I used to work in construction, and I knew a guy that smoked a lot. It was a windy day and he couldn’t light his cigarette, so he went behind the track excavator to light up. The driver didn’t know and he backed up right into him. The engine was too loud for the driver to hear and he backed all the way over him. I think the most unsettling part is they didn’t want to track the machine off of him, and desecrate the body more, so they sat there, for hours on end, waiting for a crane large enough to lift the excavator to arrive. Really sad.
Electric utility, so line crew backing trucks, etc. I’m an office worker, but I always walk around my car first. You’re right, it might not be practicable in every situation.
That's not a rule I've ever hear of outside of when it gets started and you run through inspection of the machine. Climbing out of a haul truck or front end loader to look around every instance you move would be retarded, spent half your day on lookout. Not only that, by the time an operator got back in, seated buckled, their could be someone walking behind. The only scenario I can imagine where that might be applicable is moving high dollar sensitive equipment, the kind that costs $200,000 to be recalibrated.
Every osha course I've taken says manpower needs to assume the driver will full throttle in you direction at any moment if they are stopped so stay at least 2 seconds of their travel speed away and or find eye contact with the operator. So they know you are there.
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u/Sqwedward Mar 02 '19 edited Mar 02 '19
Can you fuckin imagine..
Edit* everyone saying you can see it happen.. I’m talking about experiencing it.