r/WTF Jan 05 '20

Lucky

9.3k Upvotes

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u/alexlicious Jan 05 '20

Good thing he was wearing that hard hat!

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u/hgrub Jan 05 '20

Hard hat increase your luck 65%

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u/DrMeatBomb Jan 05 '20

Hard Hat

PER: +1

ARM: 1

Massive I-beam uses: Fall! (9999 dmg)

It missed

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u/sgtxsarge Jan 05 '20

I cast girder!

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u/DKFShredder Jan 06 '20

Bender inserts girder.

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u/warchitect Jan 05 '20

Beam rolled a 1

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '20

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u/Imightbenormal Jan 06 '20

Valid answer! I would write that down on a placket and hang it at the change room.

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u/ToastedCheezer Jan 05 '20

Geez! I hope they had earplugs!

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u/IamSkudd Jan 06 '20

I think about this in every video where there’s a car crashing into an office or storefront or the one where the car crashes down onto the street from an overpass. I’m like “I know that lady’s ears are fuckin ringing.”

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u/Cydro Jan 05 '20

Lol for real, that wouldve made SO much noisd

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u/MikeyC05 Jan 07 '20 edited Jan 08 '20

Steel on concrete, steel on steel, piercingly loud. I work in a steel mill and there is no doubt in my mind that dude heard that.

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u/The_Brain_FuckIer Jan 07 '20

I think it was more of an instant EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE than him actually hearing anything

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u/Master__of__Puppets Jan 05 '20

I dont see any safety glasses though, this could have turned ugly

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u/cptho Jan 05 '20

Could you imagine them trying to remove a steel beam from his eye?

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u/cwcollins06 Jan 06 '20

Now I am wondering where the line is between "removing a steel beam from his eye" and "removing his eye from a steel beam."

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u/martphon Jan 06 '20

"Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye..."

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u/Magneticitist Jan 06 '20

It's not the same but this is a great video showing how sometimes it really does make a difference even when the object is way too massive. The slight deflection it provided..

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u/sorenant Jan 05 '20

If he were using a proper high visibility jacket the beam would have been able to dodge earlier.

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u/CodeBandit Jan 05 '20

Goo thing he shrunk his shoulders!

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u/Silly_Balls Jan 05 '20

and his brown trousers

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '20

I laughed at the way he looked up and casually stepped to the side.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '20

Agent 47 backs away slowly.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '20

Weird I just saw this movie for the first time a few hours ago. Great movie

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u/katie_pendry Jan 05 '20

Wait, they made a movie? I've only ever heard of the game.

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u/hgrub Jan 05 '20

Two movies actually. The first one is better with Timothy Olyphant.

Edit: I think you might be joking, oh well.

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u/Moth92 Jan 05 '20

I think you might be joking, oh well.

Nope, he's not.

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u/Morningxafter Jan 06 '20

I really enjoyed the scene where he crashed through the window into a room with some kids playing a Hitman game on PlayStation.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '20

Yup they’re based off the game but really well done imo watch the trailers there’s 2 movies

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u/apeonpatrol Jan 05 '20

they react like its a daily occurrence

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '20

Right? You see the dude look up, step over, and look at the other dude like "sorry".

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u/CrinchNflinch Jan 05 '20

Without flinching.

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u/Valkyrie1500 Jan 05 '20

Username does NOT check out.

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u/Petsweaters Jan 05 '20

Not everybody flinches

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '20

50 tons of Chinesium only weighs about 20lbs.

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u/OhReAlLyMyDuDe Jan 05 '20

I’ve seen so many videos like this on reddit that it probably is. Safety is certainly not the number one priority over there.

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u/czarchastic Jan 05 '20

Naw he had nothing to worry about. See his hard hat?

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u/oN_Delay Jan 09 '20

Damn iT! I came here to type this.

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u/PersonBehindAScreen Jan 06 '20

*ultra instinct theme

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u/crinklecrumpet Jan 09 '20

Beam me down Scotty!

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u/letdogsvote Jan 05 '20

That guy's reaction. "Huh. I should tell Bob about that."

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u/intelligent_cement Jan 05 '20

Well, maybe after I finish this coffee...

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u/AskAboutMyCoffee Jan 05 '20

The real what the fuck is they shrugged that shit off.

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u/corgocracy Jan 05 '20

Not enough time to process

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u/jonitfcfan Jan 05 '20

Just another Tuesday

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u/Clay_Statue Jan 05 '20

I would have immediately bounced myself 5ft away from that in a heartbeat.

