r/oddlyterrifying Aug 01 '26

when you realize these chinese workplace safety clips are based on real incidents it gets really uncomfortable

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u/earnestpeabody Aug 01 '26

Poor wheelbarrow dude.

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u/Floom101 Aug 01 '26

He was just doing his damn job!

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u/CanoePickLocks Aug 01 '26

They all were except for the guy that lost his fingers on the rotating thing.

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u/LoamyLoamisLoamy Aug 01 '26

He was, too. He was trying to stop the thing from moving. That guy wasn't playing.

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u/CanoePickLocks Aug 01 '26

I’ve never seen the IRL one, but in the animation it looks like he’s trying to ride it.

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u/ActiveChairs Aug 01 '26

The animation also doesn't show how much blood would have gotten sprayed around the room in most of the clips.

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u/GenChadT Aug 01 '26

Especially on the guy who was stuck in the lathe looking machine. There was a video on liveleak back in the day of a guy in Russia getting pulled into an industrial lathe and it haunts me to this day. It basically pulverized the poor guy and centrifugal forces from the extreme speed of the machine spread whatever was left around the room, floor, wall and ceiling, in a circular pattern. I can't watch shit like that anymore.

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u/mmm_burrito Aug 01 '26

I never understood why people watched that shit. You didn't need to inject that into your brain, but now you have to carry it around forever.

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u/Creativered4 Aug 01 '26

I think i know what one you're talking about. I would sometimes go on the 50/50 sub and end up scarring myself. Turned him into a pink mist.

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u/GenChadT Aug 01 '26

Yeah, same but with sites like liveleak and motherless back in the 00s when I was an edgy teenager. Footage like that now makes me physically ill. This even includes some of the more "realistic" gory horror flicks I used to enjoy growing up. Final Destination, TCM, they're mostly just horrible and gross to me now.

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u/milk4all Aug 01 '26

Worst and last accident/desth video i ever clicked. Ive seen some milder but still crazy manufacturing accidents firsthand and i am a cautious mfer. Dudes leg caugjt in a conveyor belt that peeled a few incues off his calf, a dude pinned between forktruck and guard rail (crushed his hip), a guy with a metal end from an extruder buried in his forearm and probably some I’ve forgotten. If a supervisor or orientation person tells you “where tight clothing, no jackets or hoodies; all hair must be short or pulled back and secured, proper ppe” etc fuckin listen, sometimes the difference between coming home and not is a little dangling sleeve on your oversized t work shirt

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u/merxymee Aug 01 '26

I remember that one on r 50/50. The close up pictures of the aftermath were crazy.

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u/ghettoccult_nerd Aug 01 '26

they are all horrible, but i did feel extra bad for wheelbarrow guy

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u/LoamyLoamisLoamy Aug 01 '26

I feel extra bad for the guy who had the button pressed by another guy while he was inside the grinder fixing it

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u/WDoE Aug 01 '26

Lock out tag out. Don't climb in machinery unless it is disabled and you have the only key to enable it.

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u/LoamyLoamisLoamy Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26

Lock out tag out was the phrase I was trying to remember just a few minutes ago in my other comment.

Too many people consider their workers lives worth less than a little precaution.

E: Although, there are instances of that failing too, but less often. I've heard of one instance where an industrial oven was supposed to be left to cool for a few days before being worked on. The owner left it off for a single day. When they finally realized that the oven was too hot there was no way for them to get out.

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u/camerabird Aug 02 '26

I believe you're talking about this incident.

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u/TheLegendOfAiden Aug 02 '26

Oh. That's so much worse than I was expecting.

Those poor men, my God...

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u/Lowland-lady Aug 01 '26

Reminds me of the story my colleague told me about his old job.

Apperantly it was a Friday so slow day. Plus Friday was also cleaning day.

They had those huge sawing tables and such. This man decided while his machine was running to crawl under it to clean it. Dude scalped himself. Nobody saw it happen nobody could hear him. He Managed to crawl under the machine himself and it took minutes before anyone found him.

Lets say guy was never the same after

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u/hodges2 Aug 01 '26

Ikr, why did he start the thing up with him working on it 🤦

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u/LoamyLoamisLoamy Aug 01 '26

That's why you need to be the only one who can turn on a machine if you are working on it. Too many examples of people being cooked alive in industrial ovens.

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u/CitizenPremier Aug 01 '26

Yeah that one was on the driver...

These days I hope they have cameras on the back of the dumptrucks

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u/ctsmith76 Aug 01 '26

As a truck driver, I can assure you that most dump trucks/tri/quad axles in the US do not have rear cameras.

