The accident was at a blue lift.

Exactly.

Yeah, a rescue from an accident... Are you people that dumb?

​@Uyrnaes4202 we didn't see the accident we seen the rescue

Why couldn't genie retract boom?

@@samtung83 Tilt sensor. Its job is to restrict function when the machine isn't level.

@@zaneqspiegel Thanks!

Hey there fellow Hoosier, I've probably used a few of your lifts in my line of work. Thought it was funny this guy was more keen on climbing down to his coworker then waiting on the ladder truck that could have reached him lol

@@spdwebdotnet Those guys were his friends and they were calling him down, But I noticed the rescue rig was smaller than the rig that was broke it was at its maximum heights, Very friggin dangerous For everybody involved, Except the hooking ladder they were far enough away and you are right he'd probably been safer getting in it. But adrenaline will make you do a lot of things you shouldn't do

It did tip, it just didn't tip over.

Officer safety is only used when violating ones right.

Firefighters adding tiedowns to prevent the thing from tipping farther. Not sure what you were hoping for.

@@billcarruth8122 You NEVER walk under a suspended load.......NEVER. A 60foot Genie weighs almost 50000 pounds and they could have walked around the back of the unit instead of under the baskets. I've worked around these machine for decades. Those firefighters aren't too bright.🤔

@@CannonFodder873 Yes, and you never enter a burning building, because you aren't a fire fighter.

@@billcarruth8122 33 year high voltage electrician in the petrochemical industry. I've seen MORE than my share of occupational stupidity...enough to last a LIFETIME. ⚡⚡✨✨

The lift actually wasn't damaged. He was moving the lift and one of the wheels fell into a diamond plate utility box cover because the lid was not designed for that kind of weight. He was very lucky.

@@towtrkdug43 thank you.

@@lowkeygato2133 when he was working he had his deck up against the side of that building. He was working on the window framing. So when that tire went through that utility vault door, you know it threw him back and forth several times. Look how far away he is from the building right now.

@@towtrkdug43 My First Thought was He Drove over some sort of hole . Never Drive over something you don't know what it is rated for !

Probably didn't want to move it because any shift in weight could make it fall over if it's stuck in that utility hole. I doubt he was that worried. They're used to being up high like that.

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Mike 44460, I worked construction as a pipefitter Pipe welder four 30 years I feel you brother, I had some very bad experiences With those man lifts. I had to work with the foreman's son we had a man left that went almost a 100 feet like the one you're talking about, He was on drugs of course and wanted to run the machine I said I don't Think so ,then I let him do it anyway He got the cage in a Bind against the steel and I could feel the hydraulic's pushing I said you're gonna get us killed. He said I'll get us out of here and I said no not with me in this basket, I am not a good high man but the catwalk was close enough and I was scared enough that I climbed out of the basket on the outside of the walkway and got to safety. It wasn't 2 seconds after I got on the platform then he pushed it just a little bit too much and it came off of the steel and shot him up in the air about 2 feet, Now I know it scared him but even though I wasn't in the cage it made me sick to my stomach. I've worked 30 years at industrial construction and it Has given me PTSD I have a lot of Nightmares about these kind of things, And I'm freaking almost 72 years old. You did the right thing, if your the lest bit unsure don't do

@terryandrews7271 Exactly, it is a terrible tragedy to learn someone died because they went to work. I "never" got in a lift without my harness on 100% and secured to the basket. One time, we had a massive water leak in the ceiling, GM plants ran everything overhead. The place was flooding, but they had to wait until I had my harness on. If I didn't have it on and something happened, NO one would stick up for me, pass out the life jackets! I rented a lift here at home to clean the gutters. I'm retired, but I still have my harness and retractor and used them, not worth it. The harness was issued to me when I was hired. I never left it out, always locked up, and never used by anyone but me. Be safe, brother.

@@Mike44460 Good for you brother, There's a lot of Lifts, Scissor lifts all kinds of unsafe equipment in my opinion. We were working at proctor gamble and it was up against the ceiling that gave us a crummy little sizzler left the higher you got it up the more it swayed it was very unstable, The safety person was a young girl she came over and told me that I would be fired if I didn't hook up my harness To the railing on the Lift, I learned to be very independent after a few years I told her to get my money I was quitting well someone talked to her said I was a good worker. She wanted to know why I would not hook app my safety belt I said if this rig falls Uber from 40 feet or whatever I'm gonna ride it to the floor and hopefully right before it hits I will be able to jump out and maybe I will not be crushed. She said that was a big gamble I said staying hooked up to the machine and it falls from 30 or 40 or 50 feet it's a very big gamble. Anyway I'm here to tell the story and that's just the way I felt about it some of the safety s*** is almost more dangerous They're not using it. Have a good one brother be safe God speed

I went up 120 ft in a boom lift. It was awesome!

Thought the Same thing. Turn that joker up Bud.

He was just relocating. The tire went on to a diamond plate type utility Vault lid and couldn't support the weight

Used to

A professional! Congrats. Theres only a few of us left. Everyone else runs at max speed to bang out an extra job per year.

And I'm sure he got thrown back and forth like a ping pong ball until that thing quit swaying.

Safety harness or not if that thing flipped he was dead.

