Rumor: Drake Johnson in hospital after being run over by forklift.

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Surprised there isn't a topic on this already. Nothing official on this yet, but lots of talk on Twitter and around the web.

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Hail Harbo

April 13th, 2016 at 10:13 PM ^

Generally they weigh their lift capacity or a bit more.  Lift capacity for a fork truck can be as little as 1000 Lbs, or as much as 100,000 Lbs.  In this case, though I don't know the circumstances, I could conceive of a truck mounted forklift moving sod, those lift trucks typically weigh 6 or 7 thousand pounds.

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M-Dog

April 14th, 2016 at 9:06 AM ^

They are very heavy.  

I worked for an industrial cleaning company once.  We had a gig to clean a beryllium factory during shutdown.  One of my co-workers, a goofball, decided that it would be cool to take one of the forklifts out joy riding.  

This was all well and good until he decided to take it outside.  It was fine on the asphalt, but as soon as he took it on the gravel it was so heavy it got weighed down, and then stuck.  It was not going anywhere.

Then genius-boy had an idea:  He got another forklift to try and get the first one unstuck.  

But then he wound up getting that one stuck too.

We were not asked back.

 

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EricSV85

April 13th, 2016 at 9:56 PM ^

Had a coworker who was standing too close to a forklift and driver went right over her foot.  Completely crushed it.  She was bedridden for a couple months.  She still doesn't walk normal.  My guess is this was more of a motorized pallete jack or there'd be no question about damage.

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alwaystrueblue

April 13th, 2016 at 10:03 PM ^

for 31 years at Ford.  The battery alone in mine could weigh 3000 pounds.  If you get hit by one in any fashion...you are going to be hurt, and hurt bad. 

I have to assume it was a glancing blow or some sort of pallet lift and not an actual forklift.

Hitting someone was always the biggest fear you had when driving one. Either with the vehicle or the load you were carrying.

I certainly hope he is ok.

 

 

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School 4 the Gifted

April 13th, 2016 at 10:08 PM ^

Bad news - Drake got run over by a forklift. Good news - He seems to be alright. Thank goodness! More good news - Harbaugh is experimenting with player cloaking technology that seems to work. You cannot hit what you cannot see (except if you are a forklift apparently). Hugh Freeze was right - out of the box thinker that Harbaugh is.

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Sopwith

April 13th, 2016 at 11:10 PM ^

especially before you play a sport or work out. Afterwards, OK, maybe, given that your muscles are nice and warm, but stretching something that's cold makes no physiologic sense whatsoever. You're more likely to be injured by the stretching than playing without stretching. 

Google "stretching is bad" for more, but here's a summary from a 2013 NYT article:(http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/03/reasons-not-to-stretch/?_r=0):

One, a study being published this month in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, concluded that if you stretch before you lift weights, you may find yourself feeling weaker and wobblier than you expect during your workout. Those findings join those of another new study from Croatia, a bogglingly comprehensive re-analysis of data from earlier experiments that was published in The Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. Together, the studies augment a growing scientific consensus that pre-exercise stretching is generally unnecessary and likely counterproductive.

 

More fundamentally, the results underscore the importance of not prepping for exercise by stretching, he said. “We can now say for sure that static stretching alone is not recommended as an appropriate form of warm-up,” he said. “A warm-up should improve performance,” he pointed out, not worsen it. A better choice, he continued, is to warm-up dynamically, by moving the muscles that will be called upon in your workout. Jumping jacks and toy-soldier-like high leg kicks, for instance, prepare muscles for additional exercise better than stretching. As an unscientific side benefit, they can also be fun.

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stephenrjking

April 13th, 2016 at 10:19 PM ^

Yikes, this sounds bad.

Piecing together information, it seems likely to me that "run over" is not the best description of what happened. As others have said, "glancing blow" or something like the forks only rolling a leg or something like that. Rolling an entire, weight-bearing wheel over him would be catastrophic and also a lot more difficult to do accidently than a slighter bit of contact.

If it is true that he is ok, I'm glad to hear it.

 

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