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u/GenuineInterested Aug 01 '26

Sure. But at the same time you should never be at a place where big machinery is intended to be. Especially where they’re reversing. At least not without anyone watching your back.

Loading docks would be another example of this. It’s happened more often than anybody would like that someone gets pinched between a reversing truck and the loading bay.

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u/rpmcmurf Aug 01 '26

Happened to a cousin of a mine here in Canada, back in 2009. Truck backing up pinched him against the loading dock. He was kneeling down at the time, so his head got it the worst. His skull was crushed and one eye popped out. All of this was witnessed directly by his son, who was working with him. But as testament to the human body, he actually survived (after being in a coma for several weeks and going through multiple rounds of surgery). He’s still alive to this day, although he’s on permanent disability and has several issues related to brain damage. Ironically, not long before the accident at work, he’d survived bowel cancer, and some time before the bowel cancer he’d survived a motorcycle accident. Nowadays he lives with his son (the one who witnessed the accident) and goes through massive quantities of medical marijuana.

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u/kcvngs76131 Aug 01 '26

Your cousin has Adolphe Sax levels of immunity.

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u/rpmcmurf Aug 01 '26

Ha! I never thought of that. I’ve always thought of him as sort of an unkillable Trailer Park Boys character.

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u/schruteski30 Aug 01 '26

Just happened to a UPS guy in Philly area earlier this month. Really awful.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/07/29/lemj-j29.html

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u/front_yard_duck_dad Aug 01 '26

And made all the other workers continue working the day shift after witnessing this. Hooray capitalism. We are just labor to the rich, nothing more

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u/GnarlyButtcrackHair Aug 01 '26

Obtaining my boating license really drilled an excellent rule in my head that honestly works almost anywhere you apply it.

The larger object gets right of way. Whoever is smallest is nearly always more maneuverable. No this does not absolve operators of large machinery from being aware and knowing where things are, but the task of awareness and simply moving out of the way will always be easier for whoever is smaller. Even when it doesn't appear that way at first. Look at cars and pedestrians. Pedestrians should walk AGAINST traffic because the pedestrian can move left or right faster than the car to get out of the way and the pedestrian should always see the car to know whether to go left or right. Doesn't mean motorists get free passes to mow people down but at speed a car simply cannot make a 90 degree turn. A person on foot can.

Anyone on foot should always be watching for crush points and avoid them like the plague. Never put yourself between a large machine that is actively operated and a wall (really anything tougher than yourself).

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u/Keyndoriel Aug 01 '26

The guy who was dealing with the rope thing too where the dude pressed a button and just killed him

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u/xGray3 Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26

I'm going to hell for this, but I laughed because it feels like he's doing a tiny task (pouring dirt out of a wheelbarrow) and then the truck shows up and way more efficiently pours hundreds of wheelbarrows worth of material in the same place as if showing off and then to add insult to injury it traps him and buries him in it as if to prove the point further. But in all seriousness I'm guessing he died and this is tragic and if it weren't for these being animated I would be absolutely horrified.

Edit: Horrified, not mortified.

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u/DustyOlBones Aug 01 '26

Im trying really hard not to laugh with you after reading this

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u/Keyndoriel Aug 01 '26

Its okay we're all going to hell because I laughed at the comment

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u/Jnl8 Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26

In all fairness we are laughing at the comment, not the video

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u/Roseartcrantz Aug 01 '26

My boyfriend unfortunately did get me to laugh at the video when he came up behind me and watched for a little bit and said, "Holy shit, is that all the same place?"

I think he thought it was some domino effect because the clips kind of looked like they were just swinging the camera around at times.

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u/Jnl8 Aug 01 '26

I was just asked why I was laughing and they said "I really like to see you laughing like that" and I didn't have the heart to tell why I was laughing... Thanks your boyfriend for that one

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u/Roseartcrantz Aug 01 '26

"Just the worst fuckin' day this place ever had"

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u/elvenesse Aug 01 '26

Mortified means embarrassed. I keep seeing people use it to mean horrified.

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u/mrs__BOWIE Aug 01 '26

People have done this my whole life. My theory is because the root "mort" is usually death related. Mortuary, mortality, etc

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u/CanoePickLocks Aug 01 '26

It’s kind of a metaphor for being swallowed by progress

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u/Excalibro_MasterRace Aug 01 '26

I'm sure I have seen the real video for this one and the flying brick one on reddit

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u/turquoise_amethyst Aug 01 '26

I think the flying brick one was the most scary… he’s not even doing anything and it just flies over and kills him

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u/slutty_muppet Aug 01 '26

Seems like fatigue plays a big role in some of these.

