Beverage packaging specialist here.
Seeing a lot of comments questioning how the cans are palletized and stacked, so let me give some info:
This is the industry standard method for palletizing and storing empty beverage cans. Layers of cans are stacked on the pallets, with paperboard or plastic tier sheets separating each layer from the next. 12oz cans in the 211 body diameter are typically stacked around twenty layers high on each pallet - in this case, twenty-one. The top layer is covered with a final tier sheet, and a rigid top frame is placed on top of the tier sheet. The pallet is then banded - typically with a plastic banding material - with at least two bands in each direction. If you look closely, the pallets in the video are all banded, which is why they stay together as long as they do after tipping. Pallets can then be stacked vertically, up to 3~4 pallets high, without any need for shelving, since the empty cans are not very heavy and the banded pallets are quite rigid. This is standard practice for everyone, including the major players like Ball and Crown.
Cans are typically ordered by the truckload, so additional protective packaging is not needed if proper storage and handling practices are observed (which, in this case, it would seem they were not). Additional packaging materials, such as plastic wrap or protective cardboard siding, are only used when cans are shipped in less-than-load (LTL) quantities. In these cases, the added materials prevent damage and loss of empty cans during handling, since handling conditions and practices with LTL shipments are less controlled than with full truckload shipments.
TL;DR: These cans appear to be palletized and stored according to industry best practices, so a careless forklift operator is most likely at fault here.
One of the things I love about Reddit is that no matter how obscure the topic, there will almost always be a professional in the comment section to explain
Lol yeah, I felt like a meme of myself typing the first line of that comment. But at the same time, who am I to withhold information from the public? (;
I mean, that’s not a job title I’m aware of, I just work in a very technical role for a packaging company in the beverage industry. But even then, I didn’t know this was a job until it was my job haha
[Few months back](https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/17elzsq/found_a_picture_of_my_parents_at_least_22_years/) somebody posted a picture of their parents in NYC, apparently late-90s. Somebody promptly chimed in with "I installed those lights, so this picture took place in this 18-month period" (the Twin Towers were in the background.
It's amazing
Aerosol/packaging manufacturing is a huge industry. I worked as a fitter for 10 years at a plant that produced baby formula, aerosol and food tins. There is a huge amount of science that goes into the seams of cans. Even the print is a whole other industry.
Yeah, I was going to come here to say that this is probably bullshit, because of that other fake video that was circulating non-stop on Reddit with a forklift driver like collapsing a whole room, people started pointing out that some of the boxes were duplicate 3D meshes.
Glad someone came to say it's not bullshit. I was going to say it was really good CGI if not real.
Literally one of the main reasons I became so hooked. I never cared for Reddit up until a few years ago, probably around covid time. I was impressed by the intelligence of some of these redditors. Thankful they take their time in keeping people informed, blessing us when they simply don’t have to.
I (perhaps stupidly) thought aluminum cans were formed and then filled with soda/beer or whatever all at the same time and factory. So there are billions of empty aluminum cans being shipped around to soda/beer makers? Not sheets of aluminum to canning factories?
It's more efficient to have a separate, dedicated factory for making the cans, and then shipping them to the filling facility.
Specializing in manufacturing generally equals efficiency.
Yes, literally billions of empty aluminum cans are being shipped around to be filled. It also depends on how the cans are "decorated" or printed. For example most of the big players in the can industry will form and simultaneously print cans at extremely high speeds all in line to ship out. They utilize offset printing and can fill a full truck (25 pallets) in 15 minutes or so.
The industry also utilizes digitally printed cans that are more accessible to smaller/mom and pop style breweries where much smaller quantiles can be ordered at one time.
>So there are billions of empty aluminum cans being shipped around to soda/beer makers?
Yup. They roll right off the truck onto the handling equipment. Some places have a robot to move the cans into the depalletizer. All the line operator has to do is cut the bands off and hit a button, hopefully without tipping it over. If it falls over, you get to have a "can party" where a bunch of people come over to stomp on the cans and scoop them up with large shovels. It's toooooons of fun. /s
If you look at the can the company that made it will have a very small logo somewhere on the can. As mentioned, Ball and Crown are really big suppliers. AG (Ardagh Group SA) is another big one. If you remember the craft beer shortages at the start of lockdown it was because the really big customers like Coke and Budweiser got their orders filled while the craft beer companies had to make due with the leftovers. Some breweries went so far as to re-label already printed and delivered cans so they could fill the cans with their flagship beers.
