Forklift driver collapses entire warehouse ...

[JB White]

Bad stuff happens when a forklift driver who is inattentive drives one. At the factory where I once worked, a forklift driver hit a 12 inch thick brick wall. 20 foot of a 20 foot high wall collapsed in the welding department.

Sounds like it was built by someone's brother-in-law who was laid off from the car wash
Was it a brick or a block wall? When I did my stint in demolition, a few times we cut things loose then toppled masonry walls with bobcats. That 'lift driver must've been playing Indy 500!

Years ago a good friend came down a ramp and skewered a steel roller door. While he was in the office being fired there was another loud commotion in the factory. One of the maintenance guys freed the lift and moved it out of the way only to put the forks through a block wall. He walked into the office and said "Brakes aint workin right". My friend (may he RIP) kept his job. For all I know he might have just been covering both of their a sses.

[Major Tom]

That 12 inch thick brick wall was built back in the early 20th century. And, yes the driver was going full speed, about 20mph. He wasn't fired tho, but when he was driving around everybody watched their backs.

[lyman]

last company I worked for had a guy that was playing around in the back room on the forklift,

playing as in driving in circles etc, not actually using it for unloading a truck,

it was all fun and games until he drove it off the dock, thru a loading bay , (fortunately, I guess, the door was up)

serious injuries, and not handled correctly so he could not be fired, and the company/workers comp had to foot the bill,

last I heard, he was a Rx Tech, since that was the only job in the store he could do and be allowed to sit as needed

[Bill E]

I wonder if the fork lift operator in the original post survived the collapse.