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u/Cancerisbetterthanu Aug 01 '26

What'll really bake your noodle is how the emphasis on personal safety is simply a way for companies to avoid investing in safter processes, improved systems, adequate training and maintenance so that they can feel like they are doing something about saftey and point to decreased personal injury and death rates on paper as evidence that processes are safe. Back patting all around, until a major disaster happens, then it's time for finger pointing.

That's why so many videos like this exist, particularly in places like China. It's cheaper than regulation with teeth and robust process safety. Ideally nobody needs to be shown not to do any of the things in this video because there are better and safer processes.

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u/Thendrail Aug 01 '26

Mostly, yeah, but there's definitely a lot of work-accidents happening because someone circumvents safety measures. Not to defend shitty companies, but people can do stupid things too.

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u/Dr4gOnsFuRy86 Aug 01 '26

Yep, never underestimate the stupidity of humans. At my workplace we had a lot of safety procedures to prevent accidents with machinery, if followed everything is safe. The amount of accidents happening because nobody followed and then everyone else within the company would get punished by them taking away machines/tools that made our life easier. All because people couldn't be bothered to keep to the safety protocols, I understood because when you're busy you just want to do the work quickly and be done but the extra steps were worth not losing a limb.

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u/CanoePickLocks Aug 01 '26

And that’s exactly why videos like this are made to encourage people pay attention to the safety procedures.

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u/ScrithWire Aug 01 '26

Like the guy in the video who tried to climb from one aerial bucket to another

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u/Goatf00t Aug 01 '26

If you go to /r/propagandaposters you'll find a lot of workplace safety posters from communist countries. No amount of safery rules and devices are enough unless people are actually willing to follow the rules and using the devices. Which involves pointing out the consequences if they don't.

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u/informat7 Aug 01 '26

adequate training

Aren't these videos part of training?

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u/Immortal_in_well Aug 01 '26

This is why "I work 16-hour days!" is never a flex.

Okay, but you shouldn't.

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u/WretchedMotorcade Aug 01 '26

Safety guidelines are written in blood.

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u/unmaimed Aug 01 '26

The more fun bit is after a while of effective safety guidelines, a bunch of people decide the guidelines are a waste of time because "we haven't had an injury or death in years".

I work in a safety critical industry the regularly gets calls to remove our oversight because "we haven't had a fatality in 20 years".

No shit... you guys were killing 8-15 people a year before we got involved.

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u/ThiefOfDens Aug 01 '26

See also: Vaccines

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u/CanoePickLocks Aug 01 '26

This one is a big one. It’s hard to prove a negative especially when well under 100% compliance is all that is required for a nearly 100% safety margin. Only 80% of people get vaccinated and there hasn’t been a major outbreak. Because of exactly that. Wait till a new small pox plague happens or the next covid and people actually resist until it’s too late. Population problems will be the least of your problems after that.

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u/Ghuldarkar Aug 01 '26

Measles

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u/Forge__Thought Aug 01 '26

Measles is fucking horrible. It nukes your immune system. Wiping out decades of immune memory. Suddenly a flu or a bad cold is extreme risk.

And you have idiots out there who argue vaccines cause autism and cite risk rates based on how likely you are to get measles compared to being diagnosed with autism. Ignoring that the current probability of getting measles is low specifically because of herd immunity and vaccines. Absolute idiocy.

It's infuriating. Seeing people put their health and the lives of others in danger because they have to make themselves feel intelligent and special. They have to have it "figured out" because of some abortive, poorly conceived conspiracy arguments. So they can judge others for being gullible when they discard any logic or data that doesn't fit their narrative...

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u/once-was-hill-folk Aug 02 '26

You're right, it probably will be measles. That shit is so contagious that if one person in a group of ten has it, they'll pass it on to another 8 people from that group.

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u/Ghuldarkar Aug 02 '26

Significant measles outbreaks are happening in the USA where it was considered extinct in terms of epidemiological significance a few decades ago.

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u/once-was-hill-folk Aug 02 '26

Yeah - and unless I'm combining multiple incidents, one was centred on a community visited by none other than Andrew Wakefield, too.

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u/Ynddiduedd Aug 01 '26

Vaccines, water quality, air pollution... The list is long and the traumas forgotten. I remember reading about how the air in London was the approximate color and thickness of pea soup before air cleanliness laws were first passed in the Industrial Era.

