jamal posted:

Serious answer- lots more people, lots more airplanes and flights. You would expect more total accidents in that part of the world than anywhere else.

VelociBacon posted:

I'm sure there's an element of that but then we learn that the flight in Indonesia wasn't even cleared to fly and yet it went anyways. I really don't see that happening in a European or NA flight system?

Peanut President posted:

I was about to get on you about posting an obvious fake but then I scrolled down.

Minrad posted:

More pics



The cab that got hit. Both occupants are fine.

HQ clip from a second car

VelociBacon posted:

I'm sure there's an element of that but then we learn that the flight in Indonesia wasn't even cleared to fly and yet it went anyways. I really don't see that happening in a European or NA flight system?

spud posted:

Seriously though, I think the pilot did a sterling job missing the building and hitting the river.

jamal posted:

Serious answer- lots more people, lots more airplanes and flights. You would expect more total accidents in that part of the world than anywhere else.

Haruharuharuko posted:

spud posted:

My dad is a retired Aircraft Engineer, and whilst I'm sure this a rather sweeping (and racist?) statement, he told me that generally the Asian Airlines "Just don't loving maintain them, to save money".

quote:

Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration said the plane was less than a year old and had last completed a safety check on January 26. The agency did not offer any information on what may have caused the crash.

quote:

"As I was approaching closer I could see that there were people engulfed in flames.

"Their clothes and their legs were on fire, their backs. It was just horrible.

"You could tell they were severely burnt and it would be lucky if they survived... It was going to be lucky if any of them survived."

Yokine man Matt Hutchins, 22, and a 30-year-old Irish national Alan Cummins, from Kardinya, have been reported as the fatal victims.

The other two men, a 50-year-old Port Kennedy man and a 48-year-old Kingsley man, remain in a critical condition at hospital.

The four men were employees and subcontractors for Wangara-based electrical firm High Energy Services and had been conducting maintenance work at the shopping centre in the wake of wild electrical storms across Perth.

spud posted:

My dad is a retired Aircraft Engineer, and whilst I'm sure this a rather sweeping (and racist?) statement, he told me that generally the Asian Airlines "Just don't loving maintain them, to save money".

Spookydonut posted:

A transformer exploded at a shopping centre


Arc flash?

spud posted:

My dad is a retired Aircraft Engineer, and whilst I'm sure this a rather sweeping (and racist?) statement, he told me that generally the Asian Airlines "Just don't loving maintain them, to save money".

Lutha Mahtin posted:

P.S. The only other thing I remember learning in that class is how to build a hydroponic farm. That's right, my public school district thought it was a good idea to teach rural kids how to light poo poo on fire and how to start an illegal grow op.

Kesper North posted:

This gets especially dire for Air India because they keep forcing the expat pilots to fly as soon as they get back from visiting home (pilots coming off a 20+ hour flight from the US or Europe being called up to go fly, which is illegal but their jobs are threatened if they don't do it). The last guy who knuckled under to the airline's demands and flew while tired was a friend of Dad's; he crashed during a difficult approach in mountainous terrain and killed 180 people.

Chicken Doodle posted:

Was that this one? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Express_Flight_812

Say Nothing posted:

Well you can be forgiven for that, it looks totally unreal.

Minrad posted:

I really want to inline this, but it's probably like 20 megs.

http://i.imgur.com/o0E3Xoi.gifv

Propaganda Hour posted:

It's 78MB.

http://gfycat.com/PessimisticWeightyBadger

Now it's 3MB. His socks are the best part, too.

Propaganda Hour posted:

It's 78MB.

http://gfycat.com/PessimisticWeightyBadger

Now it's 3MB. His socks are the best part, too.

Warmachine posted:

When you first see it, it's someone awkwardly trying to install a big something and you laugh. Then the camera pans down.

Jabor posted:

Those windows on the rooms down at the bottom don't seem like they'd get much in the way of natural light.

VectorSigma posted:

i would have just set it on its side on top of a cloth and slid it along the platform instead of attempting cargo parkour

zedprime posted:

He's wearing a fall protection harness and its hard to see what its attached to, but its speculation at that point whether he's wearing it right. Instead we can criticize the job planning in assuming the path to carry the unit was clear, otherwise this probably should have involved a block and tackle.

Aren't mini courtyards like these more of a lip service to building codes thing for ventilation and whatever?

Minneapolis Star Tribune posted:

OSHA fines Ashley Furniture $1.77 million

OSHA finds 1,000 injuries in three years, says Wisconsin plant has history of safety violations.

The U.S. Labor Department socked Ashley Furniture with one of the largest safety fines in history Monday after alleging repeated safety violations over 36 months that caused more than 1,000 worker injuries, including several ­amputated fingers.

The $1.77 million fine resulted from an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspection last year of Ashley’s ­Arcadia, Wis., factory. Inspectors “identified 12 willful, 12 repeated and 14 serious safety violations.” Those are in addition to violations found during previous visits, U.S. Labor Department Assistant Secretary David Michaels told the Star Tribune on Monday.

“We rarely issue a fine that is more than $1 million,” Michaels said. “Having 1,000 work injuries in three years is proof positive that safety in this plant needs tremendous ­improvement.”

All the injuries were serious and “required more than first aid,” he said.

Ashley said in a statement that it “strongly disputes” OSHA’s findings.

“The company strongly disagrees with each and every one of the agency’s assertions and believes the proposed penalties are grossly inappropriate and overzealous,” the statement said. “To clarify, OSHA’s announcement is not a finding of fact, but rather only an allegation.”

Ashley Director of Health and Safety Steve Ziegeweid said that “safety and well-being is an absolute priority” and that Ashley is committed to safety improvements. He noted that the company lowered its accident rate by 14 percent over five years.

The massive facility, which sits 135 miles southeast of Minneapolis, employs 4,500 workers and has now been placed in the Severe Violator Enforcement Program for failure to address the cited safety hazards.

Timothy Kobernat, a retired OSHA district supervisor who runs his own safety consulting business in Eau Claire, Wis., said the fine “is the largest I have ever heard of in Wisconsin. Normally a $200,000 fine is a big deal around here. So this ­citation is big, even for a $3 billion company.”

OSHA cited the Arcadia facility after one employee suffered a partial finger amputation. In July, another employee lost three fingers on a woodworking machine that did not have its safety guards employed. Five other employees suffered amputations over three and a half years, department officials said.

The government also cited Ashley for other injuries that occurred because of lack of training or carelessness. For example, the company failed to safeguard against woodworking machines unintentionally starting when workers were making tool and blade changes, the OSHA report said.

OSHA officials had visited the Arcadia plant several times and kept finding the same problems of missing machine guards and workers pushed to the limit, said Michaels of the Department of Labor.

Ashley “intentionally disregarded OSHA standards and its own corporate safety policies by pushing workers to increase production and meet deadlines” at the expense of safety, he said.

Michaels also accused the company of “blaming the victims for their own injuries because it was the employees’ fingers that were stuck in the machines. But, in reality, there is clear evidence that injuries were caused by the unsafe conditions created by the company.”

Ashley Furniture, privately held with about 20,000 workers, 30 locations and $3.8 billion in revenue, has 15 business days to formally contest OSHA’s ruling and the $1.77 million fine.

If done, the formal appeal and evidence on both sides of the case would be presented to the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, said Labor spokeswoman Rhonda Burke.

A final decision or potential settlements in cases such as these can take a year or more to be resolved, she said.

Thump! posted:

My palms are sweating

Say Nothing posted:

Mom's spaghetti?

Crazy Ted posted:

As good a place as any to post this:


One thousand accidents in three years. The plant was literally having a serious accident every day for three years