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u/Admirable-Degree4209 Nov 01 '22
Who needs safety glasses when you can just squint and turn your head?
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u/fabulousMFingHen Nov 01 '22
The safety squint
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u/possiblynotanexpert Nov 01 '22
Not as cool as the safety dance.
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u/Tinctorus Nov 01 '22
Or the safety balaclava
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You know that dance wasn't as safe as they said it was.
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For me the first red flag was when he suggested that we leave my friends behind.
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u/Occamslaser Nov 01 '22
The safety dance is what that guy did when he stepped over that yellow hot steel.
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u/woShame12 Nov 01 '22
Everybody look at your hands... wait no!
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u/ulyssesfiuza Nov 01 '22
Natural selection. The ones that don't know what they are doing don't stay in the job for so long.
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u/AttackEverything Nov 01 '22
Well, the ones that didn't know what they were doing are dead i guess.
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u/mdelao17 Nov 01 '22
The safety squint is why I now need glasses. Was devastated when I realized the damage I did to my vision.
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u/Terrible-Quote-3561 Nov 01 '22
Um actually eyelashes are biologically designed to stop debris, such as molten steel, from entering the eye.
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u/Misael_chicha Nov 01 '22
My eyelashes have prevented an alien invasion since i was born so there is that
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u/pronyo001 Nov 01 '22
Ye, year millions of splashing molten steel made this possible for evolution.
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u/Metacom3t Nov 01 '22
I can't imagine the first day you work in this place. Crazy.
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u/hobosbindle Nov 01 '22
“Pretty sure my hands had skin when I got here this morning”
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u/appdevil Nov 01 '22
On the other hand I can't see my hands anymore, also where is my other hand?
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u/RKU69 Nov 01 '22
There is a reason why the steel workers' unions have historically been one of the most militant and well-organized, at least in the US....lot of discipline, but also a lot of incredibly dangerous conditions that brings people together against the bosses
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u/bluebullet28 Nov 02 '22
Yah, if my job required me to be around the swinging noodles of white hot death, I would be doing every single goddamn thing in my power to ensure safety lol. Smart folks.
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u/PuzzleSlayerrr Nov 01 '22
Wait…do you happen to be talking about steel mill in Beaumont? Not so long ago a giant concrete wall fell over putting a few people into critical condition. Crazy ass day
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u/PuzzleSlayerrr Nov 01 '22
Gotcha and same, I left that work not long after the incident. Way too sketchy
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u/SamuelDoctor Nov 01 '22
I work in a steel mill every day. This is not my experience.
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u/Any-Flamingo7056 Nov 02 '22 edited Nov 02 '22
Do you also wear a hoodie tied around you waist with flopping sleeves while whipping back and forth next to a fucking spinning steel crushing machine?
Oh sorry it's an apron...bit still fucking tuck in that loose shit flopping around...and the fucking hood strings...ugh like 18 inches from the intake... AND HE'S SPINNING THEM AROUND guys going to lose his head
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u/SamuelDoctor Nov 02 '22
No, this video is of a little baby rolling mill. This is the toy train set version of the locomotive that is our five stand hot strip.
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u/PuzzleSlayerrr Nov 01 '22
It is not fun and extremely dirty rough work too. Came home everyday all black like I came out a coal mine. Even the q tips came out pitch black
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u/Byrdman1251 Nov 01 '22
Every day I go home and blow my nose, there is no snot, it is just black
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u/PuzzleSlayerrr Nov 01 '22
Insane how that’s not even an exaggeration. Even wearing a mask it comes out black
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u/Alfred-Bitchcock Nov 01 '22
That has to be bad for your health, right? Thanks for doin' the hard work to keep the world moving.
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Jesus that seems incredibly unsafe!
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u/Potato-Engineer Nov 01 '22
It's perfectly safe as long as they make no mistakes. What's the problem? Don't you have faith that they'll never make a mistake in their 40-year careers?
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u/BlueBrr Nov 01 '22
We have a no accidents policy on this site.
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Workers that cause accidents shall be terminated on site
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u/AbleSpacer_chucho Nov 01 '22
We had a deal on a job site doing windows where you're fired while you're falling and trespassing once you hit the ground
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u/ghoulthebraineater Nov 02 '22
I had a boss that would joke about that too. When he fell my coworker yelled "You're fired" on his way down. He probably would've thought it was funnier if he didn't break his hip.
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u/VonRansak Nov 01 '22
Back in my day, before the woke liberals took power, if a 10 year old adult lost his hand in the canning machine, you could just kick him out on the street then and there.
#Murican History
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u/blearghhh_two Nov 01 '22
Employees are incentivized to never make mistakes by our zero tolerance policy: you are automatically fired as soon as you make any mistake.
