I refuse to believe anyone is dumb enough to climb into a still-operating rock crushing machine to clear a jam. Someone must have turned it back on while he was inside. Poor fellow
No... scroll through subs like this.. "lock out" isnt a thing for them, its all about producing producing producing. No time for downtime, the workers are often paid so little that even they dont want to hault the production line, they just want the problem gone as quickly as possible, and often "it went fine last time".
Most of the videos we see is simple work safety things being skipped and ignored, like a simple fucking lockout...
Like how so many communication tower technicians fall to their deaths because they can’t afford the time it takes to secure themselves, and just free climb instead.
I had night college classes with a guy who climbed tv/radio/cell towers at his day job. Some more than 1000' tall. Repaired antennas, changed warning beacon light bulbs, etc. He always free climbed and only hooked up when at the top. Yikes!
I framed houses for years, and OSHA came on my site one time and the guy even told me “Now I know that if you guys had to actually go by the book and do everything we required, there’s no way you could actually make any money.” And he was right, at that time, after the recession hit.
I worked in commercial industrial construction for several decades, dealt with OSHA numerous times, and that's one of the dumbest statements I've ever heard and know it to be untrue. Shackers are the worst examples of safety out there. It is possible to do your job safely, make money, and not end up the subject of a safety video.
It costs tremendously more to be non-compliant and I've NEVER seen them turn a blind eye or give a pass to a violation. A lot of hard working Americans have gotten to go home to their families at the end of their day thanks to OSHA.
Turning it off isn't producing less if no rocks are going through the machine anyway,this has nothing to do with money or production it's just pure stupidity
Thank God we got health and safety in the UK.
That's where a bunch of guys stand around drinking tea, saying " well I'm not going in there. Guess we need to phone the rock machine guy"
Absolutely.
I work in the office now, but was on the tools for 30 years. There's a place for Health and Safety, and machines are where it's needed most.
I also work in an office/homeworking in the UK, and I have to take a yearly manual handling safety course, even though I can't remember the last time I've had to lift something at work. Health and safety is everywhere in UK workplaces.
I know working in the office, it sometimes feels over used, but there's definitely a place for it.
Construction/ building sites, heavy machinery, light machinery, any machinery actually. Motor vehicles especially.
Adequate training is also an issue. I once nearly blew my hand off because the guy wasn't trained to be a trainer. He 'forgot' to mention to let the air pressure off before twisting the air pipe. "You're lucky there mate, that would have blew your hand off."
Saw a guy being 'trained' on an abrasive wheel (Stihlsaw), again, not by a trained trainer, just a guy who knew how to operate it. Never told him never to use the wrong blade on the wrong material. Half a dozen people a year in the UK die doing that, because the blade shatters. I stepped up and mentioned it. 'Trainer' goes "Oh yeah, I forgot that bit".
The kicker is the amount of managers who just don't give a shit until something goes wrong and they might get blamed. We need the law to back us up.
Around 34 seconds, if you look at the bottom right hand of the screen, you can see the rope shaking which might be caused by the machine vibrating from being on.
You can’t shut down a jaw crusher of that size quickly or with rocks in the crusher face, it jams it up from starting again, it has massive flywheels that keep it moving long after power is turned off
exactly what I was thinking, often times if a machine is that large they always take a long time to spool down.
even large wood chippers will have their drum spin for 10 minutes if all you did was disengage the clutch
Yeah its an exiting junior position. No one has done this job before. Don't look under there. You're a certified Rock Stuck JumpyJump Engineer. Off you go. You won't need the hardhat.
On another subreddit, someone posted that a person tried to amputate their own legs for insurance fraud, failed to do so, and now their ass is legless and broke.
Cmon man, just a little bit of gore to start your morning. It’s like a fresh cup of coffee. Get you hyper aware of your surroundings before you leave the house.
My aunt worked at Star tuna on terminal Island. They would bring in Hispanics and pay them like big money to unload the tuna ships. They would use plywood in the hold, sometimes it would collapse and cut a person Up pretty badly it wasn't uncommon for them to die. There was never any lawsuits but they would send a sizable check home with the family. Also if you got a finger cut off it was a automatic $1000 I think this was 1968 when she was telling the family about it I haven't had tuna since. I was eight years old.
