/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.2761840]

What's the most danger you're in on a given day?

[Anonymous No.2761849]

>>2761840
I shot myself with a nail gun today

[Anonymous No.2761852]

>>2761840
I used to work around high concentrations of Sodium Hydroxide, Chromium and Sulfuric Acid, amongst some other chemicals mixed in with those depending on the tank, each of those we had around 17,000 gallons between 2 main tanks not factoring in rinse tanks. We also shot lead based primer sometimes, and a Chromium based primer daily, and several hundred gallons of MEK/Xylene blend, and numerous 400-500*F ovens, one of which was 4'x8'x80' and open to the elements.

[Anonymous No.2761871]

dumb motherfucks didnt lock out rf generators while we were inside the machine the other day. extra mad cuz the cunts had 4/10 yoe while im at 1.5 acting as a shift lead and i assumed they were following prodecure while i was filling out paperwork then went inside. didn't find out til after. cant even really snitch about it because boss would throw me under the bus for it. i did refuse to work with them for other reasons.

[Anonymous No.2761872]

>>2761871
and yeah "but muh interlocks" ... on this very machine interlocks didnt save part of the machine from fucking itself up due to a software bug...there is an update which probably hasnt had that much time being tested

[Anonymous No.2761882]

>>2761840
I sometimes have to go into downtown Minneapolis.

[Anonymous No.2761935]

>>2761852
Used to work at a powdercoater and the oven was supposedly the biggest in the state at the time. 15' tall, 15' wide about 20' deep.
Pulling out racks with just hot gloves would singe the hair on my legs. It felt like walking into a portal to Hell.

[Anonymous No.2761940]

>>2761882
You get hazard pay for that?

[Anonymous No.2762214]

>>2761840
>What's the most danger you're in on a given day?
I exist in (current universe):
asteroid impact
black hole
solar flares

on earth:
extreme temps
high winds
earthquakes
volcanoes
disease
war

in city:
crime
selfish asshole motorists
trigger happy primates
us v them
crazy fucks


I mean maybe you should ask when am I NOT in danger?

[Anonymous No.2762216]

>>2761935
>>2761852
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bumble-bee-pay-6-million-over-employee-cooked-tuna-oven-n408721
>>2761849
I read this as “I shat myself” for a split second till I read the rest of the sentence

[Anonymous No.2762238]

>>2761840
Once on a lunch break I walked into a KFC in a bad neighborhood unarmed to take a piss.

[Anonymous No.2762242]

>>2761840
I work with LPG so nice and high if I felt like being a moron

[Anonymous No.2762244]

>>2761840
Gas fumes filled with lead and whirling death blades running around controlled by retarded boomers with too much money.

[Anonymous No.2762252]

>>2761840
None really, just slow death by chemicals. I'll probably have cancer in 10 years or so give or take

[Anonymous No.2762272]

>>2761840
>What's the most danger you're in on a given day?
Boomers and non-whites driving

[Anonymous No.2762287]

My cat might decide he needs to attack something so attacks me. Happens a couple of times every week

[Anonymous No.2762369]

>>2761852
My dad used to shovel some kind of a lead powder at a chemical plant. He's a weird son of a bitch and I think the lead has something to do with it.

[Anonymous No.2762396]

>>2761852
>MEK/Xylene blend
Back in the day I used to have to wash vinyl based ink out of giant silkscreens in a wash station that pumped that shit out of a garden hose...the fact that the reservoir had an electric motor submerged in 25 gallons of the stuff always gave me pause, but the worst that ever happened was the day I splashed a bunch of it on the crotch of my pants and it soaked through to my junk...

[Anonymous No.2762464]

people, i trust machines but not people: idiots and psychopaths are everywhere

[Anonymous No.2762509]

>>2761849
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI

[Anonymous No.2762603]

Use to refinish Steinway pianos.
Used straight Methylene chloride souped up with ammonia to strip the old finish.
The shit was wicked mean.

