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Furniture Warehouse Safety: Never Walk in Front of a Lift

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The 10 fastest ways to get seriously hurt in a furniture warehouse. You need to be aware of all these.

Number one, walk in front of a moving lift.

You got to pay attention all the time. You got to have your head on a swivel. You got to think, "How do I protect myself?" Something you want to think about.

It's like when you're pulling out of the driveway at home, you need to be head-on, on a swivel. Is anybody out there waiting on me? Yep. At 10 o'clock at night.

Yep. Take a look at that lift. Three to five tons.

Leg or the front of it. It hits you from the front. The metal can cut you. It can break you. It can snap you with ease.

You look at the back of it. There's a small gap underneath. Runs you over. Pushes you out of the way. Throws you sideways. It is not going to budge. You are going to budge.

That's what you need to think when you're walking by these lifts. It's like having a live rattlesnake in your house. You can't get rid of him.

You got to be aware of it. He's at it all the time.