Plastic Molding Incident

[@stephenchandler1267]

First thing you ever show a machine operator - the big red Emergency Stop button.

[@tchevrier]

Would that be the Big Red button that says EMERGENCY STOP?

[@des_smith7658]

Or how to spell moulding correctly

[@codymoe4986]

dessmuth7658....Yes, because similarly pronounced words, are always spelled the same, they never differ based on regional dialects either... P.S. Nevermind...defense OR defence??? Try again, Nationalistic Ned

[@TheRealAb216]

These places use temp agencies just cycling people in and out daily.

[@des_smith7658]

@@codymoe4986 know a fence

[@YoutubeLovesCowards]

There's usually a giant red button that you push to stop all machinery. Dude got lucky that there was at least one competent person there who knew about it.

[@masloman6534]

White girl

[@masloman6534]

Among monkeys

[@chucknorris3984]

@@masloman6534 Yep. But it's always the White people who are bad, right?

[@ph00n0]

well being in this trade for some time now, he was out of harms way so worst case scenario he would've been in there during a cycle which would've been scary but wouldn't of hurt him.. secondly theirs always E stops on both sides of the gate and lastly it could've been worse.. a tech at my previous job before i started there was standing between the tool cleaning it while the press was in semi auto and another tech came over distracted and closed the door.. at 40 inches per second clamp speed you can guess what happened..

[@dsandoval9396]

I ALWAYS had that E-stop in my mind any time I was working with machines that could end me. Always made sure I was literally 1 to 2 feet away from the E-stop red pull cable fixed across the side. I've seen one too many video reminders of worst case scenarios and I sure as 💩 wouldn't want to give my family the job of identifying a mangled body. I wouldn't EVER want to work with these people again if I just saw them fail in backing me up when it really counts.

[@JohnWilson-wg4gk]

"HAL. Open the molding machine door, please. " "I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that. "

[@adrielburned6924]

Found someone who watches real movies! 👍 Classic.

[@DATo_DATonian]

LOLOLOLOLOLOL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@JohnWilson-wg4gk]

@@adrielburned6924 📽 "Four jacks. You owe me fifteen grand, pal. "

[@iancanuckistan2244]

@@adrielburned6924 I can't remember if It came out in '67 or 68. My family and I drove to Montreal to watch it on the wide screen.

[@adrielburned6924]

@@iancanuckistan2244 '68. I was born in 80, so I never saw it in theaters.

[@brennenmc.2364]

This is why I had no problem leaving a job when I realized my coworkers were idiots.

[@tokertalk9648]

all blax huh

[@josphellihsilak4588]

Seriously. In environments like this? Get the hell out. People always shit talking the OSHA man, but this is what we have to work with.

[@dyates6380]

To be fair, the "idiot" was probably a temporary worker working for half what the operator was making and wasn't shown the control panel as it not only (I'm speculating here) NOT his job and now why he was there as the helper, but due to liability reasons the company most likely didn't want him touching anything anyhow. He did try by going over to the panel looking for the button or switch to open the doors so I'd not necessarily call him an idiot.

[@DeeRue9]

@@dyates6380thoughtful, nuanced, realistic, and highly probable comment. You must not be from here?

[@unfortunato]

I'm an electrician, and I've had to reject positions because of that. No way I'm gonna get grilled because my coworker was too lazy to work properly.

[@topmenace]

How does ANYONE in that environment NOT know about an E STOP button??!?!?!

[@electronash]

Frankly, how does ANYONE not know? lol

[@windsunh2o]

@@electronash I know. They're big, red and easy to push for a reason.

[@Jchot]

MANAGEMENT, CORPORATE INCOMPETENCE

[@upstating]

The large woman did. You can see her harangue them about it at the end.

[@2oqp577]

They might have a level of incompetency but one must ask the question; how in the world this shop works or welcome workers when they first start?

[@Sodiumreactor]

Homegirl flew in there like a guardian angel.

[@edwardlowe8985]

Saved his life.

[@CFAPA]

It figures the white person was the only one that you know how to work it.

[@Driven2Beers]

Would like to have seen them try to mansplain their way outta that!

