Whata re some of the greatest safety frickups/safety violations you've seen on a worksite?
I'll start with one I read on PrepHole ages back that I'm quoting from memory
>80's, somewhere in America
>semi-trailer workshop
>one of the guys keeps a big bucket where he soaks parts and scrubs them to get the crap off them
>decides the soaking chemical wasn't strong enough
>sees some proproeted stronger cleaniing/soaking solution in a catelog
>manages to order it through the office without any oversight
>when it arrives, he starts using using to soak and clean the trailer parts
>as he's using it and scrubbing parts, his gloves disntergrate
>keeps scrubbing away anyway
>finishes for the day and goes home
>next day he wakes up and his hand and arms look like they've been soaked in water for 40 years
>hospital please
>end result is that they have to amputate his arms from the elbows down.
>turns out the base chemical of the new cleaning solution was hydrofluoric acid
during the coof my workplace ordered hospital grade cleansing wipes. they didn't read the labels and the things turned out to be soaked in like 90% hydrogen peroxide so everyone's hands would turn white and flake off all day after using them
also one time when recovering a little inflatable boat from a ship the ship actually crushed the boat's pontoon and the thing almost sank with like 4 people on it
>90% hydrogen peroxide
That's rocket-fuel-grade hydrogen peroxide.
ok obviously i dont know how strong it was but it was strong enough to instantly turn your hand all white if you touched it. naturally, we were not issued gloves. anything to protect from the coof!!!
I believe typical off-the-shelf HP is 1.5% or 3%.
Stuffed used for cleaning hospitals like ALPHA HP or Oxivier is almost 6%
I still have a bottle of HP-based hand sanitizer in my cabinet that I bought at the start of the coof. Didn't use it a whole lot because it would do the whole hand whitening thing and itch like mad
> 90% hydrogen peroxide
Would explode when light hits it
instant skin scarring starts at around 30%
3% used to be the most common in drugstores years ago, 1.5% seems to be common now. You can get 30% off the shelf with very little hassle from specialist stores that do aquarium or hydroponics stuff, but over 30% is near impossible to get even with a ligma aldritch account.
What's ligma?
It's the holding company for SAW-CON
Saw con Deez nuts
I got a CD from Saw Con.
I used to buy much stronger stuff off the shelf. It was meant for cleaning deer skulls.
Soap would have been a perfect fine virus destroyer. But nah ...
that means it is working
I don't believe it because that would leech calcium from your bones to a deadly degree.
Is there a concentration that could frick up your limbs but not quite kill you from the calcium leeching? I'm sure he had other health problems after aside from missing arms.
Holy shit someone remembered that story?
I was the original poster of that story back in the old thread. The guy who told the story to me was an OSHA investigator at the time. He said that was probably the worst thing he ever saw. I'll try to get more details from him next time I see him, but that might be months.
I remember it too, and I remember when you posted it, Anon.
I'll reiterate - it sucks his fricking hands needed to be amputated, but why the frick would he keep going after the solution dissolved his gloves?
... depends on the gloves
Bum inspection tier gloves disintegrate with stuff as mild as chilli oil
Do you really want your hands in something that has disintegrated your gloves, even if they're shoddy gloves
>guy comes into bum inspection after suffering from diarrhea after eating 10 California reapers
>your gloves disintegrate due to all the chilli oil and all the diarrhea touches your hands
Not good
ChubbyEmu video concept
ChubbyEmu / NikocadoAvocado collaboration.
>man eats 50 servings of hot chili ramen, this is what happens to his boyfriend's hands
How could we not forget that story? Also, I think you only posted it back in '20/'21.
Oh, what state was it? For some reason I thought it was Oregon but I think I made that up for some reason.
It was in California. Town is damn near on the Oregon border though.
Btw, did I do a good job recounting it from memory? When did you post it? 2021?
>I'll try to get more details from him next time I see him, but that might be months.
I know a fool proof way to get osha inspectors on site in a hurry :^)
You’re fricking moronic if you actually believe an obvious urban legend like that.
This
It was not hydroflouric acid, he would have died of a heart attack long before his skin melting.
It's all bs safety man wants to justify his job
Not to mention any acid strong enough to dissolve rubber gloves is also strong enough to instantly cause excruciating burns.
It can numb your hands by burning the nerves so fast they can't respond like lye can.
Paint stripper will quickly eat through latex and even nitrile rubber gloves but it takes a while before your hand starts to hurt. You can do small projects and just keep replacing your gloves when they rip and you will be okay (or use polyethylene gloves that last 20 times as long). When you do it all day long, your hand starts to burn.
Not entirely 100% on the chemical but methylene chloride...? IIRC, but if it is it's great for that since the crap I worked with produced fumes that stung if a whiff was taken. Worked for a guy who used and swore by it for motorcycle stuff, nothing better for stripping out old varnished gas from the inside of fuel tanks/carbs I will admit.
You can't just buy industrial grade acids
He likely needed amputation due to necrosis, not internal damage
>You're not supposed to be able to buy industrial grade acids
ftfy. Although it's a base, NaOH does essentially the same thing, and you can buy it in pure pellet form on amazon. You can instantly make a pH 14 solution for around $20 and some water.
>Working with a poojeeta in an organic chemistry lab. 95% sure she's on Xanax.
>Boiling concentrated sulfuric acid under the fume hood
>"I'll go ahead and clean the glassware"
>Before I can say anything she reaches in and knocks over BOILING SULFURIC ACID
Luckily it didn't get on anyone, but I tell her not to touch shit in the fume hood anymore
Another story:
>Somehow a Haitian guy is allowed in the lab
>Literally has no clue what he's doing, obviously
>Apparently he's muslim or something, has been fasting all day
>Starts walking to his station with uncapped bottle of diethyl ether (basically chloroform)
>CRASH
>Have to evacuate since diethyl ether, on top of making you pass out, is also extremely explosive
Another time when I wasn't there a guy sealed a distillation apparatus and caused an explosion
I love chemistry.
>diethyl ether (basically chloroform)
This physically hurt to read.
He's not wrong
He's completely wrong you dumb gay moronic homosexual. Diethyl ether is (C2H5)2O and chloroform is CHCl3. So other than being completely different molecules with completely different chemical structures, yeah I guess they're basically the same thing. You should try sprinkling some sodium hypochlorite (basically table salt) on your eggs in the morning and brewing some coffee with 98% hydrogen peroxide (basically water) and then have your parents report back to us since your entire apartment will probably cease to exist by the time you're done with our fun little chemistry experiment.
Note: in the event that high-test peroxide cannot be obtained for the above exercise, the student may use H2SO4 as a water substitute. Just like chloroform and diethyl ether, they're basically the same thing.
You're fun! You make chemistry a blast!
He means functionally you silly goose
>Diethyl ether largely supplanted the use of chloroform as a general anesthetic
So at what age did you receive your autism diagnosis?
By the way, I'm trans.
I was ten and his story is still fricking moronic. Diethyl ether doesn't just make you pass out from being nearby, you have to dump it on a rag and huff it. Even then it just gets you high unless someone keeps the rag over your face when you start to get the spins. Also I'm trans btw.
>Somehow a Haitian guy is allowed in the lab
controls engineer so I see/hear a lot of shit
>light curtains ziptied together because they couldn't get alignment right exposing operator to deadly shit
>persons arm ripped off because they thought they could win a fight with a robot picking up a part
>person lost lower legs from sewer pipe grinder that had its feed chute put into floor of a mezzanine you could just fricking step into
>sewer pipe factory making operators go into pipe indexing tables to fix issues because they couldn't shut down the feed, plenty of broken legs/arms before MOL was called
>person lost a leg from stepping into a gap in a floor conveyor that a PSHR and all the project managers missed somehow
>most common are people fainting on the line on Mondays because too many drugs or not enough drugs
>they fall into all kinds of shit, rarely ends well for them
>zinc foundry they bypassed overtemp system and left burner running all weekend, cauldron melted and molten zinc went everywhere
>another plastic pipe plant just has a million leaks in plastic powder dist pipes so it's like a snow storm and people have to work in it, gave me dust pneumonia for 2 weeks
many more I can't remember
Did you get deece worker's comp from the dust pneumonia?
no I had to keep working otherwise god forbid some useless project managers made up schedule got delayed 2 weeks
What would have happened had it been delayed 2 weeks? You would have been shitcanned and unemployable?
now THIS is capitalism
Just wait until you see worker owned communism so if you try to sue your employer for ruining your life it makes you a traitor to the party and they send you to the gulag.