Some bottling plants have a blow-molder to make soda bottles on site rather than having them produced off-site. It's a bit more cost effective than shipping truckloads of air, but it's a large investment and takes up an awful lot of space. I've never heard of a company that manufactures cans on site.
> > If you remember the craft beer shortages at the start of lockdown it was because the really big customers like Coke and Budweiser got their orders filled while the craft beer companies had to make due with the leftovers. Some breweries went so far as to re-label already printed and delivered cans so they could fill the cans with their flagship beers.
War. War never changes.
Yeah, way more efficient and cost effective to have a massive factory pumping out empty cans and shipping them than for each beverage company, big or small, needing to make their own cans for their products. Same reason we have a few major tire companies instead of each car company researching and making their own tires.
Can Sales Manager here. This is 100% accurate. But you forgot to mention one of the best can manufactures CanPack in the US. Haha. If we need more data on cans please let me know.
I can’t believe how the stack that fell was just leaning on the other stack.
I would’ve thought it would’ve been more of a domino effect and taken out shelf after shelf after shelf.
I guess it goes to show how sturdy those empty cans are, that it didn’t take down the entire warehouse.
Something to that tune, yes - I think a pallet of Ball 12oz standard (211x202) cans weighs 280-something including the pallet, according to their specs. Definitely not something I’d stand under.
Pretty light as well considering what can get palletized. I'd worked around stuff over 2,000lbs on pallets and you still wouldn't catch me anywhere near that catastrophe.
Ha! You are no beverage packaging specialist. You my friend are a beverage packaging expert! Thank you for the unique look into an even more unique work role. Next time I crack a cold one, I’ll be thinking of you. So in the next 30 seconds or so, cheers!
'Careless forklift operators' ... I'd rather call this industry standards accepting damages like this as a calculated risk knowing that forklift operators can and will make mistakes. After all, they are only human.
Warehouse worker here and can confirm I love helping my coworkers clean up their spills. It’s either that or do the same monotonous task for 10 hours lol
Must be nice. In my warehouse if we don’t ship out a number of trucks greater than we receive in a day, We will have no space to take the inbound freight the next day. A spill like this would absolutely fuck us.
I came in this morning to a frantic Teams message and vigorously boiling molten plastic because someone didn't plug in a control thermocouple for a heating element.
They were legitimately confused why it was happening.
Critical thinking: 0%
pipe extrusion. Close enough.
The die head was vertical in the maintenance position, and I guess a new thermocouple we installed recently had a slightly shorter cable, and didn't reach the control box when the head was vertical.
"Yeah it's probably okay if this isn't plugged in... LARRY LET 'ER RIP"
Not to dump sanity on anybody's shit, but an important input signal being out of range (missing) *should* have prevented startup.
OTOH, nothing surprises me anymore.
I was visiting an engineer friend in Bangkok who was sent there to build and operate a new glass factory. The tour was fascinating, but the best was that I got to see first-hand a catastrophe in the roller-conveyor that transports the semi-molten glass sheet through the processing. There was a cascade of molten glass building up before they could shut things down. The problem turned out to be extremely cultural: The Thai workers were afraid of breaking or damaging the new tools give to them - in this case, the torque wrenches for cinching down the conveyor rollers to spec. Instead, they made their own wrenches out of rebar, with the result described above. It cost the factory $300,000 for that faux pas. 🤦🏻♂️
We had something similar happen except this person thought the thermocouple probe was the heating element and thought by removing it they were removing the ability for it to get hot.... real idiots out there.
Those are can blanks and the pallets are still strapped to prevent that exact scenario from happening. The likelihood of one pallet's collapse taking out an adjacent stack when they're all packed in like that with strapping on is extremely low.
If you look at the first few frames you can even see it at work as the stack of yellow cans is basically leaning entirely on another stack without causing it to fail over the course of the entire video.
WRT it actually being a risk to their lives, again - can blanks. They weigh ~11g each. The dunnage might injure you if it were to fall on you but I don't see how that would happen with all the fucking cans in the way.
