Workplace Horrors | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
- "On the 25th January, 1979, Robert Nicholas Williams reported to work as usual at the Ford Motor Company’s casting centre in Michigan..."
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - The Story of Robert Nicholas Williams
03:05 - The Story of Alan Catterall
06:12 - The Story of Lawrence "Day" Davis
09:13 - Lockout/Tagout Devices
MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory
SOURCES:
► "$10 million awarded to family of plant worker killed by robot" published by The Ottawa Citizen, August 1983. Available via: news.google.com/newspapers?id...
► "Around The Nation: Jury Awards $10 Million In Killing by Robot" published by The New York Times, August 1983. Available via: www.nytimes.com/1983/08/11/us...
► "Oven death firm Pyranha Mouldings guilty of manslaughter" published by BBC News, January 2015. Link: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...
► "Kayak firm guilty over death of man trapped in oven" published by The Guardian, January 2015. Link: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...
► "Runcorn oven death: Pyranha Mouldings fined £200,000" published by BBC News, March 2015. Link: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...
► "Temporary Work, Lasting Harm" by Michael Grabell, Jeff Larson and Olga Pierce, published by ProPublica, December 2013. Link: www.propublica.org/article/te...
► "OSHA cites Bacardi in man's fatal accident first day on job" by Charles Broward, published by Florida Times-Union, 2013. Link: eu.jacksonville.com/story/new...
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each workplace safety rule is written in blood.
Most rules are…. Look at the standards and practices in aviation. They are all written in the blood of the pilots and passengers who came before….
And excessive speed sign
That's the truth.
Yup.
Dark but true
Accidental deaths by high temperatures horrify me the most.
Same!! Couldn't even imagine! 😱
I've seen enough of those tales to make sure if I ever go anywhere it could happen, that there are three people standing outside waiting for me to come back out.
Very much so. The Bumble Bee Tuna factory incident is also horrifying, but nothing like the Tampa Electric power plant slag accident.
yah guy got cooked crispy
Personally, I would have placed something in the doorway to block the door from closing if I had to enter that death trap.
Imagine dying at work 90 minutes into your shift on your first day...
Worst bad day ever
the elites import illegals in mass to do these kinds of jobs but americas are more aware
Yea, had they died on the 2nd or 3rd day, not nearly as tragic.
I die inside every monday morning
Imagine just dying at work period.
The oven one is wild. Two near misses and they still did nothing
It takes effort and most importantly costs money to do anything. Which is mostly why I have lost my hope in humanity a long time ago. Nobody can be bothered to care until they are forced to. Nobody ever thinks, "what if?"
Two near hits
corporations/bosses wont fix shit until it becomes a them problem. I remember a girl who worked for an icecream place, dairy queen i think it was, the escape latch on the walk in freezer was broken and several employees were getting trapped inside and the boss wouldnt allow them to have phones to call for help, or even leave the freezer door propped open while they were in it.
It wasnt until the boss herself got trapped inside for like an hour/hour and half that she finally put in a work order and quickly got it fixed.
Even the person doing it. Like, they probably couldn't pay me enough to go in the thing, because I'm a paranoid dude, but if I had to that pry bar or like a steel chair or something is being wedge in the door so it can't close and lock on me.
@@XAltrus Not anywhere near a guarantee that you will be able to get out or the oven won't start heating up. If it is pneumatically driven, it can close anyway though being bent at the point where the pry bar is located, and if no sensors pick that up and shuts it down, you will be a crisp anyway.
Also, you cannot rely on other people to be your safe guard. We had a case here in Denmark at a power plant with an experimental hall for high voltage testing. A guy was sent into a grid construction to clean it out because dust could ignite and damage it, so he asked if the unit had been closed down, was given the assurance that it was and walked in there. He never got to do any cleaning at all and they only found his half burned shoes and a stump of the broom he had with him. The rest of him and all the other stuff he carried in there had simply vaporized. The plant shut down years later, but the building still stands and has been turned into a major modern warehouse. But you can still see the spot where he died, because the concrete floor still has the burn marks from the accident, and nobody wants to remove it or place something over it, as it is somehow understood that this burned spot is all there is left to remember him by. Not even the present owners of the building is inclined to have it removed or covered. And unofficially, the building is named after him.
I'm an occupational safety and health coordinator. I try to tell everyone i work with that even some of the more seemingly pointless rules are there becasue someone died for them to be there. We have to look out for each other, make sure the training standards are followed, and not let each other willingly do something needlessly dangerous
Was union and then later a safety team member at another job.
We always say two things:
Your life isn't worth this job
Your health is more valuable than your paycheck
@@TheChaosOneX that's what I try to pass along. Nothing you do here is worth not coming home for
And even though we all don't like the annoying safety guy he's there for a reason and anything unsafe being done should be reported even if it's a near miss or an incident
Even something as simple as a saw stop in woodworking, is there because someone lost their limbs to it. Same goes for using push sticks and push blocks through table mounted routers, jointers and thickness planers, two handed operation of hand held tools, etc. Its all there because someone either died or was maimed for life and I always try to push the narrative like you do, despite it not being my job. I always comment on TH-cam videos where unsafe practices are used, but not discouraged and explained, as people will repeat what others do, unless told how unsafe it is. It's the channel owners responsibility to research and use safe practices or otherwise explain why their practices aren't safe and shouldn't be copied. I do sometimes use unsafe practices myself, but only when there are no other options available than what is unsafe and even then I do my best to be as safe as possible. No work is worth losing limbs or losing your life to.
people used to groan when I would show safety videos. I would stop the video and explain that someone probably died and that's why we're watching. it got people to pay attention better than anything else I could have said.
The kiln death is one of the most nightmarish things ever.
Lock out Tag Out, shit saves lives.
unfortunately it's not the only death that happened in this manner, there was another one in a tuna-canning facility where a worker died in an oven used to sterilize tuna cans
@@Operngeist1 Also one in a bakery, where a worker was locked in the bread baking oven. Never ignore safety rules thinking "just this one time won't hurt."
I recently saw one where instead of a kiln it was an industrial dryer, basicaly the same premise.
I’m trying to think how his daughter felt as it was her husband who accidentally killed her father!
Another gruesome yet perfect example of workplace tragedy (and corporate negligence) is the deaths of 5 men at TECO Big Bend. They were cleaning beneath a furnace when molten slag fell on top of them. so much of it that it flooded out onto the factory floor like actual lava. the men practically melted, and it wasnt a fast death for all of them. one of the workers, a temporary worker like Lawrence in this video, named Antonio Navarrete, had called his mom during the incident, leaving her a voicemail along the lines of "Mom help me im burning". One of the most horrific incidents I have ever heard of.