No. Its industrialization.
As this anon said
it really doesnt matter who or what system is incharge. The grind will continue until the last engine stops.
Yeah man nobody got maimed or killed before electricity became widespread.
You can't get crushed by industrial machinery if there is no industry
Get in the crane, Hanse
In that case, getting crushed is mostly limited to mining, construction, logging, and siege warfare.
I mean...horses can kill the frick out of you for no clear reason at all and we have been using them longer than we have know how to ride them.
didn't look better in communism here the production of a car in GDR
the yellow powder is phenolic resin , later in the paint shop they spray the inside of the car without wearing a mask.
and the speaker specifically says they use a lead-tar rust protection for the inside of the frame which a guy without mask sprays.
and i worked in a paint shop even with really good laminar ventilation top to bottom and just priming small sand thoughts you get grey filters on your mask after one shift.
why cant communist countries have rules and regulations mitigating/preventing worker health risks?
If you try to seek damages or complain, you are attacking the people.
The people own the means of production
The means of production killed you
I guess that means it was necessary for you to die. The people/glorious leader wouldn't make a mistake like that
sounds like a reach to me
Yeah guys. It's totally going to work better when you try it. You're way smarter and nicer than those other revolutionaries. You can tell because your life is going so perfect, you are definitely a top performing person leading your field and your brother's keeper
Alternative explanation: The people are idiots.
Case in point: You.
Mostly to the part they don't make money either.
the GDR Vid is from the late 80s 90s machines were just ran down to the bare bottom. 24/7 production and no maintenance, and you still had to wait 8 years after ordering till you get your car.
Here look at "evil" capitalist production in the same time, being miles ahead. and yes this is a promotional video and Audi probably cleaned up beforehand but the same is true for the GDR video.
The machine took a lot of blood and sweat to make, and you think it shouldn't also take yours?
What are you? Some bourgeoise manager? Go haul that molten steel aprons are only for senior workers.
Seriously though, to ask it another less moronic way anon.
>why can a group of rational people sit down and preform complex industrial tasks in a safe way by just planning better? Can't they just put aside the sins of greed and pride to be safe?
Normally because the workers who have been doing the job most directly, adopt very high skilled and relatively risky methods of operation. You can see it all the time in threads like this.
The rules exist, but quick compromise fixes were made to get the machine running because of unforeseen practicality number 69, some moron or innocent newbie doesn't realize the danger they are in and avoids doing a simple task all the wiser workers knew to do. The injuries are not directly due to greed. They are due to pride and sloth. A lack of diligence by the newbie for failing to recognize, mention and cope with the risk, and a lack of diligence by the non-tards to recognize and educate (or properly manage) a moron.
>well why don't people put a priority on safety then? Especially in a top down legalistic framework where one idea can be dictated and enforced!? One where the incentives of the workers are all perfectly aligned and no corrupting other incentives (such as the cruel fiat paychecks and rents) are tolerated!
Well this only gets rid of greed as a potential cause of hazard on paper.
You still have the pride and sloth, but you removed the way to buy diligence because you don't want anyone being greedy.
>But people shouldn't be diligent for money! Most people are good! I would tell the new guy not to stick his arm in the wood chipper for free!
Yet you wouldn't tell him not to pour gasoline in the running petrol engine because you assumed he knew that.
No, we would have to pay you to be an annoying butthole to tell all the new workers "you must wear safety glasses and turn the engine off before you refuel it, no huffing petrol fumes and quit trying to smoke the funny mushrooms on the rotten logs"
Cont..
>but a state worker should be the one being annoying and telling everyone about safety stuff and they should do it for free! It works on internet forums!
You remember how we mentioned that diligence can be bought with money? Imagine finding someone who is willing to be diligent for free.
A miracle right? Someone so selfless that they are willing to bite the bullet and be an annoying unlikable narc for no pay at all.
Surely they are noble and free of sin, they have no want's and absolutely do not see an incentive to take this mantle of authority and arbitration.
In case you cannot tell, I am being sarcastic, I am trying to say it is a hopeless cause to rely on unpaid zealots to enforce anything because they are working for themselves using external authority. It creates a sort of corrupt free market of bribery though, which if you want to experiment with unsafe practices unhindered and already have fungible goods is likely a good thing.
>ok... but what if we paid this "Janny" as you call him enough so that he won't bother finding non-intended benefit for his job.
You have theoretically invented OSHA, who is the joke of this thread.
Congrats, we were the communists all along. Sorry you had to learn this way.
>you must wear safety glasses and turn the engine off before you refuel it
I'm not sure where this myth comes from maybe older engines worked differently but I've yet to see an engine that cares if you refuel it while it's running. You might get an Evac code but even that's unlikely and doesn't matter anyway. Seriously think about it, what could it possibly do?
Engine doesn't, it's you who would care if gasoline fumes ignite from hot exhaust or stray electric sparks
>hot exhaust
I can't be fricked to show you, but you can put a literal cigarette out in gasoline. Instead, I'll ask for proof from you that the fumes released by fueling up will ignite from exhaust. Also, how the frick fast do you think exhaust cools down after you've shut it off? Literally everyone fills the tank with hot exhaust.
>stray electric sparks
I'm not really sure what you mean with that. Does the car running somehow cause static electricity to build up or something? Or perhaps a misfire is occurring up front because it's arcing to the bloc or something that's probably the most likely case I can think of.
I'm assuming you're just playing devils advocate and grasping at straws but seriously, it's not a problem. Fill it up while you're engine runs. There's hardly any fumes released anyway I remember proving this at a party by lighting off an m80 in the fuel door of a junker we were scrapping. You can blow the flame out with your breath.
First of all, why does this make you so mad. Did you get kicked from the gas station for it? Well serves you right because like with most safety rules not invented in the last quarter century, if you don't understand the reasons behind them it's not because they're dumb, it's because you're dumb.
Spills happen. Malfunctions in exhaust or ignition system happen. Sure they're much less likely with modern cars and gas stations than 50 years ago, but occasionally they still do and fires happen, and it's the last thing you want next to literal tons of highly flammable liquids, therefore it's plain dumb to take chances with something as easy and simple as turning off engine.
Coincidentally, the people who wouldn't bother turning off their engines (because it either won't start back again or just because they're general shitheads) are also less likely to drive a modern car or take proper care of it.
>m80 in the fuel door of a junker
No idea what any of that is or why were you throwing a party for scrapping something but it was either diesel or long absent of any traces of fuel. Gasoline fires are notoriously hard to extinguish thanks to its low boiling point, once fire starts and shit gets hot it just evaporates through anything you throw on it and reignites. And it also floats on top of any water you try to use to douse it.
I'm not mad about anything, and no nobody has ever kicked me out of a gas station. I'm just pointing out that it's not going to damage your engine and it's really not that dangerous.
And I didn't throw the party, and it just happened to be a junker they were burning that day anyway for fun. And it had plenty of fuel, we were driving it around the yard same day, older cobalt definitely a gasser.
>And I didn't throw the party, and it just happened to be a junker they were burning that day anyway for fun. And it had plenty of fuel, we were driving it around the yard same day, older cobalt definitely a gasser.
Nta you were replying to but is your name Cletus, by any chance?
The safety patrol will give you shit, but I'm with you on this. I never turn my engine off because my cars are old and won't give me a CEL for it
Honestly I don't leave it running most times because shutting the car off before exiting is just part of a habit for me. But yeah some of these frickers must wear a helmet outside cause someone could throw a rock at them or something.
holy shit balls this is gold, well zinc or whatever, tell us more.
most recently working in a few dairy plants
>wienerroaches running around on the floor of production with open containers
>welders welding 10 ft from an open air bottling line
>owner is a fricking actual schizo scumbag who lies to the government constantly
>welders welding 10 ft from an open air bottling line
Did they at least add manganese to the nutrition information?
Damn and here I thought my place was bad for people running around blindly around corners near the loading bay when forklifts are loading and unloading trucks
do you think you have cancer?
