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Pead posted:Years ago at my college library there was a large hazardous chemical spill in a storage space behind the building and the whole area got evacuated. While the firemen in full chemical hazmat gear were clearing the building, multiple people refused to leave because they had to finish their term papers and had to be escorted out by the police. It was incredibly stupid. On the other hand, sometimes the stupidity runs in both directions and you get a prof like this: https://twitter.com/NMBCanada/status/1372621837797101569 (he was removed from the course and the student got their deferral)
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Reminds me of a student we had in the Canadian Armed Forces who had to withdraw because the internet they were given access to was incredibly expensive (like $20 a minute kind of thing) and had terrible speed and reliability. He was further unable to go through the normal withdrawal procedure because, again, infrastructure sucked for this. He finally got the registrar on the phone, and while they weren't helpful at first they changed their tune when they heard explosions in the background and did whatever they had to do to get him to withdraw.
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Apr 1, 2021 18:18
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haveblue posted:On the other hand, sometimes the stupidity runs in both directions and you get a prof like this: Yeah, that dude is a fresh Math PH.D. grad in his first faculty gig, which is a surefire recipe for unbearable rear end in a top hat
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Apr 1, 2021 18:23
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Not really an OSHA gently caress-up or anything, just wanted to talk about some real-world day-to-day stuff. One of our customers is a state utility and as part of their safety culture whenever a close-call HPI (High Potential Incident) occurs in the field they send out a company-wide bulletin the following day with a preliminary run-down of the incident. I see about 1-2 of these bulletins each month and they range from someone tripping in a warehouse to near-death incidents. That said there are two common themes: inadvertent exposure to raw sewerage and inadvertent discharge of buried high-voltage cables. Sewerage exposure poses some unusual hazards which aren't always immediately obvious. In previous close-call incidents where raw sewerage lines have been accidentally pierced during excavation workers who failed to immediately evacuate the area have ended up being incapacitated by the noxious fumes causing them to collapse and, in one case, almost fall into the excavated pit. Were that to happen then the situation could potentially devolve even further if workers attempted a rescue, similar to incidents involving confined spaces or the family-of-five who drowned in septic tank while trying to rescue each other. Shorting and discharge of high-voltage cables during excavation is another alarmingly frequent hazard. In a close-call incident from only a week ago a worker was almost fatally electrocuted when they were using a crowbar to clear dirt from around ~415V cable that had been exposed during excavation. Unbeknownst to the worker the insulation on the underside of the cable had degraded significantly to the point that electricity could jump from the cable to the crowbar. The arc caused a bright flash and sent the crowbar flying from the workers hand. Thankfully the worker was wearing full PPE and didn't sustain any injuries. The interesting thing is that in these close-call HPIs involving excavation the workers involved followed protocol to the letter including dialling before digging and mapping of all utilities. Just goes to show that you can never be too careful and that it's important that close-calls are highlighted and fully investigated so that next time they can be avoided altogether.
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Apr 1, 2021 18:52
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Cartoon Man posted:https://i.imgur.com/OTOYASY.gifv Funny thing. I used to do weeding at a pot yard nursery when I was in college. You spend most of the day bent over like that. When I started, I complained that my back hurt. The guy I was working with said, "Don't worry about it. Pretty soon the backs of your knees will hurt so bad you'll forget about your back." He was right. Your back gets used to it. Your knees don't ever get used to it.
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Apr 1, 2021 19:07
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Mr. Nice! posted:There are a handful of situations where you do push a small amount power over coax. Typically they're used for powering an OTA antenna or a satellite dish receiver. This looks like something shorted somehow to some large amount of power. There are devices for converting PoE to PoC. There is also a standard for doing PoC for HD Analog security cameras. That maxes out at 48v.
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Apr 1, 2021 19:11
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holy poo poo. https://nypost.com/2021/04/01/chinese-worker-commits-suicide-by-jumping-into-furnace-report/ Shocking video captured the moment a despondent steel factory worker in China took his own life by jumping into a blast furnace after reportedly losing just over $9,000 in the stock market. Wang Long, 34, an employee at Baogang Group in Baotou, Inner Monglia, is seen removing his safety helmet and gloves, placing them on the ground as he hesitates before hurling himself into the molten steel, the South China Morning Post reported. “He just disappeared instantly,” a worker who saw the surveillance footage told the Xiaoxiang Morning Post. Video is not gory but drat. what a way to go.