Reminds me of the Russian girl who called her mother while a bear and her cubs were eating her.
Omg, I remember hearing about that. How horrific!
Just reading about that now, the company was fined $500,000. A similar accident had happened in 1997 and Tampa Electric had safety procedures to prevent a recurrance but ignored them as it would cost time and money to have done the job safely. The company's excuse boiled down to "It's not killed anyone yet and some other places do it too".
I mean three of them survived long enough to be taken to the hospital, including Antonio, so I think your exaggerating just a bit there.
Reminds me... My late grandfather worked for Atlantic Steel. I'm told her actually witnessed at least one person fall into the giant vats of molten metal. Instantly incinerated to nothing. Being burned to death is one of the more horrific ways to go.
I worked in jobs where I would drive a tow-motor (aka forklift), I’ve had to tell coworkers “Please do not stand on the back as a ‘counterweight’, if the machine can’t lift/hold the load then it’s too heavy”.
Reminds me of that video in China where a woman tries to stop an overloaded tipping forklift by holding on to the back as it tipped forward, once the load had slid off the forks the machine stopped tipping and slammed down on top of her, all five tons of it. The driver, obviously knowing exactly what to do in an accident, drove the forklift off of her breaking any bones that were not already shattered and ensuring no chance of her survival.
@@krashd I saw that, oooh…**shudders**
Our forklift trainer tried to trick us by asking for a ride back to the shop by hanging on the side of the forklift. I looked him straight in the eye and said, "No, you gotta walk."
People actually do that 😂 the weight of a person on the back isn’t going to do 💩 with an over weight load. That’s why I always test a load I think might be too heavy. Better to tip when you’re able to right the lift rather than tip at a point where you’re dumping the load and flipping the forklift. I don’t much anymore, but used to hoist 5000 lbs bulk packs in huge steel hoppers of powdered metal about 20 feet+ off the ground multiple times a day. I can only think of one instance in 20 years where one got dumped, not me fortunately, and thankfully nobody was under it. People get careless, it’s ridiculous.
The whole time I was thinking WHY IS NO ONE LOCKING THESE MFING MACHINES OUT oh my god. Horrendous.
Me too, us that work in plants/shops are all feeling the same
Same, we just had our annual LOTO refresher this week, Insane that anyone would be permitted to go into these situations without the machine being locked out.
I once worked in a warehouse with a robotic system managing hundreds of thousands of items. Every entry point large enough to accomodate a human had sensors that would automatically lock out the entire system, requiring a full inspection before the system was reset. Needless to say anyone causing this to happen without a very good explanation was fired on the spot as operations where shut down for at least an hour to do this. This rule was written in blood too.
@@dogcarman Automation service/engineer since y. 1996. Any automated system was clearly labelled as "NO ENTRY" area. And any maintenance requires power off, locked switch and additional label on it says "No switch ON, maintenance in progress". I worked also on 6kV high power systems, touching live wire was instant death. No room for mistakes.
Electrician here wondering the same. It's easy, and easily prevents loads of things like this from being possible or at least, significantly reduces the possibility.
I was an electrician for over 40 years. One of the most important thing was Lock Out-Tag Out. We would de energize a piece of equipment. We would tag it and place 2 locks on it. My boss would have one key and I would have the other. Neither of our keys could open the others lock!!
Recommendable safety precautions! There have been many people being killed, because they were not that smart. It's really just easy to be safe than sorry.
I think as electricians we are probably a bit more in tune with lock out tag out than the average person.
Glad to hear you mention Tag Out, because it can be used in a residential environment, where most equipment does not have loops for locks. I use it (learned about it at my first employer, even though I was an office worker) for DYI work, especially at the electrical panel.
Every time I hear about these, I feel grateful for the OSHA course.
Piper Alpha could have been prevented had they used a similar lock-out protocol on the 'out-of-order' pump.
I work in a 100 year old building that was once the administrative building for a brass refinery that had once been across the street. The refinery was torn down in the 90s, but the older men who had once worked there are still around.
One such man comes around to do maintenance on our building. He was a machinists' apprentice at the refinery in the 60s when he was barely out of his teens. He sat and told me some stories once. Including watching his trainer just casually cut off his own finger while training him how to clean blades.
Factory work was a horror show back in the day.
You can still have some extremely nasty accidents NOW. I know of two elevator accidents where blood ran down the outside of the doors on one and the guy almost lost both hands to the elbows on the 2nd one.
I worked at a copper smelter. Lock Out/Tag Out procedures were taught carefully and used. Even though I was a secretary, I had to know the procedures. Saved lives.
each workplace safety rule is written in blood
I've seen so many videos about people killed in kilns, freezers, or chemical showers. People, please never enter industrial machinery that doesn't have an isolater that you control or an easy escape hatch
And a reason why some products are so cheap that local manufacturers are knocked out is that the competition are in countries where they do not care about details like that.
Right! You can live through teasing and harassment from co-workers and bosses, but you might not live through an industrial accident. It's never worth it.
Agreed. Even strict protocols can’t save people with a death trap like that kiln. What a horrific design and what a horrible death.
Or an isolator.
Or a lock out panel.
As an engineer, please do more workplace compilations 👍
Yes I'm a maintenance engineer and was thinking to myself 'permits to work, Job safey analysis and isolation locks' this entire video
Have you seen the Chinese animation workplace fatalities?
what does "as a ...." have to do with anything?
General interest as part of being in the field.
I’m a factory manager and this is very disturbing and fascinating to watch.
I worked at a yarn mill in Scotland County NC in the 80s.
When the product arrives it is just fluff, in the first stage it has to be combed in a carding machine; which is a rubber belt about a yard wide, covered with thickly placed needles. Of course, one broke down and the mechanic began working on it without locking it out.
The person who was running it walked by and turned it back on, not knowing the mechanic had his arm in the machine.
No one could hear him screaming, and the first person who saw him had to stop and throw up before he could get help.
He lost several fingers, but luckily he lived to tell the tale.
ALWAYS lock out any equipment you need to work on!!
I also remember when the Hamlet, NC chicken plant caught on fire. I had a nephew who worked there, thank God he wasn’t on duty that day!
I worked at a plastic tubing and hose factory in statesville, nc and between the hot glue that had to be applied with a nozzle and seeing maintenance guys stick thier hands into the machinery that cuts the hoses to length without turning off the machines (they just “timed” it between the cuts) i am still amazed i didnt see more injuries
Once saw a guy w no arm on right side and no fingers on left. Apparently, when an elevator grabs your arm when you do something stupid, the instinct is to pull it out w other hand...
Theres a crazy amount of stories where the injury/death happens because "someone walked by and, seeing the machine off, turned it back on". How does no one stop to think, WHY is this machine off?
