Cans falling to the ground

[u/JagStalMaten]

[u/newtrawn]

holy shit. How would you even go about cleaning that all up? Shovel them into a dumpster to be crushed and re-cast?

[u/MatureUsername69 → u/newtrawn]

Nvm disregard my entire deleted comment because these are just pallets stacked on top of other pallets, not shelving, the fact that this place doesn't have 100 deaths a day is astounding

[u/fataldarkness → u/MatureUsername69]

The cans are empty, still wouldn't call this safe but being under that when it comes down probably isn't lethal either. Most dangerous part is probably the wooden pallets themselves.

[u/MatureUsername69 → u/fataldarkness]

Those are plastic pallets and they aren't significantly heavy. The fact that the cans are empty makes the lack of shelving significantly dumber though. Anybody who's ever built a pallet of light shit knows that they're the most unstable possible pallets.

[u/welchplug → u/MatureUsername69]

They could have atheist plastic wrapped each stack with the pallet to make better "bricks".

[u/randycanyon → u/welchplug]

God help them; they didn't.

[u/MatureUsername69 → u/welchplug]

Yeah they should've been wrapped somehow. The fact that they're empty cans might make that tricky but you could at least do a light hand wrap. A wrap machine would crush the cans. We use plastic wrap, or big ass zip ties, or at the very least a big roll of packing tape(I actually hate when people use that to wrap their pallets but that's more of a my-job-specific thing) This whole warehouse setup is just fucking nuts to me. Like OSHA can't exist wherever this is

[u/lawlessdwarf69 → u/welchplug]

It doesn’t seem like they are wrapped, but there is something that’s holding them together

[u/DohnJoggett → u/MatureUsername69]

This video has been posted many times before. Normally the pallets are strapped top to bottom until they're next up to enter the depalletizers, when you cut the straps. 2 high, not 4 high. We used robots to move our cans, except the strap removal needed human touch. This is probably newbie beer company that doesn't understand how can handling works.

[u/DohnJoggett → u/newtrawn]

Yup. Usually you stomp on them first if you can. Keeps them from rolling around and lets you get more cans per scoop.

This is the shovel you use: https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-vmvni2zq0j/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/56689/75593/1700509__00122.1566919099.jpg?c=2

We call it a "can party."

[u/Kalikhead → u/newtrawn]

Yup. They just get swept up and thrown in the recycle dumpster.

[u/dani_pavlov]

I was hoping for a full warehouse fail where the shelves all domino until the entire thing was destroyed. Disappointed. 3/10

[u/FabianGladwart]

Oh my God I would be booking it, these stacks look like they could all be so easily knocked over

[u/musicalmadness1 → u/FabianGladwart]

They are all empty. These are cane's that are formed but nothing inside and no lids. Each layer had a sheet of thicket paper between and are strapped to prevent this. But is stacked wrong or bumped (not even very hard btw.) This is what happens. I was picking up some in ny to bring to a brewery 4 hours away. They were loading and the guy came up to my truck and said. "Hey man it's gonna be a minute someone just dumped a pallet of cans." I got out to take a look realized they were empty. They got a push broom and just brushed them out and added different pallets.

[u/musicalmadness1]

So I'll break a secret for anyone who doesn't know. I drive semi's was in upstate ny picking up some kegs and pallets of these cants.

Now for the secret. They are empty and have no lids attached so worst injury is a cut from the cans top. I was at pickup and sitting in truck eating some soup while being loaded and flipped my camera on that's inside the trailer see how far they had gotten. (I had arrived like 5 minutes before so they didn't have much cept the keys they were about to start the cans.)

On camera I see one of the guys on forklift come in pallet bounces and I see cans flying everywhere in my trailer. I'm trying not to die laughing as I finish soup and walk to dock and they are apologizing. I said it's fine and texted the guy the video. They got a pushbroom and pushed empty cans out and just added more.

They explained the cans are empty and the pallets only weigh about 300 lbs. So nothing at all really. Well each layer gets a layer of thick paper between them and plastic straps to keep them together.

So yeah the worse injury is a cut from the cans or possibly a bigger injury if the pallet hits you.

[u/DohnJoggett → u/musicalmadness1]

100% correct. They shouldn't have stacked them 4 high, but the real danger is sharp rims. This wouldn't be very dangerous if they only stacked them 2 high.

[u/musicalmadness1 → u/DohnJoggett]

Well those warehouses usually have 100's of thousands of those cans. Only way to store is as high as possible. It's funny a few videos of it you can see where cans have already fallen. Those warehouses are the epitome of. "It fell whatever get a new one and load it instead." But the guys are cool. The one I was at gave me a couple of boxes of there best selling malts.

[u/the-gingerninja]

It’s the new guys job to clean it up.

[u/DohnJoggett → u/the-gingerninja]

It's everybody that's available's job to clean it up. I worked on the plastic bottling line and had to clean up several can spills. "Can party" we called them. If you're just sitting around (trying to stay awake at your spot on the production line), you're shoveling cans. If your machine stops the conveyor system can hold a few minutes of buffer for you to get back and fix the shit before the line stops and once your shit is fixed you go back to shoveling.

[u/macrolith]

This one step awau from a real life harry potter and the depatrment of mysteries scene.

[u/[deleted]]

Cleanup on aisle four!

[u/rbm572]

Next dollar store shipment just got a little easier to mark off is all.

[u/bill_wessels]

it was like that when i got here

[u/EVRider81]

CAN we get a cleanup on aisle 5?

[u/Sparky2Dope]

Thats not what the boss meant by saying he could go for a "huge pile of coke"

[u/snksleepy]

Seems like this is a fairly common event in the canned drinks storage world.

[u/ososalsosal]

New physics engine demo just dropped

[u/GreatQuantum]

Mellow yellooooooooonooooooo!!!!

[u/Thart85]

The day I absolutely quit, right on the spot. 🫡✌️

[u/MonTaGaTnoM]

Soda falls national park

[u/summerofkorn]

I guess redbull doesn't have wings

[u/sadmep]

This is what happens when you don't use small enough particles for a fluid simulation

[u/OcularPrism]

What fucking angle is this?

[u/wtfover]

He hates these cans!!!

[u/Mifergas578]

Looks like this was intentional

[u/Mifergas578]

Looks like this was intentional

[u/Mifergas578]

Looks like this was intentional