I worked at a legal marijuana distilery with some heavy solvents and saw some bad shit, like chemical vapors pouring down onto my coworkers head who insisted on using a banadana intead of a respirator.
and then i took a shift at a black market marijuana distilery and it looked like a scene from doom level with stained brick warehouse walls, sparse futniture and industrial shit and just barrels of chemicals ready to chain react exploded when the all loose vapors finally ignite. they didnt have an air system, the machines just vented solvents into the giant sealed building
>sparky working on some lights on the factory floor
>starts shaking and kicking with one arm holding onto the wall
>Co worker quickly grabs a 2x4 and runs over and hits sparkys arm with it breaking the connection and also his arm
>sparky accidently dropped his tape down his coveralls and was shaking it out the leg, not being electrocuted like we thought
frick thats funny
I'm laughing but still feel bad.
Sparky should be happy somebody is lookin out for him.
Lmao
>me with a 2x4 knowing full well what's happening
did sparky sue the company or just ask for medical compensation?
Fricking based, good looking out. I would appreciate the sentiment, and the time off Lol.
10/10 tbh
This is the OSHA approved method
I work at a mine. A round failed to detonate at the correct time and so the shift supervisor secretly gave a new detonator to a crew to go blow it up. Another crew that was working in the area headed was head to the loaded face when they fired the round. If the crew had gotten there 15 seconds earlier they would have gone around the corner and been directly in front of the face when it blew up.
The usual shit. Many a morning a loud bang when some idiots try to move tractors around to different trailers so the guys pull off in the morning without checking the fifth wheel was locked and trailer crashes to the ground. Trailers pulling off with guys in em still happens from time to time.
And then tons of accidents from warehouse guys without a CDL, a couple months ago one of them was trying to put a trailer in a dock, hit a docked trailer and it made the landing gear collapse, and there was a dude on the forklift in the trailer when it came down, he said he may have shit his pants a little when it happened.
Another guy lost his big toe about a year ago to a forklift. I was rolling an electric pallet jack across the place when some new warehouse hoodlum came flying in forward with a big pallet and totally obstructed view from behind a truck and smashed the pallet jack as I jumped out of the way. I never said shit about it to get new chick in trouble but she was gone a month later so obviously she fricked up something else. But honestly with how much shit is moving around there, it’s fairly safe.
did you get to have sex with the new chick, at least?
Can't get into specifics, but a guy bumped into a running table drill and it twisted his sleeve and broke his arm.
I almost crushed my hand at work because all our cnc machines have the door safeties jammed and I accidentally pressed the start button instead of the open collet button so my hand was on the part when the turret moved to cut it. Fortunately I got blasted in the face with coolant which caused me to recoil and pull my hand back.
I've heard of people on mills accidently touching a running spindle with the back of their hand and it both rips up the skin and pulls their arm in deeper so they loose all the skin from their knuckle to their elbow
Idk how to feel about door safeties
>Idk how to feel about door safeties
That they maybe shouldn't be jammed?
But then how do you put your hand in the machine while it's running
Cut it off on the bandsaw first. Then throw it in the CNC machine.
I once accidentally touched a spinning end mill on a Bridgeport. I don't remember why, I was pretty tired and not thinking. As soon as I touched it I kind of woke up and pulled my hand away really fast and to my disbelief I didn't have a scratch. The machine was running at like 2000rpm, the bit wasn't spinning backwards. I have no idea how I didn't get my hand messed up but after that I always paid a lot more attention on the machine.
Feed rate was too low...
Kek I guess so
But now that I think of it, you might have felt a cushion of air from the cutter whizzing by.
I think the biggest thing I witnessed was the failure of a sling during the inversion of a very large ball valve body. Normally it should have been lifted with wire rope or chain attached to shackles or padeyes, but one hole meant to accept a shackle was no good (not sure of the details), so a sling was threaded through the waterway. Either the protective chafing material slipped or failed outright and the metal sliced right through the sling once the weight shifted onto it. Thing was probably in the neighborhood of ten tons. Thankfully, there was no significant damage to man, machine, or even the floor. A railing absorbed most of the impact.
Last year a trainee tried to stop the spindle by grabbing the endmill in the spindle rather than using the brake lever. He didn't permanently loose any fingers, thanks to prompt medical attention. They ended up throwing him in the tool crib when he came back.
>lose their skin
Guess you haven't seen the Black person being spun through the lathe.
LiveLeak was helpful for learning what not to do
LiveLeak saved many a young apprentice's hand/arm/life
>My father's factory
>Old dude that has been working ther for ages think he knows better than to close th CNC machine door while working, or he forgot.
>The clamp was not secured so the piece gets shot towards him after the CNC machine reaches god knows what rounds per minute
>This piece of metal being cut hits him like a bullet and the guy ends up being driven to the hospital to get it out of his body
>Still has shrapnel of metal in his abdomen to this day
Many such cases. A worker died a few months ago after fainting and hitting his head on the corner of a milling machine. That was the worst i think.
More tag on tag off stories plz
I did maintenance at a box factory that used huge turbines on a second floor platform to generate vacuum and suck scraps from conveyers at the machines into the baler. Really big, heavy things that had an equally huge amount of starting torque and got up to speed almost instantly. The older mechanic working on one with me told me they used to be switched at the machines and after he and another guy did some work on one, they removed the tags when the second mechanic reached into the turbine for whatever reason, and about the same time the operator decided to try seeing if it was on yet. Guy lost his arm and the mech I was with used his belt to tie off the stump, saving the other guy.
The turbines ducts were all tied together, too, so you couldn't fully stop one while the others ran without blocking it. I thought that could work to my advantage while changing the 3 belts on one up there alone but crushed a steel toe cup instead while trying to push the belt on. That was pretty instructive.
I accidentally tagged a machine to on, as in completely locked the main power to "on".
Works
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This triggered me.
> Started a job, thought it was working as an under an electrician.
> I am asked to show up at a factory.
> They get the filling for pet beds in compressed bales, like 6x hay bail sized. It gets fed into a machine that grinds it up and spits it out. Workers take the output in carts to stuffing stations. The whole floor has restricted walk areas where it's 'safe', and conveyors etc. Extremely busy.
> There were no regular outlets for corded equipment near the machines, so workers were running extension cords, which got them cited by either OSHA or insurance. We were there, it turns out, to install them. That meant unistrut and conduit from the grounded metal building framework extended to the concrete.
> I wear kevlar-inforced work gloves from safety training at my prior job. No one else does.
> Pulling THHN through the conduit, the fishtape hits the machine. Sparks fly.
> Eventually, we get their mechanic to shut down the machine: After an hour, they figure out it had a neutral swapped with one of the phases, electrifying the entire casing to 110v AC. No machines were within reach of each other, but the unistrut was: Any worker would have been fried. Guy I was working with said he had been shocked years earlier, when working at that plant, by the same machine.
> Felt good to prevent worker fatalities.
Also, wear your PPE: They were having us wear dumb covid masks, and despite many floor workers having gloves, neither the lead or the other apprentice had gloves.
My cousin had to cut open his screen door once with a hand circular saw because he locked himself out of the house at 3am stone drunk. No PPE
> Plenty of construction workers do more dumb shit than that, and keep all their fingers and toes.
The principal is solid. Loose all the fingers and toes you want, they aren't mine! Sounds like your cousin had ample brain damage.
Screen mesh is stupid expensive. Should have went for the latch,I'm sure it's cheaper.
>After an hour, they figure out it had a neutral swapped with one of the phases
This is why unpolarized sockets are a safety feature.
>helping out a buddy who ran an orchard
>he has a portable gas powered conveyor belt
>fruit gets picked and dropped onto belt
>he hires at least 30 migrant workers to do the picking, usually only one of them speaks English
>we hear a lot of yelling by the conveyor belt
>we both run over to the belt
>cover for the pulley is off
>migrant worker sitting on the ground clutching his hand
>look at his hand, fricking bloody pulped mess of his index and middle fingers
>buddy asks the one dude who speaks English what happened
>"Oh, señor, he go like deez" and shoves his hand into the still running machine
>same fricking injury as the first guy
Polak here.
I had an "uncle" (guy who fricked my mum) who was a carpenter, had his own workshop etc.
I would help him sometimes to earn a few bucks, he was pretty ok.
He had a bad habit of never bothering to stop the machine when he needed to clean shavings from inside the machine.
He constantly had injuries on his hands.
Also, I worked in ventilation with elderly Ukrainian.
He was an educated, experienced retired water treatment engineer, who had to look for extra income when the war broke out. So one would think he know a thing ot two about safety.
