I once heard a technician's ring finger being degloved while working on a shovel. The power was off at the breaker when another technician ignored the tags and switched it on. A cable moved forward and hooked his wedding band through his glove. We were on top of the shovel and could hear his screams.
About 20 odd years in Germany, two steel press workers were chasing each other for laughs around the machines, one guy tripped, got caught up in a steel press and,.. well, was instantly pressed. One very deceased industrial-cooking-pot-shaped worker.
As a former safety guy on just about every site I've ever been on, these struck close to home. On a paper photo side, I preferred to use the "degloving" pictures to start my presentations and lectures. It is truly the most effective. Then the rest to add to the terror.
Back in the late 70s in middle school we had woodshop class. Long hair was a thing in those days; kid leaned in to check something while working at a drill press with the chuck still spinning. The chuck grabbed his hair and pulled the top of his scalp off. 45 years later I can still hear the screaming. To this day I don't do anything involving power tools, hammers, jacks, stands etc without running a serious mental checklist.
that is such a great channel, being a government agency they are right to the point with no bullshit. Its that channel where I learned iron dust is not just good as a part of thermite, but if airborne its explosive like many other dusts in enough density.
I was surprised in one the safety equipment was producing like twenty false alarms a day and was excessively difficult to keep calibrated correctly, so they turned the alarms off, and the USCSB was like "ya that's completely reasonable to turn those alarms off"
I know why they don't use the actual videos but for me I just cannot take animation very seriously. Which in my case makes these types of videos very conflicting feeling wise as they are based on real people who got seriously hurt & I laugh when I know I shouldn't. It's not something I do with the actual videos (i've seen at least one of them, not pretty), they get a cringing while ow ow owings instead.
Yeah these always make my brain a bit conflicted. I want to laugh because the animations are comical, but I also know they're likely all real accidents and I would never laugh at someone being seriously hurt. There's an old saying that "OHSHA regulations are written in blood" and seeing these....yeah.
Really doing a disservice not showing the blood. Sounds a little too dark, but as they are based on true accidents, people need to know the level of violence a simple slip of the hand can cause.
I'm really sorry to hear that. I've got a friend who was on scene for a workplace accident and the consequences for him have not been funny at all. I hope you've got help getting through it.
Safety First unless it will cost us literally any money, or will take a second that could be used to make widgets, or if the boss doesnt feel like making it important.
My work isolates you pretty quickly if you get hurt. Before you get treated you have to fill out paperwork laying out what happened and how it was your fault. It's just, "what heppened?" And "how can you avoid this in the future?", and that is used as an admission of fault on your part, and they have used that against folk in the past.
If you end up hiring someone like that (because your recruitment process is to light some money on fire and pick a name from a hat), you need to give them tasks somewhere they will not be a danger to themselves or others.
Sure, but when OSHA comes to call, they can point at Bob and say "he wasn't following procedure", and Bob will never work in the industry again. When in reality _nobody_ was following that procedure, and the company deserves to be hurt for that. That's the point he's making - osha isn't toothless, but companies have developed excellent systems for avoiding the teeth at your expense.
Every safety rule is written in blood. I desperately want to suspend reality and house a zany laugh track over these , or watch them hop up after the incident ,ah la Jackass, laughing at the stupid and walking it off. But sadly you all made this very real, rightfully so, and brought the brevity it deserves for these poor people, working, dying, just trying to feed their families.
Many of these animations are based on real incidents. These animations are used to convey the accident to people working in these industries without showing real images.
I remember when I first saw one of these and thought, like an ass, "shame they didn't have the budget to hire real actors," and then I watched a CGI hand stuck in a gravel crusher. There aren't stunt doubles for this shit.
Similar idea as where regulations come from: "regulations are written in blood" is a saying to convey the fact that the majority of safety regulations were made because of something bad happening due to the lack of it.
Regardless of how seemingly obvious the safety failures here might be, there's still someone that was harmed by those failures, as you said.
