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Crazy Ted posted:As good a place as any to post this:  $1.77 million in fines for a thousand serious accidents on a company with revenues of $3.8 billion!? When will the government take its regulatory jackboot off the necks of hardworking small businesses!
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Trochanter posted:
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Feb 6, 2015 02:01
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The reason no one gives a poo poo about the OHSA is because their fines are pathetically low. It's a similar issue over here with the HSE but over here at least the HSE can obtain a court order mandating those changes or you face jail time for it. Like seriously I think 3 people died in a corn silo accident in the states like a year ago and the OHSA went "We're issuing our MAXIMUM FINE for this grave occurance, 10000 dollars per instance or 30000 dollars for 3 corpses."
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Feb 6, 2015 02:09
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Drone_Fragger posted:The reason no one gives a poo poo about the OHSA is because their fines are pathetically low. It's a similar issue over here with the HSE but over here at least the HSE can obtain a court order mandating those changes or you face jail time for it.
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Feb 6, 2015 02:12
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Crazy Ted posted:As good a place as any to post this: I would imagine they have a lost and found bin specifically for fingers and toes.
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Feb 6, 2015 02:23
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http://i.imgur.com/pywWh8V.gifv Not pictured: The 20 attempts where the other guy kept getting hit in the head or shoulder or leg by the hammer
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Feb 6, 2015 02:30
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OSHA regulations would have a lot more teeth if fines were just set as: for any violation, the minimum fine is 0.5% of the company's annual revenues (not profits, gross revenues) and the maximum fine is up to 50% of a company's annual revenues. Instead of fixed dollar amounts. So if you're a tiny small business and you have a power strip that should have been secured, you maybe pay a $500 fine. But if you're a huge multi-billion-dollar corporation, your fines start at a minimum of five million bucks and just go up a lot from there. Not those specific percentages necessarily, but you get what I mean. The money from fines should go towards compensating victims, research into safety practices and better PPE, or the general fund... not directly into OSHA's operating budget, because that's the fastest path to bullshit fines.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVxhbsOg5iQ poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo Crazy Ted fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Feb 6, 2015 |
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Feb 6, 2015 02:33
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Feb 6, 2015 02:40
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Crazy Ted posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVxhbsOg5iQ How do you get a job driving a dumptruck with only a child's understanding of how you unload one?
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Feb 6, 2015 02:42
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Also, fun fact: that earth-shattering fine is slightly more than what Ashley Furniture lost betting on the Super Bowl e: ah, my bad. Trochanter fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Feb 6, 2015 |
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Feb 6, 2015 03:17
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Trochanter posted:Also, fun fact: that earth-shattering fine is slightly more than what Ashley Furniture lost betting on the Super Bowl Not the superbowl and also not at all uncommon
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Feb 6, 2015 03:20
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And they had someone cover . Good biz imo
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Feb 6, 2015 03:31
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Drone_Fragger posted:The reason no one gives a poo poo about the OHSA is because their fines are pathetically low. It's a similar issue over here with the HSE but over here at least the HSE can obtain a court order mandating those changes or you face jail time for it. It's sickening. The company can talk down the fines to a minimal amount. This is a good article about an incident in which several kids were killed when they were walking down the corn. http://www.npr.org/2013/03/26/174828849/fines-slashed-in-grain-bin-entrapment-deaths Walking down the corn or the beans should never be allowed. It's a horrible way to die.
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Feb 6, 2015 03:53
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Should I call OSHA or CPS? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjV0iO-6vK8
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Feb 6, 2015 14:31
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You call your parents and apologise to them for being such a disappointment compared to that resourceful motherfucker right there. Then you call your kids and tell them hexdude24 is their new dad.
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Feb 6, 2015 19:47
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Three-Phase posted:Process.jpg There was a pump on a nuclear facility that was backwards just like that. It was supposed to fill the reactor if it leaked and instead would just dump the water out. It went unnoticed for years.