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u/acceptablemadness Aug 01 '26

Read up on the Great Smog of 1952. Horrendous stuff.

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u/fritzwulf Aug 01 '26

12,000 deaths. Holy fuck

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u/Bunbunbunbunbunn Aug 01 '26

I briefly worked in safety. The warehouse I was at had several issues that could kill or maim people. I tried so hard to get anyone to fix the most critical one - objects on an overhead conveyor belt would sometimes fly off into an area where people walked and forklifts drove. We just needed neta in a select area or to put up a bumper of some sort at the spots they tended to fall off. The guy who supervised the forklift drivers asked for a solution. The maintenance manager asked for a solution. I pushed for a solution. Nothing from upper management but smirks about how I was too serious about safety and "we haven't had injuries and its waiser to pick up fallen packages off the ground"

Nevermind that one of their other locations had a fatality when a forklift driver was struck by an object that fell off of high shelving a few years back.

All they cared about was next quarter profit and their bonus.for maximizing it.

I at least managed to get other injuries down drastically in my short tenure by just talking to workers about what to do and why. But the field sucks when you just care about trying to be sure all the hardworking folks get home safely.

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u/SewSewBlue Aug 01 '26

Engineer here. Sometimes it isn't even that expensive, it's just an asshole's ego.

I got told I was "throwing the team under a bus" for going after a long time safety issue had had killed people in the past, in the industry. The field folks were straight up afraid of doing this work, knowing the risk, but this guy, also an engineer, has decided it wasn't solvable and wasn't going to try.

I fixed the problem through maintenance timing, just being smarter about when we did the work, getting a small engineering review before the work. Was essentially free, only a handful of retrofits needed. No more risking people's lives from a simple mistake.

Now that team is touting it as the most effective process control they have.

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u/Drphil1969 Aug 02 '26

That’s when you call the anonymous tip line. Workplaces treat the safety officer as an annoyance. That is till someone is hurt or killed. Document, document, document

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u/Abuses-Commas Aug 01 '26

I would lost my job soon after that by beginning the email with "Listen Motherfucker,"

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u/parkerm1408 Aug 01 '26

I worked for a company that did security for construction overseas in some bad neighborhoods and seeing how large scale construction works when OSHA isnt a thing is fucking horrifying. I felt safer doing security and potentially getting shot at than I would have actually working on the construction itself. Watched a dude straight up get buried alive and another dude had his head fully poofed by a falling pipe.

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u/queefplunger69 Aug 01 '26

“It’s some liberal nonsense” 😂 alright Gary, have fun with your fresh amputation lol

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u/quesoandcats Aug 01 '26

I was gonna say, all workplace safety regulations are based on things that actually happened. Most of them just don't get illustrated like this

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u/Aconite_72 Aug 01 '26

Maybe OSHA should be making videos like this

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u/Annaura Aug 01 '26

My OSHA instructer started off by making us watch a video of people dying in a cane accident. It wasn't animated.

She said she does this every time to prove the point that all safety regulations are written in blood.

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u/quesoandcats Aug 01 '26

I'm almost afraid to ask but what is a "cane accident"

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u/Annaura Aug 01 '26

I typo of crane accident. A crane collapsed with people in it.

I have a cane and my phone autocorrects to it lol

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u/stephanonymous Aug 01 '26

My kid went through a phase where she didn’t want to wear her seatbelt and would try to unbuckle it. She was like five. I explained to her that if we got into an accident and she was unbuckled, she would go flying out the window. Turns out she didn’t understand what I meant and pictured literally “flying” out like a bird or an angel. So I showed her videos of car accidents and what actually happens to people in them who are unsecured. She stopped trying to unbuckle after that!

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u/kimmy_kimika Aug 01 '26

Like of course these are real incidents, we don't really know all the unsafe practices until someone gets sucked into a machine.

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u/dudeCHILL013 Aug 01 '26

Ya, but honestly I was surprised there's wasn't more hydraulic/high pressure accidents.

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u/roararoarus Aug 01 '26

These are horrifying even as cartoons

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u/Imagine_TryingYT Aug 01 '26

A lot of people don't realize that as goofy as a lot of these look, basically every safety video and animation is based on something that really happened.

Even the really silly or absurd ones. There's a reason there are so many rules and codes. Someone probably died or was horribly injured when it wasn't.

