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Line6 HXFX wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 4:38 pm


I actually know a few ypung steelworkers who's hands and arms look like that, having tried to clean a bed of rollers for 0.8 mm thick steel, whilst it is still in use. They get a rag, take the gaurd off,,thinking they can easily wipe a bit of shite away (that is denting the steel as it is passing through the bed of rollers) and the rag goes in and then their hands and arm. The screams are quite horrific.

Sorry I try to forget about my times in british steel.


Refry,
Seeing the brick roof of a soaking pit collapse when a bloke was on it.. 48 hours to cool to find his fillings..
Watching a cobble in the rolling mill taking out 3 blokes..
Yup, worked in a steel works also..

Opened a new thread for this....

Sounds grim.

On a lighter note. I've seen a few workplace accidents at staff Christmas parties over the years that were embarrassing for the individuals involved in the cold light of day.

Why would you want to start a thread about stuff I want to forget about?

Ok, let's remember the time noggsies boot got clamped on a blanking line, and the clamps crushed his toes, and dragged him 30 foot, across a bed of bars at about 40 mile an hour, and smashed his foot into an industrial guillotine, where not only did the impact instantly turn his foot into putty, the guillotine started chopping and dicing the goo, before anyone could hit the emergency stop button.

Thanks, this is quite cathartic.

My secretary had a paper cut...

Horrific...

The other day I discovered the USCSB Youtube channel. They're like the NTSB for chemical accidents.

https://www.youtube.com/user/USCSB

While there are plenty of Darwin award contenders; there's a much stronger message that all Multinationals are cunts; & their workers lives are meaningless to them; & also that workers in the US have only pitiful levels of protections from their employers killing them, to save a few bucks.

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 6:08 pm The other day I discovered the USCSB Youtube channel. They're like the NTSB for chemical accidents.

https://www.youtube.com/user/USCSB

While there are plenty of Darwin award contenders; there's a much stronger message that all Multinationals are cunts; & their workers lives are meaningless to them; & also that workers in the US have only pitiful levels of protections from their employers killing them, to save a few bucks.

Well, that’s the rest of my day mapped out. The quality of these animations is fantastic, all that’s missing is the “It was at that point... he knew he’d fucked up” meme.

I sharted once after a heavy night out on the turps, boxers went into the bin

Ali Cadoo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 6:30 pm

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 6:08 pm The other day I discovered the USCSB Youtube channel. They're like the NTSB for chemical accidents.

https://www.youtube.com/user/USCSB

While there are plenty of Darwin award contenders; there's a much stronger message that all Multinationals are cunts; & their workers lives are meaningless to them; & also that workers in the US have only pitiful levels of protections from their employers killing them, to save a few bucks.

Well, that’s the rest of my day mapped out. The quality of these animations is fantastic, all that’s missing is the “It was at that point... he knew he’d fucked up” meme.

They are really good.

Oddly enough, they seem to have a Nordie as a one of their Management

I lost a finger on a bench saw in work once. I think I ended up in the accident in work ward in the hospital as a lad had planed off a proportion of his fingers and palm of his hands. They were talking about amputation. Another lad who was a chef on the film A Man of no Importance had a huge pot of boiling soup poured down his arse and back of his legs. The burn was every colour known to man- black, purple, red, yellow. Looked sore. Another lad had a bad cough. He was sort of ignored for being shit

Cut my finger on a cable-tie end on the side of a server rack. Smarted a fair amount.

I believe that the USCSB is teetering on the edge of being shut down due to a lack of funding/interest from the US Government.

Their videos and investigation reports are, indeed, fab.

I saw a bloke called Quentin jump over the back fence at work because he was late and didn’t want the boss to know. Unfortunately he caught his wedding ring on the top wire and ripped his whole finger off.

About 3 months later Quentin returned to work (furniture moving company) and on the first day back we were sent to a big house. They had a full size pool table and Quentin crushed his left hand between two of the heavy lead table surfaces and lost his 3 remaining fingers. My face was about 10cm away and I got some of his blood in my hair.

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 8:09 pm Cut my finger on a cable-tie end on the side of a server rack. Smarted a fair amount.

I had a co-op at one stage, who wasn't the brightest, but he was enthusiastic; he was a bit of a human Labrador.

At one stage he saw me removing a cable-tie with a screwdriver; (we used to get Test machinery, with built in PCs, & the shippers would cable-tie everything, & it was really irritating, because all the techs would lock their toolboxes, to stop other shifts nicking stuff); so I would often just stuck the screwdriver in the cable tie loop, & twist until the plastic gave, simple !

My co-op didn't quite grasp this simple physics, & one day I got a call from my boss to say that my co-op had just turned up at the nurse station ... as he'd just stabbed himself in the head with a screwdriver .......


Luckily he had a very thick skull, as he'd hit himself smack in the center of the forehead with the screwdriver.


In the long tradition of using embarrassment & shame to enforce safety; he got several occasions to explain WTF he did, to groups of people struggling not to piss themselves laughing at him.


We didn't offer him a job when he graduated.

I lost two brothers to workplace accidents.

This thread sux.

