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RyokoTK posted:Tyler, the Job Creator i know a guy who has worked for tyler the creator. it sounded like the major hazards of the job were having tyler make ironic gay advances toward you, and messing with reporters who came along on tour Lutha Mahtin fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Mar 1, 2017 |
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Platystemon posted:The Titanic was a series of bad decisions. Not calling it an “accident” is good. People generally don't multitask well under pressure either, leading to people focusing on a symptom of a problem and ignoring information about the problem. Go browse the wikipedia page for airliner incidents and with a few exceptions pretty much all of them are the result of one or more poor decisions.
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CannonFodder posted:Yep. If I remember right, he was either trying to catch back up to the pack behind the pacecar or re-enter the pit without losing too much ground, which isn't really unusual , though maybe not the safest thing. Then he lost control when something in the rear end of the car broke and sent him up into the jet dryer.
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FCKGW posted:holy poo poo everything in this article Someone I knew had done that (attached a circular saw blade) to a grinder, but they didnt have a guard on it. Another idiot decided to use it to cut down a tree branch that was overhanging the roof. Predictably it kicked back and sliced through his upper arm to the bone and he nearly bled out on the 1 mile drive to the hospital. L0cke17 fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Mar 1, 2017 |
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My friend worked at a well regarded trendy vegetarian restaurant in town that really marketed its self as really progressive and ethical. They treated the staff like poo poo of course because food service, but what got him walking away from the job was the equipment. They had all sorts of big mixers and kitchen appliances, most of them very old. I've never worked in a commercial kitchen so I can't remember what was what, but he told me about once a month someone would get hair or clothing stuck in some big huge mixer and nearly get pulled in but they could always stop it in time. It was invariably a new person who was given no training and just told to go figure the machine out. They also had a bunch of smaller mixers, all sitting on a stainless steel counter. Some were very old and had incredibly frayed wiring. One was so old the button was stuck to "on" and you had to power it by plugging it. They would frequently give people shocks and sometimes blow the breaker when the exposed wiring would make contact with the counter when the lovely tape they'd put on came loose every week. My friend, who had some electrical background and safety training raised the alarm a few times over the equipment. His manager repeatedly told him "It's been like that for years, you're the only one complaining, they don't make that model of mixer anymore and it's really good. Why fix it if it's not broken? Just be careful, everyone knows." He finally quit, but only because he finally lined up another job months later. Many others told him they were really concerned about the equipment safety there and were sure someone was going to get hurt real bad one day, but they needed the work. The boss would also hint that she couldn't afford to replace all the kitchen stuff or upgrade the panel and it would be a shame if the restaurant was forced to shut down. You can have all the regulations in the world, but if workers fear for their jobs they'll not only not report things, they'll cover for their job creator. Also anyone successfully reporting their restaurant owning boss on something that actually resulted in a fine or expensive action they'd pretty much get black-balled for service work in the city since "small business owners" love to get together and bitch endlessly about how minimum wage laws, taxes, and regulation are killing them and if it wasn't for them who would create all the abusive dangerous minimum wage jobs????
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I worked at a place in college where i told them i knew how to use a meat slicer and i didnt. the fountain of blood from cutting off a quarter centimeter of thumb tip is impressive. they paid for the ER visit, i quit. the touchpad on the steam controller still doesn't work quite right, though.
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Efexeye posted:I worked at a place in college where i told them i knew how to use a meat slicer and i didnt. the fountain of blood from cutting off a quarter centimeter of thumb tip is impressive. they paid for the ER visit, i quit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toNsPh-pxgc Dramatic re-enactment
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L0cke17 posted:Someone I knew had done that to a grinder, but they didnt have a guard on it. Another idiot decided to use it to cut down a tree branch that was overhanging the roof. Predictably it kicked back and sliced through his upper arm to the bone and he nearly bled out on the 1 mile drive to the hospital. i've not used an angle grinder but wouldn't it have been able to go through a tree branch in its normal configuration
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Raskolnikov38 posted:i've not used an angle grinder but wouldn't it have been able to go through a tree branch in its normal configuration I generally use a reciprocating saw for my bigger tree trimming needs. Grinder seems like a dumb idea.