Worked at Pfizer bagging Mecadox and Banmith class a carcinogen.

Walked roofs hanging gutter for 15 years

Married a stripper that shot a guy

[Anonymous No.2762612]

1. the perpetual desire to off myself by driving head on into a semi or rock wall or something
2. heart attack
3. old age

probably a high risk of skin cancer because of perpetual sunburn throughout childhood, but it won't kill me if I take care of it.

[Anonymous No.2762675]

>>2762603
>Used straight Methylene chloride souped up with ammonia to strip the old finish.

I think you just found me the ingredient I didn't know about on the old Hydro-Seal carb dip because methylene chloride alone doesn't work as well.

Do you remember roughly what ratio you used? I miss real carb dip and no one sells it in the US any more.

[Anonymous No.2762687]

>>2762238
Seek help. That's fucked up even for /b/

[Anonymous No.2762708]

>>2762603

>Married a stripper that shot a guy

So a crazy bitch, but more importantly,was/is she good in the sack?

[Anonymous No.2762727]

>>2761840
I stand under cars all day.
I made the boss buy new lifts since they were over 20 years old.

[Anonymous No.2762810]

>>2762675
Actually no I dont. That was 20 years ago. Only MC ive found lately is 400+ for 5 gal.

>>2762708
I married it…she was a freak. Even a bad piece of ass was great

[Anonymous No.2762831]

>>2762287
Why dont you get rid of it?

[Anonymous No.2762854]

>>2761852
>>2762244
>>2762252
>>2762369
Look into calcium EDTA. It's a chelation substance that draws heavy metals out. Iodine, too, at 50mg/day. If you get cancer, fenbendazole.

Over 90% of workplace injuries and deaths are men.

[Anonymous No.2762866]

>>2762216
They paid out to the family and then had to replace all their ovens with ones that have release handles inside the oven.

The dude was pounding on the door until he stopped moving from being cooked

[Anonymous No.2762867]

>>2762603
>Married a stripper
This is by far your most dangerous endeavor

[Anonymous No.2763356]

>>2761849
To see if you still feel???????/

[Anonymous No.2763367]

I have to cut trees right now. So probably cutting my own hand off or getting flattened by a tree landing on my head

[Anonymous No.2763370]

>>2761840
I work with a lot of Hispanics.

[Anonymous No.2763445]

>>2762603
>Married a stripper
savage

[Anonymous No.2763484]

>>2762216
what is that thing for, melting the cans?

[Anonymous No.2763505]

Driving (city/suburbs. Surface streets and highway - doesn't matter) is by far the most dangerous thing I do daily. Most of what I do at work (and hobbies) involve dangerous processes with electricty, motors, machinery and combustible compounds that I have sole control of safety factors. Driving, on the other hand, involves trusting all the other drivers around me to have similar skills, training and well maintained machines sharing the same dynamic space. And that's a 'Vegas level of gambling and good luck (that for some bizarre reason is acceptable risk).

[Anonymous No.2763597]

>>2762216
>6 Million

Doubt

Probably more like 300k

[Anonymous No.2763777]

>>2761840
I've been about two months back in the office after 2 years working on site and now I want to blow my brains out from Monday to Friday.

[Anonymous No.2763789]

>>2761840
Lethal danger, unironically.
I work in a german automovitve company that's full of retards. They didn't put emergency stops on the machines for cost reasons, instead putting them all into the power room - which, as required by law, is kept locked...
Add to that that a fair portion of the programmers here can't even do a hello world right, and you end up wth situations like 100V sparks on a machine that was turned off, shorted and measured to have 0V just a few seconds before, battery testing equipment randomly changing polarities or (just last friday) me working on a battery tester only for the responsible engineer to storm in and shout at me to get away because the battery was known to be unstable - which, as I learned later, he'd told my superior hours before. But that retard apparently didn't know what "risk of spontaneous thermal runaway" meant and thought it had something to do with the temperature control...

