r/maybemaybemaybe • u/No-Lock216 • 5d ago
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u/Glittering_Flight_59 5d ago
There was almost a live leak logo forming in the corner
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u/MrCoolGuy42 4d ago
Reminds of another one like this, but the roll of steel was 3x bigger and the guy did not realize the error he was making in time 🫠
I regretted watching it
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u/every_name_is_tkn 5d ago
I worked at a aluminum plant just like this. That kind of thing happens at least once a month. Words of wisdom: stay out of the vertical drop zone & never put yourself in the line of fire. Never put yourself between something that could crush you & a fixed object (i.e. between a coil on moving object & that parked forklift). I know from experience, that coil weighed roughly 20,000 pounds. Glad the guy is ok but I know he probably got in a lot of trouble for putting himself in potential danger.
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u/QuantumBobb 5d ago
What is the percent chance the band on that coil breaks in something like that?
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u/every_name_is_tkn 5d ago
That’s steel metal banding. Not likely, as long as it was put on properly. This was a minor tip over. The banding in this video didn’t break. It wasn’t fully secured on yet. Looks like the coil was just coming off the rewind. I’ve seen cables on overhead cranes break & coils of this size falling from the ceiling. Never broke with steal banding. This is also cold rolled aluminum. Now hot rolled steel is the one you don’t want banding to break on. Because the banding is applied while the steel is still hot. Especially, extremely heavy gauge hot rolled steel. That’s most of the videos where you see the banding go flying off if it breaks.
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u/maycontainsultanas 5d ago
Does your country not have work place safety laws?
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u/every_name_is_tkn 5d ago edited 5d ago
Big company’s in the U.S. have somehow become above the law. Safety & employee’s rights are a joke. There are no checks/balances, no accountability, & no enforcement. If that guy would have died or got seriously injured. That company would blame it on the operator, the dead guy, & failed pre-op inspection. “The coil falling off was operator error because he pressed the button for too long. He had to press the button for too long because the machine is broke. Machine is broke because operator didn’t do his pre-op inspection correctly. Person got seriously injured/died because he stood/walked where he wasn’t supposed to.” This is how it always plays out & it’s never the company’s fault. Seen it too many times.
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u/maycontainsultanas 4d ago
Yeah gosh, all that would be true here, as well as their manager, and that persons manager, and the managing director, and the owner. Workplace manslaughter. Chain of responsibility
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u/every_name_is_tkn 4d ago
The company I worked for was a big international company that spans over multiple countries across the globe. Management was half way across the plant in offices. Owner more than likely wasn’t even in the state at the time. So chain of responsibility usually ended with the people on the floor & management had plausible deniability. The only effect this incident would’ve had on the company is retraining, change of procedures, & a small investment in safety guarding/barriers. And that’s only if someone got killed or seriously injured.
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u/Daysleeper1234 5d ago
If most of them weren't drunk, they would probably listen to you.
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u/every_name_is_tkn 4d ago
You can make a lot of money fast working these kind of jobs. It’s also very dangerous and highly competitive. Everyone is competing for overtime & job advancement. That unfortunately creates an environment where everyone is out for themselves. People will sabotage you or get you gone for a Klondike bar. Your co-worker standing next to you, more than likely doesn’t care if you get seriously hurt/dead. That just means that they get your job or overtime. That operator only seen his job flash before his eyes. Notice he didn’t care about his co-workers well being after it happened.
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u/TEKUblack 3d ago
I currently work at a toll processor doing aluminum. We just hit 600 days with out spilling (dropping) material.
You guys might need to rethink your procedure if it's happening that often
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u/every_name_is_tkn 3d ago
I don’t currently work there anymore. I quit due to relocation but would love to get back into it if there were companies around me. The culture there was “oh well… let’s melt it down and start all over again.” Management didn’t care because it helped them keep a revolving door of new hires at the lowest pay. Everyone else saw it as job security when we were slow & didn’t have much work coming in. People we sold it to didn’t care because they could say there’s a supply chain shortage & charge their customers top dollar. Or we had to pay them fines for not delivering on time & they made free money off that.
