OSHA: definitely bent in the straight places

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LifeSunDeath: Jan 4, 2007; still gay rights and smoke weed every day

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# ? Oct 24, 2017 22:06

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JFairfax posted:

https://i.imgur.com/pmigpyZ.mp4

don't post my post history

# ? Oct 24, 2017 22:09

Hubis: May 18, 2003; Boy, I wish we had one of those doomsday machines...

EssOEss posted:

When you see two wires right next to each other like that they are the same phase, just doubled up conductors. The other phases are on the other arms of the tower, much further away.

Interesting! That makes sense. Why are they still isolated from one another -- in case one of the paths is taken down for maintenance?

# ? Oct 24, 2017 22:16

ChesterJT: Dec 28, 2003; Mounty Pumper's Flying Circus

LifeSunDeath posted:

deja vu

# ? Oct 24, 2017 22:40

TTerrible: Jul 15, 2005

This thread has to have the highest level of stuff reposted in quick succession of any thread in the forums.

# ? Oct 24, 2017 22:48

Bacon Taco: Jun 8, 2006; Now with extra narwhal meat!
HAIKOOLIGAN; Dinosaur Gum

SelenicMartian posted:

Right out my window at work they're finishing the construction of a seven-ish-storey building.

The builders have put the windows in, but still need supplies for interior work, so they've set up a receiving platform on the top floor. It sticks out so the crane guy can hoist poo poo up from the ground.
The platform is a thick rust-coated 3x3m metal box, kinda like a flatbed. I have no idea how it's held internally.
On the outside, though, it's got one side without a railing, and two sides with railings, also rusted, bent outwards and seriously lacking in actual railing: the lower bar is so high, and the two support posts are so far apart a man can easily roll through.

The SOP for using with it seems to be three guys coming out onto it and violently hugging several bags of concrete tied together with straps hanging off the crane. The weather's wet and has just gone below the freezing point.

They've got helmets and vests on, though, so it must be OK.

So you work in a Star Wars movie?

# ? Oct 24, 2017 23:02

Say Nothing: Mar 5, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

# ? Oct 24, 2017 23:18

Guy Axlerod: Dec 29, 2008

# ? Oct 24, 2017 23:23

18 Character Limit: Apr 6, 2007; Screw you, Abed;
I can fix this!; Nap Ghost

Say Nothing posted:

CITERYES

# ? Oct 24, 2017 23:28

Pander: Oct 9, 2007; Fear is the glue that holds society together. It's what makes people suppress their worst impulses. Fear is power.

And at the end of fear, oblivion.

Guy Axlerod posted:

I remember that level from the T2 arcade game.

# ? Oct 24, 2017 23:28

Memento: Aug 25, 2009; Bleak Gremlin

Guy Axlerod posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrH3XiMR3KA

# ? Oct 25, 2017 00:25

Jabor: Jul 16, 2010; #1 Loser at SpaceChem

Hubis posted:

Interesting! That makes sense. Why are they still isolated from one another -- in case one of the paths is taken down for maintenance?

They're not actually isolated - they'll generally have ties every so often keeping them together (both physically and electrically).

The reason they have two cables instead of one is because it's more efficient than having a single thicker cable.

# ? Oct 25, 2017 00:32

monolithburger: Sep 7, 2011

Bonster posted:

Alternatively: elephant crossfit

Elephant Rhabdo is the name of my next band.

# ? Oct 25, 2017 03:44

Jet Jaguar: Feb 12, 2006; Don't touch my bags if you please, Mr Customs Man.

It's hard to tell from the falling beam footage, but just how big of a divot did that create in the road? That can't be good.

# ? Oct 25, 2017 03:57

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

# ? Oct 25, 2017 04:23

Arms_Akimbo: Sep 29, 2006; It's so damn...literal.

The trait of things being reposted within one or two pages continues.

# ? Oct 25, 2017 04:24

FreeWifi!!: Oct 11, 2013; Okay, that's true. Good point, Marquess. Point for you. But you get a point taken away for being a dick. So, back to zero.

ekuNNN posted:

# ? Oct 25, 2017 04:24

Buff Skeleton: Oct 24, 2005

Pander posted:

I remember that level from the T2 arcade game.

gently caress, I HATED that goddamn level. I only got to the last level once.