[Anonymous No.2763794]

>>2763789

>They didn't put emergency stops on the machines for cost reasons,

yup, sounds like German automotive, maybe of the beer-drinking, lederhosen-wearing tribe. Sounds somehow illegal not to have emergency stops on the machine though. Pressing them would get you into trouble for slowing ze Produktion anyways.

[Anonymous No.2763796]

Climbed towers for 10 years.

[Anonymous No.2763815]

>>2762214
in home:
electricity
sharp objects
chemicals
literally trapped in a woden box that could go up in flames at any given moment

in body:
AIDS-cancer
flesh eating bacteria
sudden aneurysm or heart attack
spontaneous human combustion may or may not be a myth
succumbing to urge of self-deletion

[Anonymous No.2763817]

>>2763789

[Anonymous No.2763839]

>>2761840
People with dementia
400 pound people that think 1 person can lift them
Piss with every sickness MRSA, UTI's etc
Rarely AIDS (Thank God)

Covid isnt even in the top 10 or 20 imo.

[Anonymous No.2764103]

>>2763484
….did you read the article? It’s literally in the first paragraph.
>fuckin zoomers

[Anonymous No.2764338]

>>2762287
kitty just wants some love and affection you need to toughen up

[Anonymous No.2764392]

get sprayed in the face with chemicals

[Anonymous No.2765417]

>>2761840
I drive 40 tons worth of truck through the country.
Snow storms, rain, traffic. I stopped caring years ago

[Anonymous No.2765747]

>>2763789
How? I work a lot in German foods and beverages plants and everything has to be straight up perfect for them to pass inspections. Every staircase has a sign ‘hold handrail’ and every warm faucet has a sign ‘caution hot water’. I need a permit for making coffee, and if someone gets a minor injury with a machine they ban everyone from looking at the machine until they are done taking precautions

How are they so lenient with car plants?

[Anonymous No.2767324]

>>2761840
objectively probably driving to/from work, apart from that just the usual shit that comes with industrial equipment and overhead cranes

[Anonymous No.2767449]

I cut out timber frames from large pieces of wood, usually 50-150lbs and 16'-20' long
all of our tools are upsized versions of what regular woodworkers use, so they're maybe a bit more dangerous idk
>circular saw with 16" diameter blade
>portable bandsaw with 12" of exposed blade (on both sides of the loop)
>chain mortiser (basically a plunging chainsaw with 1/2" thick chain)
>hole hog drill for auger bits that has enough torque to snap wrists

I just work carefully and wear steel toes, it's only dangerous if you're not paying attention or using the tools wrong

[Anonymous No.2767630]

>>2761840
My boss blaming things on me that are none of my responsibility.

[Anonymous No.2767733]

I fuck OP's mom a lot and she has aids so I guess aids

[Anonymous No.2767759]

>>2767630
I got tired of being blamed for every time I notice something is fucked. Now I say nothing and just let it fail.

[Anonymous No.2767767]

>>2767324
Taking a shower is probably about second to that.

[Anonymous No.2767820]

>>2761840
I risk my life on my job.
Im a comercial diver. That means that any normal acident on another construction work, can compromise your gas supply and drown you. Atempting a rescue is also far riskier for the descompresion obligations that the diver has, so even if he survive the accident a blood embolism can kill him. There is also very bad visibility eviroments, so be careful when using heavy loads, they could be directly over you. Also things dont only fall downward, they can fall upwards. And dear god you better trust the surface team because sending you the wrong gas can kill you.

But the thing that kills 1/3 of the divers is pressure diferentials, and its invisible to the eye

[Anonymous No.2767826]

>>2767820
Larp on homo

Its spelled commercial. So what outfit do you dive for.

