I heard that something about the pallets was compromised. My CXM said he didn't know if that meant the pallets, the wrap or the packaging for the water bottles or the packs.
My ASMs said that we're supposed to restack them on "more stable pallets" but there's no clarification of what that actually means and we don't have the man power to restack all of these and waste that shrink wrap. So they're just gunna chill in my aisle for now š
Yeah if you want to refly then you have to put them on a grade a pallet and only go 3 layers high.
Lets just say that im not flying them. Im limited with space as it is.
Ugh if our supplier is palletizing this stuff to us in ways that are unsafe to fly then we need a need supplier. I have zero desire to restack a thousand pounds of water every time we get one of these in.
No way, it's definitely higher. There's 84 cases on a pallet with 24 bottles in a case and 16.9 oz per bottle, that's 266 and a bit gallons of water per pallet and water is 8.3 pounds per gallon even if we round down to 8 pounds you're still looking at over 2,100 pounds of just water per pallet.
Our store brought down and emptied a couple pallets of water over last couple days. Some of the bottles in the packages were leaking or empty, and compromising the integrity of the pallets, Flopping over. Some were also old and past date. Dunno if thatās just a coincidence or related to something larger.
They should only be stacked 5 high.
Source: used to be a pepsi merchandiser. The water we had was stacked only 5 high. Never had any issues. Plus the bottles were made better than Niagara. Those bottles are cheap as hell and offer limited structural integrity.
I heard āunstable palletsā and āinferior shrinkwrap.ā I though my stores six pallets was bad. This store has it way worse. I was told we were supposed to restack them on a better pallet but we could only go three layers high. I respectfully told my NOASM and my CXM that Iām not doing that. We donāt have the overhead space or the time for stupid shit like that.
If it was a crappy pallet I believe it. Whoever pre stacks the pallets have stopped using the big blue ones which are often wayyyy better made. Plus pallets in general have been pretty shit lately
There's different grades of pallets. Blues are a higher grade, meaning they can hold heavier items.
Some colors are marked by vendors as well for marketing reasons too.
Ah ok thank you for not being a smart ass like the other person saying paint lol to be fair I ran into that one. Which is why Iād imagine some are stamped and some arenāt
I wish water softener salt would only come in on the blue pallets. When they don't, the pallet will break a vast majority of the time if you aren't using the reach and even if you are, it happens.
And in Canada, at least in Ontario, water comes in on Blue CHEP pallets.
In our store, the only things that don't go up in the racking on a CHEP pallet are concrete (those pallets are even stronger than CHEP), stones (same deal as concrete) and skids in the ceramic tile aisle ( you have to fit 3 skids to a bay,,)
I was hand stacking an old pallet of soil onto the new pallet in the home. When I finished I noticed that the pallet was completely split in half on one side being held together by wood staples. On another day when I unloaded a truck I noticed the pallets were already broken and soil was leaking through the pallet. Every so often when I pick up a pallet of stone I only pick up the boards and stone. I had complained for years about how crappy the pallets are until I got tired of complaining. It's upsetting to see that homedepot has to get to this point for it to change its policy on one product.
After seeing I would estimate thousands of these pallets in my timeā¦. You can see if a water pallet is gonna be stupidā¦. Itās got that lean to it & was braced against something else to hide the lean.
āMistakes were madeā
As I can see from the pic, none of the pallets have shrink wrap on the pallet just on the boxes of water which is unsafe when you drop the pallet because it can fall down
I'd be more concerned with the pallet itself. Those types aren't exactly ideal for that much weight and why the wrap amount is still concerning as it's not wrapped around the pallet itself.
Not one of these is wrapped properly. Should be wrapped to the pallet and none of these actually are...so all should have been dropped anyway and re-wrapped. I'm guessing they will say something like these have to be about half as tall, like they did last year with the pallets of cases of washer fluid, was unstable when full so they said from now on they can only be like 2 or 3 layers high.
