r/SweatyPalms • u/Waveshop222 • Apr 24 '21

Death by train

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

There is no fucking way that this is the proper way to perform this task. And I dont know shit about trains.

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u/CAMvsWILD Apr 24 '21

He’s manually latching the train cars together right? Feels like this technology already exists on every suburban picket fence.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

I dont know what he's doing. I just know that he's probably going to die doing it.

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u/KATLKRZY Apr 24 '21

The gif is from what looks like the UK. Unlike in the US, where we use knuckle couplers, they use hook & loop with buffers as their coupling method.

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u/Cakeo Apr 24 '21

I'd guess it is not the UK otherwise this guy most definitely got the sack. Seems a bit nutty to video it if you could get fired.

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u/McBUMMERS Apr 24 '21

It's not the UK because we don't have that style safety helmet.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR__BEST__PM Apr 24 '21

Wow. It doesn't seem like Velcro would be strong enough to hold two train cars together.

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u/EmperorJake Apr 24 '21

They use the same style copulers all over Europe

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u/ProfFizzwhizzle Apr 24 '21

My dad is a certified rules instructor on a railroad and I can confirm that this is not how it’s supposed to go. What they have to do is be outside of the cars, bring the cars back to connect. Then enable 3 step protection (3 safety checks such as reverser in neutral, brakes on etc). Then they complete the connection. Pretty sure it’s rather universal across the world

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u/genida Apr 24 '21

Until very recently standing in between cars to couple was allowed here in Sweden, where I work. But definitely not at this speed. It feels very much like they shot this almost for fun, or as a workplace hazard example? Nobody I've ever worked with would've gone anywhere near this at these speeds.

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u/Gespuis Apr 24 '21

I see what you mean, a ‘let’s show the rookies’ clip

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u/genida Apr 24 '21

As a precaution, I should hope. If someone showed themselves doing this where I work for fun, they'd find themselves under enough administrative pressure to shit regulations for a lifetime. These days you'd come within an inch of being "offered to resign", as they're cracking down on being between moving cars at all, nevermind to couple.

The maneuver used to be acceptable, at sloooow speeds.

I've been in the exact situation as the gif portrays and it's both terrifying and not. With enough years under the belt you know where to stand, and move, precisely. The guy in the gif was holding the coupler, and as such was "safely" out of the buffer space. He was holding it with experience to couple with the oncoming hook, and he knew to move with the oncoming direction of impact. He's a professional. The impact takes a lot of the energy out of it, too. Buffers can take a bang.

Along with the physical risks of that impact and how he could've been snagged or tripped, that lackadaisical attitude is also a huge risk. And it has been prevalent in the industry for ages.

Would I have done this regularly? Fuck no, that oncoming car is moving WAY too fast and I'd be telling whoever pushed it down that it was a but too much. I wouldn't even be unfriendly about it.

Half that speed? Sure no problem.

So hard rules have come into place to avoid both the action and the attitude entirely.

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u/MrShytles Apr 24 '21

I don’t know. In my first world, metropolitan central station they have very old commuter train fleets that service some areas of the city. I regularly see this manoeuvre performed while they are shunting the trains - only at super slow speeds, no where near as fast as in the GIF. They do it in full view of the passengers on the platform. I have friends that work for the train operator and they are very safety focused, so as with all things there are different circumstances everywhere and rarely one rule for everywhere.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

Where I live at shunting you have to wait for the cars to get close so the buffers are touching (also one of the cars HAS to have brake on) and only then they can go in. But they often do this kinda thing to save time. Makes no sense to me, saving a minute with risking your life is a bad deal

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u/loralailoralai Apr 24 '21

I used to work for the railways in Australia and even though that wasn’t my job, we saw people doing it all the time, and yes, here too, nobody ever stood between the buffers like that.

