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Homegrown content:  That guy's about 20 feet up on a broke-rear end pallet that isn't even remotely close to being attached to the forks. He's up there because I refused to do it, because I like not falling to my death.
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Nocheez posted:Homegrown content: you pussy bitch he got down safely too didn't he?
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Yawgmoth posted:shoes are still on, he's fine The secret of immortality is super gluing your feet into your shoes. 
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that'd just take off the skin of your feet, but it won't matter because u ded
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/12/15/house-falls-two-men/954674001/quote:HOUSTON — Two men working to lift a house onto a higher foundation after being flooded by Hurricane Harvey have died when the house fell on them. Wonder what kind of jacks they were using. Not to mention if it was recently flooded the ground had to be a soupy mess.
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I guess you could say they became part of a small foundation.
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ChesterJT posted:https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/12/15/house-falls-two-men/954674001/ Not sure what you do for this kind of instance, but our family used to run a foundation repair business and when we did lift repairs we would attach brackets roughly every 4-6 feet with a 10-ton bottle jack to do the lifting, though typically we weren't lifting the whole house (one or two jobs we did but it was rarer and we did the same process), but definitely not anything over an inch or two. *edit* I think the highest lift we did was about 3.5", 09% were in the 1-2" neighborhood.
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ChesterJT posted:https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/12/15/house-falls-two-men/954674001/ Can you imagine if that was your house? The House That Murdered Two Men. "What's that noise?" "Don't worry, it's just the House settling. As it plots to kill again."
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Truck rodeo. Trudeo.
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https://twitter.com/RobertMaguire_/status/941715143150526465
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Imagine the poor person who made that discovery.
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Electrocution is death by electric shock.
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FunMerrania posted:Imagine the poor person who made that discovery. i hope it was scott pruitt and he discovered it with his mouth and nose
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Tumble posted:you pussy bitch Great username/post combo.
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ChesterJT posted:https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/12/15/house-falls-two-men/954674001/ it flooded months ago i'm sure it's dried up by now tho Nocheez posted:Great username/post combo. the rules are if you were too scared to do something, and somebody else did it and returned safely, then you are a big ole wussy boy. it's even in the OSHA guidelines i don't make the rules i just tells em like they are
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Trabant posted:I've never seen a man suplexed by a truck before. I think this is the first time I've laughed out loud while reading this thread. Excellent job. 
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Tumble posted:
I'm cool with this. I don't have to stay at these places, I just do my installation and then move along.
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ChesterJT posted:https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/12/15/house-falls-two-men/954674001/ I hope Dorothy got her ruby work boots...
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ChesterJT posted:https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/12/15/house-falls-two-men/954674001/ I re-leveled/repacked part of my house with a bottle jack. It was scary as gently caress but not hard.
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ChesterJT posted:https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/12/15/house-falls-two-men/954674001/  View from the scene
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I wasn't expecting such vivid red. 
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MF_James posted:Not sure what you do for this kind of instance, but our family used to run a foundation repair business and when we did lift repairs we would attach brackets roughly every 4-6 feet with a 10-ton bottle jack to do the lifting, though typically we weren't lifting the whole house (one or two jobs we did but it was rarer and we did the same process), but definitely not anything over an inch or two. We had the house I grew up in lifted about 24 inches (two rows of cinderblock) to get it above flood level. They knocked two holes in the foundation on either end of the house and slid two large I-beams under the house lengthwise. They placed 4 10 ton jacks under each I-beam and lifted them up until they were in contact with the floor joists. Then they built cribbing out of 4x4 beams and three points under each I-beam. A team of 8 guys (1 manning each jack) pumped the jacks up 4 inches at a time. Then they would stop and put another layer of cribbing under the beams. Then they hit the right height, the masons came in and added two courses of cinderblock to the foundation. They replaced the sill plates that had been water damaged, and then reversed the process and lowered the house on the new foundation. They they pulled the beams out and patched the holes in the foundation. Took about 3 days in all. The OSHA part was that I was about 10-12 yrs old at the time, and I was allowed to crawl around under the house and watch all of this happen. At one point, I even got to pump one of the jacks during the lift. I was inside the house watching afternoon cartoons when they lowered it onto the new foundation.
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I hope you were watching the Jetson's smugly, yeah my house raises and lowers too.
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ChesterJT posted:
It was a soupy mess anyway after the accident.
