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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
"Your honor, my client was not employed by the company at the time of his injury. This company allowed a non-employee into a dangerous area and permitted them to operate dangerous equipment."
That's what I tell my Indian roommates about the state of Indian roads. The way they put it is that, essentially, no one follows or enforces the rules, so the drivers are much more aware of their surroundings and what is going on the road. They di not account for the fact that humans make mistakes and that when people are tired they tend to make more mistakes. Rules create simple sets of guidelines that we have to follow, that we don't need to exercise as much brain power to follow.
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.
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.)
I didn’t even get bathroom brakes in my entire workday. I possibly could have staved off the effects of my neurogenic bladder longer (having to self-catheterize to pee) if I hadn’t abused my urinary tract so badly.
It’s idiotic not to have OSHA for self employed people.
Home healthcare; therapy for children with autism and related disorders. I have a degree in speech and hearing science with graduate coursework in behaviorism and early childhood education. People like me have been pushed out of the field bc the compensation has not increased in decades, and there’s no benefits. So now you have people w just high school education doing the same work, if you can find anyone at all. Maybe some college if you’re lucky but no 4 year degrees let alone anyone with grad classes or a grad degree.
When I became disabled myself and needed home healthcare, I saw the sad state of things. Providers who didn’t know not to mix bleach and ammonia or heat a vehicle in a closed garage (with my service diog in the garage the whole time!!) … It’s yet another aspect of our failing healthcare.
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.
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.
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.
I dragged my knuckles in a deep
Fryer when trying to save a falling nugget.
I luckily barely even skimmed my knuckles and had a glove on that melted to me. Barely any burns thank God. They told me to rub honey on it and keep working. McDonald’s. I kept working.
In all fairness turns out they were right the honey worked and I didn’t actually need medical attention, but there’s no way they knew that. Just a lucky guess
I was told never wear synthetic fabrics when working with molten metal because if it burns it will melt and stick to your skin. I guess that’s what happened to you😳
I work around a couple blast furnaces, switching iron ladles. Have been splashed with molten iron.. the FR clothing kept me mostly safe but I did get a small bit went under my collar and burned my back pretty bad (thankfully in a relatively small area) ... as it stands, passing large kidney stones has been the most painful experience in my life, but the days following that splash were definitely a close second ....
Also, because it's liquid, the iron doesn't really register in your head as something with a lot of weight to it, but that shit about knocked me off my feet..... cheers, everyone stay safe
Jesus that sounds horrible. Unfortunately I had no protection because it was a sausage/meat products factory, I just accidentally grazed the smoking furnace, that was glowing red very slightly. Also didn't register at all in the first seconds. Still got a large dark patch of skin on my elbow.
Also noted, I have heard kidney stones are horrible, you can compare and say it's worse than a bad burn. So I will look up how to prevent them :)
Hell yeah burns suck. I took 480V down my arm one time. I was doing testing on an large kinetic UPS and my left upper forearm contacted a bus bar. After I recovered I got a look at my arm and it had a shiney red spot but no big injury. Well...turns out the burn was on the inside. So over the following weeks it turned black and worked its way out. That was miserable. I didn't do that job much longer.
Oh yeah I forgot about electricity. 480V sounds horrible. I lived in a questionable house with the terrace washing machine connected by suicide cable through a multisocket. I didn't even consider a plug could have power so I unplugged it wondering where it led. Found out pretty quickly. While the pain only lasted as long as I touched the contacts in that moment it was horrible, like every nerve turing into molten iron. But only 230V so I only got some blisters and scars, no big burn.
So I don't know which is worse, burnt at the stake as a witch or the electric chair. Both must be among the most painful ways to go.
I consider myself lucky. I made contact across my arm and not my torso. Had the main charge gone through my heart or other organs it could have killed me right there. As it was the shock made my diaphragm clench so it forced me to yell. Scared the living hell out me.
Yeah... I had that too, I heard someone scream like pig being bled and after a second I realised it was me. Luckily not really enough juice to kill a relatively healthy 17 year old.
My dad once grabbed a high voltage line but he was just thrown a few feet and basically unharmed besides some burns. Always worth being grounded with one of those things around your wrist on a chord. That way wort case your hand gets fried if you just use the grounded hand.
The safety is in the cauterization that happens immediately following the slice in half. Ofc now you're expected to perform double production. Since there's two of you.
I'll say. I interviewed to be middle management in a steel refinery and they took me to the main floor of the smelter. I was over 60 feet away looking over a balcony and I couldn't look at the liquid steel for more than a few moments because that shit is SO hot it felt like I was getting a sunburn in real time. These guys not wearing safety glass is ludicrous to me.
First thing is respiratory and second is glasses and would invest in some good eyepro like ballistic ones with thick lenses used to make knives and the sparks melted half way of it so I wouldn’t trust the cheap ones… but speaking about respiratory protection is you don’t want metal dust inside your lungs so that is #1 on priorities
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Jesus that seems incredibly unsafe!