I think there's a similar line of thinking with "rules are made to be broken", not be read that you should aim to break rules, but that most important rules are not arbitrary and there because people were doing things you want to stop. The rule is to formalize the boundary on acceptable rather than be a judgement call
The ever darkening and expanding ring of blood is forever in my mind. Seeing as how I'm in that industry, it always makes me think twice and look out for my coworkers.
Also used in commercial accident for insurance investigation cases. I watched one one time at a metal recycling center from when a man was run over by an automated train car that is used between a loader and facility building. When the loader turned back around with another load, he saw a half a body by the track. The other half was dragged under the rail cart.
It was in a CE class for insurance adjuster for accident scene investigation and I thought it would be over car accidents. Dark webenar
The one at 0:45 at least is real as Ive seen it, and as you might expect, it's one of those videos you regret ever watching. It's from a Chinese factory
I’ve spent a long time on liveleak so I find that believable. However I’ve seen that claim about the videos being mostly from real incidents. Can anyone actually confirm that because so far it’s „trust me bro“?
Oh it was the funky town video for me and the one with the cartel dog and the. Well I cannot unsee them and wish I could. Would pay a monthly fee to forget even.
My understanding is that these particular videos are not only based on real incidents, but the animations are reproductions of actual footage. It's incredibly humbling, especially having worked around some seriously big/dangerous equipment. I only came close to getting killed once.
True. The reason behind this is that if you subject people to the real videos as a training procedure they'll either quit or sue you for torturing them.
I worked a summer at a company that built systems with high voltage + high current, after I went back to school one of the technicians worked on a system alone with the power on and was electrocuted. It was a small company and was catastrophic to his family and his coworkers.
oh no, he told me (whispering) that it got really big, but after 2 weeks it was just a bruce.. Also he already has kids, so is ok. I didn't ask for that info, so imagine...
I've at the very least seen the lathe one....it was truly horrifying, I LEGITIMATELY don't recommend watching it. I've seen some shit, I was a medic in the USAF, deployed to Afghanistan 2010-2011... that lathe video was still rough to watch even for me.
Friend of mine died in a factory accident. My only consolation is he couldn't have felt much pain if any. Explosion, Metal flying at supersonic speeds. He was dead before you could blink.
having seen recap videos on industrial accidents, tag out, lockout is vital. And honestly if a system requires a key to enable, take that with you on top of tag out and lock out.
I read a post about someone who got a new boss who implemented a change to LOTO. Everyone had their own locks and boss wanted a key for all of them. Dude told the boss "You're not getting that key. I'm not going to let you kill me." Boss apparently rethought the policy.
I had to go into a facility to redesign all of their loto program because too many people were killed by robots. Mostly crushed or caught in between if I recall.
I’ll not even post the worst gore site I know because it definitely destroys your soul. Can only recommend people to stay away from this stuff and ignore their morbid curiosity. It’s not worth it.
And yet it's still not comparable to the real thing. I've a friend who watched this stuff to desensitise himself. But then he was on scene for a workplace FATACC, a bad one (on a par with these). He says the trauma was instant and watching gore didn't prepare him in the slightest.
Oh I am sorry for your friend. I’ve read some interviews with former cartel members who killed and tortured and all of them said that while the killing itself got easier, they cannot sleep, have nightmares and many other ptsd symptoms. I think unless one is a complete sociopath they will likely be damaged by anything related to this.
Yeah... it's hard to feel sorry for those killers, but I guess it says something faintly reassuring about the human psyche. Fortunately my friend wasn't involved in the accident himself, but I still feel he was injured through negligence: firefighters asked him to use his forklift to lift the truck, and he saw the remains drop out of the truck axle. He says the worst part was the sound.
yeah, against my better judgement I went to find that one after it got mentioned around here several times some years ago. cant unsee. but at least blur generously; thx brain.
Surprisingly that one didn't bother me too much, because I was more fascinated by what happened to the dude's body than anything else. The ones that usually get me are true stories without video, because I have nothing to focus on but the emotion.
zalurker
I once heard a technician's ring finger being degloved while working on a shovel. The power was off at the breaker when another technician ignored the tags and switched it on. A cable moved forward and hooked his wedding band through his glove. We were on top of the shovel and could hear his screams.
spinballwizardmtg
Maaatth
Birdnose
Holy fucking shit these are definitely real accidents but animated..