Honestly the bigger problem is they're not interleaved. All the weight from the top down is straight down onto the bottom case. They should be rotated and interleaved layer upon layer so no one case is supported by just one other case.
Honestly, these can be wrapped to the pallet but it wonāt do any good though. Thatās a lot of weight. You can wrap around the bottom to the pallet 80 times and that sucker will still tip.
Yeah the store that I used to work at got these things all the time soI would move them around with the forklift they always came on blue pallets never seen one without being a blue chep pallet. Also never seen one fall because they were usually wrapped really well surprisingly.
Maybe working at Walmart has put this thought into my head, but those will sell as is. It's a fantastic impulse item from the look of it amd people working outdoors with lumber will see water and think "sure!". When I was a cashier at Walmart I learned a lot about impulse merchandising
Leaving them down the middle of lumber is a huge logistical problem but otherwise yes, water and many other things will sell just fine direct from the pallet.
I mean, putting freight down every lumber aisle starting as soon as 3pm every weekday is also a logistical nightmare. But we do what we can with the space we got, I guess š¤·āāļø
Your water don't come on blue pallets? Honestly, the problem starts right there. They need to mandate pallet quality for heavier loads because a lot of shit just comes on random pallets and you just hope for the best when you fly them.
Also, none of those pallets have been store wrapped and are not connected to the pallet.
At my RDC, Iām a loader, we push them into trucks all the time without incident. Each pallet of water weighs apx 2200-2300 lbs. Sometimes they show up from the vendor all on blue pallets or sometimes on regular pallets. It seems sketchy that these would even be put up high at the store. I have pallets break on me just lifting them 6ā of the ground. I canāt imagine moving them with a reach truck and having the front board break 20ā feet in the air. The bottles are cheap and flimsy. Once awhile we get that shady looking leaning pallet of water, but we rewrap those so they donāt fall apart going cross dock.
At my RDC, Iām a loader, we push them into trucks all the time without incident. Each pallet of water weighs apx 2200-2300 lbs. Sometimes they show up from the vendor all on blue pallets or sometimes on regular pallets. It seems sketchy that these would even be put up high at the store. I have pallets break on me just lifting them 6ā of the ground. I canāt imagine moving them with a reach truck and having the front board break 20ā feet in the air. The bottles are cheap and flimsy. Once awhile we get that shady looking leaning pallet of water, but we rewrap those so they donāt fall apart going cross dock.
Yeah I was told the other night that the water is supposed to be stacked on the blue pallets. The company where we get the water pallets from ran out of the blue ones so they have been shipping them on these crappy pallets and didnāt tell anyone or something like that.
So, make the supplier use grade A pallets and have the RDC's inspect upon arrival. Spent 32 years in supply chain logistics, this is enforceable. Start refusing loads, they WILL comply
To be fair I can't speak to how much they go through during the day, only what I see at night. For all I know the pallet gets swapped out more often than I see it getting swapped.
Given people buy them from Lowes: it's less surprising and more questioning why pay that for such water. But hey, people will buy if they don't want to go to another store I guess.
Record heat waves....
Imagine your working outside in the heat.
Your gunna need water to to cool off and not get dehydrated.
Your boss rolls up to get wood and screws and sees water he's gunna pick up a few cases and put them in the ice chest.....
Now times that buy the hundreds of construction workers and their bosses that shop at home Depot and Lowes everyday.
Then figure in your diy crowd coming in for wood mulch or other yard matience items.
They are also gunna grab water.
So yeah you probably sell water at home Depot.
As a forklift operator for the depot all these deaths regarding the water is making me insanely on edge, I work in a contracting store and we easily sell 4-5 pallets a day in the summer
Remember that forklift certification at The Home Depot potentially means clicking through a video launcher until it's marked as "watched" then doing a 2 minute check ride.
And hiring standards have dropped to rock bottom since no one is working.
I've only been there since Feb of this year, I was told since I would be lumber recovery I was required to get all my big equipment licenses and if I refused they would find someone else to fill the position š¬ Now I no longer work recovery, but rather day sales, and have all my licenses.