Carding machines would have to be one of the biggest dangers in a spinning plant. We had a guy loose all his fingers too. He was called "flipper" after that, seeing that's what his hand looked like.
part of this also just comes down to human ignorance/error. If you know a machine is being worked on, or if a machine that is normally on is turned off, why would you turn it on? why not find out if its off for a reason first?
This video needs to be part of the Lock Out Tag Out training. Chilling enough to make you really think about WHY this sort of thing is (or should be) required.
NOTHING would make me go near that kiln, never mind inside it.
Thinking the same thing! Not enough money in the world!
Now added to my list alongside complex cave systems requiring wriggling.
@@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures I'm with you. I once had a panic attack just READING about someone wriggling through a narrow place in a cave.
@@julieloucalcote1368 You could give me money because, I'd force someone at g**point to look out for me doing it if it came to it in the days before this happening. Maybe it's because, I'm used to being tricked and bullied as a kid.
I would never enter that kiln under any circumstances. Something like that should NEVER lock someone inside. Even in the walk-in freezers at -23c at the supermarket I used to work at, did not lock and indeed even included a handle on the inside, just in case.
The kiln story was especially horrifying considering the man’s son in law turned it back on. He must have suffered for the rest of his life from that trauma.
This is assuming he didn't do it deliberately.
@@whofandbthat’s my question, could be a very tragic coincidence but if he had life insurance, a house… could be more sinister.
@@biazacha You really think that wasn't considered?
Nah lol girlfriend’s father out of the way.😊
@@scrappydoo7887 depends. Sometimes businesses like to get things wrapped up. They could have just paid them off and not looked to deeply.
This reminds me of a workplace incident in the UK from a few years ago. As I remember it, a pair of engineers were working in a turbine of some sort for repairs, and it accidentally turned on and basically mulched them. The authorities were keen to advise the press and families that the men would not have had time to register the event before they died, because of the speed of the blades.
That's horrible 😮
Yeah that was my cousin. They did say that to the family that they probably didn’t realize what happened . Sad . My aunt killed herself after because of it
@@JoeRogansForehead Oh god, I'm so sorry for both losses. I hope your family has managed to start healing from the tragedies :(
@@animefallenangel it’s okay , I believe in reincarnation even if that sounds weird so hopefully they are still alive somewhere
RIP Alan, I was listening to this while I made food and I heard the date and realised that’s my birthday. I would have been a little girl at the time turning 11 years old, having no idea a few miles away someone died so horribly.
May you have found peace, Alan ❤️
the first thing that my boss did when i started my apprenticeship was to lecture me about every single danger he could think of, on top of the mandatory safety lecture. he was almost killed in a workplace accident 25 years ago, and he told me dead into the eyes that if i were ever to neglect safety regulations to do work that i wasnt able to do otherwise, he would strangle me with his bare hands. if i cannot do the work in the safest way possible, i will not do the work. back in the day i thought he was overreacting, but the sheer amount of negligience i have seen in my workplace so far made me realize how right he was.
if you cannot do the work safely, you do not do the work. how right he is!
Good boss, that. Treats his staff like human beings, rather than an income
On my first day of my apprenticeship as a mechatronics technician the safety advisor told me that a close friend and coworker was run over by a train two weeks prior, because he didn't pay attention. Accidents like these are tragically teaching good lessons.
My boss was strict about being complacent and the longer your around equipment increases the risk for an accident because you get so used to nothing happening and used to machinery you get to comfortable and that's when something happens so we always had to use the buddy system so if one gets complacent the other person can pull us away and remind us of how one second is all it takes
@@kobra6660 Even less than a second. If you're working with heavy machinery, like a lathe, it will turn you into minced meat in no time. Always be careful! ^^
@IndigoRyu thats why i had to retire from being around heavy machinery like this did this job everyday for so long and nothing happens i get to comfortable from and not even being worried about what could happen safety supervisor pulled me aside so often I just decided it was time to walk away
I worked in a frozen hasbrown factory for 6 1/2 years. It was a small factory, and the owner was very aware of how to keep his workers safe. He took care of us. There were all kinds of safety measure to keep us safe. I mean, there were small injuries, like bruises and cutting a finger, but nothing serious. The whole time i worked there, the worst was a bruise or small cut due to klutziness on the part of the worker. It was a good place to work. They even allowed a bit of fun when the machines were shut down for whatever reason.
Did you get free hash browns though?..... 🤔😆👍🏻
@@ashotofmercuryno, but they did let us take potatoes. Each bag of potatoes would hold around a ton, so they didn't lose much by letting us take them.
@kathyjones1576 I wish everyone had those work conditions
@@mwblackbelt I do too. I was fortunate in my only experience working in a factory. It is fascinating work, the manual labor, running the machines, fixing the machines if I could, learning how to drive a forklift. I'm working in a vet clinic now and I have found my heart's desire here, but of the other jobs I've had, the one in that factory was my favorite.
Please sell me the movie rights
I worked for Thyssen Steel IT in Germany for a few years, and once we were given a tour of the actual manufacturing plant. Saw the big Furnace (or whatever it's called) and walked through the press line, where the hot steel blocks were pressed into sheets. That was probably the most dangerous place i've ever been in in my life. Also everything was actively being worked during our Tour. Saw them siphon fresh, raw Steel from the Furnace, and the press line was active as well. The whole Building was like a giant sauna.
When he opened with Ford Motor Co., my heart skipped a beat. My father worked in the Ford Plant in Green Island, NY and one day was sent home early when the plant was shut down...with a horror story. One of the workers got caught in a machine, and was inpaled by a couple of red hot rods. It took time to get him out of there. My tough father was very shaken.
That kiln didn’t even need an escape hatch. A simple lock out padlock (I buy them in bulk for mining at about $12 each) could have prevented this incident.
I remember my work had lockout padlocks installed on a board in the supervisors office with 'two' keys.
Every spare key was removed by the safety manager as soon as he spotted the mistake.
Exactly. Lockout tags are so common and well known but these companies clearly didn't give a shit.
@@Bopig the board had just been installed and it should have been spotted by the installer who has had all the required training.
Possibly ' not my job' attitude 🙄
@@alistairthow1384 spare keys may be needed if someone loses a primary key, but all such keys definitely need to be locked in a safe with only the safety supervisors knowing the combination.
Ya hate to see it
Regulations - they're often bashed, but there's a reason they exist. And the reason is often a horrible accident.
It's "funny" that a lot of politicians these days are getting into government to undo regulations, or companies "innovating" by finding ways around existing regulations, only to have.... exactly the problems that are the reason we have regulations to start with! No one sat down and made up those rules just for shits and giggles. People died for them.
Sometimes that is true.
Other times regulations are result of someone in industry A bribing their congressman better than the reps from industry B.
