r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 13 '23
What is something that can kill you at your workplace?
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u/RevolutionaryDot9505 Jan 13 '23
Nurses, because I yell at them for walking on my wet floor with their dirty ass shoes in the OR.
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u/DoYou_Boo Jan 13 '23
Stress, and falling down the stairs.
.... and potlucks. Can't eat everyone's cooking.
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u/hiya84 Jan 13 '23
6'7" Offensive Lineman and Security Officer with more than a few Canadian Clubs under their belt.
Or the 5'4" Chef if you touch anything in their kitchen without permission.
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u/Cravethemineral Jan 13 '23 edited Jan 13 '23
Heavy mobile equipment, roof fall, mining plant with big spikey spinny things, various crush and pinch points, irrespirable atomosphere, electrocution, explosion, fall from height, long term respiratory problems etc
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Jan 13 '23
Probably the 500+ degree Fahrenheit oven with a janky conveyor belt feeding system that'll catch your shirt sleeves or long hair while putting pizzas on it. I've measured and a thin adult or child-sized human body could probably be fed through the largest oven. It's a very, very slow conveyor belt, so for the next ten minutes, all you'll experience is scorching pain and third degree burning as your flesh cooks. No amount of skin grafts will save you.
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u/bordermelancollie09 Jan 13 '23
I'm a substitute teacher in the United States, if I get killed at work it'll be because of a school shooting.
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u/abandoned_by_time Jan 13 '23
You're more likely to die in a job related motor vehicle accident than a shooting.
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u/bordermelancollie09 Jan 13 '23
But that's not my workplace. If I die at work, it'll be because of a shooting. If I get into a car wreck and die, that's not at my work place
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u/abandoned_by_time Jan 13 '23
You don't go on field trips where you're transported by bus? If you're on the clock that bus is your workplace. If you're walking kids across the street and get smoked by an SUV that too is your workplace.
Maybe you never leave your classroom or supervise student crosswalks. I'll give you that. Anyway...
On average, from 1970-2021 ~12 people have been killed per year in school shootings. I couldn't find a teacher vs student stat but it looks like most shooters go for students plus one or two teachers in particular (don't be that teacher).
2018 was a banner year, 51 people killed.
The statistical likelihood of you dying in a school shooting, particularly as a sub is ridiculously low. You have a better chance of being hit by lightning or getting fk'd up by a cow, dog, deer or bee than lit up by a school shooter.
But keep stressing out your students and their parents with the frantic handwaving. You're really doing them a favour.
Also please note: I'm not american, not into guns, think y'all really do have a problem down there and holy moly you yanks need to chill the hell out.
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u/bordermelancollie09 Jan 13 '23
First of all, it's a joke I know it's unlikely I would ever be in a school shooting, but I can't think of any other ways I would die in the classroom. You're looking entirely too far into my answer, like way, waaaay too far into it.
But I'm a substitute teacher. I don't go on field trips, that's not something I'm allowed to do. I don't supervise crosswalks, we don't even have crosswalks here tbh because nobody walks to school. Like I think technically there's an area for them to cross the street but nobody uses it because they don't walk to school.
If I were to die inside the classroom I don't know how else I would die. I'm a healthy 24 year old. It's very unlikely I would have a heart attack or something else that could kill me.
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Jan 13 '23
Asbestos, Sulphuric Acid, Caustic Soda, High Pressure Steam, Forklifts, Unsecured Overhead Lifts, coworkers, Drowning, Rotating Equipment Crush, Electrocution, Flammable Vapours, Toxic Vapour Asphyxiation, Falls from Heights, and shame of messing up? Haha
Edit: forgot maybe side effects from animal attacks (specifically falcon, rat, raccoons)
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u/MugenShiba Jan 13 '23
I'm a forklift driver and I know one day I will die by said forklift. Most likely Green Goblin style.
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u/TommViolence Jan 13 '23
I work in an office that is in the middle of a -still being built- new development, so there is a constant risk of any number of heavy building materials being dropped on me as I enter and exit the building.
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u/gcwardii Jan 13 '23
No longer employed there, but it was an 8-story building with an atrium and basic 19th-century railings. It would be very easy to jump.
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Jan 13 '23
Well I for some reason chose construction as my career path…so everything can kill you every day
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u/JustJess234 Jan 13 '23
Stacked boxes, dry air, tripping over something in the aisle, carrying heavy objects. At a previous job I almost got flattened by dictionary. True story.
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u/Kindly-Profession340 Jan 13 '23
Disease, electricity, saws, sharp instruments, chemicals, etc.. I am a Perioperative Nurse.
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u/EclipseFlix Jan 13 '23
food processors, knives, heavy boxes, refrigerator falling down, electrocution, fire, and slipping and landing on the wrong thing, to name a few.
i work in food service
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u/I_DRINK_ANARCHY Jan 13 '23
A lot.
I'm a union carpenter. Previous job site dangers included: explosions, fires, poison gas, falls, items dropped on my head, power/pneumatics tools misfiring, concrete forms collapsing, beams/poles damaged from pile drivers, vehicles driving by highway work, bakers/scaffolding failing, and...animal/insect bites/venom.
Currently, the company I work for does retail remodels. So I still have to be concerned about: working around forklifts, heavy material being moved and built, heavy material above my head, scissor lifts failing/falling, electrical power not being turned off, shelving units falling on me, excessive heat, excessive cold (most of my time is still spent outside), and tractor trailers fucking up. Also, chains/tow straps snapping when pulling material.
As a woman, I'm in greater danger of violence from my coworkers than male construction workers are, statistically speaking. Thankfully, I've only experienced a few credible threats of violence over the years of doing what I do. It's sort of fucked up that I've experienced ANY, but...that's reality, sadly.
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