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Apr 1, 2021 20:21
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poo poo, that's grim. Probably a somewhat slow death as well; despite what people think you don't just vaporize instantly if you fall into molten metal/lava.
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Apr 1, 2021 20:24
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Steel is dense too, sure you’d burn but i would think you float while you burn
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Apr 1, 2021 20:26
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drat, that's crazy. Definitely something where you should take a beat and think about if it's really worth killing yourself over. Like that one guy who was messing around with stocks during the height of gamestop going nuts. He got an email from robinhood saying he owned them over a hundred thousand dollars to cover one of his options or whatever stock term it was. He freaked out, couldn't get a hold of customer service and killed himself. Then they sent a new email the next day saying "nevermind, one of your automatic things happened and covered the cost, you're good."
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Apr 1, 2021 20:28
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Some Guy From NY posted:holy poo poo. His death is metal as gently caress
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Apr 1, 2021 20:30
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:His death is metal as gently caress What else do you expect from Wang Long 
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Apr 1, 2021 20:36
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:Steel is dense too, sure you’d burn but i would think you float while you burn Lava too. The scene at the end of Return of the King where Gollum sinks and the ring floats? Naaah.
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Apr 1, 2021 20:53
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Gollum had a heavy blackened soul and the ring was magic
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Apr 1, 2021 20:55
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The molten gold effects in The Hobbit were incredibly bad.
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Apr 1, 2021 20:56
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Platystemon posted:The molten gold effects in The Hobbit were incredibly bad. See watching the Hobbit was the obvious mistake here.
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Apr 1, 2021 21:00
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nomad2020 posted:
During my one visit to Action Park when it was around, I rode the Alpine Slide a few times. Basically the same idea - you had a 1-person sled with a lever on it, rode up a ski lift, picked the beginner, normal, or advanced track, sat it down, and off you go. I saw multiple people who got flung out of their sleds and wound up with friction burns along both arms. Apparently it was a super common event.  Some of them were people who stopped or were going slow and got hit by someone going full-speed behind them. They sent people down without much of a delay between them.
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Apr 1, 2021 21:01
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:His death is metal as gently caress Literally. It was molten steel.
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Apr 1, 2021 21:02
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Platystemon posted:The
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Apr 1, 2021 21:17
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Platystemon posted:It’s good, but I think it would be funnier if there were no coats and other objects to betray the motion of the room.
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Apr 1, 2021 21:27
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There is no way he survived that for any appreciable time, it's an absolute loving shitload of thermal energy stored in a shitload of mass, and his brain is a fraction of an inch from the molten fuckin steel, it must've cooked to nonfunctionality and then steam exploded within like a second. I know, Leidenfrost, but at this kind of titanic overmatch that can't be doing that much.
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Apr 1, 2021 21:57
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Yeah I'm having trouble imagining this scenario as anything other than "150lb steam explosion"
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Apr 1, 2021 22:06
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He went missing in the night and it was a while before anyone found him, so that steel probably got turned into human enriched I-beams or something
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Apr 1, 2021 22:40
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FuturePastNow posted:He went missing in the night and it was a while before anyone found him, so that steel probably got turned into human enriched I-beams or something That's a hell of a way to end up haunting a building.
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Apr 1, 2021 22:53
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FuturePastNow posted:He went missing in the night and it was a while before anyone found him, so that steel probably got turned into human enriched I-beams or something Wouldn't having that much foreign material contaminate the steel affect the batch?
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Apr 1, 2021 22:59
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Old urban legend around these parts was that you used to bury bodies under pilings as sacrifices to ensure the strength of the structure Sounds pretty OSHA to me, won't the ground destabilise as the body rots?
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Apr 1, 2021 23:01
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Z the IVth posted:Old urban legend around these parts was that you used to bury bodies under pilings as sacrifices to ensure the strength of the structure There's a bridge in Scotland where one of the arches is filled in to combine two columns because a horse fell into one of the columns and the eventual void would weaken it.
