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Jerry Cotton posted:Reminds me of the time when someone thought they won't bother following procedure, which is to always lower yourself before moving the lift, and tried to drive it while up in the air. Too bad he forgot to switch the controls from height to movement and crushed himself against the beam he was working on. The old guys are always the worst. OSHA has been tightening up on their standards as the decades go on, most prominently setting a November 10th deadline this year for employers to be able to prove that their crane operators are qualified. This is the main reason we've been getting so much business on certifying that we're almost too swamped to keep up even with a doubling of our staff: everyone is rushing to get certified at the last minute to make sure their sites don't get shut down. But because of that, you've got a lot of career operators who have been running cranes for 20 or 30 years getting pissed about being told what to do. They usually got their start informally, like their dad getting them a job as an oiler or helping rig up loads, and just sort of drifted into heavy equipment operation back when there was much less regulation and less checking to see if the operators were actually qualified or if they were just random rednecks who got 5 minutes of instruction and then told to crank it up. Now these same operators are being kicked off job sites for not being able to prove their qualification, and they come into classrooms for training or call us to get certified grumpy and grumbling about how they know just as much or more than the instructors and subject matter experts who created our exams. They're often decent to excellent operators and can pass a practical without difficulty, but some of them have never even seen a load chart (let alone tried to calculate a safe lift with one) and struggle with basic math and literacy. They learned everything about crane operation by the seat of their pants and think they know all it takes to do the job. I had one guy in his 70s rant at me for ages over the phone when he was trying to get certified. He had been an operator for over 40 years, so he felt that it was his duty to question every single requirement for certification and every policy that I had to follow to get him set up. He even tried to claim that he was already certified, only to walk it back to saying he had gotten some (probably non-existent) license in Puerto Rico where one of the tests involved lifting a heavy load until the crane started to tip so they could see if you would panic and let the crane fall over. He ended up never showing for his practical exam. He might be dead for all I know.
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Nenonen posted:Mass transit takes a different meaning in Russia: In Mother Russia, mass transits you. or something
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I think it was someone repo'ing their car, so they decided to flip the car he showed up in. Something like that.
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"You can have that car, I got the only car I need right here!"
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I saw this on an electronic sign today "AUDIT PREPARATION: KEEP YOUR WORK AREA CLEAN IT HELPS TO HIDE VIOLATIONS"
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Synthbuttrange posted:https://twitter.com/randjpodcasts/status/840816796479414272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw I had to watch this like 8 times and I still don't know how he failed so badly. Did his little booties slip off the pedals?
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Tom Scott (well, a guy named Grady, really) did a video on the Hyatt Regency Collapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnvGwFegbC8
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Ak Gara posted:I had to watch this like 8 times and I still don't know how he failed so badly. Did his little booties slip off the pedals? Just what were they trying to achieve here?
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oohhboy posted:Just what were they trying to achieve here? Professional wrestling.
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chitoryu12 posted:Professional wrestling. 
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Ak Gara posted:I think he was trying to raise the lift to put one of the pallets back, but after lifting the jack, physics happened and it pushed the jack away from the lift. It would have worked if those jacks had a brake. It would have also worked fine if he'd used a bunch of pallets stacked normally, instead of one standing up.
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Elendil004 posted:Tom Scott (well, a guy named Grady, really) did a video on the Hyatt Regency Collapse: That's Grady from Practical Engineering, he's a bit  but his videos on weird / hidden / unusual infrastructure are 
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Phanatic posted:Yeah, that says 1kw 1kW transformer 450,000kVA (450MVA) transformer https://youtu.be/xpHF5gq6PCI I'm assuming the 250,000kg weight is before it gets filled with oil.
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oohhboy posted:Just what were they trying to achieve here? pretty sure the idea was just to hit someone with a bicycle for a wrestling match but since it's an incredibly low impact / lame looking thing to do the guy on the bike flopped around like he had been electrocuted after the guy that awkwardly stood there for the 20 minutes it took to get hit flails onto the floor.
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Space Crabs posted:pretty sure the idea was just to hit someone with a bicycle for a wrestling match but since it's an incredibly low impact / lame looking thing to do the guy on the bike flopped around like he had been electrocuted after the guy that awkwardly stood there for the 20 minutes it took to get hit flails onto the floor. That's normal pro wrestling.
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Space Crabs posted:pretty sure the idea was just to hit someone with a bicycle for a wrestling match but since it's an incredibly low impact / lame looking thing to do the guy on the bike flopped around like he had been electrocuted after the guy that awkwardly stood there for the 20 minutes it took to get hit flails onto the floor. Hard to tell from the clip, but it might be from the DDT Iron Man Heavymetalweight Championship, a Japanese comedy/wrestling title. (OSHA related: three separate ladders have each briefly held the championship after falling on and pinning the previous champions.) Here's a video of an inflatable sex-doll wrestling for the championship (Safe for work, she's wearing clothes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LApVz53Spw
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Elendil004 posted:Tom Scott (well, a guy named Grady, really) did a video on the Hyatt Regency Collapse: That's in the book "why buildings fall down." Good read: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Buildings-Fall-Down-Structures/dp/039331152X
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Ak Gara posted:I had to watch this like 8 times and I still don't know how he failed so badly. Did his little booties slip off the pedals? Gear slipped.
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pookerbug posted:In Mother Russia, mass transits you. "In Russia, bus takes you!"
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Sagebrush posted:"In Russia, bus takes you!" In Soviet Russia, you transit mass.
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Sic transit gloria Russki
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Even by his standards this is fairly silly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hvg2Wey92E
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Silly truck driver. Everyone knows you can't train drift in a truck.
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RatHat posted:Guessing the explosion at the end is an edit? Yeah. I had a link the unedited video, but it’s been deleted from YouTube.
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RatHat posted:Guessing the explosion at the end is an edit? http://www.military.com/video/ammunition-and-explosives/ammunition/russian-ammo-explosives-safety-handling/3653748971001
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FYI the video was recorded as a lark (a shell without a fuse won't explode if you drop it or bang it with a hammer). Which is troubling because at this point there's three kinds of videos coming out of Russia: 1) those that feature people climbing on skyscrapers with no safety ropes (and somehow not falling while the camera is rolling), 2) those that feature horrible accidents or soon to be accidents and 3) those that feature a parody of one of the former and we have no way of telling which is which. Alright, there's also 4) Dogs travelling on subway.
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Nenonen posted:FYI the video was recorded as a lark (a shell without a fuse won't explode if you drop it or bang it with a hammer). Which is troubling because at this point there's three kinds of videos coming out of Russia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndu65StbC2M&hd=1
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Now I know that there's videos of spiders chasing laser pointers Way to ruin that poo poo forever, jerk
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Nerses IV posted:Now I know that there's videos of spiders chasing laser pointers Spiders are really cute tho There's also babies chasing laser pointers, fish chasing laser pointers and birds chasing laser pointers Everything hates lasers
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