OSHA: definitely bent in the straight places

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jobson groeth: May 17, 2018; by FactsAreUseless

Dirt Road Junglist posted:

lol if you didn't grow up with a bedroom in a basement swimming in radon.

What is it with goons and swimming in basements?

# ? Feb 20, 2019 03:23

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# ? May 17, 2024 13:39

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

Jerry Cotton posted:

I don't see how anyone could've gotten so much of the weight on the grille.

mighta picked up some fat chicks, that's why my ride says no fat chicks.

# ? Feb 20, 2019 04:28

iospace: Jan 19, 2038

Can't seem to get gfycat to embed, so here, have a link:
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# ? Feb 20, 2019 04:54

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

iospace posted:

Can't seem to get gfycat to embed, so here, have a link:
https://giant.gfycat.com/HeavyDeliriousDugong.webm

easily, easssily dead.

# ? Feb 20, 2019 05:04

chitoryu12: Apr 24, 2014

Jerry Cotton posted:

Someone managed to crumple the safety grille (or whatever the bit on the picture below is called in English) on a forklift in our warehouse and told no-one. It's made out of 5 or 6 mm flats so I have no idea how someone managed to completely squish it.

Crumpled in which direction?

# ? Feb 20, 2019 05:16

BgRdMchne: Oct 31, 2011

# ? Feb 20, 2019 05:25

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

chitoryu12 posted:

Crumpled in which direction?

# ? Feb 20, 2019 05:29

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

How strong is the forklift?

Did they elevate it into a ceiling beam?

# ? Feb 20, 2019 05:36

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

Jabor posted:

How strong is the forklift?

Did they elevate it into a ceiling beam?

Dunno, but it wouldn't reach. We also checked all the shelving cross-beams and there was no damage (well, no new damage) anywhere.

# ? Feb 20, 2019 05:37

Memento: Aug 25, 2009; Bleak Gremlin

They probably tried to pick something up that was resting on the grille instead of the forks. They lifted it up, bending the grille all the while, thinking "hey this isn't going up, better not check anything and just keep trying to lift it".

# ? Feb 20, 2019 05:43

dee eight: Dec 18, 2002; The Spirit
of Maynard

hey sup guys

I just now applied for the job of safety coordinator at my work. If I get it, it will be a sweet gravy train ride.

and with that out of the way, I'll introduce you to a true tale of [shaky letters]OSHA TERROR[/shaky letters]

There was this guy I worked with. His nickname was Tenwatt. I was a sander operator in a particleboard mill and Tenwatt was my driver for far too long. The guy would routinely gently caress up, mostly because he wasn't really within our sphere of reality. The blow bin would fill up and he would not or chose not to notice. I'd shut down the run and yell at him and he'd look at me blankly. I would signal in MSL (Mill Sign Language) BLOW BIN FULL. He'd look at me and shrug. I would point to the blow bin. He would look at my finger.

You see the safety issue yet?

Your coworker is an idiot operating a very heavy and dangerous piece of equipment.

Tenwatt got shitcanned a few years before I did, for throwing a 16' Stanley tapemeasure at a guy to get his attention. I think his best of the best though, was this:

He picks up a unit of wood (about 4500 lbs), pokes his forklift into reverse (hyster monotrol ftw) and slams it into a steel support pillar in the warehouse. fukin BANG! He rolls forward a foot and then hits reverse again. fukin BANG! again by gawd!

Anyhow, ask me about MSL or heavy industry safety or whatever about working in a sawmill for 30 years. I can still count to ten without taking off my shoes.

# ? Feb 20, 2019 09:22

NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN MASTER

shit wizard dad

Trabant posted:

Oh yes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4nZDSLdIiM

DANG

ARSE

KEEP

:hai:

# ? Feb 20, 2019 09:25

jemand: Sep 19, 2018

dee eight posted:

I would signal in MSL (Mill Sign Language)

I'm interested in this. All I learned was some basic headlamp codes for mine work. And that underground vehicles always have right of way and if you're walking get the gently caress out of the way. And always keep the numbered brass piece on you so if it all goes to hell they can identify your body.