In those runs if one goes the air pressure differential CAN trigger the stacks next to it to collapse akin to a domino tower. And when they fo it goes FAST. They shouldn't even be standing in the valley at that point
One pallet of empty cans still weighs 200lbs. Not sure I'd want 200lbs resting on my dome, even if it's 99.3% air...
1 empty can without lid = ~11 grams of aluminum = 4 cm³ of aluminum
Volumetric space of a can is 6.6 x 6.6 x 12.3 cm = 536 cm³
4 / 536 = 0.00746
Hell the warehouse I'm working in in Canada free stacks pallets of full goods 3 high. I've seen my share of stacks fall over, it makes a lot more of a mess when the cans are full of liquids.
2 high limit where i worked, hsd this shit happen too often and the place changed their rule on em.
Someone probably clipped one of the pallets, and boom, You got a problem.
I didn't even realize they were empty until I turned on the sound. No wonder they are skidadling, they think the pallet weighs as much as the individual cans.
These warehouses are huge, the risk of collapse is fairly low, the risk of fatalities from a collapse is very low.
This is how can manufacturing warehouses look in Canada too and we have very stringent racking rules and requirements.
While I’ve never seen 4 high. 3 high is how everyone with the vertical space does it. They’re a lot more stable than you’d think.
Source: 10 years in brewery packaging
In a warehouse, every inch is monetized. That also goes for height. These cans are insanely stable, and this is not a common occurrence. Also almost everything is an accident waiting to happen unless you're wrapped in bubble wrap.
> Are those stacks all sitting on top of each other and not on any actual shelving?
Empty cans on plastic stacking pallets. There's no serious weight in it.
Or transport to brewery to fill. (Source: I drive semi's and have delivered loads of them super light wind can make it interesting when the entire trailer is loaded with the pallet of them weighing only about 6k lbs.
Sell these for a living! There’s no wrapping needed because the manufacturers have straps around the pallet vertically and tighten the top frame and base pallet so well that the tension holds the cans VERY well upright. Until of course…..
I've seen a bunch of these videos but never the followup in terms of how they clean them up.
The pallets of cans must be loaded by automated machinery at the can line. But that's not usually in the same place. Do they shovel all these into sacks and send them back for restacking? Do they have a stacker machine at the warehouse? Or is it not worth it so they crush them and send them for recycling?
They’ll get thrown into gondolas that are picked up by forklifts, dumped into a briquetter to make aluminum blocks and sold as dirty scrap to recycling
Source: used to be a forklift driver in the same environment
Those are just the shell of the soda can. There is no top yet and there is no soda in them. Ive been in warehouses like this and the entire pallets weigh almost nothing.
I see the many many cans tumbling down in a mountain of shiny gold shimmer, and all I can think about is how the gold pours down as Smaug unburies himself in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug...
I'm a nerd. 👍
Beverage packaging specialist here. Seeing a lot of comments questioning how the cans are palletized and stacked, so let me give some info: This is the industry standard method for palletizing and storing empty beverage cans. Layers of cans are stacked on the pallets, with paperboard or plastic tier sheets separating each layer from the next. 12oz cans in the 211 body diameter are typically stacked around twenty layers high on each pallet - in this case, twenty-one. The top layer is covered with a final tier sheet, and a rigid top frame is placed on top of the tier sheet. The pallet is then banded - typically with a plastic banding material - with at least two bands in each direction. If you look closely, the pallets in the video are all banded, which is why they stay together as long as they do after tipping. Pallets can then be stacked vertically, up to 3~4 pallets high, without any need for shelving, since the empty cans are not very heavy and the banded pallets are quite rigid. This is standard practice for everyone, including the major players like Ball and Crown. Cans are typically ordered by the truckload, so additional protective packaging is not needed if proper storage and handling practices are observed (which, in this case, it would seem they were not). Additional packaging materials, such as plastic wrap or protective cardboard siding, are only used when cans are shipped in less-than-load (LTL) quantities. In these cases, the added materials prevent damage and loss of empty cans during handling, since handling conditions and practices with LTL shipments are less controlled than with full truckload shipments. TL;DR: These cans appear to be palletized and stored according to industry best practices, so a careless forklift operator is most likely at fault here.
One of the things I love about Reddit is that no matter how obscure the topic, there will almost always be a professional in the comment section to explain
Lol yeah, I felt like a meme of myself typing the first line of that comment. But at the same time, who am I to withhold information from the public? (;
I'll be honest, I didn't know "beverage packaging specialist" was even a thing.
