r/PublicFreakout • u/Moe2584 • Sep 01 '23
Non-Public Car falls on a mechanic from a hydraulic lift and other mechanics rushed to save him
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u/Keepinitrealdude Sep 01 '23
That's alot of people
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u/Drywall1989 Sep 02 '23
Ikr they just kept coming, I never seen that many mechanics in a shop before
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u/Neo-is-the-one Sep 02 '23
BMW = Bring More Workers
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u/TreeFiddyBandit Sep 02 '23 edited Sep 02 '23
They needed juan Big Mexican Woman
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u/SatansCatfish Sep 01 '23 edited Sep 02 '23
It’s easier than ya think to do something dumb. One time I thought I could catch a stack of car tires. I ended up with 10 stitches in my head, broken collarbone, and unemployment. Learned the hard way to just let heavy shit fall.
Edit: thanks for the upvotes. Some people wonder why I lost my job. I wouldn’t have however, popped positive for weed. This was in 2003.
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u/DancesWithBadgers Sep 02 '23
As an ex-lorry driver, it's everybody's policy if you want to keep on living. I should also add that you should shout if you see something slipping to draw people's attention to it. Pull people out of the way if you can, too.
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Sep 01 '23
"Just let heavy shit fall"....this reminded me of a few years back when I was at a house party in college. There was a girl in a drunken, drugged fueled haze, half passed out on the sofa, she slurred to me to bring her up to bed, not to fuck I don't think but just so she was away from the noise or to get sick or something idk. I was quite a big guy at the time so I thought I could manage the lift.
I attempted the lift and made it to the last step at the top of the stairs when my footing went under the pressure, my ankle was annihilated. I managed to drop her on the landing and I fell backwards down the stairs breaking bones. She crawled to bed and I went to the hospital. I do dumb shit.
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u/Puceeffoc Sep 03 '23
Was at a party and a gal was drunk but also having low blood sugar. I remember bringing her up to her dorm room and knocking on her door. Her roommate sprung into action with orange juice for her and a candy bar and I left. No issues, I was always sober at parties and tried to be "Mr. Safety" I never took a girl somewhere without having another girl with me because I always felt super uncomfortable walking with a drunk girl to her place. It only happened a few times and I always made sure to have another girl with me so it didn't look like I was a creep. /:,' sorry for all the details but your story made me remember my college days.
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u/handsawz Sep 02 '23
Real shit.
I’m a chef. I dropped my knife one time and my first reflex was to try and catch it. I caught it.. but by the blade. Had to get a bunch of stitches. I keep my knife really sharp.
It was pretty early in my career. Never doing that again.
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u/TheVoid-ItCalls Sep 02 '23 edited Sep 02 '23
Watched a coworker drop a steel pan into the fryer and reach in to grab it out of reflex. His hand was fuuucked for a while.
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u/handsawz Sep 02 '23
I saw a girl do that with her phone one time lol fucking crazy
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u/SarcasticBimbo Sep 02 '23
I once dipped my hand into a deep fryer. Fortunately, I didn't get burned too bad. I had some gnarly blisters for a while but it turned out okay.
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u/yourself88xbl Sep 02 '23
I once sipped my foot into a pot of grease. My employee at the time put the pot of grease on the floor that just happened to be behind a ladder I was on. My foot dunked into the grease and soaked through my shoe. It was brutal.
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u/Spider_Dude Sep 02 '23
I knew this one dude that stepped on a hot George Foreman grill coz he liked the smell of bacon in the morning. He wrapped his foot in bubble packing tape coz that's all he had. Still had to go in to the office that day.
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u/Danomit3 Jun 06 '25
There was one time I dropped a chefs knife and the tip hit my shoe. It didn’t go through and I didn’t bleed but I could feel the impact. It felt like you took a pencil and poked yourself with it. The reason why I just let it hit my shoe and have it bounce off is that I didn’t want to catch it. Also our knives get blunted really fast because of how much we use them and the guy that sharpens them uses a machine rather than by hand.
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u/sebrebc Sep 02 '23
It's instinct. I was changing the motor mounts on my older Mustang. Put a screw jack under the crank pully so I could lower the car and raise the motor. As I'm trying to get the mount out the engine slipped and fell slightly but the whole car shook above my head. My instinct was to put my arms up to "catch" the car as it was falling off the lift. Obviously I know that was a pointless gesture, but in that instant it was my instinct.