# ? Feb 20, 2019 16:09

TjyvTompa: Jun 1, 2001; im gay

jemand posted:

I'm interested in this. All I learned was some basic headlamp codes for mine work. And that underground vehicles always have right of way and if you're walking get the gently caress out of the way. And always keep the numbered brass piece on you so if it all goes to hell they can identify your body.

I found this article interesting: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-lost-secret-sign-language-of-sawmill-workers

# ? Feb 20, 2019 16:12

Ugly In The Morning: Jul 1, 2010; Pillbug

My site is cursed this week, two guys just got fired for a fight that ended with a wrench to the face. loving a.

# ? Feb 20, 2019 18:44

Proteus Jones: Feb 28, 2013

Ugly In The Morning posted:

My site is cursed this week, two guys just got fired for a fight that ended with a wrench to the face. loving a.

poo poo, we just don't respond to someone on Slack if there's a dispute. If it really heats up we leave passive-aggressive PostIt Notes in the break room.

# ? Feb 20, 2019 18:47

Dr. Despair: Nov 4, 2009; 39 perfect posts with each roll.

jemand posted:

I'm interested in this. All I learned was some basic headlamp codes for mine work. And that underground vehicles always have right of way and if you're walking get the gently caress out of the way. And always keep the numbered brass piece on you so if it all goes to hell they can identify your body.

Psh, my brass tag has my whole name on it.

# ? Feb 20, 2019 19:13

a kitten: Aug 5, 2006

This post about how the Carpathia went balls out crazy hard to reach the Titanic is pretty OSHA. And awesome.

https://twitter.com/EwaSR/status/1098189259494830081?s=19

a kitten fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Feb 20, 2019

# ? Feb 20, 2019 19:23

Proteus Jones: Feb 28, 2013

I've read about the RMS Carpathia more than once, and I get a lump in my throat every single time.

# ? Feb 20, 2019 19:33

darthbob88: Oct 13, 2011; YOSPOS

Proteus Jones posted:

I've read about the RMS Carpathia more than once, and I get a lump in my throat every single time.

There's more.

quote:

I looked up a bit about this because the post is so movingly written that when I read it aloud to my husband and mother they both wept like babies, and something else really struck me about this story.

So Carpathia was not a top-end luxury liner. Her reputation was for being Jolly Comfortable - she was very broad in her proportions, and not super-duper fast, and the result was that she didn�t rock so much on the waves and you couldn�t particularly hear/feel the engines. She was solid and dependable, and lots of people liked using her, but she therefore occupied a lesser niche than Titanic or Olympian or whatever - and crucially, as a result of that, she only had one radio operator on board. This means she only had radio ops for a certain window in the day, unlike Titanic, which had 24 hour radio ops.

So on that night, when Titanic went down, Carpathia�s wireless operator - one Harold Cottam - clocked off his shift at midnight, and went to bed. While he was getting ready for bed, though, he left the transmitter on for the hell of it, and therefore picked up a transmission from Cape Race in Newfoundland, the closest transmitting tower sending messages to the ships. They told him that they had a backlog of private traffic for Titanic that wasn�t getting through. So, even though his shift was over, and it was now 11 minutes past bloody midnight, and he just wanted to go to bed, Harold Cottam decided that nonetheless, he�d be helpful, and let the Titanic know they had messages waiting.

And that�s how he received the Titanic�s distress signal. In spite of no longer being on shift to receive it, and therefore in order to send Carpathia galloping to Titanic�s rescue, and thus saving 705 people.

All because Harold Cottam decided one night to be kind.

I dunno. That�s just really stuck with me.

quote:

Cottam also ended up staying awake for something like 48 hours straight trying to send survivors messages and a list of survivors home, but due to Carpathia�s limited radio frequency range and with no other ships to act as a relay, this was rather patchy. However, he tried his drat best to make sure the survivor�s messages got home, and was also bombarded with incoming messages of bribes to spill the details of the disaster to the press.