[Anonymous No.2767832]

>>2767826
>Its spelled commercial.
long as you're being the spelling nazi what about descompresion, eviroments and diferentials

[Anonymous No.2767843]

>>2767826
>So what outfit do you dive for
What? You arent the greatest expresing yourself either

[Bepis !n/ZnkB9jUw No.2767845]

>>2767630
Kek. This reminds me, a coworker was driving a Freightliner, actually a rental from Penske. He shuts it off at a stop, comes back outside a few minutes later and the whole cab is up in flames. He was worried about getting in trouble because he didn’t do a good enough pre-trip inspection and they would blame it on him.

IIRC, I think there was actually a recall on those things and I believe the fire started somewhere in the front, like shitty headlight connections that somehow burn the whole truck to the ground. Or maybe the alternator wiring.

[Bepis !n/ZnkB9jUw No.2767846]

>>2767845

[Anonymous No.2767853]

>>2761840
Worked in roofing. You can die at any time from any number of things. People throw heavy shit that can land on you. There is the risk of falling. Lots of stress, so suicide is a problem as well. Lots of people getting all fucked up on the job too. So, there is a reason it is ranked as the 4th most dangerous job in the US.

[Anonymous No.2767858]

>>2767820
I was considering the commercial diving career, but I waited on my hands for too long and now I'm too old for it. Went into the marine industry instead. Got any stories of close calls?

[Anonymous No.2767865]

>>2767858
I just recently finished diving school, so Im new to the industry. Ive heard lots of stories

[Anonymous No.2767876]

>>2767853
aren't most roofers on meth too?

[Anonymous No.2767926]

>>2767853
When I bought my house and started to move in some construction guys were still around and one roofer came up and it was like
> Yeah man I fell off the roof of the house when I was working on it
> Woah really? that sucks man
> Yeah I fell off this really steep side
> Damn dude, hope you're alright and stuff
> Yeah I fell off. I almost broke my back.
> Man, that sucks.
> I got really hurt, landed right over there.
> Uh yeaah, Damn sorry dude. Well I better keep moving
> I fell off your roof

Like christ dude do you want compensation? It's your job. Sue gravity or something.

[Anonymous No.2767927]

>>2767846
uh oh gotta check if the catalytic converter is ok

[Bepis !n/ZnkB9jUw No.2767973]

>>2767927
I don’t think they have cats, they’re new diesels so they have the stupid DPF and take DEF. You can see the DEF tank covered in diamond plate just in front of the diesel tank.

[Anonymous No.2768010]

>>2761849
How's the recovery?

[Anonymous No.2768088]

>>2767843
Post paystub or be known as a larping nigger for the rest of the thread.

[Anonymous No.2768093]

I do inspections and testing on building mechanical systems, so I'm up and down ladders and on roofs all day, poking my head inside electrical shit, fiddling with pulleys and belts, and god knows whatever kind of chemicals are floating around on the construction sites I visit.

All this hazard is multiplied by the fact that I work in Miami so all the work is guaranteed to be fucked up thanks to the shit head Cubans here.

[Anonymous No.2768398]

>>2761840
I'm exposed to tweekers and other colorful folks who like to take drugs on a daily basis
>t. ER nurse near an Indian res

[Anonymous No.2768557]

>>2761840
fire from old batteries i keep at home. fire from daisy chained extension cords running my render farm while i'm sleeping.

[Anonymous No.2768591]

>>2761840
>What's the most danger you're in on a given day?
Driving to work in a country that's imported millions of browns and yellow.

t. Canada.

[Anonymous No.2768624]

>>2761840
falling asleep while a cycle is running, forgetting where i am, crashing the fuck out of something.

>hasn't happened yet
>probably will
>1 year on night shift almost to the day
may god, caffeine, and nicotine get me through this trial

[Anonymous No.2768661]

Breathing in all the fluorine and chlorine fumes from the plastic making process. I plan to escape in a year and hope it's not too late.

[Anonymous No.2768686]

Every time I walk in smell distance of the Walmart tire+auto section I feel like I'm going to pass out from the thick chemical fumes hanging in the air. And the staff working in that area have become visibly and cognatively more retarded over the past 4 years.

