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SoylentCola posted:This site has everything you need. quote:Saturday, May 17, 1980 - A 13-year-old boy was killed during a ride on a water slide in Texas. He lost both of his legs during the accident and finally drowned. 
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Carbon dioxide posted:Apparently, at some point during the industrial revolution, there were factory towns with a huge steam engine in the middle and moving belts delivering power to every factory around it. Just like there would be electric wiring from a power plant today. I'm betting it wasn't much more dangerous than the first high power electrical connections. Check out the Rollag Steam Threshers Reunion in Rollag MN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKXqm49c1Qg. The 600 Snow has 600HP and 39,000 lbs/ft of torque. Everything's exposed and, though there are guard rails, you can reach just about any of the moving parts. You should see the boiler. It's outside and monstrous.
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grimcreaper posted:Don't know if this counts as an Osha thing, but i work in a retail store. Just had a couple truck batteries take a tumble and Crack open leaking ALL their acid into a nice size puddle. I'm pretty sure we are supposed to call the EPA for that much battery acid. Instead they just dumped some chemical cleanup powder on it and threw the bag of powdered acid in the trash. zedprime posted:Unless it was 1000 pounds of acid, that all seems above board. Yeah, as long as the acid is soaked up, possibly neutralized, and then the materials bagged, it's fine to go in the trash. It might technically need to be disposed separately because the acid contains dissolved lead, but it's so little that no one would care.
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grimcreaper posted:Don't know if this counts as an Osha thing, but i work in a retail store. Just had a couple truck batteries take a tumble and Crack open leaking ALL their acid into a nice size puddle. I'm pretty sure we are supposed to call the EPA for that much battery acid. Instead they just dumped some chemical cleanup powder on it and threw the bag of powdered acid in the trash. Baking Soda or Calcium Carbonate works perfectly for neutralizing acid. My sister-in-law, an industrial chemist, was in charge of a cleanup of over 1000 gallons of acid and just used Calcium Carbonate to neutralize and dispose. She was tasked with measuring the unknown amount of acid that had spilled. She used the PH and the amount of CC to to determine the original amount of liquid spilled across the shop floor. Pretty clever I thought.
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I'm looking to get into HVAC, because I'm a giant poo poo. Will OSHA be my greatest enemy... or my greatest ally???
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Dandywalken posted:I'm looking to get into HVAC, because I'm a giant poo poo. Will OSHA be my greatest enemy... or my greatest ally??? Don't get into HVAC that's how you die of heat exhaustion! Just learn how to repair or install them or something! 
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Dandywalken posted:I'm looking to get into HVAC, because I'm a giant poo poo. Will OSHA be my greatest enemy... or my greatest ally??? OSHA is the ally because it's what keeps you alive.
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Aug 12, 2015 05:15
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chitoryu12 posted:OSHA is the ally because it's what keeps you alive. A lot of people will try to convince you otherwise. These people are idiots who value convenience or pleasing their boss above keeping their limbs and lives.
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I can understand company owners not liking OSHA and such but it boggles my mind when actual workers get annoyed with it. You're getting paid by the hour and you're mad at something that makes your job take a tiny bit longer while keeping you bodily intact and alive?
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being concerned for your safety is for wusses, i'll be fine because i got common sense unlike those other g-oh god my hand what happened to my hand gently caress my thumb get me some ice to pack it in somebody!!
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If you want to hear about unsafe amusement parks you really need to listen to The Dollop episode about Action Park! A place where a crash helmet and bales of hay were the only thing protecting you from being flung into piles of rocks. Where a lifeguard would routinely save more lives in a day than most lifeguards would save in a summer. Where they had to buy the town an extra ambulance because so many people got injured at the park every day. http://thedollop.libsyn.com/87-action-park
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Baronjutter posted:I can understand company owners not liking OSHA and such but it boggles my mind when actual workers get annoyed with it. You're getting paid by the hour and you're mad at something that makes your job take a tiny bit longer while keeping you bodily intact and alive? Even hourlies get leaned on to complete a job by X. gently caress it, I've done this fine without needing [safety gear] the last Y times...
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Hahah that's cold
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Yeah, with a battery acid spill... well, the acid is just sulfuric. Fumes a bit, don't breathe it in, but if you neutralize it or simply dilute it there's no problem. If it's an old car battery and a powdery lead deposit has formed on the bottom, and that spills out as well... then you got a real environmental pollution problem to deal with. Hope that didn't happen.
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Dandywalken posted:I'm looking to get into HVAC, because I'm a giant poo poo. Will OSHA be my greatest enemy... or my greatest ally??? I am currently in HVAC as a project manager. How much you even need to worry about OSHA depends on what part of the business you're getting into. In general though OSHA is your friend and they are around to keep you safe. Major general contractors across the US all have more stringent safety measures than OSHA does anyway. If you're planning to own/run an HVAC business then you might hate OSHA because there will be paperwork and records to keep that need to get reported in to OSHA on a regular basis.
