Encrypted posted:

Platystemon posted:

Better video of the silo roof:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-HcVDusKsE&t=43s

Lime Tonics posted:

Here is another angle, looks like the tanks got over-filled and popped.

http://i.imgur.com/y4O2PiC.gifv

Collateral Damage posted:

Almost all pumps here are self serve and have credit card readers. So I can roll up on the bike, not have to remove my helmet, pop my card into the machine, fill up, take my card and be out of there all in 2-3 minutes.

blarzgh posted:

Its not like this everywhere in the civilized world?

edit: (yes, I've been reading the thread; I'm using a veil of ignorance to express my incredulity.)

Javid posted:

Costco stores hoard their pallets in an empty trailer until it's full then some lucky route driver gets to take them back to the DC as his backhaul. Getting paid loaded mileage to carry a trailer that's barely got any weight in it like that is a good day.

Lime Tonics posted:

Bad chemical spill in Kansas



http://fox4kc.com/2016/10/21/chemical-spill-reported-at-mgp-ingredients-people-asked-to-avoid-the-area/

Krycek posted:

http://komonews.com/news/local/2-workers-seriously-injured-in-west-seattle-construction-accident



Crane hits the power line. I was the building inspector at this site the day it happened (not the safety inspector). Both guys lived, although one lost an arm.

Facebook Aunt posted:

"A spokesperson with the emergency management team said they believe the chemicals could be a mix of sulfuric acid and chlorine."

Well that's not good.

moist turtleneck posted:

Kansas don't need no regulation

http://i.imgur.com/XgBkrR3.gifv

xergm posted:

Then there's that feeling on a hot day. Right after you fill up, you feel the coolness of the fresh gas in the tank that's been sitting underground all day.

Lady Demelza posted:

I suppose this is sort of OSHA: today is the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster.

A Black Death

Aberfan is - was - a mining village in South Wales, nestled at the foot of the hills in the heart of coal country. Of the couple of thousand families who lived there, most of the men worked in the mines, as had generations of men before them. Everyone was acutely aware of the dangers of working underground - the explosions that buried men, the rickety equipment that could crush or mangle limbs, the toxic coal dust that ate away at their lungs until they gasped and choked their way into a premature grave.

But the horror of the Aberfan disaster is that it was a mining disaster that didn't kill miners. It killed their children.

Excavating coal creates a lot of spoil. A lot of spoil, and for years it had been piled in heaps that marred the natural beauty of the Welsh mountains and valleys. Millions of cubic metres of debris had been dumped all over the coal mining region, on land that had no economic value. In 1958, the National Coal Board started its 7th such slag heap from this colliery, atop a ridge of high ground called Mynydd Merthyr, overlooking the village and directly above Pantglas Junior School.

The local authorities and residents of Aberfan were concerned enough to petition the National Coal Board in 1963 that "the slurry is so fluid and the gradient so steep that it could not possibly stay in position". This wasn't NIMBYism: coal tips were notorious for slipping, especially those balanced on sandstone and covering underground streams, and they feared a major disaster.

The National Coal Board dismissed the fears: coal tips were notorious for slipping, especially those balanced on sandstone and covering underground streams, and there had never been a major disaster.

School's Out

By October 1966 the coal tip had grown to a staggering 111ft (34m) high. It had begun to make ominous movements, depressions and bulges appearing as though something restless was trying to escape. Several days of heavy rain, unable to drain quickly enough, had liquified the base of the heap. At 7.30am workers reported that there had been a substantial subsidence. The whole heap was dangerously unstable. It was only a matter of time before something gave.

That time was 9.15am.

Down in the village, there was a happy buzz amongst the children on Friday 21st October. They were only going to be in school three hours that morning, and then the school would break up for a week's half-term holiday. The few survivors would recall hearing a roar like thunder and seeing the lights flicker before the wave of black sludge travelling at 50mph (80kmh) engulfed a farm, 20 houses, and then finally, the school.

90 Minutes

It would be difficult to describe the chaos that followed. Parents, miners, villagers and emergency personnel rushed the the scene and began digging through the debris, some with hatchets and shovels, some clawing at the slurry with their bare and bloodied hands. Injured children who were trapped in air pockets within the collapsed wreckage were screaming and crying. Ten were pulled out alive and rushed to hospital. Gradually, the cries grew weaker and weaker and stopped.

Men from neighbouring towns rushed to Aberfan as news of the disaster spread, but they were too late to help with the rescue. Nobody was found alive after 10.45am.

Aftermath

The final death toll was 144. Of these, 116 were children aged between 7 and 10, almost half the children enrolled in Pantglas Junior School. The causes of death was officially a combination of asphyxia, blunt force trauma and head injuries, although the public sentiment was summed up by one bereaved father who told the inquest that "I want it recorded – 'Buried alive by the National Coal Board'. That is what I want to see on the record. That is the feeling of those present. Those are the words we want to go on the [death] certificate."

A year later, the official inquiry into the disaster came to the same, if slightly more verbose, conclusion.

A mass funeral was held a week after the disaster. Two days later, the Queen visited Aberfan to pay her respects on 29th October. As is traditional for royal visits, she received a posy from a small child.

The inscription read: "From the remaining children of Aberfan".

A Buff Gay Dude posted:

Sounds like most of those kids were on the naughty list.

Facebook Aunt posted:

"A spokesperson with the emergency management team said they believe the chemicals could be a mix of sulfuric acid and chlorine."

Well that's not good.

Lady Demelza posted:

The inscription read: "From the remaining children of Aberfan".

Lime Tonics posted:

Bad chemical spill in Kansas



http://fox4kc.com/2016/10/21/chemical-spill-reported-at-mgp-ingredients-people-asked-to-avoid-the-area/

Lime Tonics posted:

edit : As a delivery was being made on Fridaymorning, sodium hypochlorite and sulfuric acid were mixed accidentally, creating a chlorine cloud

Three-Phase posted:

Not OSHA but noteable: they are running some fiber connections in a neighborhood near me. So they have these gigantic spools of the fiber they are running. My coworker told me they have a handwritten sign on the spools:

"THIS IS FIBER OPTIC CABLE - SPOOL CONTAINS NO COPPER"

If these guys break into substations to cut out grounding conductors I'm sure they would try and rip into one of those things left outside at night.

Say Nothing posted:

JoelJoel posted:

Was this posted here yet? Bear on site. Most Canadian dialogue I've ever heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pLsM2ijRao

gently caress you, bear.

FCKGW posted:

A couple years ago and several times since, yes.

Still a great video though.

Synthbuttrange posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5ZmnF7SCcU

Say Nothing posted:

Synthbuttrange posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5ZmnF7SCcU

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

How did they even build the lighthouse there in the first place?

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

How did they even build the lighthouse there in the first place?

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

How did they even build the lighthouse there in the first place?

Kanish posted:

Id assume they just plop that stone base in whole