Dumbest Safety Violations Ever

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[@phatchick96]

To quote my brother's drill sergeant from his military service, "Any dumb rule is there because somebody ignored common sense."

[@kevinwebster7868]

The worst thing about OSHA and all other work place safety organisations I’ve dealt with is they don’t take into account stupid employees, clumsy employees, or the fact that the vast majority of employees will violate safety to get the job done faster and easier. There was a guy at an office I used to work at that tripped over his own feet and hit his head on a desk causing bleeding in his brain. He survived but was not quite right after. A safety inspector has to come in to investigate and determined that our, very average office desks that were barely big enough to do our work comfortably, were too big and contributed to the man’s injury. The following Monday we had desks about the size of two T.V. trays. At another job we had a guy that didn’t tag out a piece of equipment while doing work on it because “it only takes a second.” He did this fairly frequently and management never knew about it because no employee wants to be “that guy” who runs to boss to tell on coworkers. Well one day the idiot accidentally triggers the machine to start while his hand was in it. He lost it at the wrist. Completely his fault and something management would not have been able to prevent. He knew the rules and the consequences of breaking those rules. During the investigation he told the investigator that he didn’t know about the safety regulations because he was never told. We had regular safety briefings and everyone who worked on machines were told of tag out procedures and that only qualified people can do maintenance. We all told the investigator that the guy was lying and we all had training but the investigator found one other guy that hadn’t had training but also wasn’t cleared to work any machine which he didn’t because he was not yet trained. The company was found liable for poorly training employees and was given a huge fine. The guy that lost his hand sued for a huge payout and won thanks to the investigation. Quite a few had to be laid off shortly after. I swear it seems most safety organisations are in on it with stupid employees and get kick backs from their workman’s comps or lawsuits payouts.

[@kemarisite]

Air pollution control story: when you find a violation and tell them to fix it, and they don't, it tends to get upgraded to a "knowing and willful" violation with about ten times the financial penalties. I actually had one of those disgruntled employee whistleblower stories where they had three unpermitted operations they were actively concealing from the inspector. I got to go through two years of their purchase records to calculate their unpermitted emissions for my supervisor to use in his expert testimony.

[@carljacobs1837]

Worked at a company that installed a air vacuum system after a lawsuit was filed. Using flux that had a warning label stating is was cancer causing, I was the one that installed the system. I was also the one that gave her lawyer the proof they needed to win the lawsuit.

[@oron61]

Rules that are written in blood should be legally required to be printed in red ink or red-underlined text, while rules created by committees should be forbidden from being printed in red in any official documents. It's impossible to take safety regs seriously when so many are written by congressmen or nanny trustees afraid of spurious lawsuits, while others are carved in gravestones.

[@TherapyDerg]

I think that is a good idea, but that might be a lot more rules than you think lol, people die doing the dumbest shit...Collectively, humanity is both stupidly smart, and 'how are you not extinct' stupid...

[@cc-xu5tr]

yes sir, this is the comment that actually should become reality

[@PrincessMihai]

This. This right here times a thousand.

[@blindbrad4719]

Compactor engineer, we should put in a sensor so it saves time. Engineer to, won’t that be dangerous if someone gets in? Engineer one, no one would be stupid enough to do that. It’ll be fine. Oh! We should put a drain in the bottom in case anybody spills anything in there. …

[@paebakellison5377]

I was the only H&S for an office. I was always telling the staff to make sure they close the filing cabinet drawers. One day a staff member came running around a corner and ran into the top drawer of a 4 stack resulting in have their face sliced open from mouth to ear. Now this young person is scarred for life.

[@inuyashapuppydog]

Why were they running? Office on fire? Sorry. But I don't feel sorry for him. If this was a known issue in the office they shouldn't be running. Self preservation. The staff member is responsible for their actions too. The scar is proof of their stupidity. I've been through something similar when I was younger.

[@paebakellison5377]

@@inuyashapuppydog Her friends were going to lunch so she was grabbing her purse quickly.

[@secretskull21]

You ain’t about to send me into a giant tank to spray any kind of gas without me having my own oxygen tank.

[@10MoNiOl]

At my work, we go into people's houses all the time. Our company provides us shoe covers, but there is a culture at my work of taking your shoes off to go into a clients' house, which is just baffling to me - we are workers carrying around heavy machinery, climbing ladders, moving furniture, and our feet are in danger, and despite pointing out what a nightmare liability situation removing their PPE to do their job creates in the event of an injury, my coworkers "don't like" shoe covers. Hokay! Don't cry to me when the 80 lb vacuum you're muscling up the stairs slips on your foot, breaks it, and who pays for that injury falls into a complete shitshow between the company's insurance and LNI arguing who has to handle the bill when you removed the PPE you showed up to work in at the door.