Many times they are the result of lawmakers "solving" a problem they don't understand without any input from anyone in the industry.
Look at trucking.
The amount of regulations have increased dramatically over the last decade.
So have accidents.
each workplace safety rule is written in blood
The main issue with LOTO is the human element. You can mandate and implement safety protocols all you want but it's human nature to get complacent. A culture of safe workplace practices is key.
I think one of the main issues with LOTO isn't complacency or human error. It's that companies often make the LOTO procedure much more complicated than necessary and/or they limit the people who have the authority who can decide it needs to be done and then do it. The last one is purely about money- they don't want just any "lowly" shift worker to be the one with the authority to decide if LOTO needs to be done because in almost every case, shutting down machinery cuts into production. So if something breaks or needs to be done, the lowest on the totem pole- you know, the ones who do the actual work and are generally in the most danger- have to decide if they're just going to go ahead and carry out repairs/tasks and hope everything is OK or lose time and production and wait until some shift supervisor or manager can show up and hopefully authorize the LOTO and maybe they won't get in trouble for not getting as much done.
@@mommy2libras I'm lucky where I work then.
Sure, you need to be trained to be able to perform LOTO and be given your locks and keys, but if you need to do something, you can lock 'er out and do whatever you gotta do inside the machine without the fear of somebody turning it on without realising you're in there, or having the machine do its stupid thing and running.
I work in the press department of a factory that makes car parts, and those presses make a lot of scrap. _Most_ of it ends up going onto the conveyor and into the scrap bins, but some of it will gather under the machines and make a giant mess,
We operators are given full permission to LOTO (provided we are certified and have been given our locks) to be able to safely perform the housekeeping work of cleaning those bits of scrap out.
Hell, our management actually gives a shit about us being safe, and I certainly appreciate that.
This looks like a safety video we would watch at work, as a matter of fact I might tell them about this. So glad you went over just how important the lock out/ tag out system is.
the kiln story really gave me the horrors - a place i used to work in had an autoclave that was just like that. colleagues used to think it was funny that i was afraid of the autoclave but i never denied it, and i never touched that machine if i could help it.
I work in a vet clinic that has a few small autoclaves.The biggest one isn't even close to big enough for a person to get into, but they're hot enough to sterilize surgical instruments, so obviously extremely hot. I haven't learned to use them yet, but that time is coming. I've walked by them after the doors open and the heat is incredible.
there was a case of a woman dying in an autoclave that had a malfunctioning door and would fall shut on it's own so the fear is not unfounded
We have autoclaves the size of small rooms where I work and everyone is scared of them. Once the door is closed, there is an emergency door open cable, but damn near impossible to find in pitch black, especially if the autoclave is full of racks.
I lived near a steel plant. You'd drive past in your car when its below zero, and they'd go past with a piece of red hot metal on a "truck," and you could feel it.
@kathyjones1576 autoclaves actually get *hotter than boiling* - they're pressurized in such a way that they are able to defy the normal laws of physics.
Using them is pretty simple (load, close door, select cycle, start, walk away) but the mechanicals of them are somewhat complicated.
Poor Alan in that factory in England- what an absolute nightmare
each workplace safety rule is written in blood
As a former factory worker and a former recruiter for a temp agency, that last one is just infuriating. There were times where I was appalled by the lack of training our temps received.
Did you ever dismiss client companies because of their refusal to provide essential training to your temps?
@@tookitogoof course not
@@joedwc I was asking the OP, since they worked as a recruiter for a temp agency.
I used to work in a supermarket,
There was a huge freezer for storing all the bakery foods, accessible from two sides.
On the ceiling were four fan driven coolers, that blow freezing air into the room to keep the temperatures low.
Outside the freezer, it had an additional automatic fire door on either side, that will slam shut in emergency cases.
One time this door stayed shut on a worker for over 50 minutes.
The freezer is -26°c, but continued to blast freezing air into the room due to an error, causing it to drop to almost -30°c.
Theres no way to open the fire door from inside.
Pointing out that -30 is worse than -26 is like swimming with 12,000 piranhas instead of 10,000 piranhas. What difference would it really make?
This is especially horrible when you remember that many schools in the northern US cancel school if it hits -20°F because it can cause frostbite on exposed skin in 30 mins or less
I worked part-time in fast food, and the walk-in fridge and freezer always gave me a sense of dread. Whilst the fridge wasn't as cold and was more regularly used, I remember the emergency release on the door inner looking pretty worse for wear, which didn't exactly scream 'reliable' - I didn't mind the fridge though. The freezer on the other hand I feared above all else, and thankfully rarely went in it. And when I did, I always kept my foot propping the door open and one eye on the emergency release. We always worked bare below the elbows due to food hygiene, so as you can imagine, getting shut in there would not have gone well.
I used to have to stock the freezer which I did not like whatsoever when I worked in fast food. And just like you said the emergency release for the door looked terrible.
I worked in a kitchen with two walk-in freezers and a walk-in fridge and I was OK with them, but we were a busy restaurant so the freezer's were opened at least every 20 mins so in the back of your mind was the thought that if someone accidentally shut you in and the 'tomato' (what we called the big red door release button) was frozen then you get yourself a 20 min break sitting on a box of frozen fish until someone needed something out the freezer and could release you. In the four years I was there I can't remember anyone getting locked in.
Though the danger was certainly real, one of the freezers was along a very narrow corridor and when you opened the freezer the door would block the corridor, so anyone walking from the direction of behind the door would have to push the freezer shut in order to pass (definitely an architectural oversight), so you'd be in the freezer and hear the door slam, then you'd hit the angry tomato to open it again, then you'd berate the 17 year old server that had just attempted to murder you, and they would give a blank expression and walk off. Chefs get no love.
I work at a grocery store, and our big freezer had a door that jammed shut frequently. Once, I needed another coworker's help just to pull it open. While it never happened, I dread to think what would've happened if someone had the door closed on them. The door's been replaced since then.
I worked at McDonald's several years ago, and my "personal" job besides the normal stuff, was to unload the truck twice a week and stock, check expire dates, and clean the deposit and the refrigerated rooms.
The freezer was my favorite. The cold was not that bad if you were moving, the only problem was your fingers, even with gloves you had to stop once in a while to warm them up. But I found being alone in there, oddly relaxing, like you're on another planet.
A common prank was to tell the newbies to go and mop the freezing room (impossible task), and then hold the door shut. Obviously not locking it, just holding it with our hands until we had our share of laughs. Not very nice, I know. But those were different times.
I walked through a massive brick kiln, on a tour of my new job, i worked Office, never been so nervous in my entire life.
This channel is what inspired me to become an occupational safety professional. It's very interesting to see an episode covering a topic that I'll work with in my day-to-day life. Thanks for everything you do.
