Originally Posted by
JJinLV
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
My assumption was most folks who don't have a dock, don't have a forklift or pallet jack would not know what they don't know. Sharp and heavy things are quite ordinary in our space, yes. The perils of loading freight, not so much. Just wanted to shed some light for consideration to safety when folks change their processes.
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