MoreAwesomerDan
devo27
nomorehate
Klaus approves of this message
SwedishChef350
McPuffinStuff
avastmehearty
I had to stop watching those, even as animation they are terrifying
NickRivieraMD
jesufuckincristo
DreamPhreak
Made a meme edit using this,
jethroismaxbaer5772
No, not a steamroller. That's some Looney Tunes shit.
LenzKist74
About 20 odd years in Germany, two steel press workers were chasing each other for laughs around the machines, one guy tripped, got caught up in a steel press and,.. well, was instantly pressed. One very deceased industrial-cooking-pot-shaped worker.
freshthrowaway1138
As a former safety guy on just about every site I've ever been on, these struck close to home. On a paper photo side, I preferred to use the "degloving" pictures to start my presentations and lectures. It is truly the most effective. Then the rest to add to the terror.
Horsebatteries
GreaseMonkeyOfLove
Never, ever,ever,ever,ever,ever,ever,ever,ever,ever,ever,ever,ever get complacent around a lathe, IT WILL BASICALLY BEND YOU AND BLEND YOU.
Blackfinity
Back in the late 70s in middle school we had woodshop class. Long hair was a thing in those days; kid leaned in to check something while working at a drill press with the chuck still spinning. The chuck grabbed his hair and pulled the top of his scalp off. 45 years later I can still hear the screaming. To this day I don't do anything involving power tools, hammers, jacks, stands etc without running a serious mental checklist.
ILDL
Not sure this belongs to the "funny" tag. As someone already pointed out these are recreations of people's maimings, or possible deaths.
DrDadJokes
Clockworkdancerobot
the USCSB does videos not unlike these for the still common lack of company safety practices leading to major accidents.
brownribbon
Working in a chemical plant, I watch a lot of those in my downtime.
Filanwizard
that is such a great channel, being a government agency they are right to the point with no bullshit. Its that channel where I learned iron dust is not just good as a part of thermite, but if airborne its explosive like many other dusts in enough density.
barnwolf
I was surprised in one the safety equipment was producing like twenty false alarms a day and was excessively difficult to keep calibrated correctly, so they turned the alarms off, and the USCSB was like "ya that's completely reasonable to turn those alarms off"
RalphH
kahooki
Aber Klaus...
WhyDontYouMakeMe
CrazyT2018
NZSheeps
I wondered how far down Klaus would be in the comments
OlofBorrbrottsson
Maaatth
Thewayofthebear
CorruptedOP
Chinese rollercoasters are weird
OrionKaelin
yes, that animation is a bit comical, but I don't find any of these actually amusing. Frightening and informative as they are intended I do though.
AFallenDragon
I know why they don't use the actual videos but for me I just cannot take animation very seriously. Which in my case makes these types of videos very conflicting feeling wise as they are based on real people who got seriously hurt & I laugh when I know I shouldn't. It's not something I do with the actual videos (i've seen at least one of them, not pretty), they get a cringing while ow ow owings instead.
guitar3544
Yeah these always make my brain a bit conflicted. I want to laugh because the animations are comical, but I also know they're likely all real accidents and I would never laugh at someone being seriously hurt. There's an old saying that "OHSHA regulations are written in blood" and seeing these....yeah.
guitar3544
*OSHA. Can't spell apparently.
Arenlor
Nah, your brain was spelling OH SHIT right.
Arenlor
The one where the tube just keeps going is amusing. They didn't need to include that detail.
blubberingbastard
This hurts the worker
IOftenDeleteCommentsCauseISuckAtTyping
Really doing a disservice not showing the blood. Sounds a little too dark, but as they are based on true accidents, people need to know the level of violence a simple slip of the hand can cause.
edcellente
I understood the shock effect wears off rather quickly and what do you have to top after that?
KrakedUp
As someone recently involved in a work place accident this is triggering my PTSD
Carl99
Sending some internet *hugs* your way.