What shocked me the most is the utter lack of awareness the OTHER workers had. Imagine cooking your own father-in-law because you couldn't be bothered to check the kiln beforehand!! Geez!! Does nobody care about safety in factory settings? Can you imagine how many of these deaths would've been preventable (even WITHOUT escape hatches) if the workers TURNING ON THE MACHINES bothered to CHECK THEM FIRST?
Guys, this goes out to any worker, boss, human, fish, idc: CHECK YOUR SURROUNDINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Manager: we need you guys to mold more kayaks :(
Worker: we don't have the time to speed things up? we are already very busy
Manager: you guys have to work more "efficient" I guess
The fact that you can't see the kiln from the control panel seems like an incredibly poor design to me.
It's not the workers fault that the system was so poorly designed. I guarantee you that son-in-law had turned on that kiln thousands of times before over the duration of his work at that factory. Only one resulted in a deadly accident. Furthermore, he was not informed that there would be maintenance on that kiln today- for him, he was just doing his work as normal. He would have no other way to tell that something was out of the ordinary.
I tell you this not because I think you're some sort of bad person for blaming the workers in this situation, but because blaming the individual covers up the very real problems with the systems these workers were operating in. The son-in-law simply pressed a switch that he's pressed thousands of times before to complete his job. It's the fact that the kiln was designed with no escape or no indication of a foreign body inside; it's the fact that no one communicated to the son-in-law that there was to be maintenance on the kiln that day; and it's the fact that the father-in-law wasn't trained in and didn't have the ability to lock out and tag the machine. All of these aspects are more to blame for the accident than a single worker who couldn't comprehend that the unthinkable might happen during a job he'd done every day until that point.
Even then, EVEN THEN: it is impossible to remove human error from the workplace. Humans fuck up. Humans make mistakes. That is why there *must* be more than just a single human preventing a deadly accident. The system must be designed to accommodate human error without having a fatal accident. I would encourage you to look up the "Swiss Cheese" model of accident theory. If a single human decision manages to cause a fatal accident, then that is still indicative of a system that didn't have enough safeguards to prevent that accident.
These are all such awful ways to die. I think of the families running the images in their minds.
I like the compilation format. You always find interesting events.
Especially the son in law!
@@Dulcimertunes Right?! Oh, I can’t imagine. Horrific.
I would be trying to create a doppelgänger story or something. Oof.
I knew Day Davis would be in this one. Poor guy. This whole video is a stark lesson on the vital importance of lock out tag out. Every worker at my old job had it drilled in our heads, and even if it was a hassle, none of us would ever have failed to follow LOTO procedures.
Did his family got any money?
He was Killed by a manager at the company that was pissed of the machine wasn't running and turned it back on. I have heard and seen the pictures to many times and it's a detail that is left out.
@@KlaunFuhrer-du7frNo, sadly I don't think so.
@@masterenos i cant believe, if you are poor or black you have no rights... i know money cant buy life, but at least could help his family have better future.
@@KlaunFuhrer-du7fr The inherently exploitive nature of Temp agencies also plays a big part in it. Most people who find work through temp agencies aren't represented by a union, can be blacklisted from the temp agency if they report injuries, and other things that make temp agencies a horrible practice.
I’m so glad you mentioned lockouts. I was shouting about them while watching the video. They save lives!
Where i work, we have interlock systems . You have to press a button to release the key to a gaged in robot, take the key out, and bring it with you into the machine. It doesn't isolate the machine, but it also can not be opporated without the key. Then theres switchlocks for the engineers if they're working on them.
I'm always wary of this. I currently work at a car plant as a security guard. Usually I just deal with controlled access by opening gates and doors. Sometimes, however, they'll have us conduct fire watches on the factory floor, usually because a fire suppression system is offline and needs repair (in the most recent one, the pipes supplying the sprinklers in one section burst and had to be shut off to stop water from spraying everywhere). I'm always wary when on the floor because there's very obviously a lot of potentially hazardous machinery. Big stamping presses for car parts whose shockwaves can be felt even from the reception area, robotic arms equipped with welding equipment, all manner of sparks and moving vehicles carting heavy loads, that sort of stuff. All I can think about is what sort of gruesome accidents could befall me if I'm not careful and alert. Which can be somewhat hard, because I also need to keep an eye out for imminent fires, which means I have to divert my attention now and then, even if only for a moment. I've heard of a few injuries on the floor, and I pray that there are no deaths in this place.
I would say keeping an "eye out for imminent fires" is the least distracting job in the world. Its not hard to notice a fire, assuming your eyes and nose work and that youre not a deaf mute. You should be fine bub
@@spencerkleiman5035
I’ve worked in a factory similar to what OP is describing, and “keeping an eye out for eminent fires” is not as easy as you might be thinking. With all of the machinery working, you’re not going to hear a fire, unless it’s an all out explosion (which is what you’re trying to prevent by looking for eminent fires). You certainly won’t be able to smell a fire, as a burnt metal smell pervades everything, which comes from tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of welds being performed every hour. With all of the sparks that fly when these machines weld parts together it also makes it difficult to see when a small flame ignites. Looking for fires in a place like this really is a strain on one’s senses. Meanwhile, big heavy machinery is doing big heavy work on big heavy parts at a very fast pace all around you, and you being in the wrong place at the wrong time isn’t going to stop it from doing what it’s programmed to do.
These places are dangerous, and OP is right to be wary of his surroundings while he is on the shop floor. It’s always someone with your “bro don’t worry about it, you’ll be fine” attitude that winds up injured or dead (or worse, injuring or killing someone else) in these types of factories.
@@spencerkleiman5035 not unless something is smoldering for a while and suddenly bursts into flames!
Also, keep in mind that in a situation like that you're already in sensory overload with the loud noises, vibrations, and moving parts everywhere. Easy to overlook a little fire.
My boss nearly blew herself up while working on a fridge. The person next to her was degassing a fridge with R600a refrigerant, which is highly flammable, and she was about to oxy weld a pipe on another fridge. Because they were in an inspection pit, the gas collected and the spark from the igniter lit the gas off. It set her hair on fire and badly burnt both of them, and set the workshop on fire. Luckily she and the other worker healed up fine and the fire was quickly put out.
Never send a woman to do a mans job.
Ah, hot work and enclosed/confined spaces. A perennial favorite for USCSB safety videos--these are sadly frequent factors in deadly incidents. Glad to hear those two got lucky enough to survive.
Plenty bad enough. I’m glad they’re ok
Where do you work at? What kind of occupation?
@@dannyhernandez265 fridge mechanic
It's not just the electrical power that needs locking out, some machines will need the hydraulics and the pneumatics de-pressurising before entering.