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If you are doing a hands-on job, you should care about HSE (or OHSA or whatever it's called where you will be working) If you are running the gig and managing the hands-on people, you should care too, but unfortunately it seems the expected course of action is to work out how to cut it out of any step to expediate results Just remember that if you refuse to do something because of by-the-letter OHSA being violated, and you get sacked, then congratulations you have a winnable, possibly lucrative, suit for unfair dismissal
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Baronjutter posted:I can understand company owners not liking OSHA and such but it boggles my mind when actual workers get annoyed with it. You're getting paid by the hour and you're mad at something that makes your job take a tiny bit longer while keeping you bodily intact and alive? The abstract way to look at it, is people have broken chance management by default. Short of staring at an uncaged tiger, the default setting in your brain is lazy and invincible. Noone is immune 100% of the time, so safety programs focus on a "brother's keeper" culture where people are encouraged to intervene with others who might innocently have tunnel vision, and policy changes need approved by multiple sets of eyes. The depressing way is some people are just awful. Someone on the line might think of themselves as a temporarily embarrassed manager and don't want time wasting safety to spread and affect their metrics when they are finally promoted. Everyone hates change, and some people more so. "I've been doing it this way for 30 years and still have 90% of my fingers so why change now?" E. A more direct answer about why someone would be annoyed about it: they aren't annoyed with being told to be safer. They are annoyed because they are being told they are wrong. It takes a saint to not be annoyed at being told you are wrong. zedprime fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Aug 12, 2015 |
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:So you keep your mouth closed 24/7 at home? A toilet is just a mini churning tank of poo poo.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Apparently, at some point during the industrial revolution, there were factory towns with a huge steam engine in the middle and moving belts delivering power to every factory around it. Just like there would be electric wiring from a power plant today. I'm betting it wasn't much more dangerous than the first high power electrical connections. belt drives were, like, extraordinarily dangerous, b/c unlike an electrical cable, every inch of the (invariably entirely exposed) powertrain presents a serious contact hazard, and in a factory those things were run all over the drat place. theyre kind of front and centre in collections of old workplace safety posters et al:   
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Baronjutter posted:I can understand company owners not liking OSHA and such but it boggles my mind when actual workers get annoyed with it. You're getting paid by the hour and you're mad at something that makes your job take a tiny bit longer while keeping you bodily intact and alive? Following regulations takes more time and effort. No one likes having to work longer and harder. Its a lot like a speeding ticket. You don't get a speeding ticket right away when you start to speed. You don't get a speeding ticket every time you speed. Its too delayed and inconsistent to decrease your speeding. You don't get hurt every single time you cut corners. You may get away with it dozens or hundreds of times, each time reinforcing that its fine and you'll be okay. If you cut safety corners, you get the benefit of getting it done easier and faster, so you have time to goof off at work or end early. That's a big, immediate, consistent benefit.
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Yawgmoth posted:Mini and giant are different sizes, also my toilet doesn't contain open poo (since I put the lid down before flushing like a civilized person). if its yellow, let it mellow if its brown, keep it around
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if it's black, choke it back if it's red, don't flush the head if it's green, stir with your peen if it's white, have a bite
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to no one's surprise, a city in china exploded this morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lDDdhZhdVU http://us.cnn.com/2015/08/12/asia/china-port-explosion/index.html
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Dillbag posted:to no one's surprise, a city in china exploded this morning gently caress it, doing the needful and reposting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqNnyUYd_aU e: also jesus i hadnt seen that one yet, explosion was even bigger than it looked on the closer videos goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Aug 12, 2015 |
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haha that was fast here's a weibo link to a better video with even more explosions http://video.weibo.com/show?fid=1034%3Adc65aafd8a97629626a8b7c27c9d38ff
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Tony Homo posted:Explain it to me then. An instructor I had told us exactly what I wrote. Fires burn less intense if the fuel isn't built up from not allowing it to burn naturally. Many old trees that have survived many fires have been destroyed by fires recently because of this. The fires burn more intense and even reach the canopies which is not common naturally. Without controlled burns, brush can and will get thick enough to ignite crown fires. Stuff like brush clearing and firebreaks prevent fires from starting near structures but controlled burning is what really does the work when it comes to forest fire prevention.
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Dillbag posted:haha that was fast Holy gently caress that was massive, that's some apocalypse-level poo poo
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Re-posting from another thread, much closer video of the explosion.  http://sendvid.com/i7pcfexm because there is no way the person taking the video made it out
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bitcoin bastard posted:gently caress it, doing the needful and reposting holy poo poo this owns
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TMonsta posted:Re-posting from another thread, poo poo you weren't kidding! There's a reason why that video cut out...
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Ozz81 posted:Holy gently caress that was massive, that's some apocalypse-level poo poo Anonymous has a vine with another shot, similar to the weibo one in distance I'd say. https://twitter.com/YourAnonCentral/status/631534049127964672
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TMonsta posted:Re-posting from another thread, jesus loving christ
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TMonsta posted:Re-posting from another thread, He might have made it out, but he isn't hearing poo poo from now on.
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It is pretty cool how within a split second you can see every barrier in front of him explode towards the camera.
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VendaGoat posted:
the only way i figure that video exists is the person recording must have been streaming
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Battery talk - at work we have large, caged-off battery banks for both UPS (500Vdc) and circuit breaker control power (125Vdc). Accessing those areas require PPE (face shield/goggles, gloves, and a big rubber apron), and in one area we needed to install a special drenching shower in case someone did something like have acid spill on them. The individual units are called "jars" - they are transparent and you can see the acid and the lead cells. They are bigger than car batteries and weigh a hundred pounds or so each. I think that some telecom centers use similar battery banks.
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Decrepus posted:It is pretty cool how within a split second you can see every barrier in front of him explode towards the camera. About a second for the sound from the explosion to hit him. 1088 feet per second.  For added fun.... http://www.un.org/disarmament/un-saferguard/explosion-danger-area/ as long as it was under 1300 pounds of explosive, this site says he'd live. VendaGoat fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Aug 13, 2015 |
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i guess the rest of the video is on liveleak?
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bitcoin bastard posted:gently caress it, doing the needful and reposting lol it goes together perfectly
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