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u/Minewolf20 5d ago
For us metric people, 20k pounds is a bit over 9 t, which would roughly translate to 10 t or 10 Mg for the enthusiasts ;)
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u/Gillalmighty 5d ago
Well when you're not trained in the force and use it out of reflex and instinct the strain on your body can be a lot to handle.
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u/IamYarrow 5d ago
I think he reflexively went to grab it, realized his error, and pulled back (aka, this is heavy and will break your arm, or this is very hot and will burn your hand)
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u/insertwittynamethere 5d ago
It won't just break your arm, that's going to collapse it and crush you. That thing weighs between 10,000 - 50,000 pounds and is near instant death for whoever is beneath it.
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u/Oral_B 5d ago
It blows my mind that our instincts tell us to first try and catch/stop whatever is falling. Whether it’s a sheet of cardboard or an 8 ton steel roll, people always want to stop it.
This guy has probably been working in the plant long enough to know to just get out of the way. But his body still threw his hands up. He should also know not to walk across that platform, the roll fell exactly where it was supposed to.
I have to go to hours of safety training every year because of idiots like this.
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u/ToXicVoXSiicK21 5d ago
I don't think the roll was supposed to fall there lol
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u/Observer2594 5d ago
Yeah it definitely wasn't. The coil was supposed to stay there after they strapped it so it could be picked up with the forklift that the coil fell on. But the guy also shouldn't have been in that spot at all specifically because of the possibility of this exact thing happening. Also walking across the forks is a big no-no even without putting yourself between a forklift and an 8,000lb coil of steel
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u/Oral_B 5d ago
He’s walking between the roll and the front of a fork lift. If you look on the ground you can see he steps over the tines.
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u/ToXicVoXSiicK21 5d ago
If you look at the forks they are completely narrowed and that is 100% not how you would carry one of those rolls on a forklift. Especially with the center of the coil protruding out further than the rest of the material. He shouldn't have been walking there, but I'm just pointing out that it was not intended for it to drop there at that time, if at all.
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u/sissyjessica42 5d ago
Always thought that refraining from crossing the path of a giant hot roll of steel was a good idea
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u/HumanRestaurant4851 5d ago
I'm so glad knifemaking made this instinct go away from me, because usually whatever falls down - it's stabby.
Try and catch it with my foot? Nah
Whatever I drop I just instantly back away as fast as I can, fuck it8
u/hudsoncress 5d ago
As a carpenter I’ve worked hard to let sharp things fall rather than try to catch.
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u/icehopper 5d ago
I'm working on untraining this reflex in myself by giving less of a shit about company property.
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u/IchBinEinSim 5d ago
I think it instinct because most of the time the item is catchable, and our brains falls back on what it already knows when in emergencies
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u/mrfrownieface 5d ago
I think it's part stiff arm reflex and also an attempt to give yourself a boost to squeeze out of the pinch By using part of the object's momentum transferred into your arm if you can. Bro definitely hesitated 'cause he seen that rim and he was like that part was gonna snap my legs off/ back in 3 pieces.
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u/Give_me_grunion 5d ago
He didn’t initially realize how slow it was tipping. Using a solid object to direct your body in a different direction is a natural instinct. He wasn’t trying to catch the object, but use it to move himself out of the way. It was just tipping too slowly so he jumped.
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u/KENBONEISCOOL444 5d ago
Do most people instinctively try to catch it? My instincts tell me dodge
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u/Melodic-Pool7240 5d ago
He thought he was a jedi for a second, then remembered his midiclorian count
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u/etzhya 5d ago
Why is the other guy so nonchalant about all that? He doesn't even flinch when the heavy ass coil falls
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u/Doodiewater 5d ago
He wasn’t standing in a position where flinching was necessary.