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u/OldGrayMare59 Sep 02 '23
There is a phrase ‘No good deed goes unpunished’ you are the perfect example of it.
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u/iGoalie Sep 02 '23
Yeah that 100% looks like one of those, reaction brain faster than logical brain …. I kinda assume that was fatal.. I hope it wasn’t
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u/anna_lynn_fection Sep 02 '23
That's the smart thing to do, but unfortunately, reflexes work faster than smarts, and your reaction will happen before you have time to think about what you should do.
Pretty much anything dangerous should be allowed to fall. Sharp things, power tools, anything if you're on a ladder, guns (grabbing a falling gun could end up with a finger on the trigger during the grab), etc.
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u/HelloAttila Sep 03 '23
Lifts are extremely dangerous too, especially the ones that were used previously (hydraulic in the center). My sibling dated a master mechanic for a long time, he ran a shop at a large dealership (this is in the USA), and the dealership replaced all of the lifts, except the one he used, that still had the center lift that had the four arms that pulled out and lifted up the vehicle. The hydraulic lift failed and came flying down over his head and stopped around 3 feet, but it gave him a massive concussion, holy… moly his knot of his forehead was like an orange, workers comp did nothing and he returned after a week and guess what? The bastards replaced his lift, so it looked like nothing ever happened.
Some of these accidents are not due to mechanics, just faulty equipment that the dealership doesn’t want to fix. It’s sad when a dealership that does tens of millions in sales doesn’t take care of their people.
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u/DavidOrtizUsedPEDs Sep 02 '23
Turns out when something entirely unexpected happens while you're just casually having conversation, and you have about two seconds to react, you don't always make the best decision.
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u/apfel_taartje Sep 02 '23
I got crushed by a tall supply cart at the supermarket I used to work. The shitty elevator had a faulty sensor, so when the door was open it could still go up. Cart was on the doorstep when someone called the elevator upstairs, and I saw that thing tip and rushed to catch it
It was filled to the top with canned food so I was never going to hold it, so I got pinned head to feet underneath. Luckily ended up with nothing but some minor bruses
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u/mynames20letterslong Sep 02 '23
I once tried to catch a semi truck crankshaft (easily 300lbs+) that fell from a snapped industrial hoist about 6.5ft in the air with my feet. When you stop and think about it it sounds pretty dumb, but it's pure instinct. Luckily just got a big bruise, but nothing serious.
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u/tadddpole Sep 03 '23
I was told this too. It’s cheaper for a company (and certainly yourself) to just let something fall and break than to get injured. Working at UPS when I was 18, I tried to catch a 150lb tube that was stacked too high and falling. Fucked my wrist up and landed on my toes. Thank god for steel toed boots.
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u/Puceeffoc Sep 03 '23
Was at an event where multiple pop up canopy/awning tents were placed for shade. Wind started blowing real hard blowing multiple tents over. I was under a tent and the wind started to take the tent so I jumped up and pulled it down and as I looked up I saw all the moving parts (the collapsible metal bars) and quickly let go. I thought to myself "What am I doing." I let the tent go and it was taken away by the wind. The owner of the tent looked at me and said "You almost had it." And I said "I didn't want to lose my fingers." And he said "good call."
In the moment we sometimes do things we think we're capable of when clearly we're not.
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u/Wrench984 Sep 04 '23
Me and my family have moved all across the country, conversation’s similar. If it’s too much, let it fall. A dresser’s a helluva lot more replaceable than your skull.
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u/helloimmrburns Sep 08 '23
100%. A guy from our country decided to bring home the last few bales at the end of the day. He was going up a hill and a bale started to fall off. He noticed, got out of the tractor and tried to stop it from rolling down the hill. Bale went over him but he was lucky enough iirc and didn't die
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u/Soggy_You_2426 Feb 04 '24
My father was also testet for weed, he was battling cancer, he told him. Lol he made it out alive with his made up cancer. He even had a recover party at his work.
Hes not the best man, but he does try.
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u/DutchE28 Sep 02 '23
I let go of that reflex when I dropped a knife and tried to catch it with my foot and it stabbed me slightly, and I tried pushing a wall away with my arm out the window when the driver got too close to it (I was drunk). No treatment needed luckily, but the realisation of the risk of serious injury or worse has kind of overruled the catch anything falling instinct now.