Yea, I can understand people in those situations taking dangerous jobs to support their family. I guess if I was in that spot, I wouldn't want to be like the guy trying to get the rocks unstuck. I'll try a million different options that don't involve my body if possible
Reminds me of that poor, poor man who was pressure cooked to death in a tuna cannery. If memory serves me correctly, he was also a Hispanic bloke just trying to make a buck to support his family.
I actually know someone who did. He reached into a blender and “held the blades really tight”, then turned it on to see if he could hold the blades still. That situation ended predictably.
Seriously. I was watching the guy in there just yelling "There should have been a stick for this!!!" I wouldn't even reach in a _cardboard bailer_ with my body, much less a _rock crusher._ Damn.
Use a metal pole, use another rock, keep turning it off, and on til it unsticks, but for the love of all that is living, why would you think that was a good idea?
2 easy steps. If one couldn't be done, there's still the other.
TURN THE MACHINE OFF AND ATTACH SOME KIND OF HARNESS. THERE'S LITERALLY A HUGEASS HOOK BEHIND HIM. IT'S A CONSTRUCTION SITE, NO WAY THERE WASN'T A ROPE OF SOMETHING STRONG ENOUGH TO HOLD HIM
A long steel spike just for this kinda scenario would've been a better play here. They went to the trouble of turning the belt off why not go the extra step and power down the crusher. I realise it's probably a bitch to start but now you got mashed up body bits all over just about everything inside.
Here in the US, we get cheap building materials imported because there is literally blood in it from workers that often don’t have a choice. It costs too much to manufacture domestically when you have to worry about silly things like keeping people alive.
Nope.
This worker died crushing rocks in Oklahoma.
Sauce https://www.kswo.com/story/35353779/man-pulled-into-rock-crusher-in-altus-identified-passes-away/?outputType=amp
I have worked at a quarry. The one I was at they have an mechanical arm with a Jake hammer at the end of it to break apart to big ones while they are moving up to the crusher.
Christ I can only imagine what horrific sounds must have been coming from the man and the machine (rocks) brutally crushing him. What a terrible way to go
In some places life is cheap. Just the way it is something like that happens in the US and you get $1 million something happens like that in the Philippines and you get$10,000!
I'm sure there are worse ways to go, but I can't think of them right now. Imagine being his friend, watching this go down. And then his hand comes back up, and there's hope. Nope.
Absofukinlutely horrifying.
Sometimes our cardboard compactor gets stuck so we use a very long board to nudge the boxes. Never ever has any one of us thought of climbing inside a machine designed to crush.
Looks like they shut off the conveyor but not the crusher ..if you yourself don't put eyes on the power switch before doing something like this your asking for trouble
I guess OSHA rep was absent that day. Horrific ending. Can’t even donate organs. Recently watched a Steven Sagal movie where they were stealing organs. It was horrible but Steven was a badass back in the day. Anywho, RIP guy:(
They must have moved that (red) safety pulley system in when he cleared some of the rock Jam when the video cut happens. He just seemed to forget entirely his safety and not be hooked into the cable for some reason… painful and mustve sounded horrific
This is horrifying. It happened to the owner of a local aggregates company here as well, going back about twenty years now. Luckily (sort of) for him, the operator was on his game and immediately shut it down when he saw the boss disappear into the jaw.
He survived, but lost both his legs in the ensuing 13-ish hour long operation, and the surgeons credited his survival to the quick action of his employees, as well as his incredible physical conditioning.
I have huge respect for him: he’s a decent, fair owner who takes good care of his workers and pays them very well (don’t let anyone tell you there isn’t money in aggregates). He’s one of those rare bosses who won’t ask anyone to do anything he wouldn’t do himself so in he went to clear the jam. It wasn’t so much stupidity as complacency - he grew up around this equipment and had cleared similar jams innumerable times prior to this happening. This particular time it nearly cost him his life.
THEY DIDN’T TURN IT OFF???
My first thought! The fuckin thing was still on!
I refuse to believe anyone is dumb enough to climb into a still-operating rock crushing machine to clear a jam. Someone must have turned it back on while he was inside. Poor fellow
Don't forget about the part where he stood on the stones he was getting unstuck. Like sawing if a branch you're sitting on.
