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Imagined posted:
Is it like a competitive thing? I would expect escalator technicians to be at more risk.
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Grem posted:You guys hear about that escalator in Hong Kong? Yeah, it went downhill pretty quickly
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Not often except for elevator technicians. Is it like a competitive thing? I would expect escalator technicians to be at more risk. [/quote] Just saying if you're just a passenger you're in almost zero danger.
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Mar 26, 2017 06:00
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Mitch Hedberg lied to me 
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Well that de-escalated quickly.
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Mar 26, 2017 15:57
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In fact, I think I read somewhere that the "number of people who've died in elevators in the last 25 years" or whatever statistic is skewed by the dozen or so poor bastards who died when the WTC elevators fell on 9/11 because the plane(s) cut their all the cables simultaneously, that aside from them and elevator technicians it's near zero.
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Imagined posted:In fact, I think I read somewhere that the "number of people who've died in elevators in the last 25 years" or whatever statistic is skewed by the dozen or so poor bastards who died when the WTC elevators fell on 9/11 because the plane(s) cut their all the cables simultaneously, that aside from them and elevator technicians it's near zero. That can't be true. Peoples loose clothes such as scarfs get caught between the doors suffocating them, or they are transporting something large (furniture, trash cans) that gets jammed against the door and crushes the person. In EU inner elevator doors have been mandatory since 1999 but only for new elevators, older than that and this can happen. Brief googling reveals that there have been at least three elevator deaths just in Finland around 1996-2002. 
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Nenonen posted:That can't be true. Peoples loose clothes such as scarfs get caught between the doors suffocating them, or they are transporting something large (furniture, trash cans) that gets jammed against the door and crushes the person. In EU inner elevator doors have been mandatory since 1999 but only for new elevators, older than that and this can happen. Brief googling reveals that there have been at least three elevator deaths just in Finland around 1996-2002. 3 deaths in 6 years is practically zero, given than 50,000 people die there every year. You're in the region of 'death by otter' in terms of likelihood.
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Nenonen posted:That can't be true. Peoples loose clothes such as scarfs get caught between the doors suffocating them, or they are transporting something large (furniture, trash cans) that gets jammed against the door and crushes the person. In EU inner elevator doors have been mandatory since 1999 but only for new elevators, older than that and this can happen. Brief googling reveals that there have been at least three elevator deaths just in Finland around 1996-2002. I can't wait till Britain leaves the EU and we all die via elevator
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sout posted:I can't wait till Britain leaves the EU and we all die via elevator EU outlawed stabbing people in the elevator so there have been no elevator deaths in the UK for decades.
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sout posted:I can't wait till Britain leaves the EU and we all die via elevator all elevators become paternosters 
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Mar 26, 2017 17:30
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Construction Workers Catch Thief - Wait For It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiXyCLjlVmw&feature=youtu.be
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Mar 26, 2017 17:39
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spog posted:3 deaths in 6 years is practically zero, given than 50,000 people die there every year. cut out cancer and heart disease and 0,5 deaths per year becomes a lot more significant
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Prav posted:cut out cancer and heart disease and 0,5 deaths per year becomes a lot more significant You're right. If we eliminate the two largest causes of death then most people won't die anymore.
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Mar 26, 2017 17:56
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Don't double down on this one Prav it was a bad argument
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Nenonen posted:all elevators become paternosters Old geezer shamelessly peepin' some butt there.
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Ak Gara posted:Mitch Hedberg lied to me Funny enough it was in hongkong where I saw a sign for a broken escalator which read "This escalator is currently broken, Please use as stairs Sorry for the inconvenience" being nearly word for word the joke seems like too much of a coincidence
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Lime Tonics posted:Construction Workers Catch Thief - Wait For It What is there even to steal from a construction site that's worth going on a ridealong for?