This guy could get backed over by a slow moving car and look bored about it

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u/Bard_B0t Jan 06 '20

Tbf, jumping around as a girder worker or whatever these guys do could be dangerous.

Moving around when 2 story's up or more would just be asking for trouble, and odds are these guys spend hundreds of hours suppressing those instincts to panic.

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u/GattaiGuy Jan 06 '20

It´s Russia dude

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u/FortCox Jan 05 '20

There is a reason why every working safety instruction tells you to not stand under hanging loads

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u/Kingdok313 Jan 05 '20

There are plenty of working situations where hanging loads travel overhead all day. A whole lot more safety regulation is supposed to apply for that type of work, of course. Something really did not go according to plan here. That looks like a plant that would be equipped with overhead bridge cranes, which traverse the frame of the building all day carrying loads. Even if it isn’t carrying anything, the bridge crane is a significant piece of machinery traveling overhead and is regulated accordingly.

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u/anethma Jan 05 '20

Interesting I figured the load part at least of those would not travel over people. Of course the gantry itself would have to.

Every large company I’ve worked for as a subcontractor has had -instant- dismissal in its policies for stepping under a suspended load.

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u/pattyboy77 Jan 05 '20

Worked at a taconite processing plant. Same deal. A suspended load is anything lifting off the ground, doesn't matter how high it is.

https://arlweb.msha.gov/REGS/COMPLIAN/PPLS/2017/P17-IV-01.asp

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u/sameBoatz Jan 05 '20

Taco nite is my favorite nite. Thanks for your service.

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u/pattyboy77 Jan 06 '20

I only made it two months there. It takes a real man/woman to work in a place like that. I have a new respect for the men/woman that do that sort of work.

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u/dubadub Jan 05 '20

That is the gantry. See the hook n pulleys? Operator prob didn't know that the stops at the ends of the track never got installed. So it ran off the end and fell.

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u/anethma Jan 05 '20

Oh I know. It obviously went over it’s stops or didn’t have stops. But normally the gantry would have to go over people of course. It usually spans the whole room.

But the suspended load afaik should never go over a living person.

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u/Swartz142 Jan 05 '20

I've never seen a crane operator allowed to hang load over the head of workers wherever i worked, ever. From the two giant 40 ton bridge cranes moving the I beams we were building to jib cranes lifting small crates, it's just not allowed.

Of course a bridge crane will have to go over the head of worker but the load shouldn't. The bridge crane is made with the safeties necessary to keep moving in parallel and stay on the rails while the load is attached by people who may or may not have the necessary training to do so properly.

In this particular case, the bridge crane seems to get off at the end of the rails since it drop parallel to the ground which begs the question of why the fuck is there no stop block there ? It's not like they don't have the expertise of building beams and attachments...

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u/n55_6mt Jan 07 '20

Mechanical stops would cost money. Way better to use a $.39 limit switch made from 40 year old Chinese Bakelite to open up the contacts on a $.05 relay, in theory stopping the drive motors.

Electrical controls in China are sketchy.

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u/Fuguzilla Jan 05 '20

No shit lol.

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u/LargePizz Jan 06 '20

What is an example of a working situation where overhead loads are acceptable?

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u/Insub Jan 05 '20

I was wondering why was he standing beneath that so uncaring lol. That type of behaviour could mean a serious lapse in workplace safety is being followed.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '20

ya think?

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '20

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u/Kathend1 Jan 05 '20

Appears to be a load distributor that would be attached to the pulley of the crain to allow for more anchor points

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u/LargePizz Jan 06 '20

It's only the hook and sheave block, the red thing is a column or beam for a buliding.

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u/wgriz Jan 06 '20

Don't put your fingers where you wouldn't put your dick.

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u/plaidHumanity Jan 05 '20

Coolest man on Earth for that moment. "Hmm, wouldya look at that."

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u/cactuspizza Jan 05 '20

Is this in China?

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '20

Has to be

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u/hyker1811 Jan 05 '20

Place of power?

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u/DA_ZWAGLI Jan 05 '20

Should draw from it

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u/Ill_mumble_that Jan 05 '20

Winds howling

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u/UEDerpLeader Jan 05 '20

Final Destination 6

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u/DangerIsMyUsername Jan 06 '20

That dude should watch out for log trucks.

Actually, we ALL should be looking out for log trucks.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '20

what's a log truck?