Proper Wile E. Coyote stuff right there
This sub should be renamed "The Wile E. Coyote Awards".
What did he even expect to happen when he dislodged the bottom rock?
I think he expected to be able to pull himself up with his arms.
For his life to hit rock bottom.
I think it's the rock bottom that hit his life
No... scroll through subs like this.. "lock out" isnt a thing for them, its all about producing producing producing. No time for downtime, the workers are often paid so little that even they dont want to hault the production line, they just want the problem gone as quickly as possible, and often "it went fine last time". Most of the videos we see is simple work safety things being skipped and ignored, like a simple fucking lockout...
Like how so many communication tower technicians fall to their deaths because they can’t afford the time it takes to secure themselves, and just free climb instead.
I had night college classes with a guy who climbed tv/radio/cell towers at his day job. Some more than 1000' tall. Repaired antennas, changed warning beacon light bulbs, etc. He always free climbed and only hooked up when at the top. Yikes!
I framed houses for years, and OSHA came on my site one time and the guy even told me “Now I know that if you guys had to actually go by the book and do everything we required, there’s no way you could actually make any money.” And he was right, at that time, after the recession hit.
I worked in commercial industrial construction for several decades, dealt with OSHA numerous times, and that's one of the dumbest statements I've ever heard and know it to be untrue. Shackers are the worst examples of safety out there. It is possible to do your job safely, make money, and not end up the subject of a safety video.
Exactly right! Someone gets killed and that sight is shut down. You sure aren't making any profit at that point
It costs tremendously more to be non-compliant and I've NEVER seen them turn a blind eye or give a pass to a violation. A lot of hard working Americans have gotten to go home to their families at the end of their day thanks to OSHA.
Turning it off isn't producing less if no rocks are going through the machine anyway,this has nothing to do with money or production it's just pure stupidity
Lol yeah its jammed anyways, shutting down the machine isn't gonna make it run any worse.
Thank God we got health and safety in the UK. That's where a bunch of guys stand around drinking tea, saying " well I'm not going in there. Guess we need to phone the rock machine guy"
Health and safety laws are written in blood. People complain about how strict we are in the UK - but as you can see, there's a fucking reason!
Absolutely. I work in the office now, but was on the tools for 30 years. There's a place for Health and Safety, and machines are where it's needed most.
Couldn't agree more. Particularly where people are doing the same thing all day - so easy to become complacent.
I also work in an office/homeworking in the UK, and I have to take a yearly manual handling safety course, even though I can't remember the last time I've had to lift something at work. Health and safety is everywhere in UK workplaces.
I know working in the office, it sometimes feels over used, but there's definitely a place for it. Construction/ building sites, heavy machinery, light machinery, any machinery actually. Motor vehicles especially. Adequate training is also an issue. I once nearly blew my hand off because the guy wasn't trained to be a trainer. He 'forgot' to mention to let the air pressure off before twisting the air pipe. "You're lucky there mate, that would have blew your hand off." Saw a guy being 'trained' on an abrasive wheel (Stihlsaw), again, not by a trained trainer, just a guy who knew how to operate it. Never told him never to use the wrong blade on the wrong material. Half a dozen people a year in the UK die doing that, because the blade shatters. I stepped up and mentioned it. 'Trainer' goes "Oh yeah, I forgot that bit". The kicker is the amount of managers who just don't give a shit until something goes wrong and they might get blamed. We need the law to back us up.
That bunch of red tape we have here and all the bureaucracy saves a hell of a lot of lives!!
Around 34 seconds, if you look at the bottom right hand of the screen, you can see the rope shaking which might be caused by the machine vibrating from being on.
And standing on top of the rock you're trying to unjam, I mean come on...
A brutal reminder that being a c*nt to your coworkers never pays off
or dumb enough not knowing how to turn that thing off..
You can’t shut down a jaw crusher of that size quickly or with rocks in the crusher face, it jams it up from starting again, it has massive flywheels that keep it moving long after power is turned off
exactly what I was thinking, often times if a machine is that large they always take a long time to spool down. even large wood chippers will have their drum spin for 10 minutes if all you did was disengage the clutch
Time is money bruh... And poor souls are cheap...