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Mar 1, 2017 20:30
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JB50 posted:I generally use a reciprocating saw for my bigger tree trimming needs. Grinder seems like a dumb idea. well yeah it still stupid but slightly safer i guess
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Raskolnikov38 posted:i've not used an angle grinder but wouldn't it have been able to go through a tree branch in its normal configuration It was in reference to the picture with a circular saw blade on a grinder.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:i've not used an angle grinder but wouldn't it have been able to go through a tree branch in its normal configuration You can buy handheld rotary saws but I'm pretty sure they're for crazy people. Sure they've got purpose made guards unlike some of those grinder conversions, but its just sick amounts of torque if it catches and then it disengages and spins back up probably in your body. Getting a sawzall or chainsaw bound is still a potential pants making GBS threads, but the forces are in a direction that I'm much happier about.
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I fell through the floor at my old job because it had been rotting away and either my boss or the landlord didn't care until an accident actually happened. And then for like two months we just had a piece of plywood over the open hole. Also this was the threshold of the fire exit. Also the fire exit led into a tiny tiny 'yard' that was blocked by a gate that was padlocked and also ziptied shut multiple times. We didn't have a key to the padlock btw and in case of fire we were just supposed to figure it out ourselves, I guess.
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Magikarpal Tunnel posted:I fell through the floor at my old job because it had been rotting away and either my boss or the landlord didn't care until an accident actually happened. And then for like two months we just had a piece of plywood over the open hole. Also this was the threshold of the fire exit. Also the fire exit led into a tiny tiny 'yard' that was blocked by a gate that was padlocked and also ziptied shut multiple times. We didn't have a key to the padlock btw and in case of fire we were just supposed to figure it out ourselves, I guess. I did a fire safety plan for a place like that, it was an old building and the courtyard was big enough that even if people got stuck there there'd be mostly safe from the burning collapsing building. As part of the approval for it though a pair of bolt cutters were deployed at the door so the floor warden or who ever's first out can cut the padlock off the gate. Fire department was ok with that, since the gate wasn't entirely life-safety critical and more just so everyone can get to the assembly area to be counted sooner than later.
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Baronjutter posted:My friend worked at a well regarded trendy vegetarian restaurant in town that really marketed its self as really progressive and ethical. Baronjutter posted:their job creator. Raskolnikov38 posted:i've not used an angle grinder but wouldn't it have been able to go through a tree branch in its normal configuration evil_bunnY fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Mar 1, 2017 |
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Baronjutter posted:I did a fire safety plan for a place like that, it was an old building and the courtyard was big enough that even if people got stuck there there'd be mostly safe from the burning collapsing building. As part of the approval for it though a pair of bolt cutters were deployed at the door so the floor warden or who ever's first out can cut the padlock off the gate. Fire department was ok with that, since the gate wasn't entirely life-safety critical and more just so everyone can get to the assembly area to be counted sooner than later. The yard was like two feet wide at most plus the safety plan was 'idk there's a fire extinguisher at the front desk'
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Wanted: clean pants. Please deliver to the cameraman on the grass. 
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Use of the widowmaker about a minute in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDUprNyYlfM
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Powershift posted:Wanted: clean pants. Please deliver to the cameraman on the grass.  Context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puoPsmepZDk&t=461s Timestamp @ 7:41 if it doesn't work automatically
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Facebook Aunt posted:We don't need to forget how to prevent scurvy, we can actively deny it. Link to said thread?
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Bogatyr posted:Use of the widowmaker about a minute in. Im no shipwright but wouldn't a sawzall and a sander be a better way of doing that?