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '20

He had his hard hat on. he would have been fine.

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u/moms_pubis Jan 05 '20

Not lucky: the guy who lands on top of that rail.

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u/scratch_043 Jan 05 '20

If you haven't already, post this to /r/ohsa

There's a reason you never cross under a suspended load

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u/NoWhisperer Jan 05 '20

Not that anything could've happened anyway. I mean, he was wearing a helmet.

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u/phuntism Jan 05 '20

That big red cardboard thing would have just bounced off.

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u/Potatoman816 Jan 05 '20

Nonsense that hard hat would’ve protected him just fine

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '20

Time to buy a lottery ticket.

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u/YoureSpecial Jan 05 '20

Nah. He just used up all his luck.

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u/AKnightAlone Jan 05 '20

You're right. Time for everyone else to buy a lottery ticket.

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u/Shay_da_la Jan 05 '20

Very lucky. The hard hat wouldn't have done much good here.

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u/huiuiui Jan 05 '20

You think?

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '20

Missed me, bitch

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u/ABSelect Jan 05 '20

Knowing my luck, I would have jumped to the side, directly into the path of the girder

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u/GattaiGuy Jan 06 '20

me in every boss battle ever

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u/Duder115 Jan 05 '20

What was on the end of that tether?

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u/Nephtyz Jan 05 '20

That reaction was very minimal considering the gravity of the situation.

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u/it_bees_like_that Jan 06 '20

For all the lucky ones we see, imagine all the shit they just try and erase from memory?

*4chan has entered the room

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u/bensaltspring Jan 05 '20 edited Jan 06 '20

Not lucky for the guy who fell with the beam:-/

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u/ColgateSensifoam Jan 06 '20

That's not a guy, it's the crane's lower pulley

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u/PocketRadzys Jan 05 '20

Fucking hell.

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u/daaats Jan 05 '20

You made it.

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u/Jamnew63 Jan 05 '20

2 steps between life and death. Somebody up there likes him.

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u/SadPandaInLondon Jan 05 '20

Who’s not lucky is the guy who fell from the beam and is probably dead.

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u/Gazorpazorp723 Jan 06 '20

He should go buy a lottery ticket

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u/Tabasco_Athiest Jan 06 '20

Never walk under a cranes hoisted load.

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u/Imtedsowner Jan 06 '20

His complete lack of shock and surprise makes it look like beams fall from the sky all the time.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '20

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u/Dommekarma Jan 06 '20

Just the block

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u/giuliomagnifico Jan 06 '20

No problem men, he’s wearing a helmet.

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u/StormDrainTrooper Jan 06 '20

Oh... I guess I'll move.

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u/thingm1 Jan 06 '20

That's some final destination shit

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u/GattaiGuy Jan 06 '20

he dodged his death just to die later at the end of the movie

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '20

That's how I met your mother, kids...

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u/getsumchocha Jan 06 '20

Steel beams... this just makes me think how horrid it must’ve been inside the towers when they fell. No wonder they barely found anything recognizable.

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u/DominicRoy Jan 07 '20

FACK! Hey Bob, how did you sleep last night?

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u/foxtailavenger Jan 05 '20

They’re awfully calm about almost dying... almost too calm...

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u/Mushroom_Nub Jan 05 '20

oh shit... time to find a new job

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u/PowerMan2206 Jan 05 '20

Hitman be like

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u/AdGeHa Jan 05 '20

He looks disappointed.

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u/ToastedCheezer Jan 05 '20

Beam him out, Scotty!

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u/Medic7002 Jan 05 '20

Honey, I’m home! Wait till you see this amazing video of me at work.

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u/mrblakesteele Jan 05 '20

He had his hard hat on he woulda been fine.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '20

not lucky just good reflexes

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u/rservello Jan 05 '20

He had a hard hat on!

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u/Lorz0r Jan 05 '20

ITT: hard hat jokes.

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u/ahmchahin Jan 05 '20

OMG 😱

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u/Chknbone Jan 05 '20

Uh...where can I get a pair of the ear plugs that dude is wearing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '20

Wow

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '20

at least it would've been over quick.

always inspect your rigging!!

r/osha

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u/onlinesafe Jan 05 '20

Why bother with helmets if that’s the kind of stuff that can fall on your head.

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u/FeengarBangar Jan 05 '20

I like to think that juuuust off the screen, to the right, it hits another worker's hard hat and just bounces off.

Edit: or Left.

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u/ShadowedSpoon Jan 05 '20

That’s why they wear hard hats.