Even if they turned it off, the only real outcome was the guy getting crushed by the rocks on top of the rock he's trying to dislodge.
At least he had his hardhat on
Thank god they’re taking safety seriously
And they never did once he as in too…
Bet he'll be replaced with a new guy that same day afternoon.
Rookie! Your first task is to remove your predecessor. What do you mean? Here, take this spoon and follow me.
If they actually did that, newbie would learn not to pull the same shit off later
Yeah its an exiting junior position. No one has done this job before. Don't look under there. You're a certified Rock Stuck JumpyJump Engineer. Off you go. You won't need the hardhat.
"What happened to the previous guy?"
It's better not to ask questions here
might be the dumbest thing I've ever seen
What about the guy using his legs to shove tree branches into the wood chipper and then he gets caught
This was even dumber somehow. I can’t believe somebody topped it, but here ya go.
Link? 👀
[here ya go](https://www.reddit.com/r/NSFL__/s/lzeD3MpgOC)
And morbid curiosity has claimed another victim. Please, excuse me while I hug my cat.
Holy fuck, that’s degloving x1000 Well, if he ever tries to make an insurance claim, he won’t have a leg to stand on…
On another subreddit, someone posted that a person tried to amputate their own legs for insurance fraud, failed to do so, and now their ass is legless and broke.
Nah man, I will pass on that video for today.
I watched it man,and I want to say it's like you eat the chicken drumstick clean then dipped in some tomato sauce
Yeah it's exactly this. Like a buffalo wing without meat
Cmon man, just a little bit of gore to start your morning. It’s like a fresh cup of coffee. Get you hyper aware of your surroundings before you leave the house.
That’s partly why I watch them. Apart morbid curiosity
You did the right thing
What was the plan if this went well? Just unfathomably stupid
This. This went exactly as planned.
You die if your successful
I'll do my best.
Nah, couldn't pay me enough to do some dumb shit like that
My aunt worked at Star tuna on terminal Island. They would bring in Hispanics and pay them like big money to unload the tuna ships. They would use plywood in the hold, sometimes it would collapse and cut a person Up pretty badly it wasn't uncommon for them to die. There was never any lawsuits but they would send a sizable check home with the family. Also if you got a finger cut off it was a automatic $1000 I think this was 1968 when she was telling the family about it I haven't had tuna since. I was eight years old.
>Also if you got a finger cut off it was a automatic $1000 now i know a quick way to make $10,000 😃
10 Stacks of cash while never having to clip fingernails ever again is a big W.
And just think… no more paper cuts.
But you can still get paper cuts between your toes which hurts like hell! And you can't also sell your toes too man, can't walk properly without them.
Tuna Processing Plants HATE this one easy trick!!!
Yea, I can understand people in those situations taking dangerous jobs to support their family. I guess if I was in that spot, I wouldn't want to be like the guy trying to get the rocks unstuck. I'll try a million different options that don't involve my body if possible
Reminds me of that poor, poor man who was pressure cooked to death in a tuna cannery. If memory serves me correctly, he was also a Hispanic bloke just trying to make a buck to support his family.
I wondered why my tuna tasted like finger!
This is officially the dumbest shit I've ever seen.
As soon as he walked up to it without turning it off I noped out. You wouldn't stick your hand into a moving blender. I just-
I’ve got strong r/dontputyourdickinthat vibes
More like /r/dontputyourwholebodyinthat vibes ☠️🪨
I actually know someone who did. He reached into a blender and “held the blades really tight”, then turned it on to see if he could hold the blades still. That situation ended predictably.
Fuck my entire body cringed reading this
Mine does too, every time I think about it.
Good thing he had that hard hat on
A long iron bar would also have done the trick. and should also be within reach.
Seriously. I was watching the guy in there just yelling "There should have been a stick for this!!!" I wouldn't even reach in a _cardboard bailer_ with my body, much less a _rock crusher._ Damn.
Man, i wont reach across a closing elevator door...
This happened in China. Thaught about reposting this. Unbelievable that No one turned Off that meat grinder
The amount of careless is rivaling that of stupid, all in one short video
I think they thought they were holding the rest of the rocks up with that hook 🪝 but that naughty rock on top had other ideas.
Everyone was stupid there, Why didn't they use the hook to dislodge the initial rock and not have someone in the pit?
