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etalian posted:Probably the most horrifying videos was the chinese escalator death clip. Is this the one about the mother getting chewed up while she managed to pass her kid off to an attendant? I thought it was due to the maintenance guys taking off without screwing the access cover back on.
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If you want to cross that bridge, you have to pay the toll. 
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Feb 23, 2016 18:45
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FIRST TIME posted:I'm assuming that the trucks lower for transporting the thing so the treads don't tear the poo poo out of the pavement? I think it is more of a, "Look what our cranes can do" sort of thing. Similar to these events! 
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Feb 26, 2016 20:39
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Yeah it was a steep learning curve. One of the first jobs they had me do was unload 20ft bundles of treated lumber off an enclosed train car, which involved going up and down an incline with like the heaviest lumber load you can have. The first summer I worked at the lumber yard they had me take a pallet and a half of shingles down the street and lift them up to the roof of a 2 storey house. This was an older house, so the first floor had 10' ceilings. I got as close as I could and lifted the load straight up. The guy on the roof then wanted me to tilt the load forwards to it was easier to reach. I told them I was afraid that I would put a hole through the house roof as it would move too fast. The roofer and the owner said it was ok, and the owner of the lumber yard confirmed over the phone that I could do it. I literally pushed forwards on the lever to tilt the load forwards with the edges of my two thumbs to that I could let the lever spring loose with the least amount of reaction time. I moved the lever all the way until there was resistance with the hydraulic mechanism, then continued at a fraction of a mm at a time. When it engaged the load sprung ahead 3' and the back tires of the forklift leapt a few inches off the ground. The roofer said I missed hitting the roof by a margin he couldn't even see. In retrospect, I should have just told the lumber yard owner to do it himself.
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Feb 27, 2016 02:34
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It still blows my mind that tannerite is a legal substance to buy. Then again it blows my mind that someone is stupid enough to fill a metal object (complete with blades designed to cut things) with it and shoot it from anything other than a benchrest distance. Guns + metal is already dangerous, adding explosives to the mix is asking for trouble.
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Mar 26, 2016 17:13
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Arrath posted:Since it's a binary compound there isn't much The Man can do to restrict the sale of the two otherwise benign ingredients. Not without congressional action at least and Yeah, it's a rabbit hole that runs pretty deep. It would probably be easier to have combining the compounds being an illegal act rather than trying to band the two ingredients.
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Mar 26, 2016 18:20
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VectorSigma posted:It definitely was a backdraft, but it was the window breaking that triggered it, with fresh air being drawn in through the roof. I'm wondering if it was a backdraft, as the windows are broken and enough oxygen should be getting inside to keep it burning near them. It could possibly be fumes that were building up on the second floor finally getting a spark and igniting.
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Apr 1, 2016 16:50
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Mattavist posted:They were trying the plane treadmill thing and didn't have a treadmill. How many 5 year olds with a day's training in hand to hand combat were inside it?
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Apr 10, 2016 16:33
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Cocoa Crispies posted:Going by https://www.google.com/maps/search/air+india/@17.4568164,78.4585446,15.61z , it's not the kind of training where the airplane leaves the ground. It's used for emergency exit training. They cram the airframe with Chinese tourists and the flight staff has to keep them from opening the door for 45 minutes before they can get their Stewart certification. Apparently attrition rates are up there with Navy Seals.
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Apr 10, 2016 18:13
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Just had this one passed on to me by my brother in Alberta. A friend of his is working in some sawmill in the north of the province and just quit his job because of this incident. So he's working for his lumber yard that's your're pretty average semi-permanent mill. The whole facility can essentially be packed up in a week and moved to another site closer to the source, as most everything is stored in, or built out of storage containers. My brother's friend used to to exploratory drilling for some company that looks for oil deposits, but he got laid off almost a year ago when oil took a hit. Both operations need people to maintain large moving parts and keep things clean so that they don't wear out, so he was able to transition to this pretty easily. So three days ago the one conveyor that hauls the single-cut boards starts smoking at one of the bearings. Seems that the meth-heads that are 90% of the employees at this site are not so keen to grease the bearings for the conveyor (he takes care of the larger equipment, the other guys are supposed to maintain their own little sections). The guy turns off the machine, hangs an orange flag over the switch, puts a sheet of paper with, "machine being greased, don't turn on" on the door to the control panel room, goes to the breaker, turns it off, and puts one of the locks on it. He's just about to walk away when he decides to take the key out of the lock, just as a precaution. So the guy is 15 minutes into greasing the bearings and he's gone through two tubes of grease (this is a 45' length of conveyor, with a hundred or so bearings, and they are all pretty much bone dry. He goes to the automotive supply shed to get another tube of grease to finish up. He comes back to the conveyor, takes a knee and jumps back 6' when the conveyor springs to life. He runs to the control panel and one of the meth heads has just turned it back on. He flips it off, and screams at him, "why did you turn this on?". The meth head tells him that the boss told him that a circuit probably tripped, and to turn it back on (boss is off-site and one of the meth heads radioed him saying the machine was broken). He asks the meth head why he didn't read the sign or notice the flag on the control panel. No answer, he then drags the guy to the breaker panel and asks him how he turned it back on? The guy picks up the lock out of the garbage, which has obviously been sawed. He walked off the job right there and then, as he knew he was pretty much living on borrowed time around that crew.