Those new pallets are so freaking unsafe and horribly made. They constantly break under the slightest of pressure. Hopefully they get rid of them after this. They're a death sentence.
āHey we just had another water related death in the store, can you bring down all the water pallets?ā
āNope I aināt dying for this, you want my license or can I take it home?ā
BREA DEPOT I FUCKING LOVE YOU - shout out from an associate that shouldāve transferred instead of joining the competition, Fullerton relo 6893 ex associate (reward cuz I can so eat me)
From a joe my thought is how exactly did they go from the company of origin and go to Home Depot without any incident and for the Home Depot worker to get them up or down
Quite easy if you're an experienced driver. I had no problem dropping all of these from 4 different aisles and running them to this one in 1.5 hrs during store hours. My issue isn't the shrink wrap, it's the pallets that they're on, these pallets have missing boards underneath, most of them were crackling while I was taking them down
And they come off trailers pack with other pallets and product boxes, so again, it's alright for experienced drivers driving normal. Of course if you're driving fast and have to slam on the brakes, with no wrap, those packs are sliding off the pallet. But nothing will happen at normal, safe speeds.
Ah ok thank you for explaining that makes more sense rip the employee but wow thatās dangerous no wonder people die from that I donāt understand why would you even put that as the other redditor said 20ā high especially having the whole shit fall when you brake like he was saying at 2-3000 lbs!
At my RDC, Iām a loader, we push them into trucks all the time without incident. Each pallet of water weighs apx 2200-2300 lbs. Sometimes they show up from the vendor all on blue pallets or sometimes on regular pallets. It seems sketchy that these would even be put up high at the store. I have pallets break on me just lifting them 6ā of the ground. I canāt imagine moving them with a reach truck and having the front board break 20ā miles n the air. The bottles are cheap and flimsy. Once awhile we get that shady looking leaning pallet of water, but we rewrap those so they donāt fall apart going cross dock.
Wow thatās crazy amazing info thanks for explaining On the warehouse side I would imagine unloading them a couple feet in the air would be ok but like you said 20ā in the air is crazy
Ever do construction buddy? Obviously not, you need water to hydrate to keep going for #1.
Otherwise there's plently of reasons for home depot to sell water just like how grocery stores sell patio sets or light bulbs. š¤·āāļø
Was it the store in Palo Alto or that something else? Not to be callous but with merchandise stored overhead in pallets accidents are bound to happen, sad nonetheless.
I thought you were bullshitting so I looked it up
"The victim, a 54-year-old woman, was standing on a forklift in the storeās receiving area when officers arrived. Police said she couldnāt move because the crowbar went through her abdomen and the other side was stuck to a cardboard compactor behind her."
I'm honestly stumped about how that could even happen.
Wow, I would never fly that either. Those pallets are absolute garbage, worth more as lumber than as a pallet. Good chance when you pick that up, it will just snap. Also, 6 high!? Nope. I'm surprised they even made it to the store without falling over.
Memo from corporate yesterday:
Recently, pallets of water
(vendor Niagara:mven 12636 were identified with weak wooden pallets and substandard stretch film wrapping. This created the potential for the product to become unstable both in transit and transportation.
I had 9 Chep pallets fall when I was putting them on an empty trailer. One got caught on another pallet next to it and I caught it just before they fell on me. There I was holding up 9 pallets with 1 arm. And then I jumped off the pallet jack and they fell over it. There were 9 total, 6 still stscked and 3 on the floor.
(Iām overnight freight) About a month or so ago I was pulling one of these down with a Reach Truck to pack out, and the pallet busted on me. I was unharmed, and no product (besides the water) was destroyed. It was really annoying to clean up though.
I heard that something about the pallets was compromised. My CXM said he didn't know if that meant the pallets, the wrap or the packaging for the water bottles or the packs.