[@dangeiger9796]

I don’t know if this counts, but I had a co-worker trying to drill through a pipe and was careless and ended up drilling through pipe and into his arm

[@Davtwan]

Uh yeah, I say that counts. 😨

[@youtubevideoswatching3866]

How the f___

[@babymetalenjoyer]

ouch.

[@sire2283]

Jesus..

[@beagleissleeping5359]

Employee was injured when a machine they were unjamming started back up. It was a minor injury, I don't think they even needed stitches, but could have been much worse. The company fired them for failing to follow safety procedures. Employee called OSHA, claiming wrongful termination and unsafe working conditions. OSHA discovered that, not only did the employee fail to lock out tag out said machine, which uses padlocks to disengage any and all power to the machine, but they also hadn't even depressed the e-stop button. That means the machine was still turned on when they put their hand in it. OSHA upheld the termination decision.

[@conniesetter6620]

Had a wannabe animal technician who took an x-ray of her head for no other reason than she thought it would be cool. I found out about it and told the boss. Magically the film disappeared. One of the veterinarians covered for the idiot. The following week she was fired because she wasn't giving medicine to the hospitalized patients but did mark on the charts that they had been given.

[@madelinegarber7860]

The woman who stood on a rolling chair and used the wrong light switch deserves a Darwin award.

[@plastiqueneurosis]

This is part of why I refuse to work in a factory. Because I’d have lifelong trauma from when my coworker Inevitably gets brutally massacred because he like everyone else doesn’t follow safety protocol. I’m too fragile for a high stress environment where the only thing keeping you from getting electrocuted is a paper clip stuck in an outlet with electrical tape around it as an off switch while a pipe is leaking water like a faucet into a metal bucket right over it.

[@Blast335pokemineblox]

Spent last summer at a woodworking factory. Lots of sawdust obviously. I was the *only one* who wore a mask. Even when one of my coworkers was taken out by EMS from having difficulty breathing. Whats worse is the was that everyone "cleaned up" at the end of the day: use the compressed air hoses to blow all the dust on the floor into the sawdust vacuum ports. There would be a haze of sawdust, and it accumulated everywhere, on the ceiling trusses and under equipment. Like 2-3 weeks ago the building was destroyed from a dust explosion and the following fire. Miraculously no one was seriously injured or killed.

[@user-ml3hl6vr4t]

Worked at a manufacturing place a year or so after Desert Storm. So had a few veterans on the crew. The company would buy prescription safety glasses after your first year, every other year. I took advantage of that, butt ugly but had wrap around gap blocking bits around the eyes. These material shaping machines I worked with were oversized for what they did, they were factory modified to what we did. The part of the bed, feeds, and grinding wheel were about level with the bottom of my ribs. Grinding wheel was about 5” across, 3/4” thick, solid steel alloy, and had a few grooves with bonded diamond grit. Spun at bloody fast. One day I went to reach in and snag a worked chunk to measure. Grinder wheel parted from the machine and bounced off my left lens of my three day old glasses. It slid off and gave me a good scrape just above glasses frame and above/outside left eyebrow corner and continued on to meet a few more things. I also got a good spray of coolant in the face. As I bounced off a solid table with equipment on it behind me, I raised arms and crossed them over eyes and forehead. The worst injuries often take seconds before they hurt. A few coworkers were to my left including that recent veteran. My mind had jumped to if I was totally messed over, he might be able to react and helped me. So I turned and lowered my arms. He said “It’s coolant.” So i opened eyes. Gnarly track across part of left lens and a short scrape on me. I apologized later but explained why I turned to him. He said he understood but that was the worst moment when I lowered my arms. The Safety officer took a picture of the grind wheel and my glasses for the safety manual and titled it “And They Walked Away With a Scratch”. Other was some being lax about wearing our safety equipment, disappeared. And some got replaced quickly.

[@GG-jn4dx]

I would probably get hammered for every time Asbestos was mentioned

[@babymetalenjoyer]

new drinking game discovered

[@bruhbruh7786]

About that asbestos story, you're telling me that they coughed and gagged on the dust in the air for a whole year and decided to NOT WEAR A MASK WHILE WORKING???????? They didn't deserve that but holy shit I wouldn't go for more than a day without wearing one in those conditions, I can't help but think they are slightly stupid for not doing so.