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Apr 1, 2021 23:14
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Cojawfee posted:There's a bridge in Scotland where one of the arches is filled in to combine two columns because a horse fell into one of the columns and the eventual void would weaken it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_nan_Uamh_Viaduct 
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Apr 1, 2021 23:17
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Wouldn't having that much foreign material contaminate the steel affect the batch? Some quick googling seems to suggest the main contribution would be about 14.5 kg of carbon. In multiple tons of steel it is unlikely to have much of an effect. My money is on that batch getting used.
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Apr 1, 2021 23:21
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CleverHans posted:Some quick googling seems to suggest the main contribution would be about 14.5 kg of carbon. In multiple tons of steel it is unlikely to have much of an effect. My money is on that batch getting used. It being China, I'd stay away from Harbor Freight stuff for a while
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Today's warehouse OSHA: A coworker calls me over to take a look at something. I get to his trailer, and it looks like someone dropped a bag of flour in the air. White and cloudy, but the floor looked clear. That's warning sign one. He mentions something about moving a skid and hazmat. His english isn't great, but I get the gist of it - he thinks it might be a hazmat spill. Okay, I look at his paperwork. Has an order of hazmat, hydrochloric acid 31.45%. Warning sign two. I, being an idiot, walk into the trailer to take a better look at it. About halfway through the air clears drastically, and I look down at a wet spot on the floor that's smoking. Uh oh. Look at the pallet beside it, sure enough, big old corrosive stickers on it. I walk back out of the trailer and tell him to go get the supervisor because gently caress dealing with that myself. Not only did we not have any hazmat cleanup bins (and we haven't for months), we also had nothing on hand to neutralize an acid spill, and the only thing we had was out standard go-to for any liquid spills (It's some product that reminds me vaguely of cat litter, and a quick google says it might be Qualisorb.) I didn't take part in the cleanup at all, but the supervisor and warehouse manager both did, and knowing the two of them I'd bet that it definitely wasn't cleaned up properly. I also learned today that wood smokes when it's being eaten by acid.
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Apr 1, 2021 23:23
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It's China. You bet your rear end his remains are already shaped into hammers and counterfeit steel balldos already.
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Apr 1, 2021 23:24
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:It being China, I'd stay away from Harbor
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Apr 1, 2021 23:25
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Very large shipboard crane undergoing stress testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehvFVjsieiw Some injured, no dead. Impressive to see the structure flop like that.
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Apr 1, 2021 23:50
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Wouldn't having that much foreign material contaminate the steel affect the batch? I think there was one accident like that one where the steel had a little more calcium than usual, but I don't remember if they still used it normally.
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Apr 1, 2021 23:58
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I think its like every slightly morbid steel post grad says they are going to do the analysis on a suicide steel batch, all of them arguing if and how it might homogenize.
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Not from human bodies, but there was that one time they dumped a bunch of Cobalt-60 (radioactive) into a bunch of steel and it ended up being used to build apartment buildings in Taiwan. The results were... interesting; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2477708/
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aphid_licker posted:There is no way he survived that for any appreciable time, it's an absolute loving shitload of thermal energy stored in a shitload of mass, and his brain is a fraction of an inch from the molten fuckin steel, it must've cooked to nonfunctionality and then steam exploded within like a second. I know, Leidenfrost, but at this kind of titanic overmatch that can't be doing that much. FuturePastNow posted:He went missing in the night and it was a while before anyone found him, so that steel probably got turned into human enriched I-beams or something People have survived falling into molten lava and molten metals, so if there's enough time to rescue someone, there's enough time for the few seconds you're still alive to seem like your being roasted for an eternity.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:People have survived falling into molten lava and molten metals I'm going to need to see some of these reports Like, "volcanologist tripped over and put his lava-suited hand through the crust of a semi-solidified Pāhoehoe flow and survived" is one thing, "fell bodily into a completely liquid lava pool and survived" is something completely different.
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He didn't fall into the molten metal he fell into the thing that was giving off enough heat to make molten metal
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