That's what we got here. Big ol' presses that have a giant flywheel that is spun by an electric motor, and a pneumatic clutch, with hydraulics for the pistons that move up and down during the stroke.
The kiln didn't need an escape hatch, it needed the auto-close-and-lock mechanism removed. If a person had to do a physical check on the kiln to ensure no one was inside before the doors are closed and locked, no one could have been locked in. Otherwise, the control panel needed to be within line of sight, so that, again, a human operator could see into the kiln to ensure no one was inside.
Moral of the story, always have a second person when entering machinery in industrial settings for maintenance, and never, ever move into an area where automated machines are active.
As soon as I heard “kiln” I knew what was coming. Geez…
each workplace safety rule is written in blood
I used to live in liberal, Kansas. Home of national beef packing plant. Back in the 80s it used to be the most dangerous place in the US to work with the highest numbers of workplace deaths per year and highest numbers of OSHA violations to my understanding. I think I read an article in the readers digest confirming that fact. IMO, I believe that it was callous disregard for the employees since the majority of the employees are immigrants. They're lives just weren't important.
Sorry... Their lives.
😔💔💔💔
True. Nasty Beef certainly has a horrible reputation, but for good reason.
Use to live there 10 years ago, my mom worked there for a bit and had her arm caught in some machinery that company will pay off doctors to keep it quiet and the supposed "union" thats there isnt worth shit
@@MustangonaNinja That's the thing about unions! If they only care about money, then they don't care☹️ Worked in a hospital and watched a great coworker get fired because she had a car accident. That wasn't even her fault! Single mom and everything. The union guy just stood there, didn't support her at all. I moved, and the union had the audacity to come there try to make it a closed facility. Who did they send? That same dude who did nothing. He saw me & you could see in his eyes he knew he did wrong. Was able to tell them how non supportive they were, and that facility was lost to them. Unions are great, but only when they care about their members.
used to work at a plant where my superiors yelled at me for using the lock out/tag outs on every emergency shutdown because it “wasted it time”.
You’re always one dummy away from being in a fascinating horror video man
Thank you so much for making a video about lock out-tag out. I do work in various industrial facilities and I’ve heard many horror stories about guys being in the wrong place when a machine moves. The worst one I’ve heard (and I’m not sure if this is 100% true) is a man who was crushed between two train cars at a steel mill, but survived long enough to say his final goodbyes to his friends and family before he passed. They say the only reason he lasted that long was because the train cars were preventing blood loss, and when they pulled the cars apart he was basically split in half.
I hope you consider making this an occasional series, I love your videos and this topic may very well save lives!
This is exactly why, if you get stabbed or impaled, you DO NOT take the object out! They'll do it at the hospital
Am I the only one shocked at how simple the lock out mechanism is?
Considering how complicated some of this machinery is, it’s almost ridiculous yet so obvious to simply padlock the switch to the off position.
There are also lock out plug boxes. Some machines, like the grinders at my old work (they ground up bad/scrap parts into pieces we'd use for other parts), don't have on/off switches. So, to lock them out, you unplug them, put the plug in a big red box (with a hole just big enough for the cord), then shut the box and padlock the box closed.
I carried my plug box every day, which confused people until they realized I was the one crawling halfway into the parts grinders to clear the frequent jams.
There's all sorts of plastic boxes you can clip around plugs, gas valves etc. that have holes for a padlock. Then there's all sorts of clips that you can attach multiple locks to so everyone working on it has there own lock.
We used to have so many things to lock on each machine that every bit had one lock each and then we put the keys in a lock box and our own padlock on the lock box. This also meant all the locks were stored in the lock box when not in use so you didn't have to go looking for a lock.
There is no reason for a company not to provide this kit and make sure people use it.
If the design was complex people could make mistakes, keeping it simple keeps it safe
@@wantspizzadaily1316 THIS!!! The best solutions to just about everything are so simple.
@@wantspizzadaily1316beautifully put
these locks are such an OBVIOUS necessity! i even pretty much invented such a thing myself when i wasn't yet done with the video.
i mean, seriously, the very first thing i'd do before climbing into that kiln would be to MAKE SURE there is no power going to it under any circumstances. especially if there is no line of sight between the switchboard and the device! who tf came up with this bs?
Or at least a SIGN (like blue flags on RRs) telling others that there is someone doing maintenance and you cannot operate the system.
Lock out tag out is one of the simplest and most important safety precautions out there. My job, before disability, was to help investigate workplace incidents including deaths. Saw some horrific stuff irl and most of it was totally preventable. Never take safety for granted
Thank you, sincerely, for posting this video, especially the last story: I have been motivated to propose a couple of safety improvements at my own workplace, based on what I’ve learned here.
The whole time I was thinking "what about lockout tagout?!?" And then you talked about it at the end! I used to do safety training and LOTO was a huge lengthy and important part of our program.
If it was a dangerous situation, we had 3 guys each put their locks on the equipment. Each lock is keyed separate. Always had a spotter and ready for emergency action. Never had a problem.
The kiln story is especially unsettling.
Why would the son in law turn it on without checking? Isn’t it turned on if a product is inside? If he didn’t know what was inside, why turn it on? I believe he knew who was in there. Either that or he’s a dumb sheet.
Just dumbed down factory workers, people switch the brain off in those places,mind fk jobs...
I introduced tag-out to my first domestic partner, for electrical panels at home over 30 years ago. Tag out is not as safe as lock out, but it does provide a visible alert. Most residential electric panels do not have any means of attaching an actual lock on a circuit breaker, but the hole in each switch allows adding a tag. We also tag any tool that has malfunctioned, has a safety defect, or has any guard removed.
There are lock outs designed to attach to the switch on a breaker. I carry one in my tool bag at work.
Fantastic video, possibly your best one yet. Including the description of LOTO hopefully adds education to others that aren't as familiar or don't always prioritize the practice. Please do more workplace incidents! No job is worth dying for.
Work place accidents are among the most horrifying things that could happen to you
Yes, especially with heavy machinery. I have seen some footage, that I don't wish anyone else to see.
And the best paid days at work provided you live
From the second story (not the first, since they deliberately left the machine running) I was wondering why there wasn't a lock out/tag out system in place. RIP workers just trying to do their job.
Sounded like maint. was locked out but not the guy cleaning the kiln
I just stared a new job and learnt about Lock Out/Tag Out yesterday. This video was very helpful in putting it into perspective.
That background music absolutely knocks to this day
This what happens to workplaces when the bosses don't care about the workers
That's why I hate corporatism. You're just an expendable number and your life doesn't matter just for profits. Not to be mixed up with Capitalism which accounts for every aspect of supply and demand as very important. I hate how few actually understand this these days :/ Then, is it a wonder corporate elite care less and less about their workers and public safety?
