/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1699100
>post your OSHA violations here
Nice try, OSHA.

>>1699100
Not an OSHA violation if it's a /diy/ project.

>>1699100
that's not a /diy/ project unless your names Ted Turner

I'm not wearing a hard hat or hi-vis right now

DAMAGED

I've seen someone wash dishes with an extension cord across the sink.

>>1699207
OSHA niggers glow in the dark

jesus christ all I can see is that AC
how and why the fuck

>>1699274
Anybody who's had to do shit on top of a ladder has done this before

>>1699100
Not an OSHA violation, but I had to sit through an OSHA safety presentation once. That shit was so fucking retarded. A big contractor friend of mine was doing work for a large firm and he hired me to do a two day job on a building site. I was there with 2 other guys (we're all Eastern European) and I'm the only one that speaks English. This superintendent lard ass was harassing us for 2 whole days whenever we would even dare to take our safety glasses or hard hats off for even 5 seconds. Second day we're working around lunch time (we don't eat lunch, only eat after work on the way home) and this donkey tells us it's mandatory that we attend this safety pep talk. Bruh, we are working there for 2 days... Anyway, all the OSHA wagies gather around and listen. He brings a fucking projector, some laser pointer, and some little booklets. Hands out booklets, gives us stickers, and has us stand around him as he lectures about the dumbest shit I've ever heard on a construction site. This fool is talking about how to properly climb a ladder, how far away from the building you must park (wtf?), etc. He's going around the room pointing at people and asking questions, I just tell my guys to nod if he points at them. Christ, what a shitshow that day was. At least we got free sandwiches though.

>>1699310
>how far to park away from the building
>nigger sitesuper stopping work in the middle of the day so he can wave his safety dick around
PCL?

>>1699310
You know why they do shit like this? 'Cause dumbfuck manchildren cowboy it up and get their dicks broke. Wee wee wee, I can roll my IQ with a pair of d8s and I fell off the ladder like a retard. Now I get sweet, sweet workers comp while my boss has to pay a giant fine 'cause I like the taste of lead paint.

Look at this image. LOOK AT IT. One of the top two most common ladder injuries to failing to step off the latter properly. You literally fuck up one of the easiest fucking parts! The other one is being a fucking lazy shit and not moving the ladder or getting the correct one.

So you know why they have the briefing? So when you fuck up, and you WILL fuck it up at some point, they can say you weren't following procedure and they can FUCKING FIRE YOU without a union rep or a lawyer or anyone being able to stop it. It also allows them to dodge the fine they have to pay for hiring a moron and may even allow them to decline to pay you workers comp. The more people they have on comp, the more they have to pay into it. The fewer fucksticks they have on comp, the larger their quarterly bonus will be. Have your kid do the math on that one for you.

>>1699328
I bet your fat ass has never even climbed a flight of stairs before, let alone a ladder.

>>1699328
I’ve literally missed the last step on my way down a ladder multiple times.
I’ve never even gotten a sprained ankle from it.

>>1699310
>how far away from the building you must park (wtf?),
How far away from a building are you supposed to park?
I’m literally interested to know?

>>1699100
I was helping out a friend of mine’s dad and he whips this out. He had another exact replica but for 240v in worse condition that he had me running a fucking welder off of

>>1699381
It would cost less than $10 to fix the issues with this.

>>1699381
At least you could see the electricity working

>>1699386
I wonder how many more died trying to move it again

>>1699398
Even the biggest ethnic dumbass would look at that, with the smoke & steam rising from the ground, and think twice about trying to touch it.

>>1699386
Man, that's some potent nerve gas.

>>1699378
Complacency from anecdotal evidence pretty much causes those stats, but bosses only care about liability.

>>1699403
You clearly haven't see enough of these Chinese "on the job" videos to think that.

bump

>>1699262
>he doesn't clean his extension cords
Nice way to die from an electrically transmissible disease friendo.

>>1699403
It's extremely common for people to try and help and become another victim pretty much everywhere.

>>1699274
On oiled bowling lanes?

>>1699262
if the extension cord didn't have any cuts or holes then there's no problem with that. you niggers have been brainwashed to think anything involving electricity and water is instant death or something.

>>1699304
Yep

Not sure about OSHA, but DOT says these tanks are for air, not water.

>>1699385
Nah but once you make something nice, it walks away.

>>1699664
Great, now I don't know how to prevent serious injury.

>>1699650
You should see the air dryer on older locomotives. Fucking ridiculous how much water just pours out every day.

>>1699452
Not in China, they don't have souls. If they hit someone with a car by accident, they'll back up and run them back over to make sure they're dead.
Less costs and penalties if you kill someone versus just injuring them permanently.

If they see someone in trouble, they might take a video, but otherwise they'll stay away because they don't want to suddenly become responsible for whatever happens.

Chinese culture has the opposite of our good Samaritan laws that protect people who attempt rescue/aid/etc from liability.

>>1699733
funny as hell when one goes out at a plant, no one bothers opening the drip leg valve, and your entire area is filled with pneumatic devices that do nothing but foam and make noises like some retarded rabid dogs.

>>1699339
Oh ho ho, a fat joke. So funny. Yeah, we hadn't invented ladders back then so I was in the clear. I put myself through college working a crew during the summers and we did have nailguns. Guess how many times I saw some bumblefuck shoot themselves with a nailgun? 3 times. Guess how many times I shot myself? None. Guess how many times some bumblefuck shot ME with a nailgun? Fucking TWICE. Once when a dude disabled the safety on his gun ('cause using that shit requires coordination and we all know you Mongoloids have trouble with that) and he dropped it. It busted something loose and it went off like a machine gun. I got to pick two 8d nails out of my calf. The other time when some clumsy fuck tripped over his own pneumatic line and tapped me in the back of the fucking hand. Yeah, sorry I don't have any sympathy for you shitlords. Enjoy your painkiller addiction and being a wasted wreck by the time you are 50.

>>1699378
Don't worry, you still have time to disappoint your father, if you haven't already. Or someone else will drop the ball and get you fucked up.

>>1699415
This. We lost at least one guy a month to injury and only half of them were due to their own negligence. The other half of the time it was someone else being a shithead. Like in my cases. I never missed a day of work because of my own bumblefuckery. I was fucking lucky though. Got out when my knees and back still worked. Now I work in the AC making more than a guy in a crew and don't have to drill 6 beers when I get home to dull the pain.

>>1699664
>Made in India

You're fucked.

>>1699853
were you wearing your PPE when these incidents happened?

>>1699733
Luckily we don’t get freezing temps where I’m at, but either way it can’t be good for those tanks to be 1/3 full of water.

>>1699887
This reminds me, I was at Northern Tool recently looking at some of their new shit, and the Klutch (possibly the Pro) combination wrenches were made in India or some shit over there. NT is like HF with a couple house brands- Ironton is cheap Chinesium, Klutch is the Taiwanesium with a lifetime warranty (and a great buy for the money), and they have some new Klutch Pro stuff that would be like HF’s Icon. If those India wrenches were the Pro, the must be nicer than the Chinese ones.

