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MrYenko posted:I was on the sort aisle one night and got showered in dildos when a box of them broke open on a transfer belt above us. A lot of crazy poo poo went unreported or got swept under the carpet there. The worst I heard of was a mason jar of nitroglycerin falling off of a belt in Albany. I heard about it through the grapevine from the business development manager but never saw an official report. Worst we had at my place were coolers full of live bees and buckets of dead pigs. We also had a bounty for information on a 70lb Gatling gun that disappeared in the hub.
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fisting by many posted:Hot and Ground reversed is an exciting mistake to make. I make power cables at work for our machines. They come with the female end on and I put the 3-prong male end on. I've seen it only once in the past 5 years, but the ground cable had been swapped with the hot at the female plug end one time. I was so surprised, as I almost thought it was just a neutral/hot swap (which wouldn't hurt anything on our boxes, the power supply handles it fine). Nocheez fucked around with this message at 16:18 on Dec 9, 2019 |
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drunkill posted:How not to lift Looks like someone didn’t do any calculations before lifting! If you do end up in a situation where you’re lowering the boom and feel the crane tipping, yank that boom back up. The closer you are to horizontal, the farther out your center of gravity and the less you can hold without tipping over. It’s exactly like trying to pick up a 50 pound weight with a fully outstretched arm vs. lifting straight up with a nearly vertical arm.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:That's a whole lotta people who did not need to be near that work area. Yes, for example, everyone who planned and executed that
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Nocheez posted:I make power cables at work for our machines. They come with the female end on and I put the 3-prong male end on. I've seen it only once in the past 5 years, but the ground cable had been swapped with the hot at the female plug end one time. I was so surprised, as I almost thought it was just a neutral/hot swap (which wouldn't hurt anything on our boxes, the power supply handles it fin). Happened to me once when some contractors replaced a plug on a shop box lift I had been mechanically refurbing and installed it while I was at lunch. Came back to an engineer asking if we had been welding and pointing at the glowing red floor bolts that were connected directly to a 480vac phase. "  ...not on purpose."
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:The worst I heard of was a mason jar of nitroglycerin falling off of a belt in Albany. Were you shipping stuff to Wile E. Coyote?
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drunkill posted:How not to lift Fake news! The lifting went just fine. It was the putting down that didn't go so well.
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chitoryu12 posted:Looks like someone didn’t do any calculations before lifting! yes, just "yank that boom back up" 
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The cranes already coming off the ground as it lowers it I think. How do you gently caress up weights that badly?
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I will remember that crucial wisdom, if and when I'm operating a crane
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*reading through thread on my cellphone while waiting to be extricated from toppled-over crane* wish you guys had posted this 10 minutes ago!
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MrYenko posted:I worked for UPS for not quite four years, and did basically everything short of drive trucks. Different facilities with different locals have different relationships with management. I was local 769, and the kind of poo poo upthread would absolutely not have flown. We had an excellent relationship with management, in that they expected a certain level of productivity, and in exchange, we expected actual adherence to safety rules and regulations, and not just lip service. Lock-out-tag-out was universal, and the union would frequently stand in disciplinary meetings for people walking on moving belts or breaking jams (with their hands) on moving belts and essentially agree with management that the individual in question is a dumb poo poo and deserves to be reprimanded. Thanks for this post. I'm in a similar boat with an extremely apathetic membership and it drives me crazy. Also I'm on short term disability because I broke my collarbone and can't work. I get 80% of my wages as long as I'm out (up to 13 weeks). It's in the contract. The company has to do it. If they don't I can loving take them to arbitration.
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Mozi posted:*reading through thread on my cellphone while waiting to be extricated from toppled-over crane* When you tip the cup, yank it up.
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hemale in pain posted:The cranes already coming off the ground as it lowers it I think. How do you gently caress up weights that badly? Yep. From 0:15-0:20 or so you can see the crane is already tilting, then briefly recovers as the wall touches down before it starts to topple.
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:Thanks for this post. I'm in a similar boat with an extremely apathetic membership and it drives me crazy. drat, lucky. With my union (I do cold storage), I got about 40% of my wages in STD when I split my distal radius into 8 shards. (Not on the job.)
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haveblue posted:Yep. From 0:15-0:20 or so you can see the crane is already tilting, then briefly recovers as the wall touches down before it starts to topple. Also looks like the way that thing was tethered down the side of the wall piece, as soon as it starting leaning over touching the ground it was like pulling a big lever.
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hemale in pain posted:How do you gently caress up weights that badly? There was a goon claiming to be a crane operator in either the previous OSHA thread or the one prior to that who bragged about how he would either go right up to the weight limits of the cranes he operated on and/or bypass them if he happened to think that the weight limits were purposefully set low to inconvenience experienced experts like himself and (IIRC) said that such behavior regarding weight limits was commonplace. So maybe the operator in the clip just had a bad case of The Big loving Stupid.