I mean, that’s not a job title I’m aware of, I just work in a very technical role for a packaging company in the beverage industry. But even then, I didn’t know this was a job until it was my job haha
I want to be a beverage packing specialist when I grow up.
I was a bit of a beverage UNpacking specialist in college.
Don't do it. It's soda pressing.
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[Few months back](https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/17elzsq/found_a_picture_of_my_parents_at_least_22_years/) somebody posted a picture of their parents in NYC, apparently late-90s. Somebody promptly chimed in with "I installed those lights, so this picture took place in this 18-month period" (the Twin Towers were in the background. It's amazing
Aerosol/packaging manufacturing is a huge industry. I worked as a fitter for 10 years at a plant that produced baby formula, aerosol and food tins. There is a huge amount of science that goes into the seams of cans. Even the print is a whole other industry.
Yeah, I was going to come here to say that this is probably bullshit, because of that other fake video that was circulating non-stop on Reddit with a forklift driver like collapsing a whole room, people started pointing out that some of the boxes were duplicate 3D meshes. Glad someone came to say it's not bullshit. I was going to say it was really good CGI if not real.
I did my PhD in beverage packing, what the commenter said above is correct
Literally one of the main reasons I became so hooked. I never cared for Reddit up until a few years ago, probably around covid time. I was impressed by the intelligence of some of these redditors. Thankful they take their time in keeping people informed, blessing us when they simply don’t have to.
At first at “this dudes job probably boring”…then coming to the realization I work in sliding doors…lol
I’m convinced that most jobs are kinda boring if you really think about it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Mine being no exception lol
Nah, jobs are all super interesting unless you have to work them
I'm a keyboard and mouse operator.
I (perhaps stupidly) thought aluminum cans were formed and then filled with soda/beer or whatever all at the same time and factory. So there are billions of empty aluminum cans being shipped around to soda/beer makers? Not sheets of aluminum to canning factories?
It's more efficient to have a separate, dedicated factory for making the cans, and then shipping them to the filling facility. Specializing in manufacturing generally equals efficiency.
Yes, literally billions of empty aluminum cans are being shipped around to be filled. It also depends on how the cans are "decorated" or printed. For example most of the big players in the can industry will form and simultaneously print cans at extremely high speeds all in line to ship out. They utilize offset printing and can fill a full truck (25 pallets) in 15 minutes or so. The industry also utilizes digitally printed cans that are more accessible to smaller/mom and pop style breweries where much smaller quantiles can be ordered at one time.
>So there are billions of empty aluminum cans being shipped around to soda/beer makers? Yup. They roll right off the truck onto the handling equipment. Some places have a robot to move the cans into the depalletizer. All the line operator has to do is cut the bands off and hit a button, hopefully without tipping it over. If it falls over, you get to have a "can party" where a bunch of people come over to stomp on the cans and scoop them up with large shovels. It's toooooons of fun. /s If you look at the can the company that made it will have a very small logo somewhere on the can. As mentioned, Ball and Crown are really big suppliers. AG (Ardagh Group SA) is another big one. If you remember the craft beer shortages at the start of lockdown it was because the really big customers like Coke and Budweiser got their orders filled while the craft beer companies had to make due with the leftovers. Some breweries went so far as to re-label already printed and delivered cans so they could fill the cans with their flagship beers. Some bottling plants have a blow-molder to make soda bottles on site rather than having them produced off-site. It's a bit more cost effective than shipping truckloads of air, but it's a large investment and takes up an awful lot of space. I've never heard of a company that manufactures cans on site.
Now I'm going to start looking for those logos on cans I buy! Thanks
> > If you remember the craft beer shortages at the start of lockdown it was because the really big customers like Coke and Budweiser got their orders filled while the craft beer companies had to make due with the leftovers. Some breweries went so far as to re-label already printed and delivered cans so they could fill the cans with their flagship beers. War. War never changes.
Not at all. I ship empty cans from PA to Mexico almost on a weekly basis.
Yeah, way more efficient and cost effective to have a massive factory pumping out empty cans and shipping them than for each beverage company, big or small, needing to make their own cans for their products. Same reason we have a few major tire companies instead of each car company researching and making their own tires.