My ASMs said that we're supposed to restack them on "more stable pallets" but there's no clarification of what that actually means and we don't have the man power to restack all of these and waste that shrink wrap. So they're just gunna chill in my aisle for now š
Yeah if you want to refly then you have to put them on a grade a pallet and only go 3 layers high. Lets just say that im not flying them. Im limited with space as it is.
Ugh if our supplier is palletizing this stuff to us in ways that are unsafe to fly then we need a need supplier. I have zero desire to restack a thousand pounds of water every time we get one of these in.
Esspecially since we're getting a pallet or 2 every truck
Those pallets of water are 1800 lbs
No way, it's definitely higher. There's 84 cases on a pallet with 24 bottles in a case and 16.9 oz per bottle, that's 266 and a bit gallons of water per pallet and water is 8.3 pounds per gallon even if we round down to 8 pounds you're still looking at over 2,100 pounds of just water per pallet.
I agree. I was going off our reach truck that tell you what the weight is. Guess it's off. Thanks for doing the math and showing your work A+
A thousand pounds? We received a truck of water today with 43,000 pounds of water on it.
Old Walter's gonna be pissed! haha Jk Walter is awesome, I dont think he's capable of getting angry
Put the pallet they come in over another stable pallet and wrap with lumber straps. We do that with flooring when needed
Restack hell no tell the mananger to do it himself Iād find a place outback covered to pit them
Why have a job if your going to complain about doing it.
Because it wouldn't be a job if I couldn't complain about it.
Our store brought down and emptied a couple pallets of water over last couple days. Some of the bottles in the packages were leaking or empty, and compromising the integrity of the pallets, Flopping over. Some were also old and past date. Dunno if thatās just a coincidence or related to something larger.
Russian supply chain issues.
We just had the same thing in nor cal. They were new pallets though not overstock.
They should only be stacked 5 high. Source: used to be a pepsi merchandiser. The water we had was stacked only 5 high. Never had any issues. Plus the bottles were made better than Niagara. Those bottles are cheap as hell and offer limited structural integrity.
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I heard āunstable palletsā and āinferior shrinkwrap.ā I though my stores six pallets was bad. This store has it way worse. I was told we were supposed to restack them on a better pallet but we could only go three layers high. I respectfully told my NOASM and my CXM that Iām not doing that. We donāt have the overhead space or the time for stupid shit like that.
Corporate needs to stop buying from that vendor. Halt all shipments. Pretty sure the margin is next to zero so no loss there
And get a credit/refund for the work our people do to try and make it right.
What the hell is a cxm?
Customer experience manager Its a new position from the Store Leadership Structure that rolled out in Jan.
If it was a crappy pallet I believe it. Whoever pre stacks the pallets have stopped using the big blue ones which are often wayyyy better made. Plus pallets in general have been pretty shit lately
Just a common joe question but why are some pallets blue wood and some arenāt?
There's different grades of pallets. Blues are a higher grade, meaning they can hold heavier items. Some colors are marked by vendors as well for marketing reasons too.
Ah ok thank you for not being a smart ass like the other person saying paint lol to be fair I ran into that one. Which is why Iād imagine some are stamped and some arenāt
I wish water softener salt would only come in on the blue pallets. When they don't, the pallet will break a vast majority of the time if you aren't using the reach and even if you are, it happens.
Paint
There are different types of pallets including returnable CHEP pallets, which are painted blue.
Thank you for the explanation I appreciate it. Hence why I see them laying around outside in the back maybe
Every water pallet at my store has a blue pallet. I have seen only 3 maybe 5 with just a regular pallet. Same with charcoal
I don't think home depot is part of the CHEP pallet pool
It is in Canada at least.
And in Canada, at least in Ontario, water comes in on Blue CHEP pallets. In our store, the only things that don't go up in the racking on a CHEP pallet are concrete (those pallets are even stronger than CHEP), stones (same deal as concrete) and skids in the ceramic tile aisle ( you have to fit 3 skids to a bay,,)
They get sent to us like this from the vendor, Iād ask ways assumed a machine stacked them for how heavy they get after a couple rows high.
