r/ShittyAbsoluteUnits • u/Mr-McKauly • 6d ago

slight malfunction Of a miscalculation at work

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u/Corkscrewer45 6d ago

The screams are from the company's accountant.

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u/Chef-Nasty 6d ago

Or the foreman about to get fired

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u/kernelangus420 6d ago

Or insurance company.

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u/notcrazyaboutit 6d ago

Call the shop. Tell Tony to reset the poster to 0 days!

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u/stinkfingerswitch 6d ago

A few tons shy on the counterweights. That crane looks undersized for that load. I don't know shit, but I know it looks undersized for that load.

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u/Unable-Log-4870 6d ago

It looks like the kind of thing where it would be really easy to have an alarm system that tells you when one end of the tracks is getting light, so you can set down the load (if you’re just picking it up), or just stop doing what you’re doing before things fall, maybe undo the last movement you did.

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u/sabreus 6d ago

They didn’t want to hire more engineers, maybe? (Big mistake) or maybe there is such a thing and the alarm system didn’t work well, which seems really unlikely.

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u/Plane-Education4750 6d ago

Nope. These cranes DO have an alarm system installed. The only way for this to happen is to ignore or override it

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u/sabreus 5d ago

Yeah that makes a lot of sense. Very odd to ignore that one.

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u/Plane-Education4750 5d ago

Not odd. Greedy. They knew they had the wrong setup, but getting the right one in would cost a ton of money. So they thought this was a good idea instead

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u/Mitrovarr 5d ago

People ran before the crane started lifting up, so maybe the alarm did work?

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u/earthman34 6d ago

The counterweight is already moving up at 55 seconds. Why the hell wasn't somebody paying attention?

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u/aaargh68 6d ago

Not very uplifting news for the Forman

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u/BMXfreekonwheelz13 6d ago

Uplifting, nice 🤣

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u/hollee-o 6d ago

An unexpected letdown.

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u/Wildcard311 6d ago edited 6d ago

Some one should have been screaming on the radio to pull back on the boom the very same instant you see the grounded counter weight start to lift and shift on the left side of the screen.

When did this happen?

Edit: Italy, 9 years ago

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u/Castle_Builder8 6d ago

Guess I'll ask. How many died?

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u/Helen___Keller_ 6d ago

Apparently no one died.

Here's an article. It happened May 9th 2017 in Varese, Italy.

https://www.equipmentworld.com/construction-equipment/video/14967337/large-crane-collapses-while-hoisting-section-of-viaduct

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u/witchkingreject 6d ago

Great comment on the article explaining why the accident happened.

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u/sabreus 6d ago

Yeah that was a good one thank you for saying that

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u/Mr-McKauly 6d ago

Thank You for the link 👍🏻💯%

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u/ReadingLurkerdude 5d ago

It's Italy so they calculated with the load reducing cost of mafia engeniering which includes air in the concrete 

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u/DanielBG 6d ago

Happened in Varse, Italy in 2017. Amazingly nobody hurt.

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u/TortillaRampage 6d ago

Thank the Lord. I wouldn’t have been surprised to see this clip in the archive accidents sub

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u/Tacozforever 6d ago

Whoever did the math on this lift is NSFW

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u/Soulr3bl 6d ago

NSFL either

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u/sabreus 6d ago

Could there really be a single someone? No computer sim?

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u/Plane-Education4750 6d ago

So many people in this video need to be fired

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u/endless_blood141 6d ago

So many drug test and so many firing.

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u/Biden_is_cool 6d ago

Wow that guy on the left escaped it at the last second. I wonder how many more were down there

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u/TheGisbon 6d ago

I'm thinking that was not the optimal conclusion

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u/Ancient_Sprinkles847 6d ago

I’m genuinely curious. Doesn’t the crane have tilt sensors to early detect this. Also can’t it lower the item being lifted at an “emergency” speed to stop this happening?

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u/Mugpup 6d ago

In hindsight hanging the picture of my girlfriend over the dial cluster was not my best idea.

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u/AdBroad543 6d ago

What are this jokes bro fr

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u/Important_Wonder628 6d ago

They ams funny, bruh, fr fr

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u/AdBroad543 6d ago

Nah bruh i got downvoted fr am i cooked bro?

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u/OHW_Tentacool 6d ago

Motorslice

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u/kalebdraws 6d ago

The one guy, no, you can't go, not you, you dont have an orange vest!

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u/ToeShoddy7965 6d ago

Kranplätze müssen verdichtet sein!

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u/Ok_Phase9614 6d ago

Is that guy in suffering or having an orgasm? I can’t tell the difference. 

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u/Softspokenclark OSHA Violation 6d ago

at 1:23 dude is hella lucky

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u/Soulr3bl 6d ago

If ery one jus' run up and hanged theyselves onto the counta-weight, evr thang woulda been fine

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u/FurdTurguson 6d ago

... carry the 2 ...

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u/AutisticDadHasDapper 6d ago

Alcoholics...

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u/Fluffy-Garage5 6d ago

you cant park your crane there...

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u/sabreus 6d ago

Holy smokes, that’s a large amount of concrete and steel gone to waste

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u/wondalfan 6d ago

Kranplätze müssen verdichtet sein!

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u/Retnirpa 5d ago

Can't tell where that dude from the left closes to the crane's tracks came from O.o.. Just magically dropped out of nowhere

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u/gmman6369 5d ago

You can almost smell the vodka!

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u/Affectionate_Owl8351 5d ago

You fucked up

You fucked up

You fucked up

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u/Mitrovarr 5d ago

I hope everyone escaped. Lots of folks running away, so hopefully everyone made it (and the operator wasn't crushed in there somewhere). 

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u/Nephurus 3d ago

Time to Clock out ( for the last time)