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Apr 18, 2016 14:20
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Mithaldu posted:Jesus christ, that is a hell of a story. Since he's quitting anyhow, he should get OSHA on their rear end instead of just running away. It might have resulted in the company getting a fine and the hacksaw guy getting canned. He'd still be working with a bunch of methheads with little to no reasoning skills. The mill follows all the OSHA standards apparently, it's just the average employee is a moron who is 99.999% focussed on their next score of whatever drug tickles their fancy, so all the lockouts, barriers, flags, and safety courses don't mean much. Darkhold posted:I'd put even money on the fact he didn't quit but was fired when he complained because he wasn't supposed to be working on that machine. No, he quit. He is certified/allowed to service pretty much every piece of equipment they have on site (except vehicles) so this was well within his job requirements, but simple stuff like this is expected to be be done by the different operators. So if some guy is working a de-barker, he's expected to grease it and change teeth, and call my brother's friend when something bigger happens. The only operators that are not expected to grease/maintain their own equipment are the sawmill (actual bandsaw operators) as they are expensive as hell and a little more involved than filling up grease nipples. Since one of the bearings was smoking, this was 100% something he was supposed to take care of as per his job description.
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Apr 18, 2016 16:06
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fyodor posted:What would happen if they only hired people with a full set of teeth? Probably have to pay them more? They would be less likely to work weekends as they would have friends/family they would want to visit? Have to pay them dental benefits? Mithaldu posted:No, i meant he should report them particularly BECAUSE he is quitting. His standing there doesn't matter and while a slap on the wrist is little, every little bit counts. I don't know, it's up to him, I don't actually know him, this is all filtered through my brother.
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Apr 18, 2016 16:28
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I've heard if you build in an areas in Germany that hasn't been previously cleared and deemed "safe" that bomb detection is mandatory, and that they use wartime reconnaissance photos of bomb craters overlaid over current maps to see likely spots where bombs would be the heaviest (certain percentage were duds). Also they have to sweep with metal detectors naturally.
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Apr 19, 2016 01:15
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Baronjutter posted:Any recently built glass curtain wall condo tower would have its windows falling out after a few years due to extremely lovely constructon and poor material choices. Hell this is happening anyways even with basic attempts at upkeep. Wandering around cities you'd be constantly hearing sheets of glass falling 20+ stories to the ground. The actual core concrete or steel structures would last a long time though. Problem with concrete structures, is that once that glass falls out, the weather can get inside, and that's what's going to bring them down. You have something like your average NY skyscraper starting to lose it's glass shell, and water seeps in. That alone is bad for concrete, as it seeps into cracks, causes erosion in places it pools and moves through, and starts to seep into the concrete and causes the metal reinforcing to rust. If that building is in a climate with a winter, then you have even faster degredation as that moisture inside the concrete freezes and expands. In the spring it melts and leaves cracks that allows even more water inside. This increased water expands when frozen and makes the cracks bigger, allowing more water. . . you get the idea. One of those "after humans are gone" shows was saying something like the Sears Tower would last max ~200 years, while things like the Empire State building and the other 1930's-40's skyscrapers would last 2-3 times longer. A place like Dubai is going to see their buildings lasting hundreds of years after the skyline of New York flattens itself.
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Apr 22, 2016 00:53
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Had a part-time job at the Alumni Association in my second-last year of University in the call centre asking grads for donations. One of my coworkers was an Indian foreign student who would always make a point of trying to bring this "cultural practice" up with any white face he talked to for more than 3 minutes. "You see, the practice of wiping with a bare hand is actually more hygienic because you're less likely to get colon cancer from toilet paper and you wash your hands right after, so it is cleaner than using toilet paper." Everyone he told this to would immediately (subconsciously) wipe their right hand on their pants/shirt, then respond with, "but you wash your hands after using toilet paper as well . . . plus you never get poo poo on your hands, how can you think touching the poo poo is cleaner than not touching it?" To which he would shake his head in exasperation and walk away.
