Fun at work last night

[cantflip]

I thought it was the laughing gas.

 

[1970cat]

 

[traintech55]

We all have had our fun days on the job.

As you all know I spent many years working at C.T.A. Rail. This is a picture of a married unit on a hoist. The hoist will raise both cars seven feet in the air with body supports so you can remove a truck assembly when it needs replacement.
One day I was teaching students how to R + R a truck assembly, I had instructed the students how to lower the hoist with the safety interlock buttons. I was under the train holding the truck in position. Unbeknownst to me the interlocks on the hoist were bad, when we went to lower the one truck, the body supports for the other car also lowered, it went down about two feet before we all heard this loud snap, (the coupeler between the two cars broke). This was 110,000 pounds of Rail cars that almost fell on top of me. The witnesses said they never saw someone run so fast in their lives. I was filling out reports for two days.

 

[Big_John]

When my son was working at the Ford store (salesman) , he was walking across the service area when this crashed down right behind him.

 

[live4theking]

The running joke was that car would never come back for a squeak

So, that's why you sneak up behind folks so easily.

You are one sick puppy Doc!

That reminds me... I sold a Snapon video bore scope to customer. The next week they told me that one of the crew had his teeth pulled, for God knows what reason, but anyway, the dentist must have left a small piece of one in his gum. The father of this kid, used our bore scope and a pair of needle nose pliers to remove the rest of it! Sheezus H Christ.. I just walked away shaking my head

That's just wrong...

 

[LocuMob]

When my son was working at the Ford store (salesman) , he was walking across the service area when this crashed down right behind him.

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[cantflip]

Undercoating the frame bottom, dummies running the truck up and down during a job so the wheels touch the ground and walk it off the pads... or just plain didn't set it right in the first place.

Given that the lift arm wasn't extended farther leads me to believe "operator error" setting the pads... and it's ultimately the tech's fault anyhow.

 

[Big_John]

Undercoating the frame bottom, dummies running the truck up and down during a job so the wheels touch the ground and walk it off the pads... or just plain didn't set it right in the first place.

Given that the lift arm wasn't extended farther leads me to believe "operator error" setting the pads... and it's ultimately the tech's fault anyhow.

My son told me that the mechanic had complained about the lift previously, but he was unsure what the issue was. The weight of the gate lift on the back of the truck may have played a big part in the fall too.