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Feb 6, 2015 20:19
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Yeah that's genius, although there is a real risk of a chain breaking and whipping around or something, so I wouldn't want to stand next to it while he's doing that. e. I'm referring to the reverse-o-matic thing three posts up
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Feb 6, 2015 20:19
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Leperflesh posted:Yeah that's genius, although there is a real risk of a chain breaking and whipping around or something, so I wouldn't want to stand next to it while he's doing that. I was under the impression that you use chains so that there is no "whipping". When a chain snaps it just falls to the ground.
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Feb 7, 2015 00:42
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spacetoaster posted:I was under the impression that you use chains so that there is no "whipping". When a chain snaps it just falls to the ground. Unless there's enough tension on it, such as the sort that would cause a chain to break. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2KSLQjyscU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95uG3t8FXvQ&t=16s Etc etc.
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Feb 7, 2015 00:50
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Budgie posted:Should I call OSHA or CPS? Huh, so that's what a moonwalking-car looks like. Neat!
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Feb 7, 2015 01:07
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Capntastic posted:Unless there's enough tension on it, such as the sort that would cause a chain to break. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPnzjGNEXFo
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Feb 7, 2015 01:12
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It's all about force, acceleration, and mass. Compared to (say) a towing strap, a chain has a lot more mass, so when it breaks, for a given amount of energy, there's more mass to accelerate in some wild direction and therefore it goes slower. But a snapping chain given enough energy can absolutely whip around and cause injury. So can cable, rope, a towing strap, etc.
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Feb 7, 2015 01:39
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Three-Phase posted:Process.jpg "well we're just dumping all that air out to nowhere, maybe we could generate some power with it???"
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Feb 7, 2015 01:46
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alternate title: "LINE UP ARROWS AND PUSH WITH THUMB"
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Feb 7, 2015 01:47
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Crazy Ted posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVxhbsOg5iQ That severed hydraulics(?) line at 0:20  
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Feb 7, 2015 09:41
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I decided to rewatch Shake Hands With Danger now that I've got about a year of experience working around heavy equipment. The song is cheesy and some of the stunts are flubbed, but it's honestly a pretty drat good safety video in terms of content.
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...Did he think that would not happen if it landed in the trailer?
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Feb 8, 2015 02:00
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It would have been fine if the guy on the street caught it instead of running away.
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Had a high pitched buzzing noise coming from the office at work yesterday, electrician came out and started hunting. Turns out it was the battery backup for the cctv incase of a powercut that had broken somehow, but he was amazed at the mess of cables, and reccomended we get on to maintenance to get the office rewired with new plug sockets (the entire office, store cctv and comms network is running off 2 plug sockets with extension leads) and BT out to re-do the network setup.   Sparky just unplugged poo poo till the noise stopped (we tried this but didn't even know there was a battery backup) and shut the store down for a bit then left us to figure this out to be able to operate again. This place is a deathtrap.
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Feb 8, 2015 11:30
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Holy gently caress. What's the source for this?
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Feb 8, 2015 12:12
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Sammus posted:Holy gently caress. What's the source for this? Really really bad luck.
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Feb 8, 2015 12:53
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Sammus posted:Holy gently caress. What's the source for this? http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/08/us/plane-skydiver-collision/ CNN, March 10, 2014 posted:A Cessna collided with a parachute at a small airport in Polk County, Florida, on Saturday. The plane took a nose dive, and the skydiver was thrown to the ground. Neither the pilot nor the skydiver were seriously injured when they fell about 75 feet, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office.
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Feb 8, 2015 13:40
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Fun fact: that is the way my great-uncle ended up breaking his back. He's in a wheelchair now.
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Still Fluxing posted:Fun fact: that is the way my great-uncle ended up breaking his back. He's in a wheelchair now. That's not a fun fact, that's not at all 
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Haruharuharuko posted:Really really bad luck. Are you kidding me? Obviously the planes airframe parachute was missing or broken and there just happened to be a working one right in front of it! Luckiest plane in the world imo.
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spud posted:
Yes, extremely loving racist! Goddamn loving racists.
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peter gabriel posted:That's not a fun fact, that's not at all it could be fun for the medical intern
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