>>1699916
There’s a wrench manufacturer in India that was set up or had some sort of Collaboration with Dowidat tools of Germany. Presumable to supply lower gost wrenches. I forget the exact specifics.
The collaboration ended in the 1970s after about a decade, but the company is still in business producing tools, as Hindustan Everest Tools, and they usually use the Everest brand name.
Everest is nowadays the source gor a lot of lower cost Whitworth Standard wrenches.
Otherwise, an Indian fabric producer purchased the Talabot brand of files from the French manufacturer who owned it. Talabot was basically the French equivalent of Nicholson in the USA. The French iwners was alledgedly going to shut the manufacturer down because there wasn’t enough of a demand to keep the file manufacturer going.
The French apparently shipped the equipment to India, and set it up for the Infian manufacturer. JK Files is the brand, although I think they may use several other brands as well.

>>1699100
Fake stone facade on a wooden wall is not OSHA violation

>>1699887
Is that worst than Made is China?

>>1699985
I was trying to figure it out here >>1699916

I’m assuming most tools coming from India are better than bottom barrel Chinese crap.

>>1700022
Maybe it even depends on what part of India. I'd imagine that tools made in the North would generally be better than ones in the South.

>>1700022
>>1700028
India stuff is worse than most Chinese stuff.
India is where you go because labor in china costs too much. And they dont have the manufacturing pedigree that china has built for decades

>>1700032
Why is this though? Less intelligent labor force or what?

>>1699100
Yall OSHA faggots have it easy. Try MSHA

>>1699310
Tbh it wasnt douchenozzles fault. It's worse in mining. Truck drivers hauling rock can get highway tickets here ON PRIVATE PROPERTY. Beer cans in the back of your truck is a personal CITATION. Smoking within 50 feet of a fucking deisle tank is a citation. 2 prong fans from walmart are a citation out of the box. Boxes of grease in the office is a citation.

Bullshit rulebook was a copy of OSHA a bunch of dick blowing desk jokes threw a fuckton of made up rules in and it takes a fucking LITERAL act of Congress to change ANYTHING.

Going to start the water pump? Better put on a fucking life jacket even tho there is an 8 foot burn around you and 7 foot tall metal railing with dividers.

Crossing a 3 foot water return ditch 4 inches deep? Better have said life jacket. You can fall and drown anon.

Standing on a 10 foot wide 6" tall rock? Better put on your fall protection with a 3 foot lanyard.


Not even making this shit up. I've fucking witnessed all this and worse

>>1699328
If a duck retard GC would stop hiring even drunker stupider subs who in turn higher even drunker and stupider illegals it wouldnt be so bad

>>1699381
>it ain't caught on fire or shocked anyone yet boy.

*hands you a 1937 30 pound half inch drive cast aluminum drill with bare wires and black tape holding all 110v.

>>1699386
Ffs never noticed the guy in the middle. He said fuck this and grabbed the damned thing to ride the lightning again!

>>1699452

Not for me. I've seen this shit first hand. If there is no breaker near they get a 300 pound water boy reeing at them as rib breaking as humanly possible.

Blasted my bros shoulder good enough he had to wear a sling for 6 weeks but hes still alive to flip me shit for it.

I bought him a babysitter first electronics kit the next day at work and told him that's all he gets to play with

>>1699650
DOT can suck the fat end of my fucking cock! My dump truck is getting a 100 pound propane tank full of water with an electric solenoid for the nosel in the search light. It's an old fire truck. Next time some cunt fucks with me in traffic they had best hope their windows are up before they get a 2 inch nozzle of water douched at them sons of bitches.

I say again dot can lick me where I shit. Useless fucking assclowns

>>1699853
>'cause using that shit requires coordination and we all know you Mongoloids have trouble with that
Mongloids are generally better coordinated than the other races and that's why the size on pingpong balls had to be increased to give the other races a chance.

>>1699328
"Falling off the ladder" is code for " I wasn't tied in" in a portion of these

>>1699978
It should be.

>>1699100
that AC is the cringy part of that pic for me.

>>1699273
Your right! the control access should always be in the back corner and not sticking out the front where anybody could open it.

>>1699274
Nothing wrong with this one, virgin

>>1700032
The weird thing with India is that all the capabilities are there, I've met and worked with a lot of their materials and electronics engineers who do good work, they're not exactly creative types or prone to thinking outside the box, but generally I've really not had any reason to complain.

Except the problem is India and that same onus you get in China is there- its your job not to get scammed and if they get caught, then they just deny everything.
That whole process of being cheated and lied to, usually within the same conversation makes us crazy whitey mad.... really mad.

>>1700265
Some men just want to see the world leak

>>1699908
Sure was. Leather gloves and denim pants only do so much. Hey, thats another thing! I always wore ear protection. Just plain earplugs my first summer but full-on muffs my last several. No hearing damage. All my friends that came up the trades are half-deaf now.

>Mongloids are generally better coordinated than the other races
Look up the alternate definition, son.

>>1700279
I already have mild tinnitus, should I start wearing ear pro or is it a "the damage is already done" situation

>>1699310
despite all that some dickhead is gonna eventually fall off a ladder, and now the company won't have to pay extra for it.

>>1700282
It's never so bad that protecting it isn't a good idea.

I have mild-severe tinnitus to the point where it can make it difficult to communicate unless someone is speaking up directly in front of me and I always wear my protection.

>>1700265
a bit sloppy, but otherwise there's nothing wrong with that setup.

>>1700282
>>1700292
I'd argue that it is more important to wear protection once your ears have been damaged. You gotta protect what you got left or you will lose it all. Also, look into noise-canceling ear protection systems. While my ears are fine a friend of mine said they made it easier for him to hear people speaking. Kind of like hearing aids but not $6,000, easy to lose, requiring expensive batteries, and useful for other shit also.

>>1699853
The nails flip and rotate after being fired, you actually wouldn't get nailed with it. My shop teacher used to shoot us with nails from a nailgun, 2 years, no injury. Try harder Bucco.

>>1699578
Found the electrocuted retard

>>1700340
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy4-4NOjLYI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wlkNDEaCro

>>1700361
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy4-4NOjLYI
clearly fake
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wlkNDEaCro
description states they disabled the safety feature that would otherwise prevent a nail from being shot like that

>>1699386
wow, literally a glownigger

>>1699386
Damn, if they got there 1 minute earlier they probably would have seen that huge cloud of nerve gas before it was too late.

>>1700753
Or a minute later should I say.

>>1700045
India failed to make an AK clone.
Let that sink in for a bit.

>>1700385
>description states they disabled the safety feature that would otherwise prevent a nail from being shot like that
Oh, you mean just like the Mongoloid I was working with did and I clearly stated in my post?

>>1700125
>they get a 300 pound water boy reeing at them as rib breaking as humanly possible
What?

>>1701035
If someone is being electrocuted the only semi-safe way to help, without being able to hit a breaker, is to tackle them. That way you are not stuck as well.

>>1700282
the damage is already done, but it can DEFINITELY get worse

>>1700896
That's what you get for working with non-whites.

>>1701074
Or maybe push them off the circuit with a 2x4 or a broom handle? I guess taking a flying tackle at them would be a good last resort though.

>>1701392
Officially ("officially"), you're supposed to kick them out of contact with your insulated boot, or whack them with a 2x4 or some other non-conductive stick like object. If they're getting lit up on a ladder, you literally knock the ladder out from under them. Tackling them is a risky last resort move because your body can conduct the same charge they're receiving once you make contact

>>1700208
on a bowling lane you unobservant jew?

>>1701396
Last resort, no time to find a non-conducting object, honestly I'd probably tackle them before kicking them. Even wearing boots with a thick rubber sole, you'll still have one foot on the ground. Flying tackle/kick if you're not touching earth you should be good to go.