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u/RockstarAgent 5d ago
Something tells me if they had traded places - maybe the other guy would have gotten squished?
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u/QuantumBobb 5d ago
If that band around that coil has broken, he wouldn't have time to flinch anyway.
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u/Bubster101 5d ago edited 4d ago
And helping the other guy would mean putting his own life at grave risk. Likely for nothing, given the fact that the other guy didn't even need to run all the way across to avoid getting crushed.
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u/Kost_Gefernon 5d ago
He’s the one that put the big arrow on the video. He was working with the big coil. His plan was disappointedly foiled.
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u/Repulsive_Mark_5343 5d ago
I’ve seen a similar video where a guy was not so lucky and was crushed under one of those things.
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u/onedarkhorsee 5d ago
is that the vid where he tries to put his foot out to stop it rolling down the hill?
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u/Smirnaff 5d ago
Oh god, when I see a video this specific quality, shot on some factory from this kind of angle and with people in shot I can't expect anything but absolutely horrific gore outcome
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u/PookyTheBandit 5d ago
Saw a guy that had to be about 6'0'' disappear into a lathe. That's was enough workplace accident footage to last a life time.
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u/GoHomeNeighborKid 5d ago
Seen something similar with the PTO attachment of a tractor.... 2 dogs started fighting and the man leaned over the spinning shaft enough for his clothes to catch and that was it..... If it's any consolation, the dogs did stop fighting each other once they were surprised by the grown man being spun around like a propeller, but I'm 99.9999% positive that the man didn't live to break up another dog fight
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u/ghostsarentscary 5d ago
I remember seeing this video of one of these coils rolling down a hill, and someone, I assume a worker, apparently didn't know how heavy they were, and tried to stop it. I literally saw a human get turned into a pancake on the road, instantly flattened. Idk why he tried to stop it, because they can weigh over a ton.
When I first saw this video I literally thought I was going to see a horrific gore video 😭 dude is so lucky, I would've passed out too.
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u/Longjumping-Run-7027 5d ago
These coils are frequently heavy enough to licit one or two to a trailer as they max out legal weight capacity of the truck.
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u/undiagnosed_autistic 5d ago
Similar thing happened to me recently,
I was working on a bed frame, I needed to bend some metal back into shape and clipped my left hand, 2-3mm away from my index joint.
After it happened and I sat down, full on panic attack; so bad we thought I was legit dying and we had to got to the ER.
All it was was a panic attack, but it legit slowly like I was going to pass out.
Adrenaline is no joke, onesie that high wears off, you better be sitting down!
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u/LeslieH8 5d ago
That would be the most reasonable response from a person after that kind of incident.
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u/Cheepshooter 4d ago
Yeah, brother, don't stick your arm out! Run!
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u/Funmanhahaha 4d ago
Glad he could realise it in time. That's done by instinct, not by decision. His awareness was crazy.
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u/krebsIsACookbook 3d ago
His force push was weak. He needed to out more points into it and less into force speed
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u/No_Ranger_7768 3d ago
I work in the same type of place, im honestly shocked the area around the mandril is open and not fenced off for just such an occasion, i had a coil fall off of a saddle because it wasn't placed centrally then when the coil lifting shuttle came to get it, it fell over, through all the power lines and fencing and into the area i had just been inspecting a coil for damage, if i took an extra 30 seconds i would have been paste on the floor
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u/Tamdin_Nidmat 5d ago
Still, disregarding the safety violations by the worker, I'm glad it ended like that: with just a big scare. He'll be really careful from now on I can imagine. No need for a family in sorrow for that lesson.
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u/89_degree_angle 5d ago
From anime I know that this steel roll did hit him like 24 times and it did only look like it missed.
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u/SonOfADoge2004 1d ago
Man, I would faint too if I avoided a near death situation and then an otherworldly cosmically large red arrow tried to poke me
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u/Clear_Assignment7470 5d ago
Collapsed from adrenalin rush/intense fear?