Crushed By A Giant Block

[Hakwins]

Poor guy, but its really hilarious

[Qtrtonpancake]

Jealous: I can't wait be that flat

[horatio]

that was one hell of a stoning

[Shikomizer]

Awesome pics *hides puns* at least it was quick

[Shylock]

Originally Posted by dssxdss

He's a chip off the old block

[elizajane]

That's comical the way his leg is sticking out...like sumthin outta a cartoon....

[tecumseh35]

Jesus! It looks like his torso was knocked clean through his ass!

[azalea]

Holy shit.

@dssxdss lololol, chip off the old block. xD

[Barefootstallion]

I'm a little curious about why they are extricating the body. If it is for toxicology screening at the medical examiner's office, wouldn't it just be easier just to cut a piece off, and then use one of those bulldozers and just turn what is left into the ground?

I mean seriously. Can you just imagine the horror for the workers who are having to peel this shit up and scoop it away?

Also, after looking at that truck for a while, I have come to the educated opinion that this was caused by the truck being overloaded. A block that size can weigh little less than 60,000 pounds. The truck in this picture looks like it might be setup to haul somewhere around 26,000 pounds. When you put a load like that on a truck that small, you are asking for instability. Sure, the truck might drive, but rock it too far to one side, the springs on that side compress and the weight of the load shifts the whole truck in that direction. You can see how far away from the truck the fallen block is. It came off with enough momentum to actually roll end-over-end at least once. That tells me that the block fell from the full height of the bed, meaning it slid off when its weight was pushed/pulled too far in the direction from which it began its slide - the block's weight causing the truck's springs on that side to suddenly compress, letting the block slide off of it with all the sudden speed of a cube of ice down a tilted hot griddle.

The young man who was crushed, probably saw it coming, but the block came at him so swiftly, that he was given too little time to react. Something like this, from beginning to finish, in the type of scenario I've described, can take less than 5 seconds to transpire. From the time it took you to look at your watch and decide what time it is, is how long it took this to play out.

Call me talking out of my ear, if you want, but I have been working with just this sort of thing for 14 years. Loads shifting and coming off of the truck are one of a flatbed driver's greatest fears, and a scenario for which we have a very deep respect.

One cannot dismiss the fact, either, that this obviously took place in a third world country. Had safety practices that are practiced in Europe, the United States and other countries had been practiced here, there is a good bet that this could have been prevented.

"It will never happen to me." I bet that young man thought it. And he probably had an employer who thought, "Yeah, if one gets killed, I have a thousand more from whom to chose to replace him. Fuck safety. It costs more money than these pieces of shit are worth."

[scflipflopper]

Damn!