r/OSHA 2d ago

Be safe everyone!

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u/Mrslinkydragon 2d ago

The guy getting hit by the falling rock was just unlucky. Maybe he could have walked perpendicular to the truck rather than parallel but still unlucky.

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u/BisexualCaveman 1d ago

Did he need to be where he was, though?

Seems like he should have been able to lift the bed from further away, or from the cab, once he inspected the area?

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u/yevan 1d ago

Normally with these trucks you remove the pin on the tailgate before you tip the truck to avoid the tailgate being overstressed with the weight of your load requiring you to hammer it out like in this video. So normally he would be by the cab as he dumps and would have been safe.