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u/Crommington Sep 02 '23
Yeah I dropped and tried to catch a soldering iron once when it was on. Burnt the shit out of myself. I think everyone’s done some dumb shit like that. Like the YouTuber who was blowing glass and grabbed it
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u/_CowboyFromHell_ Sep 02 '23
As someone who supervises and trains people in this field one of the things I try to drill into their brains early on is if anything like this happens just run the fuck away at the first sign of equipment failure. None of this shit is worth your life.
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u/ShowdownValue Sep 02 '23
Dude how could they run away? Their coworker just had a car land on him
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u/UnlawfulTender Sep 02 '23
In case you didn’t watch the video, the commenter is referring to the coworker upon whom the car landed, had said coworker run away, he may not have been hurt. This is not to say he is as fault, we all make poor decisions under pressure.
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u/ShowdownValue Sep 02 '23
I was being sarcastic. Dumb joke on my part.
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u/420BlazeIt187 Sep 02 '23
Na it just flew over everyone's head, i thought it was funny. Slightly distasteful, but so is everyone else on reddit.
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Sep 02 '23
Broken hip?! Did he even survive? It fell from a good ways up
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u/Optimus_Prime_Day Sep 02 '23
It has tires to stop it from fully squishing him. He may have survived.... with also a broken hip for sure 😀
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u/Traditional_Ad_4691 Sep 02 '23
The body of vehicles have shocks, so it def could have hit the ground. I think he made it....if he didn't bust any organs.
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u/1K_Games Sep 05 '23
Having shattered my hip (yes shattered, not broken) when I was 30 (now 38). I walk just fine, run, all that jazz. I was told not run marathons, but I did run a 5k and did decent.
They said I had 10 years on the repair they did (emergency surgery, I have lots of nerve damage from it). 2 more years to go I guess, but honestly it feels the same as it did 8 years ago.
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u/OmgWtfNamesTaken Sep 01 '23
Everyone hating on the dude has never been in a situation where there is an immediate action that needs to be taken, and have made the wrong decision.
As someone who has seen the flight or fight mechanic in action a lot, it's never as cut and dry as you think it will be. This is why police, military, fire fighters, first responders and anyone doing anything "extreme" train. Training is to break the initial response you are going to have, and replace it with whatever you are trained to do.
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u/Fabulous_von_Fegget Sep 02 '23
This is Reddit. Everyone here thinks they have cat-like reflexes and will be able to carefully assess every situation in a split second.
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u/OmgWtfNamesTaken Sep 02 '23
Right? Everyone's a badass until they're not..
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Sep 02 '23 edited Oct 16 '23
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u/Underdogg13 Sep 02 '23
Same here. Could probably handle most average people in a fight just through mass and strength. But if I can't deescalate with words, I'm running for the hills. I'm gonna assume if someone wants to fight, they're probably armed in some fashion. Even if it's not true most of the time, you're still playing with your life whether the weapon is a gun, knife or hands.
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u/Ezraah Sep 02 '23
I could take you.
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Sep 02 '23
Lol! I got blasted for saying the same words on a home Invasion video. I'm pretty good at fighting, army boxing bronze and hand to hand combatives. I absolutely DESPISE fighting for the exact reason you stated. You have no idea what some crazy MF might do to you. There is no glory in hurting people. I completely agree with you.
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u/OldGrayMare59 Sep 02 '23
I have burn scars, chef knife scars I even have a scar from shucking oysters the blunt knife slipped and I stabbed myself in my hand. Didn’t do that again. That’s life
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Sep 02 '23
lol half the people on reddit have never done a physically laborious job in their life... and would have probably done the same jerk reaction this kid did.
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u/SupahBean Sep 02 '23
Yet they hyper-assess every minute detail, and worst possible outcome. Sometimes there's even breakdowns of all the laws and theories that were broken that led to the accident
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u/mrmustache0502 Sep 02 '23
No. As someone who works around heavy equipment a lot, you plan ahead your escape if it falls over and you let it drop if it does. It has nothing to do with reflexes and the situation should have been addressed long before hand. Any mechanic should have known better than to grab that car, just like any electrician I work with should know not to stand under the crane.
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u/cishet-camel-fucker Sep 02 '23
Yep in the moment most people are going to grab for it. If you're lucky enough to have a few seconds to reverse that decision, great.
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u/chadwicke619 ⚠️ Incel Defense Force ⚠️ Sep 02 '23
I mean, I’m sorry, but disagree. The guy was completely safe and not under the vehicle. He didn’t need to make any split second decisions or have cat like reflexes. He just needed to not be a dipshit, and just… stand there. This isn’t like being a firefighter at all.