>>1699378
You dumb fuck

Why is sucking cock the answer?

>>1701171
Fucker was whiter than rice on a paper plate in a snow storm. Mesh back cap and everything. All the shitheads on my crews were white back then. It was the 80s in the Pacific North West, brown people hadn't been invented yet. The only thing that matters is if you move up from the crew or get stuck on it. Either go into management or go to college. If you are 40 and still working at what is basically an entry-level, semi-skilled position you ain't gonna get any higher. Dudes act like being a framer or a drywaller or whatever for 20 years give them some kind of cachet. Right dude, you been doing a job for 20 years and half your crew was picked up on the corner outside a Home Depot two weeks ago. You are a tiny cog in a very large machine and totally replaceable by people that don't even speak English. You are about as valuable and skilled as dried-out dog shit.

>>1699386

imagine the smelle

>>1699741

good.fuck em. hope more chinks die or kill each other/themselves. there's billions of them. none of their individual lives are worth jack shit. they're disposable, same as the billion pajeets. at those numbers, of course they're gonna be "soulless"; they've run out of the limited number of souls to incarnate so they just pump out automaton bugpeople bodies missing a soul

a literal billion chinks or pajeets could all just get vaporized tomorrow and I wouldn't care and it wouldn't have an effect. In fact it might save the planet

>>1700137

>better coordinated

no they're not they're shit drivers on average. one in a million might be some jackie chan bruce lee ass motherfucker or a pingpong master but they're outliers

>>1701410
Have you felt/seen the feet of a ladder before, you projection artist? The only jews in construction are OSHA jews who nitpick and hassle tradesmen for doing things that are always done in the course of a job.

>>1701494
>a literal billion chinks or pajeets could all just get vaporized tomorrow and I wouldn't care and it wouldn't have an effect. In fact it might save the planet
>no more customer support for months and production of goods in general down by 80% for year.

>>1701501
That's mainly due to a lack of automobile culture.
https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=IUfsB2siCOI

>>1699386
in the full length version of that video, one of them actually gets up again and staggers to the workshop to get help, after about 5 minutes. Theres a shitload of smoke pouring out of his ass though

I once saw 3 people riding on a pallet jack while a fourth person was pushing it on a segway scooter.

>>1699578
>anything involving electricity and water is instant death or something
It's because it is moron

>>1701952
>>1700358

explain how electricity running through a pool of water, completely insulated from it, with no way of actually contacting the water, will electrocute someone. think really hard about how the current will jump through an insulator to the water. I know the average IQ on this board is below average but jesus christ

>>1701961
If you wanna cannonball into a pool of water with an insulated 220V line running through it to make us look foolish, go for it.

>>1701966
>>1700358
>>1701952
SJOW cord is rated for mechanical damage and is watertight so long as there are no nicks or insulation peeled/scraped off. You fuckin retards need to read a (code) book then post about shit you know nothing about. The insulation on the wire is rated for 600V and ontop of the sheathing which is also electrically insulated.
I've walked through puddles and mud that have extension cords running through them and nothing has happened.

>>1701856
Yeah, your chance of getting off the really high power stuff is more luck than anything else. I've known a few power transmission guys that basically turn up to work to wonder why they get a job to a substation 'bit of a surge' recorded and there's some kid with a melted spray can in his crispy-critter hand
>Look down
>Look up
>Be safe boys

>>1700274
There's nothing wrong with this.

>>1701981
>>1699386
wait whats happening here can someone explain? did they touch power lines with the metal scaffold?

I would say my first OSHA violation is the process of not knowing what an OSHA violation is. So in that sense I have committed an OSHA violation. And I don't know how terrible it is, but hopefully it's not extremely so. I will just manifest self-flagellation right now to get ahead of the horrible ramifications of my choice once they get to me. I will learn to not be short of omniscience and in doing so I'll be the person I want to be. I expect an incomparable smack in to what is really going on and the bottomless shame I should have right after a small amount of time has passed. I may need huge stretches of time to recover from this. lol It would be good if that wasn't that much of a violation. The official nature of how it sounds tells me it's probably a huge violation.

>>1702030
second one yes
first one I hadn't seen before but seems to be the same situation.

>>1702037
wtf how are they that dumb

>>1702045
Well, you only get to be dumb once.
At least its probably pretty quick, it'd hurt when your heart shuts down and sweet unconsciousness in a few seconds later, which means you're not going to feel what its like to be a bulb filament.

Mostly it comes down to spatial awareness and a bit of a plan, course you can compound that with fatigue, foreman screaming at you and various other distractions.

>>1701973
>so long as there are no nicks or insulation peeled/scraped off
It's a good thing cords never get damaged or worn during the course of a day.

>>1701973
Sweet, then you're up to either jumping into a pool with a live SJOW cable in it without inspecting it, or admit that it's a stupid idea to equate what a book says with what's happening in the real world.

>>1702058
but I don't get it don't they know they are near wires and shit why would you attempt these dangerous tasks I just don't understand I'd rather get fired

>>1702535
Mostly it comes down to the education and mindset of the average chinese. Pretty much from day-dot you have to respect authority and supervisor figures in your life, or there's some consequences to that which are made out to be more unpleasant (on the punishment, cultural deviancy etc) than doing something fucking retarded in the first place.
Which for us in the west isn't acceptable, but you come from somewhere that has consequences for fucking up or sending workers into hazards without due care- in China, the supervisor is right, even when he's wrong because some of the underlings fucked up the process that he told them to do. If they fill a sewer with welding gas mixture or hit a power line- that's not the fault of the supervisor, he didn't say 'fill the hole with gas' or 'touch the power line' in his instructions does the literal throwing them under the bus.

Even at their cultural level, everyone will side with the supervisor, after all he didn't tell them to fill it with gas or fuck with the electricity. Its very much a case of no-handrails, not falling is your responsibility kind of place.

But if you're ever in doubt that something might be spinning, call over your supervisor and ask 'is this spinning sir?'
He can then tell by touch, if the device is indeed spinning

>>1702544
Did that guy die?

>>1702547
He'll be fine, just walk it off and catch his breath later
But most importantly, he is right, the device is spinning

Do not attempt to make sure the device is spinning by yourself

>>1702555
What about that guy? Did he just get mangled? Why is there no blood?

>>1702544
>Pretty much from day-dot you have to respect authority and supervisor figures in your life, or there's some consequences to that which are made out to be more unpleasant (on the punishment, cultural deviancy etc) than doing something fucking retarded in the first place.
>China, the supervisor is right, even when he's wrong because some of the underlings fucked up the process that he told them to do.
This desu. Actual Chinese here. Kindergarten and elementary school were brutal. Insane amount of rules compared to schools in the states, crazy hours of studying, obey teachers or corporal punishment (hit with rulers). At home the exact same with parents except the corporal punishment would be getting ears pulled or a sharp knuckle to the frontal lobe.

All this "harsh love", Confusian respect your elders/the authority, and Communist mantra of sacrificing yourself for the greater good they drill into you combine to create Chinese OSHA webms. Those usually show rural migrant workers because they tend to be both more traditional (respect the hierarchy) and easier to brainwash (sacrifice yourself for the greater good).

The other factor is there are a lot of Chinese, which mean there are a lot more low IQ retards to get caught on camera being retarded. They're getting weeded out though. Natural selection in action.