TheDildoOfConsequences
I'm really sorry to hear that. I've got a friend who was on scene for a workplace accident and the consequences for him have not been funny at all. I hope you've got help getting through it.
sketchyjoe
Safety First unless it will cost us literally any money, or will take a second that could be used to make widgets, or if the boss doesnt feel like making it important.
eetsumkaus
There's a factory near me that has a sign that says "product quality first, safety always". I'm skeptical of the second part.
Hurch
Yeah, as one of my old bosses used to say "Well... be safe, but for God's sake HURRY UP!"
brownribbon
Not at all the experience I’ve had working for my company.
ThomasTheWankEnglne
what? osha can shut down a company for safety violations.
SunBrolem
As long as the local department isn't sucking down fat bribes, of course.
Corrodias
In theory. And I hope it does get to do so... but I wonder how often that actually happens.
ThomasTheWankEnglne
labor unions and anonymous reporting, theres always another job
Sageypie
My work isolates you pretty quickly if you get hurt. Before you get treated you have to fill out paperwork laying out what happened and how it was your fault. It's just, "what heppened?" And "how can you avoid this in the future?", and that is used as an admission of fault on your part, and they have used that against folk in the past.
Cheesynipnop
Tbf some employees are just walking hazards and have zero sense of awareness. You can lead a horse to water, can't make it drink.
Eroen0
If you end up hiring someone like that (because your recruitment process is to light some money on fire and pick a name from a hat), you need to give them tasks somewhere they will not be a danger to themselves or others.
Cheesynipnop
Tell me you've never worked in manufacturing the comment.
MadamPuddifoot
... Against them how? There's literally federal laws that state they have to cover work injuries, besides willful and intentional ones.
nevinera
Sure, but when OSHA comes to call, they can point at Bob and say "he wasn't following procedure", and Bob will never work in the industry again. When in reality _nobody_ was following that procedure, and the company deserves to be hurt for that. That's the point he's making - osha isn't toothless, but companies have developed excellent systems for avoiding the teeth at your expense.
ThomasTheWankEnglne
thats why bob does anonymous reporting about the company before his dumbass gets hurt.
jessemillertech
Every safety rule is written in blood. I desperately want to suspend reality and house a zany laugh track over these , or watch them hop up after the incident ,ah la Jackass, laughing at the stupid and walking it off. But sadly you all made this very real, rightfully so, and brought the brevity it deserves for these poor people, working, dying, just trying to feed their families.
blwoodcock
SHAKE HANDS WITH DANGER!
orangefactorfive
Every few months they show that on TCM.
devo27
*guitar riff*
ChrisWsrn
Many of these animations are based on real incidents. These animations are used to convey the accident to people working in these industries without showing real images.
BeaverOnFire
mizzamir
Staplerfahrer Klaus is more memorable though
cbale2000
Heck, I'm pretty sure I've seen live-leak videos of some of these incidents...
The animations features significantly less blood, thankfully...
keystotheairlock
I remember when I first saw one of these and thought, like an ass, "shame they didn't have the budget to hire real actors," and then I watched a CGI hand stuck in a gravel crusher. There aren't stunt doubles for this shit.
apostlepk
r/watchpeopledie had all the cctv footage from china for all of these back in the day
Geistbar
Similar idea as where regulations come from: "regulations are written in blood" is a saying to convey the fact that the majority of safety regulations were made because of something bad happening due to the lack of it.
Regardless of how seemingly obvious the safety failures here might be, there's still someone that was harmed by those failures, as you said.
Neurisko
Probably multiple people, to prove it wasn't a freak accident.
aducksayswhat
I think there's a similar line of thinking with "rules are made to be broken", not be read that you should aim to break rules, but that most important rules are not arbitrary and there because people were doing things you want to stop. The rule is to formalize the boundary on acceptable rather than be a judgement call
ballsoutflyer
Even those animations made me go
GreaseMonkeyOfLove
The one with the lathe is soooooooooo much worse IRL.
UnknownTongue
The ever darkening and expanding ring of blood is forever in my mind. Seeing as how I'm in that industry, it always makes me think twice and look out for my coworkers.
