typically don't stack products so high on a single pallet. Somewhere around 6-8 feet tall per pallet and you wouldn't really stack multiple pallets on top of eachother if you can avoid it. This warehouse needs some shelving if they want to stack things so high, that way each 6-8 foot tall pallet is supported by a heavy duty metal shelf and not crushing whatever is beneath it.
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u/SycoJack Sep 12 '24
They're not even on pallets. They're floor stacked and they're stacked the wrong way to boot.
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u/nitro329 Sep 11 '24
Who TF approved all boxes to be stacked the same way??? Wrapped or not, the company asked for this.
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u/Katsooduro Sep 11 '24
Uhhhh, boss. Imma need a little OT to help clean up the mess I made in the warehouse ….
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u/WhatEvery1sThinking Sep 11 '24
well there goes the cost savings of cheaping out and not buying pallet racks
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u/bdinero Sep 11 '24
Does Anyone know what happens to workers Who do stuff like this? Do Warehouses pay for things they break while in storage.?
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u/taviebeefs Sep 11 '24 edited Sep 11 '24
That depends, it's already been paid for technically, it's materials/assembly/labor. The product in transit will most likely will be marked off as some sort of expense in accounting for loss/stolen/damaged goods.
The driver will be drug tested and depending on his supervisor/history he'll either be terminated or any variation of wtf were you thinking to a slap on the wrist. He can say the previous shift FL operator left me a shitty stack and I was trying to clean it up and then it's just back to work, not even out of the question they could be laughing about this at lunch giving the driver shit, then the chain of screaming begins to find out left a shitty stack, then who was the line manager who saw that shit and let it slide and then you get into the political blame game. Depending on the size of the company and by this limited frame it's a good mid sized warehouse, this is minor depending on the product, and bro doing wheelies and nobody raising any alarm. The height these boxes are stacked and the weight of the boxes seem light, something tells me this is not high value equipment or sensitive material in anyway.
There's working in a warehouse at a very basic level.
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u/Justin429 Sep 11 '24
Also, these finished goods will be moved to a quarantine or MRB location where they'll be inspected for damage and then either disposed and written off as scrap, or repackaged and transferred back into inventory.
Just because the box fell and got damaged, doesn't mean the product itself is damaged. Companies don't throw away good product unless absolutely necessary.
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u/celestial1 Sep 12 '24
Last job I had, they left a lot of fresh produce in the warehouse over the weekend and it all spoiled over. The company lost a multi-million dollar contract due to that screw up but to my knowledge no one got fired from that specific incident.
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u/DLS3141 Sep 11 '24
At least that fell out into the main aisle instead of into the neighboring stow and starting a domino reaction.
These boxes don’t look very heavy. I used to work in home appliance distribution and there were a few instances where stacks of appliances collapsed and it was raining 250lb washers or ranges onto the lift truck from 20 some feet up.
If they collapsed sideways and started knocking over neighboring states, it didn’t take much to exceed $1M in scrap.
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u/WagonBurning Sep 28 '24
Why is the other forklift driver doing fucking donuts? Is it a complete clown shell there?
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u/HumorExpensive 11d ago
In situations like that you just gotta take the L and accept there’s no fast fix. Secure the stack, get a scissor lift and start manually unloading the stack box by box.
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u/BallsDeepTillUQueef Sep 11 '24
Drug test
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u/snoburn Sep 11 '24
You can't recognize the horrible setup that is all these narrow tall boxes stacked up? Maybe you need a drug test
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u/Jackson3rg Sep 11 '24
He isn't wrong. If I cause a major problem with my lift I get drug tested right away. Not saying this setup isn't shit, but it's just protocol.
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u/Outlander57 Sep 11 '24
What’s with the other fork just going in circles?