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That’s the way the concrete floor crumbles

That's the way the concrete floor crumbles

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A frequently overlooked safety problem in your warehouse could be right beneath your nose (or your feet). If you’ve been assuming that the concrete floor in your warehouse is nothing to worry about, then you could be in for a surprise. Floors are under more stress now than ever before, says Andrew O’Brien, business development manager for Performance Structural Concrete Solutions LLC . One reason is that the taller racking that’s common today carries greater loads, placing more stress on floors. Another is that electric forklifts’ small, hard wheels are tough on concrete. And in spec-built facilities, the cost-conscious developer may not have designed the floor to stand up to high traffic and heavy loads. Concrete floors can develop cracks, bumps, depressions, and “spalls” (broken-up or pitted areas), which can damage forklifts, driving up maintenance costs and sometimes causing ergonomic problems and injuries. Moreover, operators must slow down in problem areas. In a large facility with multiple shifts, even a one-mile-per-hour reduction in speed can reduce productivity enough to add hundreds of thousands of dollars in labor costs, O’Brien says. Floor damage is a problem for automated equipment, especially driverless vehicles, which require extremely flat, smooth surfaces to operate properly, O’Brien observes. Also at risk are high-reach trucks. When a bumpy floor makes the truck tilt, that tilt is magnified as the mast rises. A deviation of just 1/4 inch, for example, could cause the mast to lean as much as 12 inches at the top of a 60-foot rack. That slows picking and putaway, especially in very narrow aisles where there’s little room to maneuver. Joints between slabs can become problems, too. A joint that may have been 1/8-inch wide when new can expand, crumbling around the edges from the impact of forklift traffic and filling with debris […]

Sue Boczenowski

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Sue Boczenowski is the Marketing Manager for Abel Womack.

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