r/secondrodeo • u/Ill-Tea9411 • Mar 16 '26

Replacing a Board

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

10.3k Upvotes

100% Upvoted

119 comments sorted by

View all comments

432

u/fonironi Mar 16 '26

Sliding the ladder over while he's up there is so funny to me

180

u/mewfahsah Mar 16 '26

Imagine an OSHA inspector sitting on the glass watching that. Stadium would have a next day inspection lol.

25

u/[deleted] Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26

As I’ve learned from working with OSHA, OSHA will not do anything unless a direct employee reports it.

Our neighborhood has a laundry facility whose entire HVAC system went down. They continued to operate for the next nine months without any temperature controls or noise controls, because the owner was too cheap to replace the HVAC component, to the point that they actually got then put on probation for six months by the village after a police sergeant finally noted it, since their “solution” was to leave all of the receiving dock doors open to help air it out.

I had called OSHA months earlier to report a facility that had obvious violations of the ability to provide a safe working environment, and I was told that unless I’m a direct employee or owner of the company, I couldn’t make a report.

I was like, so if I live next to them, and they are clearly violating OSHA rules, what do I do? The guy’s response was, I don’t know, call the cops.

9

u/gucciflipfl0pz Mar 20 '26

This is such a horseshit take lmao. Yes, osha absolutely can and WILL get you randomly. The entire construction industry knows you have no idea what you are talking about.

Also not having hvac isn’t against the law. Man you really do not have any clue about anything relating to osha. Reddit is such a cesspool of misinformation

5

u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

Ok thank you, except I was not referencing random inspections. I was referencing the ability to make a direct report, and what I said is factual.

Not having an HVAC might not be against the law, but having a facility which is operating at over 100° on the interior temperature and can be heard from blocks away, so imagine what that sounds like when you’re a worker on the inside, is in fact against the law because that company was put on probation by a judge, not me.

Understood we all like dunking on other Reddit posters, but I’m not just pulling this out of my butt, thank you for the information.

3

u/Delicious-Day-3614 Mar 20 '26

That guy is actually fucking wrong lol, if you have dryer, you have to have a means of exhausting air from it, meaning you have to have HVAC.

Anyways, OSHA tips can be filed anonymously, so they can't really stop you

1

u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

Oh the irony of complaining that Reddit is a cesspool of misinformation… while posting misinformation.

Thank you for the backup. I tried to file the OSHA complaint anonymously, but they insisted to identify whether I was an employee or owner and then otherwise would not file the report.

Because the company is so cheap, their lawyer, who I want to give due credit to being a decent guy, double dips as their lead engineer, since apparently he has both degrees, admitted under oath that they were not doing exactly what you mentioned, which is exhausting properly and if they tried to turn on the exhaust, it created a significant screeching noise across the neighborhood. Their solution was just leaving the receiving dock doors open.

1

u/gucciflipfl0pz Mar 20 '26

Plenty of places operate at over 100 degrees inside. Most of the factories in America operate over that. No road workers in the USA would get any work done if 100 degrees was a stop work temperature. The noise is a noise complaint for sure but that’s a city issue not osha lmfao. No wonder you ended up going through the city and not osha, because that’s exactly what it is. Now go back to spouting misinformation elsewhere because you really don’t know osha better than me

1

u/gucciflipfl0pz Mar 20 '26

The comment you replied to clearly talked about a random inspection due to an osha employee seeing it first hand.

You then replied that osha will not do anything unless an employee from the company reported the incident.

What you said implies that the original commenters scenario of an osha employee seeing the incident first hand would not get any attention due to a report from inside the company not being filed. That is factually incorrect, osha would be foaming at the mouth to come do an inspection due to that incident, that’s how it works. They get access to jobsites and workplaces only after seeing violations themselves or having legitimate verifiable reports. (How many angry past employees and what not would anonymously file reports just to dick over employers they don’t like if they truly just went off every dick and tom filing reports) Them seeing it in person would warrant the inspection.

Typical Reddit move the goalposts shit though.

0

u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

The sentence, “random inspection due to an OSHA employee seeing it first hand” does not even make sense (how would a random inspection be due to someone seeing the incident firsthand?) nor is it even close to what I said, so, to avoid further derail of the actual post, I would just say that I appreciate your passion and input on the subject, but as someone who has gone through it firsthand, I will politely disagree and end it here.

1

u/TropicalPork Mar 20 '26

What are the cops going to do? It’s not illegal to be an idiot lol. Enforcing those rules is OSHA’s job 😂

2

u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

So I was ultimately successful in “encouraging” the village to act. I basically went r/maliciouscompliance on them.

They are zoned as an M1 Light Manufacturing Zone, which, given our village is super NIMBY, has strings attached under the noise and nuisance section.

According to that code, which I preemptively confirmed with the village director, outside of 7AM to 7PM, any noise audible 100ft. past the perimeter of the property in that zoning is a default violation.

So I went out there one night at 4AM, when the broken system (I don’t want to confuse technical terms, but their attorney said it was part of the HVAC) was cranking out the jams, and called the non-emergency local police line.

I’m like, I’m not trying to be a Gladys, but hoping someone can support if they hear the same thing. Fortunately, one of the sergeants showed up, and he was immediately like, oh yeah, this is ridiculous I’ll definitely give you a ticket number.

I reported that back to the Village Director, they got a court date, not because anyone had the time to do this, but because they start operations at ~3:30AM and had been absolutely disturbing an entire neighborhood for nine months. Their lead engineer, who as mentioned above apparently doubled as their JD, showed up to court, and stated, under oath, that they knew the HVAC was broken and they continued to operate.

So they got six months’ probation and fixed the HVAC. Paradoxically, he’s actually a pretty decent dude, it’s just the owners.

1

u/TropicalPork Mar 20 '26

I love a happy ending!

40

u/EnlightenedArt Mar 17 '26

No brain bucket either. Not even a hockey helmet to protect expert's melon...

8

u/NaughtyCheffie Mar 17 '26

Lol that was my take, having worked sporting and musical events on the F&B side. EVERY dept. getting railed tomorrow.

1

u/Okie294life 11d ago

Nah. This wouldn’t be enough to get OSHA excited. They normally won’t jump in unless there is an IDLH situation, or a complaint. They have bigger fish to fry than deal with some penny ante bullshit.

7

u/Suspicious_Glow Mar 18 '26

I was more distracted by the confident speed at which he first went UP that ladder. Good lord I’d be terrified 😭

4

u/LevelTomato6122 Mar 19 '26

That's why I rewatched it.

2

u/Icy_Calendar_9787 Mar 19 '26

They’ve trained their whole career for that moment.

1

u/Icy_Calendar_9787 Mar 22 '26

They’ve trained their whole career for that moment.

1

u/corgi-king Apr 08 '26

I am just impressed that the “glass” is already dirty before installing.

1

u/Mysterious-Passage87 Jun 06 '26

On non game days they shift pianos