[@CFAPA]

@@Driven2Beers it's better than hearing womansplain

[@notchomomma239]

​​@@CFAPA I think what you MEANT to say was it's better than hearing womansplaining. 🤣

[@djfearross4144]

I worked in an office above an injection molding warehouse in Spain. Whenever someone went inside, they'd switch the machine off and put their padlock there on the switch so it couldn't be switched on again. If another engineer went in , they'd put their padlock there as well. Pretty good system. The amount of noise in these places mean your shouts and cries will not be heard. You gotta look after yourself.

[@zaphodbeeblebrox1880]

The system you're describing is called LOTO (Lock Out Tag Out). The hasp acts as a physical barrier to keep the machine from starting, and everyone working on the machine puts their lock in the hasp. Each worker's lock has a different key, so they can only remove their own lock, not another worker's. Normally (in the US) the worker will also attach his or her tag to the lock. The tag has a face photo of the worker, and room for them to describe why the machine is offline. The reason for the photo is that if a supervisor or operator comes by, they know who took the machine offline and can find that person if they need a status update or other information. There's a saying that every safety sign is written in someone else's blood.

[@tweekr21]

At Honda same thing. It was called lock out tag out. Could have 6 padlocks on some of the lock out mechanisms. All locks had to be removed by each person before machine would operate.

[@marty3469]

Same at GMH when I worked there , we was taught to use them even if going in to do a quick spot weld cap change on the Dalmec robots

[@GrimmJaw496]

​@@zaphodbeeblebrox1880 I am sorry you are missing the most important step in lockout procedure and that is TRYOUT...it is lock out,tag out and then try out. after the system/machine has been locked out and tagged you push the power button/energy control system to make sure %100 it will not activate and is de-energized...

[@WoNkY_DoG]

@@GrimmJaw496 👍👍S.O.P @ McCains UK

[@TheLambdaTeam]

"You FOOL! Why didn't you press the big red emergency button?" "Umm...isn't that the self-destruct system?"

[@robertl7239]

That place is an OSHA nightmare. There is SO much wrong with that scenario, the most obvious of which is a lack of training.

[@672macknasby7]

You have to sing this, in your best Gene Wilder voice. "Come with me, and you'll see, a world of OSHA violations."

[@SurvivalSquirrel]

What else is wrong there?

[@Rob8729]

OSHA would shut that whole place down.

[@gruntgamer4204]

I was thinking it was more of a lack of intelligence.

[@gruntgamer4204]

​@@672macknasby7Willy Wonka would be proud.

[@ronnieboucherthecrystalcraftsm]

machine operator did not even know what button to press = the lady saved the day !

[@arvurebantra7639]

Someone else speculated that these might have been temp agency hires, and temps usually don't get ANY training on things.

[@DATo_DATonian]

For people who do not understand what is going on ..... the injection molder, inside the room, has a mold which is divided into two parts which spreads apart and closes back together. It opens to allow the plastic parts to be extracted after the plastic is forced into the mold cavity or cavities to make the parts. Judging from the size of this mold room I'd say the pieces being manufactured might be plastic buckets or something like that. If the man had stayed in the room when the two halves of the mold closed to repeat the process it would have crushed him LITERALLY flatter than a pancake.

[@RickNickel]

These are the black balls that they were covering lakes with to keep them from evaporating. There is enough room that if the person side stayed flat against the wall the large mold would miss him. He was too panicked to think of that or the emergency stop button inside. Like others have said, if this was set up properly the incident would have never happened.

[@DATo_DATonian]

@@RickNickel Thanks for the heads-up. I was wondering what the mold was actually for. It did seem like there was some space between the inside of the door and the mold, but there still could have been a tragedy in the making if they hadn't got him out.

[@thomasschwarting5108]

Wow, thanks for that short tutorial lesson!

[@michaelkenny8540]

Buckets can be removed by a robot. This machine has one but it comes out empty. Its only really big parts that you might have to go into the tool to get a part out

[@williamcope2652]

Thank you for the informative post. Having worked in the Papermill industry, and in the companies that made the machinery for the paper mills the use of lockout tag out and other safety procedures must be well known by maintenance and production employees, as well as simple, emergency, stop button and their locations and how they work or at least how they stop the machine and what do they actually stop

[@josephkovalcik8266]

I'm a retired journeyman machinist, I've worked with manual and automatic CNC equipment. You can't always trust the machine to do what you want, so you need to be vigilant at all times.

