This Online Community Is All About People Who Don’t Prioritize Safety, As If They’re Immortal (New Pics)
Like Bored Panda explained in our first article on this online community, r/OSHA is a subreddit devoted to a really noble cause—reminding people to stay safe at work. It borrowed its name from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and is collecting pictures of folks who are really pushing their luck, trying to deter others from trying similar stunts. We're talking drivers who aren't securing the load, ladders that are tied together using hair and hope, and such intricate wire mazes, even electricity can't navigate them. So get out your safety goggles and keep scrolling, the pics are wild!
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Look At The Mama Forklift Holding The Little One!
One of the moderators of the subreddit, -eDgAR-, told Bored Panda in an earlier interview that above all, the online community is meant to be lighthearted, where everyone can come for a laugh at how ridiculous some people can be. "It's not meant to be a place for serious discussions about safety, although, often times comments can actually get into great analysis about the issues shown in posts, which is great," they said.
"We don't get a crazy amount of posts like other subreddits and have seen days with only a handful of posts. If you're one of the lucky first chances are you'll get to the top," -eDgAR- explained.
The Sign I Keep On My Workbench
But even though this subreddit doesn't take itself seriously, its photos do represent a broader problem. There were 5,250 fatal work injuries in the US in 2018, with falls being the leading cause of death. A year before, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported 5,147 workplace fatalities.
The United States consistently outpaces other industrialized nations in workplace fatalities: here, the average rate for these incidents has hovered at 3.5 deaths for every 100,000 workers over the past decade while workplace fatality rates in the UK have remained under 1.0 death for every 100,000 workers over the past decade, and under 1.5 deaths for every 100,000 workers on average for the 15 earliest member states of the European Union.
I Took This Call Yesterday
Safety 3rd!
In the steel industry, for example, several workers die every year from a fatal fall, and the occupation is regularly cited as one of the most dangerous in the US. Even though
Sadly, Mike Wright, director of health, safety and environment at the United Steelworkers union, told The Guardian that all of these deaths are preventable. "I've seen a lot of fatalities where you walk in and you think: 'I can't believe this didn't happen 10 years ago," Wright said.
Hello I'd Like To Change A Lamp
According to him, fatalities most often happen in shifts where supervision is lacking in cases where routine safety procedures are ignored, such as workers rushing to fix a broken piece of equipment to return to production as soon as possible.
Wright explained that many fatal falls are underreported because of how coroners rule on causes of death. If a cardiac event was included as part of a workplace fall, OSHA will often refuse to code these incidents as workplace fatalities even if the United Steelworkers union argues the victim would have survived the cardiac event otherwise.
All Good. She'll Hold, Now Back To Work
No, I Do Not Need To Secure The Load, I Will Unload It Soon
Happened A Few Years Back, Supervisor Of These Guys Said He Had Done This Technique For Years
Employers should not only look for ways to eliminate risks and hazards but also use administrative controls, such as proper training, providing personal protective equipment, and creating systems where production pressures, miscommunication, or poor training don't enable something to go wrong where it could cause a worker to get injured or die in the workplace.
Installing An Air-Conditioning Unit
On The Brink Of Decapitating Someone
"Oh Yes Lets Lock The Emergency Stop Button"
Seriously, though... When you have weird regulations you have to do something. For instance, when regulations say you need to have an emergency stop button for a hospital's emergency generator outside the hospital... And if anyone touches it at the wrong time 50 people on artificial life support will die.
Makes sense - like locking away a public access AED so it's not vandalised and can be ready for use. But for the love of all things sensible, don't use a lock requiring a physical KEY. You need to find the right person, they need to know where the key is (assuming it's not in a key safe requiring another layer of security), that kind of lock shown is notorious for getting rusty (there's a little hole where you can squirt oil if you need to because the insides can rust), and meanwhile whatever disaster requiring the button is getting progressively worse.
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Actually makes sense. The button gets locked AFTER it was pressed. So no idiot can start whatever it stopped while the maintanance guy got his arms in there
On the bright side, it's a Master lock, so breathing on it will open it.
- Who's got the key?!? - Marion... - Who is Marion?!? - He used to work here couple of years ago...
In this case, unlike the hospital example, I'd rather deal with turning it back on than not being able to turn it off.
Superhuman strength in an emergency wouldn't let that lock deter. Plastic smashes into bits.
And those backup generators must have, per fire code, the emergency fuel shutoff OUTSIDE the generator room. Just like the one pictured... And if the hospital.is on its generator, guess what happens when someone decides it will be funny to press this button... Or, alternately, they press the button and nobody notices before city power goes out?
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It wouldn't be as big a problem if they'd used anything other than bulletproof glass.
that is not a good idea what if there was a emergemcy you cant push the butten and what were they thingking
this could be a service technician working on the engine etc. the emergency button looks like its been pushed.
Any service technician who uses the emergency shutoff rather than the correct lockout procedures should be fired immediately.
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Dangerous but I can understand. Emergency shut offs at gas stations get pushed a lot by jerks and twits.
Don't worry. It's a Masterlock. You just need to sneeze and it'll collapse in a nuclear fireball.
Because they don't want you to push it. Code says the emergency shutoff has to be outside, but actually using the emergency shutoff can cause issues.
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At My Work
I See That Evertbody Followed Safety Rules On Last Nights Shift
Longest Ladder In The World, Edinburgh,scotland
Meanwhile In Russia
Acid You Say?
