30 Goddamned Dicks posted:

Colossal has an Oscar-winning documentary from 1958 on their site, and it's a really awesome 10-minute watch in addition to being a bit of a treasure trove of OSHA moments, such as this one:

DrPossum posted:

osha sammich for lunch

http://i.imgur.com/lHCW7N3.gifv

LifeSunDeath posted:

http://i.imgur.com/zHxRun1.mp4

The Archaic posted:

Who here loves cable management?

Megillah Gorilla posted:

This may be the least unsafe thing I have ever seen a forklift driver do while screwing around:

H110Hawk posted:

I never know if table breaking is still bannable.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

Forklifts are pretty much designed to take out support columns. Lifting things is secondary.

chitoryu12 posted:

I was reading our forklifts book about how heavy the vehicles are compared to their rated loads. Typical warehouse forklifts look tiny, but they're loving massive in terms of weight because the small sizes necessary to let them maneuver in such cramped spaces eliminates the leverage a longer vehicle with a counterweight at the back would give them. Like a typical industrial forklift (the thing everyone pictures in their head when they hear "forklift") likely weighs over 19,000 pounds but is rated to carry only about 5,000, acting as its own counterweight. Which is also why you sure as hell don't want to end up under one of them if it tips: it may look tiny and fragile, but it'll crush your ribcage without even noticing it's there if you fall out.

EKDS5k posted:

By default if I see someone driving a forklift my assumption is that they are blind, deaf, and an idiot. If it's running and someone is in the seat, then I'm watching it.


rear end end of the forklift is always downhill. If you're carrying a load and driving downhill, and you have to hit the brakes suddenly then it could fly off and hit whatever you were trying to avoid. Even when empty I try to keep the counterweight downhill, because there's less of a risk of tip over if the wheels hit something.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Here's some photos of B17s that got a bit shot up but still managed to make it back home:







"A lot more robust" is a hell of an understatement.

Powershift posted:

Yeah, canada. Ice road truckers is an incredibly sensationalized version of one of the more boring jobs. Yeah they drive across frozen lakes, but they're never the first one down a road. Where they're told to stop and wait for a plow, I was told to chain up and see if we can make it in yet. I've watched a few seasons of that show and i've never seen them need a steering chain, or a situation where they were hooked up to a cat before their first attempt at a hill. Most of the people actually doing the work hate the ice road truckers thing because they do stupid poo poo that gets in the way of people actually making a living like swinging the trailer all over the place because "lol out of control!" or getting stuck and digging holes in the road where you couldn't get stuck unless you tried.

One of my favorite stories comes from a road in northern alberta called the simonette. A lot of the roads we use were former logging roads, and used the same radio rules, meaning you get on the road channel(usually ladd 1-4). there are mileage markers where you should call out your mileage, some listed as "must call" because the next few kms had twisty turns and no passing areas. Most of the worst roads, being on the road channel was mandatory, and larger rig moving companies stayed on their own channel so they could talk poo poo about everybody else on the road. Unrelated, but you can rent a radio if you plan on driving these roads and hear some neat poo poo like the fox vegas hooker booking customers and also not get run over. They're logging roads so you call like a logging truck whether you have a load or not, you're "empty whatever mile whatever" going into the bush, "loaded whatever mile whatever" coming out. It confuses some paint chip connoisseurs who haul poo poo into the bush, but as long as you remember that a log truck never hauls trees into the bush and never comes out empty you'll be fine.

Anyways, there is always a road cop who you listen to or your company can't use that road anymore. They're private roads owned by private companies and they decide who uses them. When they have a wide load coming up the road, often something wider than the road itself, they own the road, it's their road, you get the gently caress off of it. They send warnings up and down the radio that a wide load is leaving. It's always a pain in the rear end meeting a truck that's not on the road channel, because you have a deadline to meet, and you can't drive as if there's possibly somebody around every corner, so you're ripping in at full speed and SURPRISE, there's some dickhead with a wide load ready to push you off the road. One of these dickheads got caught going against a wide load with the road cop in the lead. He was driving a low boy with a jeep and a booster, that's an extra trailer in front, and an extra axle on the back.



Pulling a 3 axle trailer, that's 1 pivot point, a 40 foot trailer and 6 axles total, there are a lot of corners that are hard to make. This guy has 2 pivot points, 12 axles and an 80 foot long trailer. This guy wasn't on the radio, and was ignoring all the trucks pulled over onto the side, and all the guys trying to flag him down.He came bumper to bumper with the road cop with a 26 foot wide tank coming in behind him. He spent the next 2 hours backing up nearly 19km before he found a road he could get off onto. He backed from km 11 to km 30. I was at km 14 waiting to get on. I radioed that he could pull off on 20 and there was a smaller logging road he could probably drive straight out on, and the road cop radio'd back "he's still not on the channel and i don't care."

