Deteriorata posted:

Amazon faces $350K fine for shipping dangerous goods


"Amazing Liquid Fire" is 98% sulfuric acid with a bit of detergent mixed in. I don't know what all the fuss is about.

Here's the MSDS. It includes this nifty NFPA label:

Atticus_1354 posted:

I just found the most unexpected warehouse and forklift in a random video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU

I am actually a little jealous of the storage space.

blarzgh posted:

Its not like this everywhere in the civilized world?

edit: (yes, I've been reading the thread; I'm using a veil of ignorance to express my incredulity.)

JoelJoel posted:

Was this posted here yet? Bear on site. Most Canadian dialogue I've ever heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pLsM2ijRao

gently caress you, bear.

tater_salad posted:

What I don't understand is at a bridge like this they font hang a board on chain at 10'8".. If you hit this sign don't go.

Master Twig posted:

Something just occured to me. Every video I've seen of that bridge has people hitting it from the same direction. Do they not bother to show them the other side because the angle isn't as good for the video? Surely people hit it from the other direction too.

tater_salad posted:

You're right sorry for wondering if there was a simple solution to cure stupidity, but there isnt.

JB50 posted:

Hmm yes let me lean these super flammable pallets against this building and put an accelerant on them and start a fire.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

Chlamyllionaire posted:

Fun little story is how these asbestos companies realized they were in deep poo poo and ended up being bought by Haliburton, who recouped the losses from war profiteering.

McDeth posted:

Sorry to dredge this up for pages past, but I firmly believe that there should be a limit to how much SHOULD be done to prevent idiots from taking themselves out of the gene pool. Humanity has basically solved the whole "natural selection by survival of the fittest" problem, so the only thing preventing us from completely overpopulating this planet is those people that are literally too stupid to notice poo poo like this either killing themselves or removing their ability to reproduce.

PhotoKirk posted:

That "bench" looks like it would collapse under the weight of an average Goon. I love the tiny brackets attaching it to the floor and the lack of bracing.

REMEMBER SPONGE MONKEYS posted:

Aren't the percentages in it extremely low? Maybe 3% in a completely pulverized ceiling is awful though? And if you just left it alone, then it would be pretty well encased and not prone to kamikaze-ing your body?

Lime Tonics posted:

Just a small crack,

BlankIsBeautiful posted:

Echoing what others said, the main spillway is trashed at this point, so I'm assuming they're just going to try and slow down the erosion occurring at the screwed up area. Reuters says that they're going to use helicopters to drop rock into the hole which would at least control the rate of erosion/undermining. Anything you can do to deflect the kinetic energy of the falling water away from the eroded base is a good thing. It's good news that flow over the auxiliary spillway has ceased. Maybe the rains will be light this week.

Rah! posted:

The rain is actually supposed to be back in just three days.

quote:

This tool cuts fingers and gashes faces, but shipbuilder still uses it

Martin Osborn had a job to do at the Alabama shipyard: Use a handheld power tool to slice a tiny piece of aluminum on a ship being constructed for the U.S. Navy.

As he pushed the saw blade through the metal one morning in February 2014, the tool shot back. It ripped through his left ring finger, tearing away flesh and bone. Osborn never saw it coming.

But shipyard managers did. For years, managers at Austal USA’s shipyard in Mobile privately fretted about the danger of a tool they’d modified from its intended use. In an email three years earlier, Chris Blankenfeld, the company’s top safety manager, called the machine a “Widow Maker.”

“These millers are quite literally an accident waiting to happen,” he wrote to company officials, referring to the tool by its shipyard nickname.

He was right. At least 53 Austal workers have been injured by the tool, losing fingers and suffering deep gashes on their faces, necks and arms, according to injury logs from January 2011 to March 2015 obtained by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting.

quote:

But he also has blamed employees for their injuries. It’s “the employee who makes the tool unsafe not the tool (itself),” Blankenfeld wrote in an email to a group of company managers in 2011.

A safety alert titled, “Miller Tool Use and Dangers,” went out to workers in 2015. It declared: “ALL injuries involving Miller tools are caused by carelessness, improper use and complacency.”

Platystemon posted:

Wait, it’s a single tool (i.e. not a class of tools similarly modified) that injured fifty‐three different employees?

Ak Gara posted:

I had to watch this like 8 times and I still don't know how he failed so badly. Did his little booties slip off the pedals?

`Nemesis posted:

They had to re-open the gates on the Oroville Dam Main Spillway yesterday, this video starts before they do that and keeps an eye on things as they ramp up to 50,000 CFS

Second half of the video is discussing what the current plan is for operations through Summer, and an update on repairs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQe0J5NLLT4

oohhboy posted:

I am surprised they even give a poo poo about the lower part of the spillway as I would have just written it off.

Dillbag posted:

Holy poo poo I didn't notice the drop ceiling at first.

Greatest Living Man posted:

I don't think the car at 0:15 ever makes it through

Lime Tonics posted:

`Nemesis posted:

Gets exciting at about 50 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UX1nF4L3OI

http://www.thenational.ae/uae/10-injured-at-jebel-ali-port-as-ship-hits-crane-causing-it-to-fall

Lime Tonics posted:

report is in, and it's not good.

America's Infrastructure Scores a...

D+

http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org

CollegeCop posted:

That video is some Grade A theatrics.

I had to do this when I went through the academy, then again three years later when my agency finally authorized us to carry OC spray.

The idea behind getting sprayed as part of the training is that you are going to get blowback when you deploy. It is just going to happen. You have to be able to work through the effects and finish the interaction.

Our certification process went like this: Get sprayed, call on radio that spray was deployed and ask for backup. Run 50 feet to next station and perform baton strikes to dummy. Run 50 feet to next station and handcuff suspect. When that all was done, they had a hose you could use to rinse your eyes out.

It wasn't fun, but it did prove that OC spray is not debilitating, and you can fight through the pain.

oohhboy posted:

I cannot deny that is a badass and utterly dangerous use of physics assuming it isn't a photoshop or he is attached to a post.

MF_James posted:

Those things are also super loving dangerous and the one at six-flags (if it's even still here in illinois) has been moved around to multiple different places because it's removed a few feet and other body parts.