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Bloody Hedgehog posted:
During his apprenticeship, my brother learned repeatedly that his boss had a tendency to say things were locked out, without actually locking them out. I am deeply ashamed that he took over ten serious zaps before realizing that a little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.
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I've never had any OSHA/Arbeidstilsynet - worthy incidents, the worst has been some nicks from old computer cases. Office work is safe that way. The only incident I can remember with someone else was with a student we had who was scanning boxes of sample tubes. Most of what we have in the freezers is DNA, and most of the DNA is stored in fairly benign buffers, barely above salt water. Some of it is not, though. The older stuff is in Trizol - Trizol proper is guanidinium thiocyanate (a denaturing agent), but the process usually includes some chloroform and phenol. We use fairly small tubes, a couple of mL. Mostly screw-cap, but for whatever reason some of the older projects used flip-top tubes instead. And when you hold a cold flip-top tube with some fraction of volatile chemicals in your hand, some of those chemicals will evaporate and increase the pressure inside. Which is how he splashed his face with Trizol buffer (and DNA from a presumably long-dead cancer patient) while trying to write down a barcode that wouldn't scan. Some did get in his eye, so he got to really thoroughly test the eye wash station. Apparently not super comfortable, but manageable enough - though I've never heard him complain about anything, so who knows. He was fine, after a few days of irritation. It hasn't happened before or since, so we're not sure why that one tube decided to go *pop* - but it's a good reminder to wear safety glasses when handling flip-top tubes, just in case.
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https://i.imgur.com/CwQkvTD.gifv
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My closest to OSHA story is I was on a team doing a power quality test on a large military aircraft. I had a couple of Fluke meters to hook up to specific circuits in a breaker panel up in the upper deck of the cockpit. I was having a hard time finding wire IDs, so it took me a while and near the end I felt a tingle. I didn't think much of it and it happened a few more times until I touched the wrong thing and got a big shock. Turns out the rest of my team had finished wiring their meters and plugged in external power without letting me know. It tingled for a few days, but otherwise nothing bad came of it. Only 28VDC or 118VAC at least, but it was still dumb all around. They make us take a yearly LOTO training even...
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Oct 12, 2021 02:35
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Oct 12, 2021 02:40
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50% of men are still going to piss in that.
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Oct 12, 2021 02:59
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Hexyflexy posted:50% of men are still going to piss in that. I am fairly sure that the sign didn't get put up till at least one dude pissed in the hole in the wall.
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Oct 12, 2021 03:01
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I would definitely piss in that hole in the wall.
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Oct 12, 2021 03:06
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Somebody Photoshop Donnie’s head in there please.
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Oct 12, 2021 03:13
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 This thing went off in my hands as I was repositioning it. The culprit in the middle there bounced closed at some point because the brain geniuses who engineered this load bank laid a bunch of contactors on their backs, leaving spring pressure fighting gravity to hold them open. Lessons learned: do not reposition load banks while voltage is present.
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Oct 12, 2021 03:15
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I don't know what you said but that's a pretty cool sci-fi prop.
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Oct 12, 2021 05:16
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what the gently caress is happening here
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Oct 12, 2021 05:35
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Kitfox88 posted:what the gently caress is happening here She's trying to tear off the hose so she can use her waterbending powers to get fuel into her car
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Oct 12, 2021 05:40
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I want to say that she thinks that's where the nozzle is housed... but like... there's no way.
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Oct 12, 2021 05:58
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I was genuinely impressed she didn’t have an Oregon plate. -an Oregonian
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Oct 12, 2021 06:03
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Every building engineer who's been around for a minute knows that, anywhere the public can get, if you don't block that hole with plastic you're going to get piss and trash and sometimes people going in there. If you don't bag an out-of-service urinal it doesn't matter if it's overflowing onto peoples' feet, they're gonna piss in it.
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Oct 12, 2021 06:07
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sigher posted:I want to say that she thinks that's where the nozzle is housed... but like... there's no way. I agree. I think someone that dumb isn't going to be able to come up with a plan like "this thing up here is a connector of some kind, and if I pull it off I might get gasoline out of the pump." If you have the mechanical knowledge to recognize that it's a connector, you probably have enough brainpower to know which way the gasoline flows and understand that isn't going to work. I think she either did not or cannot read the words on the yellow bag, doesn't realize there is a pump handle hidden underneath it, and is just looking for any shiny metal thing on a hose to stick into the car. She's assuming that is the nozzle. (it's a Texas plate I think) Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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https://i.imgur.com/ewrS4gv.mp4 I'm guessing the camera guy had a few thoroughly unwelcome "I told you so"s to hand out.
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Oct 12, 2021 06:47
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ReelBigLizard posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_VTquJR6fg eh that's not really much worse than the poo poo people get up to with motorized paragliders/hang gliders and ultralights/etc.
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Oct 12, 2021 06:49
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Powershift posted:https://i.imgur.com/ewrS4gv.mp4 i was 100% expecting the straps to break. that got me good
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Sagebrush posted:i was 100% expecting the straps to break. that got me good After reading through this thread I'm pretty sure cranes just naturally tip over at the end of each day to go to sleep for the night. edit: ↓↓ It's so if north Korea invades none of them will be able to refuel ↓↓ dr_rat fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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Sagebrush posted:I agree. I think someone that dumb isn't going to be able to come up with a plan like "this thing up here is a connector of some kind, and if I pull it off I might get gasoline out of the pump." If you have the mechanical knowledge to recognize that it's a connector, you probably have enough brainpower to know which way the gasoline flows and understand that isn't going to work. Maybe she's visiting from Korea and is used to the petrol stations where they hate short people? 
