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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:OSHA success story: It looks like some of the corner went through the helmet? 
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The hard hat's helmet is suspended above the skull. The suspension & extra space is supposed to spread the force of any impact around and make sure it isn't directly transmitted to your skull. The penetration doesn't look that deep, so hopefully it was indeed an OSHA succes story and someone got very lucky.
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Mar 23, 2016 18:14
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I'm helping a guy build a nice kit car right now. We were working on it on the lift one day, pretty similar to one of these guys: The rear end end of the car was on pads, and the front end of it was supported by cradles that held part of the frame. I looked at the cradles and noticed a gap between them and the frame. I looked at him and asked "This isn't right, right?" as I jiggled the cradle. He looked at me wide eyed and said "Alright. Now, let's very calmly, but quickly, get the gently caress out from under this car." He held on to the front end of the car as I lowered it, just to make sure it didn't tip off the lift. "Well, it looks like I accidentally found the car's balance point. Let's make sure we never do that again."
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Mar 23, 2016 18:17
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Saw a lady walk under a picker ucket today. The lady was like "can I walk under that" and the guy said "yea sure, cmon" as he drilled something into the wall of the building right over her head.
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Mar 23, 2016 18:23
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KoRMaK posted:Saw a lady walk under a picker ucket today. The lady was like "can I walk under that" and the guy said "yea sure, cmon" as he drilled something into the wall of the building right over her head. i used to do this ll the time at my old job. worst thing i ever did was plonk some kid in the head with a speaker grille
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Mar 23, 2016 19:00
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Raygereio posted:The hard hat's helmet is suspended above the skull. There's a YouTube video of some guys testing out various bladed and spiked weapons against a motorcycle helmet to see if they can cause fatal brain damage to a fake head inside. Motorcycle helmets are loving tough. Almost everything just bounced off barely scuffing the paint job, but the one or two times a spiked weapon like a war hammer penetrates, the helmet is so thick and multi-layered that it never even breaches the inside of the helmet to scratch the head of the guy wearing it. chitoryu12 fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Mar 23, 2016 |
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Mar 23, 2016 19:58
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chitoryu12 posted:There's a YouTube video of some guys testing out various bladed and spiked weapons against a motorcycle helmet to see if they can cause fatal brain damage to a fake head inside. Motorcycle helmets are loving tough. Almost everything just bounces off barely scuffing the paint job, but the one or two times a spiked weapon like a war hammer penetrates, the helmet is so thick and multi-layered that it never even breaches the inside of the helmet to scratch the head of the guy wearing it. I'm not sure how true the story is, but think this is a helmet of a guy that hit a bus and got dragged for a bit. Helmets are important. 
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Mar 23, 2016 20:04
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So, if I got sent back in time, a motorcycle helmet would help me fight off the barbarian hordes?
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Mar 23, 2016 20:46
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Johnny Aztec posted:So, if I got sent back in time, a motorcycle helmet would help me fight off the barbarian hordes? If you had a suit of motorcycle helmets, yes
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Mar 23, 2016 20:55
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Perhaps a penguin posted:I'm helping a guy build a nice kit car right now. We were working on it on the lift one day, pretty similar to one of these guys:
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Mar 23, 2016 21:06
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Kilo147 posted:If you had a suit of motorcycle helmets, yes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jYwQacBdGw&t=12s
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Mar 23, 2016 21:07
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Karma Monkey posted:It looks like some of the corner went through the helmet? Either way he is still probably better off than he would have been otherwise
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Mar 23, 2016 21:23
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Not cool enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPS2l5fQ55A
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Mar 23, 2016 21:31
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:OSHA success story: Guy should be fired. I've seen this kind of thing before in Saving Private Ryan. Helmet saves a guy's life, so first thing he does is take it off to look at it and BAM! he gets taken out by the second flying piece of metal. Its a rookie mistake, you hate to see it.
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Mar 23, 2016 22:20
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I'm on a phone so unsure how this will look, but saw this guy hard at work today. I suppose it could be worse... http://m.imgur.com/7bNoyGp
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Mar 23, 2016 23:04
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SpacePig posted:I'm not sure how true the story is, but think this is a helmet of a guy that hit a bus and got dragged for a bit. Helmets are important. That specific picture is of a helmet that has undergone certification testing for just that kind of event, IIRC.
