Yeah, it appears he was standing under what amounts to a train car stuffed with Chinese product, probably bound for target, or Walmart. Don't do that. Nice headline subs, enjoy your stay in hell.

I would've thought that they'd have some sort of rule or policy about not standing under things like that.

Things fall apart.
/it's scientific

What goes up, can't possibly come back down again. So feel free to stand where ever you want.

Subby, you sick, magnificent bastard. +1

Considering they move these things around I'd assume that no matter what you do they'd eventually pass over your head if you worked there. unless you were constantly running from them.

I would also venture that someone would have to be on the ground close to the slot they are dropping it into to help guide it in (not saying that that happened here) but if it fell at that point smooshing could still happen no matter how alert you were.

We have any fark Longshoreman here? Or are we all still pretending to be Lawyers and Doctors still.
(or indy car drivers, Nasa personnel, etc......)

SwingDancer: Considering they move these things around I'd assume that no matter what you do they'd eventually pass over your head if you worked there. unless you were constantly running from them.

I would also venture that someone would have to be on the ground close to the slot they are dropping it into to help guide it in (not saying that that happened here) but if it fell at that point smooshing could still happen no matter how alert you were.

We have any fark Longshoreman here? Or are we all still pretending to be Lawyers and Doctors still.
(or indy car drivers, Nasa personnel, etc......)

Not a longshoreman, but did a stint doing rescue in a heavy manufacturing facility (they built freight rail
cars). It was standard policy to not be under a lift as it was being moved - the zones were clearly
marked out. As to guiding the load down, the riggers and laborers would approach from the "leeward"
side of the lift, if you will, meaning if the load was lifted south to north, the laborers would be on the
north side of the stack, staying out from underneath the load.

Just my experience, YMMV.

SwingDancer: We have any fark Longshoreman here? Or are we all still pretending to be Lawyers and Doctors still.
(or indy car drivers, Nasa personnel, etc......)

Hopefully spentmiles shows up today. He's worked as a longshoreman for 10 years now.

I_Am_Weasel: The headline sadly makes fun of the man's death. Contain yourself, people!

No, the headline humorously makes fun of the man's death.

/commas are your friends

Most of those mil-vans have a tare weight of 4 short tons. Bad times for the crushee.

she's feeling ya

When the sign says "hard hat area" it means it.

hbk72777: [encrypted-tbn2.google.com image 281x180]

she's feeling ya

The shoes, get the shoes, man, quick!

Honey, I flattened longshoreman

Dude, you've just been compacted.

I feel sorry for his family... what a crushing blow.

The_Original_Roxtar: I feel sorry for his family... what a crushing blow.

His poor wife felt flattened by the news.

Interestingly enough, I have done work as a longshoreman, but it was in my late-teens, early-twenties, which was several decades ago. I'd show up early every day at the docks. I'm roughly six foot six, 245 pounds. Those days, I was broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip, though I've packed on a little pudge up front these days. The other men knew that I didn't take any lip. I didn't say much, sort of quiet and shy, but if anyone gave me any trouble, they were bound for a crash and blow from my big right hand. I worked long hours and saw just about every stupid mistake ever made in these situations.

One day, we were unloading a container of Squish Soda that came in from Portugal. On the bottom of that particular container, a graffiti artist had painted a naked gypsy woman pleasuring herself with the horn of a ram. When they hoisted the container up, the entire crew gathered underneath it, staring up as they collectively rubbed one out. Hands were going here, there, and everywhere. Just as they were all getting Chinese faced, the cable snapped and the container plummeted. I rushed underneath and caught it just before it crushed everyone. I through it over the side and it sank to the bottom of the ocean.

They were all real thankful, but I was understandably pissed, as had they all been killed, I'd been the only one left to work that day. As punishment, I made them all tuck and show me their mounds of Venus as they danced provocatively to my favorite song, Goodbye Horses. Luckily, I'd drank a fifty gallon drum of deionized water that morning, so I was more than enough hydrated to coat them all with my salty sea blast.

You've got to be careful around heavy equipment, if you know what I mean.

Follow me, don't follow me I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush

/Comin' in fast, over me

i think i saw this in a die hard movie

When people on a site like this yell "Look out!", it means 'Run', not 'stand still and look up'

Don't be like this guy

What a crushing story. Leaves me flat-out floored.

He used to be a quiet, self contained man. Now he's quiet and containered.

rmdpgh: SwingDancer: Considering they move these things around I'd assume that no matter what you do they'd eventually pass over your head if you worked there. unless you were constantly running from them.

I would also venture that someone would have to be on the ground close to the slot they are dropping it into to help guide it in (not saying that that happened here) but if it fell at that point smooshing could still happen no matter how alert you were.