[@dammond696]

yeah i think his light guard got hit or something to start another cycle could be dust over time happens.

[@beardtrick]

I used to be a world champion machinist at some top companies. Collected a few belts along the way

[@LoknAtstuf]

LOL CNC ROUTER AND CNC DRILL OPERATOR / PROGRAMMER SOMETIMES THE MACHINES WILL GO RIGHT OFF THE TABLE MOST OF THE TIME THE BITS SNAPS/BREAKS SOMETIMES THE DEPTH IS TOO DEEP I REALLY DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW THOSE GUYS GOT THEM JOBS ... I GUESS HIRING DOESN'T REQUIRE MUCH MOTIVATION AND INTELLIGENCE THESE DAYS. BACK IN THE 80'S AND 90'S THOSE JOBS NEVER HIRED ZOMBIES

[@josephkovalcik8266]

@@beardtrick I like to think of myself in the same way. My employers seemed to very pleased with my work. Unfortunately, I had to give it all up in 2006 at age 50 due to back and hip issues.

[@WileeC]

The one person who pays attention during the safety meetings

[@MrLex87]

Doesnt even take a safety meeting to understand what a BIG RED BUTTON MIGHT DO LOL. Just some people arent born with common sense and it scares me

[@darrylbrosius4619]

Lmfao 🤣🤣 nevermind

[@HarryBalzak]

@@MrLex87 100%!

[@kybernaut-is-my-name]

At 0:10 one can see, that he is diving under the safety curtain to prevent being recognised by the machine's safety system...

[@billdunlop8683]

No way the doors should close by themselves once opened , No machine manufacturer would ever program the system to work like that , Either the door safety interlocks are not working , have been bypassed or the reset operation switch has been " modified". Also the dude that was trying to help the guy in the system should really be trained where the Emergency stop button is located and what it does, Good thing that the Lady ran over to hit the E-stop.

[@joefran619]

agreed

[@RickNickel]

He was supposed to bump the door on his way in. That tells it to not autocycle. There is also an emergency stop inside the machine next to the door. Some folks don't pay attention during 5-minute safety briefings.

[@KevinConlon69]

@@RickNickel Any machine that a person can enter, is required to have a button inside for the operator to press to let the machine know that the molding area is clear. Then you have to press and hold a button on the outside, until the mold begins to close, to initiate the next cycle. In semi-automatic, no machine can automatically begin the next cycle without the operator purposefully beginning the next cycle. OSHA would have a field day with this one.

[@joefran619]

@@RickNickel they are not trained

[@RickNickel]

@KevinConlon69 You are right. When the part is stuck in the mold, there should have been an automatic stop using a light beam interrupt or PIR. It should not be the operator that makes the machine safe; it should be intrinsically safe from the operator's perspective.

[@albertol9654]

When you lie on your resume about having experience.

[@Gunners_Mate_Guns]

I used to work in an injection molding plant, but none of our machines was as big as this one. It's terrifying to think just how close this poor guy came to having that mold slam shut on him.

[@johnschwalenberg278]

This is not an injection . this is a blow molding machine .

[@theresemalmberg955]

I worked in a plastics plant where there were injection molding machines. We didn't have anything like that there. But you had to respect the machines. We had one guy mash his fingers in a hand press and had to go to the ER. To this day none of us can figure out how he did it because normally that would be impossible. I even tried (at slow speed) to recreate his movements and concluded that there was no way he could have even accidentally put his fingers into the press where he did. Because it took two hands to operate the thing. You placed the part to be stamped into the press with your left hand and pulled the lever down to compress it with your right. Even at speed there is no way he could have put the fingers of his left hand into the press far enough to damage them. Besides, the speed and force of the lever were entirely under the operator's control. His excuse was that he had "fallen asleep". I still don't buy it; I'm thinking workman's comp claim.

[@emer07jiffy]

Ive worked in one much bigger molds, size of 2 suvs i still remember where all the estops were, thankfully we worked in teams and somtimes we had to be inside of the press, to check each function of the molds make sure they didnt get sticky, most dangerous part of the job

[@Gunners_Mate_Guns]

@@emer07jiffy No wonder you don't do that work any longer! Really glad that you didn't have something terrible happen.