# ? Oct 25, 2017 05:11

Grassy Knowles: Apr 4, 2003; "The original Terminator was a gritty fucking AMAZING piece of sci-fi. Gritty fucking rock-hard MURDER!"

Pander posted:

I remember that level from the T2 arcade game.

I remember the first level of that game.

# ? Oct 25, 2017 05:18

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

Got shown this, which reminds me of osha videos, so enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HD5Gt80H6s

# ? Oct 25, 2017 05:37

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

OSHA as balls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__nWci3_a7U&t=10s

# ? Oct 25, 2017 07:53

Snowglobe of Doom: Mar 30, 2012; sucks to be right

Improbable Lobster posted:

Elephants are very strong

There's a bunch of videos of elephants flipping cars and throwing them around like they were toys, they're ridiculously strong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMqUSHSKOeE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3fLqooSLfA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkwqz1bH0L0

# ? Oct 25, 2017 10:55

Away all Goats: Jul 5, 2005; Goose's rebellion

https://i.imgur.com/qMzf7wK.gifv

# ? Oct 25, 2017 11:05

Wasabi the J: Jan 23, 2008; MOM WAS RIGHT

Synthbuttrange posted:

Got shown this, which reminds me of osha videos, so enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HD5Gt80H6s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbPWitSTe2k

# ? Oct 25, 2017 11:05

evobatman: Jul 30, 2006; it means nothing, but says everything!; Pillbug

We just moved into new offices last week.

Today we get an email saying "Oh yeah, those columns that are in every 2 out of 3 offices are covered in asbestos. Don't scratch them or drill in them. Sorry we didn't tell you before you moved in."

I know encapsulated asbestos isn't dangerous, but I would prefer no asbestos at all.

# ? Oct 25, 2017 11:25

RatHat: Dec 31, 2007; A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!

Gorilla Salad posted:

OSHA as balls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__nWci3_a7U&t=10s

What's going in the video with all the money?

# ? Oct 25, 2017 11:33

monolithburger: Sep 7, 2011

Japan Times posted:

One of three JCO Co. workers exposed to massive radiation in September in the nation�s worst nuclear accident died of organ failure at a Tokyo hospital late Tuesday night, becoming the first fatality of his kind in Japan. Hisashi Ouchi, 35, was critically injured during an accident Sept. 30 at the JCO uranium processing plant in the village of Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, where hundreds were forced to evacuate or stay indoors as an uncontrolled chain reaction spewed forth radiative particles. The amount of energy that hit him is thought to be equivalent to that at the hypocenter of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. He died at 11:21 p.m., the Science and Technology Agency said. His death, which comes 83 days after the incident ...

quote:

The accident effectively destroyed Ouchi�s immune system by sending his white blood cell count plummeting to nearly zero. As his condition worsened, the National Institute of Radiological Sciences in Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, transferred him to University of Tokyo Hospital, where he reportedly underwent the world�s first transfusion of peripheral stem cells on Oct. 6 and 7. Doctors kept Ouchi alive by pumping huge amounts of blood and fluids into him on a daily basis and treating him with drugs normally unavailable in Japan, indicating the high priority the government placed on his survival, observers said.

Doctors managed to keep him alive, but a slight recovery afterward took a turn for the worse. He had been in critical condition since Sunday, and various drugs were being used just to maintain his blood pressure and pulse at adequate levels. His unstable blood pressure was probably caused by septicemia. Despite several skin transplants, however, he continued to lose body fluids through the pores of his skin.

There is supposedly a very :nms:

picture of the poor bastard elsewhere on the internet, but hell no I'm not touching that one.

# ? Oct 25, 2017 11:56

TTerrible: Jul 15, 2005

monolithburger posted:

There is supposedly a very picture of the poor bastard elsewhere on the internet, but hell no I'm not touching that one.

You made the right choice. Why did I do that.

# ? Oct 25, 2017 11:59

Zipperelli.: Apr 3, 2011; Nap Ghost

TTerrible posted:

You made the right choice. Why did I do that.