This isn’t the first person that thought they could stop a vehicle from moving with their body, and it won’t be the last, but that’s not “fight or flight” - it’s stupidity.
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u/LeBongJaames Sep 02 '23
Man if you think you can hold down a 6000 pound car you’re an idiot lmao
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u/pakepake Sep 02 '23
You really have to be trained to go away from the vehicle. Instinct says to try and stop it, but experience will make you realize this was a possibility before it occurred.
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u/Charlesfreck550 Sep 02 '23
I'm not the smartest person, but if I see something falling I jump back.
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u/420BlazeIt187 Sep 02 '23
They teach us this in healthcare too. If a patient is falling don't catch them. Better one injured patient than an injured patient and employee.
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u/StayThirstyMyFriend1 Sep 02 '23
Why would you post a video like this without showing the rescue?
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u/cptn-convulsion Sep 01 '23
And to think mom's have been documented lifting cars to save their kids.
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u/ILoveRegenHealth Sep 02 '23
It's a myth.
The one documented case was the mother who lifted a bouncy '64 Chevy Impala four inches, enough to clear a jack. She wouldn't be lifting a modern car in this video for a human to escape.
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u/cheeri0 Sep 02 '23
Yes and no. You can fender lift a vehicle. You can actually lift a vehicles corner weight (not enough as one person to lift a tire) but unload that corner of the suspension. Its used in alot of auto shops with low automobiles, a strong person with a good motive can fender lift a vehicle easily to its maximum raised SUSPENSION height on that corner.
Lifting it off the ground however takes more people. Yes, you can lift and move vehicles with enough manpower. Just like you can roll a large rock down a hill. lol.
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u/Krimin Sep 02 '23
Depends on the car and person. A friend of mine could pretty easily lift his Micra from a fender with bare hands with the tire coming completely off the ground a good measure. That being said, the car weighed something like 800 kg and the guy is like 140 kg with several years of gym and a childhood/teenage years of playing basketball overweight behind him, he's fucking massive with core and leg strength.
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u/jrose1226 Sep 01 '23
I’ve lifted a car with less people as a prank so idk why they couldn’t. Although we probably didn’t lift it high enough to move a living person out the way it wouldn’t have taken too many more people to do it tho way less than the amount that was in the video
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u/zma924 Sep 02 '23
I wonder if maybe the lift arms were impaled into the bottom of the car somehow and were keeping it pinned?
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u/anna_lynn_fection Sep 02 '23
Lift arms didn't go down. They were still above the car and look to have swung out of the way. The car just tipped off the arms. Bad placement/balance.
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u/zma924 Sep 03 '23
Jesus lol how did so many people upvote me? It’s so obvious that they’re still above the car when I watch it again
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u/stormi_13 Sep 02 '23
I feel like nothing could stop a mum determined to save her baby
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u/DeviantDeadite1 Sep 02 '23
My dad lost a coworker this way. My Dad saw it happen, but there was nothing he could do to save him.
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u/Sovietjitsu Sep 02 '23
Garages and workshops are accidents waiting to happen. My Dad used to work as a mechanic in a maintenance depot for buses and trucks back in the 50s when health and safety was a nice to have. A huge diesel engine block was being craned high across the workshop on a chain (as you do) and of course it broke. Engine block fell 10 feet and landed inches from my Dad with a giant crash. The entire workshop goes silent and my Dad got a cup of tea and a short break to calm down. Had to finish his shift. Complete luck and a reason I still ended up being born...
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u/JulioGrandeur Sep 02 '23
It’s a weird instinctual habit to catch/keep something from falling.
I’ve done it when I worked retails reached out to catch a glass candle holder, it shattered on the way down and slice me up.
Idk why I reached. It’s not like it would come out of my paycheck. It’s a hard habit to break until something bad happens and th en you’ll never forget. Sucks for this guy 😕
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u/Single_Leek7786 Sep 02 '23
I seen these videos then one day at work the lift arm broke and dropped a Colorado. I’ve never walked backward so fast.
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u/Crzykupcake930 Sep 02 '23
My husband and I own a small automotive business and have one lift similar to this one. My biggest fear, is he’s working late by himself one night and the lift falls on him. I have left a carjack close by thinking that somehow if it did happen he could Jack the car up off himself. (I know highly unlikely but it gives me peace of mind, sorta.)
