My first job driving a lift was at a supermarket almost twenty years ago and there we unloaded the trucks with a walker and a pallet jack. Lugging those full pallets of milk with a pallet jack was...unenviable lol. Worst injury ever seen anyone incur with a pallet jack, thankfully, is running over their toes while going backwards and not paying attention or banging their shins. But absolutely anytime you put a couple thousand pounds on wheels danger is just incredibly possible. There are also smaller electric jacks that are sized properly for use inside a trailer that are safer in most aspects but potentially more dangerous too. With care, practice and good habits loading a truck safely even with a pallet jack can be one of the less risky parts of scrap. Then again in an industry that includes a lot of sharp things, heavy things, toxic things and power tools perhaps that isn't saying much lol
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