Here are some pics from that area:

just keep it centered between the logs and you're probably on the road:


the main trunk road is mud, the side roads are snow, so you end up with a 2000lb mixture of ice and mud stuck to the truck.


You get a lot of campers coming in on these roads doing 80kph with no radio, too. The speed limit for trucks is 60, for smaller vehicles it's 80. The general rule is if you push a truck into the ditch, you stop and pull it out. If you push a camper into the ditch, they'll be fine there, they've got a camper.

pidan posted:

Something that's not machines falling over: The Cleveland balloon cloud of 1986!



Someone thought it would be a good idea to release a cloud of millions of balloons over the city of Cleveland. The weather at the time blew them all over the city and then pressed them down to a low height. The balloons interfered with traffic, stopped air traffic completely, lead to the deaths of two people and covered the city in trash.

The news report is worth a watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8oJaPeEP-8

Powershift posted:

How the hell?



Some days you're the conductor, some days you're the train.





[...]

This is what they're climbing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_Conquerors_of_Space





the risk of falling off aside, the monument is cool as hell.

ATP_Power posted:

Just remember the good times:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USu8vT_tfdw

Sanctum posted:

https://i.imgur.com/QJrCoJ6.mp4

Memento posted:

Rio Tinto investigates after employee crushes own work ute with haul truck






That probably won't buff out.

Looking at it though, that driver's side door is pretty OK. They should make a nice little plaque for it with these photos and mount it on the wall of the workshop for posterity.

Cartoon Man posted:

I kinda feel like this belongs in the OSHA thread.

https://i.imgur.com/dgINQYO.gif

ReelBigLizard posted:

Found this in a clients office today.

snugglz posted:

https://i.imgur.com/4B29QgX.mp4

C.M. Kruger posted:

[...]

Apparently the cat in the hardhat is from a recent Japanese internet meme called Genbaneko/[Work] Site Cat.
https://twitter.com/KenHangNookie/status/1195559874693742593
[...]


https://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/608716832
A rubber keychain ornament, "A meter takes a life!" according to google translate.

edit:
https://twitter.com/00g10/status/1198008706610262016

buglord posted:

wasnt there a Half Life LP done in a very OSHA-centric style, and apparently accurate to boot?

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

someone post all the shirt images people made. also the thread gang tag please

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

someone post all the shirt images people made. also the thread gang tag please

Nude posted:

Lastly:
Mod edit: Just as a reminder link and stuff that show obvious death occurring. Gratuitous gore will not be allowed.

buglord posted:

wasnt there a Half Life LP done in a very OSHA-centric style, and apparently accurate to boot?

Former DILF posted:

Hi can you speak a little more about the decision-making process, and speak about who contributed to this process so that we have perhaps a slightly better understanding of this forum?

Memento posted:

Yay, I made the front page!

This is the best thread, and when I saw that it was closed from my bookmarks page I was very concerned. Goldmining is good, getting a refresh is good, I'll continue plundering the depths of the Australian mining industry for the best fuckups and content.

Former DILF posted:

Hi can you speak a little more about the decision-making process, and speak about who contributed to this process so that we have perhaps a slightly better understanding of this forum?

Nude posted:

The Real Amethyst posted:

Is this osha?


e: guess the ratio of spilled coffee cups to body fluids.

MikeCrotch posted:

I used to work in a blood bank and on multiple occasions had to empty out biohazard waste bins to look for an empty blood packet because some documentation had been missed

This is giving me flashbacks

Wall Balls posted:

reposting in the new thread for posterity

The Real Amethyst posted:

Oh dang they made you reopen a sealed clinical waste bag?
None of our poo poo gets recorded. We just chuck em.

I saw it happen once. A nurse re-opened a bag and fished out a removed catheter because she forgot to note what size it was when they attempted to re-catheterize the patient.
Yes she placed it up against the patients penis to-make sure it fit.
I reported her which only resulted in me being the bad guy.

Wall Balls posted:

reposting in the new thread for posterity

Colonel Cancer posted:

Noo I was only 1000 pages behind on the last one!

Wall Balls posted:

reposting in the new thread for posterity

quote:

One dude on the grout crew in his early 20's inhaled half a bag of grout when it exploded and was wrecked by acute silicosis immediately. Respirators at this time were not being provided. I'm unsure if he's still alive.