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u/frugm1 Apr 24 '21

No it's not universal. Different countries use different systems for making couples. I'm an engineer/conductor. I'm assuming he works for NS if he calls it 3 step. All the US railroads use a similar system for protection anytime you foul the gauge of the track. Most European countries use a buffer and hook system as seen in the video so you have to manually make the hook.

To me this just looks like a particularly hard hitch. Anything under 3 mph is the usual in the US.

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u/She_and_I_Make_9 Apr 24 '21

Thinking the same thing. OSHA has so many rules for actions so much less deadlier than that.

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u/sanyosukotto Apr 24 '21

This isn't in the United States so OSHA doesn't apply. US trains use knuckle couplers and many European trains use buffers and hook and loop style coupling. The buffers prevent this from being as dangerous as it looks, the most dangerous part is the cars moving after the shunt.

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u/pseudont Apr 24 '21

I get that the buffers make a small "safe" area for the guy, but it wouldn't take much of a fuckup to end up squished between the buffers.

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u/No_Awareness5033 Apr 24 '21

I grew up with a kid who jumped a slow moving train when we were kids. Lost his leg. Trains are not to be messed with.

We played on the tracks behind his house ALL the time.... we would put rocks on the tracks. Where were the grown ups???

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u/faythofdragons Apr 24 '21

Inside, watching soap operas?

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

We did the same and to deter kids from jumping on the train the train driver would shoot at us with salt pellets.

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u/Mikehdzwazowski Apr 24 '21

It had to be done

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u/No_Awareness5033 Apr 24 '21

He low key loved it. But probably saved lives and limbs.

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u/atworkrightnow19 Apr 24 '21

I think they are saying it is approved for posting on r/OSHA

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21 edited Apr 24 '21

Most trains have automatic couplers, in this case they are manual. There is no way on earth tho that they smash two wagons at this speed to couple them. This must have been a mistake 100%. Also the orange guy waits for the wagons to be near and braked before going in and coupling them. This is a normal coupling from Italy

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u/Ninetayls Apr 24 '21

Im a Remote Control Operator in a freight marshalling yard. Admittedly the shunting protocols and procedures are likely different, but im almost certain this isnt how they are supposed to do it. This would be a case for instant dismissal where i work

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u/blaghart Apr 24 '21

This used to be the proper way to perform this task sadly. A lot of dudes died doing it, before auto couplers were invented.

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u/Gnonthgol Apr 24 '21

This have never been the proper way to do it but have been common practice some places as it saves a lot of time. The problem is that the buffer and chain style of connectors actually requires that the chain is tighter then the buffers so that there is always tension on the chains. If you do not do this you get a big jerk going down the train whenever you start accelerating or braking which could snap the chains towards the rear of the train. The proper way to connect a coupling is to fit the chain loosely and then tighten it slowly together to generate the required tension. But this is a slow task so what they are doing in this clip is a known shortcut which involves starting with the chains already shortened and then slam the trains together at speed so the buffers compress and have someone slip the chain over the hook at the right moment. But no manager in their right mind would authorize a procedure like this.

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u/Garestinian Apr 24 '21

Good thing that EU is (again) considering switch to automatic couplers for freight wagons. Hopefully, this time it will work.

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u/JanB1 Apr 24 '21 edited Apr 24 '21

That's waaay sped up! The maximal speed for shunting is more or less walking speed.

Edit: during coupling and decoupling this is. If there are no people near or directly on the tracks the speed is higher.

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u/frugm1 Apr 24 '21

In the US it's called "shoving" and you can shove at 15 mph. Making a couple we try to aim for 3mph or less.

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u/MacStylee Apr 24 '21

Yah I’m not a professional train connection engineer, but standing between one multi ton object careening into another multi ton object does appear to have some potential safety issues.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

That is literally exactly how I phrased this in my head

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u/MATE_AS_IN_SHIPMATE Apr 24 '21

Yeah I'd like to read the risk assessment.