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Tools? Heavy equipment like generators or welders? Copper pipes and wire? e: the video description specifically says a drill. I'm sure a cordless Makita or whatever would hock for enough to buy a bag of meth. e2: oh, you mean what's worth risking your life for. Well, interesting fact, a lot of the equipment on construction sites is either owned by the individual workers, who can't afford to replace it, or if it's owned by the contractor and it gets stolen under a worker's watch, guess who's losing their job? Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Mar 26, 2017 |
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Mar 26, 2017 19:25
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This rules. I'm gonna print it out and put it up as a safety poster.
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Mar 26, 2017 19:32
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Greatest Living Man posted:This rules. I'm gonna print it out and put it up as a safety poster.  
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Mar 26, 2017 19:40
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Can't breathe in vaporized metals if you can't breathe.
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Maxwells Demon posted:You're right. If we eliminate the two largest causes of death then most people won't die anymore. point was that if it's not 'death by otter' you're pretty likely to get a full lifetime. that's why those uncommon CODs are notable.
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Perestroika posted:What is there even to steal from a construction site that's worth going on a ridealong for? Guy chases him down and rams him with his truck too, on video. Pretty sure there are a lot of crimes there.
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Mar 26, 2017 23:47
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Oh boy it's time for elevator talk again? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUvGfuLlZus Super great video about how elevators work (and problems with stuff) and why you loving stay on the elevator if it failed.
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hanales posted:Guy chases him down and rams him with his truck too, on video. Pretty sure there are a lot of crimes there. According to this news article that was "a PIT maneuver to ram the suspect's car and stop him from driving off", which means it was a tactical ramming. 
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My gut feeling is that the paper shield would at least block sparks, while the thin plastic bag might not. Edit: I mean regardless the fact that the welding guy is going blind
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Forer posted:Oh boy it's time for elevator talk again? Mother fuckers brought up Speed and didn't talk about it.
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Mar 27, 2017 11:25
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In 1910, high vis consisted of a white shirt with a black tie, and only the supervisors wore that. At least most of them wore vests too so their ties aren't flapping. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9dOcTFN5R4
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Stumbled across this after browsing the FOOF thread From the archives: Chemists lose hands from peroxide explosions quote:About a half hour later the worker took the bottle out of the chest and was carrying it back to his lab when the material detonated with sufficient force to tear off both his hands.
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baquerd posted:In 1910, high vis consisted of a white shirt with a black tie, and only the supervisors wore that. At least most of them wore vests too so their ties aren't flapping. The ticking sound kills it a little.
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Lime Tonics posted:Construction Workers Catch Thief - Wait For It well that was something
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Bitches have never seen the escalators in the Moscow Metro. Surprisingly the only major incident there killed 8 people in 1982. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviamotornaya_(Moscow_Metro)
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The Sausages posted:Stumbled across this after browsing the FOOF thread Don't gently caress with drain segregation, kids.
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Today I got to witness the most OSHA scene in my life when a truck driver nearly killed himself. It was at a construction yard where due to cramped space they have to unload trucks at the side of a narrow road. There are traffic controllers to let traffic only to one direction at a time. The above truck is being unloaded from the side, but the one that had the mishap was being unloaded by a tower crane, so the roofs of the trailer and truck's rear were opened for unloading. To be able to open the roof the driver first needs to open the rear doors. You are supposed to fix the opened doors to their place on the sides of the truck so wind doesn't close them, but this is often ignored. Of course today was windy...  So what happened was the driver had opened the rear trailer roof and now was getting the truck's cargo ready. Then the wind caught on the right rear door and I would like to imagine it slammed to the driver's face, to which he reacted by going to reopen it. Meanwhile one of the traffic controllers, not seeing what was going on between the truck and its trailer, let a car pass the truck, and BAM! the door hit the car's side mirror (which fell off) and then slammed with great force right into the driver's face! It could have been really bad (the trucker had no helmet) but this time the trucker got away with a black eye and some headache, he was taken for a checkup at hospital but was deemed to be okay.
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Power Over Ethernet
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