[@emer07jiffy]

@Gunners_Mate_Guns i actually left over a different saftey concern everything leaked and they didnt let us track them down until entire lines blew, fires were a daily occurrence

[@Sypher474]

Productivity must be incredible with staff that don't even understand 'big red button make bad stop'.

[@nadMoZzzg]

Lol good comment

[@COLEY72]

@@Sypher474 lol ...

[@DarkSim712]

How is he even allowed to be there if he doesn't know what the big red button does?

[@punkfingerboards6283]

DEI

[@psychedeliccarrie5921]

@@punkfingerboards6283 You've obviously never seen the amount of OSHA violations in a white ran company. Stupidity is an equal opportunity cancer, affects whites, black people, the Irish.

[@ViciousFirearms]

@@punkfingerboards6283 Rent free.

[@mr.b3168]

Racist ​@@punkfingerboards6283

[@learrus]

DIVERSITY HIRE

[@machobunny1]

It took HOW MANY of these highly trained, brilliantly skilled "workers" to figure out where the off button is?

[@Connection-Lost]

What did they have in common?

[@kg888]

Off? Seem like you don't even know either. It called emergency button.

[@AirForceV]

sheeit we wuz kangs tho

[@follyfour506]

People do panic you know.

[@troywright359]

​@@Connection-Lost they weren't trained properly. Thanks to bad management. Don't you hate that?

[@kingbugs3558]

His supervisor should have immediately been fired. It's unconscionable to have such poorly trained people operating machinery.

[@rogerebmeier7335]

Possibly so, but a lot of todays workers are practically untrainable.. they don’t or won’t care,they can be shown how to do the job, but after long off, gotta retrain them again.. also the price a company pays for not offering good pay and benefits..

[@karbanatek99]

Would you be able to give him same well trained people? :)

[@kingbugs3558]

@@karbanatek99 Seeing how I am a manufacturing supervisor and have over 25 years experience, yes.

[@karbanatek99]

@@kingbugs3558 How do you cope with employees that are common in these fast days? Todays work requires from operators to have knowledge to educate themself about worklflow, machines etc like engineer but these people naturally don´t have it. Big thema that I´m thinking alot about it, how to find balance in everything and from which point of wiev to look at it. Curretly my occupation is something like supervisor/process engineer/teamleader/mechanic/operator in small rapeseedoil bottling company.

[@raf5710]

@@rogerebmeier7335 sounds like drugs or apathy from depression. By drugs it means constant codependence on weed/downers/stimulants. Weed unfortunately being pretty safe, easy to obtain, can be used discreetly and anywhere ( Carts preferably from a dispensary for safety and/disposables/discreet options) and not harmful to physical health, it can lead to lack of caring for things if ones mind isn't in the right place. It's a tool not a crutch or something used to constantly escape from. Look into your coworkers eyes and ask them these questions and you'll know the answer. Then there's xanax and adderall that can numb you over time. But the mental state prior to the use of this is whats key.

[@elliottb7009]

i would not be surprised if those employees do not speak or read the language that said stop.

[@moaningpheromones]

can't read their own language. but they are living the american dream.

[@michaelmacpherson-wm6mh]

a BIG RED BUTTON says stop in every language

[@UntitledKirk]

Bro, I work in a place with this exact type of machine. The fact that the employee didn't know to hit the big red button that says EMERGENCY STOP is baffling to me. Common sense seriously escapes people. It's astounding!

[@CertifiedForkLiftOperator69420]

Probably worn off. Cause I bet that if this happened once it happened dozen of times. Not only should the supervisor on up be fired but should be sent to leadership and safety courses.

[@tristanholland6445]

This video screams poor working environment bad training and complete disregard for safety. The first thing a new operator should learn is all of the safety hazards all of the protections and the location of each E-stop. The "experienced" operator clearly had disregard for his own safety.

[@uspatriot7484]

Love the quick action of the employee who knows exactly what to do in an emergency situation.

[@q1q1q1q1q1q1q1q11]

For whom the bell curve tolls

[@hannahjoy396]

I think this is the wittiest joke I’ve ever heard

[@HansKlopek]

Be careful not to notice

[@rygarq2]

41 likes. Just sad.

[@sunlight-sky151]

"Shiiieeet!"

[@Brandon-bc1fz]

The bell curve has already been disproven. Funny joke tho.