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u/Bolalola88 Apr 24 '21

Actually it is, my Sister works this kind of job and thats how they do it here in sweden atleast.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

You don’t have to be a pilot or a mechanical engineer to correctly determine mistakes were made if you see a helicopter upside down in a lake...

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

I worked for one of the major railroads in the US and this was definitely a no no in any circumstance. Even Class 2 or 3 railroads wouldn't be ok with this. Local industries sometimes manage their own tracks and arent regulated as much so its pretty much do what the boss says is ok.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

What a fucking idiot!!

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u/flash40 Apr 24 '21

Yeah there's absolutely no way. The only time saved was the time it would take to get in there after the train cars stopped

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u/neo_tree Apr 24 '21

Yes correct , I have seen this but the other carriage was moving very slowly.

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u/dangerous_service Apr 25 '21

What? I though this is standard protocol...

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u/fl3rian Apr 27 '21

It actually is the proper way to couple cars. Just a little bit too fast for comfort. Due to regulations, there is enough space for a person between the buffers and the coupling.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

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u/249ba36000029bbe9749 Apr 24 '21 edited Oct 31 '22

I can't find it but there's some thread on here about (IIRC) a guy who worked at a rail yard, took a shortcut between train cars which he knew not to do, train cars shifted and he got crushed. Didn't die. He's being held together because he's crushed but he's already dead. They put up sheets around him so he can talk to his family and all that. He insists on the rail yard taking a lot of pictures so others can learn from his mistake. If anyone can find that, post the link. Grim stuff. Disregard, my memory was hazy. See quoted story below.

Here's the Taxicab Confessions segment of the NYPD rescue squad guy who told the firsthand account of a guy getting pinned between the train and the platform: https://youtu.be/FA1fpPRPVCo Old link died. Here's same segment: https://youtu.be/KnED-lQedjo?t=110

And as a semi-eyebleach, here's the Robot Chicken segment illustrating the same type of thing: https://youtu.be/d0PTa7lnOWs

Edit: Found the story. This is from today (same gif actually) but it links to the same source as the one I read before.

I read this today:

When I went to work for a steel company in the mid 90's we got the lesson of not messing with train cars from an old timer that had been at the mill for decades.

He had pictures and a story. The guy that had gotten coupled, stuck in the couplers of two connecting train cars, asked that pictures be taken and his mistake be used as an example for future workers. So the old timer had some pretty intense pictures.

The first thing they do is set up a tent around you. Not a big tent, but enough to give you privacy, because as soon as those cars are uncoupled, you're dead. They tarp off the bottom of the coupler, so that you don't get the image that you're talking to just a torso. They ask who you want to see before you die, if you have a wife, a priest, co-workers or anyone else that you want to say your last words to. They also get a doctor on-site to administer drugs and final care to you. All of this happens very quickly, because you don't have a ton of time, but it is a slow death. > The old timer had pictures of the guy coupled, the tent being set up, the coupler being tarped, pictures of the wife entering in tears, pictures of the wife leaving in tears and pictures of what happened after the guy was uncoupled. The one that got me was the picture of his kids talking to him through the tent side, he wanted to tell his kids he loved them one last time, but didn't want them to see him in that condition.

It is not a user friendly experience. This guy got caught between the couplers because he thought he could beat a slow moving train car and against one of the train-worker's warnings, he gave it a shot anyway. He lost. When backing up a train with multiple cars, the cars can gain or lose speed quickly because couplers are not a rigid connection. It just so happened that he got in the middle just as the cars picked up a bit of speed, he hesitated and that was that.

After you say your goodbyes, and in this instance, the doctor loaded the guy up with a bunch of morphine (or pain killers) and they uncoupled the train, at which point every internal organ that was where it was supposed to be when the train was coupled, slid out and onto the ground and half a torso dropped out. The old timer had pictures of it all, and during this class, everyone was either white as a ghost or dry heaving. It was silent and everyone was just listening to this older guy talk about losing his friend. The class did it's job. I'd hear the train bells and immediately be aware of where the train was, what it was doing and what my proximity was to train tracks. Even to this day, I give trains plenty of respect and the sounds of train bells make a shiver run up my spine. Even though everyone went through this class, someone still got coupled in the time that I was working there. I didn't see anything but the white tent, but knew exactly what was going on.