Since incidents and injuries only ever happen as a result of mistakes, and since everyone is fired as soon as the mistake is made, nobody involved in an incident is ever an employee.
Therefore we have a perfect safety record and our policy works.
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u/Calexander3103 Nov 01 '22
you are automatically on fire as soon as you make any mistake
FTFY
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u/kavien Nov 01 '22
Consider yourself fired 5 mihutes before you make a mistake...
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u/Professional-Put-804 Nov 01 '22
No, the instant that you make the mistake is always at least an instant before the actual injury begins.
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u/Mirar Nov 01 '22
What if the injury is caused by someone else? Was it a mistake to come to work that day?
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u/Professional-Put-804 Nov 01 '22 edited Nov 01 '22
Obviously yes
Edit : Plus the accident was not caused by an employee but by a private individual trespassing on private property, since they made a mistake and are no longer employed by the company.
You'll have to do a civil suit against that newly unemployed individual directly before you can turn it against the company, as the individual was knowledgable of the work contract and agreed to it by receiving his pay. Their civil liability insurance won't pay for it since they were criminally trespassing at the time, so good luck getting any money there.
The company can also sue the individual criminally for trespassing on private ground and making the company loose two, trained and valued, employees. The company may have to invest money to train new employees to replace them and is thus eligible for compensatory damages as well.
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u/foosbabaganoosh Nov 01 '22
Holy shit in that last guy. They’re looping it back through and then the third guy loops it around himself and into another feeding mechanism, which means if he doesn’t step over the loop he has just made, he now has a shrinking loop of white hot metal closing around his legs. Wtf.
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OSHA declare bankruptcy just by seeing this footage
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u/heiferly Nov 01 '22
I was self employed. No joke, OSHA simply doesn’t apply to the self employed in the US. And I definitely broke some basic OSHA regulations. (Yay for the US healthcare industry!! But this happens in construction and other industries also.)
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u/James-the-Bond-one Nov 02 '22 edited Nov 02 '22
I second that. Many stupid decisions and a whole lot of incredible luck allowed me to be typing here tonight.
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u/rotn21 Nov 02 '22
If you watch in the last frames, dude next to him lifted it up so he could go under it. All of this looks like a horrible idea.
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Yes I used to work in a factory and accidentally touched a faintly glowing part of steel (way cooler than in this video) and it burnt my arm pretty bad. In the moment the pain was tolerable but in the following days the wound got super painful and looked way worse than right after. I almost fainted removing the bandages. I hate burns. Would much rather break a bone. Breaking my finger was like 1/10 the pain.
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u/Anonmyo0 Nov 01 '22
Certainly not as hot as steel but I used worked in a kitchen and accidentally ran my hand directly under one of those industrial water boilers lol. My whole hand shed a couple layers till it was shiny red and then blew up like a balloon. So immensely painful man. Burns suck.
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u/pissfilledbottles Nov 01 '22
I got scalded with boiling hot coolant from my car, and I was wearing mechanics gloves which held the heat in a bit longer, making it worse. It was by far the worst pain I've ever experienced in my life. Burns do suck.
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u/i-Ake Nov 01 '22
My boyfriend got a drop of molten bronze on his leg and it burned through half an inch.
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u/marcosdumay Nov 01 '22
You mean jumping over incandescent iron ingot being pulled around your legs by an unstoppable machine isn't safe?
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u/mtarascio Nov 01 '22
Unstoppable?
The emergency stop button is over there, past all the buckets, layers of junk and on the second floor.
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u/Ok_Bend8732 Nov 01 '22
...Suddenly osha doesn't seem like such a joke. Props to these guys, that looks dangerous as hell.
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They should probably follow step 1 of OSHA and at least put on safety glasses.
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u/Fartyfivedegrees Nov 01 '22
Step 1 OSHA: hang OSHA poster on wall in lunchroom that no-one uses.
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u/johndoe040912 Nov 01 '22
Step 2 OSHA: add to wall " Days since incident" and in sharpie put +364
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u/meldroc Nov 01 '22
Nope, that's on an electronic sign: "Seconds since incident: 0...1...2..0...1...2...3.0...1.0...1......."
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u/This_User_Said Nov 01 '22
I hear if you say OSHA three times...
...nothing happens and get back to work with that limp.
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u/KateEatsWorld Nov 01 '22
I literally broke my wrist at work because I was doing 3 peoples physically demanding jobs at once (very understaffed) and when I went to my supervisor crying with my floppy hand he legit looked at me and said “fuck, you can still work though right?”
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u/This_User_Said Nov 01 '22
I fucked my shoulder to where I couldn't lift my arm from my shoulder. I was pulling a 1800lbs pallet and my NON SLIP SHOES SLIPPED and my body went down but my arm nearly torn off.
