Used to work in a warehouse, driving a forklift. I was in a hurry one shift, and was carrying a heavy load of liquid in a steel box around a corner. I didn't know that the guys had washed and soaped the floor...and left it to go on break.
I take the corner way too fast, the liquid shifts, and the whole forklift slides sideways, and jams the steel box into the standard warehouse racking. I thought for sure that the racking (all 100' long and 40' high of it) was going to come crashing down on my head. Life flash before my eyes and all that.
But I must have hit it just exactly right, because all I did was crush one of the rack arms. The two pallets on that particular rack fell and made a huge mess, but nothing else did. Even the investigator the company brought in couldn't figure out how and why the entire rack didn't come crashing down around/on me.
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