Don't look at this if you're faint of heart
 

If blood and guts make you sick don't go hear it is a dead guy this might be not the right forum to post this in and Jazz if I'm too off color with this I'm sorry please delete it

This was an accident and I hate to admit it I do this kind of work so it hit home with me, we got it in a safety message at work but they didn't worn us other then this is not how to unload a bull dozer,

I warn you .

http://www.binary242.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=451

That's horrible. Aren't role cages supposed to be rated to take quite a bit so as to avoid accidents like that?

Dozers don't have roll cages as such, since they're typically too large for them to be of any use. They do typically have an awning or cage which is more to protect the operator from any debris than anything else. I would estimate a machine of that size to weigh somewhere in the 10 to 15 ton range, so a functional rollcage would have to be so bulky as to be totally impractical. Note the size of the crane being used to lift the machine.

This thread reminds me of the canadian public service commercials thread. I suspect this could have been avoided.

Martin, good info, thanks.

Fish, if you were looking for my blessing, I don't think we have any rule about this sort of thing, which means that it's completely in bounds. We're pretty specific about what we don't want, and this isn't on that list.

Here's the really interesting thing, though. I've been having an ongoing conversation about a claim on one of my accounts that rents equipment like this. It most definitely isn't this same incident (this one looks European to me) since no one died, but it basically involves a piece of equipment being unloaded from a trailer that rolled over and off when it hit the d-ring tiedown. Given this, I doubt that was the cause, but we've been trying to figure out if it is an auto liability or general liability claim for a week or so, and I think it's an interesting coincidence that this set of pictures shows up just as we've gotten our problem solved. I may send this to a couple folks (with stronger stomachs) on the distribution list.

Thanks, Fish.

And will, there's not a rollcage made that would withstand this kind of thing. An enclosed cab MIGHT handle it, but it looks to me like the machine was inverted before it struck the ground. It may not have been, but given the position of the body and the truck, it was certainly within 15 degrees.

Probably. Most accidents of this nature are a result of operator error. It never ceases to amaze me that someone could get on a machine of that size and power and exercise anything less than the utmost care in it's operation.

Daaaayum...poor guy! How the hell did he manage that?

I worked EMS for 9 plus years, and ran calls on all types of stuff where guts and brains were hanging out. But man, that was a mess!

I'm not going to look at this thread.........!

xoxoxoo

Jesus, that is a rare sight indeed.

We were told it was a new peace of equipment and it hadn’t had the ROPS on it yet (Roll Over Protection System ) You can see there was no blade either


It was the blocks that were under the trailer collapsed they said , that wasn’t the safe way to unload although I have done it a lot of times myself with other equipment

Not looking for a blessing just didn’t want to go too far with the gore

mmm... brains.

Pretty gross, but luckily I'm relatively desensitized to this kind of stuff. Something about seeing a biker's body strewn over a 100 yard span in front of your house as a child that kind of does that to you.

Yeah so does War Viet Nam 1969-1970

So.. I'm assuming the thing rolled on top of him or was he on it when it rolled over?

As far as I can tell, its a brand new machine. I would guess that it is 'fresh off the boat' and was being loaded onto the truck. The operator was driving the dozer (probably from a large sea canister) up onto the truck bed. A combination of operator error/weight distribution(lack of blade, etc)/loading wedges caused it to "pop a wheelie" all the way over.

I feel sorry for the EMS worker! Do you guys know how difficult it is to uncurl a guy from that position once rigor has set in?

*waves hand frantically in the air*

Ooo! Oooh! Pick me! Pick me!

I have to admit, as safety coordinator at work I see some pretty bad videos/pictures of accidents....this one is just awful...poor guy

Bulldozers do in fact have rollcages and they are rated to protect the operator from rollovers (go figure :confused: ). As fish has already stated this was a new piece of equipment with the cage & blade uninstalled.

I have so many off color comments in my head...


I just don't feel like spilling my guts right now... HA!!