Johnny Aztec posted:

The snow falling off stuff is hypnotic.

hanales posted:

The lone wheel rolling off to nowhere is very bugs bunny. I feel Yosemite Sam should jump out of the cab.

quote:

A Florida man was crushed to death by pallets of mushrooms on Monday night.

According to the Orlando Sentinel, 45-year-old Bruce Edward Stephenson Jr. was moving the pallets at Monterey Mushrooms Inc. with a forklift when they began swaying. He jumped off, but didn't escape before they fell on top of him, an Orange County Sheriff's Office report stated.

Monterey Mushroom was levied a $6,000 fine in December for the violation of exposing employees to fall hazards by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. OSHA said in its report that the violation was "likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees,” according to the Orlando Sentinel.

Jeannie Economos, health and safety coordinator for the Farm Workers Association of Florida, said she has heard of complaints about Monterey Mushrooms for years.

"I'm extremely upset, especially when Monterey Mushrooms is so big and making tons of money and they can't have safe conditions for their workers," Economos told the Orlando Sentinel.

The incident is under investigation.

Anony Mouse posted:

Florida man crushed to death by pallets of mushrooms


Yeah a $6,000 fine will definitely deter violations "likely to cause death or serious harm to employees." Apparently if he had just stayed in the cab he probably would have lived though.

I involuntarily laughed at their choice of accompanying news image:



"In case you forgot what mushrooms look like, here's the mugshot."

JB50 posted:

What a moron. Should I just stay on the forklift that has a huge cage on top, or jump off where theres no protection. Hmmmmmm its a real dilemma.

Anony Mouse posted:

I dunno, without strong training otherwise I think a lot of people's first instinct is to bail out. People don't make logical, rational decisions when there's only a split second to react.

Anony Mouse posted:

I dunno, without strong training otherwise I think a lot of people's first instinct is to bail out. People don't make logical, rational decisions when there's only a split second to react.

Avenging_Mikon posted:

When I got forklift trained, they gave me online training with several pictures of "this guy tried to get out of the cage as the forklift was tipping/had stuff falling on it. He didn't make it." And all you could see was a 14ft puddle of red across the cement.

DrBouvenstein posted:

^ ^ ^ No hardhat! Violation! ^ ^ ^


MedicalDeviceSafety.txt

Seriously, pretty much every safety feature, alarm, interlock, lockout, etc... on any medical device is there because at some point in the device's history, some nurse/doctor/patient/patient's family member/janitor/random looky-loo hit a button they weren't supposed to, or turned something off that should be on, or on that should be off, etc...

One of my specialties was anesthesia machines, and basically every generation in the past few decades has had a new safety feature that at some point engineers and doctors said wasn't needed because "That's not necessary! The anesthesiologist knows what he's doing!

Things like...t

The knob to control Oxygen flow has to be both larger and have different knurling than the knobs for nitrous oxide and air. This is because on at least one occasion, a doctor was looking at something else, either the patient, or a life signs monitor (or a magazine), and just started turning the knob up to increase O2. But it was nitrous, and the patient was injured or died.

Speaking of, the flow of nitrous oxide now has to have a physical connection in some way to the flow of O2. The ratio can never more more than 3 to 1 O2 to N20. This is because once (possibly multiple times) doctors increased the nitrous flow too much and the patients didn't get enough O2 and were injured or died.

Captain Foo posted:

oh is that what that's supposed to have meant

because gravity acts at c

Das Butterbrot posted:

why / for what is nitrous even used nowadays. when i asked my dentist why it's not used over here anymore she laughed and said something along the lines of "we're not in the 1950s we have local powerful anaesthetics now"

and in hospital, they typically use propofol or midazolam to make you fall asleep afaik, depending on the type of procedure.

flosofl posted:

Say Nothing posted:

Via PYF gif thread.

http://i.imgur.com/9flKzUt.mp4

What.

pookerbug posted:

That's one way to change a tire.

zedprime posted:

Dentist nitrous seems to have fallen out of popularity because of drug panic making people scared of becoming druggies by going to the dentist. Its not like novocaine was a recent discovery. With drug liberalization, you're starting to see a lot of dentist offices advertising they'll give you nitrous for whatever procedure you want because who doesn't want to laugh a bit at the dentist.

Phanatic posted:

http://imgur.com/AqUM5E4?r

Markoff Chaney posted:

This is just anecdotal, but growing up I was fine with nitrous, but now in my 30s the dentist tried it on me for free because I was having a bit of a panic - and it made it worse. I felt awful and had to leave and re-schedule. I think that poo poo has different effects depending on age.

Lemon posted:

Doesn't anaesthetic in general have that variable effect? I remember the only time I had general when I woke up I had a bit of a freakout. My old boss had a general and apparently when he woke up he started getting violent so they just knocked his rear end out again.

Lemon posted:

Doesn't anaesthetic in general have that variable effect? I remember the only time I had general when I woke up I had a bit of a freakout. My old boss had a general and apparently when he woke up he started getting violent so they just knocked his rear end out again.

Lemon posted:

Doesn't anaesthetic in general have that variable effect? I remember the only time I had general when I woke up I had a bit of a freakout. My old boss had a general and apparently when he woke up he started getting violent so they just knocked his rear end out again.

Das Butterbrot posted:

and in hospital, they typically use propofol or midazolam to make you fall asleep afaik, depending on the type of procedure.

Gobbeldygook posted:

Was your boss ex-military? It's called "emergence delirium". For a small percentage of patients, mostly middle-aged men with military experience, their immediate reaction to finding themselves disoriented and surrounded by unfamiliar people in a strange room is to start ripping out IV lines and punching people in the face. When this happens they re-sedate the patient and try to bring them out again. The patient usually doesn't remember anything that happened.

Gobbeldygook posted:

Was your boss ex-military? It's called "emergence delirium". For a small percentage of patients, mostly middle-aged men with military experience, their immediate reaction to finding themselves disoriented and surrounded by unfamiliar people in a strange room is to start ripping out IV lines and punching people in the face. When this happens they re-sedate the patient and try to bring them out again. The patient usually doesn't remember anything that happened.