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Mar 23, 2016 23:25
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Raygereio posted:The hard hat's helmet is suspended above the skull. If he hadn't been holding that hardhat that metal thing would have sliced his fingers clean off.
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Mar 23, 2016 23:36
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:OSHA success story: That's something to hang up on the garage wall
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Mar 24, 2016 02:22
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From the Welcome to Australia thread:
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Mar 24, 2016 02:47
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Gorilla Salad posted:From the Welcome to Australia thread: Wouldn't want to gently caress with a Sydney Funnel Web either.
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Mar 24, 2016 03:01
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It was probably a red headed mouse spider: Mouse spiders look really similar to funnel web spiders, certainly close enough for people to go "Nope, ain't going anywhere near that fucker, goodbye!" Their venom is pretty darned toxic but there's no record of their bite ever causing a fatality in Australia.
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Mar 24, 2016 03:17
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chitoryu12 posted:Not cool enough. I'm the cock clock.
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Mar 24, 2016 03:26
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Kaluza-Klein posted:I'm on a phone so unsure how this will look, but saw this guy hard at work today. I suppose it could be worse... Hello fellow Red Hatter.
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Mar 24, 2016 03:41
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Mouse spiders look really similar to funnel web spiders, certainly close enough for people to go "Nope, ain't going anywhere near that fucker, goodbye!" Their venom is pretty darned toxic but there's no record of their bite ever causing a fatality in Australia. The guideline for treatment is 'treat as for severe funnelweb envenomation'. Also, the main reason for no-recorded-fatalities is (unlike atrax robustus), we haven't built a major population centre smack in the middle of their range. I'd wager one or two of the empty pairs of boots dotted about rural NSW would be down to a mouse spider.
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Mar 24, 2016 04:21
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KoRMaK posted:Saw a lady walk under a picker ucket today. The lady was like "can I walk under that" and the guy said "yea sure, cmon" as he drilled something into the wall of the building right over her head. I walk under boom lifts all the time, if something is safe enough to be in while it's raised, it's safe enough to walk under. They all have holding valves that prevent the hydraulics from falling even if all pressure is lost. He still shouldn't have been drilling/working while she was there, though. Last Saturday a flatbed truck hauling a boom lift hit a bridge because the driver loaded it incorrectly: he had the boom extended way up such that he managed to hit a 15' bridge doing 125km/h. I heard second hand that two of the final drive gears exploded, and that the counterweight (a piece of steel weighing over 2 tons) fell off and skidded 300' to a stop on the highway. No one was injured but Jesus, I bet that made a noise.    Also one of the drivers from my company took a video as he drove by: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoG3YR8MTxw
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Mar 24, 2016 06:29
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It was probably a red headed mouse spider: No one wants to be the first.
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Mar 24, 2016 06:38
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EKDS5k posted:Last Saturday a flatbed truck hauling a boom lift hit a bridge because the driver loaded it incorrectly Most of the time these are hilarious:    Occasionally they're less than hilarious:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2712184/Giraffe-dies-hitting-head-low-bridge-owner-drives-open-truck-South-African-highway.html
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Mar 24, 2016 06:42
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EKDS5k posted:I walk under boom lifts all the time, if something is safe enough to be in while it's raised, it's safe enough to walk under. They all have holding valves that prevent the hydraulics from falling even if all pressure is lost. He still shouldn't have been drilling/working while she was there, though. I thought the risk was the person in the lift accidentally dropping something from height, not the lift falling.
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Mar 24, 2016 07:51
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I was sent to check on some stuff at another site my employee owns. Went into the warehouse and it was dark, like no lighting at all except what came through the roller doors. Funnily enough the side door I entered put me in the racks and racks of spare lighting bulbs they kept in stock. Also trying to find the fire hose reel to inspect it took a while - someone put a filing cabinet in front of it and as it has a flat surface on top - idiots think its now a shelf and piled more crap on top! Someone not wearing high-vis and sneakers instead of boots operating one of those mini forklifts you walk around. A mechanic leaning on the cage all the gas bottles are stored in the back lot having a cigarette. And the best - a guy standing on a pallet, lifted up 2 levels fixing some guttering by a forklift with no fall restraints. My last day before easter break turned into a safety breach writing marathon. I need a beer. (also on that - i saw many many beer bottles in one of the general waste skipbins.