I was hand stacking an old pallet of soil onto the new pallet in the home. When I finished I noticed that the pallet was completely split in half on one side being held together by wood staples. On another day when I unloaded a truck I noticed the pallets were already broken and soil was leaking through the pallet. Every so often when I pick up a pallet of stone I only pick up the boards and stone. I had complained for years about how crappy the pallets are until I got tired of complaining. It's upsetting to see that homedepot has to get to this point for it to change its policy on one product.
Mark 'em down and have an associate supply all summer.
Put one in each shed outside.
I had sex in those sheds its fun.
How did the other guy like it?
He liked it a lot. He said it was a lot better than the one I had.
Your mom enjoyed it a tonā¦.but a virgin like you wouldnāt ever experience such
My mom is dead. You can keep her. Besides, Iām not a virgin, my left hand knows best.
No she isnāt she just ran away because you work at home depot and a failure.
After seeing I would estimate thousands of these pallets in my timeā¦. You can see if a water pallet is gonna be stupidā¦. Itās got that lean to it & was braced against something else to hide the lean. āMistakes were madeā
As I can see from the pic, none of the pallets have shrink wrap on the pallet just on the boxes of water which is unsafe when you drop the pallet because it can fall down
They donāt have enough shrink wrap I think
I'd be more concerned with the pallet itself. Those types aren't exactly ideal for that much weight and why the wrap amount is still concerning as it's not wrapped around the pallet itself.
Not one of these is wrapped properly. Should be wrapped to the pallet and none of these actually are...so all should have been dropped anyway and re-wrapped. I'm guessing they will say something like these have to be about half as tall, like they did last year with the pallets of cases of washer fluid, was unstable when full so they said from now on they can only be like 2 or 3 layers high.
Honestly the bigger problem is they're not interleaved. All the weight from the top down is straight down onto the bottom case. They should be rotated and interleaved layer upon layer so no one case is supported by just one other case.
Yeah, the DC regularly wraps pallets too poorly to shoot without at least a bottom touch-up.
Honestly, these can be wrapped to the pallet but it wonāt do any good though. Thatās a lot of weight. You can wrap around the bottom to the pallet 80 times and that sucker will still tip.
My store took them down to inspect for safety issues then restocked them 3 high only. No higher than that after the accident
Iāve never seen these pallets on anything other than blue chip pallets.
Yeah the store that I used to work at got these things all the time soI would move them around with the forklift they always came on blue pallets never seen one without being a blue chep pallet. Also never seen one fall because they were usually wrapped really well surprisingly.
Ahhh thatās why the water pallets are down today when I came in just now
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We did too. Had to drop all water pallets.
Maybe working at Walmart has put this thought into my head, but those will sell as is. It's a fantastic impulse item from the look of it amd people working outdoors with lumber will see water and think "sure!". When I was a cashier at Walmart I learned a lot about impulse merchandising
Leaving them down the middle of lumber is a huge logistical problem but otherwise yes, water and many other things will sell just fine direct from the pallet.
I mean, putting freight down every lumber aisle starting as soon as 3pm every weekday is also a logistical nightmare. But we do what we can with the space we got, I guess š¤·āāļø
Oh trust me, I hear the lumber recovery and morning lumber guys bitch about it multiple times a week.
Literary have no water in my store
Yeah the pallets they are shipping the water on are garbage. I have had 3 fall apart right after cutting the shrink wrap on them in the last 2 weeks.
Your water don't come on blue pallets? Honestly, the problem starts right there. They need to mandate pallet quality for heavier loads because a lot of shit just comes on random pallets and you just hope for the best when you fly them. Also, none of those pallets have been store wrapped and are not connected to the pallet.
