Guy dies moving his toolbox
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Farrier
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So are his tools for sale? ...........Too soon?
Weird Tolkienish Figure
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Tool addiction can kill.
Weird Tolkienish Figure
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Bessy
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The scary part is that it doesn't have to be that large of a box when SHTF... Heck even a loaded down 26" stack could house enough to kill you if you got caught underneath it.
Just another reminder to slow down and treat heavy objects with respect. A co-worker of mine was traumatized having to see a friend die in a towmotor accident. Something happened, I can't remember, he hit a hole or something. Somehow he got bucked out of the seat and the towmotor tipped over onto him. I won't describe the gory details, but I was traumatized just listening to the story... Be careful out there.
sberry
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I bout killed myself a while back after a weekend where I was on hi safety alert and then went and did some routine job and about rolled a tractor over. I probably had a couple dozen real close calls over the years in incidents like that.
I am in farming and rigging and my7 track record for dropping things is probably pretty good considering how much I operate and move, all various and different stuff.
My helper and I made a lift a couple of years ago, after we set it down I looked and said,,, wtf, some hook up I missed in a hurry was simply dumb luck I didn't dump the thing in our lap.
I am in farming and rigging and my7 track record for dropping things is probably pretty good considering how much I operate and move, all various and different stuff.
My helper and I made a lift a couple of years ago, after we set it down I looked and said,,, wtf, some hook up I missed in a hurry was simply dumb luck I didn't dump the thing in our lap.
M-technik-3
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Simple pause and second look at what's gonna hurt me method. Had one of those oh **** moments last night while pulling an engine/transmission last night out of one my M3's. It shifted and I could have pinned my hand. NOT a Smart move. Took a break and went back and finished it later in evening.
Condolences to the family.
Condolences to the family.
thebeekeeper1
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Very sad. 
amorrow
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kctyphoon
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How long before someone asks if it was a HF tool box.. page 2?
rlitman
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Not sure, but the first thing that came to my mind was that I feel a lot safer around my lock-and-roll then I do with anything that has ball bearing drawers high up that don't automatically lock.
3baygarage
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Wow that's an awful way to go. 48 years old too.
I wonder if he was a tech who got fired or something. That would be terrible.
I wonder if he was a tech who got fired or something. That would be terrible.
Major Ramifications
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That is sad.
But to all you Michigan guys, how does one go about pronouncing the name of that town?
But to all you Michigan guys, how does one go about pronouncing the name of that town?
Not from Michigan, but pretty sure its Ip-sill-an-tee.
dr_clyde
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Heavy Metal Doctor
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many years ago: I had no idea how close to death I was when I bialed off a forkilft that crashed from no brakes going down a hill.....it's last motion, as it stopped, was to tip over sideways...just as I jumped off...I didn't look back or think about it in the heat of the moment, but now being older / wiser, I bet that roll cage would have driven my scalp into my shoes if I had been 3" closer when my feet hit the ground as it went over.....
GreenMtnMan
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I guess there is a bright side to being so poor that I will never be able to have enough tools to kill me.
md21722
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It's sad but happens at all, but it happens frequently enough that its not shocking. Particularly in farming with tractor rollovers as sberry mentioned. It's not uncommon to hear about it in the newspaper. I have had a tool boxes fall over after rolling it around the shop. I had just taken my hands off it, and walked away and it fell in the opposite direction. I would have hated to be near and in the line of the fall.
Ouch, probably a painful way to die. Crushed and then slowly die of internal bleeding. A simple $20 come-a-along winch and a strap around the box probably would've saved his life. If I'm moving a heavy toolbox I am going to use physics to do the work.
Movin/on
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That's for sure a tragedy, but to me, it could have been prevented.
I've got a very large tool box (Waterloo Magnum 2000) that is really full. Unless I'm just moving it a few feet on the cement floor of my shop, it's too heavy for me. I'll always remove about 2/3 of the top drawers and lock the lower ones.
In this case seems like he was too confident in his ability and didn't want to waste time.
I've got a very large tool box (Waterloo Magnum 2000) that is really full. Unless I'm just moving it a few feet on the cement floor of my shop, it's too heavy for me. I'll always remove about 2/3 of the top drawers and lock the lower ones.
In this case seems like he was too confident in his ability and didn't want to waste time.
Jim Johnstone
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Last year I was setting up a cnc mill and heard some commotion across the shop. I looked up and saw 4 guys all wrestling with a roller cab and top chest that had a caster collapse as the toolmaker was rolling it from one spot to another. He managed to hold it up just enough for the other 3 guys to run and stop it from flat out crushing him.
It's not necessarily internal bleeding that gets you, you can suffocate. Guys working on buried cables and pipelines etc. have to have the trench shored up if it's over 4' deep for that reason. All that weight pushing against your chest allows you to exhale but not inhale.
md21722
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Indeed, why if you work for the utility companies you have to be declared a "competent" person working in trenches which means you have the training necessary to determine safety and requirements.