Just an interesting pic...

[Darren Emery]

The pump truck operator learned a good lesson - don't place the outrigger this close to an open trench. 8" wide trench was down to 3" by the time I got there. They did NOT pour this section!

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[TimNY]

Just out of curiosity, what are they placing concrete for?

Honest mistake. I wouldn't have thought that would have happened!

 

[MtnArch]

Maybe they need to check the compaction of the soil?

 

[mmmarvel]

I'll have to try to see if I can find the picture, but on a job where I was testing the concrete I sampled the second truck, I had no more than taken my sample and moved my wheelbarrow about 20 feet away from where the pump truck and the mixer were when I heard a huge bang and the ground shook. I turned around to see the *** end of the pump truck up in the air. One of the front outriggers had punched through the asphalt and dropped down about 3 feet, thus throwing the entire weight ratio out of whack and the rear of the pump up in the air. Had it happened 20 seconds earlier I would have been right in the middle of getting my sample as the mixer was dumping into the pump. Just wasn't my time to meet my maker - I'll have to look for that picture.