Yes that help ? How about tip over, im sure you need a ejected seat😂😂😂

... no Shyt! Man I once got on a large boom lift, to service a CCTV camera, that was mounted on the side of a large American Airline's hanger, at DFW Airport. It was a little breezey that day, but when you are fully extended with the boom, some 90ft in the air, it's scary as hell 😵 This was at one of their large hangers, where they could park like 2 Boeing Jumbos side by side, wing tip to wing tip inside this Enormous hanger. I'd never been so scared 😱 in my life, I was in my late 20's, working for GE Computer Services. I nearly pissed my pants, it was a white knuckle ride, with 3 of us on the platform. The platform could easily hold 8 or 10 people on it, that's how large this boom was.

@@Texaca Which hangar at DFW? I’m a facilities mechanic for AA at DFW.

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Probably so. I'm curious as to the failure analysis

Not to mention the danger of going from one basket to the other.

That is true.@@towtrkdug43

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It was a utility vault. Had the steel diamond plate style door. The door couldn't support the weight.

@@towtrkdug43 ahhh..no doubt

The guy was working on the sidewall installing window frame parts or something on a new building. He moved the unit over some steel plate doors that went to an underground utility vault . The steel plate doors were not strong enough to support the weight of the unit and one wheel fell in tossing the bucket and the employee about 40 feet away from the wall. Emergency vehicles showed up to retrieve the employee but another man lift retrieved him first

First lesson, what you see on the surface isn't nessecarily what's under the ground. Check all along where you are going to travel a MEWP (Mobile Elevated Working Platform) Fortunatley the guy did have the sense to wear a harness. As the arm whips the major danger is you get thrown out of the basket.

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“Get a boom up to that guy, and some fresh shorts”

​@@towtrkdug43gotta know whats under you right.

You can’t drive them extended lol, basket has to be below certain height and it’s not very high

You have to be in turtle mode

I would imagine he got bounced back and forth inside that thing a few times. When I got onscene he was sitting low on the deck and not moving. I originally thought he was injured.

Drove over a utility Vault door. The door couldn't support the weight

These weigh 44 000lbs +. Usually helps to look where youre driving and how your boom is oriented.

They didn't.

as if. genie rules. boom extension on the joystrick cant be beat

@@dirtybanana3 my thoughts exactly

But why couldn't the genie retract the boom ?

@@samtung83 why?

@@johnsjohnson just wanted to know. Somebody else said there's a sensor. Thanks anyway. 🙄

He was working on those windows on the side of the building. He was moving from one window to another and drove over a utility Vault lid. The utility lid could not support the weight and one of the wheels went into the utility vault. That caused the bucket to swing away from the building and throwing him back and forth inside the bucket with sure violence. Hopefully he retired those underwear he was wearing...

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@@towtrkdug43 Yes, its in the title .... I was making a point about how far this was filmed from. Lost on you though ....... I understand why you have towtrk in your name now.

​@@Ridethebomb777If that boom was 90 feet long you bet I would have been at least 100 ft. away. Oh yeah and try not to be a dick.

Oh they rushed. Someone got a smaller manlift over there before the fire department even showed up.

@@towtrkdug43 I'm talking about the firefighters just casually walking over there

@@CyberBullyOfficial 😆👍

​@@CyberBullyOfficialthey couldn't have done a damn thing

Nobody said it was.....

Drove it onto an underground vault steel door that wasn't designed to support that weight.

Wow

@@towtrkdug43 Some one really screwed the site assment there. Good job he wa swearing a harness.

They had helmets on 🤣. I also like how they're using probably about an 8000 GVW strap to try and hold it still and secure it down low 🤔

Yes. The doors couldn't handle the weight.

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@@martinaguiler3976 What would that have to do with what caused this accident?

@@towtrkdug43 isn't one side like axle or tire tire came lose. Would nt driver feel wheel shaking. And get the mechanic.

Yes he drove it. Wasn't a hole until the cover/door gave way to the weight.

How would that have helped with this situation?

@towtrkdug43 lmaoo dummy, that's the joke. If you worked with these daily, you would know that anytime things go wrong on those types of machinery, someone is always there to be like, "Did you do a pre use?" It's the joke. A pre use woulda done nothing. You slow.

@@FirstnameLastname-tp4zw utility vault door, in sidewalk.

@@towtrkdug43 ohhhh, that's an ez miss. Thanks

You mean second responders.

I guess we can all be first responders...If you got the brass.

I call them Second responders. The first responders were already there and taking care of stuff.

Hahaha right

I bet he got bounced around in there pretty good. The whole time I was there he was sitting down and glued to the floor. He wasn't moving so I thought he was hurt but he moved as soon as help arrived.

@@towtrkdug43yeah he must have bounced around on his lanyard like a paddle ball then somehow climbed back in. I don’t know. Bad day.

@@waynedurning8717 A good day actually. Easily could have gone worse ! Lucky...

If he was wearing the right lanyard he shouldn’t have been able to get thrown out of the basket.

@@cosmicinsane516 what's the right kind of lanyard in this situation? The only ones I've ever seen are about the same.

Wrong. Didn't break. One tire broke through underground utility vault door.