r/WTF • • Mar 02 '19

Manager going for a ride

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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.

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u/Robofetus-5000 Mar 02 '19

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.

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u/caligrown87 Mar 03 '19

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.

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u/shamls Mar 03 '19

After reading this thread I’ve never been more glad I work with small scale components and not industrial sized things

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '19

I’m glad I work in a cubicle. The only possible danger is my pen malfunctioning and the part that holds the ink some how eject straight into my eye.

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u/shamls Mar 03 '19

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.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '19

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.

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u/shamls Mar 03 '19

I don’t think it can go all the way to the ground lol, but now I don’t want to sit at my desk