Well, not really. Apparently safety glasses ware western space magic in soviet union, just like europalette.
His only safety ware his correction glasses, I don't remember how many times he had to take out shit from his eyes, mind you, we worked with grinders and mineral wool all the time.
He even was in hospital once, boss drove him. Still didn't teach him.
Finally, light of mighty Western Civilization that I shined upon him took its toll, and he accepted my old Guarded C7s and always wore them since.
Pic kinda related.
I'm curious, how many people does it take to screw in a light bulb in Poland?
One, he sits and yells at four Ukrainians while they do it.
Three. One to hold the bulb and two to spin the ladder.
this is even cringe by the lowest boomer standard.
Frick you I thought it was funny.
Never stop making bad jokes.
Alright, you tell a better one. Surely you're not going to just talk shit and not back it up.
I laughed so hard it woke up my gf.
Never change.
Wholesome. The ukranian accepting you safety glasses, i mean, not the dude fricking your mom
Do you just thrown them in the truck and take then back to where they came from or do you drop them back off at home depot and call INS?
Not him, but where I'm from, all the guys have social security numbers and identities and shit. They are just employed like any citizen, so they would file an L&I claim.
>working at plastic bag factory
>plastic sheet is running across conveyors under the floor panels at 800fps
>it turns upwards 90 degrees and goes to a spindle on the ceiling
>some tard is inspecting the plastic at this vertical area
>somehow his watch snags on the plastic
>he's lifted up a couple inches off the ground and fortunately his weight prevents it from lifting him any higher
>he's frantically slicing at his watch with a box cutter to cut himself down
>supervisor is laughing his ass off while this is happening
>at the same place
>one of the overhead spindles breaks loose because it was worn and wasn't secured properly when changed out
>200lb spindle drops at least 10 feet onto the shoulders of one of the operators
>it rolls down his back and obliterates his spine
>he's left paralyzed and nonverbal from the injury causing so much pain his brain fried
>some people got fired for joking about him getting to live off workers comp for the rest of his life now
>same place
>plastic bags have to go through a UV radiation curing cycle
>it's run on conveyors through this room and it's only exposed for a split second
>this room isn't closed off but we are asked to spend as little time as possible in there and turns the machines off if we ever need to do work in there
>because management avoids this room it is often where operator will frick off to for naps or play on their phones
>buddy in first story would frequently spend a 12 hour shift in there during slow seasons
>rumor spreads that the byproduct from production (some white ash like powder) is not only flammable but highly explosive
>it's so explosive that the doors and windows are allegedly explosion proof to better contain it
>everyone's first reaction to hearing this is to try and light some on fire
Lol thanks for sharing
Industry really doesn't care about life
There's only so much they can do without having a safety inspector shadowing every single employee from the minute they clock in until the minute they clock out. At some point, the employees have to make smart decisions for themselves. the majority of jobsite accidents are caused by employees being lazy/overconfident shitheads deliberately ignoring safety rules.
Was doing a fire alarm job on a new industrial building with 30ft ceilings. We rented a scissor lift for the job. The electricians weren't as smart as us. They had 14ft of scaffold with a 12ft ladder on top hanging huge light fixtures, using a heavy duty corded drill. He was sitting on top the ladder and had a helper moving the scaffold around with him still perched on top. The cord got stuck under a wheel. The helper gave it a good hard yank, the scaffold jerked, the foot of the ladder jumped, the idiot fell 22ft straight down headfirst onto a concrete floor. There was a sickening thud and just like that his head was on backwards. I'll never forget the sound.
Frickin hell
Did he died
>is he dead
???
he's lying there like a newborn frickin baby baka
>intern at church
>work with youth, set up events and stuff
>maintenance man needs some help
>he is a vietnam vet
>two bad knees ... literally wobbles when he walks
>falls multiple times a day
>we're installing an attic ladder in an old building
>takes all day (he does things like have the drill going the wrong way)
>we finally have in in position with 3 screws in it
>it's nowhere near level
>he walks up the ladder and examines the angle
>2 screws on 1 side, 1 on the other
>he puts the drill up to the side with only 1 screw
>start to say something but just assume he knows what he's doing
>starts loosening it
>the screw comes out and the whole side falls down and dumps him off
>stare at him on the ground in absolute shock at his stupidity
He later got fired for missing with a paint brush and putting a black line across the stage
>Paper mill, semi-automatic slitter winder
>The machine unrolls 10m long steel cylinders that have 30 tons of paper wrapped around them, unrolling speed is around 100 km/h
>Semi-automatic so it hoists the old cylinder out of the way once done, operator lifts a new cylinder in place with a crane
>Current run has some 10 tons of reject on the end, operator is impatient and brings a full roll on with a crane, leaving it hanging in the air very close to the spinning roll
>Operator is lazy and fat, leans forward to rest against a guardrail
>Crane RC is hanging from his neck, as he leans in his stomach hits the joystick
>Crane slams forward, full paper cylinder hits the one being unwound at high speed
>Paper now flying everywhere, not a huge issue typically, but the cylinder was dislodged so the brake shoe doesn't reach it
>Crane was jerked hard enough to activate E-stop, hoisted roll keeps slamming repeatedly to the one still spinning rapidly and spewing paper everywhere
>Everything on the floor is covered with paper, clean up takes a few hours, no injuries
I only saw the CCTV footage and it was fricking hilarious to observe but probably not fun on the cleanup duty.
Nothing too serious like any of the previous posts.
Worked in receiving at 'big store' mostly running walkiestacker (stand up forklift) putting pallets of shit into and out of high steel. I replaced the guy who would not look where he was backing up and squished his hand between the handle of the 'stacker and the steel shelf. Dumb fricks would constantly walk under forks no matter how many times I yelled at them. Also when making cardboard bales same idiots would run in front of baler as the bale was being ejected onto a pallet.
>seen a crew cutting into concrete walls with a saw with no PPE
>guys using the welder nozzle to block the blinding light and welding without gloves
>guys just closing their eyes/squinting while using table/reciprocating saw and bench grinders.
Squinting is fine with wood, not with steel or plastic
and then he wanted to clap but his arms were missing so he couldnt
I love these stories
if you want more you should porbbaly learn mandarin and go ask on a chinese forum
i bet china has 10000x more of these stories considering how many webms I see of chinese factories blowing up and people dying from various ways
He doesn't need to learn chinese. Just check out some of the shit in third-world former English colononies like Nigeria, jamaica, Belize, etc.
Not English of course, but I remember hopping in a cab in Jakarta and we hadn't even left the airport perimeter and some dudes were on the top step of a ladder leaning against a metal pole welding away at the same pole while looking away from the flame. One of them had a cig hanging out his mouth.
I work at a nuclear power plant and have previously shared a few stories.
>refuel outage
>operations needs help with the removal of a 4.16kv breaker
>operations grabs a senior member of electrical to assist with the breaker
>the breaker is racked-in and open
>there is a ground cart downstream
>electrical technician begins fiddling with the breaker in his street clothes
>the breaker is now closed
>arcflash2electricboogaloo2.mp4
>electrical technician goes to medical with no injuries and is sent home
>electrical technician shows up the next day and blows hot on a "random" breathalzyer
>electrical technician does 6 months of corporate substance abuse treatment and then medically retires
What do you even have to do to work at a nuclear power plant? Idk why but it seems incredibly comfy.
Moulded fibre factory
Indoor gas-fire ovens used to bake product (egg trays, shit like that)
Some of the burners were miscalibrated
Place had ZERO carbon monoxide alarms
Staff would frequently go home complaining of headaches and nausea
Place had a dedicated h&s guy
The dude had 2 CO alarms in his family home, but had opted for 0 on site
It had been this way for over 10 years:)
Google chronic CO exposure effects
Guys in the paint shop used to smoke while working. Yes, while rinsing down large pieces with degreaser. Yes, while spraying.
I dont get it
Paint is often flammable
>wants his painters to get fricked up lung infections
You have to filter it through a cigarette moron
My grandpa used to be an automotive painter and pack a day smoker. Copd now and occasionally brings up how he misses painting cars. Feels bad men.