>>1699100
>manufactured stone
that's the real violation

Check this out, bitches.
Thank me later.

https://youtu.be/-oB6DN5dYWo

>>1702557
Doesn't have to break the skin to break the spine/neck..

>>1702544

lol post all the chang getting rekt webms you have

>>1702557
He is less happy after checking it is spinning, he'll be fine

>>1702583
Yeah, a lot of this lunacy happened in other countries as well during their industrialisation periods, but for the simple fact that they didn't have some dude with a phone camera or security footage of the lunacy, its basically been forgotten. I worked in China for quite some time doing operations/project management installations for a company with vast swathes of working at heights, RF hazards, working underground, electrical, heavy machinery etc
I can't say it was exactly... fun, but it paid well. Though it was really hard to make sure people did their job properly without skipping things, cutting corners or stealing something and I suspect that I was mostly hired because I had no compunctions about literally beating someone within an inch of their life for doing the wrong stuff. But I did get shit done. Its really no better or worse in places like India, Vietnam or any number of nearby countries with lots of rural labourers and no fucking brains.

>>1702613
Klaus is /diy/'s spirit animal for sure

>>1702624
That's a lot
This is probably my favourite though

>>1702669
What the fuck kind of tournament is this?

This dude got exposed to X-rays by a materials testing company.

fuck these no vent gas cans they take a year to pour out

>>1702613
It is later and I am thanking you. That was the single most fantastic safety video I've ever seen.

>>1702613

>>1702812
How old are you? Seriously. You must be a literal baby boomer or 13 if you've never seen this before.

>>1702819
I'm pushing 30 and haven't seen it before today.

>>1702707
China's economy isn't as good as their propaganda leads you to believe, and the bugmen haven't figured out that construction companies don't get work through trial-by-combat yet.

>>1700265
Shitty plumbing work has nothing to do with OSHA

>>1702838
>construction companies don't get work through trial-by-combat yet
If the other contractors are dead they can't be awarded your contracts.

>>1702669
theres a heavy machine playground in america and there should be heavy machine fights

>>1702730
wouldn't no vent be worse for certain situations if the gas expands enough to burst the can?
i have them outdoors and they get thicc in the summer sun

>>1702920
they vent through that stupid nozzle you have to push in when they sit but when they pour that vent works no more

>>1702613
Thank you for this, I will think of this video whenever I am around a forklift

>>1700340
this. my dad thought it would be hilarious to shoot me with one when I was 10. scared the shit out of me but it just bounced off my hoodie

>>1699386
bug zapper for tradesmen

>>1701490
the unsettling part is that it actually smells really good
like fresh BBQ (because it is basically)

>>1701981
and that is why kicking the ironman is a bad idea, if you shoes are wet or even have dirt on them you will get instantly zapped and possibly killed

also i love how at the end they just give up and go home for the day, i bet it's in china

>>1702819
Don't hate him, I was an oldfag when I saw it first.

>>1702822
Brofist.jpg

I know this is a shitty thing to say, but it looks really funny how they suddenly decide to take a nap one by one.

a classic

>Be me
>be foreman on a rock crusher
>ask for more help
>get sent a girl fresh out of school
>she's not the sharpest, but we're literally crushing rocks
>2 weeks in she picks up a metal rake and starts fidgeting around with it between the enginecover and the main conveyor

>I fucking punch the gas towards her
>tooslow.exe
>rake gets caught, smacks her across the side , luckily braking the handle
>shut plant of with safety switch

>proceed to tell her how fucking stupid and lucky she just was.
>have to dig all the sand out from bottom conveyor by hand to get operations started again

She also tried getting me reprimanded for yelling at her, instead got told she was a dumbfuck a second time by the boss when asked WHY she got yelled at.

She's wasn't allowed to leave her loader after that debacle

>>1699274
atleast it is a double sidedladder.

>>1703226
She was into you and did it to get your attention you dumbass and your fucked it up

>>1702720
I almost got electrocuted by accident.
Put some frames for electric cabinets together.
Got told to complete a batch of frames standing around in the hall.
Notice the humming near me.
They do the isolation test on a cabinet right next to me (5000V)
The security barrier is not in place
They watch me wideeyed.
I ask calmly as a rage of a thousands suns of hatred, why they didn't put up the barrier.
"Uhh"
Shake some collars in indirect sense.
Get fired.
Go to my trade union councelor.
Gets in a year-long lawsuit.
Get money and new sweet job.
But seriously, this was a fuck up.

>>1703226
Reminded me of this.
>Elena: Alexei your program isn't working again! I'm fed up! I will send a complaint.
>polecat: Good day, what is the problem?
>Elena: Don't bullshit me, the program isn't working! Fix it! My work is on hold!
>polecat: To fix it, i'd like to know first what problem you have.
>Elena: I have a queue with 10 people already!
>polecat: Is that a definition of a problem?
>Elena: Yes it is!
>polecat: Is that a description of a problem of my program?
>Elena: What's the difference? Will you fix the program?
>polecat: Oh i will, but will you please answer me this question, what is wrong with my program?
>Elena: Am i some kind of oracle to you to answer questions? I don't understand your program!
>polecat: Just tell me what doesn't work in my program
>Elena: But you did wrote the program!
>polecat: BITCH KILL YOURSELF!
>Elena: ???
>polecat: JUST END YOURSELF YOU STUPID CUNT!
>Elena: Stop being rude!
>polecat: HEAR THIS YOU CUNT, I WILL ANSWER ONLY TO YOUR SUPERVISOR AND YOU GO IN THE WOODS AND LET THE BEARS FUCK YOUR HOLES!!!
>Elena: Alexei, this is Elenas supervisor. I checked the application, everything is fine. We laughed a lot from your destination, will send Elena on the way with vaseline.

>>1703215
>a classic
A fake, too. But fun.

>>1702707
Contractors literally sabotaging each other to win contracts.

>>1703247
someone dumb enough to fuck around on a jobsite isn't someone you want to waste time on

>>1701576
>average quality of both skyrockets beyond what has been seen in decades

>>1703247
if a skank is so stupid that they'd to attention whoring shit on a goddamn jobsite, they don't deserve encouragement, they deserve disfigurement from their own goddamn stupidity

>>1702669
>brawl loser exits his overturned tractor
>runs over on foot to board his opponents tractor, still moving in vehicular combat

>>1699328
Those stats sound like they could be summed up with
>injuries caused by ladders mostly happens to people over 60 years old
Missing the last step? Holy fuck, if that injures you and you're not an old fuck please don't spread your bad genetics

>>1700340
>>1703192
I believe you 2 but who was the first guy to try this? I guess it probably started by shooting it at not people and noticing the lack of damage but who was the first guy to just go fuck it and shoot his buddy?

>>1701490
Human meat smells (and tastes) like sickeningly sweet pork by all accounts. Like "vomit in the back of your throat it's so sweet" pork.

>>1703561
>miss
>fall backwards
>crack your head off the floor
>die because smacking your head will fuck your shit up no matter the distance

>>1703617
Well, our friend the ladder and other mechanical devices had to pick up the slack because we don't really have enough big cats, smallpox and malnutrition to cull the herd any more.

>>1703622
what the fuck is that machine?

>>1703645
Die-Casting

>>1699310
Wow this post reminds me of my time at an American owned production company here in Yurop. Having us use a mix of OSHA and local rules (whichever is strictest). They have this mandatory safety training once per month which any retard could pass, also a bunch of assessments.