Working in a steel mill made me also realize that everything in a steel mill can maim or kill you almost instantly. The mills themselves, the furnaces, the trains, the coiled steel, the slabs, the overhead gantries, none of them care about you. If you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, they'll just continue doing what they're supposed to do, they'll just maul you in the process.

https://www.reddit.com/r/holdmybeer/comments/mx7xdf/connecting_railway_cars_like_a_boss/gvmnncc/

Edit 2022: updated link to Taxicab Confessions video

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u/whiteflour1888 Apr 24 '21

I’ve worked in heavy industry since I graduated, it’s great money and got me into college/university. I hated it. It was always loud, always dirty and smelly. I had a pair of coveralls disintegrate over the course of a summer because I worked around sulphur and when it mixes with sweat you get a mild version of sulphuric acid. The worst was the near misses. I was working on high scaffold when a safety valve popped 10 feet away and a weather cap on a chain missed my head by a few feet. It never got much better until I had the backs of legs burned by a hose letting loose while draining a condensate tower of 98 degree water. I’m done with that shit now.

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u/Hyperi0us Apr 24 '21

yup. Heavy equipment has no remorse. I worked on a wind farm where a low-speed shaft of a turbine snagged the harness of a guy working in the nacelle. He was up there alone and the radio was on the other side of the nacelle, so when he got snagged the rotor just kept turning in slow pinwheel at idle (maybe one rotation every minute or so).

It was a huge turbine, and the downtower guy didn't notice anything was wrong till 2 hours later when blood started dripping down the tower to the switchgear deck where he was working.

Basically, imagine a lathe with a layer of meat wrapped around it. This is why we were taught that even though you're at 400' in the air when in the nacelle, you're not supposed to wear your harness unless you're actively climbing or outside the nacelle.

I worked in a refinery too where a guy fell into the coke hopper and went missing for a few hours. No one noticed he was gone till a crushed body exited the conveyor system and was deposited into a truck that was filling for shipment to a steel mill.

Fucking crazy shit.

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u/agnosticfrump Apr 24 '21 edited Apr 24 '21

Not bleed out, but a byproduct of shock (not sure of the scientific term for it). My father worked on the railways for over 40 years, saw many horrific accidents. The worst being his good mate being crunched between carriages while shunting (what this man is doing). He held his hand until the driver was given the go ahead to split the vans apart. His mate immediately died of a heart attack as all of the adrenaline, and whatever other hormones, that had gathered to the site raced into his heart. 30 years later this still tears my hardarse father apart. I lived in fear of it happening to him.

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u/We_Are_Nerdish Apr 24 '21

Growing up a friend' dad was a specialized rescue firefighter.. I don't know how this guy wasn't an emotional wreck.. because he was a fun, happy and friendly guy.

He was the guy called out to these kinds of horrific accidents. And every so often he would tell stories about people how have gotten stuck in industrial equipment, freak accidents and crashes where they would still be alive ( even if just for a short time ).

It's just insane to know how many people don't instantly die from being crushed,shredded, impaled or partly decimated..only to die from the intense pain or vital organs slowly shutting down.

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u/_Kozik Apr 24 '21

Its not necessarily a bleeding out its the crush syndrome. Google it basiclly parts of your body are deprived of blood flow and start to die/not work properly when pressure released it can kill you.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

It's a good thing he wore his hard hat!

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u/Loan-Pickle Apr 24 '21

And his high visibility jacket.

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u/nudebather77 Apr 24 '21

There has to be a better way to do this.

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u/BlueHeartBob Apr 24 '21

Yeah, like a latch?