[Anonymous No.2768720]

During my uni years I had a summer job where I worked as a CAD designer for a luxury light fixtures manufacturer. Every now and then I would be required to go to the warehouse to help the workers assembling stuff, do some packaging, and so on. It was nice to assemble the shit I designed, it was very formative and fun, but I digress. It was a family run company, everything was extremely sketchy and in no way OSHA compliant. One day I go to the warehouse and there's this massive light, for a Saudi I would then learn, it was as tall as the whole warehous, gold and glass, it was obscene and secured with a chain to a small hoist. Then it was one of the times I felt most unsafe, because I was fucking sure nobody did one calculation on that beast. I then had to design the structure of a light covered in bubbles of glass, it was massive, only the glass must have weighted 200 pounds. The structure then must have been at least another 100 pounds. When I had to assemble it the base structure was hanging from a chain wrapped around a 2x4 perched haphazardly on a ladder on one side and on one of the warehouse's shelves. As I was working that thing dangled horribly. It was getting late, I'd always had to do overtime because those fuckers were always late with the deliveries, they couldn't have some organization to save their lives, I was tired, and when I turned around I struck against the ladder. Luckily the 2x4 didn't slip away, but I could have found myself under a significant amount of steel and glass, so I said fuckit, I went upstairs, announced I was going home. Later that day I got a message telling me it was unprofessional of me and they were firing me. I hope they're rotting broken now.

[Anonymous No.2768721]

>>2761935
>>2761852
also something largley ignored by the industry are crack products of the paints used in the ovens.

burn in primer contains isocyanate blocky by oxime, liked together there pretty tame low volatile etc. in the oven the MEKO is splitt of which causes the iso to harden the paint, but where does the cancerous oxime go? in the oven air.

or TDI which is suspected to cause cancer gets split up into 2,4-Toluenediamine which is really cancerous. none of these are listed on a sds or get air monitored.

[Anonymous No.2768723]

>>2768686
Do you regularly check the coin reject slot in the coin star? I feel like I would regularly be doing that all day checking for silver

[Anonymous No.2768724]

>>2765747
>How? I work a lot in German foods and beverages plants and everything has to be straight up perfect for them to pass inspections. Every staircase has a sign ‘hold handrail’ and every warm faucet has a sign ‘caution hot water’. I need a permit for making coffee, and if someone gets a minor injury with a machine they ban everyone from looking at the machine until they are done taking precautions

same in german auto can only imagine that guy work at some small zulieferer.

[Anonymous No.2768907]

>>2761840
>>2761840
not a tradie so not sure if this counts
>night audit at apartment style extended stay (suites)
>develop reputation for being the place to throw parties, despite us evicting people every weekend
>nog checked in by dumbass employee earlier who knew he was a drug dealer
>making rounds see some sus nogs outside a room on other side of property smoking
>determine room where jogger party is being held
>not going to waste time I walk back to the office to make lockout keys
>walking back toward room, on the other side of the building < 50m, hear 25 shots fired
>was a drive by shooting aimed at party host (reservation holder)
He was shot but lived, many bullets went through windows of other rooms but rooms were miraculously empty. If I had not went to the office to make lockout keys first, I would have been standing outside the door during the driveby and would have been shot. Talking about a 30 second difference.

[Anonymous No.2770083]

Quite alot, stonemason who does his own quarrying, working alone all day, moving and splitting very large blocks of stone, the masonry side of things is pretty safe, standard trade dangers, the quarrying is fucking wild, one near death experience a week on average......i do however love it

[Anonymous No.2772420]

>>2761840
trainman
probably protecting grade crossings or lacing up air hoses between cars counting on the engineer to not run me over

[Anonymous No.2772429]

>>2767926
Should've acted real indignant that his company didn't provide fall protection harnesses and then ask for info like his name, boss, etc and say you'd report it to OSHA. He'd disappear for the rest of the job.