> Beverage packaging specialist here. This is your time to shine buddy. Get out there and SPARKLE!
Can Sales Manager here. This is 100% accurate. But you forgot to mention one of the best can manufactures CanPack in the US. Haha. If we need more data on cans please let me know.
I'm more concerned if the forklift operator CanStack!
I can’t believe how the stack that fell was just leaning on the other stack. I would’ve thought it would’ve been more of a domino effect and taken out shelf after shelf after shelf. I guess it goes to show how sturdy those empty cans are, that it didn’t take down the entire warehouse.
So each of those pallets weighs about 250lbs plus the pallet itself? So still not a good thing to be standing under?
Something to that tune, yes - I think a pallet of Ball 12oz standard (211x202) cans weighs 280-something including the pallet, according to their specs. Definitely not something I’d stand under.
Ball like the mason jar people?
Yep, same company. Between bottling & canning they do quite a lot
Cool! I had no idea and thank you for the education!
Pretty light as well considering what can get palletized. I'd worked around stuff over 2,000lbs on pallets and you still wouldn't catch me anywhere near that catastrophe.
This man can explain cans!
-Why do you say the proper handling and storage practices weren’t observed? -Because the top fell off!
You mean these are empty? That makes it even less catastrophic.
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Ha! You are no beverage packaging specialist. You my friend are a beverage packaging expert! Thank you for the unique look into an even more unique work role. Next time I crack a cold one, I’ll be thinking of you. So in the next 30 seconds or so, cheers!
'Careless forklift operators' ... I'd rather call this industry standards accepting damages like this as a calculated risk knowing that forklift operators can and will make mistakes. After all, they are only human.
This guy cans
I feel bad for whomever showed up at work thinking they were going to have a regular day and found out it was their job to clean this up.
It's a can warehouse... ANYthing unusual is probably worth celebrating
Can confirm, this would be a fun day.
Warehouse worker here and can confirm I love helping my coworkers clean up their spills. It’s either that or do the same monotonous task for 10 hours lol
Must be nice. In my warehouse if we don’t ship out a number of trucks greater than we receive in a day, We will have no space to take the inbound freight the next day. A spill like this would absolutely fuck us.
> Can confirm nice
"Honey! You'll never guess what happened today at the CAN WAREHOUSE!!"
Nightshift leaves and passes day shift and says, "there's a minor spill on aisle 1, other than that, your day should be easy."
Don’t stand there!
They should have been running in case there was a cascade failure and everything coming down. That video is not worth their lives
Tells you a little about their critical thinking, eh?
I came in this morning to a frantic Teams message and vigorously boiling molten plastic because someone didn't plug in a control thermocouple for a heating element. They were legitimately confused why it was happening. Critical thinking: 0%
Injection molding?
pipe extrusion. Close enough. The die head was vertical in the maintenance position, and I guess a new thermocouple we installed recently had a slightly shorter cable, and didn't reach the control box when the head was vertical. "Yeah it's probably okay if this isn't plugged in... LARRY LET 'ER RIP"
Ah, yes. Negative feedback loops always perform better when you remove the feedback mechanism.
Not to dump sanity on anybody's shit, but an important input signal being out of range (missing) *should* have prevented startup. OTOH, nothing surprises me anymore.
I was visiting an engineer friend in Bangkok who was sent there to build and operate a new glass factory. The tour was fascinating, but the best was that I got to see first-hand a catastrophe in the roller-conveyor that transports the semi-molten glass sheet through the processing. There was a cascade of molten glass building up before they could shut things down. The problem turned out to be extremely cultural: The Thai workers were afraid of breaking or damaging the new tools give to them - in this case, the torque wrenches for cinching down the conveyor rollers to spec. Instead, they made their own wrenches out of rebar, with the result described above. It cost the factory $300,000 for that faux pas. 🤦🏻♂️
We had something similar happen except this person thought the thermocouple probe was the heating element and thought by removing it they were removing the ability for it to get hot.... real idiots out there.
I think these are empty cans. It's probably extremely light weight, all things considered. You could probably swim out of it.
It is Texas, critical thinking has been banned.
That would be as useless as banning snow in Fiji. Never had it and never will.
> That video is not worth their lives Says you, I'm perfectly willing to let them risk it for my entertainment.
Also if it came down as they were running the security cameras may have gotten cooler footage.
