how not to demolish a building

[olds]

Damn! Poor excavator.

 

[Red Squirrel]

The entire CAT machine got launched upward (you can see it if you look closely). I'm pretty sure he didn't make it.

Yeah I took a second look, and he got out right at the same time as the machine got hit so yeah, he's gone lol.

 

[Ichinisan]

Yeah I took a second look, and he got out right at the same time as the machine got hit so yeah, he's gone lol.

Even if he wasn't crushed by the building or the machine, he could have died from the fall. Looks like he did a faceplant into the ground.

 

[Rudee]

what digger?

Who you calling a digger?

 

[Rudee]

Even if he wasn't crushed by the building or the machine, he could have died from the fall. Looks like he did a faceplant into the ground.

Died from the fall?? LOL. The distance from the top track of the Excavator - which he stepped off from - to the ground is no more than 5 feet.

 

[Ichinisan]

Died from the fall?? LOL. The distance from the top track of the Excavator - which he stepped off from - to the ground is no more than 5 feet.

Landing on your head is always dangerous. You could fall on your head from a standing position and die. Just saying. It looked like a potential nasty faceplant.

 

[Attic]

The worst part is all the people who stood there and watched, for what must have been some time, while this guy in the cat was obviously at extreme risk.

The building falling in the manner it did should only have surprised the brain dead or passing camels.

I don't believe that nobody there knew what was going to happen and this is unforgivable for those men.

 

[Imp]

The company's probably more pissed that they lost such an expensive machine.

 

[rasczak]

Hopefully the driver was ok! He bailed right before the building hit the machine, looked like he got pancaked by the building.

From some of the comments, it appears he was crushed by the roof.

 

[Greenman]

another good one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7z-FQUrfhc

That's the toughest building I've ever seen.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

another good one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7z-FQUrfhc

LMAO, it did a roll.
i thought it was going to take out the building next to it. imagine being in that building watching this out your window.

 

[Wyndru]

http://www.youtube.com/v/3TUDbw_HRmA

Lacks the stupid age verification

Yikes, he probably would've been safer staying inside.

:thumbsup: ty.

 

[D1gger]

Who you calling a digger?

Did someone mention my name?

 

[D1gger]

An ex-employee of mine was actually killed doing almost the exact same thing. He was pulling down a large chimney stack from an industrial facility and the stack fell on the cab of his excavator. Even with the extensive FOPS (fall on protection system) that the excavator had, the impact squashed the cab and killed him.

The contractor he was working for at the time paid some heavy fines, even though they had given him instructions not to do what he did.

 

[BUTCH1]

All he needed was a longer chain, a 5 year old could figure that out, Darwin at work here..