Should we be able too ?

baggygreen · 04-20-07, 08:04 AM

Wow.. i havent seen those types of trucks in a long long time. we use wheely bins here. But i know our garbo's always used to do the whole ride-on-the-outside thing.

Our milko's still do!

Sailor Steve · 04-20-07, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by baggygreen

Wow.. i havent seen those types of trucks in a long long time. we use wheely bins here. But i know our garbo's always used to do the whole ride-on-the-outside thing.

Our milko's still do!

So did ours, a long time ago. I even did it myself for a while. I don't recall anyone ever getting hurt.

Kapitan · 04-20-07, 01:31 PM

In the last 5 years in the essex county we have had 3 fatals and 36 incidents due to people riding the carts. (one fatal was a suicide)

One guy was riding the back of the cart when he fell in the hopper and the automatic blade came down this one was in southend, the other fatal was a guy riding the side fell off and went under the front wheel of the truck, and the third happend in chelmsford when one of the loaders put his head under the blade.

if we had foot plates at the rear we would be fine.

Etienne · 04-20-07, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Kapitan

if we had foot plates at the rear we would be fine.

Foot plates at the rear of the trucks would be seen as an implicit endorsment of an illegal and unsafe act by the company. Liabillity gallore.

If you think this is BS safety (IMHO, it isn't, if you had 36 incidents in such a short period of time), wait until you discover the ISM code, and a SMS that was designed by a desk puke.

Etienne
(Posted as per C/L D-03, C/L D-05 and in compliance with C/L D-22

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04-20-07, 01:31 PM	#3
Kapitan Sub Test Pilot Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK + Canada Posts: 7,132 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 7	In the last 5 years in the essex county we have had 3 fatals and 36 incidents due to people riding the carts. (one fatal was a suicide) One guy was riding the back of the cart when he fell in the hopper and the automatic blade came down this one was in southend, the other fatal was a guy riding the side fell off and went under the front wheel of the truck, and the third happend in chelmsford when one of the loaders put his head under the blade. if we had foot plates at the rear we would be fine. __________________ DONT FORGET if you like a post to nominate it by using the blue diamond Find out about Museum Ships here: https://www.museumships.us/ Flickr for all my pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131313936@N03/ Navy general board articles: https://www.navygeneralboard.com/author/aegis/

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04-20-07, 08:04 AM	#1
baggygreen Sea Lord Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canberra, ACT, Down Under (really On Top) Posts: 1,880 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	Wow.. i havent seen those types of trucks in a long long time. we use wheely bins here. But i know our garbo's always used to do the whole ride-on-the-outside thing. Our milko's still do!