What pissed me off most is that they don't truly care if you get injured or not, they only care about covering their own ass. Doesn't matter if the rules make your job unworkable and if something does go wrong, we won't be improving the circumstances in which you work, no-o-o-o we're gonna dream up some extra procedure!

>>1699650
Found another one. Puddle running down the curb is from the air tanks. There was water dripping off the trailer air connections.

>>1702613
How long has it been, 20 years?

>>1702669
If only Klaus had informed them not to melee with heavy machinery.

>>1699328
25 years, never missed the last step. Never even thought about it.

Now I cant get it out of my head.

>>1704386
I think given a chance, most of us would- but probably not at work, in the middle of a public area.
But even with my average threshold for inflicting big job battlebots on others, not everyone has that concept of consequences and self control.

Mind you, if there was ever a justifiable reason to spend D9 money 'because I might have to fight other bulldozers' I fucking totally would.

>>1703601
It's not sickeningly sweet, it's just unseasoned pork smell.

>>1703276
This is why you teach your people civic duty over filial duty. People automatically look out for their own, it's the rest they need to learn

I've got plenty, but this is the epitome of what goes on around here.

This is what happens when you let a Chinese company build a factory in America, and then don't bother sending OSHA inspectors out for months on end.

>>1704615
Fuyao Glass?

>>1703561
"injure" is a bit unclear. A perfectly healthy individual can roll an ankle or sprain a wrist by missing the last rung on a ladder. I personally have busted up an ankle by slipping on a rock on a job. Not a big deal, but it would have been if I'd had to take time off for it.

>>1704644
Nah, we make solar panels.

>>1704561
>>1703601
>>1701490

From personal experience I can say it smells like a cross between ham and turkey.

>>1704559
>webm
man, that sucks

>>1704726
>A perfectly healthy individual can roll an ankle or sprain a wrist by missing the last rung on a ladder

So far nobody has explained how that happens, and how it causes most ladder accidents. I paint houses so I've been on ladders every work day for 20 years, and I've never seen anyone miss the *last* rung. How do you miss that particular one? How about missing the rung near the top of a 40 foot ladder?

I have seen people put ladders on pressure treated wood that was a bit damp and not realize that the rubber feet would slide, so my anecdotal experience in 20 years of working with dozens of people is not missing the last rung, but not understanding how slippery a wooden deck can be if the ladder can slide with the grain.

So anybody, how do you miss the last rung, and not miss any others?

>>1704822
short ladders like getting on machinery sometimes the bottom step is just a loop of chain

>>1704825
>short ladders like getting on machinery sometimes the bottom step is just a loop of chain

Jesus christ superstar, talk about utter bullshit. The vast majority of ladder accidents are NOT caused by substituting chain for the last rung.

>>1704827
no what im saying is that little short ladder you go up and down every day getting in and out of the cab will get you and thats where a lot of the falls come from not all but a good chunk

>>1704822
People occasionally have brain glitches, like you can think that you are on the last step. I personally have experienced that and seen other people do that.

>>1704822
Could be that people are just less careful close to the ground. Or it could be that people don't miss the last rung, they skip it, tweak an ankle, then say they slipped.

>>1702613
Holy fuck that was awesome, thank you.

>>1704615
What is happening here?


I genuinely wonder what kind of score the average Chinese factory would get on an OSHA safety inspection.

>>1704960
OSHA inspector wouldn't even make it in the front gate before his head exploded. I was a sub to a millwright contractor working in a Ford factory in Nanjian. It was horrific. Chinese laborers wearing flip-flops. Idiots putting their hands on all sorts of moving machinery. Open flames all over the place - they'd set a burning oxy-acetylene torch on the floor while moving the workpiece. We had to run the locals out of our work area several times a day. Fences and barriers mean nothing to them.

>>1701981
>Ah! He's going to push the scaffold away from the power line with his car!
> Drives off

>>1702030
nerve gas

>>1703210
It's Pooland

>>1702544
>>1702058
is this a Chinese Rekt thread?

>>1704559
Mfw I built a battle bot with 2 foot metal blade and nobody even wants to build one if I help them.

Cool. I guess I can cut cedars from a pickup...

>>1703226
Good. FDA man there is a reason us miners are 98% a male profession with the 2% being in the office. Air brained bullshit that's "no big deal" 400 times a day normally will get your ass killed out here.

Ffs it isnt rocket surgery. We are pulling cutting and beating millions of year old rock faces. What the fuck part of any of that makes people think "I'm sure I'll be fine being a dumbass."

>>1702730
Make an air hole and jam a wood screw or a bolt in it.

>>1705028
osha would wreck your shit if they seen that on a job

>>1702613
Who says germans don't have a sense of humor?

>>1703617
>fall backward
What kind of weakling can't catch themselves from a foot of oopsy step? My grandmother can do that shit. Like I said, bad genes, get fucked.

>>1705041
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGDi5RAPXwI


you can most of the time but what about the time you dont?

why dont you use your luck at the casino

>>1704615
I'm not seeing what's wrong in this pic? I mean I work for a very anal German company that uses similar locks on their equipment. Hell, I've written the LOTO instructions for a bunch of them.

Is it the mechanic bypass key?

Was it just left open or something?

>>1705053
that door is supposed to be tied into the main shutoff to shutdown the machine any time the cage is open to prevent people from opening it then sticking there head in for removal. its an anti stupid device just like the panels that the covers are tied into the lockout switch for removal

>>1705058
the cable is missing from the latch btw that ties that little key deal to the door

>>1705059
>>1705058
Lol, I actually just looked it up because I got impatient, I've never used one of the omron ones before so I didn't realize that key was a lockout to keep it from closing as far as I can see, the only thing they did wrong is they never bolted the key onto the door slide itself

I mean the key is technically in the slot still, so I'm not sure if you can blame the lock or the person that wired the machine, just the guy who actually installed the switch onto the machine

>>1705059
Latch side is the dumb side, there never are wires going to it, they just never bolted down the holding key.

>>1705076
My Bob the Buildertism is triggered by the lack of bolts in the floor as well to hold the cage in one spot, but maybe that's just me liking things built properly

>>1699378
You're already dead.

>>1702030
Punctured a low hanging canister of nerve gas with the scaffolding

>>1705048
>luck
We're talking about a foot fall. Did you not play sports as a kid? Skateboard or ride a bike? Why are you so afraid of everything?

>>1703215
fuck man, Americans are so dangerous

>>1705346
You see the tag on those flip flops? “Size 28”... obviously not burgers

>>1699328
This. The replies are full with survival bias.

>>1703215
What I notice in this picture is dude in back resting on the edge. If that water crests over enough, it'll empty that pool and there's nothing you can do to stop it

>>1702030
What is 6000V industrial power line overhanging.
They push some kind of leader tong 6000V cable 2 managed to get lightly shocked as had good shoes and muscles didn't contract.
The poor roost'y chink has bad isolated shoes, the whells on this leader are from rubber so they didn't conduct to well hes muscles contracted and he cant release them and escapes as seconds later he was dead.rest of fire and sparks is from electric current burning hes body and cloth

>>1705861
>that english
is this the poor roost'y chink?

No pic but have story.
>Work in factory, heavy industry
>HVAC guys have a shop
>Oil chillers, a/c everywhere, etc.
>None of them keep any records of gas they use.
>The tank their are supoosed to evacuate old hvac gas has no paperwork.
>When a compressor or anything isnt running good
>They just put more gas in
>They never test for leaks
>They never do anything
>They dont weigh tanks EVER.
Im not HVAC but i know a little, they dont even care about evacuating systems in the atmosphere in the plant either.