Enzedder wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 8:35 pm I lost two brothers to workplace accidents.

This thread sux.

Sorry Enz.

Enzedder wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 8:35 pm I lost two brothers to workplace accidents.

This thread sux.

That's terrible. Sorry to hear.

Remember looking at an accident book at an old workplace once and the previous entry was "Cut buttock on faulty chair". Of course I didn't laugh. Well not much

Enzedder wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 8:35 pm I lost two brothers to workplace accidents.

This thread sux.

Sorry to hear that mate..

But if all threads were subject to an individuals bad experiences, this would be a rugby forum..

Ali Cadoo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 6:30 pm

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 6:08 pm The other day I discovered the USCSB Youtube channel. They're like the NTSB for chemical accidents.

https://www.youtube.com/user/USCSB

While there are plenty of Darwin award contenders; there's a much stronger message that all Multinationals are cunts; & their workers lives are meaningless to them; & also that workers in the US have only pitiful levels of protections from their employers killing them, to save a few bucks.

Well, that’s the rest of my day mapped out. The quality of these animations is fantastic, all that’s missing is the “It was at that point... he knew he’d fucked up” meme.

We need a; "We're not worthy", Smilie



I don't think I've ever seen a more professional, informational animation.

Sorry, One cannot add tone to a written post and I wasn't meaning to rubbish the thread.

Nah, it's fine - one brother died when he was electrocuted (raising a drilling rig and got too close to a 30kv line). He was connected to it for over 30 minutes. That was in 1971

In 1983 another brother died in a logging accident in the bush when struck by a widowmaker.

Line6 HXFX wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:37 pm Why would you want to start a thread about stuff I want to forget about?

Ok, let's remember the time noggsies boot got clamped on a blanking line, and the clamps crushed his toes, and dragged him 30 foot, across a bed of bars at about 40 mile an hour, and smashed his foot into an industrial guillotine, where not only did the impact instantly turn his foot into putty, the guillotine started chopping and dicing the goo, before anyone could hit the emergency stop button.

Thanks, this is quite cathartic.

Last line

We had a death recently on one of our sites,

A contracted maintenance subby came in to change a tyre on a heavy duty truck, failed to follow protocol, which was to stand to one side when applying pressure. There was a failure of the rim, it propelled him 20+ meters. Dead before he hit the ground .Bloke working with him, who was just to the side, unscathed, but understandably traumatised.

Jeez - rotten circumstances Enz. Logging and construction works are notoriously high risk. You have all my sympathies.....

No deaths (yet) where I've worked but close calls:

1. People getting stranded on sandbars and have to wade in neck high water back to land as the helicopter was about the be scrambled.
2. A lad who had his bicep 'pinched' through on the deck of a boat by the heavy steel doors used to keep a net open.

I've heard of a guy who fished for years on trawlers and swore he'd never wear a lifejacket until he fell overboard one day. After that, he was always wearing one. In fact, he was on the stern of a boat that was shooting its net and showing off the lifejacket to the captains son when a passing mesh caught the toggle of the lifejacket and pulled him over with the net. The only reason he is still alive is that he didn't have the lifejacket clipped at the front and could slip out of it. Gave up fishing after that.

Can I just say, to me this is an odd thread - bringing up ex steelworker memories that he prob doesn’t want to (yes I know I made a bad taste gag about acid & his skin) and now Enz discloses he lost siblings. Even by my standards , I’m not sure this thread is of benefit to the bored.

There is always Liveleak for industrial accidents and gore if you want to find it.

Enz has stated he is fine with it, and if he thought it was OTT, he has the codez to kill it as well.

.

Yeeb wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2020 10:17 am Can I just say, to me this is an odd thread - bringing up ex steelworker memories that he prob doesn’t want to (yes I know I made a bad taste gag about acid & his skin) and now Enz discloses he lost siblings. Even by my standards , I’m not sure this thread is of benefit to the bored.

There is always Liveleak for industrial accidents and gore if you want to find it.

The ewe tube link from the investigations is really good. The maiming horror stories less so.

Here's what happens when one of my plants goes boom.


Cold box interspace pressure alarms were ignored and the support structure collapsed. It landed on top of a million tonne liquid Oxygen (LOX) tank and that's the fireball half way through.

LOX is dangerous dangerous stuff.

I knew a guy who was killed changing a tyre on the side of a road. Or was it while researching sharks?

It's hard to keep track.

Line6 HXFX wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:37 pm Why would you want to start a thread about stuff I want to forget about?

Ok, let's remember the time noggsies boot got clamped on a blanking line, and the clamps crushed his toes, and dragged him 30 foot, across a bed of bars at about 40 mile an hour, and smashed his foot into an industrial guillotine, where not only did the impact instantly turn his foot into putty, the guillotine started chopping and dicing the goo, before anyone could hit the emergency stop button.

Thanks, this is quite cathartic.

Faaaaark

Margin__Walker wrote: ↑Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:19 pm Sounds grim.

On a lighter note. I've seen a few workplace accidents at staff Christmas parties over the years that were embarrassing for the individuals involved in the cold light of day.

Go on...