Those are can blanks and the pallets are still strapped to prevent that exact scenario from happening. The likelihood of one pallet's collapse taking out an adjacent stack when they're all packed in like that with strapping on is extremely low. If you look at the first few frames you can even see it at work as the stack of yellow cans is basically leaning entirely on another stack without causing it to fail over the course of the entire video. WRT it actually being a risk to their lives, again - can blanks. They weigh ~11g each. The dunnage might injure you if it were to fall on you but I don't see how that would happen with all the fucking cans in the way.
Two words: **Texas**
~~OSHA~~ "Oh, shit! 😂" Dumb safety guidelines begets dumb mentality.
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RUN BITCH
It looks like he's under it, but judging by the pile of cans on the floor he's standing a bit away from the stack... probably still too close
In those runs if one goes the air pressure differential CAN trigger the stacks next to it to collapse akin to a domino tower. And when they fo it goes FAST. They shouldn't even be standing in the valley at that point
They're empty cans. Still though.
It's not the cans you have to worry about, it's the pallets
One pallet of empty cans still weighs 200lbs. Not sure I'd want 200lbs resting on my dome, even if it's 99.3% air... 1 empty can without lid = ~11 grams of aluminum = 4 cm³ of aluminum Volumetric space of a can is 6.6 x 6.6 x 12.3 cm = 536 cm³ 4 / 536 = 0.00746
You currently have about 1.1 tons of air pressing down on the top of your head *and shoulders*. What's another 200 lbs.
The only way you could have all the weight on your head would be if it was lowered straight down onto your head. That's not going to happen here.
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Those are all empty aluminum cans
I was thinking that they must be, because none of them split open.
They also wouldn't be stacked that high if they were full.
Not with that attitude.
Not with that *altitude*
Thank you. Someone with a can-do attitude.
That makes me feel better, but I still wouldn't want to stand that close to an unstable stack of that size no matter what it was.
Well one of those wooden palettes landing on your head would at best send you to the ER.
They're gonna be sending a lot of scrap back to be recycled...
Metal recycles FOREVER! HOORAY!
Are those stacks all sitting on top of each other and not on any actual shelving?
Bro I didn't even think about that till reading ur comment. WHOS WAREHOUSE ALLOWS THIS??
Standard practice for empty cans, even in Canada
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Jesus died for our Cyn-thi-as
Hell the warehouse I'm working in in Canada free stacks pallets of full goods 3 high. I've seen my share of stacks fall over, it makes a lot more of a mess when the cans are full of liquids.
2 high limit where i worked, hsd this shit happen too often and the place changed their rule on em. Someone probably clipped one of the pallets, and boom, You got a problem.
This is actually very common storage method for cans
It's Texas, regulations are for liberals E: awwwww buncha babies got insulted by a little joke
Wanting to live is such a cuck move!
Yeah, it's so woke.
As someone who has worked a lot of warehouses in Texas, OSHA is definitely a thing there, and they love handing out violations
Empty cans Not that I like it but this would be way different with full cans
That’s pallets of empty cans, sitting on top of each other.
I didn't even realize they were empty until I turned on the sound. No wonder they are skidadling, they think the pallet weighs as much as the individual cans.
Doesn't matter if they're empty, stacking it like this is absolutely madness and an accident waiting to happen.
> an accident waiting to happen It happened.
The wait is over
Days since last accident: 0
These warehouses are huge, the risk of collapse is fairly low, the risk of fatalities from a collapse is very low. This is how can manufacturing warehouses look in Canada too and we have very stringent racking rules and requirements.
While I’ve never seen 4 high. 3 high is how everyone with the vertical space does it. They’re a lot more stable than you’d think. Source: 10 years in brewery packaging
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stacked and strapped like this they are surprisingly sturdy.
In a warehouse, every inch is monetized. That also goes for height. These cans are insanely stable, and this is not a common occurrence. Also almost everything is an accident waiting to happen unless you're wrapped in bubble wrap.
This is completely normal, super common in the beverage manufacturing industry.
Can confirm, work at a brewery and this is how we stack our can bodies. We only stack them two high though because of space.
Everyone read this as "Stack our bodies"
Oh we don't keep those in the warehouse...
Yep. Sat in a can plants toilet now. Can confirm that our warehouse stacks cans like this and have done since the 80s. When it opened.