We have any fark Longshoreman here? Or are we all still pretending to be Lawyers and Doctors still.
(or indy car drivers, Nasa personnel, etc......)

Not a longshoreman, but did a stint doing rescue in a heavy manufacturing facility (they built freight rail
cars). It was standard policy to not be under a lift as it was being moved - the zones were clearly
marked out. As to guiding the load down, the riggers and laborers would approach from the "leeward"
side of the lift, if you will, meaning if the load was lifted south to north, the laborers would be on the
north side of the stack, staying out from underneath the load.

Just my experience, YMMV.

Rigger, please

The government should really look into this and make those containers safer, more malleable.

rFarke: rmdpgh:Not a longshoreman, but did a stint doing rescue in a heavy manufacturing facility (they built freight rail
cars). It was standard policy to not be under a lift as it was being moved - the zones were clearly
marked out. As to guiding the load down, the riggers and laborers would approach from the "leeward"
side of the lift, if you will, meaning if the load was lifted south to north, the laborers would be on the
north side of the stack, staying out from underneath the load.

Just my experience, YMMV.

Rigger, please

I'm not sure if you were referencing something and I missed it, or if you were preferring the term
"rigger", or what not.... Anyway, the plant used an "interesting" interpretation of the USWA Standard
Agreement, and some jobs were blended/shared. I worked for a contractor providing EMS.

(If it was a reference, clue me in, please?)

"Lightweight!"

"The economy is so bad, even their notoriously strong union could not keep this Longshoreman from being downsized"

spentmiles, this is why you're favorited.

spentmiles: Interestingly enough, I have done work as a longshoreman, but it was in my late-teens, early-twenties, which was several decades ago. I'd show up early every day at the docks. I'm roughly six foot six, 245 pounds. Those days, I was broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip, though I've packed on a little pudge up front these days. The other men knew that I didn't take any lip. I didn't say much, sort of quiet and shy, but if anyone gave me any trouble, they were bound for a crash and blow from my big right hand. I worked long hours and saw just about every stupid mistake ever made in these situations.

One day, we were unloading a container of Squish Soda that came in from Portugal. On the bottom of that particular container, a graffiti artist had painted a naked gypsy woman pleasuring herself with the horn of a ram. When they hoisted the container up, the entire crew gathered underneath it, staring up as they collectively rubbed one out. Hands were going here, there, and everywhere. Just as they were all getting Chinese faced, the cable snapped and the container plummeted. I rushed underneath and caught it just before it crushed everyone. I through it over the side and it sank to the bottom of the ocean.

They were all real thankful, but I was understandably pissed, as had they all been killed, I'd been the only one left to work that day. As punishment, I made them all tuck and show me their mounds of Venus as they danced provocatively to my favorite song, Goodbye Horses. Luckily, I'd drank a fifty gallon drum of deionized water that morning, so I was more than enough hydrated to coat them all with my salty sea blast.

You've got to be careful around heavy equipment, if you know what I mean.

I like you.

I'm a crane operator and it's nearly impossible to not fly over people's heads. For the most part if I see a group of ten people and a group of two ill try to go over the smaller one if there's no other way.

/writing this from my office
//200' freestanding

Don't work under a load

He violated safety policy. Prove me wrong (usually it goes like this: "There's no way in hell you can make production if you really follow lockout. Everybody there broke the rule because those that didn't got 'laid off'".) and his heirs will never have to work again.

still sucks he died, no matter whose fault.

ftfa Longshoreman dies after being crushed at Port of Long Beach

This guy apparently survived being pancaked. If only someone had have known CPR, they could have puffed him back up like a baloon.

Communist Toaster: I'm a crane operator and it's nearly impossible to not fly over people's heads. For the most part if I see a group of ten people and a group of two ill try to go over the smaller one if there's no other way.

/writing this from my office
//200' freestanding

I was talking about bridge cranes, in clearly defined bays. Your situation would be much more difficult, I'd imagine. I have limited knowledge of the shipping industry, but every port I've seen used bridge
cranes, but I've been known to be wrong. A lot.

I'm guessing the dent in the pictured container was caused by striking one of the other containers as it fell, but it's Loony-Toonishly human-shaped (picture a head where the big gash is)...

spentmiles: Just as they were all getting Chinese faced, the cable snapped and the container plummeted. I rushed underneath...

You ran into the middle of a circle jerk right before they all came? That's so gay.

/nttiawwt

I had a wee bit of trouble stifling a laugh at subby's headline.

Yea, don't ever walk under loads, and dont let anyone walk under loads and this won't happen. That was the first rule I was taught when learning to run cranes. A lot of safety around heavy machinery is common sense, this is an example of that.

RIGGS!

don't worry kid, you're still on the clock

Looks like a stevedores got slammed.