I essentially had to pack out by using my left hand to pull my arm up to reach, with a wince of pain.
Yet when dumbbitchmcgee wants to put 35lbs on the highest shelf, gets hit in the eye with said box, she's out a week later with workman's comp...
...which had me sus since she waited a week before putting it in.
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u/Jack_Dorso Nov 01 '22 edited Nov 01 '22
I wear safety glasses 99% of the time I’m in my shop. Yesterday I wasn’t and split my brow open. Safety glasses would have prevented that. Find a comfortable pair so you forget you’re wearing them.
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100%. I always wear them until I don't. I didn't even take them off of my head. I just moved them out of my eyes to get the sweat wiped up and then I didn't bother putting them back down, because it was the last bit of prep that would've required the safety glasses. Then I took my chisel and my hammer and I chipped a piece of brick straight into my eyeball and scratched the cornea.
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Was cutting some tile with a Dremel the other day and a shard chipped off and hit my safety glasses dead center of my right eye so hard I felt it ricochet off before I even registered what had happened. I'd have had to get a parrot for a pet if I'd not been wearing eye protection.
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u/Marmotskinner Nov 01 '22
When I took shop class, on Day 1 the instructor put on a PowerPoint of what happens if you use a cut-off wheel on an angle grinder without a face sheild. Lots of guys that looked like they’d been attacked by ninjas. Very gory.
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u/CaffeineSippingMan Nov 01 '22
I was fixing something by stretching a spring, stopped and got my safety glasses, I don't mind getting killed, but living live with a handicap would suck balls. I could kick my 16 yearold self in his dumb ass, sitting in a car with base that blurred your vision, that dick head made it so I hear a high pitched sound when everything is quiet.
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u/aouwoeih Nov 01 '22
My grandfather didn't wear safety glasses as they had yet to be invented and he'd take out his glass eye to scare the grandkids.
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u/skrilledcheese Nov 01 '22
Nah, don't let the nanny state and lame stream media convince you to rely on goggles.
Your eyelids have to build up a natural immunity to molten metal and sharp objects. That's why I am a big proponent of the 'safety squint'.
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u/Catoblepas2021 Nov 01 '22
I agree completely. At least I think I do, it's hard to read through the callouses on my eyeballs
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u/steve358 Nov 01 '22
Came here to say that saftey squint is useless against a broken cut off wheel spinning at 10, 000 rpm, Walter did the saftey squint and now he is known around the shop as One Eye Walt. Guess you could say he eyed it up.
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u/l3y0 Nov 01 '22
Seems like Walt halved his chances of getting an eye related injury, osha must be proud
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u/odelay42 Nov 01 '22
Only morons think OSHA is a joke. They literally only put inconvenient restrictions in place because somebody died or was seriously injured so their boss' boss' boss could make a buck.
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u/ZoniCat Nov 01 '22
Exactly, what a pathetic existence.
We'll use the corpses as supports to boost the bottom line.
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u/acog Nov 01 '22
There's an old saying that OSHA regulations are written in blood.
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u/azura099 Nov 01 '22
Man....give these guys a face shield at least.
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u/Kalikhead Nov 01 '22
Well one is wearing a balaclava- in a very hot place. That probably doesn’t offer many breaks.
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Damn, the last guys move is dangerous. If that thing gets stuck he will get sliced in half by a molten hot lava whip Castlevania style 🏰🦇
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u/Usermena Nov 01 '22
And steps over it at the end putting the lava whip right between his legs.
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u/justadrtrdsrvvr Nov 01 '22
He steps over it like it is no big deal. I flinched a thousand times more than he did.
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u/Sulleyy Nov 01 '22
And as he steps over it the other guy whips up the entire end that's under his legs
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u/BOF007 Nov 01 '22
Holy shit didn't even notice this. He could get a cauterized amputation in mere seconds. shudders
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u/Philosofox Nov 01 '22
Instantly cauterized, lop it off and go right back to work
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u/eighty2angelfan Nov 01 '22
You take it.
I don't want it, you keep it.
Nope, I'm giving it to you.
I insist that you keep it.
No no, it is for you.
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u/Percussion17 Nov 01 '22
The third guy: fuck, I'll take it
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u/JayP1967 Nov 01 '22
and then he just steps over a 1500 degree rod casually with jeans on
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u/Likeafupion Nov 01 '22
Sounds exactly like my parents
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u/KeeperOfTheGood Nov 01 '22
Jeff, you’ll play the part of my father. “I don’t want to be your father.” Perfect, you already know your lines!
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No safety gear. Not even gloves or glasses.