Any HVAC anons here know what the EPA would do if they busted them?

>>1706023
Mechanic here. I've evacuated to the air before but why do it regularly? Can they not recycle it the way we do for cars? Seems like a waste of product if so.

>>1706023
>They never test for leaks
Well, why test when it obvious that it leaks.
Gas is cheaper, than figuring out what to do.
>they dont even care about evacuating systems in the atmosphere in the plant either.
Literally everyone in third world does the same thing, so even if you complain you won't do a fuck to the environment.
>>1706025
You can recycle it, but nobody in third world does it. Except R22 and R12, because R410a, R134a, R32 are cheaper, and R290 is propane, and R600a is butane

>>1706023
Just off the top of my head (not US) the lack of papers is usually some savage anal activity to the business + fines.
The actual fines at least start in the 5 figure mark and can quickly go into 6 figure if you're particularly negligent. They usually fit somewhere in atmosphere pollution acts and laws of most counties.
Given how inordinately nasty the current green movements are at popping anyone who so much has a sneeze of CFC's or various oxides and so forth, even if some people consider them to be excessive its a "well thats just your opinion, man" and the laws are usually federal big dick time in the courts if you're going to contest them.

>>1706032
I don't give a fuck about 3rd world. Why talk about it? My point is that if I get a compressor job in, if I just evacuated to the atmosphere, I'd lose money because it takes 5 minutes to hook up the machine and save it to put it back in when I'm done.

If regular home ac works the same, any tech regularly pissing it away should be fired for the sake of the company.

Finding leaks is a pain in the ass though, fuck that shit.

>>1701981
If you connected him to an EKG machine, would it show 230/50?

>>1700385
Used to frame.
>be 2-3 crews
>shoot nails at each other all damn
>1 month straight
>fuckers hurt
>Meh
Idgaf.gif

>>1700385
ask me how I know you've never used a nailgun...

>>1702669
>Caterpillar mating ritual

How do i post pics of every job ive worked in 4 decades

>>1699328
>364 deaths every year
oh my god that's more than what ar-15s do per year we have to do something

>>1705346
underrated

>>1706518
>I will never live in burgerstan with a rail mounted ladder on my M4

>>1699650
maybe drain it from time to time then?

No rabid escalator/elevator attacks?

>>1706713
I've got the usual ones, but I think this is my favourite because its not a an escalator just arbitrarily ripping a chinaman to pieces because no one put in safety cut-out switches or did some 3rd world installation on the panels.

No, this is the special kind of bad end because some people are just dumb

>>1704987
Uses his indicator though. Safety first.

>>1699403
They are Chinese, probably their supervisor ordered another team to move it so they could get back to work
>No smoking on work area you fired

Does cutting the bread for my sandwich with a dirty drywall knife count?

>>1702058
>No sreeping on work you fired!

>>1702917
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNNxZw4uyFM

here you go anon

>>1705746
when i worked a warehouse job i used to pick up the used blades off the floor and flick them into the wall, got pretty good at it

>>>/co/110999212

>>1702613
Still remember my dad bringing this home on a burned CD from a meeting. They were letting it go around at work like 13 year olds smuggling a porn mag around.

>>1705603
You can sue the water for breach of contract.

>>1701074
Boot to the face

>>1706723
how in the hell does that even happen?
the escalator is going up but hes getting succed down

>>1706895
I was told you can put saw on grinder, but that it's very dangerous.
I'd never dare myself.

>>1706860
>Still remember my dad bringing this home on a burned CD from a meeting. They were letting it go around at work like 13 year olds smuggling a porn mag around.
Are you german?

>>1700121
The fall protection is somewhat warrented. Workjed at a concrete element factory and their number 1 injury was retards falling of stacked elemtents when they were wet.
But it sure sucks when someone who never set foot in production makes rules for production.

>>1707115
The RPMS can check out, but the guard is there for a reason.

>>1701941
Thats not dangerous, if you arent doing dragraces, drifting etc on pallet jacks (manual and electric) are you even living?

>>1707365
only if you make that leather glove with shields like gauntlets some anon posted, as well as breastplate and crotch leg armor.

Only reason I'd ever use that kind of shit would be wood carving.

>>1707364
Aren't there bunches of bridges and shit with people buried in them, or are they all urban legends?

>>1707373
Most likely urban legends. It's not like the human body sinks in concrete. They would literally float.

>>1707375
>They would literally float.

the story is that the guy falls in during a pour and is covered up. Hoover dam has about 32 guys in it.

>>1707382
That's the kind of story I'm talking about, like some guy falls down into a form for a bridge support while it's being poured and between getting hung in the rebar/etc and the big load of concrete the falls on him before they can stop it, the guy can't be saved/would be dead before they got to him even if they were somehow able to demo the form immediately.

Didn't know about hoover dam.

>>1707350
Yes. My father worked as regional sales representative for a subsidiary of a big steel producer, which specialized in public furniture. Park benches, bicycle stations, trash cans. That kind of stuff. He brought it back with him from some annual meeting.

>>1707460
You know this, I know this, this kid >>1705660 needs to have a sex.

>>1701981
when will the world ban the nerve gas?!

>>1706961
The succ is strong, though the escalator is surprisingly flimsy
I'm not an escalator mechanic but the ones I've seen are some really solid, not messing around lumps of metal on their stairs. Big chunks of steel that probably weigh 40-50kg by themselves.
But at least the escalator lives rent free now in people's minds

>>1707373
Lot of the older structures had boomer-tier safety standards of 'don't be a pussy son' and 'get in there I don't care what you smell'
Bridges used to have dudes meat-bombing off them all the time due to people saying that ropes and tie-offs are "slowing down work" and I have seen this in 3rdy world countries during tower installations where some skinny mad cunts wearing flip flops has told me "if we fall, we fall and its the will of god"
You can basically insert angry white man screaming at this point telling the shitheads to wear their harness and tie off or I'll be the guy who sends them to god.
>soon as I go... just fucking know they're not tying off on the tower again

Tunnels are surprisingly lethal things too, old railway tunnels used to have body counts by the dozen due to the mix of idiots, unskilled labourers and explosives. Because old heads always figure that anything worth blowing up with 6 sticks can be done twice as gooderer with 12.

>>1706788
I used to work grocery store freight crew and we'd flick our boxcutter blades into the ceiling's acoustical tiles.

>>1702555
at least he was wearing gloves.

>>1703622
rip brain

>>1706765
kek

>>1707590
Don't wear loose gloves, long hair or sleeves around the spinning things, they tend to get grabbed and will suck you in.
If its a 4-5hp lathe, it can be broken bones or twist a limb off, anything more than that and you get turned into a meat flail or skinned alive

>>1707382
Bullshit, because it would cause structural instability to have man-sized voids in the concrete.

>>1707569
no i meant the escalator goes up but he got sucked down

>>1707667
>Belt/chain made of steps breaks.
>empty space below belt/chain
>chinaman weight unsupported broken belt/chain
>chinaman in air
>chinaman looks down
gravity happens

>>1707496
Everybody needs a little bit of love sometimes.