Makes My Knees Weak To Imagine Climbing Up It
Holy Cow, How Fast Was He Going Or How Thin Walled Is That Metal Post?
A combination of collumns A and B, void interior plus forklit's top speed
Changing A Light Bulb
Bless Him
Tree Limb Removal- Oof
Don’t Worry, This Bar Will Help Protect You From The Spinning Fan Of Misfortune
LOL, "the spinning fan of misfortune" sounds like something you need to complete a fighting fantasy book. Anyone else ever played those?? 😄 Either that, or some kind of deadly game show 😄
Nothing Wrong Here
Gravity And Stretch Wrap Should Do It
It Smells Like B**ch In Here!
When You Got A Lunch Break On A Crane But You're Too Lazy To Go Down
Convenience Outlet
How The Other Trade On Site Was Charging Their Batteries
Using A Heated 2700psi Pressure Washer To Clean Your Boots
Anyone Up For Jenga?
There Was A Meeting About This....
I Can Almost Reach It!
Don’t Worry, I Got You
At Least His Eyepatch Is Protecting One Of His Eyes
Guess Something Got Stuck In The Wood Chipper
This kinda looks staged. I'll bet it's locked out. Not very funny though.
It's Probably Fine, But I've Seen Too Many Collapse To Not Cringe
How About A Bmw
Why could not it happen to someone else? Rich people always get the wrong end of the stick, life is so unfair...
Note: this post originally had 59 images. It’s been shortened to the top 40 images based on user votes.
I'm a nurse. I'm nodding my head at all the stupid things people do that land them in a hospital bed.
Teucer, what makes me think that your daughter’s degree means that you lack one, at least in the relevant field, is because you would have mentioned your own. This is a typical variant of “I deserve recognition because my husband was in the Navy”
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That was disturbing, but I've seen similar situations while working in a stockroom. Management always shorted us on the equipment we needed to work so you make do with the old, rusty and broken equipment as well as go along with the inane suggestions of managers on how to use that broken equipment to do your job. I almost lost a finger in that place because of the outdated equipment they made us use.
Accidents are almost always due to management issues. Either people don't have the equipment or training to do the job safely, or they're told to hurry and just do it, or there's a culture of not being allowed to stop and say I won't do it, or there's no maintenance plan, etc etc.
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I'm studying to become a coroner; these pictures are the "before" to my "after" XD
Yeah these are funny, but at the same time quite depressing. Most of the time people don't choose to put themselves into dangerous situations. People higher up than then didn't give them the equipment and safety stuff they need for the job but the job still needs to be done or they get fired. These people are doing what they feel they have to in order to keep their jobs.
As Mike Rowe of “Dirty Jobs” has said, “Safety isn’t Job 1. Getting the job done is Job 1.”
I gotta admit I've done some of these things when I was younger and immortal. To be fair though some of these are safer than they look.
Don't yall just loooove it when people are complete d***s in the comments and think that because their kids are smart, they are smart? ( no, @TeucerT, why would I be talking to you?) Some people can be privileged morons when thinking they're right. Its a skill few have.
Seriously. This is why women live longer. They actually think "Oh, wait. I might die if I do this."
Imagine if every thing on here got 13, 66, 130, or 666 points. That would make this the most cursed post ever
Listen to this fitting song while you read: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp8hvyjZWHs.
That’s because women are barely in the construction field, and construction is on most this list because I can only assume they just want the job done instead of waiting to actually do it safely.
Load More Replies... I'm a nurse. I'm nodding my head at all the stupid things people do that land them in a hospital bed.
Teucer, what makes me think that your daughter’s degree means that you lack one, at least in the relevant field, is because you would have mentioned your own. This is a typical variant of “I deserve recognition because my husband was in the Navy”
Load More Replies... That was disturbing, but I've seen similar situations while working in a stockroom. Management always shorted us on the equipment we needed to work so you make do with the old, rusty and broken equipment as well as go along with the inane suggestions of managers on how to use that broken equipment to do your job. I almost lost a finger in that place because of the outdated equipment they made us use.
Accidents are almost always due to management issues. Either people don't have the equipment or training to do the job safely, or they're told to hurry and just do it, or there's a culture of not being allowed to stop and say I won't do it, or there's no maintenance plan, etc etc.
Load More Replies... I'm studying to become a coroner; these pictures are the "before" to my "after" XD
Yeah these are funny, but at the same time quite depressing. Most of the time people don't choose to put themselves into dangerous situations. People higher up than then didn't give them the equipment and safety stuff they need for the job but the job still needs to be done or they get fired. These people are doing what they feel they have to in order to keep their jobs.
As Mike Rowe of “Dirty Jobs” has said, “Safety isn’t Job 1. Getting the job done is Job 1.”
I gotta admit I've done some of these things when I was younger and immortal. To be fair though some of these are safer than they look.
Don't yall just loooove it when people are complete d***s in the comments and think that because their kids are smart, they are smart? ( no, @TeucerT, why would I be talking to you?) Some people can be privileged morons when thinking they're right. Its a skill few have.
Seriously. This is why women live longer. They actually think "Oh, wait. I might die if I do this."
Imagine if every thing on here got 13, 66, 130, or 666 points. That would make this the most cursed post ever
Listen to this fitting song while you read: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp8hvyjZWHs.
That’s because women are barely in the construction field, and construction is on most this list because I can only assume they just want the job done instead of waiting to actually do it safely.
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