[Anonymous No.2772634]

>>2761840
A lot

[Anonymous No.2772663]

>>2761840
As with most people, driving. Most dangerous jobs generally include driving or existing around traffic. Most likely injuries for police for example are traffic involved

[Anonymous No.2772665]

Blood clot, probably.

[Smiles from an Angel Soul No.2772853]

I cart my fiancé around on a toilet I place on my skateboard. She has tourrettes and muscle spasms, falls over and flails often. It comes out of nowhere. I could easily tip her over and break her legs or worse, crush her with the toilet and rupture her organs causing internal bleeding.
If anything like that were to ever happen to her I would be feeling guilty and feeling extreme guilt is dangerous for me in this season of my life.

I take that risk though, for her, because she has been through so many traumatic and terrifying, horrible and awful experiences recently, and she appreciates the thrill of it all, and respects my ability to handle and maneuver her while keeping a close eye on her and the road, while managing her flailing and spasms while she is going 5mph through the 'hood on our "ye ole camode-o-dragon".

[Anonymous No.2772874]

>>2761849
23gd is the worst desu
framing hurts but the pins cause spirit damage

[Anonymous No.2774354]

>>2761840
Some 26 year old dude just died yesterday "fixing" a boiler and I avoided it by 25 seconds simply because I went out for a smoke break so I'd say I'm pretty safe.

[Anonymous No.2774371]

>>2762854

Redpill me on fenbendazole.

Also, should I take a low dose of Ivermectin? I have heard basically most every person has some parasites in their guts and ivermectin kills them.

[Anonymous No.2774378]

>>2761840
I’m a cable/telecom technician; it ranges from super chill to better tell my wife that I love her before climbing this pole. Funnily enough my closest calls have been inside customer’s houses; you meet some real fucking characters

[Anonymous No.2774396]

>>2762244
No joy

>>2762603
> Married a stripper that shot a guy

Based risk taking

>>2762866
=(

>>2763789
God speed son

>>2763839
Healthcare?

>>2767759
This is so fucking difficult. I swear this is one of the hardest parts of “growing up”

>>2767820
Explain fall upwards?

[Anonymous No.2774645]

>>2762603
>Walked roofs hanging gutter for 15 years
>Married a stripper that shot a guy
Go together like a horse and carriage!

[Anonymous No.2774647]

>>2767630
YOU RAN OVER FLUBBER

[Anonymous No.2774651]

>>2768093
Ever inspected THIS property?
https://youtu.be/In697MamSKE?si=mOv4164eJL-WBa5j

[Anonymous No.2774656]

>>2774396
>Explain fall upwards?
They float up or being pulled up.

[Anonymous No.2774664]

>>2774371
Yeah you can take ivermectin. You can also microdose a dog with heartworms with ivermectin to kill them. Vets are a bunch of fucking crooks that want you to believe the dog is just going to die horribly within 10 minutes of dosing them so you'll pay $800 for 15 cents worth of arsenic

[Anonymous No.2774665]

>>2774664
To kill the heartworms, just to clarify

[Anonymous No.2774667]

>>2761840
carpal tunnel syndrome

[Anonymous No.2774672]

>>2761882
You poor fucking soul

[Anonymous No.2774764]

>>2774396
>Explain fall upwards?
Sometimes things float out of control, and if you are unluky they will drag you with them

[Anonymous No.2774773]

>>2761840
I frequently have to dig around in telecom vaults and sometimes hornets nests like to show up. you can't tell until you go in and once you go in you have to just pray they leave you alone.

[Anonymous No.2774785]

>>2761840
repairing tools while they're still plugged into mains, sometimes I forget to unplug the stupid thing after the initial test
I put my thumb into a pin nailer while the spring was still loaded and got a nice blue thumb for a couple of days.
>>2761849
I almost put one in my kneecap while walking around with a gas nailer.