>>1707569
>and I have seen this in 3rdy world countries during tower installations where some skinny mad cunts wearing flip flops has told me "if we fall, we fall and its the will of god"
So you worked with muslims. It's ok to say it, you're on 4chan.
>unless youre in UK, than you're fucked anyway for posting here.

>>1701981
What are these metal things and 2hy are they needed everywhere in China? I thought power lines were insulated like any other cord I've seen?

>>1707810
Yeah, so basically the budget wasn't real good and the employer supplied the 'riggers'
How or why they found a small tribe of Pakistanis to go work in a country full of what is basically a mix of vehemently Lutheran, crazy catholic and the other remainder are running around worshipping ancestors, burning witches, sorcerers and throwing spears at anyone that isn't them. No, I'm not fucking kidding about the spearing or witch burnings.
Bonus Round-
>Hire the ex-military guy who finished 5 combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan to run this shit show

Needless to say, I gave them some advice about being 'quiet' about their personal beliefs or the locals will sacrifice them to a tree spirit or some shit and left out the bit where I spent quite a few years of my life putting their heathen cousins in an early grave or scattered across the local real estate. I don't actually hate muslims, but it'd be fair to say I don't like a lot of them either.

>>1707814
Insulation is a relative term, if you run enough volts and amps it'll go clean through insulation if there's an available earth which is in this case a nice bit of aluminium tubing. With high voltage the coating is mainly there to cover the metal against the environments so it doesn't corrode, bit of wear resistance for working it where it needs to be and a little extra resistance to the insulating hangers they dangle it off.
But don't even think for a fucking second its not going to leap clean through it, you, what you're standing on and down to the ground.

>>1707823
Thank you for giving me a detailed explanation. My dad and his brothers are all into various contractor/building jobs and for some reason it appeals to me. My dad is the manliest man that ever did man but when I asked about electricity he said you really have to know your shit. Any pointers on something to read? I'm not even thinking about fucking around with it in a practical way, but I'd like to be more aware than I am currently.

>>1707569
i don't udnerstand what is going on in that video?
why are the playing "floor is lava"?

>>1707824
Low voltage is usually anywhere in the 110-500v range and while it can kill with direct contact, normally it just doesn't have the arc length to jump through insulation and reach out to nip you. Most people working on that do the 'check it yourself' by manually powering it down at the circuit board and just to prevent some random useful person wandering along going 'oh, that's off I'll turn it back on'- so you pull the fuse or breaker just in case.

High voltage has working grades between about 1kV all the way up to about 30-40kV and enough amps to turn you into a crispy critter in seconds. Live-Line/Hot Line working is a specialist skill unto itself and there's a lot of methods they use to avoid grounding themselves out or literally being part of the circuit. Add in the working at heights or in some cases also in confined spaces it can get horrifically dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.
Those fellas usually start a bit of an apprenticeship, then it goes into consecutive grading qualifications and rigging ratings as well. So it can pay pretty well.

>>1707827
Because people get eaten by escalators in China, they fall through shoddy panels get caught in high torque gearboxes and turned into sausage meat

>>1707831
the escalators are working hard all day so they have the right to grab a quick snack from time to time

>>1707831
I wouldn't be surprised if this was instectoid's idea of a hidden prank cam

>>1707830
Idk why something dangerous is fascinating to me is this possible to learn and get a job without shelling out college tuition level money?

>>1707832
The dessert got away though

>>1707837
It is an apprenticeship + trade school qualifications at the same time. How, who and where you go looking for them would take a bit of time depending on where you live.

>>1707840
Time is fine, I'll try and figure it out. I was asking because being an absolute beginner I didn't want to fall for unnecessary advice/ads/money traps. Having an honest hard-working handy dad makes me super wary of all other contractors, as I know many who are very lazy. It's all a bit of problem solving at the end of the day, I just want the real path/no extra bullshit. Thanks

>>1707831
om nom nom nom

>>1699262
>>1700358
>>1702474
Shoving your hands into a sink with a live wire isn't going to kill you, the sink is a better path to ground than your vital organs are.
Stepping into a puddle with a live wire in it isn't going to kill you, the actual ground is a better path to ground than your rubber soles>Your legs>Vital organs>Head>The air

>>1707902
Don't neglect the danger of step voltage when talking about higher voltage lines.

Scary idea to me honestly, that a high voltage being discharged into the ground, the voltage dropping with distance quickly enough that just in a foot the voltage potentials can drop enough that you might have one foot at 1,200 volts and the other foot at 900 volts. And wet juicy human bodies are more conductive than dry ground or the such.

>>1707912
Tru.
But these nerds were talking about 240V at most

>>1707943
Touch step 240 will kill you too when your neutral messenger breaks.

>>1699228
It's not a /diy/ project unless your name's Ted Kaczynski.

>>1699853
ok boomer

>>1700121
these kinds of posts are some of my favorites. +1 internets sir

>>1704987
He was already starting to melt by then so it wouldn't have done him much good.

>>1705603
This is true. When I was little I watched a neighborhood friend's dad topping that kind of pool off with a very pressurized hose, he hit the back wall of it just right and it started dumping. He knew what was happening. He just stood there , didn't even divert the hose, and dead pan repeated "shit, fuck, shit" in monotone over and over. It was surreal.

>>1702583
>asians have high average iq because all the stupid ones die
well that explains it

>>1706536

>>1707976
>>1700121
>tfw none of these rules would exist if dumbasses before us didn’t totally fuck everything up.

That’s my work in a nutshell. At least an hour and a half of my day is stupid bullshit that shouldn’t exist if it weren’t for lazy ass nogs.

>>1706493

60 year old boomers post here?

>>1707814
The insulation on high voltage lines are just there to make you feel better. They don't actually do anything and there's never going to be enough.
At the end of the day all you can really do is give it a wide berth so you never have to touch it.

>>1708766
Why go on the internet just to lie? It's insulated so when trees grow into them it doesn't cause a short circuit. Obviously it works. Stop being retarded

>>1708766
>The insulation on high voltage lines are just there to make you feel better.

I don't know about third-world countries like Canada and Europe, but in America high voltage lines are never insulated because they are high enough so that nobody can touch them, and the area is maintained so that trees cannot grow into them.

>>1708881
In theory, you are correct. In PG&E territory, well, let's just say don't live near anything they "maintain".

>>1708894
It's not their fault, it's California's. You cannot cut trees or clear brush in California without paying them $$$$ per job.

That's why they are shutting everything down, they want to get people screaming at their government to take the pressure off so they can actually clear shit. (and raise their rates too)

>>1708881
I trim for AEP and ya, almost all powerlines are completely bare metal, the ones with some coating are for weather resistance and will light your ass up

>>1703248
>working on pole for cable tv.
>this street light is kinda close
>Voltage test says hot.
>meh it always says it's hot. Probably just the wires inside.
>Attach bonding clamp to my 0v strand, tap to 120v light fixture
>It's real.
>big spark like I'm welding.
>Welp. Time to get down. Glad I did that test that literally no one else in the company practices because they real men and don't need no safety.

>>1708881

High voltage lines all over the world are uninsulated.

No one wastes time insulating general transmission

>>1708901
Man, if only there had been just a smidge left over from the 1.6 BILLION DOLLARS in net profits they made in 2017. Or any of the 3.7 BILLION DOLLARS in net profits they made in 2014-2016. Guess they didn't have enough warning to replace 90-year-old transmission towers that were 20 years past PG&E's own end of life estimates. Or survey gas pipe put in 60 years before with no record of its capacity, running it well overpressure and blowing up a residential neighborhood. I guess it was also the government that forced their hand in dumping that hexachloride contaminated coolant into unlined ponds and letting it seep into the local water table too. I'm sure cost had no bearing on any of these things that FUCKING KILLED DOZENS OF PEOPLE.