MyDogWasBestDog
Wrong. Not "many of these" ... All of them.
xj4low
Also used in commercial accident for insurance investigation cases. I watched one one time at a metal recycling center from when a man was run over by an automated train car that is used between a loader and facility building. When the loader turned back around with another load, he saw a half a body by the track. The other half was dragged under the rail cart.
It was in a CE class for insurance adjuster for accident scene investigation and I thought it would be over car accidents. Dark webenar
usingYourMomAsAHat
The one at 0:45 at least is real as Ive seen it, and as you might expect, it's one of those videos you regret ever watching. It's from a Chinese factory
Dissipo
Safety rules were first written in blood
JohnSmithterms
Yeah i saw some of these videos. The guy getting his shirt caught in a drill had his arm removed pretty rapidly in the one i saw.
ItTookMeAGoodWhileToComeUpWithAUsername
I’ve spent a long time on liveleak so I find that believable. However I’ve seen that claim about the videos being mostly from real incidents. Can anyone actually confirm that because so far it’s „trust me bro“?
Crustyfluffy
The lathe one. I've seen the real video. You know that morbid curiosity feeling that keeps certain websites alive? It removed that feeling from me.
ItTookMeAGoodWhileToComeUpWithAUsername
Oh it was the funky town video for me and the one with the cartel dog and the. Well I cannot unsee them and wish I could. Would pay a monthly fee to forget even.
flamingflamingo
For me it was videos of escalator accidents. I remain terrified of escalators to this day.
bumCandle
No shit
joelmcPoster
I've seen a photo of a similar incident involving a lathe, I'll never forget it, it made me very cautious around any sort of industrial machinery.
0RumRunner
My understanding is that these particular videos are not only based on real incidents, but the animations are reproductions of actual footage.
It's incredibly humbling, especially having worked around some seriously big/dangerous equipment. I only came close to getting killed once.
MyDogWasBestDog
True. The reason behind this is that if you subject people to the real videos as a training procedure they'll either quit or sue you for torturing them.
avastmehearty
I worked a summer at a company that built systems with high voltage + high current, after I went back to school one of the technicians worked on a system alone with the power on and was electrocuted. It was a small company and was catastrophic to his family and his coworkers.
TomatoPepper
A dancing wire kicked my neighbor nuts a month ago
RunsNakedThroughSwamps
RIP your neighbor's nuts
TomatoPepper
oh no, he told me (whispering) that it got really big, but after 2 weeks it was just a bruce.. Also he already has kids, so is ok. I didn't ask for that info, so imagine...
RunsNakedThroughSwamps
Free vasectomy!
spookyu
I've at the very least seen the lathe one....it was truly horrifying, I LEGITIMATELY don't recommend watching it. I've seen some shit, I was a medic in the USAF, deployed to Afghanistan 2010-2011... that lathe video was still rough to watch even for me.
Junktrunkjunkie
Friend of mine died in a factory accident. My only consolation is he couldn't have felt much pain if any. Explosion, Metal flying at supersonic speeds. He was dead before you could blink.
siimrCandyMagnet
So.. the human donut in the lathe was real? Damn..
johnvilnis
Yeah I read about how there is a series of these based on actual accidents in Japan.
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
China.
johnvilnis
Close by this much.
Siliconhobbit
Lock Out Tag Out!
DreamPhreak
i want to get off mr. lathe's wild ride
TheCornBanana
Theyre all horrific except that one that just hangs around in a harness after slaming into that scaffolding
defrostedtauntaun
I'll admit these sounds he made made me laugh.
snarkybitch
Assuming the rope didnt get around his neck somehow
HeresYourSauce
Mix of lock-out tag-out and always be mindful of where the energy in a system goes.
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
"But I don't have TIME for that! This will only take a moment to fix."
Filanwizard
having seen recap videos on industrial accidents, tag out, lockout is vital. And honestly if a system requires a key to enable, take that with you on top of tag out and lock out.
Astramancer
I read a post about someone who got a new boss who implemented a change to LOTO. Everyone had their own locks and boss wanted a key for all of them. Dude told the boss "You're not getting that key. I'm not going to let you kill me." Boss apparently rethought the policy.