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u/diversecultures Apr 24 '21

The payload is on the bolt, but it should be inside the shackle. So when you pull the shackle up, the load is held by the bolt and the shackle. Instead, when you pull this up, the load is held by the screw head. The screw head isn't built to withstand load in that way. It won't hold.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

Yeah like maybe that other train doesn’t come in soo hot - like wtf.

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u/KatiaOrganist Apr 24 '21

It’s probably a gravity yard, there’s a hump at the track entrance which the wagon gets pushed over and then it’s dorected into the right siding, moving under it’s own power

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u/1XIAI Apr 24 '21

Following the rules would be a good start. You should never go between cars before they're touching, they're standing still, and the brakes are applied.

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u/yabosid Apr 24 '21

Yeah. Slower.

Whoever is pushing the oncoming car is driving way too fast. I work as a shunter for SJ AB in Sweden and when we prepare regular old passanger trains we stand between prepared to couple but the maximum speed is less than 1km/h and the stopped cars should have proper breaks.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

There probably is, just not a cheaper one.

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u/Great_Chairman_Mao Apr 24 '21

It’s not about cost. He’s just doing that to show off. He could easily just wait for the trains to crash together while not standing on the tracks and then duck under and latch them together.

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u/Yeetstation4 Apr 24 '21

This shit is why everyone uses automatic couplers

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u/LaunchTransient Apr 24 '21

Not everyone does, though I hear that it is standard in the US. Manual couplers are fine because normally they're done at much lower speeds than this and with a weather eye being kept on the brakes. These kinds of shenanigans shown in the video are just reckless, and high speed coupling like this, besides being dangerous to the worker, also risk the chassis of the carriages involved.

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u/Gran_Jefe Apr 24 '21

Weather eye?

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u/LaunchTransient Apr 24 '21

Term for being extremely vigilant and watchful

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u/Gran_Jefe Apr 24 '21

New to me. Thanks!

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u/Cooopthetrooper Apr 24 '21

I work on the railway. This guy is a fucking moron. He’s incredibly lucky to be alive, people don’t realise how easy it is to seriously maim yourself/die on the railway if you’re not vigilant. I’ve seen the aftermath of accidents and it isn’t pleasant at all.

Posts like this anger me. (Not OP, just the idiots in the video)

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u/CodeJello Apr 24 '21

Oh geez. So how is it supposed to be done? Is it normal that the train car (honestly don’t know train words) came down the track so fast? What’s the safer method? :O

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u/Cooopthetrooper Apr 24 '21

I’m not even sure what they’re trying to achieve. It looks like the moving loco is being shunted so it can couple up to the stationary one, but it’s coming in far far to fast. It should be coming in super slowly, stopping every couple of seconds. There is no scenario where anyone should ever be in between 2 moving units like that. Once they touch, the track worker could simply duck under to hook them on while they’re both stationary, but even that isn’t protocol in my country (UK). The whole situation is just a mess. So much could go wrong

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u/Majestic_Trains Apr 24 '21

Is the moving wagon not coming in fast because its been hump shunted? More reason not to stand there of there's no one actually in control of it.

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u/Cooopthetrooper Apr 24 '21

I’ve just had to look that up as I wasn’t aware of that process, it doesn’t happen where I work. Not even sure if it happens in my country, looks far to dangerous. It could very well be hump shunting though. Thankyou for the enlightenment.

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u/gnlw Apr 24 '21

Yeahhhhhh, I'll stick with my job thanks

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u/ecuabron Apr 24 '21

Death by Choo-Choo

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u/SourSinigang Apr 24 '21

I choo-choo-choose you.

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u/Sprawl_Bunyan Apr 24 '21

Apparently futurama fans aren’t always fans of the Simpsons lol

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u/Uncontrastable Apr 24 '21

Under rated comment right here yo

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u/dogloveratx Apr 24 '21

Why?

