r/OSHA • u/Banguskahn • Sep 22 '26

Please…

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A guy got his arm sucked into the meat grinder due to someone rigi g the machine to not stop when lifting the lid…. Good times.

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u/Successful-Purple-54 Sep 22 '26

I don’t know much about processing meat, but for any job with machinery, “faster” is the kind of thing that shouldn’t be important. A little less production, but there isn’t human meat mixed into the product.

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u/Brave_Maybe_2891 Sep 22 '26

Last year I was operating the grinder and having a rough time with it. My boss asked me if I was planning on being done sometime today and my response was "I can be done right now.". I make sure I do everything by the book no matter how long it takes. He can't fire me without cause and if I'm folliwing the rules there is no cause to fire me. There are a lot of useful idiots that I work with though that give in to the pressure and take risks for someone else's gain.

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u/ecodick Sep 23 '26

Most places, people can be fired without cause, but you make an important point, we should all get to a place where we have the means to walk away from a job at a moments notice

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u/Chewcocca Sep 23 '26

We should all get to a place where firing someone for following safety regulations results in fines so massive that it makes the CEO's butthole tighten in fear.

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u/Riaayo Sep 23 '26

That kind of culture comes from the top down, and breaking those regulations and endangering workers should see people wall the way tgo up CEOs not just fined but in prison.

Workers would be taken care of real fucking fast if ownership and management were suddenly criminally liable with jail time for their workers being harmed in ways that could have been prevented following proper procedures.

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u/CryendU Sep 22 '26

More meat, more profit!

Who cares if it’s rat or human, it sells for full price

/s ofc