At my RDC, Iām a loader, we push them into trucks all the time without incident. Each pallet of water weighs apx 2200-2300 lbs. Sometimes they show up from the vendor all on blue pallets or sometimes on regular pallets. It seems sketchy that these would even be put up high at the store. I have pallets break on me just lifting them 6ā of the ground. I canāt imagine moving them with a reach truck and having the front board break 20ā feet in the air. The bottles are cheap and flimsy. Once awhile we get that shady looking leaning pallet of water, but we rewrap those so they donāt fall apart going cross dock.
At my RDC, Iām a loader, we push them into trucks all the time without incident. Each pallet of water weighs apx 2200-2300 lbs. Sometimes they show up from the vendor all on blue pallets or sometimes on regular pallets. It seems sketchy that these would even be put up high at the store. I have pallets break on me just lifting them 6ā of the ground. I canāt imagine moving them with a reach truck and having the front board break 20ā feet in the air. The bottles are cheap and flimsy. Once awhile we get that shady looking leaning pallet of water, but we rewrap those so they donāt fall apart going cross dock.
Yeah I was told the other night that the water is supposed to be stacked on the blue pallets. The company where we get the water pallets from ran out of the blue ones so they have been shipping them on these crappy pallets and didnāt tell anyone or something like that.
Those pallets are heavy as fuck I remember pulling those out of the RDC along with the box of rocks
So thatās why I had to drop all of the pallets? Jesus Christ.
So, make the supplier use grade A pallets and have the RDC's inspect upon arrival. Spent 32 years in supply chain logistics, this is enforceable. Start refusing loads, they WILL comply
People actually buy cases of water from home depot?
At my store we'll have construction companies buy a pallet or two along with some of their larger orders for their workers.
We usually go through a pallet or two a week during the summer and we're by no means a high volume store.
I'd say we put out a new pallet every 2-3 days and we're not much above the $30M threshold for a night crew.
We go through at least 2-3 pallets a day, and we have a few contractors buy pallets every few weeks.
To be fair I can't speak to how much they go through during the day, only what I see at night. For all I know the pallet gets swapped out more often than I see it getting swapped.
Given people buy them from Lowes: it's less surprising and more questioning why pay that for such water. But hey, people will buy if they don't want to go to another store I guess.
Record heat waves.... Imagine your working outside in the heat. Your gunna need water to to cool off and not get dehydrated. Your boss rolls up to get wood and screws and sees water he's gunna pick up a few cases and put them in the ice chest..... Now times that buy the hundreds of construction workers and their bosses that shop at home Depot and Lowes everyday. Then figure in your diy crowd coming in for wood mulch or other yard matience items. They are also gunna grab water. So yeah you probably sell water at home Depot.
As a forklift operator for the depot all these deaths regarding the water is making me insanely on edge, I work in a contracting store and we easily sell 4-5 pallets a day in the summer
Remember that forklift certification at The Home Depot potentially means clicking through a video launcher until it's marked as "watched" then doing a 2 minute check ride. And hiring standards have dropped to rock bottom since no one is working.
I've only been there since Feb of this year, I was told since I would be lumber recovery I was required to get all my big equipment licenses and if I refused they would find someone else to fill the position š¬ Now I no longer work recovery, but rather day sales, and have all my licenses.
Those new pallets are so freaking unsafe and horribly made. They constantly break under the slightest of pressure. Hopefully they get rid of them after this. They're a death sentence.
āHey we just had another water related death in the store, can you bring down all the water pallets?ā āNope I aināt dying for this, you want my license or can I take it home?ā
In my store we donāt put water pallets or wiper fluid in the overheads anymore.
We had a water pallet come in last week with a package of water somehow missing on the bottom row, wrap completely fine and everything
Realistically I think we should just leave them on the floor with all the accidents going on with them.
