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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 3:47 pm
by Dave_L
lutonlagerlout wrote:a guy who lived near me was killed earlier this month by a digger bucket,apparently they were digging different sized trenches and the driver didnt put the safety pin back (this is cafe talk btw)
accident link
building sites are inherently dangerous places
LLL
Ah, semi automatic quick hitches, OK if used properly, bad, bad news if not.
Did I hear the pin was put in correctly after the accident??
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 5:08 pm
by lutonlagerlout
not 100% exactly what happened but it must have been a big bucket to weigh "several tonnes" the consensus is that the bucket was raised for him top do something and it then fell completely off and killed him outright.
2 in a month sean, thats a lot to lose at any time let alone a month
safety first,for me
LLL
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 7:42 am
by seanandruby
we are still being asked to carry out unsafe working practice
( when it suits them ) by construction managers. i say no but
then you always have the men who do it. so every time a
does it management get away with training ie, dumper, digger,
confined spaces. its mostly at the end of a job when tickets
start expiring that things go wrong, because its the last push
most people think they can break the rules.
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:27 pm
by Tommy
We have a sort of quick hitch on our front loader on the new holland tractor. Now we were assured that when we did the NPTC competency test recently, that the hitch would self lock, when the attachment is fully crowded back... long story short, one of the more experienced tractor drivers swapped from forks to the GP bucket. To fit into the shed, the bucket has to be fully tucked in under the machine - full crowd forward.
The bloke started tipping the bucket, and low and behold, the bucket falls off, narrowly avoiding landing on a bloke standing near to it.