Rostrum had ordered that no messages to the press be sent out of respect to the survivors, for they would have their privacy destroyed as soon as they reached New York. Cottam respected this order, even under extreme duress of fatigue, stress, and the knowledge that in some cases the bribes were almost three times his annual salary.

He eventually went to bed but not before working with one of the rescued Titanic�s radio operators, Harold Bride, to transmit as many messages as possible. Bride was injured (his feet had been crushed in a lifeboat) and had just passed the body of the second of Titanic�s radio operators aboard (Jack Phillips), so neither of them were really in the best shape to keep working, but they did.

In the face of extreme adversity, both men refused to do anything but their duty (and exceeding their duty) not just because Rostrum had ordered it, but because it was the right thing to do. They could have profited considerably from the disaster and they refused for the dignity of the survivors.

# ? Feb 20, 2019 19:38

ChubbyPitbull: Dec 10, 2005; Awww....look how OHMYGODMYHAND!

Sagebrush posted:

they're just putting it back where it came from though. northern arizona is full of uranium. there are creeks around the canyon that have warning signs saying not to drink from them because they're contaminated with radioisotopes.

literally inside the grand canyon there are several of these tall cylindrical pillars:

they are like that because they're made of uranium ore (i.e. still sandstone, but with a higher than normal proportion of uranium) and the increased density makes them more resistant to erosion. they are mildly radioactive. tens of thousands of people walk by them every year.

Funny you should mention the Grand Canyon and uranium

For nearly 2 decades, Grand Canyon tourists were exposed to radiation beyond the federal limit, safety manager says.

quote:

Stephenson told CNN that in early June he found out about three 5-gallon buckets of uranium ore that had been stored next to a taxidermy exhibit at the park's museum for nearly two decades. He said he immediately contacted a park service radiation specialist to report the danger.

quote:

Still, according to the report, the park service decided to remove the buckets on June 18 and dispose of the contents in the nearby Lost Orphan uranium mine, where the ore had come from. Stephenson told CNN that park service workers were inadequately prepared to handle the radioactive material, moving the buckets wearing gardening gloves purchased at a general store, and using mop handles to lift the buckets into pickups for transport.

# ? Feb 20, 2019 19:47

Flash Gordon Ramsay: Sep 28, 2004; Grimey Drawer

We've gone full circle here

# ? Feb 20, 2019 19:49

Ornamental Dingbat: Feb 26, 2007

This just happened at one of our customers- Landing gear failed on a new trailer, it dominoed 3 other trailers and injured the forklift operator.

There's about 100 pictures but at this time I can't post anything that IDs the customer or the carrier.

# ? Feb 20, 2019 19:52

DrPossum: May 15, 2004; i am not a surgeon

I hope your forklift operator is OK. gently caress.

# ? Feb 20, 2019 19:53

PHIZ KALIFA: Dec 21, 2011; #mood

why cant they simply add a liftframe parachute-airbag to the middle of the forklift?

# ? Feb 20, 2019 19:54

dee eight: Dec 18, 2002; The Spirit
of Maynard

jemand posted:

I'm interested in this. All I learned was some basic headlamp codes for mine work. And that underground vehicles always have right of way and if you're walking get the gently caress out of the way. And always keep the numbered brass piece on you so if it all goes to hell they can identify your body.

MSL is a mix of standard signals, ASL, and invented code. I could say to a forklift diver 'bring a unit of 3/4 4x8' by drawing my hand across my chest followed by holding 4 fingers up to my left and then 8 to my right. I could then tell the driver to cut some number of sheets off the top by slashing right hand under left followed by the number.

Thickness from inch and and three sixteenths down to one eighth of an inch could be conveyed easily. If I saw a guy touch the top of his hardhat then hold up 2 fingers on the hat (like giving yourself bunny ears) I know he was saying inch and an eighth. Common thicknesses were7/8, a hand drawn across the throat, 3/4 was same about shirt pocket height, 5/8 was open hand held at mid body, 1/2 hand across waist, etc.