[@rontucker8389]

Lot of people wearing in-ear headphones in that place. That in itself should be some kind of safety violation.

[@leogetz3570]

it actually is in just about all manufacturing places (U.S.) for this exact reason

[@jcreeker5581]

The number of issues with safety, machine controls, and operator training are numerous. Glad he made it out OK.

[@pennilessjester211]

Seeing the label ‘sterling’ on the equipment I did some searching and I’m fairly certain this is either a single or dual accumulator head blow molding machine which is used for manufacturing various plastic containers and parts what is frightening based on the specs of various models is that the clamping force can be well over 100 tons 👀 he was seconds away from being a screen protector for his phone

[@xthunderclesx]

yup you are correct, that is a blow molding machine, that rail coming out of the top of the machine doors that had the thing moving along it is how the part is ejected. No idea why that guy felt the need to go in those doors, the finished part comes out gripped in the thing sliding out from over the door and the machine needs no human interaction until that part needs to be cut down from there which can happen far away from the tooling as you can see there. There isn't really inserts used in blow molding. The only thing I can really think of is maybe that ejector didn't grab the part or something along those lines and it got stuck in the mold. I'm surprised he didn't get injured because when those doors closed there is usually a hot plastic tube getting extruded into that area right before two steel mold halves close on it, and then high pressure air is blown through. It's certainly a dangerous machine to be walking into without LOTO. A machine that size is probably making something along the lines of a gasoline can, or one of those plastic lawn ornaments. Some hollow plastic thing around that size.

[@Harthelos04]

Good thing this wasn't a radiation filled chamber like in Elysium. Otherwise, my man would have to have an exoskeleton installed.

[@_Benjamin1111]

I TOOK A DOSE MAN A FULL FUCKING DOSE

[@dakmycat3688]

I was thinking the same thing 😁

[@samueldesmond440]

I only saw that movie once, years ago, and yet still it came to mind immediately!

[@JassonRamoa]

Eso pensaba

[@Connection-Lost]

Strange reference. Did you just now watch an 11 year old movie?

[@XChildeofMalkavX]

That woman took all 4 of those men's Man Card by immediately pressing the ONE BUTTON that mattered the most.

[@yellowcrescent]

Not sure how 3 people missed hitting the E-stop... Guessing they were temps or new guys that were not trained properly.... Two E-stop stories: - Speaking of temps, back in the late 2000s, we had a 19 year old temp that just started. His job was to inspect boards & mark bad ones with a sharpie near a lateral transfer (a table that moves up, shifts left, then drops down and back again to shift things to the left to change direction between two conveyor belts). He dropped his marker inside of the transfer, and after all the boards had cycled out and it stopped, he crawled under there to grab it -- keep in mind the machine was running in AUTO. What he didn't know was that after ~30 seconds, the PLC was programmed to automatically cycle again to prevent any boards from sitting on the transfer at the end of a run... And when it did, it clipped his head, and he stopped being alive. Always hit the E-Stop if something dangerous is happening -- especially if you're new -- the E-stop safety circuit on most machines disengages the motors, air, and hydraulics systems and typically puts them into a reasonably safe state. Better to get yelled at than to die. - I nearly lost two of my fingers in an overwrap machine (wraps shrink film around foam trays used for chicken, etc.) while cleaning it, but thankfully had enough state of mind to hit the E-stop within reach, although my hand had already run through a set of stainless steel rollers and totally obliterated the ends of two of my fingers, but thankfully before the trimmer blade. lol. (part of the PM procedure was to have the machine running slowly to check the infeed belts, but it was the end of a ~14 hour shift and I wasn't paying attention, and it was running faster than it should...)

[@Mdeaccosta]

E stop story: finger in giant metal mousetrap that makes chocolate covered marshmallow candy. Finger chugs down the line, covered in delicious chocolate. I recover finger before it's wrapped for sale. The reason this is an E stop story is because No One Hit The E Stop.

[@praisethesun69]

"Finger chugs down the line covered in delicious chocolate" my god 😭😭😭😂

[@mkguba3843]

dude big red button. I worked in a license plate factory with heavy machinery for less than a year and that's the first thing I learned and will never forget

[@MrLex87]

Bravo to the lady who knows what the FK she's doing. She needs a damn raise for saving that companies ass

[@MrLex87]

@alexadao8852 🤣

[@raff9219]

Brava*

[@Wulfjager]

being the only competent person on the shop floor shouldnt deserve a raise, it should reprimand every other person

[@MrLex87]

@Wulfjager true but think about it like this, what if that lady the one with the only common sense wasn't there that day? The company would be in a real bad situation.