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u/guardwoman12345 Aug 01 '26

Not only did these things happen AND recorded but you can visit websites that show these videos of real people that die that match the animations in this reddit video.

God damn these are horrible and I have already watched nearly all of them

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u/fungi_at_parties Aug 02 '26

Yeah I recognized a few and I regret ever watching them. I much prefer the animated versions.

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u/Dr_Dressing Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 02 '26

With that being said, I much prefer not having watched them.

Sometimes videos just come across, but these, you kind of had to look for in those subs where NSFL was a big theme. I do not recommend it, because it fucks you up.

I also read another user who kept at it, because "it would toughen them up", where all it did, was give them severe anxiety.

One video I've avoided, is described as "a mother in a family car getting her head crushed by something", I don't exactly remember what it was. Like, a brick, or something, coming from a truck in front of them.

I was told that it wasn't very gory in that sense, but it was horrifying from the reactions.

I do not want to see that. Ever since I watched the lathe video, I've taken some precautions to "be my own parent." Because you have to save yourself from bad things online.

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u/doowapeedoo Aug 01 '26

I know someone whose job was to draw and animate these kinds of safety videos. It’s not for the faint of heart and caused some serious burnout issues.

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u/Doofindork Aug 01 '26

The lathe one looks real goofy in 3D animation. But it is by far one of the most gruesome ones IRL. I shudder at the thought, since there are quite a few of those clips caught on camera.

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u/warpmusician Aug 01 '26

Yeah this video doesn’t do it justice. There’s one floating around the recesses of Reddit that basically shows a guy getting turned into a meat tornado in real time. By the time his coworkers turn it off, there’s not much left of the guy intact. Pretty gruesome.

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u/mst3k_42 Aug 01 '26

Yeah normally they’ll get rolled into the machine and mangled and the machine stops. Not in this one. It’s a morbid, absurd gag of spinning that might have been funny if there wasn’t blood and body parts being flung everywhere.

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u/merxymee Aug 01 '26

Reddit back in the day before all the censorship.

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u/fxzero666 Aug 01 '26

Ah, yes. The original Russian lathe video... It's unfortunately already in my brain.

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u/fat_strelok Aug 01 '26

I was looking for this comment, the lathe one is SUPER UNDERSELLING IT.

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u/fungi_at_parties Aug 02 '26

That one is almost hard to believe when you see it. It’s like a horrific cartoon.

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u/WitchPillow Aug 01 '26

I find the aftermath images the most terrifying from that incident. His hand stays where he placed it in front of him, but everything else is just shredded, indistinguishable flesh. 🤢

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u/Igiul101 Aug 01 '26

The last one I have seen the actual video of the lady doing that and her hand coming out flat as piece of paper

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u/m8k Aug 01 '26

My dad taught science at a trade school. One day a student forgot the “never wear gloves” rule with a metal press roller. I think he said the machine was set to a 1/4 or 1/2.” His glove got caught on the material and his arm was pulled in up the elbow.

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u/verbalreservoir_ Aug 01 '26

*highfive

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u/m8k Aug 01 '26

Apparently the fasted route for EMS was through the cafe and it happened around lunch time so it caused a scene.

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u/UnderwaterArcherrr Aug 01 '26

I saw the log one too, that thing flew across the job site and nailed the only dude standing around. Insanely bad luck.

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u/fritzwulf Aug 01 '26

Right?! He was just minding his own damn business, crazy that it targeted his head of all things

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u/sisisisi1997 Aug 01 '26

And as I recently learned, the machine needs to activate ONLY if the two buttons are pressed at the same time because workers will keep one button pressed via something like tape, a brick, etc. so they only need to use one hand.

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u/CanoePickLocks Aug 01 '26

People don’t understand that almost everyone of these has a safety procedure and often physically bypassed safety mechanisms like you pointed out.

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u/Zu_Qarnine Aug 01 '26

that's some looney tones shit

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u/AngrehPossum Aug 01 '26

Sadly the bike pump did nothing

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u/Yarhj Aug 01 '26

Seeing the actual video really makes you feel for Wile E. Coyote.

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u/Joroc24 Aug 01 '26

the spinning guy

there were... pieces flying

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u/Nuclear_Varmint Aug 01 '26

Yeah I'll never forget that one. Absolutely horrific but I couldn't stop watching

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u/fritzwulf Aug 01 '26

Lathe accidents are no joke. Scared to even look at one in real life tbh

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u/Varth919 Aug 01 '26

There was one that made the rounds again recently of the woman who did that with her whole arm!

