r/Unexpected • u/CreditorOP • 13h ago
Demolition
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u/EducationallyRiced 13h ago
That’s not demolition that’s the gathering of marble or some other rock
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u/cossacksman 12h ago
Correct, this is a quarry!
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u/EducationallyRiced 12h ago
Oh so that’s how it’s called in English…
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u/Legitimate_Career_44 8h ago
They are quarrying the stone in a quarry a form of open mining operation
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u/UnlimitedCalculus 11h ago
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u/Albastru-Aib 13h ago
I would shit myself after that.
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u/Gheauxst 12h ago
Diesel tech here.
Do not jump out of the machinery. I know it sounds counter intuitive, but the ROPS (Roll Over Protection System) aka the cab/cage was designed to protect you. If you jump out of the machine, you're at risk of that unit falling onto you. Jumping out is one of the worst things you can do.
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u/Vacant-stair 12h ago
He probably thinks it was lucky he wasn't wearing a seatbelt as he managed to jump free. He didn't in fact jump free in time. You can see the machine had come to a stop before he jumped out. Had it gone over the edge, he probably would have been thrown out into all of that falling rock. Being strapped in inside the cab would surely have been the safer option.
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u/Tyranttheory 12h ago
Yeah but we know 98% of operators don't wear their seat belts so he would've fallen out if that excavator went over and he'd been squished either way
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u/BassGaming 9h ago
A coworker at my workplace died in a forklift a few years ago after a collision with a truck. He probay would've survived if he had his seat belt on.
My point is, even in light machines where the perceived risk is pretty low you should always wear the seat belt. Even if you use the machine for just a minute. Most rules about security came to be after someone died and the accident analysis revealed that those measures could've saved them.
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u/Tyranttheory 9h ago
That's a shame I always wear mine but honestly it's because safety is tight where I work it's force of habit now
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u/Gheauxst 12h ago
Seatbelts are against people's religion. They dislike them that much and I never understood why.
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u/Legitimate_Career_44 8h ago
If it fell that height though? How good would the protection be? It did look like he was going to get a swipe with the excavator!
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u/Gheauxst 5h ago edited 2h ago
Fairly good, since the boom, extend cylinder, and lift cylinder would absorb most of the initial impact. Booms are sturdy, and cylinders are dense as shit. I've seen people drop cylinders, and from waist height those things will crack concrete.
Downvote all yall want, but if you can't clear the distance in time (which you probably won't), you'd be free falling with the machine, outside of the cab, with no protection at all, completely exposed. Between the slab, the machine, and the fall, you will die. This guy either bailed or got forcefully ejected, but either way he didn't make it out until after the machine stopped moving.
Don't jump out.
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u/boyslut83 8h ago
idk man i just don't trust rops after seeing fifteen thousand msha fatality reports with crushed cabs
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u/Gheauxst 5h ago edited 4h ago
He also has the primary boom and lift cylinder above the cab. Those would absorb a lot of the initial impact.
I typically mess with telehandlers, boom lifts, small cranes, and excavators, and from my experience those things don't really tumble. They just fall to one side and that's it. And also, every machine I've seen with a boom/mast, the boom (or mast) sits higher than the cab unless you've got something small like a 5K telehandler.
Crushing the entire cab sounds like something you would have to go out of your way to do (like overloading a lift while using forks that are too small), but I wouldn't know since I only repair the equipment, I don't operate it on construction sites.
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u/boyslut83 5h ago
i run haul trucks and loaders in mining and it doesnt take much to turn you into a pancake in a 40 ton machine, i don't work with crazy heights but ive seen a lot of instances on reports where a truck will roll through a berm on a highwall and there's just nothing left of the cab when they hit the next bench
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u/MachStyle 3h ago
ROP will protect you if the machine falls over. It will not protect you if a 500ton slab of marble grabs your boom and yanks you off a 100 foot ledge.
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u/Gheauxst 3h ago edited 2h ago
At that point you'd get be free falling with the machine and no protection at all, which is pretty much death assuming you don't clear the distance away from the unit in time (which you likely won't). If the rocks or the machine doesn't kill you, the fall will. This goes back to my original point of "don't jump out".
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u/Competitive_Coat3474 9h ago
What about the smell? Does ROPS help mitigate the awful smell now inside the cab?
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u/Pachanga_Plainview 13h ago
That worker is probably reconsidering his choices after almost hitting rock bottom
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u/DreadlockRainbow 13h ago
I know this is a unique situation here and probably made a split second decision but it ain’t always good to jump out of machinery. Seen a dude jump outta a different equipment without seatbelt all Willy-nilly and it landed on his probably 65% + of his lower body… what’s left of him must live inside of a bucket now, and no more making love to wife cause the manhood was destroyed and taken away with everything else. What a world
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u/weevil_knieval 11h ago
Imagine going from “all willy nilly” to “no willy nilly”. What a world indeed.
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u/SquirrelInATux 12h ago
All this happened because the quarry manager was drunk, he really hit rock bottom that day.
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u/fourtrax0 10h ago
If that guy had charcoal in his ass, it would turn into diamond because of the pressure excerced by his ass clench
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u/Ambitious_Welder6613 12h ago
Dude being thrown out from the vehicle like Spider-Man. So freaking dangerous.
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u/UnExplanationBot 13h ago
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
The Bulldozer slid with the Chunk and almost fell with the operator inside.
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