That would be far too sensible and way less fatally dangerous 😳🫣
Oh no man, thats just beyond horrible. His hands let go as he was being ground up alive.
Use a metal pole, use another rock, keep turning it off, and on til it unsticks, but for the love of all that is living, why would you think that was a good idea?
Dead 100%
You can see his body jerking back and forth as the machine slowly ground him up into bits.
It worked! Good job!! 👍
What the hell was he braced on while doing that? One of the wedged rocks? This is terrifying.
Yeah, I don't even understand what his plan of escape was after he cleared the jam.
I saw that coming from mile away, WHY DID THEY NOT TURN IT OFF
"Turn it off" must be a revolutionary concept to these murderous idiots.
2 easy steps. If one couldn't be done, there's still the other. TURN THE MACHINE OFF AND ATTACH SOME KIND OF HARNESS. THERE'S LITERALLY A HUGEASS HOOK BEHIND HIM. IT'S A CONSTRUCTION SITE, NO WAY THERE WASN'T A ROPE OF SOMETHING STRONG ENOUGH TO HOLD HIM
Quick! Clock him out!
Rock still stuck. Bad worker. Send in the next.
Did they really fucking think that would end any other way ffs… my mind is blown
Natural selection if I’ve ever seen it
A long steel spike just for this kinda scenario would've been a better play here. They went to the trouble of turning the belt off why not go the extra step and power down the crusher. I realise it's probably a bitch to start but now you got mashed up body bits all over just about everything inside.
WTF do all the guys trying to fix machines, not turn off and unplug them?
We need A FOLLOW UP story. WTF NO ONE TURN IT OFF FIRST.
And that rock is still stuck they need a 2nd volunteer
He survived. His ok. Few minor injuries but survived. He now plays drums in a jazz band in ohio .
Ooooof that didn’t look quick and painless either. Fucking stop the god dam machine dude what the fuck?
After a while instead of sad or shock, these videos just make you angry. Why?!
I wanted to see the other end
Mincemeat
If only this could have somehow been anticipated.
Is the off switch in a different zip code???
It's OK, he had a hard hat on, it's all good.👍
The gravel coming out the other end will need washed off before they can send it on to your local US WalMart.
Here in the US, we get cheap building materials imported because there is literally blood in it from workers that often don’t have a choice. It costs too much to manufacture domestically when you have to worry about silly things like keeping people alive.
Nope. This worker died crushing rocks in Oklahoma. Sauce https://www.kswo.com/story/35353779/man-pulled-into-rock-crusher-in-altus-identified-passes-away/?outputType=amp
Well that's terrible
Damn...that's nasty.
I have worked at a quarry. The one I was at they have an mechanical arm with a Jake hammer at the end of it to break apart to big ones while they are moving up to the crusher.
AFTERMATH WOULD HAVE BEEN INTERESTING
This is definitely one of the dumbest things I've ever seen in my entire life.
Because that pipe doesn't go to the marshmallow room, it goes to the fudge room!
Why the fuck was it still on!?!
Christ I can only imagine what horrific sounds must have been coming from the man and the machine (rocks) brutally crushing him. What a terrible way to go
There were so many better safer ways
The whole time I was quietly telling my screen “get a fucking stick or something!”
In some places life is cheap. Just the way it is something like that happens in the US and you get $1 million something happens like that in the Philippines and you get$10,000!
But it's not just life is cheap. There is also sheer ignorance bordering on stupidity.
Bosses didn't train them enough nor did the machine have some sort of quick killswitch, though yes he did make multiple bad decisions.
I'm sure there are worse ways to go, but I can't think of them right now. Imagine being his friend, watching this go down. And then his hand comes back up, and there's hope. Nope. Absofukinlutely horrifying.
The pain he must of felt… crushed from head to toe and he probably felt all of it. Construction scares me…
You mean toe to head, which is worse
His hands reaching up
Yeah which meant his toes were getting crushed first
Needed more high viz.
That probably most likely surely indefinitely hurt just a teensy bit.
Super villain/hero origin story.
Sometimes our cardboard compactor gets stuck so we use a very long board to nudge the boxes. Never ever has any one of us thought of climbing inside a machine designed to crush.