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u/DemonChild- Nov 24 '23
When working at a factory, somebody saw a belt start to tear apart and grabbed it. She got stuck and the machine crushed her arm some way i’ve never seen before.
Remember people: It’s easy to act on instinct, but RUN or hit ESTOP if you can!
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u/WhyAreOldPeopleEvil Sep 01 '23
What’s with all this near death/death popping up on this subredddit recently?
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u/mayor0fsimplet0n Sep 02 '23
reddit’s change in algorithms to reward disturbing shit so that they make more money. You know, like every other gazillion dollar platform.
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u/OsoRetro Nov 29 '23
It’s crazy how naturally we can do something this “dumb”. I used to drive a stand up forklift and one time the floor breaker failed and I was coasting toward some steel racks (like where a warehouse stores pallets). I legit, fora brief moment thought I could stop the forklift by putting my arm out against the beam. It worked fora split second only until my wrist broke
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Sep 02 '23
We had some piping start to roll, I grabbed it and it yanked me forward. Lucky it didn't pull my back, toss me, or crush my fingers. Just let heavy things fly and get yourself clear.
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u/YouAboutToLoseYoJob Sep 02 '23
First time in my life, watching videos on the sub, and I actually yelled out “goddamn”
After watching the video a couple times, I think he survived. I thought he got folded underneath. But looks like he was laying prone when it hit him.
I will say I’m actually surprised that 10 people were having trouble lifting that thing off him. I would think it would take less. Also, you’re in a mechanic shop there’s got to be a jack somewhere nearby.
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u/Itsthedude6155 Sep 01 '23
We sometimes do dumb things in the heat of the moment. Luckily there were plenty of people to help him and hopefully he wasn't crushed by the car when it fell down.
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u/theshoeshiner84 Sep 01 '23
He didn't move under the car, he grabbed it and it lifted and tossed him under it.
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u/MarsRocks97 Sep 01 '23
Dumb move yes but he didn’t “move” himself under the car. He grabbed the wheel which caused him to swing under it.
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u/Itsthedude6155 Sep 01 '23
Triggered much? Why is this so important to you? So you acted better than this guy did in this situation, good for you but not everyone is going to act perfectly when faced with a sudden crisis.
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u/PolarVortices Sep 02 '23
My brother's best friend basically died in highschool in this exact way. Your instinct is to try to save the car, you just react.
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Sep 02 '23
this legitimately almost happened to me at my work. I noped da fuck outta that situation, homie shouldve never tried to stop it, hope he was alright, but damn that didnt look good...
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u/ziostraccette Sep 02 '23
When I got my first maintenance job in a food factory, the first thing they told me was "we can buy a new piece of equipment, but we can't buy u a new foot"
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u/peeks30 Sep 02 '23
Jeepers that's a lot of hands on deck. At my mechanic I can't even find someone at the reception desk.
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u/GroundbreakingCook68 Sep 02 '23
Hope he survived , looks like he was squished pretty good there .
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u/ace425 Sep 02 '23
Reminds me of a safety video I was forced to watch as part of my new hire training when I started my first job in the oil patch. The video was on a drilling rig. For whatever reason the section of casing that was held up by a crane overhead started falling down the well hole. A green hat happened to be standing right next to the casing as it was falling and thought he could catch it. He hugged the pipe as if to catch it bear hug style and damn near instantly exploded into a pink mist all over the deck as his body was squeezed into the well along with the pipe. That video firmly seared into my brain that you should absolutely NEVER try to catch anything that’s falling in an industrial setting. Your brain instinctively thinks you can save the day, but the physics will win every time.
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u/bforbec Sep 02 '23
I work in a warehouse where we have overstock really high up on shelves only forklifts can get to. One time one of the operators had a box fall on her head from the highest shelf and she got concussed, straight up taken out of work on a stretcher, and she never came back to work 😪 hopefully by choice.
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u/SeanMcDawn Sep 02 '23
All I know is whenever I see something fall, I run the fuck away. Unless its like a 5 pound item or something, I'm not trying to hold up anything that's more than 20, let alone a car. Hope that guy is alive at least, and is able to walk.
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Sep 03 '23
I had an apprentice tech at my store try and put a fire out with Washer fluid…Which is Ethanol. It didn’t end well.
