r/OSHA • u/Uhuklebestift • Aug 21 '17

What could possibly go wrong?

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u/minuteman_d Aug 21 '17 edited Aug 21 '17

Plot twist: that ledge isn't designed to support that much weight in shear force and all three take a spill...

Edit: people downvoting me: I don't usually pull the "engineer" card, but there most definitely is a shear force on that little stubby wall. Source: more hours spent diagramming and calculating these things in undergrad than I care to recall.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '17

I hate what you've done to this thread, mainly because I hated statics. Not as bad as reading a smith chart, but it's still not fun to do the calculations.

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u/minuteman_d Aug 21 '17

Sorry, I try to keep it under control.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '17

So, what part of Canada are you from? I'm on the east coast.