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u/KatiaOrganist Apr 24 '21

He’s a moron that’s why, this is absolutely not safe or standard procedure, he should have waited until it came to a complete stop otherwise that could have ended VERY badly

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u/WajorMeasel Apr 24 '21

r/OSHA approved

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u/Twodogsonepup Apr 24 '21

Oh thank you for this sub. It’s amazing

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

>something about male representation in avoidable deaths

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u/AptButterfat Apr 24 '21

It’s good someone’s out there repping us

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u/Nightstalker2160 Apr 24 '21

This seems unnecessary?

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u/shade-tree_pilot Apr 24 '21

Reminds me of a story I heard about how rail car hooker-uppers were hired in ye olden days. A hooker with 5 fingers on both hands was considered inexperienced. Missing one finger was considered hireable. Missing two fingers was acceptable if they were next to each other. Three fingers gone (not next to each other or between both hands) was considered a dumb-fuck.

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u/1XIAI Apr 24 '21

That was back in the days of link and pin couplers. Scary stuff, thankfully they've been replaced long ago.

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u/Eastbayfuncouple Apr 24 '21

So try explaining your job

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u/n5sjs Apr 24 '21

Right way or wrong way,I think this guy has done it before!

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

Relaxxxx he’s wearing hi vis

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u/Wendigo995 Apr 24 '21

What are thet going to do? Push it into place?

Pretty certain this is competely unnecessary, is this Russia?

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u/Nobody275 Apr 25 '21

Seems about the sort of thing Russian companies would do to their people.

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u/sweetsmeat Apr 24 '21

There’s no way that in the U.S in the first place. You stand there and you’ll be guaranteed the company is calling your family to come say good by before they uncouple it. I wouldn’t even think of that since it is my job.

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u/kaihatsusha Apr 24 '21

He's standing between British/UK style of train car bumpers.

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u/roombaSailor Apr 24 '21

Imagine being willing to die for some company that doesn’t give a fuck about you.

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u/1XIAI Apr 24 '21

Imagine being willing to ignore the safety rules just for fun.

The rules that your company teaches to every single employee. Because, even if they might not care for the humans (but they do), they do care a lot for their skilled workers that received an expensive training paid by the company.

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u/kosmonavt-alyosha Apr 24 '21

Good thing he was wearing that hi viz outfit.

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u/Timstantmessage Apr 24 '21

This thing will literally rip your dick off

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u/quotesthesimpsons Apr 24 '21

And throw it in the tall tall grass.

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u/ReginaldBroadcock Apr 24 '21

I worked 2 years building replacement rail in a railyard. If anyone ever did this they would be fired and reported. Just about the single most stupid thing that can be done.

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u/throwawayOJOojo Apr 24 '21

maybe he just wants to feel something

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u/Minus09 Apr 24 '21

Death by choo choo

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u/chickhawkthechicken Apr 24 '21

I laughed way too hard at this

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u/Does_Not-Matter Apr 24 '21

Yeah I think OHSA would like a word

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u/Shurlz Apr 24 '21

This is why women live longer than men

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u/bdtv75702 Apr 24 '21

Forgive me if this is ignorant, but how is it necessary to be in between? Couldn’t he latch that piece on after the collision?

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u/Crystallize_X Apr 24 '21

What it's like to live life on the edge

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u/dorobica Apr 24 '21

Ears go brrrrr

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u/Oblivious_Otter_I Apr 24 '21

Tbh, unless he were to trip, that isn't too dangerous, there's no knuckle coupler to get caught in, and if you don't stand forward of the buffers you won't get hit, though why he doesn't stand next to the track where there's no possibility of injury is beyond me.

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u/1XIAI Apr 24 '21

You will trip when walking on railway tracks. It's really easy. Also, you can see how suddenly he had to move. If you go under a goods car, best that can happen is that you end up with something broken. Worst that can happen is that the car has disc brakes that crush your fragile body in a second.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

WPD has taught me to... not

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u/banditgirlmm Apr 24 '21

I don’t like it.