There were signs for the common defects in the boards. Blow was indicated by 'alligator opening jaws' arms, pocket was the OK sign right handed over left chest, fissure or crack was hand waving while moving the hand downward. Resin spots were the OK sign with the finger and thumb closed tight and chatter was a chopping motion.

"Need an electrician" was signed by pointing up to the right then down to the left. It looked Saturday Night Fever-ish. The sign for Millwright was indicated by hammer motions with the right hand over the left hand palm up. The sign for foreman was the jerk-off motion.

Verbs were obvious stuff. Stop/closed fist, start or go/finger twirl, etc.

Left hand cupped palm downward over right fist then move fist downward means "pull your head out of your rear end".

A lot of my fellow millrats had personal signs. More than a few had easily signable nicknames. I could ask somebody "Where's Riggy?" by shoulder shrug followed by checking my pulse. If somebody got my attention then mimed telephone followed by miming revving a motorcycle, I was being told to contact Skid Rowe, the reman leadman. Left hand held out palm down just under shoulder height meant Wally H, and Dogshit Miller was signed by holding your nose.

My favorite sign of all is this: right hand mimes holding up a lantern, left hand shades eyes as if looking into the far distance. It means broadly "I don't care"
and in detail it says, "Round up a search party. You'll have to look long and hard to find somebody that really gives a gently caress."

# ? Feb 20, 2019 19:59

Ornamental Dingbat: Feb 26, 2007

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

why cant they simply add a liftframe parachute-airbag to the middle of the forklift?

It's a 7 ton roll grab with a 9000 lb paper roll in its clamp.

# ? Feb 20, 2019 20:11

PHIZ KALIFA: Dec 21, 2011; #mood

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

It's a 7 ton roll grab with a 9000 lb paper roll in its clamp.

so is this bussy but i still wear a helmet when i rollerskate

# ? Feb 20, 2019 20:13

Bad Munki: Nov 4, 2008; We're all mad here.

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

It's a 7 ton roll grab with a 9000 lb paper roll in its clamp.

Okay so two parachutes then?

# ? Feb 20, 2019 20:14

Spatial: Nov 15, 2007

Why don't forklifts have doors on the sides?

# ? Feb 20, 2019 20:30

Ornamental Dingbat: Feb 26, 2007

Spatial posted:

Why don't forklifts have doors on the sides?

You depend on the overhead cage and the seatbelt to keep the driver safe.

Sometimes you see doors on more tractor-like outdoor forklifts, but not on ones made for indoor-use

# ? Feb 20, 2019 20:38

ArcMage: Sep 14, 2007; What is this thread?; Ramrod XTreme

One of ours does, because it goes in the yard a lot, but if you don't have weather to contend with it's convenient to not have doors.

# ? Feb 20, 2019 20:38

VectorSigma: Jan 20, 2004; Transform
and
Freak Out

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

There's about 100 pictures but at this time I can't post anything that IDs the customer or the carrier.

I've reasonably narrowed it down to somewhere in WI or MN based on available information.

# ? Feb 20, 2019 20:46

Ornamental Dingbat: Feb 26, 2007

VectorSigma posted:

I've reasonably narrowed it down to somewhere in WI or MN based on available information.

Syracuse, NY

# ? Feb 20, 2019 21:00

Shy and Shameless: Jul 15, 2015; Raised by birbs

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

It's a 7 ton roll grab with a 9000 lb paper roll in its clamp.

Dang I haven't seen one of those since I wrecked it I wanna say... 17 years ago? OSHA STORY TIME!

I got on as a warehouse operator with a small printing company in the process of possibly being acquired; like two presses and a small bindery department. ...and one OLD forklift that was hanging on longer that it had any reason to. It would convert between forks and hydraulic clamps. When switched to the clamp, it required two support pins to help hold the weight of rolls from higher shelves.

Not really trained in ANY way other than 'this is forward, this is reverse, this is how to convert to clamp, don't drive with others under you'.