[@THEbeautifuLIE]

If you think, FOR ONE SECOND, that those guys are at fault for not being properly trained or experienced enough to work that machinery - you’re wrong. The *_ONLY_* way that there are *_THREE_* different men working together & *_NONE_* are comfortable & confident with the safety / emergency protocol is if there is an issue in training, supervision & MANAGEMENT; quite possibly the lady you all think “saved the day”. She may be the *_arsonist_* AND the *_firefighter😅_* #OSHAfieldday

[@denisjohnson8198]

Nailed it!💯

[@KevinJ-ee2wv]

Boom goes the 🧨

[@padjojosephiscious3194]

All facts🔥

[@jonesyjohnsons1983]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@zeroquartercontinues1095]

Exactly what I was thinking the whole time. This is on LEADERSHIP!

[@america1st721]

Jamaal bowman would have set off the fire alarm a dozen times before figuring out what button to push.

[@madmaxfzz]

What an irrelevant and idiotic thing to say. Nothing can compare to the idiocy and bad faith demonstrated by the woefully under and mis-informed meatheads runnong the Republican Party these days. Half of them are outright traitors and most of the rest are complicit due to not calling out such despicable behavior. When are they going to show some intelligence and ditch that ignorant, traitorous loser Trump. You embarrass yourselves and the entire country by allowing that utter nonsense to continue.

[@burnerjack01]

Even to the casual observer, the problem was obvious.

[@SlickArmor]

DEI

[@awwthatstragic]

I'm an industrial automation engineer, I make machines like this. There's so many things wrong with this it's hard to even articulate it or know where to start.

[@ramoverde4133]

No way the doors should close by themselves once opened! Never ever!

[@funnygum1]

it is a machine it automated not going to stop. Never assume the door will stay open.

[@tristanholland6445]

This is very common with lots of automated machinery and why they have numerous protections and SOPs. This is an example of poor training as the two men obviously are new and did not know what to do. The operator was also either poorly trained and had poor safety as he should have activated the E-stop before going into the machine in the first place. Also the first thing he should have done is explain each safety hazard and when and how to activate the e-stop and other safety measures. Based upon this clip I would say that this company has a poor training policy and poor safety mentality.

[@LiquorandCheeseburgers]

Big red button. 🔴 How can there be anyone near that machine without knowing the most important safety device?

[@watchdog2266]

Three people didn't know where the emergency stop button was. One person did. Thank God three out of four was still lucky.

[@dm7097]

Some very skilled workers right there!! How many people went to the control panel before that lady ran over and hit the stop button? Smdh

[@StormLaker]

A lot of these places rely on temp laborers to do these tasks. The gal who hit the button was probably a lifer. I've worked in factories like this......realized I wasn't working with a bunch of einsteins and walked out.

[@normankaszubowski630]

Sad that it took them so long to find the emurgency button

[@BlueRuum]

I mean, those two idiots standing around never did. In from across the room came the one person with at least the basic knowledge of industrial equipment.

[@peterbuckley3877]

Only ONE person knows what the emergency stop is and has the presence of mind to hit it, I’d hate to work around some of these people

[@bavery6957]

Thank God that woman was there! Time for some re-training...

[@bavery6957]

@alexadao8852 And some albinos? Obsessed much, micro-peen...? 🤏😂

[@theendoftheline]

or actual training at all, that doesnt always happen.

[@tmkim6385]

When the door was closed, I did not notice any trace of safety training in the worker's attempt to force the door open.

[@Yorok89]

It is clear, which person was the only one, who read the instruction manual

[@amftpt]

Right

[@dr.cheeze5382]

Forget the instruction manual! Forget the safety meetings! I haven't even left school and I won't be operating machinery anyways, but even I know "press big red button to bad stop make"!

[@theendoftheline]

@@dr.cheeze5382 when you think anecdotal information is a substitute for real training... you figured out how this happened! people like you! ;)

[@KCDW83]

You could never convince me to step into a machine that's powered up I don't care what you tell me I'm not doing it. I can see the button from here once the panel turns after receiving a running high five.

