300UGUY
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One guy I worked with had his foot run over by a forklift. He lost the foot, squished flatter than a pancake.
Forklift Fatality
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DanD78
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Where I work no one drives a fork lift with out training and a hands on test. This must be maintained every two years. We have all sizes from 4X4 off road to hard tired warehouse lifts. Our folks take our safety program very serious so in my 22 years I can only think of two accidents. There are probably 40 machines in our plant .
Training the general public would be tough. Every farmer I know in my area has a fork lift for handling seed, chemical totes or what ever else needs moved. Wearing your seat belt and driving slow are key safety items.
My self and a lot of others have forks on our tractors. These can be almost as dangrous with heavy loads and not enough weight on the rear.
DanD.
Training the general public would be tough. Every farmer I know in my area has a fork lift for handling seed, chemical totes or what ever else needs moved. Wearing your seat belt and driving slow are key safety items.
My self and a lot of others have forks on our tractors. These can be almost as dangrous with heavy loads and not enough weight on the rear.
DanD.
JDgreen227
Super Member
"Training the general public would be tough..." DO TELL. People who drive cars are supposed to get a test every four years for a new driver's license, and despite all the safety features built into new cars, our nation still had nearly 33,000 traffic fatilities in 2010. One can only imagine how much higher the toll would have been without safer cars and advancements in treating accident victims...
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Bird
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Are you serious? Other than a vision test, I don't think I ever heard of anyone being re-tested after getting a license unless there was some specific reason. In other words, it's never been routinely done to everyone.
Taylortractornut
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I rolled a Cat/towmotor over on 3 a 3 inch drop off one time. I bought one at an auction and was loading some other items. There was a hole in the concrete floor in the plant and it had been filled part way with gravel and had a plate set on top of it. On my trip back a scrapper stole the plate. I couldnt see it well just my olde tracks in the dust. I rolled over in it at 2 mph. I have a little 1500 pound clark lift that really old . It has an after market rops on it. Its a tiny narrowthing and one evening a friend and I were unloading materials for a new boat dock we wer prefabbing and the tractor trailer couldnt deliver o nthis road. He stayed on the main road and we un loaded and drove 200 yards back to the shop. My friend was on the 50 hysterI also own. About that time the drag link on my clark snapped and dumped over on the side. It happened that the seat is just a flat bench and no belt and offset. it was set to the opposite side of the fall. I kinda stood up and was out on the upperside of it.
In 1999 my college sop teacher told me that a friend of mine the Diesel mechanics teacher was redoing a lift truck one time loading it it fell off the trailer and he jumped. the counter weight landed on his foot and crushed it. He fought the doctors to keep his foot.
In 1999 my college sop teacher told me that a friend of mine the Diesel mechanics teacher was redoing a lift truck one time loading it it fell off the trailer and he jumped. the counter weight landed on his foot and crushed it. He fought the doctors to keep his foot.
me0418840987
Silver Member
My Komatsu FG20 does fairly well on my gravel driveway, but likes to stay on the concrete shed floor even more. I use it for more than you would think, bought it in 99, and have put over 900 hours on it. My brother and freinds were working on their truck a couple years back, and drinking quite a bit, as usual. Ran his foot over, he had steel toe boots on. we had to cut his foot out of the boot, luckally, it didn't totally collapse, but was smushed enough, that he couldn't slide his foot out.
creekbend
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In several States, you can renew your Driver's license by mail.
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Bird
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My wife & I each renewed our drivers licenses online the last time. I think in Texas you can do that once, then next time you have to go in person to read the eye chart. So you can do it online every other renewal.
JDgreen227
Super Member
True, I was thinking of my CDL renewal tests and after going thru all those over a 24 year period I just assumed operators also had to take a written test and I was obviously wrong. But perhaps it would be a good idea to test every driver once in a while. I recently authored an opinion in our local paper about the incompetence of the majority of today's drivers, and 100% of the comments made on it were favorable.
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Bird
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Yep, I'll agree with you that refresher courses and re-testing would do a great deal to improve driver competence and traffic safety. The biggest problem I see is the huge number of licensed drivers would mean a very expensive program to hire enough testers.
From what I've seen in the news, Texas DPS offices are already swamped with drivers license applicants and renewal applicants; long lines, long waits, etc.
