The local construction equipment supplier deploys otherwise-idle yellow iron in all the parking lots in preparation for snow season. They haven’t gotten much use this year, which is OK by me.
A Komatsu excavator behind a bank sports some puzzling warning placards:
Komatsu excavator waiting for snow
This one seems to mean you should stay out from underneath the bucket, which makes sense:
Komatsu warning placard 2
But what’s this one mean? You may be crushed, so keep your distance from doors?
Komatsu warning placard 1
Maybe read the manual before / while being backed over?
Komatsu warning placard 3
Even though this stuff has become entirely too abstract for me, it’s just another day in the life for Stickman!
#1 by John Rehwinkel on 4-March-2012 - 09:59
I’m guessing they mean something like “always have an escape strategy”, but you’re right, they aren’t all the “understand in a glance” sort of pictograms.
#2 by Ed on 4-March-2012 - 10:08
I made a halfhearted attempt to unearth a Rosetta Stone for placards, but came up empty handed. I’m sure such a thing exists, though.
It’s surely on the OSHA checklist for those mandatory Yellow Iron users safety meetings…
#3 by Gerber Construction on 7-May-2012 - 19:22
Some of the warnings they put on things are kind of interesting like complete common sense however the fact that they have to put a warning on them about it means that someone has tried it before and discovered first hand what a bad Idea whatever they were doing was.
#4 by Ed on 7-May-2012 - 21:29
Aye, but some of those symbols make no sense at all: what does a blank rectangle mean?
There must exist a Rosetta stone that translates those things…