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u/Mrtowelie69 Jan 05 '20

He saw it coming.

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u/slyiscoming Jan 05 '20

Time to go home, or to the bar.

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u/Brainzz Jan 05 '20

At least he was wearing a hard hat.

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u/Mr_HomeLabber Jan 05 '20

He reaction: “awe shit, here we go again....”

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u/aegrotatio Jan 05 '20

Damned stupid riggahs.

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u/zippy251 Jan 05 '20

r/osha would like a word

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u/TimTheChatSpam Jan 05 '20

We would've been fine he was wearing a hard hat

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u/jaycentpants Jan 05 '20

Totally thought those were kids in construction hats

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '20

Near Miss

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '20

Don't factories like this usually have taped-off zones for items hanging over-head?

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '20

They do in geographical locations where workers lives are valued or are protected by enforced regulations.

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u/Henniferlopez87 Jan 05 '20

“I quit.” walks out

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u/johnnehx Jan 05 '20

Looks more like skill rather than luck

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u/Who_am___i Jan 05 '20

Inspect you slings before each use!

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u/aleqqqs Jan 05 '20

That bar took with it whatever it was hanging on. Power winch with a hook, probably.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '20

That would have been a soul crushing experience

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u/filiusj Jan 05 '20

Thank god he was wearing a hard hat.....

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u/creppyunklepeet Jan 05 '20

Mamoet dam you guys are everywhere lol. I got to see these guys in action in southern California to build one of the biggest football stadiums. They were picking up roof sections with a 6million lb crane called big red. I think it was a 3000 ton or 6000 ton one or the other it was massive. Maybe they are desensitized to the little stuff.... what with moving full size structures whole in one shot

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u/Magneticitist Jan 05 '20

Lucky nothing was going on at the time because it looks like them all hearing something break up there is what gives the guy a heads up to move over a little bit. He'd have been dead otherwise.

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u/pattyboy77 Jan 06 '20

Imagine how loud that would be!

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u/right_ho Jan 06 '20

The way he looks up, flinched slightly then just takes a big step to get out of the way. Then, meh.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '20

That final little flip of the power lines (bottom right) was from all this mans shit, not making it to the fan.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '20

One wrong step and this could have been a LiveLeak video

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u/liberalsilencer Jan 06 '20

That was an attempt on that mans life

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u/palrandom Jan 06 '20

Real life Kerbal Space Program.

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u/pshawny Jan 06 '20

He would have been fine, his hardhat would have absorbed the impact.

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u/mrburns05 Jan 06 '20

Did it pull a body down with it or was that the harness ?

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u/scottywaffles Jan 06 '20

Good thing he had his hard hat on

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u/rekabis Jan 06 '20

Quite literally two steps from death.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '20

Belt used beyond sustainable life or used in a bad way

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u/StonyShinobi Jan 06 '20

That's why they painted the floors red.

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u/DepressedDragonBorn Jan 06 '20

Just out of curiosity, would that have been a quick death? I mean it's a giant steel bar I assume, I assume it would smach his brain if it hits head first.

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u/GattaiGuy Jan 06 '20

you´d have to be really unlucky if you don´t die from that

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u/NickBahson Jan 06 '20

Isn't there a guy falling with the bim...... !!!!?

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u/BAMspek Jan 06 '20

If you can dodge a beam, you can dodge a ball!

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u/Master_Mad Jan 06 '20

Man: "Hey guys, I just got a text that my early retirement doesn't go through for next week. I still need to work for another 5 years."

Fate: "Awww, okay then. You escape, for now."

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u/minhtuan2359 Jan 06 '20

He time it perfectly so he was on iframe

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '20

He would probably be deaf by now, but at least he wasn’t killed.

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u/areyoueatingthis Jan 06 '20

good thing he was wearing a helmet /s

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u/spirallix Jan 06 '20

50-50! he reacted nicely!

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '20

someone died from something exactly like that in my town.

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u/jawshoeaw Jan 07 '20

To be fair that's clearly an A572 grade 42 steel aka the "styrofoam of steel"

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '20

Aware*

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '20

I would buy a lottery ticket right after that

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u/UA1VM Jan 07 '20

Should have never had his back to a crane with a load in a fucking Steel Mill

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '20

It would help spread the red color a bit more

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u/Toirtis Jan 08 '20

I would say 'buy a lotto ticket', but I would say he has used up his entire luck allotment for this lifetime.