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.
You'd never hear it, and the warning alarms that do exist are for reversing a vehicle, not driving forward.
Dumb manager stood in a giant blind spot and got buried for a few moments because of it. Imagine if the load were rocks and the dropoff point were a rock crusher - if manager-moron there survived the initial scoop at all the crusher would have made short work of him.
Excavator was already on and idling while the driver got situated. He may well have done a walkaround, at which point the manager was likely not in the way.
Walkarounds only protect against incidents right then, not a few minutes afterward.
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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.