The days are long and the Sun is going down, as an employee who shall remain nameless, driving a Rough Terrain Fork Lift, in rough terrain. Returning to the yard for the evening, at to high rate of speed, the folks bouncing, and as the road dipped, the forks caught in the ground. At about 13 MPH the machine comes to a sudden stop as one of the folks is bent at 30 degrees below horizontal and the right side fork rolls up in circle. Some good comes of this in that as the safety lap belt is in place and on, the operators is saved from more than embarrassment.
As he called me on the raido I heard him say to some one in the background" I know better than that" " How could I be so stuipd?" Any time we take our mind off Right Now we establish a zone of accident.
In the root cause investigation the employee stated, that he was tired beone belief, and was just thinking about getting home, to the hotel. The rough ter
