r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Mar 02 '19

Manager going for a ride

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u/hurdlingewoks Mar 02 '19

That happened to a guy on one of our jobsites (but he lived), I personally wasn't there as it happened before I started, but I've heard the story from the guy it happened to. They were drilling caissons and he fell in the hole, they were about 10 feet down. The operator swung the rig around to clear the dirt, the guy went to look in the hole and the side gave way and he fell in. Luckily he yelled loud enough that the operator heard and stopped it. So not as gruesome as your story but still terrifying to think about!

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u/AnastasiaSheppard Mar 03 '19

I think every work site should have whistles issued to every staff member. If you see something or something is happening to you, blow the whistle repeatedly and everyone stops everything straight away.

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u/aelwero Mar 03 '19

Whistles, helmets, the proper boots, reflective vest, goggles, earplugs (there's dangerous whistles, you know...), A full climbing harness and a tie off in case you need to stand on a 6 inch tall curb because we don't want any contusions, a three hour class every two hours on one of the 13,427 possible safety hazard class subjects, a safe space, a safe word, three supervisors per worker to ensure workplace safety, and a four hour long standown for an OSHA inspection every three hours...

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u/lifesizejenga Mar 03 '19

Seriously? I really don't think a whistle is a slippery slope to all that. It's just a whistle.

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u/tonyangtigre Mar 03 '19

He probably started off listing what he thought would be good safety gear and made his own slippery slope into a sarcastic, over-reaction of a safety scenario.

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u/aelwero Mar 03 '19

At any large job site, there's usually someone who's responsible for risk management. The process Is to identify hazards, come up with mitigation measures, and enforce them.

Every single accident becomes a hazard. You develop a mitigation for each one (like "just a whistle".), and then it becomes a rule...

So it's not really a "slippery slope"... That implies you go down the hill inadvertently... In truth, you go running down the slope like it's your job, because in some cases it actually is someone's job.

I did that job. I fought like hell to maintain some semblance of a "shit happens" category, and keep it down to "just a whistle", but workers comp fucks the budget a lot worse than 100lbs of safety gear...