Current Events > CE let's list work hazards from our day jobs!

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It's something we don't think about often enough, and we don't always think about what hazards people face that might surprise us.

I work with vehicles post-accident (including repo, stolen, and donated vehicles). Here's some of my daily hazards
- shocks from batteries
- cuts (some deep) from damaged metal on cars, windshields, and windows
- needles/drug exposure (including fentanyl)
- risk of crushing (by cars and the massive fork loaders we use in the yard)
- fire risk
- trips and falls (ice, uneven ground, car debris, ladders)
- chemical exposure (oils, fluids, burnt vehicles, extinguisher fumes)
- angry clients (our supervisor was assaulted on shift this year)

There's more, but that's the big ones!

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I work in a working plant and there's no shortage of ways to hurt yourself. I've seen people lose fingers, get their hands crushed in a machine etc. Last year someone got their entire arm covered in hot-melt glue. They had to get a skin graft.

A few years back I put a staple thru my finger. I'm talking about one of the big staple guns that run on compressed air. It went right thru my nail and then out the other side and then folded over. They had to use plyers to unfold it before they could pull it out.
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a-c-a-b posted...

I work in a working plant and there's no shortage of ways to hurt yourself. I've seen people lose fingers, get their hands crushed in a machine etc. Last year someone got their entire arm covered in hot-melt glue. They had to get a skin graft.

A few years back I put a staple thru my finger. I'm talking about one of the big staple guns that run on compressed air. It went right thru my nail and then out the other side and then folded over. They had to use plyers to unfold it before they could pull it out.

Damn dude! That really sucks.
The worst I've had so far is some guy closed his tail gate while my hand was in it. It latched fully, I was lucky to not have any broken fingers!

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meestermj posted...

Damn dude! That really sucks.
The worst I've had so far is some guy closed his tail gate while my hand was in it. It latched fully, I was lucky to not have any broken fingers!

I had to edit my post. I forgot to add wood with working.
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a-c-a-b posted...

I had to edit my post. I forgot to add wood with working.

I'll be honest I never thought of hot glue as a hazard of woodworking, but it makes perfect sense.

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Lots of sexual harassment aimed towards me and the occasional noticeable work boner. Im one of like 3 dudes that work there.

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Machinery that can literally slice off an arm

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At our job, forklifts have the right of way.

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Have to do some hearing conservation training, though I don't have to go to the worst areas too often

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Neck pain
Sitting too much
Eye strain
Carpal tunnel

Pretty safe overall, but those are down sides.

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IShall_Run_Amok posted...

At our job, forklifts have the right of way.

100% the same. Sometimes our operators will lower forks and wave you past, but always yield first.

kyujo posted...

Have to do some hearing conservation training, though I don't have to go to the worst areas too often

Noise isn't something I had considered.

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Other than standard warehouse hazards like heavy lifting, boxes potentially falling, forklift use, etc., I also have to watch out for chemical exposure and spills both in the shop and out in the parking lot. You'd be surprised how long it takes ATF to get washed away from the asphalt, and it's slippery every day until then lol

Oh yeah, and brain dead techs doing burnouts in the lot on their way home. Slow the fuck down, you're gonna kill someone (namely me)

Gangs, teenagers hiding weapons, very little to no security, sexual harassment (I'm the only guy out of 15 people in the English department), toxic parents, mental distress, etc.

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meestermj posted...

IShall_Run_Amok posted...

At our job, forklifts have the right of way.

100% the same. Sometimes our operators will lower forks and wave you past, but always yield first.

Oh yeah, we only have one forklift for when we need it, so it's the exact opposite here - if there's a vehicle coming you better pull over and try to get out of the way, because there's no guarantee they'll notice you. On the plus side, you're guaranteed to always win that fight

treewojima posted...

Oh yeah, we only have one forklift for when we need it, so it's the exact opposite here - if there's a vehicle coming you better pull over and try to get out of the way, because there's no guarantee they'll notice you. On the plus side, you're guaranteed to always win that fight

I drive one of two vehicles we use (50 acre lot) and we have 4 loaders running at a time. We would 100% lose that fight, and it's drilled into us from day 1 to yield and always know where the loaders are at any given time.

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My co-workers.

Master_Bass posted...

Neck pain
Sitting too much
Eye strain
Carpal tunnel

Pretty safe overall, but those are down sides.

This may look funny to some but I've never been more fucked up physically at a job than since I started office work.

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Paper cut
eye strain

Lead poisoning.

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Typical risks from power tools and occasional heavy lifting.

I worked at one place where an idiot taped the trigger of his big as staple gun down since he was using it so constantly.

He swung it around by the cord and nailed his dick to his leg with a two inch staple. Thankfully I didn't see it.

A roofer died at a job site I was on by having his rope way too long and falling. He was also drunk it turned out later.

A guy at another job caught his colostomy bag and t shirt in a belt sander.

A dude got electrocuted once cutting some conduit that was supposedly all shut down.

I nailed my hand to a floor joist once. Also had my right leg ripped open horrible on a giant glue lam machine when the safety mechanism fucked up and I had my leg a little too far forward.

My current job is a lot of sanding and more light work but we use some big saws too and completed furniture is heavy af. Glad I'm out of construction.

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wacking with your cam on.

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CanuckCowboy posted...

A guy at another job caught his colostomy bag and t shirt in a belt sander.

That's shitty

meestermj posted...

100% the same. Sometimes our operators will lower forks and wave you past, but always yield first.

To be fair, at my workplace, we are not allowed to pass under the forks of the forklift. But the general rule is that it's our responsibility to look both ways and make sure that the forklift driver sees and motions for us to pass, they have no official impetus to stop at a walkway. It makes sense that they have to motion for us, and that we have to make sure they do, of course, but they have no instruction to stop at the intersection of a walkway unless they see someone coming. Only in areas where other vehicles (tuggers, other forklifts) traffic do they have explicit instructions and stop signs indicating for them to stop and look. There have been a couple of incidents where people have suffered injury because they walked into the path of a forklift, but I think that the incidents could have been prevented if pedestrians had the right-of-way at those particular spots, and if forklifts were required to stop and look.

It also seems to be a bit of a covid deathtrap. Five or six people seem to get sick every week, and we've had a few people die of the virus as well. At this rate I expect them to consolidate the Moments of Silence, in which the line stop running in observance, in order to save production time, in the future, when this gets worse.

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treewojima posted...

That's shitty

chefs kiss

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dunno if this sounds but im a security guard and ive had to call 911 a few times because of trespassers and people with chest pain. but none of that is really harmful to me

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treewojima posted...

That's shitty

Well played.

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CanuckCowboy posted...

A guy at another job caught his colostomy bag and t shirt in a belt sander.

Please excuse me while I go puke my pants.

well I work in a deli so there's all sorts of shit that can kill u

I've lost half a fingertip on a slicer already lmfao but that was because I didn't have proper PPE but was still expected to clean it
There's ovens and fryers also so you can get hella burned. My one coworker actually had to go to urgent care the other day bc she burned herself for the umpteenth time on a fryer
Then theres regular knives which obviously can cut you
All kinds of chemicals
If ur allergic to something and u don't know it LOL TOUCHING IT IS A GOOD WAY TO FIND OUT
Wet floors can fuck u right up if ur not wearing non slips
ummmm I'm probably missing a lot of shit but ya know

CanuckCowboy posted...

A dude got electrocuted once cutting some conduit that was supposedly all shut down.

This is one of my biggest fears as an electrician

Being up high on a fucking ladder and thinking of slipping or something also tends to make me feel nervous

Impaling myself on a bunch of nails also is on the back of my mind >_>