The72ndRaven
For us that have never worked in industrial jobs, what is a "lock-out and tag-out?"
bangbangbangbangbangbangbangban
Wherein the repairman puts a lock and tag on the power switch of the machine being worked on, prevents them being eaten/maimed by the machine.
ChocolateCookieAndFudge
You put a big fat lock with your name on the power switch and keep the key at all time so no one can turn the machine back on until you're finished.
brownribbon
Most importantly: you verify the hazardous energy has been dissipated by trying to operate the machine before you start working.
gypsyspot
I had to go into a facility to redesign all of their loto program because too many people were killed by robots. Mostly crushed or caught in between if I recall.
Gayforbae
How many is "too many"?
dmd3eorg
50
gypsyspot
like several I think. all easily preventable though. mostly bad design and people bypassing controls out of convenience
KainLamond
I've seen the real video of some of those...
jwillustrat
Oh that sounds terrifying
KainLamond
Read the OSHA handbook and think about how every rule was made.
TheGhostOfFutureDisappointments
Safety regulations are written in blood.
zerogenix
it is rather scary just how fragile the human body can be, just giant walking blood bags
schismatosis
As spike from buffy called us humans, "happy meals with legs"
varyael
Yeah, so have I
GiftedGoldfish
My step dad's father lost his arm up to his elbow in a press sometime in the 70s
Carrera26
Yeah.... 18 years in commercial insurance, lots of incredibly unpleasant stories.
All those OSHA regs are 100% written in blood.
Lifk
I believe all of these come from original recorded chinese factory incident. Just some camera angle were different and not as clear
KainLamond
I used to work in the plants in lake Jackson. It's not all Chinese factories. There is an incident almost daily.
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ineed2killtimeok
And I thought the days of rotten.com were bad.. yikes 😳
KirbyUOR
Used to have r/eyeblegh but it got shut down a while back
ItTookMeAGoodWhileToComeUpWithAUsername
I’ll not even post the worst gore site I know because it definitely destroys your soul. Can only recommend people to stay away from this stuff and ignore their morbid curiosity. It’s not worth it.
TheDildoOfConsequences
And yet it's still not comparable to the real thing. I've a friend who watched this stuff to desensitise himself. But then he was on scene for a workplace FATACC, a bad one (on a par with these). He says the trauma was instant and watching gore didn't prepare him in the slightest.
ItTookMeAGoodWhileToComeUpWithAUsername
Oh I am sorry for your friend. I’ve read some interviews with former cartel members who killed and tortured and all of them said that while the killing itself got easier, they cannot sleep, have nightmares and many other ptsd symptoms. I think unless one is a complete sociopath they will likely be damaged by anything related to this.
TheDildoOfConsequences
Yeah... it's hard to feel sorry for those killers, but I guess it says something faintly reassuring about the human psyche. Fortunately my friend wasn't involved in the accident himself, but I still feel he was injured through negligence: firefighters asked him to use his forklift to lift the truck, and he saw the remains drop out of the truck axle. He says the worst part was the sound.
Smidge204
That lathe one...
TheAnswerWasAlwaysMoreLube
I am never going near a lathe...
Jordan7831
Ya that one is brutal…
Emjayen
There's follow up photos of what remained.
Juni0220
Only a leg remains spinning on the lathe...
Yupurineutah
But his shoes land meters away, neatly side by side, one at a time. 💀
PalaverQuader
yeah, against my better judgement I went to find that one after it got mentioned around here several times some years ago. cant unsee. but at least blur generously; thx brain.
Dalael
The russian lathe video? Morbid curiosity led me to wach it and it fucked me up mentaly for a week...
PalaverQuader
yupp, that one. taking it as a reminder that sometimes its hard to fathom what "torque" and/or "force" means if applied in high enough values.
TheGhostOfFutureDisappointments
Surprisingly that one didn't bother me too much, because I was more fascinated by what happened to the dude's body than anything else. The ones that usually get me are true stories without video, because I have nothing to focus on but the emotion.
DaveTheScientist
I feel like I don't want to watch that, but I am curious. I'm guessing the guy's body... didn't stay in 1 piece?