# ? Oct 25, 2017 12:01

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

monolithburger posted:

There is supposedly a very picture of the poor bastard elsewhere on the internet, but hell no I'm not touching that one.

Oh god

https://i.imgur.com/5kTOybP.jpg

# ? Oct 25, 2017 12:08

Nice piece of fish: Jan 29, 2008; Ultra Carp

Jerry Cotton posted:

Oh god https://i.imgur.com/5kTOybP.jpg

Look at you, just hamming it up.

# ? Oct 25, 2017 12:23

Nice piece of fish: Jan 29, 2008; Ultra Carp

monolithburger posted:

There is supposedly a very picture of the poor bastard elsewhere on the internet, but hell no I'm not touching that one.

Didn't this happen in 1999? A quick google shows the dude dying that year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura_nuclear_accident

quote:

The second and more serious Tokaimura nuclear accident (Japanese: 東海村JCO臨界事故Tōkai-mura JCO-rinkai-jiko) indicates the nuclear disaster which occurred on 30 September 1999,[5][6][7] resulting in two deaths.[8] It was the worst civilian nuclear radiation accident in Japan prior to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of 2011.

The criticality accident occurred in a uranium reprocessing facility operated by JCO (formerly Japan Nuclear Fuel Conversion Co.), a subsidiary of Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. in the village of Tōkai, Naka District, Ibaraki Prefecture.[9]

The accident occurred as three workers, Hisashi Ouchi, Masato Shinohara, and Yutaka Yokokawa,[10] were preparing a small batch of fuel for the Jōyō experimental fast breeder reactor, using uranium enriched to 18.8% with the fissile radionuclide (radioisotope) known as U‑235 (with the remainder being the fissionable-only U‑238). It was JCO's first batch of fuel for that reactor in three years, and no proper qualification and training requirements appear to have been established to prepare those workers for the job. At around 10:35, a precipitation tank reached critical mass when its fill level, containing about 16 kilograms (35 pounds) of uranium, reached about 40 liters (11 U.S. gallons).[9]

# ? Oct 25, 2017 12:27

TehRedWheelbarrow: Mar 16, 2011; Fan of Britches

ouchi

# ? Oct 25, 2017 12:34

Lurking Haro: Oct 27, 2009

Nice piece of fish posted:

Didn't this happen in 1999? A quick google shows the dude dying that year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura_nuclear_accident

The Japan Times article is dated December 22nd 1999.

# ? Oct 25, 2017 12:41

Nice piece of fish: Jan 29, 2008; Ultra Carp

Lurking Haro posted:

The Japan Times article is dated December 22nd 1999.

So it is. For some reason I thought it was news.

Poor bastard. That's some cutting edge treatment he got way back in 1999 though. I wonder if that would have been survivable now, but I'm guessing no.

# ? Oct 25, 2017 12:46

Kith: Sep 17, 2009; You never learn anything
by doing it right.

TTerrible posted:

This thread has to have the highest level of stuff reposted in quick succession of any thread in the forums.

There are a lot of folks who shunt whatever vaguely OSHA-related thing that they find on the Imgur frontpage into the thread as quickly as they can without checking first. Only about half of the people who have posted in the OSHA thread are actually here to read it - the other half are here to deposit wacky images for some easy emptyquotes.

Thread content:
My dad started his own business as a house inspector not too long ago, stationed in central Florida. If you happen to be so unfortunate as to live in central Florida, do yourself a favor and pop into your attic to check your wiring to make sure your house isn't on the verge of burning down. My dad has collected no less than fifteen male-to-male extension cords rigging up the lighting from the attics of his clients, two of which were multi-million dollar homes belonging to college football employees.

# ? Oct 25, 2017 12:46

RandomPauI: Nov 24, 2006; Grimey Drawer

male to male extension cords? I mean, I know what they are but, why do they even exist?

# ? Oct 25, 2017 13:03

POOL IS CLOSED: Jul 14, 2011; I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.; Pillbug

RandomPauI posted:

male to male extension cords? I mean, I know what they are but, why do they even exist?

Who knows what evil dwells in the heart of man? (Because someone hosed up and was too lazy and cheap to fix their mistake. Better install a fire hazard instead!)

# ? Oct 25, 2017 13:10