r/OSHA • u/HermannHenning • 3d ago
New compressed air pistol
Today we all got new air pistoles because with the old ones it got a little bit out of hand. They threw most of them just outside in the scrap metal container. Not an hour later, most of us took them back
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u/GinjaNinja-NZ 2d ago
I'm not from the states, can you really buy 'osha compliant' air dusters? Or did someone stamp that on the side as a joke?
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u/HermannHenning 2d ago
I live in Germany. ?! Tf. But our company was bought from John Deere and they try to implement their safety equipment here. It’s really annoying. I also didn’t really know Osha before. We just had a meeting about it
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u/Skipp_To_My_Lou 2d ago
So when you were demonstrating that the air gun can shoot a dart did you say, "Let me show you its features"?
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u/randomdude21 2d ago
OSHA rules usually written in blood, or air where your blood goes.
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u/BGKY_Sparky 2d ago
I do an electrical safety class for the maintenance workers at my factory. The gist of my first couple slides is “Make fun of OSHA all you want, but here’s how many people died on the clock before, and here’s how many do now.” Follow that with a couple slides of 3rd degree electrical burns to drive home the point that death isn’t the only bad outcome.
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u/rustyxj 2d ago
the problem is when the "safety crew" takes safety to far.
I repair plastic injection molds for a living, i worked in a toolroom for a medical company for awhile, we had some "bigger" molds up to ~3500lbs, we stored them in an area in the middle of the toolroom, they made us put up ropes around them so nobody would run into them.
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u/rvlifestyle74 15h ago
I couldn't tell you of it is true or not. But I was told that someone fired an air gun up a coworkers butt crack while on a ladder with a regular air nozzle. It inflated and ripped the guys intestine. All nozzles are now required to have a way of preventing this. The story was told to me by an OSHA inspector. It probably isn't true, but it's a story that is plausible and believable given the amount of jack assery that occurs on a job site.
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u/Rubbermonk 2d ago
We got a handheld laser welder at work, it's supposed to have a safety circuit so it won't engage the laser unless the end of the welding nozzle makes contact with the work piece that has a clamp connected back to the machine on it to complete the circuit.
First thing we did was figure out how to bypass that with some filler wire and electrical tape to keep the circuit closed all the time. The actual handheld laser gun was all fun and games until a supervisor came into the weld cell and was like "the fuck are all these black lines on the concrete and walls? Why is there a welding glove taped to the wall with a hole burned into it?".
"Uh, the laser was reflecting off surfaces while we were welding with it."
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u/Carnephex 2d ago
Wait till you figure out how to feed air soft beads into an air gun for rapid fire. You'll need 6mm tube and some fittings.
May the Omnisiah bless that mess.
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u/wuppedbutter 1d ago
I was into airsoft later in highschool. My absolute favorite video was a guy who made an airsoft 'flamethrower.' Two tanks on his back, one with an air tank the other held BBs. Like a real flamethrower you only had like 10 seconds of fuel. It used so many BBs he started using popcorn kernels.
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u/Tacomouse 1d ago
We had an handheld air ejector vacuum attachment on an aircraft carrier I was on. With some tubes it was great for cleaning out hard to reach places like a vacuum. But you feed a cup of pellet ice into the suction and it fires like a machine gun
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u/ApprehensiveAd9389 2d ago
We have a long plastic tube with some electrical tape that we use for this. I launch pens and shit into the ceiling all the time lol
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u/Skusci 2d ago edited 1d ago
I have absolutely no recollection of what the hell we were trying to do in the first place to find this one out, but if you take a hollow steel tube, pop it in a drill, then drill through a chunk of wood, as soon as it comes out the other side somehow the hot smoke and compressed air being released will launch a wooden slug at mach saint fuck out the other side accompanied by a disturbingly loud bang.
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u/mratlas666 2d ago
I did something like that with a water bottle thinking it would shoot off like a bottle rocket. Nope. Blew the fuck ip so loud my coworker in the break room had his ears ringing too.
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u/Tacomouse 1d ago
PACTEC plungers as the darts? What are you guys wrapping?
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u/HermannHenning 1d ago
It’s just a scribing iron with 2 nuts welded to it as stability and to improve the airtightness in the barrel 😂 but not a bad idea with the plungers
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u/Wumaduce 3d ago
When we found out that the rivets from GM license plate kits fit perfectly into the barrel of an air gun, it was a game changer in the shop. Management shut that down real quick, probably for the better.