45 second video: Chinese truck driver's death illustrates the need for safety standards!

[ModerationNow!]

Here's a video of a seemingly overloaded truck, carrying a stack of long, heavy concrete cylinders, without any noticeable supports or restraints to hold them in place. A car stops short at a traffic light, forcing the truck driver to hit his brakes, which causes the concrete cylinders to slide forward, through the cab, instantly crushing the driver to death. Obviously there's a need for common sense safety standards to protect people. But even without those standards, this should've been secured safely.

 

[Mr Person]

Ok, but why the video?

Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm guessing that watching people getting crushed to death is not exactly a national pastime.

 

[WCH]

Always secure your load!

 

[beerftw]

Here's a video of a seemingly overloaded truck, carrying a stack of long, heavy concrete cylinders, without any noticeable supports or restraints to hold them in place. A car stops short at a traffic light, forcing the truck driver to hit his brakes, which causes the concrete cylinders to slide forward, through the cab, instantly crushing the driver to death. Obviously there's a need for common sense safety standards to protect people. But even without those standards, this should've been secured safely.

In many nations it is not lack of safety standards but rather lack of enforcement, some nation lack funds to enfrorce standards, others deal with inspectors who will pass anything with a bribe, and will send workers out with dangerous equipment and bribe inspectors to look the other way. China likely falls under the latter.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Here's a video of a seemingly overloaded truck, carrying a stack of long, heavy concrete cylinders, without any noticeable supports or restraints to hold them in place. A car stops short at a traffic light, forcing the truck driver to hit his brakes, which causes the concrete cylinders to slide forward, through the cab, instantly crushing the driver to death. Obviously there's a need for common sense safety standards to protect people. But even without those standards, this should've been secured safely.

Now do the economy...ours.

 

[Fledermaus]

Now do the economy...ours.

Now do it what?

We have unmarked CHP vehicles in California constantly monitoring the freeways looking for things like this.

 

[ModerationNow!]

Now do it what?

We have unmarked CHP vehicles in California constantly monitoring the freeways looking for things like this.

I didnt understand the economy reference either. Our economy is actually doing pretty well.

 

[ModerationNow!]

Ok, but why the video?

Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm guessing that watching people getting crushed to death is not exactly a national pastime.

You can't see the driver being crushed in this video. I wouldn't have posted it if it showed the driver literally being crushed. The reason I posted it, is because it very clearly illustrates the problem of poor safety standards and regulations, without the actual horror of a person's body being mangled.

 

[Fledermaus]

I didnt understand the economy reference either. Our economy is actually doing pretty well.

California is running in the black due to the improving economy on top of excessive taxation.

 

[DiAnna]

What exactly is America supposed to do about the lousy safety laws in China? Not really understanding the reasoning behind this thread.