• 9point6@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Yes, but often they top out at 15mph

      Whatever the latest 2 tonne pickup truck is, can go 10x that speed

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        2 days ago

        As a percentage, forklifts always way more incidents, and the incidents they can cause are BAD.

        An F-150 isn’t gonna make a warehouse’s worth of product domino onto workers because someone leaned on the wrong lever.

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        I would like to introduce you to the concept for kinetic energy. Force=Mass*Acceleration

        A very heavy object moving at slow speeds can easily have the same energy or more as a lighter object going moderately fast.

        Forklift accidents also typically involve unsecured loads rather than just a collision between two objects. The collision is often an instigating factor that causes a poorly secured loads to fall and injure either the driver or a passerby.