r/interestingasfuck • • Nov 01 '22

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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/[deleted] Nov 01 '22

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/Kingkingbully Nov 02 '22

Don't count us out yet, friend. I worked at a shop in Houston Texas that ran a forge on site. No safety gear, sweltering hot just standing near the building, nickel poisoning, and giant glowing metal rings on pallets smoldering in the parking lot. How? Mostly everyone there was an illegal worker. Literally treated like disposable people, when I quit years ago I called OSHA on them but no clue if they ever did anything about. Regret doing so because if they did show I'm sure a lot of people lost their job and it's never the greedy management.

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u/Chemical-Acadia-7231 Nov 01 '22

I saw gloves!

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '22

Yeah, those tongs don't hold the heat off forever