[@Erik_Blomgren]

I worked a short time as an apprentice in the repair workshop of a company that made quite a lot of plastic components along with other stuff. They had 12 or 13 machines similar to that one but in varying sizes. I mainly had to repair, service, or modify the molds. Some of them were huge! I was amazed that there hadn't been any incidents like the one in the video, but unlike them, the employees of the company I was at had training and knew what they were doing. The worst thing that ever happened during my time there was one of the machines catching on fire due to some special highly flammable plastic being used. It could've been really bad, but thankfully one of the operators managed to put out the fire before it spread to other machines/the building. You got respect for those machines very fast, trust me on that!

[@JamesReedy]

Homeboy almost got the Han Solo Carbonite treatment lol.

[@frankbullitt4556]

I thought that the guy was going to be turned into a block of plastic.

[@Theyralltakenfu]

That is so scary. I thought that the press was going to close in on him. Glad nothing happened.

[@chadbreton4951]

I don't think I'm the only one that noticed that the white woman was the only one smart enough to hit the big red button that says stop on it

[@grahambeech5576]

I used to set these machines up many years ago, and it was common sense not to stand between the die blocks whilst the machine was in production.

[@NoFoOd4U78]

Dude almost turned into Han Solo

[@JohnWilson-wg4gk]

He should be quite well protected. If he survived the freezing process, that is...

[@seang.829]

She was the only one who paid attention in shop class!

[@M.P.MAdventures]

The fact that a mold you can walk into doesn't have a light curtain that shuts down the machine if someone walks in there is crazy!

[@michaelkenny8540]

The door should never shut automatically. When it closes it allows the tool to close. When the man outside opens the doors a little the tool stops closing (cut-out works) but he then sets it away again manually when he messes with the control panel! Whats the robot doing?

[@davidziemann9653]

Dude looking for the STOP button like he's staring at a calculus problem. FFS.

[@eduardodelgado7873]

Trust when they say these operators are hired off the streets they aren't kidding. But yes they should always now where the emergency stop button is at

[@theresemalmberg955]

At the plastics plant where I used to work, they now have a group of people from another country who do not speak English but another language that isn't commonly spoken here. Apparently only one of them speaks both so that person is the official interpreter. It recently came to light that none of them can really read English. They are in quality control, not on any of the machines, Thank God. But yes, that is what is being hired these days.

[@jae6220]

Half these companies hire whoever will put up with their low wages and barely train them. No surprise here.

[@kramnevets8712]

Time for a safety meeting.

[@SkinE-Vadee-Veechee]

I remember when I worked at a plastic molding company. One day I had to go with my wife to have an ultrasound. I came back to work after the appointment and the news media and fire department was surrounding the place at a safe distance. I saw the massive fire engulfing my work. I asked what had happened. They said the oven next to the one I worked at had caught fire and burnt down the place. I couldn't believe my work caught fire, I was without a job and we were having a baby all in the same time frame. Luckily nobody was injured but this video brings me back to that day.

[@snorfallupagus6014]

Why was it only the white worker knew what to do?

[@chad9166]

Everyone already knows

[@kung-fupanda2255]

These idiots should not be handed over job like this, operational safety is the first thing we teach in industry.

[@JimmyFoxhound]

I was sure he was going to come out encased in carbonite 😂

[@toddburgess6792]

How to be famous-101

[@JerryGone-Fishin]

Only one person in that whole department knew where the emergency shut off button was

[@crispy6311]

Gah dang, the 3 guys fumbling with the switches and the woman only had to hit one button to save the day. smh...

[@andsoitbegins464]

Yes, it took one thoughtful, aware woman to do what three men couldn't think to do. Tell me again who rules the world??

[@vortexhornet7518]

@@andsoitbegins464golly I can tell your ovaries got to you on that one😂 how many men are there compared to woman who are physicists? Labor workers? Any actually essential job?, and tell me again who rules the world??

[@matt9c1]

I worked at a gas station once. I wasn't going anywhere with that, since everyone else had to say where they worked, I wanted to as well :)

[@andsoitbegins464]

😂😂😂

[@moaningpheromones]

got any cool stories? can you say where?