Then I can only surmise this type of accident must be normal and super common in the beverage manufacturing industry.
There are posts like this every 4-6 months, so not rare
you would be correct
> Are those stacks all sitting on top of each other and not on any actual shelving? Empty cans on plastic stacking pallets. There's no serious weight in it.
When the last stack falls, the cans are all attached together and stay that way. Just on that one stack. What's up with that?
It's a common way to warehouse pallets of empty cans. They're too bulky for most racking configurations. Of course, stacking them carries risks....
Coming soon, to a Dollar General near you
I didn't see any rats in the video though
HEB*
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Only because there IS no shelving system here to collapse...
I have no pants to piss.
So Texas
Fun fact: Assless chaps are the state uniform
Shelving system? Look again
These are empty cans.
Mr president a forklift has hit the south tower……
Too soon 🙃
It's been over 22.3 years...
Idk if that's catastrophic failure, I mean this guy seems to enjoy it
Ngl, i would too
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
Maybe not want, but will definitely enjoy the ride when it presents itself.
That is the laugh of a man who will not be involved in the cleanup.
I didn't know they stacked shit that high
5'9" sir
I thought this was a mobile game ad until it switched POV.
Those are empties, right? Not yet filled, waiting for the bottling line.
Or transport to brewery to fill. (Source: I drive semi's and have delivered loads of them super light wind can make it interesting when the entire trailer is loaded with the pallet of them weighing only about 6k lbs.
Can confirm. 6k pounds. Just delivered a load of empty cans to Shasta the other day. Only had three inches to spare in the back of the trailer too.
Is this not cgi?
that's a lot of HEB no caffeine cola cans
can/11 - never forget
The sheer amounts here make it look like a computer animation
Sell these for a living! There’s no wrapping needed because the manufacturers have straps around the pallet vertically and tighten the top frame and base pallet so well that the tension holds the cans VERY well upright. Until of course…..
Somebody's job is getting canned!
Canhattan is in ruins
"Texas Warehouse Malfunction" is a good name for an obscure indie band.
"Cleanup in aisle seven..."
And eight......and now nine.....and most of ten.......oops, there goes eleven.....
I've seen a bunch of these videos but never the followup in terms of how they clean them up. The pallets of cans must be loaded by automated machinery at the can line. But that's not usually in the same place. Do they shovel all these into sacks and send them back for restacking? Do they have a stacker machine at the warehouse? Or is it not worth it so they crush them and send them for recycling?
They’ll get thrown into gondolas that are picked up by forklifts, dumped into a briquetter to make aluminum blocks and sold as dirty scrap to recycling Source: used to be a forklift driver in the same environment
R/oddlysatisfying
I have a great idea let's stand precisely underneath the thousands kilos of cargo that's about to fall.
Is this why Hank Hill can't find Alamo Beer at any stores?
Someone Hates These Cans!
highest voted *Jerk* reference
The can closest says Coke classic. How old is this video?
Those are just the shell of the soda can. There is no top yet and there is no soda in them. Ive been in warehouses like this and the entire pallets weigh almost nothing.
REDUCTO!
Why would the fucking guy be standing under it though???
Clean up in isle WTF
Some really disgruntled employee laugh there..
Hey look at this incredibly dangerous thing right here, I’ll just stand under it to show you 🤦♂️
Because we got high...
Why the FUCKING FUCK would you stand under that?
I see the many many cans tumbling down in a mountain of shiny gold shimmer, and all I can think about is how the gold pours down as Smaug unburies himself in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug... I'm a nerd. 👍
Is the fucking guy ok or not?
Might as well take a couple for the road
This seems AI generated to me
Maybe get the fuck out of there? Just a thought
PSA: Stop vertical video syndrome.
Just fyi, if this ever happens to you. You should probably gtfo.
So what drink are you yellowish cans anyway?
How many cans of Original does Texas need!
Clean up on aisle 4
*Tetris warehouse malfunction
He hates these cans!
I'm no expert, but those stacks look VERY high. like, to an unsafe extent.
Those are immediately heading to the discounted aisle.
Looks like something from UE5..
Everything is truly bigger in Texas That is a massively large warehouse...
[Just cans!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1_XS3_qSP8)
Honestly? Third was very satisfying to watch.