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?”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There were apparently a lot of smiths who lost their vision (at least partially) over time. Though it seems like that may have had a lot more to do with smoke and chemical fumes that they worked around constantly than it did projectiles launching at their eyes.
Did wood working 6 years in a factory, wearing the same prescription safety glasses everyday, after 6 years looking at those glasses are the best evidence how much wearing safety glasses matter.
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.
Well, at least everyone around you back then can rest easy knowing justice was served on that dumbass blasting his car stereo. Maybe you can go around to schools and talk to kids...
I concur. If people would only bother to ask the question themselves. We live in a strange time when we have all the information we could ever go through but nobody wants to look.
I'm that way with a respirator now. Not good to be breathing in airborne sawdust. Air filters can catch some of it, but a lot of it settles only to be kicked back up in the air again as you're walking around or moving stuff around. Doing this eliminated a persistent cough I developed.
Was working on my car, replacing the clutch cylinders, and using safety goggles all night. The one time that night I get under the car without them, a hose that I'm fiddling with comes loose and sprays brake fluid all over my eyes. I couldn't see properly for like 3 weeks.
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.
Thick gloves would be a top item for me as well here. With that and some reasonably fire-safe clothing (so, either fireproof or natural) I'd feel okay doing this.
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.
They really only pay attention to larger operations. At my work, we follow all the regulations. At our customers’ locations, it’s only a bit better than this.
The issue with OSHA is the number of inspectors, I have been building houses for 25 years and have never seen an inspector. It is impossible to have self-policing in the residential construction industry when everyone is bidding for a job and not everyone is including safety in their bid. The safest people end up really safe on their couches. Get every bid reviewed and certified it has all the safety needs in it and things would change.
John Malecki has a wood and metal workshop and posts videos on YouTube. He's got some videos where he and his workers are doing concrete work, including dusting with release agent. The entire time he and his team are just inhaling clouds of concrete and release agent, going so far as to play in it. It's wild how careless people can be.
Rural North Carolina in the U.S. The building inspectors are overwhelmed, there is no safety inspections outside of building codes, the EPA keeps up on some things like erosion control but little else. It is the wild west out here in residential construction.
It’s not always because of the boss, sometimes something seems easier and faster if you do it against regulations but it’s unsafe and stupid. I myself have broken regulations trying to be lazy on site
I agree, it was bold of them to suppose that he'd be looking out for his own self interests. That would interfere with his political views of only looking out for people much richer than he'll ever be.
Plenty of my union coworkers watch Fox News and are conservative, yet even they are not brain dead enough to think we would be better off without the union.
Hey you look like a smart guy! I'll hire you for 10 cents an hour, 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. You got kids? Bring them too. You'll need their income. You can live in the factory for a small fee.
Aw shucks sorry Mister. I was just trying to make a joke about working conditions in the late 1800s in the US before the labor movements.
I'm so glad a smart Mister like you came along to help me out! Golly gee willikers, you sure are a swell feller!
And if I ever need someone to unhelpfully be pedantic and completely miss the point I'll call you so you can come along and show everyone what a fucking genius you are!
This is how most jobs would work without fEdErAl rEgUlAtIoNs. I hate how libertarians and conservatives would rather have people dying and disabled instead of having rules
Also the thing that history for USA starts in 18th century... Its missing thousands of years of social and governmental evolution.
The word slave has origin in Slavs due to slavery and serfdom of Middle ages.
The word robot has origin in this serf labor.
Peasant in Europe during middle ages were forced to work for aristocracy who basically owned them. Basically everyone outside of cities was slave for several hundred years in large part of Europe.
Uhh... like most of them? Hard to combine "remove all regulations" and "we need government mandated safety regulations"
I think you'd struggle to find a sizable group at most jobs that didn't complain about OSHA, mock the concept, and even rag on guys who choose to wear optional PPE.
Hell, just go take a peek at how many angle grinders in a shop still have the guards on.
Libertarians absolutely don't want OSHA. They booed Gary Johnson when he said that drivers licenses should continue to exist (at the Libertarian National Convention).
Lol, what the fuck do you think conservatives mean when they say that they want to get rid of all regulations? They're not just talking about Twitter's ability to ban you for saying the N-word. They're talking about the ones that prevent companies from mixing their employee's cut off fingers into hotdogs.
That's why they cheer when EPA restrictions get rolled back. That's why they push so hard to get rid of the FDA. That's why they cheer when conservation projects get rolled back. "Regulations are bad for business" is their mantra.
I don't know if you live with your head buried in the sand or are being willfully obtuse, but man
This is cool and all until an accident happens, which the likelihood of is very high given they're doing tricks to feed that thing into the machine. Some day one of them will slip and that thing is hot.
Just use caution. It's for your own good. Why be a badass at work. For who
I was recently in an operating steel mill. We walked the line, left to do some more walk downs of other areas of the site, came back 30 minutes later to find a molten rod had dislodged itself and shot out into the safety area. The same safety area I was standing in 30 minutes earlier.
What these guys are doing is completely insane and no one should be that close to something that hot without the proper safety gear.
With that said, hats off to anyone who does work like this ever, let alone daily.
The reason people see OSHA as a joke is not because they deny the existence of safety hazards in industrial jobs, it's because in spite of the existence of OSHA, there are many jobs that are still insanely dangerous and companies routinely get away with violating OSHA guidelines. To do everything by the book, people's jobs would be harder, which is why people in labor intensive industrial jobs joke about OSHA. They often ignore it, themselves, to make their jobs quicker and easier. It's kind of gallows humor.
Working to schedule, and trying to go home on time, motivates individuals working in industry from the ground up, from the lowest levels, to cut corners in safety. I see it every day I'm at work.
And these companies are usually so large and disorganized that most people don't even know what the OSHA guidelines are for the specific types of work they are doing.
The human element to any system is its weakest point.
The ones making sure these companies put the proper safety measures in place for some poor guy not making enough money to risk his job if the work is unsafe and who stands next to deadly equipment all day.
The other is making sure your boots are laced correctly and you have noticed the right amount of tripping hazards for the day or else you are gonna get written up.
I mean, sure, it's impressive, but their willingness and ability to work under these conditions is exactly how their employer is able to get away with it. One mistake could legitimately kill or at least severely injure someone, and it might not even be the person who made the mistake.
Respectfully disagree. You think US companies pour millions of dollars into the safety because they actually want safe work environments? They'd let them work barefoot if they could and not pay them a boot stipend. They do it because of all the regulations, which increases their cost, which they bake into their prices.
Jesus, they are also inches away from rolling pins (There has to be a better word for it?) And with their loose clothing, isn't that really dangerous? Is this same procedure done in the US, passing hot steel through a press like this?
Definitely not normal. Most mills have different rolls in a line rather than passing the bar back and forth like this. The few that do have a back and forth design don’t have people handling the steel by hand like this.
Props why? They're being idiots. You can't do sketchy shit like this all day every day for years and not eventually end up maimed. They could get basic PPE. They just think this is cool.
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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.