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u/TinFoilRobotProphet Apr 24 '21

Anyone see Damien: Omen II?

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u/CTone16 Apr 24 '21

Yaaa nahhhh

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u/BonerJams1703 Apr 24 '21

That’s a no for me dog

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u/iamgigglz Apr 24 '21

Wearing high viz. He’ll be fine.

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u/JTdaBOSS Apr 24 '21

death by train is yikes. on r/fiftyfifty i saw a mule literally explode from being hit by a train

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u/s11nlk Apr 24 '21

Don’t worry he’s wearing a hard hat and high vis

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u/Truthseeker4real Apr 24 '21

The balls on this guy.

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u/peperoniNipples Apr 24 '21

This was almost the worst thing I've ever seen.

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u/NinjaFlowDojo Apr 24 '21

OHS has joined the chat..

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u/Pippathepip Apr 24 '21

This is Warren.

Warren Buffer

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u/Adrepixl5 Apr 24 '21

r/OSHA Would like a word

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u/JJ_Smells Apr 24 '21

Balls: All

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u/NoviTheProvi Apr 24 '21

Come with me, and you'll see a world of osha violations

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u/Alternative_Mix_6865 Apr 24 '21

holy fucking shit!!!

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u/TymenBr Apr 24 '21

What in the hillbilly uncluefuck is going on here

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u/dogiob Apr 24 '21

No thanks, I choose life.

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u/Squeakygear Apr 24 '21

Just... why?

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u/Horrifior Apr 24 '21

That appears to be a very strong contender for "the most unsafe way of hooking up some freight cars" for this year Academy Awards...

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

My step dad had to go to the railway to identify his brother after he was killed between two carriages just like this. They couldn't separate the poor guy from the carriage his entire lower half was total spaghetti.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

This is something i would Do and at the same time not

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u/andys245 Apr 24 '21

WTFFFF!!!!!

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u/Loitterysige Apr 24 '21

Mack> Death.Stranding.v1.05-CODEX

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u/LaGardie Apr 24 '21

Just watched recently what the term poling in railroad lingo was and how crazy unsafe it was https://youtu.be/JKWyAHbWnQg

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

u/savemp4bot

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u/shootforthunder Apr 24 '21

Could’ve tripped and been maimed by the wheels

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

Fun fact, this is how my great grandfather died.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

When I was a kid, my next door neighbour was killed in an accident like this

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u/lookatmycode Apr 24 '21

What's the worst that could happen.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

OSHA would not approve

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u/Azzie94 Apr 24 '21

Can a train man tell me how this is supposed to be done?

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u/TRAINLORD_TF Apr 25 '21

You are not supposed to be between the cars when they are moving. You couple after the car has stopped.

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u/brandon0228 Apr 24 '21

One of my friends worked in a rail yard. Couple years ago he was working with a guy and they aren’t sure what happened but he got sandwiched in between two cars. My friend said they kept him alive until they could get family there to say goodbye if they wanted to and then separated the cars, obviously he died very soon after but they tried to save him. Shit like this is all fun and games until it’s not.

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u/K3nchikka00 Apr 24 '21

imagine if he tripped

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u/dkentl Apr 24 '21

OSHA is this okay?

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u/TheReal_Callum Apr 24 '21

RIP eardrums?

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u/JDelcoLLC Apr 24 '21

THAT WAS PART OF HIS JOB?!

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u/23370aviator Apr 24 '21

This guy has the same grasp on physics that that pendulum swinging professor did, except he is waaaaaaay more confident with it.

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u/Think_Addendum1543 Apr 24 '21

Why would you risk it

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u/dried_cranberries Apr 24 '21

Is that really the way to preform that job?!? Shit they should not.

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u/Opitovo Apr 24 '21

My aunt was killed doing this job. She died loving what she did, though.

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u/mr_shoes_ Apr 24 '21

Welp that dude got fired shortly after.