[@mcb187]

I can tell you have never been to Vegas. Or been inside a house on a hot day with a busted AC. I have been to Vegas and it gets HOT! I was in Vegas in October and it was 80! In the summer, it was hotter than anywhere I have lived. And I lived in Oklahoma, so it got hot. And boy oh boy was it hot in our house for a week when the AC busted. It was 105° F outside, and I measured 115° F in my room. I walked around in my underwear, did not use sheets when in bed, and had a cold drink (ice water and soda) near me at all times. Now, imagine not being able to walk around naked, having to do hard labor, and probably not having a cold drink in a building that was likely 110° F and stuffy as hell. If I didn’t need to wear a respirator, I sure as hell wouldn’t!

[@Xnoob545]

I'd most likely recognize the asbestos and proceed to quit

[@carljacobs1837]

GF was using liquid nitrogen for tests. They had her just carry it in a bucket. One day the main boss walked around a corner and bumped into her while she was carry some. It splashed all over her hand, causing burns. They bought her a pair of simple cotton gloves to wear. I promptly walked into his office with the bucket of liquid nitrogen and gloves, dipped a glove into it and smashed it on his desk. I then told him "Put the gloves on. If it's so safe, let's test it on you." Shortly after she got the correct pair of gloves.

[@cc-xu5tr]

why didnt they get the right gloves in the forst place tho?

[@HansLasser]

@@cc-xu5tr too expensive I would say.

[@carljacobs1837]

@@cc-xu5tr They ran on government contracts. This place made several hundred million a year. Pure greed is why they did what they did. Two things killed them. Modernizing the military, and me handing a lawyer enough evidence to sue them into oblivion. We made old style electronic, semi-conductors and parts for them. They screwed me over, I got even and walked away. When I walked, they lost a major contract.

[@thefoxygamer1536]

0:58 "never stand on a swivel chair" Officer Buckle Anyone get the reference?

[@deonmurphy6383]

Had a case when inspecting a pumping plant, where eyebolts were put in the ceiling on a level to lift the sump/drainage pumps for maintenance. However, they had not been located properly and were not where they were needed. A nylon lifting sling had been woven between the two eyebolts to get a lifting point. However, that is not a rated usage of slings.

[@bluehornet197]

i didn't witness this but my dad's mate who is a Mater Civil Engineer once saw 4 guys smoking around oxygen tanks that were filled with 100% oxygen and also propane tanks

[@SilentEcho9194]

Pictograms had to be put up on the restroom walls for insurance purposes at my former employer depicting the correct way to sit on a toilet seat. Apparently someone in this type of industry had stood up on the seat and had fallen and died. SMH

[@pirategirl1588]

Have you seen the pictogram on the back of a toilet, with the person diving in and the red X over it?

[@cc-xu5tr]

i have many questions...

[@SilentEcho9194]

@@pirategirl1588 no, I haven't. You know that all the warning labels on things are there because someone actually did that, got messed up, sued and won. One of the dumbest I've seen is curling irons are not meant for use on eyelashes.

[@SilentEcho9194]

@@cc-xu5tr some people honestly don't know how to sit on the seat. They stand or squat.

[@skylinefever]

This sometimes happen when people from east Asia encounter a western toilet for the first time.

[@SasukeUchiha-tc9xx]

Meanwhile my parents would freak out if our shop freezer had ice on the rails. It wasn’t even enough to force the freezer open

[@NOOBYPANDA5986]

thanks for making this, its some of the best content ive ever seen

[@fleurpouvior2967]

Not osha, but when i worked fast food, i could not convince my manager that the fire exit shouldn't be blocked in by a shelf. It would get moved for deliveries, but moved back once the truck was unloaded because she didn't want workers going out back to smoke. Our fryer also caught fire daily because she had decided cleaning under it was a waste of time. Instead, a water bottle was kept near by to spray on it whenever we noticed smoke. (The mechanisms inside were on fire, not the fryer oil. Water workes on several decades of caked on grease mixed with dust if you use enough, if the fryer oil caught fire, we smothered it with cookie sheets) Our aircon would break every summer, hitting tempratures of 127°f and would sometimes fill the store with smoke so thick we couldn't see the back wall, but were told to keep taking orders. Cameras were set up but never hooked up, several armed robberies later and managment still didn't see the point, prefering to threaten to take it out of our paycheque if we handed over more than $200, while refusing to do skims because it was too busy. (Illegal in my state btw. But never could convince managment that, putting something illegal into a contract, doesn't actually make it legal.)

[@nanofate4118]

You get hurt doing something after circumventing safety measures and my only response will be "and what did you learn?" I mean I will help, but I am going to make sure you learned something from your adventures in dipsh*ttery

[@jinga9862]

Story 1: "This Machine knows not the difference between Flesh and Trash, but treats both with the same level of force."

