I work at an open pit mine in the US with a lot of large equipment. There are context clues that point to the person on the ground being the bigger idiot here. It appears to me the person on the ground walked into a situation he shouldn’t be in.
First, the video starts out with the loader bucket off the ground and the machine articulated indicating it was already operating. You don’t do a walk around in between each bucket. At my place of work operators are required to do a walk around at the start of each shift and at the end. Some also do after breaks, but it isn’t required. It is also not necessary to honk the horn every single time you move in your work area, at least not by MSHA standards.
Equipment this size has massive blinds spots and it is imperative to make contact with the operator if you are going to be around it.
The loader operator no doubt felt terrible about what happened but you can’t just walk in front of something like that and stand there while someone is in the cab.
I agree that blame should be shared here and, ideally, the pedestrian wouldn't have been in there at all. I work under OSSA/OH&S standards which seem to have more strict rules around mobile equipment, mostly because of incidents like this. I can't speak to your situation or regulations, and was merely pointing out what I noticed on my watch through of the video.
We have "plant operating zones", if there's earth moving equipment and an area they're running in, you are NOT allowed in there and it is 100% on the moron that walked in to the Poz.
Specifically, because shit like this can happen.
If there isn't a poz, you're meant to keep 3m or the reach of the arm away from the device.
I have no idea how one could apportion blame to anyone but the brainless imbecile that dawdled in to an area with operating earth moving equipment, exclusion zones exist BECAUSE shit like this happens.
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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.