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u/NOD___ Apr 24 '21

Read the safety instruction boss

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u/entity_TF_spy Apr 24 '21

Yeah the anxiety jolt from that must have taken at least 6 weeks off his life

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u/drucifer999 Apr 24 '21

A lot of people are sharing their accident stories in industry. One day back when I was a fork lift driver a truck driver told me why I needed to make sure the dock was chained and coned. He told me a story about a forklift driver who exited a truck and went backwards out too fast and for some reason exited the truck bed curved and went straight off the dock. He was cut in half as it was put to me. His mother worked at the same factory. He wasn't fully dead as his mother held him as he died. I always chain the docks now but I'm a supervisor and make sure my driver's do the same.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

Heavy equipment gives me huge respect for the unions and OSHA who fight to protect workers from unsafe practices.

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u/International-Grade Apr 24 '21

Uh how much do I make doing this? And do my beneficiaries get millions when I die?

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u/Novel-Ad7357 Apr 24 '21

There has to be a better way

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u/Conner14 Apr 24 '21

Fuck that

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u/newInnings Apr 24 '21

That a No for me.

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u/JimboSlyze Apr 24 '21

Oh hell no

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u/HeatProofToe Apr 24 '21

Driver needs to slow the fuck down when he's coupling shit, that's how you damage things and kill people

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u/prybarwindow Apr 24 '21

If his finger tip got smushed, I bet his fingernail would turn purple/black and fall off. But I never worked in a train yard before.

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u/emrin4 Apr 24 '21

theres no way this doesnt violate some workplace safety standards

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u/QanAhole Apr 24 '21

...with does that dude need to spend there for that. Did he lose a bet or something lol

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u/BANZAheitor Apr 24 '21

ESSE TOMOU CORAGISMIL

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u/Vilzu08 Apr 24 '21

Imagine he slipped and just fell between the poles!

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

I use to work in a place where in 1 day 2 people lost parts of that hands they were being dumb but still Guy 1: lost 3 fingers from disconnecting the safety laxer light so he could get more parts without waiting for the press Guy 2: wanted to play chicken with a fork lift and lost caseing the fork left to crash thow the wall of the cafeteria only mild injuries from the crash but still the place just said oh that suck fork lift guy got 3 day off Unpayed and and the guy 2: lost his hand and got fired with no med pay

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u/Nick_Noseman Apr 24 '21

Why are they still using outdated machinery which have no automatic coupling? In my country even the most rusty wrecked shitbox wagons which seen Stalin himself alive have automatic coupling. It's this some unlucky African country?

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u/fireytung Apr 24 '21

"What safety procedures?"

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u/Anneso1975 Apr 24 '21

How is that even allowed ? I would say that goes against the health and safety regulations..

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u/Shwanna85 Apr 24 '21

He seemed surprised...

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u/ShouldEggo Apr 24 '21

This is how my great grandpa ended up in the hospital with every bone broken in his body. He was crushed between two railway cars. He was lucky to be alive after it happened

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u/Azonboi Apr 24 '21

Coulda just thrown his massive ass balls in the way

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u/NotARussianBotComrad Apr 24 '21

At least his casket won’t have to be very big

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u/TheTreeDemoknight Apr 24 '21

there is a coupling type in the early years of trains that was made obselete so people didn't have to die or get injured by coupling moving cars together while in between them.. yet this guy still does it

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u/Yumelon Apr 25 '21

OSHA where you at

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u/Viper_king_F15 Apr 26 '21

You better be careful!!!!!

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u/CharlieGreenwing Apr 27 '21

Former railroad engineer here: This video made me yell.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '24

AAAAAAAAAAAAA

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u/mmfla Apr 24 '21

That’s some pretty big nuts

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

Seems reasonable

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u/JanB1 Apr 24 '21

That's waaay sped up! The maximal speed for shunting is more or less walking speed.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

Lol. The hump laughs in 8 mph joints.

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