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Apr 26, 2016 15:35
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H110Hawk posted:And you thought your harbor freight death wheel was Actual radial arm saws with guards and clamps, and proper handles are bad enough, that thing is just waiting for blood!
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May 3, 2016 02:59
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FIRST TIME posted:The obvious counter to these anti-personnel mines is baby soldiers. African armies feeling pretty smug. chitoryu12 posted:How much would you predict an average soldier weighs in their gear? A good 300 pounds? When stepping on something while marching or walking with full kit you might be able to set off an AT mine given that it's not just the weight but that initial force and momentum that's hitting the trigger, rather than slowly and cautiously adding weight to it to approach the trigger weight. Blistex fucked around with this message at 20:56 on May 4, 2016 |
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May 4, 2016 20:53
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Mithaldu posted:How OSHA is wood-working while blind? I'm wondering how many chisels he's embedded into his ceiling when they hit the chuck.
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May 8, 2016 14:23
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I think a structural weakpoint was created last summer when the BBQ was too close and melted the vinyl siding.
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May 9, 2016 05:54
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Every time I look at that article I am still shocked that it says 1986 and not 1906.
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May 10, 2016 19:46
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Darkman Fanpage posted:Don't know why they'd need it. Most protestors that show up at Tiananmen Square are quickly arrested by plain clothes secret police who bundle them up in unmarked vans to be driven off to a secret detention area. Move along comrade nothing to see here. Hahaha! You're being so paranoid! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNXv7QX3Ue8
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May 19, 2016 18:19
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Say Nothing posted:Removing an engine. Da gently caress?
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May 29, 2016 01:39
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geeves posted:Wonder what the last thing to go through his mind was. Fragments of his skull?
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May 31, 2016 16:09
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He'll never be the head of a major corporation.
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May 31, 2016 19:05
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You want nuclear waste to be touched by absolutely nobody for the rest of all time? Bury it 50 feet underground where there are no natural resources at all. I'm talking about in the middle of the most useless, burned out, patch of worthless desert in the US. Now who the hell is going to bother to exert the effort to dig 50 feet down in an area where they know they are going to get nothing useful and it's uncomfortable to work in? Nobody. The only way someone will find it is if they are walking around with some sort of device that detects radiation, and when they find it they will say, "oh, there are trace amounts of radiation that are 400 times background levels. . . better move along". Putting some sort of a marker near nuclear waste is the absolutely worst thing you could ever do, as you are literally marking the location and creating interest in the site.
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Jun 1, 2016 03:28
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an AOL chatroom posted:Near where I grew up, there was a laundromat that instead of properly treating and/or disposing of the chemicals they used, just dumped everything into the ground, causing "an astonishing toxic legacy". That was in 1990, and they're still dealing with it. An automotive garage back in the late 90's where I live got caught and fined for dumping a ton of degreaser and other chemicals down the storm drain behind their building. How'd they get caught? The sensors on some guy's yacht tied up at the marina 1/2 a km away started going nuts, and they traced it back to the garage.
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AceRimmer posted:Sorry if these were already featured in the thread, Soviet OSHA posters. These posters are actually warning workers not to damage the valuable machines with their cheap, easily replaceable bodies.
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Crazy Ted posted:Crows are pretty incredible. My parents used to have a heated birdbath, and every winter crows would line the entire rim of the thing like they were having some kind of crow party. There were pennies at the bottom of it, and one by one each crow would dip its beak in, pick up a coin, flip it in the air, and watch it plop back down into the heated water. Apparently this was incredibly amusing to the crows because they'd all make noise for about five seconds after the penny fell back into the water. Crows are basically birds with the brain capacity of a 2 year old.
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Degloving https://imgur.com/gallery/tJaLIIJ
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No insulation in the garage ceiling?
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Sagebrush posted:oh and that story about the woman with lead poisoning from mussel shells is infuriating to me. she showed symptoms of neurological damage for fifteen years, including super obvious symptoms like slurring her speech and losing her hearing, and she went to neurologists and endocrinologists and psychiatrists and everyone else, and at no point did anyone go "well let's just do a full blood panel" to test for poo poo like lead poisoning? I'm not victim blaming, but how do you not know a fairly well known characteristic of your chosen medium? Mussles basically saved Lake Erie because they filter and collect heavy metals. Hopefully she gets better or at least improves somewhat. Also wondering if the doctors initially wrote it off as MS and kept chasing that rabbit despite tests coming back negative.
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NoWake posted:What's a panda bear got in common with a male escort? Every single one of them around the globe are the property of the People's Republic of China?
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Vale can get turbo-hosed. quote:Vale was elected as the corporation with the most "contempt for the environment and human rights" in the world during a January 2012 vote organized by the Public Eye. The choice was made by public vote and Vale received 25,000 votes.
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