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Mar 24, 2016 09:06
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Humphreys posted:I was sent to check on some stuff at another site my employee owns. Went into the warehouse and it was dark, like no lighting at all except what came through the roller doors. Funnily enough the side door I entered put me in the racks and racks of spare lighting bulbs they kept in stock. I can't even tell you how many times I rode a pallet up to the ceiling in my warehouse to change a light bulb or fix cabling. Just jump on the pallets until you find a good one and then up you go. It's hard to keep your balance when you're looking straight up. You just have to try to forget how high up you are and hold onto a ceiling beam as you look back down so you don't lose your balance. This was years ago. I was a warehouse manager for almost 7 years and never heard boo from OSHA.
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Mar 24, 2016 09:17
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mostlygray posted:I can't even tell you how many times I rode a pallet up to the ceiling in my warehouse to change a light bulb or fix cabling. Just jump on the pallets until you find a good one and then up you go. It's hard to keep your balance when you're looking straight up. You just have to try to forget how high up you are and hold onto a ceiling beam as you look back down so you don't lose your balance. This was years ago. I was a warehouse manager for almost 7 years and never heard boo from OSHA. So it's safe as long as you don't fall off, right?
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Mar 24, 2016 10:18
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EKDS5k posted:I walk under boom lifts all the time, if something is safe enough to be in while it's raised, it's safe enough to walk under. They all have holding valves that prevent the hydraulics from falling even if all pressure is lost. He still shouldn't have been drilling/working while she was there, though.
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Mar 24, 2016 13:41
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Most of the time these are hilarious: That construction vehicle must have been going super fast to be half way into the bridge like that
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Mar 24, 2016 13:42
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it looks like the ripped the goose neck from the trailer (it's meant to separate, but not like that) and those boom arms are really loving strong. It also looks like the top of the elbow it the underside of the bridge bringing the whole tractor/trailer up in the air probably. Wouldn't be a fun exercise I don't think he's also a job creator cause now people have to fix that bridge
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Mar 24, 2016 13:56
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:OSHA success story: That reminds me of the stories my dad used to tell me about Oil construction in the 70's and 80's in Scotland. Except it was a scaffolding clip and the guy wasn't wearing a helmet so got brain damaged instead as the clip took off part of his skull. Hard hats are important. I'll try to find and scan in the photo of my dad rowing a boat 100ft below the North Sea, it's OSHA because he's not wearing his respirator.
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Mar 24, 2016 15:37
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Aramoro posted:That reminds me of the stories my dad used to tell me about Oil construction in the 70's and 80's in Scotland. Except it was a scaffolding clip and the guy wasn't wearing a helmet so got brain damaged instead as the clip took off part of his skull. Hard hats are important. Either rig-working in the north-east or shipbuilding in the south-west of Scotland would have enough terrifying OSHA stories to fuel an entire thread on their own. Because basically every man of working age in Scotland worked in either one or the other. For example, my grandpa was a shipbuilder, and witnessed more than a couple of guys having structural steel rivets being made permanent parts of their anatomy or losing other parts of their anatomy to rivet guns.
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Mar 24, 2016 16:11
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Aramoro posted:I'll try to find and scan in the photo of my dad rowing a boat 100ft below the North Sea, it's OSHA because he's not wearing his respirator. Rowing a boat underwater does sound pretty OSHA.
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Mar 24, 2016 16:15
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:Either rig-working in the north-east or shipbuilding in the south-west of Scotland would have enough terrifying OSHA stories to fuel an entire thread on their own. Because basically every man of working age in Scotland worked in either one or the other. Yeah my dad worked the rigs for a couple of years and got weather delayed getting off a rig which caused him to miss a flight which crashed in Sumburgh killing a lot of people he knew, that's when he gave it up. He worked at Ardyne and Nigg as well. He went to the much safer environment of a a massive Oil refinery which has asbestos matting covering the ground in some areas because the ground is flammable and if it caught fire they wouldn't be able to put it out. A few deaths later and he decided that perhaps giving up work to look after the kids was a better plan. It's always an adventure to find out if the hilarious workplace story is going to end up with someone permanently maimed/killed or not. quote:Rowing a boat underwater does sound pretty OSHA. It was in the legs of oil rigs, you can row little boats about inside them for checking on stuff. Sounded fun.
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Mar 24, 2016 16:26
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Aramoro posted:It was in the legs of oil rigs, you can row little boats about inside them for checking on stuff. Sounded fun. 
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This is the one he was on mostly 
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