The Importance of Walk-Around Inspections

This very scary photo was sent in a couple of weeks ago. From the email:

A crew working for a utility company found this child while conducting a walk around of the company truck the crew members were driving. We don’t want to think about what would have happened if the employee had gotten in the truck and drove off without doing a walk around. Please share this eye opening, bone chilling photo and experience with our work groups.

This crew has also reported children climbing into the back of company vehicles. Keep in mind children will be out of school on break so be sure to watch out for them!!

Just another reason for us to do the vehicle walk-arounds before driving off in our vehicles.

Bad Container Loading

Looks like someone got their 40' and their 60' containers confused.

Crane onto Hospital

Sunk Crane

These pictures were sent in this week by a reader, of a sunk crane-barge. I went looking for some more info, and found these two links.

Broken Float

 

Some impressive photos this week of a broken float. From the email I received with these photos, this occurred near the Christmas Creek mine in the Pilbara, Western Australia. A car cut in front of the truck causing the chains holding the excavator to break when the truck drive applied the brakes.

Crane Flip

EWP falls off truck

If I remember correctly, this happened in somewhere in Brisbane a few years ago.