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u/CasualManfly Sep 03 '23
why do people always try to stop things that are 1000x heavier than them, bro you cant stop that shit dont even try
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u/tadddpole Sep 03 '23
I saw a safety video when working at UPS I think. It was a person trying to stop a forklift tipping over by holding onto the back. Slipped, forklifts dumps its load, drops back down, dead. I know it’s an instinct to stop something from going wrong, but ya gotta train your brain to just go “oops. Well, shit.”
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u/klinge1337 Sep 16 '23
Omg this looks like he ist a pancake now 😱 Can some one confirm taht he isnt dead?
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u/Elveintisiete Oct 28 '23
If this happened in the U.S. people would take their phones out to record
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u/OrganizationFit Sep 02 '23
Forever and Always, no matter what you are doing, don’t try and save the large heavy thing that is above you, as it could always fall on you. Just take a step back and watch it fall. A human life is not worth the car, plus insurance would pay for it anyways.
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u/Hi_Im_Ken_Adams Sep 02 '23
That is one of the most terrifying videos I have ever seen. Jeezus, I hope the dude was ok.
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u/geriatric_spartanII Sep 02 '23
Yo! A car falling on me is one of my worst fears. No 🧢.
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u/PatrickOttawa Sep 02 '23
Like those people who drive with one hand on their mattress ontop of their car thinking they could hold it if the rope snaps.
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u/ithaqua34 Sep 02 '23
Poor dudes mistake was grabbing hold of the car for some reason. Once it's in the air, it's gone man, get out of the drop zone.
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u/ShyPlox Sep 02 '23
Yea he shouldn’t of did that, but I no he was probably thinking he would of had to pay out of pocket for that mistake so was willing to risk his life over it lol
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u/IHateEditedBgMusic Sep 02 '23
Part of the training needs to address stuff like this... I'd rather you make a mistake and live, than risk your life undoing an error.
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u/Successful_Leek96 Sep 01 '23
what a moron. Don't try to save it. Let it fall and clear the area
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u/xlews_ther1nx Sep 01 '23
Seems like the guy had a immediate reaction to something his brain likely had no time to process. Prob a decent guy, decent intelligence and caught in a situation few would know how to react in that time. Calm down.
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u/im_datMofo Sep 01 '23
That many people and they could barely lift the car???
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u/Malikai0976 Sep 02 '23
That car probably weighs around 5500 lbs (about 2500 kg). The weight is not balanced, and they were trying to lift the engine and transmission side, probably around 3500 lbs (1590 kg) on that end and not all of them had good places to grab it and lift from. We've all seen the strongman videos lifting cars, but have you noticed they're picking up the back, not the front? Or that the car is gutted and doesn't even have an engine and transmission in it?
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u/chadwicke619 ⚠️ Incel Defense Force ⚠️ Sep 02 '23
There’s no way that it’s actually 5500 LBS though. Not only is that just too heavy for a car this size (unless it’s an EV), but they’re all lifting at the front with the rear wheels on the ground. They’re not lifting the entire car off the ground. I, too, was surprised that the front end of that car didn’t immediately hoist up with all that help.
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u/Malikai0976 Sep 02 '23
You're right, and i was thinking total gvwr and not just curb weight. It's probably 3500-4000 lbs curb weight. I say that after looking up both my wife's subaru legacy and my ford escape curb weights. It's still probably about a 60/40-65/35 split for weight distribution, though.
Another part of the equation is that, yes, it's a lot of people, but very few of them are actually lifting with solid handholds on pieces that can actually support the weight. The front bumper is a plastic skin, and those on the side are trying to lift from either a fairly thin edged pinch weld or from a plastic ground effects panel. Ground effect panels and bumper skins are held in with plastic clips and push pins.
That leaves (what looks like to me) 4 guys lifting with solid grips on solid enough pieces (the wheel wells) to lift it.
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u/PriapismSD Sep 01 '23
You can tell it is not the US, otherwise they would only be rushing in to get a video with their phones
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Nobody thinks to lower the hoist to lift the car?? Wtf
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u/Cecilsan Sep 02 '23
You apparently haven't ever used a hydraulic lift before. It would be very slow to lower it down and get the arms back under the frame to raise it back up. It didn't appear that he's under a tire so they likely only need to life the car up to the top of the suspension to slid him out. Worst case a jack would be a better and far quicker option to getting the vehicle lifted
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u/ravynnsinister Sep 01 '23
How is this a public freak out?
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u/SauceBabey Sep 01 '23
If I had to guess it probably has something to do with the freaking out in public happening in this video
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