What accident do you anticipate from this picture?

In preparations for transport, an operator worker is trying to lift up an iron-made grid, a product, with a lift truck so that another worker can put wooden blocks beneath it. Now what accident do you anticipate from this picture?

This is the accident resulted!

Just as the worker tried to put wooden blocks beneath the grid, one end of the wire rope slipped off from the fork tine tip, letting fall the grid, and he was wounded.

Tips for forestalling similar accidents
1.	Do not bring any part of the body under lifted cargos.
2.	Use a special attachment, when lifting up a cargo with a lift truck.
3.	Compile working procedures corresponding with types and configurations of cargos to be handled and see that they are followed. Use of cranes will be a good solution.

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