From a relative
>Be sparky working at sawmill
>Other sparky in different part of the plant is working on a huge saw
>Locked out and tagged out
>Crawled into this tiny little gap past the huge blade to get to some kind of control box
>moron operator cuts off lockout, someone told him the work was done apparently
>Fires up the saw
>Sparky is trapped in the fetal position with the sawblade of doom roaring inches from his feet
>All he can do is scream
>But the thing is the saw is really fricking loud so no one can hear his screams
>First sparky goes looking for his mate, huh where is he, machine is running again so he must be around
>Can't find him
>Concern
>Goes over to the saw
>Peeks through gap and sees his mate stuck in there
>oh fugggggg
>emergency shut-down
>pull the dude out
>had been trapped in there for 20 fricking minutes
>Smothered in sawdust, full PTSD mode
>Quits on the spot
Industrial work, not even once
>shiori poster
Sorry about your shit taste in vtubers bro
That's why I take the fuses with me when locking out or flip and tag breakers.
My company solved this problem by never actually issuing any locks. I had to Black person rig my own safety mechanisms any time I worked in something that could kill me.
>Cutting the lock
I have heard similar stories once or twice and always doubted. I hope your friend got a good pay day and enjoys owning his own saw mill.
I have heard so many stories of lockout tags being cut
Call me crazy but what if they came up with "e-tags"?
>Put lock tag on
>Go into the bowels of the machine
>Person going in and some supervisor both have a pager
>someone pulls the tag apart
>person in machine and supervisor get paged
Maybe the case of tags being cut is so rare that it wouldn't be worthwhile, but I feel like something similar to this would solve most of these stories I have heard
I just did a Google and they already have this, never mind
What was your key word(sentence)? I can't find it.
https://www.smartlox.com.au/
thanks
>https://www.smartlox.com.au/
Oh hell no. Getting an alarm when the shackle gets cut would be fine, but physical key or frick off.
Ugh so expensive
Idk maybe have your phone number and a mini photo of your face on the lock? That way someone who's intent on cutting the lock has a final chance of getting in touch with the worker before going through with his plan.
Working off shore natural gas this is more or less procedure. You need to contact whoever's name is on the physical tag. And they have to remove it and sign it out. Sometimes guys wouldnt remove some lock outs because the valve is in normally closed position. Had some minor setbacks because of this, paperwork is a bureaucratic b***h but by and large it's there for a reason when going through loto
I was a contracting fitter for UK coal decades ago. Was issued a numbered lock and given the qrd.
>If anyone messes around with your lock out, it's your duty to frick them up before they're removed from the site.
No one would dream of it man. Considering how cavalier & zero fricks the whole industry was, how absolutely heartless the banter, lock outs were deadly serious.
Even the managers were zealots about it.
Proper way to carry on, frankly.
I cut a tag and I didn't get in trouble for it.
I'm postive it already exists but contactor locks already come with a little indent on the back so you can put a sticker on it and write your and your company information down so you can be called if they NEED to cut it off.
I've seen it used before too, some dude legit just forgot to unlock something when he left. we called him, he said sure cut it, we called the company, they said sure cut it, so we cut it. if not for the sticker with all the numbers on it it would have been a much bigger rigamarole
This can all be solved by having a helper with a 9mm ready to kill whoever goes near the machine before it's fixed.
Don't have many stories other than idiots not wearing their safety gloves because they "Hinder" their work. But I worked in a Bridgestone factory that made injected foam seats for cars. They had pneumatic "Shavers' that you ran along the flashing to get the excess off. They had a shield cover with a tiny slit that allowed you to run it along the edge. Some of the guys on the line start goosing each other with the tools because it's loud and vibrates. Makes the new guys jump and scares the shit out of them.
The Nissan Solstice was just hitting production lines so we get the massive order. Brand new molds and no one knows how to cut the flashing off the seats yet because the flashing is thicker than the small slit. Bunch of guys just pry the safety shield off and continue on getting shit done. New guy joins the assembly line and keeps fricking up the cuts causing the inspectors to kick back cushions essentially doubling up the workload causing the belt to back up. One of the guys yells at him "Hey shit for brains you frick up again and I'm going to shove this thing up your ass!" holding up the air razor.
Cushion gets kicked back and the guy gooses him with the razor right in the ass. Razor didn't have a safety shield and cut a massive 5 inch fillet right between the asscheeks. New guy screams and falls to the ground holding his ass and can just yell "WHY!?" over and over. Huuuuuge pool of blood spreading over the floor. Team leader runs over to see whats wrong, slips in the blood and gets hand caught in the moving belt. Paramedics take 20 min to get there. The entire time the on sight medical lady had to hold medical pads against this guys ass who is screaming.
Another time a maintenance worker thought he could dodge between two demolding robot arms to get to a belt instead of taking "Long" way around. Got his face caved in. His orbital socket, cheekbone and jaw were shattered. My buddy found him lying between the two arms and said his jaw was sideways
Holy Moly. What happened to air razor guy? Shit canned I'd imagine but we're charges pressed against him?
I'm not 100% sure but we definitely never saw him again. New guy got a huge settlement from it and the rumor was that his rectum got fricked up from it too. But that's probably just urban legend, factory workers gossip worse than women lol. The air blades weren't that long so the guy would have had to really shove it up there to get anywhere near the balloon knot. But from what I heard from the on sight nurse lady the blade kind of cut the asscheeks like a spiral ham. So maybe it spiraled up into it? She had to use like 5 of those super absorbent blood diaper things to staunch the bleeding.
Oh! Forgot about the team leader. He broke 4 fingers because they got caught in the rollers and it pulled them into where the bearings are that connect to the support. Luckily the safety stops worked and shut the line down immediately when that happened.
And because visuals are important, pic related is basically what we were using to cut the flashing. Just imagine all the shit removed from around the blade.
That could definitely ruin your rectum
Your tail bone would protect your ass, your gouch and pernium on the other hand could very well be damaged. And that wouldnprevent your dick from working.
Unlikely to have torn the rectum or intestines. Spine and hips shield your internal organs from the back near your ass. If anything the razor could have caused nervous damage from chipping the bone. But again not likely either, seems like soft tissue damage.
>Razor didn't have a safety shield and cut a massive 5 inch fillet right between the asscheeks.
Talk about a pain in the ass
>Nissan Solstice
fake story
>Some of the guys on the line start goosing each other with the tools
I try not to be a pencil pusher clipboard cuck but shit like this is proof that workers need a suit's boot on their neck at all times. Bunch of fricking morons playing around with pneumatic blades jesus christ
I was fresh to the workforce about 14 years ago so I didn't think about much.
The factory I worked in was reorganizing everything in the plant so it wasn't a deadly labrynth of mirrorless mixed Hilo and pedestrian traffic anymore.
Pikes of things everywhere, machines surrounded by clutter.
I'm working on a slow, turn table style assembly line machine when suddenly it happens.
I hear(and feel) a loud BOOM and feel a thud in the floor.
I'm reluctant to turn around knowing whatever shit just happened I didn't want to see.
Turns out the Hilo was stacking large metal bins the size of bathtubs full of steel stampings that were full with heaps on top.
He'd stacked them up to the ceiling some 50 feet up, hills of stanpings between the uneven tilting Jenga.
One fell from the top less than a foot behind me, empty.
If I'd stepped back a little, I'd be a pancake.
The bins weigh at least 200 pounds empty.
It bounced and bumped a woman in the leg, she suffered superficial damage thankfully.
Also had light curtains wired backwards so the left side stops the right and vice versa.
Boss tried to get me to QA product coming out of the 1k ton steel press, that could be felt outside, without ear muffs.
To continue, I saw a woman cut her achilles tendon on a steel product.
They were letting people wear shorts/capris on a welding line.
Dumb b***h stacked the steel frameworks made of thin steel pieces on high on top of a knockdown gondola while sitting on the edge of said gondola.
The pile fell and one caught on her ankle.
I hated her but wouldn't wish for that.
That place went out of business thankfully.
>light curtains swapped
That's on purpose, it's like those two-man start switches. It's to get you to have a spotter when going near the machine...
one of my cousins worked somewhere where they had huge vats of lye or something like that, and they got the new guy to replace the lightbulbs right over the tank, the guy used a ladder across the vat and fell in, and spent like 20-30 minutes crawling around as his skin came off
I hope that didn't really happen frick.
He died I assume?
oh no, hes still alive, and playing tricks on the batman to this day
i believe so, and i believe its true, the cousin is pretty "no nonsense" and id be genuinely surprised to find out it was a fib or misrepresented. it would of been atleast over 15 years ago when i first heard it mentioned, so it could be anywhere between 1980's/2000
We had a guy lose an eye a few years ago because he never wore his safety glasses. Our safety guy literally stocks a dozen varieties of safety glasses and the company gives you an $800 credit for prescription safety glasses every year to improve compliance and this boomer frick still didn't want to wear his. I just don't fricking get it.