[@darknes7800]

Wow...its a good thing all the employees were paying attention during the safety training on that machine......LOL!!!!!!!!!

[@cammacisaac9966]

Anytime I train a new person within the first 2 mins they know where the E stop is.

[@04u2cY]

This is what happens when someone is there just to collect a paycheck and go thru the motions and has no idea what to do in case of emergency even though I'm sure he had training what to do in situation like this. If I was the manager responsible for this employee who had no idea what to do I would of pulled him off the line and question him find out exactly what he knows and retrain him accordingly.

[@ericgorder1]

Unskilled laborers. Probably got bluetooth ear buds in and unaware of what's going around.

[@federalagenciesarecourtesans]

Everything turns into a scene with this types of employees.

[@ishkabibble-oj1oi]

Everytime...

[@SlickArmor]

Without fail

[@theendoftheline]

The untrained employees... gee why would that happen lol, keep looping that between those 2 cells.

[@pedreirodeniltonfrancisco3181]

REPAREM QUE NEM UM DOS TRÊS NÃO SABIAM ONDE FICAVA UM SIMPLES BOTÃO DE EMERGÊNCIA

[@jmcd21182]

I like how he went back in right after getting out

[@JackDespero]

How is there no big red button that says "STOP"?? It is in every single piece of machinery! Edit: The random woman to the rescue. None of that trying other stuff, directly for the button. Who trained these other people??

[@JackDespero]

I am starting to think that there should maybe be an extra red button inside the machine.

[@echohunter4199]

This is why we have the IQ test.

[@derincattelane43]

Didn't expect to see a video like this on a channel mostly known for Comedy Central Battlebots content.

[@RickNickel]

If you look at the videos on my channel, you will see that I don't have a theme. So far I have posted anything that I feel others might like. Sometimes a video will get many more views than I expect - like this one. And the Bubble videos that I thought would be popular, were not. I have a lot more content that just needs editing, so expect more non-BattleBot content.

[@holidayinn4293]

It's so tough finding the big red emergency stop button. Took a woman to get that one done.

[@junkiexl86]

White bailing out black yet again

[@MacAutoDiag]

Hoodlum was so dumb he hit every button except for the big red button that says "stop" 🤦🏽‍♂️ can't make this stuff up

[@davidostrander3725]

Thats the difference between knowledgeable and experienced workers and equity hires!! Well done to the woman who obviously knew what to do!!

[@JanusChan]

And then afterwards nobody even seems to be listening to her..

[@SeaPro360]

Probably called her Karen.​@@JanusChan

[@kevdenn]

Zero risk assessment. Zero safety training.

[@lil----lil]

No, the BIG. RED. Button is not for nuclear missiles. THINK.

[@JohnWilson-wg4gk]

It used to be chewing gum. You could kiss a little longer...

[@ScroogeMcPowerbottom]

You owe that woman your life bro.

[@rudyb2755]

This guy was like, let me just take my time trying to figure this machine system out 😅

[@thegreat7861]

It takes a special kind of someone not to see that big red button and know that it means STOP! I’m guessing he’s either working there for free or he’s paying them for his services

[@MKOMKONNNN]

the white lady knew the stop button

[@df71091]

That button saved my coworker once. He nearly got decapitated by a robot. I just smashed the whole console with my open hand, breaking the plastic. There was just no time to look where to press exactly

[@evertroop7596]

That's why you lock out, tag out before you go in. When in doubt lock it out!

[@Netbug]

How do you not know about the E-stop? This is unreal.

[@paulokuhan4126]

dissmiss leader who dont tell a new worker what STOP button mean

[@Hunt3r2k]

incredibly that this man are even allowed to work there.

[@212days]

It looks like the lady saved the day. She ran laser straight for the big red button on the machine.

[@-POLLO-77]

That woman just saved that man!! The only one who actually knew where the emergency stop was!!

[@Dexter_Solid]

Not a single one of the floor workers knew where the stop button was. are you kidding me.

[@doylejames3743]

Elysium IRL

[@mikeundcris]

Am i the only one having STRONG Elysium vibes here?

[@kellywest8168]

That's a Sterling blow-mold machine. I used to program, mold change, and do maintenance on them for years. They were my favorite machine to work on.

[@seferino]

How come it closes by itself when someone is there ??

[@horacem6507]

They were saved by a white person.