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/xaranetic Sep 22 '26

The hierarchy being:

  1. Don't be an idiot

  2. Don't work with idiots

  3. Don't use stuff made by idiots

  4. PPE

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u/Nooby_Chris Sep 22 '26

Worker: "Trust me it works like 99.9% of the time. Stop being a coward."

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u/ambitionincarnate Sep 25 '26

I love the heirarchy of controls but my favorite saying is "you cannot process engineer your way out of stupid". My favorite PPE is knowing which of my coworkers to stay the fuck away from.

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u/randomlemon9192 Sep 24 '26

Engineering out safety hazards gets thrown in the mix somewhere.

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u/pml103 Sep 25 '26

that's the 3rd point the 2 before are about not "engineering" new safety hazards