But god damn they sure as fuck lobbied hard to increase people's bills. Where did all that money go? Infrastructure? Hiring? Fuck no. It went to dividend payments and corporate bonuses. They tried to pay themselves millions of dollars in bonuses after killing over 100 people in two years and bankrupting their own company. Do you know how concerned they were with their gas pipes before they blew up San Bruno? They didn't give a shit. Meanwhile, after the fact, they went on a cutting spree near their lines even after local judges decreed they were cutting trees 100+ year old unnecessarily. It was perception control. Make people think we are serious about the problem. Did they cut trees around power lines thought? Nah. Then the Tubbs and Camp fires happened. All of a sudden they are all about cutting trees again.

Quit making excuses for a bunch of greedy corporate fuckheads, you shill. Too much government was not the reason why PG&E isn't replacing old infrastructure. The government is also not why they have been dragging their feet on tree maintenance for years. Hell, after they received approval for these power shutoffs they DECREASED the amount of money they allocated for maintenance and improvement of their infrastructure.

>>1708621
Quiet meme apprentice, the masters are talking.

>>1708985
I work for a utility company. The local and state governments bend us over a table and fuck us anytime we step out of the yard.

>>1709014
Some examples:

It's now illegal to pump water out of person-holes. They always have water in them. Even if the water is reasonably clean (no water, no acid, no base, no fluorides, no phosphates) and sediment is filtered out, and the path to the nearest storm drain is swept clean. And your company has been doing this for literally longer than this place has been incorporated as a real city and it's been fine the whole time? No. It's illegal now. You need to pay another company $5k to pump the water out and take it to be officially treated as a hazardous waste. Even though it's just fucking rain water and all the same shit that normally goes down the storm drain anyway.

That concrete pad your company owns? You want to put another piece of equipment on it? Better pay was $50k. Why? Because we said so.

Do you want to work in the road? Well of course you need to pay for your own traffic control. And you need to pay us a a couple thousand dollars for a permit. Oh, and don't forget to pay for the expedited processing. If you don't pay for the extra expedited processing, which we can do in a wek or two, we will literally wait until the last day we legally can to approve your permit (2 years).

Do you want to dig a hole in the ground in between a pole you already own, and a concrete pad you already own? You need to pay us a couple thousand for a permit and a couple thousand more for an environmental study that will take years to complete.

>>1709027
>person-holes
Fuck off

>>1705746
Literally a 10k fine per blade....

Used to work at a supermarket in my teens, set up an album on my Facebook called "health and safety in the workplace", went around taking photos of all the dodgy shit (there was a lot) and giving them humorous captions. Some cunt told the manager and I got fired, they ordered me to take the Facebook album down too when they fired me and I said, nah I'm sending it to OSHA get fucked cunts. Got the dyke cunt manager fired later on after they had an audit and got slapped with a shitload of fines lmao.

>>1701973
You are correct, and in a vaccuum devoid of any outside variables then there shouldn't be any problems to worry about. Truth be told, Electricity is relatively low risk. But the severity of what can happen if bad things occur is more than enough to warrant caution regardless.

>>1702730
The vent is usually built into the pipe. Just don't submerge it in the tank or it won't work

>>1699273
Let's play "Spot the A/C Install Code Violations"
>AC tucked into corner where it will not get enough air circulation (manual says 30" clearance around all sides and 36" for control box)
>Disconnect too close/improper clearance
>Whip too long (laying on the pad) and doesn't seem to be clamped/secured
>Lineset blocking lower access door
I wonder what the head pressure is on this abortion on a 90 degree day. When the compressor finally gives up the homeowner will get all pissed off too - especially when he hears it's gotta be moved or it'll die again.

BTW is it me or are all satellite installers coked up douchebags with no regard for their own safety or anyone else's?

>>1699328
https://youtu.be/u5kiz7GhJt0

>>1700274
This is actually pretty ingenious. He's gotta make sure not to have the burners on too high so he doesn't make steam, and I'd wonder what the temp rating on that vinyl tube is too. He can even stage it by lighting burners in sequence as more heat is needed. Anyone know WHY he built this?

>>1702720
PROBABLY not an issue. It's unlikely that he was exposed to a level that would make him glow in the dark, but he still probably shouldn't have any medical xrays for a bit. Did he say how many roentgens he took?

>>1703226
I used to work in a warehouse that bad an overhead crane setup. New kid picks up a 20 foot stuck of copper pipe and instead of carrying it like a normal person would he lifts it up vertical, missing the exposed 220V crane power wires by a few inches.

>>1704001
Yeah, air contains moisture that will sometimes condense under certain pressure/temperature conditions.

>>1705746
So many questions...why save them? Why a glass jar? Just why?

>>1706023
The EPA requires that any system that holds over 20lb of refrigerant AND has a leak rate of 25% or more per year be leak tested and repaired. If the units they are working on are under that leak rate or hold less than the minimum amount of gas then they can recharge them all they want. BTW this rule does NOT apply to residential systems.
They ARE required to account for every ounce of gas they use and recover. They have to keep some sort of log showing where it all got used, if they're not doing this then technically they are in violation but the EPA rarely ever fines anyone.

>>1699310
You have to park a certain distance away because shit falls from roofs at construction sites and a certain # of people die every year while parking and having a H-beam drop on their heads

>>1709027
>>person-holes

Just say butthole like a normal person

>>1707831
It's so terrible...

>>1707842
If you are in the US then really you just need to get your foot in the door somewhere. most of the time the schooling is paid for by your company anyways.

I did a 2 year program in college to learn the electrical trade and im really regretting that I didnt just get a job in the field right away. Practical experience speaks way more than actual knowledge on the subject.

Most apprenticeships are generally a good thing but ultimately designed to keep you at a lower pay scale for longer. look up what is needed to become a licensed journeyman in your state and get there as quickly as possible.

>>1709254
>So many questions...why save them? Why a glass jar? Just why?
At an old job of mine we used removable razor blades to cut things occasionally, and someone would save them in a plastic soda bottle. No idea why. An old dude who was pretty based always wrapped his in packing tape before he put them in there.

>>1706895
Seen that shit in person, I stood behind a column in case it shattered the guy using it was using it at eye level. No safety glasses or face shield, all of my fuck that.

>>1706895
this is 100% retarded am terrified of using the angle grinder even with a grinding wheel on it and some retard puts a saw blade on it? this should be literally illegal

>>1709027
they're manholes and always will be, you communist shit

>>1708985
are you truly surprised about jewish trickery?

>>1706895
I saw a guy put a saw blade on a weed whacker.

>>1710017
Yeah you can get brushcutter blades for them and they're fine long as there's a back-guard to stop things being thrown at the operator.
Good for clearing small trees, shrubs and ankles

>>1709862
fuck you, you chauvinist pig. women work in them as well, so why can't they be called womenholes?

>>1710185
Because no ones going to a workplace having to pack flowers, dinner and liquor just to to get into a hole which may or may not be open

>>1710185
>women work in them as well
This is actually not true. It's too dangerous to be inside one and they arent strong enough to open the lid

>>1710185
>womenholes
you mean brothels?

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