Fast forward about a month. Press operators put in a request for a roll of bond. Sure, no prob. Convert to clamps, and get to it. I start backing up after grabbing a roll from a higher shelf and there's a shower of sparks and a MASSIVE crash as the clamp snapped off and fell to the floor. Yep: I forgot to put in one of Chekov's pins when converting to the clamp. I thank gently caress it was an empty part of the warehouse when it happened.

...and since it was an old forklift, there weren't parts for it anymore. Renting a forklift HO!

Main effects: I was banished to bindery offsite at the acquiring company, and the acquisition happened more quickly than originally scheduled.

When I gently caress up, I do so with GUSTO. :shepface:

# ? Feb 20, 2019 21:00

Ornamental Dingbat: Feb 26, 2007

Articulated clamp trucks are basically one step away from being the power loader from Aliens and are super cool/deadly.

# ? Feb 20, 2019 21:05

Podima: Nov 4, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

dee eight posted:

MSL is a mix of standard signals, ASL, and invented code. I could say to a forklift diver 'bring a unit of 3/4 4x8' by drawing my hand across my chest followed by holding 4 fingers up to my left and then 8 to my right. I could then tell the driver to cut some number of sheets off the top by slashing right hand under left followed by the number.

Thickness from inch and and three sixteenths down to one eighth of an inch could be conveyed easily. If I saw a guy touch the top of his hardhat then hold up 2 fingers on the hat (like giving yourself bunny ears) I know he was saying inch and an eighth. Common thicknesses were7/8, a hand drawn across the throat, 3/4 was same about shirt pocket height, 5/8 was open hand held at mid body, 1/2 hand across waist, etc.

There were signs for the common defects in the boards. Blow was indicated by 'alligator opening jaws' arms, pocket was the OK sign right handed over left chest, fissure or crack was hand waving while moving the hand downward. Resin spots were the OK sign with the finger and thumb closed tight and chatter was a chopping motion.

"Need an electrician" was signed by pointing up to the right then down to the left. It looked Saturday Night Fever-ish. The sign for Millwright was indicated by hammer motions with the right hand over the left hand palm up. The sign for foreman was the jerk-off motion.

Verbs were obvious stuff. Stop/closed fist, start or go/finger twirl, etc.

Left hand cupped palm downward over right fist then move fist downward means "pull your head out of your rear end".

A lot of my fellow millrats had personal signs. More than a few had easily signable nicknames. I could ask somebody "Where's Riggy?" by shoulder shrug followed by checking my pulse. If somebody got my attention then mimed telephone followed by miming revving a motorcycle, I was being told to contact Skid Rowe, the reman leadman. Left hand held out palm down just under shoulder height meant Wally H, and Dogshit Miller was signed by holding your nose.

My favorite sign of all is this: right hand mimes holding up a lantern, left hand shades eyes as if looking into the far distance. It means broadly "I don't care"
and in detail it says, "Round up a search party. You'll have to look long and hard to find somebody that really gives a gently caress."

Yo as a deaf person who uses ASL this was extremely interesting to read about, I had no idea ASL had been adapted into a variant used for mills. Thanks for sharing!

# ? Feb 20, 2019 21:21

VectorSigma: Jan 20, 2004; Transform
and
Freak Out

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

Syracuse, NY

oh man i was gonna say "or possibly upstate NY" but played the odds instead

# ? Feb 20, 2019 21:22

Nocheez: Sep 5, 2000; Can you spare a little cheddar?; Nap Ghost

Podima posted:

Yo as a deaf person who uses ASL this was extremely interesting to read about, I had no idea ASL had been adapted into a variant used for mills. Thanks for sharing!

I wish it were more common. I work in a lot of truss plants and the noise level can be ridiculous between all the hammering, pressing, and sawing going on.

# ? Feb 20, 2019 21:38

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# ? May 17, 2024 13:39

Budgie: Mar 9, 2007; Yeah, like the bird.

As a non-deaf person hearing about sign language nicknames for your colleagues was hilarious, thankyou!

# ? Feb 20, 2019 22:21

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