[@dorothylloyd1804]

Good afternoon. Thanks for the stories. Have a great day

[@FenNick1994]

If you see a lot of crap that remains noticed and not fixed, just quit and run away before any blame might get slathered all over you once things inevitably have turned into a disaster.

[@kendoruslink7017]

Wow at the last story

[@sgtwhisker26]

I have so many stories about my dad being a dumbass that I could have my own thread on Reddit but I don’t have Reddit and I should probably report him to OSHA and our states labor board but my family desperately need the money.

[@chrislanglois8275]

9:11 to clarify for those who dont know, that means OP is highly likely to develop cancer. hopefully he gets 1 mill or something. 13:10 jim will have at least double the cancer previous OP likely at around the same amount of say 30 yrs later. so many future cancer patients, tho only 1st post OP and his coworkers seemed to b ignorant and not just a disbeliever of the danger. >_

[@beagleissleeping5359]

Try watching different disaster videos and counting how many times, "We've always done it that way before " comes up.

[@j.tgrooms]

Stories that are always welcomed

[@scottthomas6202]

At my last job, part of the routine involved checking some temperature and pressure gauges at the end of a very narrow passage. I was one of two people given this job because we could fit down this passage. You walked very close to open buss bars on a huge slab of bakelite. 240, 277, 440 and 600 volts at high amperage. Not much room for error...

[@rinconusmc]

Come with me…. And you’ll be… in a world of OSHA violations!

[@oscarg.3330]

Does putting "serious" on a reddit thread really keep people from posting bogus posts?

[@askreddit3021]

I used to have to climb down the cardboard chute at work all the time. I'd take the key down with me, that way the machine couldn't start.

[@Markyroson]

13:07 I’d read that

[@aurorincorporated]

That last guy is at genius level of insanity. XD The balls!

[@hailbones666]

Around 24:30 regarding arsine gas poisoning, if you search “Chubbyemu Arsine”, they did a video on what happens during arsine gas toxicity.

[@jordankelly4034]

7:51 the mother of all omelettes here Jack!!!

[@brianmckennon9460]

I was working at a gas station and the meter which measures how much gasoline was in our underground tanks had malfunctioned. The guys hired had trouble removing one of the caps to said tank and decided to use a crow bar and hammer. Metal upon metal created a spark and the fumes combusted. Flames shot up around 3 feet singing the guy's hair on his arms and face.

[@kathrynarchuleta1776]

he's lucky that's ALL that happened to him!! He's lucky he wasn't incinerated.... or CREAMATED while still ALIVE!!

[@Agent_Pear]

lotta these people take rules as a form of suggestion

[@chrislanglois8275]

2:01 i took a small glass jar of something out of a freezer at a grocery store some yrs ago and nearly dropped it from the freezing pain, 1st thought that came to mind at that moment was jacks description to rose of jumping in the water off the titanic, the feeling of a thousand needles. it felt similar, tho ofc the freezer was probably at most -10 degrees celcius. i cant imagine touching metal or glass at -30 with my hands stuck like in the christmas movies some1 gets their tongue stuck, let alone lower than -100 celsius O.o also wtaf in the day after tomorrow movie the atmosphere from the ultra hurricane suked -150 celcius air from the upper atmosphere and froze the fuel in the helicopter and crashes, fuel has a lower freezing point than water then right after the pilot then pulls the door open and freezes in under 5 seconds. its fiction but thats still theoretically correct, let alone liquid nitrogen and -200 celcius. id shut the lid and say u 1st then make she doesnt actually try and if she did id bring her with me to get the right mitts. >_

[@Wileybot2004]

Didn’t they already upload this video

[@davelowe1977]

Old stories

[@blindbrad4719]

He cut his thumb off with 10 tons of force…, no, he cut his thumb off with a kilo of pressure, The rest was just overkill.

[@0331machinegunman]

Thank you for this lovely repost 👎🏻

[@WiderStuff]

4th?

[@nottelling8129]

Reupload.

[@cxzay]

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[@HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

As far as I'm concerned, OSHA Violations should start at $500,000.00 Fine and 6 Months in Jail for the lowest Offense and go up Exponentially from there... There will almost NEVER be 2 Offenses from the same Company because they will either work INSANELY hard to make sure no additional Offenses occur or they will be Bankrupt from the first one...

[@Xnoob545]

False violations come up A ton If an employee didn't follow the rules, the employee can just say he wasn't trained, even if he was, and boom

[@splicedshadow7711]

Just reuploaded a old ask reddit Video... this is already a low effort Video...

[@johnmccrossan9376]

3rd

[@Kafj302]

I am like number 529