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Oct 12, 2021 07:24
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Here at Hyundai Oilbank our motto is "gently caress Short People".
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Oct 12, 2021 07:38
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how the hell do you get those down if you dont have a 2 foot+ vertical jump
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Oct 12, 2021 07:41
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you grab them with your hands instead of your teeth
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Oct 12, 2021 07:42
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Ok listen i'm the kind of person that has to stand in the cart to reach the top shelf at the grocery store
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OgNar posted:Here at Hyundai Oilbank our motto is "gently caress Short People". And tall trucks, apparently.
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Japan has those too. They don't do self service gas as far as I know so being tall enough is probably a job requirement
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Oct 12, 2021 07:58
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I really want to see one of those videos where someone leaves the nozzle in the tank as they drive off but instead in Korea you're going to shower the whole station in gas.
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C.M. Kruger posted:eh that's not really much worse than the poo poo people get up to with motorized paragliders/hang gliders and ultralights/etc. I'm the powerlines he takes off under
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My personal contribution, taken on my way to work: https://i.imgur.com/WIp6Tfe.jpg
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El Chupacabras posted:My personal contribution, taken on my way to work: https://i.imgur.com/WIp6Tfe.jpg Bolivian OSHA, this thread is all over the map!
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I cut the back of my hand once trying to wiggle a stuck 4-pin Molex connector loose within a server case. It bled a surprising amount and I had to pause for a while. This is my OSHA story.
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El Chupacabras posted:My personal contribution, taken on my way to work: https://i.imgur.com/WIp6Tfe.jpg *Tugs on strap* This isn't going anywhere!
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Antigravitas posted:I cut the back of my hand once trying to wiggle a stuck 4-pin Molex connector loose within a server case. It bled a surprising amount and I had to pause for a while. If I don’t bleed somewhere inside a computer I’ve built, I get nervous that I didn’t feed the blood gods, and something will end up going wrong down the road. My current gaming build has a big Zalman CPU fan with a bazillion paper thin copper fins…and a few have dark blotches on them from where the back of a finger got pulped while installing RAM. I tried to clean it and ended up cutting another finger. One time, I built a computer unscathed in college, and a year later one of the ICs caught fire and let all the magic smoke out. Yay superstition.
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Sagebrush posted:I agree. I think someone that dumb isn't going to be able to come up with a plan like "this thing up here is a connector of some kind, and if I pull it off I might get gasoline out of the pump." If you have the mechanical knowledge to recognize that it's a connector, you probably have enough brainpower to know which way the gasoline flows and understand that isn't going to work. yeah it's a Texas plate what is that sticker with the blue background and two yellow bars anyway?
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hawowanlawow posted:yeah it's a Texas plate Human Rights Campaign fund logo. Posting it on social media to show LGBTQ+ solidarity trended several years back.
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C.M. Kruger posted:eh that's not really much worse than the poo poo people get up to with motorized paragliders/hang gliders and ultralights/etc. Humphreys posted:I'm the powerlines he takes off under I'm the mono-wheel e-scooter thing he uses to drive the craft through busy traffic on it's little pram wheels.
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Friend sent me a picture of a partially degloved hand with the caption 'my boss is no longer forklift certified'. 'Is that yours or his?' 'His' 'Keep your arms, legs, and head inside the ride at all times' 'My boss disagrees' Apparently they don't expect he will ever regain feeling in that hand. Forklifts are made to fuckle, and they don't care who they fuckle
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:There's a whole Post My Favorite thread on the subject: an elderly coworker of mine was moving a bunch of pallets with a pallet jack when the jack abruptly catastrophically failed, slamming the pallets down and yanking the handle up, sending him into the air and from what I hear broke his leg and some ribs when he hit the concrete. I think he retired after that, can't blame him, he'd been there like 40 years. The equipment we use in this building is very often as old as I am, with all the fun safety problems that comes with. this just makes me think about how we have the most heinous cavemen at my UPS hub, and an out of order sign, taped up stalls, nothing stops them. there was a toilet where the piping broke, so they disabled the water flow to that bathroom and heavily taped up the stall as well as shut down the bathroom entirely, putting up a barrier and out of order sign. someone proceeded to go inside, tear off the tape from the stall and take a massive poo poo in the nonfunctional toilet, and then other people did the same, filling the entire bowl with multiple people's poo poo, piss and toilet paper. they weren't going to fix the toilet for a while hence the tape, and so all that poo poo just sat and festered for a full week. you could smell it a good way across the building, and close up was vomit-inducing. it took a union steward threatening to have inspectors come see it in person to get them to do something about it. just...what the gently caress, people. there was another bathroom literally 100 feet away with a functioning toilet. if it was spite making GBS threads, then...you didn't do anything to spite the company, just your coworkers. Ornamental Dingbat posted:Every night was an OSHA violation at UPS: Captain Invictus posted:
a major UPS hub is a nightmare factory of steel, rust, and concrete, and that's before you get people shipping poo poo they're not supposed and/or in ways they're not supposed to. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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