Blindeye posted:

I don't want to see it, but what is it?

Lurking Haro posted:

This is a guy getting his head smashed in by a collapsing crane while cutting a tree.

Why do you just post an explicit link without even describing what it is?

Humphreys posted:

Don't put stickers on your hardhat. Apparently it fucks with the plastics and makes them weaker. The source of this information is my own hardhat with a load of reflective tape and my company stickers all over. Was denied them on quite a few sites and had to use the lovely 'visitor' hats.

zedprime posted:

If you are wearing brim backwards you should have the harness rotated appropriately or else it's hard to get the harness both comfortable and actually protecting your head. Can't just spin it like a cap in other words.

Stickers are, ehh, they probably shouldn't affect inspection too much but you know there's guys using them specifically to cover spiderwebs.

Ugly In The Morning posted:

When this job is done I’m definitely putting the stickers I’ve accumulated on my hard hat, but I haven’t stuck any beyond the training ones. I’ve never been told not to, and a lot of the subs have ones with a fair few stickers, but I work for the GC and I haven’t seen any of our guys with them so I’m holding off.

B-Rock452 posted:

It's extremely not safe for work but the Instagram for savageparamedics just posted a photo of what happens when you wear flip flops and crash your motorcycle.

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Motherfucking Mike Mulligan!

jetz0r posted:

Easier to transport, traps some vapor, and protects your vehicle from small spills.

It went being an incredibly stupid idea (filling rubbermaid tubs with gas) to a smart idea.

Ugly In The Morning posted:

Which one did you use? I did mine through Advance Online and it was brutally boring to actually get through but it did the job well enough.

Pile Of Garbage posted:

https://twitter.com/rulesobeyer/status/1245672546151862273

Tumble posted:

Uhg I woke up with nightmares today so I figured I'd share with ya'll. I saw somebody get hit by a subway train yesterday in Philly, it was horrible. He was high as hell on something, probably K2. I looked over at him like "This dude is a danger to himself..." and then less than a minute later somebody shouted, and I look back over and the loving dude was trying to get a cigarette that fell on the tracks.

Ten seconds later a train starts coming, and people are yelling at him but it was too late, he basically just froze and started like, trying to motion to the train to stop but it couldn't fully stop in time and it ran him over before it came to a halt.

Then the horror started. The train shut off for a second and we could hear him moaning and screaming for a few seconds before the train backed up. By the time the train had backed up to expose him, he wasn't making much noise, but he was still alive and it was horrific. He is legs were flat in a couple of areas and twisted up like a mess of ropes, he couldn't move anything except for an arm which he was kind of shaking up and down while he half-cried and half-moaned. EMS and firefighters were on the scene a couple of minutes later but they couldn't get to him until the power to the tracks was confirmed to be shut off, so they were yelling to him not to move until they could go down and get him.

He lost consciousness for a bit while they were loading him on to stretcher but then he woke up again and started crying for a bit before he was silent again.

Awful, awful stuff. I can't find anything in the news about it, I guess because of COVID there wasn't really anybody to report it? Uhg, anyways I cannot stop seeing his twisted up body, I don't think there was any way he could have lived much longer and I kind of hope he didn't anyways, his injuries did not look compatible with life at all.

So yea, do not jump into the subway because you saw a cigarette, guys. It's not worth it.

LifeSunDeath posted:

I'm the guy backing away slowly when he realized there's 2 fake forklift drivers, and a real forklift driver has yet to arrive.

Lazyhound posted:

What’s in the middle of the wings that’s so lethal? Fuel tanks?

Platystemon posted:

Hypothetical weak points.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

ncumbered_by_idgits posted:

Like some kind of truckfuckling art installation.

Cyrano4747 posted:

What am I looking at here? The front of that vehicle doesn’t make sense to my brain.

Nenonen posted:

Naturally the 3/4 swastika island doesn't give a gently caress.

WarpedNaba posted:

You think that's weird, you should see the Sicilian flag.

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

AFewBricksShy posted:

For the lazy.

Now show the back of the flag, I want to see her cooch

Memento posted:

either she has more than one, or it looks like a starfish mouth

VictualSquid posted:

OK, how are you supposed to operate this device safely.
If I was designing this I would put on more handles so that you run it with 2 people, but the handles are totally wrong for that.

Arrhythmia posted:

Someone please tell me why her arm didn't get cut off

Antigravitas posted:

That's an impressive amount of fire to be honest.

EvenWorseOpinions posted:

Kith posted:

https://i.imgur.com/zEssiYv.mp4

Cartoon Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/OsdC58v.mp4

“Unfortunately, some of them won’t make it...”

-Zydeco- posted:

The White Dragon posted:

huh. i actually would've guessed that they COULDN'T press charges, i recall one of the things about that case being that the parent of the child who died was a local politician who had spent his entire career loosening the safety restrictions in his county for Are Biznissis

quote:

The death of 10-year-old Caleb Schwab at Schlitterbahn last August was a tragedy beyond comprehension. Who among us can pretend to understand precisely what life has been like for Caleb’s family over these past nine months?