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Kith posted:There was a goon claiming to be a crane operator in either the previous OSHA thread or the one prior to that who bragged about how he would either go right up to the weight limits of the cranes he operated on and/or bypass them if he happened to think that the weight limits were purposefully set low to inconvenience experienced experts like himself and (IIRC) said that such behavior regarding weight limits was commonplace. Fun fact: load charts really are often set to about 80% of the actual maximum specifically in case a dumbass like him tries to dance right on the line. That behavior is commonplace because construction is an industry full of toxic masculinity.
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Justin Credible posted:drat, lucky. With my union (I do cold storage), I got about 40% of my wages in STD when I split my distal radius into 8 shards. (Not on the job.) Yeah mine wasn't at work either. It is nice knowing that I don't have to force myself to hobble around at work just to keep my job while I'm trying to heal. Wow when you let people actually heal they come back faster and not broken down. Who would have fuckin thought?
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Working at a ups air hub really is about as peak OSHA as you can get. Inside the hub is over 100 miles of conveyors where every inch thirsts for the flesh of fingers. Outside on the ramp you are constantly praying that all of the hundreds of drivers are paying attention and aren't zoned out.
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Stanley Tucheetos posted:Outside on the ramp you are constantly praying that all of the hundreds of drivers are paying attention and aren't zoned out. Nothing is more dangerous than a cargo forklift driver at MIA. Nothing.
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chitoryu12 posted:Fun fact: load charts really are often set to about 80% of the actual maximum specifically in case a dumbass like him tries to dance right on the line. That behavior is commonplace because construction is an industry full of toxic masculinity. Hmm, yes, so what you're saying is I can go 25% higher than what it says on the chart
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BMan posted:Hmm, yes, so what you're saying is I can go 25% higher than what it says on the chart They stopped printing that notice on load charts because that's exactly what happened when people read it.
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chitoryu12 posted:They stopped printing that notice on load charts because that's exactly what happened when people read it. That kinda thing makes me feel smart. I may not be the best at anything, but I know my limits (they are below what the equipment is capable of).
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Megillah Gorilla posted:That's a whole lotta people who did not need to be near that work area. Hello! The only time I can actually talk about OSHA poo poo in the OSHA thread. I did iron work for a WHOPPING 3-4 days. Tying re-bar caring re-bar blah blah ect ect yadda yadda. I happened to come in pretty late into the construction of two warehouses, so will I was tyin over on site B site A was ready for the walls to get put in place. I'm sure as anyone who's worked a site before, know that each job is done by a specific group of workers. There was literally dozens of them for each slab that they raised. That was their job. Making wall stand up right and bracing it. We watched for awhile as each wall was raised it's really impressive ( for literally watching a wall be raised) . Couple of the old tymers who've done this poo poo before told us they hated watching and it the only reason we really watched was to make sure we can see the crane or wall. Because, yes, they've fallen and people that can't get away arnt crushed they are VAPORIZED. So yeah! gently caress that job! Also, no I have no idea why they need that many people. I'm sure it was important! ShortyMR.CAT fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Dec 9, 2019 |
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LifeSunDeath posted:Construction pranks are always amazing. I don't think it's even a prank. Guy just fell somehow while having his legs wrapped around the pole and kind of locked himself around it. Them laughing their asses off at it though is hilarious. It has sound fwiw.
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I've worked construction. That's definitely a "gently caress with the new guy" thing.
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It's one of those tricks like the impossible elbow lick, when you sit cross legged around a pole, your body weight makes your legs useless. I think they used it in Vietnam, don't remember if it was our boys or theirs
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What could they have done to get him to wrap his legs around the pole though? "Hey, you need to wrap your legs around it for better leverage" *gets pushed down*
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schmug posted:What could they have done to get him to wrap his legs around the pole though? "Hey, you need to wrap your legs around it for better leverage" *gets pushed down*
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"i bet you can't get back up on your own"
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MattO posted:Also looks like the way that thing was tethered down the side of the wall piece, as soon as it starting leaning over touching the ground it was like pulling a big lever. yeah, this. I don't operate cranes but I do tons of work on big telehandlers... once I picked up like 2 tons of ply and just kept booming out (with the load really close to the ground) just to see what it would feel like when it started to tip. on a 5 ton capacity (about 13 tons empty) machine, this happened FAST -- like, I wasn't even boomed out 20%. the load charts in the machine reference every possible boom angle//extension.... ....but the angle meters on the rental machines we use are more often than not broken off by the time we get them. e: specific weights
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Midvale School For The Gifted
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