what's the dumbest safety related story you have witnessed to date?

[SICFabrications]

i watched this one.... guy working on a concrete buggy, concrete truck loses the swing cylinder. chute hanging out over dude's head, but he still steady doing the repairs on that concrete buggy. some one bumped the lever, and the concrete truck started to pour that mix all over the guy tryin to fix the buggy...... lmao!!!

[arandall]

Now that's a bad day!

Art R.

[SICFabrications]

yeah, i think i would just go home after that.... i promise!

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does anyone not have any dumber and dumbest stories to share????? come on, if you workin, surely you seen stupid stuff happen

[odleo]

Well here is one on me. Went to help a friend do some work on his bush hog. I lost the toss of th coin and got to grind off some old welds with his grinder since I did not bring mine. Now I always have the guards on mine he does not believe in them. Well as I was working to prep the area the grinder wheel exploded and of course I was not wearing my face shield but did have my safety glasses on. The got a broke nose and a couple of stitches above the bridge of nose. Also received 3 stitches in my left hand.

[Gadget]

I was trying to jerry rig a carbon arc torch by using the stinger and ground clamp to hold the carbons. Somehow I got a carbon in each hand. I was unable to let go and was shaking violently. The only thing that saved me was I shook so bad the carbon broke which opened the circuit. Both hands were smoking and burned from the carbons. I went to the floor and listened to see if my heart was still beating, I guess it was. Still scares me today over 20 years later.

[ISKI]

When I was eight years old, I was trying to make a 0 to 540 VDC power supply. I had a monster transformer, a high current bridge, and some transistor radio parts. I wired up the rectifier bridge and used some transistors from a radio to regulate the output voltage. Fortunately I did not have a power switch. When I crawled under the bench to plug the supply in the transistors instantly exploded. To this day my bedroom has a hole in the ceiling sheetrock where the steel case of the transistor had passed through as it made its way to the attic floor. The circuit board had burned and scorched silicon jelly tracks. The explosion was impressive. I am glad that I was under the table when it happened.

[odleo]

Pipe liner going down the road and his OA tanks loose, saw them wobble around in the rack on the back of his truck with the regulator still attached. When I was not able to get him stopped myself, I called state troopers and they got him stopped. Thank god the tanks did not fall off the truck. Hope he gets a huge fine and some time in the gray bar motel.

[Nick]

The clip of the Ferrari Foundry on Ultimate Factories showing a worker in an open air forklift chugging along with a nice big open top crucible full of molten aluminum through traffic.

At least if it snaps to a stop they won't have to embalm.... He'll be encased in Ferrari motor.

[gilly]

I was working on my air compressor about a month ago, it would start slowing down after it was running for a while and i was just checking it out to see if it could be fixed fairly easy or rebuilt and i had the cover off of the pulley.I was looking things over with my hand holding on to the compressor pulley,because i was standing on a milk crate so i could see things better,it is one of those stand up 60 gal. 6 hp models,when the compressor decided it needed to fill itself,because i did not unplug it before i was inspecting it.It through my hand into a little metal bracket that held the cover on and chipped the bone on my middle knuckle on my left hand.Its been a little over a month now and it hurts more now than it did the day i did it.So you know the moral of this story.

[Gadget]

So you know the moral of this story.

Yeah, let someone else inspect it next time.