Yet they have somehow survived and persevered, and now they have also extracted a full measure of justice from the responsible parties: the water park, the contractor, the water raft manufacturer and the design consultant.

Yes, the amount of the settlement is both staggering and record-breaking. But forget the exact amountaccording to wiki it was 20 million – what’s important to know is that the Schwabs were able to collect full compensation under the parameters of the law for the wrongful death of their young son. This is all any of us should expect under such circumstances. No amount of money could have replaced Caleb.

What really matters here – what is absolutely crucial to every Kansan – is that we answer the following question: How exactly were the Schwabs – a Kansas family bringing claims for a death sustained on Kansas soil – able to hold the wrongdoers fully accountable for damages utilizing the law of our state?

The answer is that they weren’t.

Our own state’s damages laws abandoned Rep. Scott Schwab, R-Olathe, and his wife in their time of need, just as they have done to countless other deserving victims over the years.

With wrongful death damages in Kansas capped at an astoundingly low sum – $250,000 – it must have been evident to the Schwabs and their attorneys that applying Kansas law would not get them where they needed to go. The tragedy occurred in Kansas, but there would be no justice here.

So when the Schwabs looked to state law for justice, they had to take a road trip down to Texas. Kansas enacted pro-business tort reform measures long ago to convince companies like Schlitterbahn to setup shop here, but Schlitterbahn had still bypassed Kansas and chosen Texas for its headquarters.

The wrongdoers were thus faced with the possibility that a legal loophole of sorts would lead a court to apply Texas damages laws – rather than Kansas laws – which would allow the Schwabs to avoid the unfair $250,000 cap and actually obtain legitimate compensation.

The possibility of having to pay the full amount awarded by a jury – rather than having their liability extinguished with the bang of a gavel – must have been enough to convince these businesses and their insurers to pay with a grimace. This is what we expect to see when tragedy flows from iniquity: the bad guys writing checks that make them hurt as well.

No matter what our laws say about the purpose of compensation, elements of deterrence and accountability accompany most awards – especially in cases that shock the conscience. In Kansas, our damages caps have left our businesses undeterred. There is no accountability here – only more injustices, stacked atop each other like overdue hospital bills.

It’s time to tell our Legislators to get rid of these needless damages caps. The pursuit of justice should not be a tourist activity.

ekuNNN posted:

shame on an IGA posted:

Also goddamn that is cabinet inception, I keep staring and just can't orient to it

ekuNNN posted:

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qhwjwtULZt1s1ddrj.mp4

Lurdiak posted:

Probably a bit off topic but in case some of you still have fond memories of Mike Rowe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iXUHFZogmI

Phanatic posted:

"Safety third" isn't anti-OSHA, it's a recognition that if safety were the utmost priority you'd be home in bed and that "safety first" is frequently simply propaganda that pays lip service to safety rather than protecting it and leads people to let their guard down.

https://www.jems.com/2018/11/13/safety-is-third-not-first-and-we-all-know-it-should-be/

Phanatic posted:

But it is. It would be safer for you to not be unloading slabs of stone. It would be safer for me not to be flying on a helicopter. But those things are the job, and at some point you are satisfied that "We're doing this safely" and you proceed to do your job for money.


How is that different from any other task? Hauling around huge slabs of stone is not a thing which people do for its own sake, it is not entertainment. It's a job, and you make sure you're doing it as safely as possible, but no matter how safe you can possibly make it it will still be more dangerous than just letting huge slabs of stone stay in the ground and not hauling them around. We take the utmost effort to operate the helicopter as safely as possible, operating the helicopter as safely as possible is the main priority, but it is a helicopter, and not flying a helicopter is safer than flying a helicopter as safely as possible. But those things are the job.

Phanatic posted:

No, the black-and-white fallacy is that a job is either being done safely or unsafely. Safe/unsafe is not a binary condition, it is a continuum with degrees. It is always possible to make a thing safer by spending more money, or by spending more time, but you asymptotically approach "job doesn't get done." It *is* safer to not handle slabs at all. We have policies and regulations on how to move slabs in order to reduce the risk. I guarantee the OSHA regulations regarding moving stone slabs do not include "all precautions necessary to ensure it's done safely." They include precautions that reduce risk an a level acceptable to OSHA. Your workplace might include additional precautions that reduce the risk to a level acceptable to your workplace. And when you go to do the job you do it if those risks have been reduced to a level acceptable to you. But there are other precautions you could take to reduce the risk even further, and you don't take those additional precautions because the present level of risk is already acceptable to you.


You're at work, you're moving a slab, I'll stipulate that you're doing it safely. You're following all the rules, regulations, policies. If you were to cut corners and increase the risk to get the job done faster or cheaper that would be bad. But you could also make more corners: it might cost more money, or take more time, but you could operate under other processes which reduce the risk to a smaller level then the way you're moving slabs today. So why don't you?

Ror posted:

https://i.imgur.com/JO9RX6r.mp4