Anyways, now if you get caught on the shop floor without your specs on it's an instant termination.
Not a boomer I'm 30 and don't really work in hazardous situations constantly I'm a mechanic so it's kinda rare to feel a need for glasses. However I've also been born with terrible eyesight. Glasses feel like looking at a screen though, so I never wore them as a kid. Safety glasses are 10 times worse it feels like I'm looking at an illusion, like those books with pages you'd have to look at just right to see the actual picture hidden within the jumble of colors. As such, I feel safer without them most of the time. Same thing with ear "protection". If I can't hear or see what's going on around me, I'm in a lot more danger. I try to grab safety glasses when hammering hardened metal or when the press is stressing enough to cause fear but usually I can't find them at that point, get frustrated, and just do it but turn my face away and hide behind shit or for hammering I'll grab a bunch of rags and cover it with Mt hand as much as possible and hope either my hand or rag stops it. Might be something like that for him
I have prescription safety glasses that I wear daily, the only thing I need to add to make them shop floor compliant is side shields which, I can never fricking find admittedly, only take a couple seconds to put on.
I feel you on the wanting my senses, good thing about partial hearing loss I dont care if one of them gets worse.
That's why i said I was born with bad eyes and didn't wear the glasses. They still fricked with me couldn't catch a ball or anything. Prescribed or not, it's bullshit. It's there only so you can continue believing it will help and so the corporate overlord can tell the court about how they told you to ppe or whatever idk.
It's all to cover their ass. They know you're not going to.
>Prescription safety glasses
>Without side shields
They make those? That defeats like the entire purpose.
What is this cope? It's your brain not getting used to them which takes a day or two and then your brain will be weird without your glasses. Same with switching frames/lenses to new glasses, or switching between contact lenses. And hearing loss/tinnitus is cumulative.
Everyone thinks they're a hard ass until their health actually fricks up and they realize they're mortal. Ask me how I know.
I crushed a moron kid's hand with the hoist. Not my fault, I made sure everyone knew I was coming down with this housing but for some fricking reason this kid decided to stick his hand underneath the housing as I was coming down. My hoist literally has a fricking horn and I asked this kid if everything was aligned on his corner, and he said yeah, and then started screaming because I crushed his hand. It was his second fricking week on the job and the first time I let him align a corner without standing over his shoulder because I figured he had enough understanding of his task to not stick his fricking hand under the hoist.
HSE investigation even said it wasn't my fault after interviewing me, the moron, and the two other dudes on my team, but this shit really fricking bothers me and I've had a hard time running a hoist ever since this moron stuck his hand under a fricking suspended load.
Misunderstanding is a mutually brutalizing event as old as the hills
I feel the same way towing a trailer. Or riding a motorcycle. You have to look out for yourself, and too many people operate equipment like this and don't even take into consideration how much more risk they are in or to others vs just doing their regualar driving. I think people are just mindless. Physical violence like being in an accident and surviving is what creates safe people. Everyone else is a drone.
you ride a motorcycle knowing how mindless others are?
I daily a 911 and rip on it every chance I get. Always aware of my surroundings when driving, it's like my 'focus' mode if that makes sense. My escape is putting 100% effort into driving.
Porches are slow as frick and the carpets rot till they're ichy like some poisoning plant. Buy a fast car, ie, something American or Japanese if you're willing to pay a premium for it and stop at factory fast. To actually go fast get something American though
>you're a passenger and didn't realize it.
Gonna be a rough couple of years for ya. Glad I could experience mine.
NTA but yeah, riding is worth the risk of dealing with idiots on the road.
You have to calculate risk anon. Be aware.
It's always worth the risk, the experience warrants it. The risk, if respected, creates responsibility. Children are not taught this anymore, and just shy away from all risk, so they don't have to face any liability.
Some people are capable of seeing others get hurt and learn to be different. I'm very good at seeing potential outcomes, and that helps me respect the level of danger I may be exposed to. That said, it's best to just assume everyone is a complete fricking idiot who can't put their phone down and may be drunk.
Did he lose the hand?
Being a moron myself I wonder if her thought he was helping by trying to like guide the load down?
I swear all of my dumbest moments were motivated by me trying to be useful instead of standing around and watching.
i worked at a factory that made medium density fiberboard. the hydraulic press (4 stories wall, many hundreds of tons) went up in flames like 10' away from me. luckily everyone got it under control by blasting it with a half dozen fire hoses. wood fiber is extremely flammable, the place had deluge systems and automated explosion suppression devices all over.
after i quit a guy i worked with nearly had his arm ripped clean off by a conveyor belt without a nearby e-stop. i spent a lot of time on and near that conveyor belt.
there was also a job where you had to ride a small rail-car that dragged wood chips onto that conveyor belt. the wood chips would freeze up in the winter so your job was to poke them free with a fiberglass poker. your feet would dangle next to a set of dual conveyor screws that were geared down to 100 rpm or so, god knows how much torque. a few feet above your head were 380v 3 phase lines that would power the rail car, kind of like overhead power distributions lines you see on electric trains. it's a wonder no one ever died doing that job.
I didn't see it, but it was the one day I wasn't on that particular jobsite.
>Guy pumping concrete a couple houses down from our site
>It's a bunch of new housing but they hired like 10 different companies to do the pumping and finishing
>Everyone hears a shriek and a bunch of screaming
>The pumper brought his kid fresh out of high school to work
>For one reason or another the kid put his hand in the pump's intake manifold and the pump shifted
>lost his arm below the elbow
>They turniquet it with a shirt and rush him to the hospital about a mile away
>Also threw the concrete covered arm in an ice chest
>One of the laborors started washing the blood down the drain before OSHA showed up
>The dad called one of his other pumpers to clean out the pump for him
I watched a guy on a forklift drive off the end of the dock, he didn't even try to slow down or stop. Holy Frick, I thought that was it but somehow he jumped off and did a couple of rolls like you see in the movies. I asked him wtf happened and he could see where he was going because he was sneezing. He became a crack addict after that.
Trapeze artist had AIDS and got blood on the whole audience at a play.
You pay extra for that experience in calflifornia
I assumed infectious people throwing their blood in your eyes was a regular thing in that state.
Usually it's feces
You can't just leave it at that.
Do they know?
Makes me wonder what the first worksite accident was; some caveman accidently slitting his wrists while napping rocks? Grug cutting down tree with stone ax and accidently having it fall on him?
https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/warren-county/2017/07/man_dies_in_phillipsburg_area.html
Happened at a plant my buddy worked at. From how I understand it, the machine he was servicing was not properly locked out/tagged out, and went into index while he was leaning into it- Long story short as the machine indexed it pushed a metal rod straight through his head and killed him instantly. OSHA investigators flew in from philly by helicopter same day.
Must've had a splitting headache
Why do New York and California live so rent-free in the yank's head
No one wants to live there and they have horrible governments, but all the money is there so people stay there.
Also, it's legal to knowlingly expose others to hiv/aids
> Also, it's legal to knowlingly expose others to hiv/aids
Citation needed/QRD? (not calling you a liar btw)
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/new-california-law-reduces-penalty-knowingly-exposing-someone-hiv-n809416
Hiv/aids is an early death sentence
It used to be a felony to give it to someone homosexuals need to frick so much they cannot imagine living without fricking as many people as possible and passing on the juice, so they lobbied to make it legal. (Misdemeanors are never pursued in california)
Oh dear 🙁
Oh dear
aye
>An engineering firm has been fined £33,333 and ordered to pay £49,247 in costs after a crane driver died from massive crush injuries just weeks before he was due to become a father.
>Alan Withers, 28, from Sheffield, was killed when he and colleagues attempted to unload a four-ton crate from a shipping container at the DavyMarkahm factory in Danall on 15 July 2008.
>Sheffield Crown Court was told Mr Winters was one of a group of workers who had repeatedly attempted to move a crate from a container.
>In a final attempt, Mr Winters climbed on the back of the forklift truck to unhook a chain from a corner of the container but the forklift reversed too far and tilted up over the lip of the container, trapping him against the roof.
