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Somebody had to drill that hole to lock it in the On position. It wasn't just a mistake, it was a purposeful decision. loving messed up.
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Whoops, hose burst, there goes a trainload of chlorine! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gp2wx2zlRI 50 people got a little taste of WWI
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fletcher posted:I don't understand how the employer can be found at fault and the penalty for somebody dying is a paltry $70k. eSporks fucked around with this message at 03:44 on May 29, 2014 |
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Fire Marshal made it a point during a training session to strongly emphasize that if the little breakaway ziptie thingy that holds the pin in your fire extinguishers falls off, you should NOT replace it with a large thick industrial ziptie. They see that a lot during inspections. Apparently it's a pretty common thing for workers to render their fire extinguishers useless unless you have a knife or scissors on you when there is a fire. (Granted, some people always carry knives, but drat).
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May 29, 2014 03:42
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In case of fire, melt plastic tie with fire.
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MasterBuilder posted:This is my brush with a catastrophic workplace accident when I was working as a summer worker to pay for university. This was pretty lovely because the guys that were doing it were basically day labourer and had the shittiest work conditions. How the gently caress did they not run with criminal negligence charges on the supervisors. Trans-Pave at least made a serious act of contrition following their fuckup. I wonder what those jerkoffs with their hideous prefab log cabins promised to do to avoid jail time for the supervisor/management team.
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May 29, 2014 03:49
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Pick for whatever reason I missed that link of yours but thanks that poo poo was intense.
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maybe you can put an extinguisher into a fire and then it will burst and put it out
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EMILY BLUNTS posted:In case of fire, melt plastic tie with fire. I'll just put this with the rest of the fire
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I Greyhound posted:Fire Marshal made it a point during a training session to strongly emphasize that if the little breakaway ziptie thingy that holds the pin in your fire extinguishers falls off, you should NOT replace it with a large thick industrial ziptie. They see that a lot during inspections. EMILY BLUNTS posted:In case of fire, melt plastic tie with fire. No you do this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkvVBZwXVhg#t=1m06s
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Decided to look for a more thematic content (image of zip-tied extinguisher), and found some new good images!   The Naval Safety Center has a photo of the week set with lots of good ones, but they're in PDF format, so may be some work to inline post. For example: http://www.public.navy.mil/comnavsafecen/Documents/Photo/551-600/560.pdf I Greyhound fucked around with this message at 04:09 on May 29, 2014 |
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May 29, 2014 04:05
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Ladders and electricity: this is one of my new favorites.
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I think the really banal ones are my favourites. I mean come on.
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Bubble-T posted:I think the really banal ones are my favourites. I mean come on. That probably took a lot of work to get the rungs spaced correctly after bending the uprights.
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proof of concept posted:Whoops, hose burst, there goes a trainload of chlorine! It loving figures, that of all places you would expect something like this to happen, it would be in Festus, Missouri. What a terrible, southern-shithole-sounding name.
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May 29, 2014 04:33
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Some kid at my high school died because he thought that plastic milk crates were acceptable substitutes for jack stands when you are under a car. He thought wrong. He was also 17 and repeating the 9th grade for the third time so that might explain a few things.
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The_Franz posted:Some kid at my high school died because he thought that plastic milk crates were acceptable substitutes for jack stands when you are under a car. He thought wrong.
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Leperflesh posted:I've seen this before, but I still love it. My favorites are the ones where the people nicely shave all the A/C units and stuff off the top of their huge RV trailers. The thing that terrifies me about that one is the trains going right overhead some of which have tanker cars full of who knows what. 
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May 29, 2014 05:11
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Entropic posted:The thing that terrifies me about that one is the trains going right overhead some of which have tanker cars full of who knows what. We saw what a few pages back.
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Entropic posted:The thing that terrifies me about that one is the trains going right overhead some of which have tanker cars full of who knows what. Bridge parts and warning signs.
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May 29, 2014 05:19
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What's the problem here? They posted a warning sign and everything!
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Angela Christine posted:What's the problem here? They posted a warning sign and everything! It's ambiguous. It could either be a warning to people to stay out of some acid, or a warning to acid to stay out of a delightful water feature.
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etalian posted:it's always the deep south for some unknown reason Life gets cheaper the hotter the areas climate is.
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Lazyhound posted:It's ambiguous. It could either be a warning to people to stay out of some acid, or a warning to acid to stay out of a delightful water feature. It's a drug-free zone.
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Bubble-T posted:It's a drug-free zone. It could also be a rave free zone.