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Cosmic Charlie posted:Im no shipwright but wouldn't a sawzall and a sander be a better way of doing that? He claimed the sawzall would "vibrate the hell out of it" which I don't really buy unless he means the tip of the blade banging the hell out of the other side.
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Cosmic Charlie posted:Im no shipwright but wouldn't a sawzall and a sander be a better way of doing that? Oh god yes. I'm no shipwright either, but I've spent a lot of years as a carpenter. I couldn't even finish the video. Really one of the few instances where I'd say this is a better option: http://www.harborfreight.com/22-tooth-carving-disc-61638.html Edit: broken link Poisonlizard fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Mar 2, 2017 |
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The Bananana posted:Link to said thread? The thread was being actively trolled by fake posters and a lot of stuff was taken as gospel after the fact. It was a lot of STDH. There was a guy who pretended that he was full Paleo and only ate raw meat, sometimes spoiled because it boosted his immune system and spent a few nights a week in a Yurt outside with his wife. And people believed it. Gumbel2Gumbel fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Mar 2, 2017 |
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The Bananana posted:Link to said thread? I think this was the last one: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3407406 The most insane poster in that thread may be TheCosmicMuffet. 
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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:The thread was being actively trolled by fake posters and a lot of stuff was taken as gospel after the fact. It was a lot of STDH. That thread also judiciously banned anyone telling people not to shove lard into their body 24/7
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Improbable Lobster posted:That thread also judiciously banned anyone telling people not to shove lard into their body 24/7 Yeah it was getting FYADed and they kept posting pictures of bread and other carbohydrates which was the bulk of it. It was actually pretty funny. Not as good as when they got that person in Pet Island demodded for the shenanigans that happened with her pet chicken Megatron or w/e it was called.
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That's one of the great car chases in cinema history. They got some amazing shots by rigging camera people outside of cars. the built in as much safety as they possibly could - except for putting those camera people right next to the path of an out of control vehicle of course. The movie is a must watch for that 10 minutes or so alone.
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Sagebrush posted:Anyway, if the absurdly dangerous Dremel tool that nearly sliced off the end of my finger was one of those little https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WksPMueXkP4
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A gallery of gifs that gives a good overview of the situation at the Oroville Dam: https://imgur.com/gallery/mpUge
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Powered Descent posted:A gallery of gifs that gives a good overview of the situation at the Oroville Dam: This guy on youtube has good videos explaining the current situation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilkU_ivYTqQ
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Jerry Cotton posted:By that logic there sure as hell have been very few accidents in the history of the world. Titanic sank? Why didn't they just go around the ice-berg. You? Daddy could've pulled out. Though it's been found that the hull failure was likely due to a coal fire, yes they could have gone around. The helmsman stopped the engines giving him no steerage. If he'd kept power on and steered away and then toward he would have kept his rear end from striking the iceberg. An accident happens when something completely unexpected happens. Be it a gun, or be it the Titanic, it was human failure.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHJZNFKksBs Watch the whole thing, the buildup makes it even better. "What are they possibly doing with that stick?" 
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Killstick posted:"What are they possibly doing with that stick?" Username/post combo had me thinking the whole time: "What are they possibly going to kill with that stick?" e: Did not lessen the payoff at all, though.
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I'm assuming that's in this thread because they didn't put safety tape on the end the two guys were holding, right?
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Powershift posted:Wanted: clean pants. Please deliver to the cameraman on the grass. I like the pneumatic rod that screams FREEDOM and immediately tries to kill the people in the chase car.
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JB50 posted:I generally use a reciprocating saw for my bigger tree trimming needs. Grinder seems like a dumb idea. Yeah, too big for the big pruning shears but too small for chainsaw I use a reciprocating saw.
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my coworker has a friend who on the first day of the job as a tree surgeon saw his boss decapitate himself
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Bogatyr posted:Use of the widowmaker about a minute in. jfc his LEFT THUMB! And what the hell is up with is left forearm? Is that a loving scar that runs all the way up, and into his bicep? I actually got really scared watching that.
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