.........and workers don't care about their surroundings.
These days company owners/management only care about lawsuits. What's really crazy is they don't grasp that they can be held criminally liable and end up locked up. Just keep those expenses down! 🤦
O say can you seeeeee
Me, at work explaining why"yes, this door does need to be unlocked. It even says so at the top. It's law to save lives."
I usually get a shrugg and a meh and walked away from.
I hope they get fired. If they can't make themselves care about the lives of others, they shouldn't have that job.
In the Air Force, we had to go through "Lock out, Tag out" training once a year and our shop had a book with a list of equipment requiring lock out when performing maintenance. That was in the 1990s. It's hard to believe that these things have happened since then because it is so basic but saves lives. This was all OSHA stuff. Crazy that factories wouldn't adhere to those standards and they should be held to account.
Oh hey Lawrence Day Davis is one I recommended to you when I first found your channel, happy to see it covered :)
I’ve worked at many a GM plant and the robots always freak me out. Being inside a “cage” with operable robots is about as nightmare fuel as you can get. You could get tossed around like a ragdoll or get turned into a pretzel. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Can't imagine being that kind of a first. Killed by a robot in a factory. Regulations and safety are improved but by then a coffin or more have already been lowered.
As soon as the first accident happened my mind was screaming LOCK OUT TAG OUT
Glad you took the time to talk about "lock out, tag out". Each case couldve been avoided if it was used. The last two (LOTO was started in 1980) companies have no excuses as LOTO has been in practice for a while now
If you haven't already, you should do a video on the Speculator Mine disaster in Butte, Montana. Its one of the worst mining disasters in US history
Why don't you make a video about it?
I always appreciate how in depth these stories are.
My brother, you are doing OSHA's job and your video should be required watching in factory environments. Thanks again. The kiln accident was just horrific.
LOTO saved my life, literally. I locked out the machine to do some work on it when my supervisor tried to turn it on because the "machine had to be in production" at that very minute. Despite the maintenance schedule meeting literally 15 minutes beforehand. Had that idiot (and yes he was an idiot and a nasty one at that) managed to turn on the machine, I wouldn't be writing this comment today. I can still see his fuming face when he found the lock and demanded I remove it and I told him, "that's not how lockout tagout works". He wanted to fire me on the spot but this was corporate who was more concerned about violating OSHA than his little peevish grudges.
How on earth does that kind of moron get to be in a supervisory position?!? Nepotism?
All power to workers and unions, solidarity!
Solidarity
Glad I’m in a union. There have been a couple of times that I’ve flat out refused to do things that a manager wanted me to do simply because I thought it was to dangerous.
Lock out/Tag out every time.
Thanks for the gruesome video, Mr Horror!
This compilation is a nice way to treat stories otherwise too short to create. Good work.
That plastic kiln story reminded me of someone who died in a similar manner in a 35-foot tuna oven. He went behind some pallets of tuna that were already in there to fix something he spotted wrong at the back of the oven. His co-workers pushed in mountains more tuna (literally tons of it), shut the doors, and turned it on. He was cooked with the tuna for hours, although the pressurization process probably killed him quickly before he felt the agony of being baked to death. Nobody had any clue where he was. They spent some time looking around the facility for him, and I'll bet some of his co-workers had a sick feeling of what happened. They found his corpse when the cooking was all done.
I remember that case. It was an autoclave (essentially a pressure cooker), not an oven as such.
Are you sure about the pressurization, though? Normally, the pressure in autoclaves is generated by heating water into steam. So the “pressurization process” actually involves tons of heat.
@@tookitogoI learned from another video that you are correct. 😢
you know fate is cruel when the victim's son-in-law accidentally caused his death.
‘Accidentally’🤔
It's not fate. It's stupidity on the parts of machine designers and the factory.
@@briancunningham483 Son-In-Law was stupid too. I'm sure it was known it was being worked on. A man doesn't just wind up ordered into a deathtrap to clean it in a void. It was inactive before he turned it back on. Time to investigate and say "Anyone in here?" Likely caught up in some dumb distraction.
That wasn't fate. That accident would've been entirely preventable with just a sliver of foresight.
I was wondering if a murder investigation was any part of this, even just to rule it out. I wonder if the victim's daughter stayed married to the man responsible for her father's death? I don't know if I could do it.
Love the non-basic tragic events, and research with edits. That's why I instantly subbed at 100k. Keep up the good work.
5:59 that was heart breaking. Three flowers and you know that worker was loved more than that. That's rough.
My Dad was a welder and boiler-maker for many years. At one job, he was working near the ceiling of a shop, repairing an overhead crane. For some reason, someone below started up the crane, which advanced my Dad toward a large ceiling fan. He fell to the shop floor, sustaining a broken arm and a deep cut across the bridge of his nose. He could easily have been killed. Instead, he passed away last year at the age of 93.
A friend of mine's father worked in factories like this. He was trained to pick locks and had lockpicks. Specifically to pick locks used for lock-out tag-out systems. These safety measures are mostly seen as inconvenient.
Great video, it's educating your audience to use lockout tagout, rather than just some disaster like a dam breaking that people can't control. Confined space accidents might make a good subject for another video.
About thirty years ago in New Bedford MA three workers were in a fish holding tank and opened a hatch to clean out the bilge. Hydrogen sulfide gas was released and killed all three workers. Generally confined space accidents happen when people enter a contaminated atmosphere. In that case, the atmosphere in the tank was fine when they went in and only became contaminated once the bilge was opened. A friend of mine got killed when he moved an aluminum ladder near a high voltage line when he was working on a roof. The ladder was about 10 feet from the line, but the electricity arced to the ladder and killed him.
wow, crazy that it can arc that far
His name was Rick Collis. I knew him from a church we both went to many years before his death. I read about the accident in the newspaper. He an another guy were moving the ladder. The distance might not be correct, but they didn't touch the wire. The other guy lived, barely. He lost an arm and had many other serious and debilitating injuries. Those guys didn't realize the danger.@@sage5296
It seems that there were absolutely no safety protocols on "working in confined spaces" at Pryanha mouldings.
Great video FH. RIP to those poor souls, condolences to their families.
The Ford casting center in the first story is in Flat Rock, Michigan, not far from where my father grew up. The plant later became an assembly plant for Mazda, and is now a full Ford assembly plant, building Mustangs.
My favorite channel for these type of stories!! I look forward to every upload. This story was excellent as always. Thank you for all you do on both your channels!!
Great video.
Wouldn't be surprised if it assisted a new factory worker to live another day.
I used to be a production manager in a chemical manufacturing plant, and I’m so glad you’re covering some of these safety short subjects.