>The court heard the firm was expecting the arrival of the container with two crates inside and had been anticipating difficulties unloading.
>Despite this it made an attempt to lift a five-tonne crate with a forklift truck that had a four-tonne capacity.
>When that was abandoned, the site manager went away to carry out a risk assessment and find a safe way of getting the container from the lorry to the ground.
>In the interim, workers made more unsafe and unsuccessful efforts to unload the first crate before managing to drag it by the forklift out of the container.
>A similar attempt to drag the second one from further inside was stopped as the wooden crate could be heard cracking.
>Finally, Mr Winters stood on the back of the forklift but the attempt ended in tragedy.
I was a witness to this
Why didn't you stop it?
I was quite junior at the time and was basically stood around watching, not really involved.
Because people don't take health and safety seriously until they've had it bite them. Why do people stand on plastic buckets instead of going and fetching a ladder?
You can probably very easily find the article / firm name that's from
So why did they keep trying to get it out when the site manager was already looking for a safe way to do it?
You've never seen a bunch of jackasses see a challenge and just go after it without considering the level of danger? I'd be exactly the same way if I wasn't so good at seeing the fricked up shit that could happen before it actually happens.
No because I'm not paid enough to try anything beyond what I've been supplied with. Not my problem (and now it isn't his)
I didn't say it had to be you. The world is full of dumbasses, so it's pretty easy to find some that just do what they do.
i need an illustration
Forklift trucks are counterweighted. The electric ones have the battery accounted for most of the weight, while the diesel ones literally have a big chunk of concrete hanging from the back. Find a China rekt thread on /gif/, plenty of forklift videos with human flesh trying to act as additional counterweight.
>trying to act as additional counterweight
Reminds me of moving a 14000lb mill up the ramp into our shop with a forklift, rated at 14500 @4ft, fitted with 8ft forks.
Boss was on the forklift, our heaviest employee was riding on the counterweight, I was pushing them with the skidsteer, and the boss's kid was filming.
>Guy jumps on fork behind cab inside a container
>Fork tries to lift too much weight
>Smushy smushy against the ceiling of the container
Mental. Did you get any pics?
>employee does things that are against all his trainings, lessons, and common practice
>hurr lets sue
ok
If it can lift 4 tons safely, it'll surely lift 5 tons closer in and tipped backwards
>33,333
fake
Not a personal experience but there is this story of a guy working on a flat roof. Not even a roofer, just something like an HVAC guy so he did not need to go near the edge of the roof, but he tripped on something and he stumbled for 40 feet trying to regain his balance. He was unable to recover and he fell from the roof and died. Apparently it's one of the reasons why OSHA and its equivalents push for more fall restraints in situations that do not seem to immediately warrant them.
>stumble in the middle of the roof
>run off the edge of it
Fat people were a mistake
Maybe it was slippery or he had some heavy items on him
Maybe, but I'm imagining something like this
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or he should have just put his arms out and accepted that he was gonna fall over
maybe not possible for a landwhale
Yeah, fatties tend to just break when they fall down. If I trip and fall, it turns into a roll and I'm back up in one motion. Oh wait, I'm being fatphobic and ableist.
If this individual couldn't catch himself after a couple of steps, a Darwin award was appropriate. Why do we keep trying to save the least fit?
That kid from a few years back who tried to jump out of a tipping forklift and it crushed his lower body so he had to get a hemicorperctomy (don't google that).
Pretty sure he's still alive though.
Half the man he used to be.
This; we'll call this new life-saving policy "Tagged Out, Glocked out."
Loren Schauers?
That's the kid. Hope he's doing well considering
now me
>be in textile factory
>get to fill the basins with every chemical known to man
>do this by hand, because frick you we have no money for automated systems (not yet)
>foreign worker grabs a 20L bucket and fills it with caustic soda
>on his way the bucket gets hooked on something and a not small amount enters his shoe (right)
>goes to our boss and tells him:"boss, i have to go home. foot not good"
>boss replies:"hmm geee anon. can't you wait for 30min for your shift to end?"
>goes back and come again in 30min as told...
>"boss? foot really hurting now."
>chef drives him to the hospital. as the medical staff tried to remove his shoes, the whole skin just comes off with it.
>gets skin from his arse implanted onto his foot
>everytime he kicks someone in the ass, he does the same thing to himself
kek. he still works there
Chemical burns are no joke. Always a good idea to tell your boss to frick off and get it sorted ASAP.
>>chef drives him to the hospital. as the medical staff tried to remove his shoes, the whole skin just comes off with it.
every day i thank god i did concrete prep above working wtih that shit
I suppose the most recent frickup is the safe injection place giving out keys to "reliable" junkies then flip the frick out when everything is trashed and stolen in one weekend when the place is supposed to be closed. This is the third time I've been called in to change the locks on this place. At least I am getting paid for a simple job, but seriously? Stop giving out the keys to DRUG ADDICTS.
>why do we keep hiring such bad employees? We pay GREAT, $17/hr should buy experienced workers who want to succeed.
>use tax money to pay people $70 an hour to babysit heroin junkies
I'm amazed the West hasn't completely collapsed by now.
Final diagnosis - two more weeks.
The cities, maybe. The rest of us will laugh and carry on producing everything that the cities used, but in such quantities that it'll be dirt cheap to eat. Nothing of value will be lost when places like San Francisco, New York City, and Portland just die off.
The surprising thing about the great depression was how many farmers stopped producing. I guess they all got fricked by the seed suppliers
They make it appear that there was a dought, but I've never investigated it. Farm to market was an issue discussed when I was in school. It's all local banking and interest rates back then, totally different from today.
Yeah I dunno either. The most research I've done is read the grapes of wrath which is garbage
Based on what I've read it sounds like farmers back then were perpetually in debt, aka constantly stuck in a cycle of using this year's loans to pay off last year's. Banks shut down, farmers can't get loans, farmers have no way to purchase sneed and feed for the following year, and there goes the farm. Then everything gets compounded, ie half the grain suppliers in the area go under, hog feed skyrockets in price, hog farmers start to go under, etc. At least that's my 80 IQ take on the matter.
More like Sneed.
But the farmers are entirely dependent on city subsidies to do anything. Not to mention their power and water draw.
>its a subsidy from the city for the farmer to be allowed to drill a well and pump out water
ok idiot
well water is literally becoming more scarce.
Then they need continuous subsidy to continue producing.
Then they need fertilizer shipped in from mining operations half way across the world.
only the hippiest among you are actually independent from this.
It's not. Water is illegal to pump out or store because of the river smelt. Business interests have been buying up the central valley for 30 years. They're satisfied with their position now and are starting to allow rainfall and storage again.
They only need fertilizer if the level of farming remains so high. All we gotta do is mix some shit and ash into the dirt now and then, and things will carry on just fine. I'll say it again. We don't actually need the cities to make it.
Farmers are subsidized to build necessary infrastructure up front because they don't have city infrastructure maintenance and the city tax base to fund it for them you idjit.
Not a work site but I was a butcher for a dozen years, first in a slaughter plant then in a supermarket chain, outside of usual hand cuts I saw many people lose their fingers on this saw machine, mostly because of using chainmail gloves while using it and getting their fingers caught, cut, then mangled.
Worst shit I've seen though was all at the slaughter plant, lots of stories, fricked up shit that isn't an safety violation like someone murdering another dude in the changing rooms. This was in the early 00s mind you:
>guys fricked up on cocaine doing deboning on an industrial line for 8 hours straight with only small breaks
>watching from the corner of my eye new guy working in front of me struggling with a beef femur bone
>gets stuck, boning knife escapes while he was doing a stabbing movement towards his bowels
>stabs himself right on his lower ribs hitting his pancreas because he didn't tie his chainmail properly
>collapses on the ground screaming
>blood everywhere on the ground
>line gets stopped for the day
>never see him again
in a bandsaw?
What's confusing?
He explained everything quite clearly. The first part was on the saw.
safe guess
That thing must be running at a terrifying speed!
This is fricking terrifying.
especially cause the blade is chosen because it cuts flesh best, which are what you are made of
Exactly, none of those explosive safety features.
The most dangerous thing about that webm is the guy pushing the board from the left instead of the right.
You now realize your wood bandsaw is a fricking joke.
We have become disturbingly effecient at killing things
Is there any safety mechanism on these frickers?
For example, a camera that can detect whether his blue gloves come close to the blade and instantly shuts it off?