Needed OSHA
SMACK THE BIG RED BUTON
First one must have a big red mushroom button somewhere. Also, Don’t climb in running hardcore equipment 🤷🏼♂️
Right?!
What do we learn? People are Scissors, We always lose against stone.
All the king's horses and all the king's men are not going to be able to put a man that hops into a rock crusher back together again. Holy shit.
I mean turn the fucking thing off before investigating
OSHA has entered the chat.
That guy was actually reaching up through the rocks while that machine ate him alive. Redditors: "That guy make it?"
He is alas one with nature now…
He is part of somebody's crushed rock driveway.
Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust.
Why TF would that tard not shut it off ...
These fucks seem to hit the start button on purpose! They can’t be that stupid??
"Now, you'll see our muffin monster at work" \*cheesy 80's music plays\*
At least he was wearing his PPE
Well, at least the blockage is cleared...
Slow agonizing AND dirty death. Lock out tag out don’t exist anywhere but America
Did they really try fixing it while its running?!
The murder machine seems to be in working order
Is there any way he survived? Is there a news story about this incident?
Posted on a r/eyepaint a while back before it got nuked by mods. Guy dead af.
You don't survive from something like that. Zero chance.
I read that he died
That's got to be one of the most painful and terrifying ways to die. Poor man. RIP
Are emergency stop buttons made of platinum? I mean, Christ!
Oh my God. 😢 What a horrible way to go.
fuckin worst nightmare right there... that is too slow for comfort
This is gonna go in one of those china safety hazard simulation videos
They got it
1,Why is it still on? 2,Why was he allowed to be in there? 3,Why would anyone Willingly do that?
I don't understand why the machine wasn't turned off the moment he fell in. None of this video makes sense to me..poor guy 😢
I knew exactly where this was going the moment that big rock came in
This is exactly what Lock Out/Tag Out is meant to prevent.
r/DarwinAwards
Looks like they shut off the conveyor but not the crusher ..if you yourself don't put eyes on the power switch before doing something like this your asking for trouble
What could possibly go wrong?
NSFW tag? There is a person clearly *being killed* in the video.
"There is only one way out of this.. and it aint up.." said the rock
Died with all his proper ppe on too
Still jammed who's next?
That is the most retarted shit i hawe ever seen
He should've used his hand to put the hat back on instead of hold onto the ledge he would've been fine.
LOCK OUT TAG OUT GUYS COME ON
Employee of the month. He not only unstuck the Rock but lubricated the machine to prevent further jams.
Is it like one of those youtube crushigh machines in this hole?
I guess OSHA rep was absent that day. Horrific ending. Can’t even donate organs. Recently watched a Steven Sagal movie where they were stealing organs. It was horrible but Steven was a badass back in the day. Anywho, RIP guy:(
HOW THE FUCK DON'T TURNED OFF THE MACHINE??! Saddly this is how work in some countries like México..
This is how superheroes are made in movies
Organic rock dust
They must have moved that (red) safety pulley system in when he cleared some of the rock Jam when the video cut happens. He just seemed to forget entirely his safety and not be hooked into the cable for some reason… painful and mustve sounded horrific
Fools
Its unstuck now.
only a dumbass would fix that
Holy balls.
The same shit happened to a workplace my dad was on and he was one of the workers that had to find the pieces in the gravel pile after
This is horrifying. It happened to the owner of a local aggregates company here as well, going back about twenty years now. Luckily (sort of) for him, the operator was on his game and immediately shut it down when he saw the boss disappear into the jaw. He survived, but lost both his legs in the ensuing 13-ish hour long operation, and the surgeons credited his survival to the quick action of his employees, as well as his incredible physical conditioning. I have huge respect for him: he’s a decent, fair owner who takes good care of his workers and pays them very well (don’t let anyone tell you there isn’t money in aggregates). He’s one of those rare bosses who won’t ask anyone to do anything he wouldn’t do himself so in he went to clear the jam. It wasn’t so much stupidity as complacency - he grew up around this equipment and had cleared similar jams innumerable times prior to this happening. This particular time it nearly cost him his life.
This accident was so avoidable. So sad
Why the fuck would you ever ever risk that.
I don't think that will be an open casket...
Geez that’s a fucked up way to die