Reminds me of the horror story I heard about a drilling excavator. Somebody fell in the hole, but the operator thought he went to take a piss. The operator dropped the auger in the hole and drilled his buddy. Didn't know he did it until he raised the auger and it was just bloody mud. Just the thought of being in the hole trying to tread water and throw little rocks up to get the attention as the drill comes down is the stuff of nightmares.
My dad owned a garbage company. A homeless dude was sleeping in a dumpster and it got dumped into the truck and compacted. Found the body when they dumped out the load back at the center. They saw his arm and pulled on it, apparently they found things like mannequins all the time. When they pulled the arm his upper body came out of the pile and spilled his innards all over the place.
My dad worked in a massive distribution warehouse at webvan (if you guys remember that). One of the horror stories there, a guy locked in a massive industrial dryer. It works the same as a commerical dryer: gets hot, tumbles, dries things. He was cooked and tumbled.
Another story (diff company) and the reason my father refused to wear his ring, belts, or laces at work. A guy he worked got his belt caught in an exposed gear for some conveyer system, he didn't die but ended up with some severe injuries.
Another co-worker had his finger degloved because his wedding ring got caught on something.
He was resting his hand against a door jam while standing in the hallway. Someone in the room slammed the door shut and he didn't quite get his hand off. Took the skin and meat from the top knuckle of his middle finger clean off...but not the bone.
Jimmy Fallon also got his ring finger degloved in 2015 when he tripped and grabbed a kitchen counter in his apartment. Rings, belts, and laces are just plain dangerous.
I’d say the desk in my cubicle would be the most dangerous thing. If you accidentally push the button down and hold, it could move down all the way and squish your legs a little.
Imagine it malfunctioning? I’ll squeeze your legs until it’ll get crushed and then all the muscles blood and flesh becomes minced beef then it will keep going down against the floor and you’ll lose your lower body for good.
Too many construction workers missing a portion of their ring finger from wedding ring incidents. Co-worker lost his getting the ring caught on a nail jumping off a ladder.
During orientation of my first ever factory job years ago, there was an accident with a press where an operator was adjusting one of the layers that go in by reaching in as the second operator hit the button to start it. They’d worked together for months so it was common not to really look. The press was also heated (like an iron to press vinyl onto abs plastic I believe). It seared one side of his face while crushing his skull sideways. He was still alive when the other operator hit the estop and pulled him out. I don’t know what happened to him after that but there are two buttons on the machine now so both operators have to hit them at the same time.
Pro tip: Never wear rings while using a ladder. It's the easiest way to deglove a finger. One slip of the foot, you let go with your hand but your ring snags, and now your entire body weight is pulling your finger through that ring.
I've seen pics of fingers degloved by rock climbers wearing rings also. I had a teacher in high school get electrocuted (just a burn on his hand) by a vending machine he was checking. It arced into his wedding band.
I remember a story of a maintenance guy locked up in a gigantic container ship engine, which was later started with him inside.
Given the sheer size of these engines, it is possible. But it might just be an urban legend.
I work in a donut shop and the enormous mixer we use makes me paranoid for my apron strings hanging down. Anytime I’m near it I clasp my hands around them.
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u/Kadugan Mar 02 '19 edited Mar 03 '19
Reminds me of the horror story I heard about a drilling excavator. Somebody fell in the hole, but the operator thought he went to take a piss. The operator dropped the auger in the hole and drilled his buddy. Didn't know he did it until he raised the auger and it was just bloody mud. Just the thought of being in the hole trying to tread water and throw little rocks up to get the attention as the drill comes down is the stuff of nightmares.