Lockout/Tagout is a huge deal, and skipping that step should never be considered. The kiln death horrifies me most of these three, though all were horrible and tragic. The only one I can readily think of that’s worse than some of the high temperature/confined space accidents was an episode where a worker was caught in an industrial mixer in a food preparation installation. That gives me nightmares to this day.
I’m an official with Destination Imagination. When teams are in the prep area before their presentations, we have a checklist of banned items we have to read aloud and check off as the team affirms that don’t have them. The kids that are new to the competition are always flabbergasted when I read off “live animals”, “combustion engines”, “fireworks” and the like. I always tell them that only reason items like that are on the list is because some team somewhere at some point did something stupid and it had to be added to the list. (It’s my understanding that the “no live animals” stipulation was explicitly added because of a team in Texas.)
Clearly all of these incidents occurred because someone somewhere along the line did something stupid. Personally clear a kiln before returning to the control panel and turning it back on? Crazy talk. Oh wait, you just killed your FIL. Send a temp worker to clean under an automated palletizer without a lookout? What could go wrong? Oh yeah, some yahoo comes along and turns it on without bothering to see why it was turned off in the first place, killing some poor guy who was only 90 minutes into working there without any reasonable training.
I don’t give Ford or the robotics manufacturer a pass, but the 25yo and his two engineer coworkers were definitely behind the 8-ball working with a robotic system that advanced in 1979. I’m pretty sure that robotic systems like that were still relatively new in 1979. They should have erred on the side of caution rather than worrying about production being slowed because the robot had issues. There was a Ford plant here in St. Paul that got robotic upgrades about that time and it made our local news. They manufactured the F-150 trucks here and getting robots on the assembly lines was a big deal. They were vocal about the safety precautions in the system on the news, probably because that young man had been killed by one not long before.
Always look forward to a Tuesday morning video by FH he never disappoints
Thank you for covering your material with dignity and respect. You always respect the victims and you offer solutions or you discuss what changes were made as a result of the disaster. I came to you from a rival channel that has MILLIONS of subscribers. That guy (who also has a popular podcast), made me uncomfortable with how tacky he was covering material like this.
What scares me most is the spinning machines....lathes, those fabric making machines etc.
Theres a whole whack of videos of people being sucked into and either twisted up like a pretzel, or spun until they're obliterated.
You wouldn't have liked working at Leshner Mills then. An open end spinning machine scalped a woman whose long hair got caught.
@@ManMountainMetals though that's horrible I'd count her among the lucky ones
a guy at my work was running a mill with gloves on (big no no) and the glove got caught in the machine. His hand was pulled in and it ripped off a bunch of fingers!
Love this channel, really well produced videos. Thanks for all your work!
All three cases were unnecessarily tragic, but it was the case involving a kiln in a plastic works. A particularly horrific accident.
True, but the third case is also infuriating. His supervisor told him to not go in there, then left, then his coworkers told him to go in there and clean up. One worker forgot he was in there.
I worked in a precast concrete factory from 17 years old for 5 years. Seen some things. One bloke cut a hole in reo mesh like looney tunes and fall through splitting his left leg from ankle to knee. Another put his thumb through a table saw, I had to take over after and use the blood soaked timber. Both survived but I have a lot of permanent injuries I live with too.
About 15 years ago a local pre-cast worker was killed when a pre-tensioning cable snapped as tension was being applied. The blame was on a cable clamp which failed as well as the worker walking across the "no-go" safety area near the tensioning rig. He was essentially cut in two by the cable. I'm a Carpenter and once managed to stupidly nearly cut off the end of my left thumb down to the tip of the bone which miraculously grew back together without a trace of a scar. We only allow highly experienced workers who understand the dangers and know how to mitigate them properly to use our table saw; it is indeed the most potentially dangerous tool on the job.
My favorite kind of episode. Love the channel and will support you as long as I am around. ❤
OMG! That kiln is exactly like the one that nearly killed me! I was new worker at plastic moulding company making large bins and other plastic things. I was assigned to work with this Indian guy who didn’t speak English. The machine has 3 arms, one inside the kiln, one getting unloaded and one getting loaded. We were up on a raised platform I was loading a mould up with plastic powder and completed loading the alarm sounds (this was my first week working there and 1st time on this machine, in fact I was learning on the job) the alarm sounds the kiln exit opens the entry door opens and the whole 3 arms start to turn. I’ve done a few dozen by now and know what to expect. I see the exit arm has come out of the kiln and has dropped low for some reason, it’s spinning into the unloading area but it’s gone under the platform we are standing on. It’s a bloody powerful machine and next step it’s lifted the whole platform up and is carrying us into the kiln. I look into the kiln and it looked like a scene from hell. The Indian man I was working with is totally panicking just screaming but taking no action. The emergency stop is lower than we can reach. We are heading into the kiln, luckily the manager hears the screaming and comes running like a sprinter and hits the emergency shut down. The Indian guy got fired because he was supposed to be supervising and running the machine safely. They didn’t expect me for a second to know what to do as it was about my 3 hour on this machine. My job was loading and unloading hot plastic not run the machine. If the manager didn’t stop the machine I would have found out what cooking to death would be like. The image of that machine brought it all back. Exact same machine but the one I was using was a little bigger.
Wow that's crazy and I'd probably be a nervous wreck for the rest of my life if that happened to me!
We appreciate how well you articulate your insights. Keep up the good work.
But all the workers WHINE about the safety rules, safety meetings, lock out/tag out, and the safety manager is the most hated person in the place. But trust me, they're all there because of incidents just like Fascinating Horror has skillfully selected as examples.
And yet, places which dont have sufficient safety precautions are so much worse.
I haven't heard people at my workplace whine about safety rules. But I have heard confusion as to why some things are and can only imagine the why that got it there.
I hate the way third rate comedians make jokes about "Elfin safety" amid gales of laughter from an audience, most of whom haven't got a clue how anything is made.
Yeah, safety measures seem to irritate some people, but when something happens because the regulation has been 'tweaked', or ignored, then they realize why those are in place. Lessons are often learned through stupidity.
Over several decades I’ve heard plenty of owners and managers WHINE about safety regulations but never workers.
Thanks for covering this vital lesson. I used to work at a factory for a couple years as a supervisor. I’m glad i worked under highly experienced veteran mechanics. They harped LOTO relentlessly. I thank God they did. Not everyone seems to apparently. This was back in 2018, not too long ago compared to these videos...
This is why Lock Out, Tag Out is SO important. There should be LITERALLY no instance in which it is not done. Doesn't matter if what you're doing is "quick," do it. These stories and others are why. Never ever ever ever EVER bow to pressure to skip doing it in the interest of time/money/convenience/etc. Your life is worth more than all of those things combined.