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So I saw one last night. Picture this. A sedan is being pulled by an SUV. neither has towing apparatus, the car is attached to the suv by a 5-7' cable and has a guy inside steering it (its lights were off, presumably its engine too so he was steering and braking by sheer muscle power). A second SUV is behind the car with emergency blinkers flashing. Every time the lead SUV stopped, the sedan nearly rear-ended it. Sedan Guy must have had to slam on the brakes and yank the e-brake, too. I was behind them for two blocks before they turned off, heading for a steep hill. Oh, and they were doing this around midnight. Anyone know where Americans can get dash cams? Grand Prize Winner fucked around with this message at 07:53 on May 29, 2014 |
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Grand Prize Winner posted:So I saw one last night. Picture this. A sedan is being pulled by an SUV. neither has towing apparatus, the car is attached to the suv by a 5-7' cable and has a guy inside steering it (its lights were off, presumably its engine too so he was steering and braking by sheer muscle power). A second SUV is behind the car with emergency blinkers flashing. Every time the lead SUV stopped, the sedan nearly rear-ended it. Sedan Guy must have had to slam on the brakes and yank the e-brake, too. I was behind them for two blocks before they turned off, heading for a steep hill. Amazon.com Or just get a phone holder on your dash and always be recording. I've actually been thinking about getting one since I got my new job, as I'm driving a lot and see a ton of crazy poo poo. Nothing as crazy as that, yet, but still.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Life gets cheaper the hotter the areas climate is. Explain Russia then.
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Entropic posted:The thing that terrifies me about that one is the trains going right overhead some of which have tanker cars full of who knows what. That's actually the best part, the people running the railroad didn't want trucks loving up the bridge so they built a reinforced metal barrier thing with the same clearance a few feet in front of it for people to hit instead of the bridge itself then strutted away dusting their hands and congratulating themselves on a job well done. that site's FAQ posted:Norfolk Southern Railroad owns the train trestle, and their concern is primarily with keeping the trains running and keeping them running safely. So their concern is mainly with reducing the impact of the truck crashes on the actual structure of the train trestle. As far as they are concerned, they solved that problem by installing the crash beam.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Anyone know where Americans can get dash cams? There is a Dashcam thread in AI! They will fix you all up with a dashcam to suit your needs. Entropic posted:The thing that terrifies me about that one is the trains going right overhead some of which have tanker cars full of who knows what. Naw. That's a pretty stout and modern-looking railway trestle. I expect you could slam a semi with 100k pounds of load into it at freeway speeds and all you'd do is obliterate the semi. Those i-beams are massive. Think about what an ordinary 12" diameter tree does to basically any vehicle that hits it, and then multiply that by a whole lot. This is hand waving because it's 1 AM so I don't feel like looking up the tensile strength of a 3' wide steel I-beam so just trust me on this: the trains are safe. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 09:05 on May 29, 2014 |
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Nutsngum posted:Explain Russia then. Well I was strictly speaking of North America. But looking worldwide, life is cheapest where the temperature reaches high and low extremes. Everyone in the nice comfy zones generally get along, but get to hot or too cold, and folk just wanna kill.
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Hence Florida and Arizona.
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Leperflesh posted:There is a Dashcam thread in AI! They will fix you all up with a dashcam to suit your needs. Apparently they've already had to replace the trestle once, so I wouldn't be so confident. That site says it's getting hit at full speed about once per month on average. E: Actually, I think it was the crash beam that was replaced. Now I can't find where on the site I read it to confirm  Also, for whoever asked earlier, here's what the FAQ says about why they can't install anything further out from the bridge to warn trucks they're going to be too tall: quote:A low clearance bar is a bar suspended by chains ahead of the bridge. Overheight vehicles hit that bar first and the noise alerts the driver to to the problem. I understand that this approach has been successful in other places, but it’s not practical here. There are many overheight trucks that have to be able to drive right up to the bridge and turn onto Peabody St. in order to deliver supplies to several restaurants. Making Peabody St inaccessible from Gregson St would make the restaurant owners and the delivery drivers very unhappy. HazCat fucked around with this message at 09:33 on May 29, 2014 |
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This just happened outside my window and I thought of this thread Excuse the crappy phone image, can't be bothered resizing or trimming it up. You get the idea - one foot on the windowsill, no harness or rope, leaning out the window. At least he's only on the second floor!
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Personperson14 posted:Hence Florida and Arizona. North Florida and the panhandle is essentially the Deep South. South Florida is almost analogous to any Central American or Caribbean country. Both tend to operate largely in a "whatever works" fashion.
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HazCat posted:Apparently they've already had to replace the trestle once, so I wouldn't be so confident. That site says it's getting hit at full speed about once per month on average. Well, I assume then that what I'm looking at in the recent videos is the replacement trestle, which they've built specifically to withstand monthly truck impacts, because it looks really sturdy to me. But I admit I'm not a structural engineer.
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Leperflesh posted:Well, I assume then that what I'm looking at in the recent videos is the replacement trestle, which they've built specifically to withstand monthly truck impacts, because it looks really sturdy to me. Nah, like I edited above, I was confusing the trestle with the crash beam. I'm pretty sure it was the crash beam which was replaced, not the trestle.
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The proper way to dispose of 20,000lbs of wartime surplus sodium metal; throw it in a frozen lake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY7mTCMvpEM
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