JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT/Gray News) - A man was killed when hot asphalt was poured on top of him.
According to authorities, the man was standing behind a dump truck when the hydraulics on the truck malfunctioned causing asphalt to be poured on top of him.
Damned right you don’t.
ReplyDeleteHigh school they made us watch "Faces of death." Grisly auto accidents. But hot asphalt, only worse if ravens had plucked out his eyeballs just before the hydraulics failed...
ReplyDeleteI remember those, seems like there were 5 or 6 different videos of Faces of Death..... The then local video rental business had them
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Faces of Death is a 6 video collection of people dying in all sorts of gruesome ways including auto accidents, being eaten by animals, and executions. They show the actual deaths. The one they showed in driver's ed was Signal 40. It only showed the aftermath of auto accidents. There would always be one or two kids in the class that fainted.
DeleteNasty way to go....
ReplyDeleteMy dear departed friends father was killed by a dump bed. He had the bed up and was looking at something under it. He knew better, drove truck all his life. That bed came down now crushing his skull. A young kid who knew the family well found him. He walked around the truck yelling a greeting. There the father was still standing, bent under the bed trapped and dead as a door nail. Fucked that kid up, he was never the same afterward. So, two tragedies that day.
ReplyDeleteSame thing happened several years ago to a rancher down the road from me. His 15 year-old daughter found him when she went out to the shop building to tell him dinner was ready. Upper body completely crushed. Her mother had died a few years prior, from cancer. Friends tell me she's doing OK now.
DeleteI guess that’s one way to deport an illegal immigrant.
ReplyDeleteNever, ever, ever, get under a load.
ReplyDeleteException: The chicks in porn flicks are not harmed by getting under loads.
DeleteThey absolutely are harmed 'getting under loads.' As are the cucked men that watch that disgusting shit.
DeleteI've never seen a truck dump by itself. I'd be focusing on the driver and what he was doing in the cab.
ReplyDeletewhen a hydraulic hose bursts, the cylinder collapses very quickly.
DeleteWe are all going to die, that much is certain. But the way this man died is just so gruesome that it has to be horrific for his loved ones. My thoughts go out to them, that they can find peace in such a horrible tragedy.
ReplyDeleteI work in an industrial setting. We change hydraulic hoses on a yearly basis, just because. What gets us though are the fittings - mostly o-ring blow-outs cause the guys replacing hoses every year always seem to pinch the fucking o-ring. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I make sure to stand far away from any load supported only by hydraulics.
ReplyDeleteHose break valves can prevent a load from falling if the hose bursts. They aren't cheap. Proper filtration can prevent a valve from sticking open. Unfortunately, manufacturers of this type of equipment are primarily concerned with cost.
ReplyDeleteI just came to the comments to see how far down the first joke with feathers was. I am disappointed in all yof you.
ReplyDeleteAre you saying it’s his own as-phalt….
ReplyDeleteTruck beds don't lift that fast.
ReplyDeleteLikely he was behind it with the bed already up when they tripped the gate latch.
No way he couldn't notice the bed rising.
This wasn't a Hydraulic hose failing, that'd make the bed go down, not up.
That was my thought as well. Bed was up and latch might have been stuck. He goes back and bangs on it and it comes way unstuck.
DeleteGot to be very careless or inattentive to have this happen- it's the routine daily tasks that can be the most dangerous-
ReplyDeleteIma gon put a pucker in all y'alls ass!
ReplyDeleteAn entire class of elevators are hydraulic!
Grok!
Tom762
Meh. I don't know of a single elevator in Macon County.
DeleteI used to work on those. Super safe for passengers. No hoses allowed, only high pressure pipe. The worst that can happen if the packing on the ram fails you slowly sink downward, buffer springs in the pit underneath.
DeleteI do work on them, have for 35 years. They can and do have failures, although rare. I have been under hundreds if not thousands of hydraulic elevators. As an Elevator Constructor, we are responsible to the public, and the fact I am willing to do my job hopefully inspires trust. That being said, hydraulic elevators can and will fail eventually. Seen it with my own eyes, and that is why we pressure test them yearly. I can say truthfully I never pencil whipped any tests, because of stories like this one.
DeleteTom762
Also, Kenny, any two or more floor building built after 1995 is required by the ADA to have some form of vertical transportation, for wheelchairs and other disabilities.
DeleteTom762
Fake news. You can't make me believe they were going to pave something in Jackson. Been there lately? The whole place is falling apart. Huge potholes everywhere and zero infrastructure maintenance for years. Water main leaks all over the place. Turning into the third world over there.
ReplyDeleteMan that's the truth, I didn't know how big potholes could get until I swirved around them in Jackson.. DAMN it man
DeleteOh and I saw the mayor and a couple of his cronies just got federally indicted this week
JD
I've been there many, many times since 1980, and its been terrible as far back as I can remember.
DeleteIt was a great place to grow up pre-1970. It's a massive POS tese days.
ReplyDeleteVery sad. I couldn't imagine...
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