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I'm pretty embarrassed about all of these, but here's my more OSHA moments from my young adulthood. I want to say I'm not as dumb as these sound, but I'm starting to wonder as I type it all out. 1. After quitting my cooking career at 21, I got a job at a door factory. We mostly made wooden doors, and commonly made the hollow ones that are used for inside doorways. One of the machines we used was a set of 2 rollers, one above the other, which was adjustable. It basically squeezed the doors together after the glue machine applies all the glue. I was working late one night, and was cleaning the rollers. We had them running, and I was hosing them off. I used my hand to rub them as they were rolling to help get the glue off. Stupidly I accidentally got my hand too close to the small gap between the rollers (one was rolling clockwise, the other counter-clockwise), and it pulled my hand in. They were rolling at a decent speed too. Luckily I was able to pull my had out because they were wet, but I was way too close to losing my hand/arm or worse. I only worked at this place for 2-3 weeks, because it was a nightmare job. The owner belittled everyone that worked there, and apparently commonly beat his wife at work who worked as the secretary. I never really heard this happen, but everyone there said it did (maybe they were pulling my chain, but this guy was such an rear end in a top hat to everyone I wouldn't doubt it was true). I did hear him screaming at her over one lunch break. When I told him I was leaving he ridiculed me for the new job I was taking on (apartment complex maintenance helper), which didn't surprise me. Man I still shudder when I think back about that job. 2. While working as the maintenance manager for this apartment complex (21 floors - downtown in the city), I was on call 24/7 most days. At 21, that's really rough on the social life. I was called out while trying to catch a movie in the theater multiple times. Anyway, we had a daycare that operated on the ground floor, and they needed me to remove some mirrors from the wall. I grabbed my toolkit, and a pair of gloves, got my fingers behind the mirror, and started pulling. The owner, who had just 3 minutes ago burped in my face while eating cheetos, and drinking pop (I can still remember that smell 20 years later), told me I should probably put on some safety glasses. I turned beet red, not because I didn't have them on, but because it never crossed my mind to do so. 3. While working for a cabling company, I was on a job at a Canadian Tire store. I was pulling some cable into the ceiling junction box which would feed down the poles to the checkout counters. To do this, I was on a scissor life that we rented (never been trained on it's use btw), and it was maxed out for height. I'm guessing this ceiling was 50+ feet from the ground. Well, I needed to get the job done, and it was late in the day (no excuse, I know), so I stood on the top railing of the lift, and grabbed onto the roof with my free hand. I then pulled the cables through with my other hand. I was not tethered to anything. One slip, and I'm severely injured or dead. I ended up breaking my arm (not at the job - playing softball the next day). I now have an office job, and work from home. Thank God.
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Nocheez posted:I'm cool with this. I don't have to stay at these places, I just do my installation and then move along.
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That's just the new boss showing up for work.
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I've read that reporter's name as robert mugabe like 3 times and I have no idea why.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:I have a bachelors in professional communications, with a focus on editing. That means I am qualified to tell you that you are incorrect, and using the word in non-fatal circumstances is correct, and preferred to shocked as shock has multiple usages that don't involve electricity (medical and emotional states). This means electrocuted is a term with greater clarity of meaning for incidents involving electricity. Bachelor's in professional communications and you can't even spell rekt. Edit: I apologise for furthering this tedious derail. GotLag fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Dec 16, 2017 |
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Not dead, the shoes are still on Oh wait, nevermind
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Shifty Nipples posted:Electrocution is death by electric shock. sometimes
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Add the word "literally" to the statement. That should clear things up!
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GotLag posted:"The child pushed a fork into a socket and was electrocuted." Did they live or die? Nobody knows! Now every time you mention electrocution you now have to say if it's fatal or not, good job increasing clarity. Most people will assume you mean "shocked" and that if the the kid died, you'd either add "to death" or you'd just say "he stick a fork in a socket and died" because the electricity is implied by the socket and who needs a highly specific 5 syllable word for one type of death in everyday language So yeah nah, you don't have to clarify because it'll be assumed you mean nonlethally, unless the person you're talking to is a massive "well ACTUALLY" toolbag Son of Thunderbeast fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Dec 16, 2017 |
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GotLag posted:"The child pushed a fork into a socket and was electrocuted." Did they live or die? Nobody knows! "The child pushed a fork into the socket and was shocked! (to find out it wasn't hooked up to the power)" 
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Nocheez posted:Homegrown content: I hope he's not up there to scrape off the often-contains-asbestos bitumen spray insulation. Truck just wants some tummy rubs.
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GotLag posted:"The child pushed a fork into a socket and was electrocuted." Did they live or die? Nobody knows! Now every time you mention electrocution you now have to say if it's fatal or not, good job increasing clarity. Look, it's real easy. You either say "The child pushed a fork into a socket and was electrocuted but their shoes stayed on" or "The child pushed a fork into a socket and was electrocuted and their shoes went flying off" and there won't be any ambiguity as to whether they died.
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drat it, I just brought this irony meter yesterday! Got to get another to stay OHSA compliant.
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The Sausages posted:It's been a while since I've been electrocuted but I recall it being rather unpleasant and I'm not looking forward to this new way of doing things but I knew a kid at school that enjoyed hooking a 9V battery to his braces.
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