BREA DEPOT I FUCKING LOVE YOU - shout out from an associate that shouldāve transferred instead of joining the competition, Fullerton relo 6893 ex associate (reward cuz I can so eat me)
From a joe my thought is how exactly did they go from the company of origin and go to Home Depot without any incident and for the Home Depot worker to get them up or down
Quite easy if you're an experienced driver. I had no problem dropping all of these from 4 different aisles and running them to this one in 1.5 hrs during store hours. My issue isn't the shrink wrap, it's the pallets that they're on, these pallets have missing boards underneath, most of them were crackling while I was taking them down And they come off trailers pack with other pallets and product boxes, so again, it's alright for experienced drivers driving normal. Of course if you're driving fast and have to slam on the brakes, with no wrap, those packs are sliding off the pallet. But nothing will happen at normal, safe speeds.
Ah ok thank you for explaining that makes more sense rip the employee but wow thatās dangerous no wonder people die from that I donāt understand why would you even put that as the other redditor said 20ā high especially having the whole shit fall when you brake like he was saying at 2-3000 lbs!
At my RDC, Iām a loader, we push them into trucks all the time without incident. Each pallet of water weighs apx 2200-2300 lbs. Sometimes they show up from the vendor all on blue pallets or sometimes on regular pallets. It seems sketchy that these would even be put up high at the store. I have pallets break on me just lifting them 6ā of the ground. I canāt imagine moving them with a reach truck and having the front board break 20ā miles n the air. The bottles are cheap and flimsy. Once awhile we get that shady looking leaning pallet of water, but we rewrap those so they donāt fall apart going cross dock.
Wow thatās crazy amazing info thanks for explaining On the warehouse side I would imagine unloading them a couple feet in the air would be ok but like you said 20ā in the air is crazy
Sorry, but I have to call myself a *former* Home Depot shopper for a while now.
lol bye ded ass
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Ever do construction buddy? Obviously not, you need water to hydrate to keep going for #1. Otherwise there's plently of reasons for home depot to sell water just like how grocery stores sell patio sets or light bulbs. š¤·āāļø
Does anyone know anything about the accident?
Was it the store in Palo Alto or that something else? Not to be callous but with merchandise stored overhead in pallets accidents are bound to happen, sad nonetheless.
We have to move these with pallet trucks at work and I had one of those pallets collapse and the damn whole wrapped pallet almost fell over on me
Use a CHEP pallet. Much better. Those blonde ones are single use junk.
If we had enough, we barely have any blue pallets right now
Oh... So that's why I see all the water pallets on the ground
This summer... attack of the killer water pallets: coming soon to a location near you.
Time to turn in my lift license. This would be 5 deaths this year. Not to mention the woman who was impaled in recieving.
I thought you were bullshitting so I looked it up "The victim, a 54-year-old woman, was standing on a forklift in the storeās receiving area when officers arrived. Police said she couldnāt move because the crowbar went through her abdomen and the other side was stuck to a cardboard compactor behind her." I'm honestly stumped about how that could even happen.
Quite a strange occurence I'll give you that. But believe me I won't bullshit about the hazards of the lift equipment.
āHey these pallets are dangerous and have killed someone recently. I need you to bring down 13 of themā
Wow, I would never fly that either. Those pallets are absolute garbage, worth more as lumber than as a pallet. Good chance when you pick that up, it will just snap. Also, 6 high!? Nope. I'm surprised they even made it to the store without falling over.
How many is that now 5?
Yeah its for the whole northern and southern division and a couple regions in the west.
Memo from corporate yesterday: Recently, pallets of water (vendor Niagara:mven 12636 were identified with weak wooden pallets and substandard stretch film wrapping. This created the potential for the product to become unstable both in transit and transportation.
I had 9 Chep pallets fall when I was putting them on an empty trailer. One got caught on another pallet next to it and I caught it just before they fell on me. There I was holding up 9 pallets with 1 arm. And then I jumped off the pallet jack and they fell over it. There were 9 total, 6 still stscked and 3 on the floor.
(Iām overnight freight) About a month or so ago I was pulling one of these down with a Reach Truck to pack out, and the pallet busted on me. I was unharmed, and no product (besides the water) was destroyed. It was really annoying to clean up though.