If you work in a warehouse or on a construction site, a consistent feature of your job likely includes lifting heavy things up and down. Fortunately, there’s a vehicle to help you do this. With its two-pronged scooper and an affinity for carrying things, the forklift is aptly named. However, as with most machinery involved in heavy industrial activity, things can go off the rails quickly if you don’t know what you’re doing.


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Just take a look at this crazy factory safety video from the 90s.




Isaac Newton didn’t know about forklifts, but he knew about the law of gravity. And when you’re lifting things up, they must come down; with or without the help of the forklift. Newton would have made a great forklift driver, unlike the drivers in these videos. Here are 17 forklift operators who didn’t understand the law of gravity, and paid the price.