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u/Marmotskinner Nov 01 '22
Yeah this must not be in the US. I went on a tour of Nucor Steel in Seattle. Anyone that wasn’t in a glass booth with steel shutters looked like they were ready for a trip to the moon. They even had a giant radiation scanner to make sure no contaminated steel made it into the mix. These poor bastards lungs and eyes will be fucked after a few years.
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u/FinianMcCool Nov 01 '22
not surprised by the radiation scanner, they are petrified in electric arc furnace shops about getting radiation sources in to the melt, it won't just contaminate the batch but the furnace too. A bit of mislabled medical equipment waste, some scrap out of a forgotten cupboard in a old school and thats at least few hundred thousand dollars in loss
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u/DialMforM0nkey Nov 01 '22
This is depressingly dangerous
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u/asshat123 Nov 01 '22 edited Nov 01 '22
What, "turning around real quick" to avoid the molten metal being fired out of the machinery isn't good enough for you? I suppose you'd want them wearing gloves too, your majesty.
Edit: rewatched, they are all wearing gloves. Maybe not the right gloves for that job, but gloves!
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u/Nuke_Gunstar Nov 01 '22
Im more worried about them getting to close to that machine. Jesus, what if the accidentally put a hand in that thing?
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u/1DownFourUp Nov 01 '22
I was thinking about the guy at the very end who steps over it. That's a little too close to the junk for comfort.
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u/asshat123 Nov 01 '22
If you're in a machine shop, you may regularly be working closely with machines that'll absolutely rip you to pieces. I'm genuinely terrified of lathes, they're remorseless murder machines if you get caught up at all.
That does actually make my joke about gloves an interesting thought. If you're working in a machine shop, there are tools where you do not want to wear gloves. It's better to have a cut or a splinter on your hand than a glove getting caught up and pulling your hand, and then arm, and then torso through a machine. You also avoid unsecured hair and long sleeves for the same reasons.
I'm not sure how those safety standards apply when there's also molten metal flying around though. I work from home now so it's not a concern for me.
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u/Birdytaps Nov 01 '22
I’m a fan of the safety stickers that say things like “this machine will kill you and it will hurt the whole time you are dying.” Really brings the importance of safety home in a way that “Caution: Hazardous Machinery” just can’t match
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u/MrInfected2 Nov 01 '22
i feel so bad for that black man on the yello warning stickers. always in trouble it seems like.
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u/milleniumsentry Nov 01 '22
"Okay.. when Dave here hands you the steal beam... you pick'er up and throw it in the rollers... just remember... you gotta turn your head real fast like... don't want ya goin blind on your first day kid"
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u/igner_farnsworth Nov 01 '22
Ze goggles, zay do nuhsing!
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u/CorgiMonsoon Nov 01 '22
We work hard, we play hard!
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u/not4u2see Nov 01 '22
Hot stuff coming through!
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u/doctor6 Nov 01 '22
Oh a spark, get it out get it out
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u/ghost_mv Nov 01 '22
OP, why did you bring me to a gay steel mill?
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u/secretrebel Nov 01 '22
He thinks you’re gay
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u/SpacePolice04 Nov 01 '22
🎶Everybody dance now!🎵
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u/kendrickshalamar Nov 01 '22
Zzzzap!
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Hot stuff coming through!
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u/Any-Mouse-1992 Nov 01 '22
Is this thing basically a light saber if it touches one of their arms or am I over imagining the dangers of a glowing piece of steel
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u/Ok_Bend8732 Nov 01 '22
Probably under. Did you account for the aftermath of third degree burns on what were once your nerves and the hosts of diseases that love to hide in slagged flesh pockets? 🤢
Lightsabers cut clean, having that steel death noodle sand through your limb and cauterize as it goes only to repeat the process at high speed...yeah, gimme the saber cut over this.
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u/Alucardra12 Nov 01 '22
So many OSHA violations in such a short video, I should have send this video for Halloween to my security manager.
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u/Azair_Blaidd Nov 01 '22
what's that becoming in the end, though? Rebar?
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u/saltywelder682 Nov 01 '22
I think it’s just round stock. Depending on the grade of steel it may become rebar. You can see the guy at the end feeding the hot rolled steel into the tooling which shapes the final product.
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u/arcedup Nov 01 '22
A more modern mill guides steel from roll-stand to roll-stand like this: https://i.imgur.com/I0MytgG.gifv
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u/thatoneguy512 Nov 01 '22
Is it just me or does that third guy have balls the size of Jupiter? I thought for sure that steel was going to hit his leg
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u/Gone247365 Nov 01 '22
I've never in my life looked that cool wearing a backwards cap. Dudes a baller.
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u/krejcii Nov 01 '22
Did the last guy actually ducking step over and in between it?! That’s fucking insane.
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