There's no way this guy does this for hours every day and doesn't eventually lose a hand.
>>line gets stopped for the day
a while ago there was a documentary about french slaughterhouses, and some maintenance confessed they got order by the bosses to slightly increase the speed of the conveyor over the time of the day. every morning it started the original speed and got faster and faster, with the workers thinking it was just their perception .
I worked at a factory like that on a packaging line. We'd handle 25k+ units per day all the work done by hand. You'd get 2-3s to grab a product off the line, fold a box, repackage and close. We'd end up with 200 units stacked off on tables and the stupid boomer c**t would force another order down the line making us double up. She told me it was a "big mistake" quitting and I'd regret it but never have kek. Boomer women bosses not even once. I remember one time I was putting product on the line so fast shit was just falling off, she was happy to see someone working at the "proper" pace. After a few months of 12s+ Saturdays I wanted to crash my truck into a guardrail.
>12s+ Saturdays
lots of 2x overtime pay though?
3 different operators and have parts of fingers cut off by a plastic blade, the first one we didn't have any guarding there because no one thought it was a risk area. The next two they hopped the safety gate so it's on them.
It's basically a big plastic edge that cleans the bottom of molds on a rotary carriage. Not sharp at all but the carriage is turned hydraulically so it just forces their finger right onto the blade crushing it until it separates.
>be me
>cut thumb opening package at 9:00 AM
>lol oops, haven't done that since I was a kid.
>tiny cut
>but a decent amount of blood
>office co-workers freaking out like they never seen blood before
>I wrap it up, get some alcohol on it, bandage and wrap it
>I change the bandage at lunch and swap to bandaid.
>wound opens a tiny bit and a little blood flows.
>fellow wagies steaming
>GO TO URGENT CARE!
>my boss (not on site) literally calls me and tells me to go to urgent care
>ok if you guys say so
>go to urgent care
>qt doctor is surprised I even showed up
>they don't give me any paperwork because is literally babies first booboo
>two weeks pass
>safety and HR are asking for paperwork to he HIPPA compliant or something
>paperwork literally doesn't exist.
>lol
Lamo even.
was working as a blocky building rotary cowsheds
they brought in a mixer to lay some foundations, the ground was wet but they had to have the hole filled now, we flat out said no it's not safe so they had some of the farm workers come in an help pour it
mixer tips into the hole and it filled with concrete while one of the workers was in there, pulled him out an hour later he was ded,
leave job go and work at a wool mill
working in the carding room, it's huge rollers that turn the raw wool into a thread
a dude who had been working there 20+ years got up on the machine to try and fix something while it was still running because he knew better
watched the poor fool get pulled into the rollers and his bodyparts just popped
Jesus
That second one may have been suicide.
Did he find out you started at his current wage
I love these threads
Knew a farmhand who lost fingers fricking around with blasting caps. Good times.
'farm hand'-> 'farm stumpy'
i put a plank on top of 2 wheel barrows instead of getting a ladder just today...
Hmm
>finishes for the day and goes home
>next day he wakes up and his hand and arms look like they've been soaked in water for 40 years
>hospital please
>end result is that they have to amputate his arms from the elbows down.
>turns out the base chemical of the new cleaning solution was hydrofluoric acid
I'm going to go with "fake and gay". Here's why:
He wouldn't have woken up. HF gets absorbed and then disrupts the electrolyte channels that regulate heartbeat, which causes death.
This isn't a hypothetical. Even a small HF spill touching the skin will quickly kill you, and by "quickly" I mean an hour or two at most. Here's an example:
www dot taiwannews dot com dot tw/en/news/3769328
frick the antispam filter
>A Filipina employee died after her legs were spattered with hydrofluoric acid while working at a factory in Miaoli County, the Central News Agency reported Thursday (August 29).
>
>The chemical is extremely corrosive and toxic and is able to cause death when coming into contact with skin.
The beaker she was carrying broke and some droplets splashed on her bare legs. She went into cardiac arrest within 20 minutes. The company didn't provide the employees with even minimal safety training or PPE, and no one knew to send her to the hospital for immediate treatment. A simple rubber apron would have prevented her death. IIRC your life can be saved if you immediately get IV calcium solution, something to do with the HF sucking all the calcium out of your bloodstream leading to cardiac arrest.
Maybe it was HCl and not HF?
> young teenager working
> have to cut cable ties off poles
> moron, cut up with the knife
> goes straight through the cable tie, straight into right eye
> full on retina detachment, vitrectomy
> three months in hospital with all the old fricks in for cataracts
> got a healthy payout
That moron kid was me 15 years ago.
reminds me of a guy at my work who poked his eye out by stripping wire similarly to your story. They didn't remove the eye or anything but the pupil is permanently dilated now and combined with his cauliflower ears from BJJ he looks like a ghoul at only 30 years old.
Wire and especially steel lashing wire is specially designed for eyeball-seeking efficiency.
I wore safety glasses all the time out of habit but the only time I ever got hit in the glasses was all from steel lashing wire.
>pupil is permanently dilated now
Yup that's me. David Bowe eye from here on.
Shit happens.
If you're half as charismatic, you'll be golden.
You don't have to cuz opsec and whatever but I'd be fascinated to see a picture of your eyes.
So you're blind in your right eye?
Yup. I can still see things moving, shadows and the like, but if I close my good left eye I can't even see the computer monitor. You get used to it. I'm probably the one guy that does completely check his blind spot while driving.
>opsec
I hope my assigned FBI agent is a qt
At least it looks cool, tbh. Sucks about the injury, I’m always worried about my eyes
>be me
>mekanic
>coworker hops in a customer's car (a 4WD) to bring it onto the 4 post hoist
>watching from the side as he lines it up on the ramps
>suddenly the engine roars
>the car lurches forwards, jumps off the end of the hoist and rams straight into the $50,000 wheel aligner
>it carries the aligner halfway through the back wall of the workshop shed
>turns out the owner of the car only had one leg, and a second accelerator pedal to the left of the brake pedal
>nobody told the guy working on the car this important fact
>he mashed the second accelerator pedal trying to see out the side window to line it up on the hoist
Thankfully nobody was in front of the car at the time.
>see something weird
>just fking step on it bro
yea man he needed to be told not to be moronic
He is a boomer after all, I noticed the odd pedal the first time I got in the car, I'm not defending him at all lol
>a clutch pedal
>weird
Ah yes, when the shifter has "D" on it, you need a clutch pedal. Nothing weird there.
>maintenance in a barn
>one of those big ones with multiple buildings and shit, piss, and water-filled alleys for movement and waste removal, so the cows can move around instead of being stuck in headlocks all day
>maintenance requires use of electronic tools, have to drag extension cords around because obviously the only working outlets are on the very edges and a couple doorways
>extension cords are beat up pieces of shit with gashes and tears in them
>they inevitably get wet
>the part where one extension cord is plugged into another is just sat on top of a bucket
It's a wonder the worst that anyone got was a little zap.
This thread really makes me appreciate being a PrepHoletard that gets to work in a comfy office.
I used to work with morons who would clean up their work stations every day with 100% xylene.
- Me, construction management for large commercial electrical contractor
- Big Union job for big 2 letter automaker
- Apprentice is up on ladder working inside drop ceiling of bathroom
- Journeyman comes in bathroom and goes to far stall
- Apprentice sees him drop something at his feet, finishes, leaves stall
- Apprentice thinking he dropped something accidentally goes over to see what it is, it’s torched tin foil with heroin residue on it
- Journeyman dawns his 40 Kal suit and proceeds to hook up 15KVA CABLE IN A COMMERCIAL SUBSTATION WHILE BLASTED ON HEROIN
- Apprentice goes to his supervisor, reports what he saw
- Journeyman is fired moments later, no one called the cops. Literally just sent him home in his own car
- 6 months later on a different jobsite for same automaker
- Dude walks past me at the turnstile
- “What the frick are you doing here?” I ask
- “I was on the books and picked up this call, what’s the big deal?”
- Go to my project manager and inform him of what happened 6 months earlier
- He instantly picks up phone to BA and Company VP
- Dude walked in the gate and 15 minutes later got escorted out
People can build up pretty fricking high tolerances to heroin.
As in, it's not a high, they need it to function normally (and, assuming they're not fiending and have adequate access, can be quite high functioning).
Not saying this is the case with Journeyman, just stating generally.NV