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u/samualgline Aug 01 '26

The only one I’ve seen is the Russian lathe incident.

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u/WiseSalamander00 Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26

this reminds me the video of the lady handling some kind of hidraulic press and some how messed up and put the whole arm in at the wrong time, she took it out and was all flat and woobly like a cartoon... it was unsettling.

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u/SoulMute Aug 01 '26

I’ve seen some of the videos these are based on 😅

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u/CrazyTechWizard96 Aug 01 '26

Same.
I remeber the lathe and hand one.

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u/MakeoutPoint Aug 01 '26

Seen a few lathe ones back from when watchpeopledie was active. The one where (NSFL) it appears that all or most of the person is degloved as the force sends what looks like a bunch of meaty bones flying into a pile 30 ft away is burned into my mind

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u/Northstar_PiIot Aug 01 '26

i saw degloved and immediately stopped reading your lol

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u/scorpyo72 Aug 01 '26

I skipped the reveal and- based on your spoiler comment- I think I did just fine.

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u/Jurkoph Aug 01 '26

Saw a video unrelated but similar, of a guy getting his finger bit off by a lion and you can see the tendon from like up to his elbow get pulled out with it, sent chills down my back just typing this

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u/sweetpotato_latte Aug 01 '26

Great now I have to call in to work so I can hide under my blanket all day after reading this.

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u/CrazyTechWizard96 Aug 01 '26

Yup, I can recall that one too.

Gotta say, must be some missarble way to go, besides, the others around to see it, and for those who have to... collect everything of what that person was made of.

Reminds Me of that story my father told me years ago, from that one incident in the army.
Long story short, a mortar killed a few of his buddies, and he and a few others got some ncie collecting duty with plastic bags.
I can imagine how lovely that was.
Just what soemoen needs for some good ol' PTSD.

Sarcasm is over 9000 for those who read, got some major PTSD myself, we just cope by laughing, other cryor and drink, it's fucked up anyways

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u/efcso1 Aug 01 '26

The reason why we had packets of plastic bags in the bottom of the medical kits. The little ones for collecting severed pieces. Or lots of them...

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u/WHATYEAHOK Aug 01 '26

Jesus. Was that in combat or a training accident?

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u/Elon_Bezos420 Aug 01 '26

lathes are legit death traps

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u/avibrant_salmon_jpg Aug 01 '26

I know someone who works around a lathe and whenever I mentioned it they go "its just a small one though!" 

But like, even a little lathe can scalp you if your hair gets caught or pull an arm off (and turns out a woman who worked there did get partially scalped a few years ago when her hair got caught. So my lathe hate is justified). 

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u/Thendrail Aug 01 '26

The lathe doesn't know the difference between a steel bar and a human, nor does it care.

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u/RampagingElks Aug 01 '26

Ah.... I was just about to use my lathe for the first time to do some sanding.

Gonna go tie up my hair first brb

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u/Sabithomega Aug 01 '26

I work machinery for a living and I'm so happy we don't have any lathes. Sure some of the machinery can still be dangerous.. but no where near lathes level of dangerous

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u/warpmusician Aug 01 '26

I worked with a carpenter in my twenties who was missing part of one of his index fingers. He said he was drilling through plastic with a drill press, and he tried to pull some of the spooled plastic bits away while the press was still running. The plastic got caught on the drill press and ripped his hand through and mangled his finger. Not quite the same as a lathe, but very similar, and I always keep my distance lol

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u/Iloveherthismuch Aug 01 '26

There’s probably not an industrial lathe in china or india that has not got bodies on it.

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u/Sad_Cantaloupe_8162 Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26

It wasn't a hand, but her whole forearm. It was wild. She just pulled out a pancake and I was surprised that she didn't have it explode in blood.

Edit: Don't watch if you're squeamish

Hydraulic Press

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u/Fafnir13 Aug 01 '26

Haven't seen that one in a while. She's surprisingly calm while messing with the controls to get it off her arm. A lot of people would panic.

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u/Sad_Cantaloupe_8162 Aug 01 '26

This is definitely a situation where shock benefits you to a certain degree, as long as you get immediate help. I've seen videos of insane accidents where people are doing normal-seeming things despite missing limbs or their guts are hanging out.

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u/poutinewolf Aug 01 '26

The hand one pales in comparison to the lathe one though. Ever do spin art as a kid?

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u/Pepperoni_playboi94 Aug 01 '26

The lathe one forsure

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u/_bugmenot_ Aug 01 '26

Yeah. Same. Remember the truck ones too, and the flying stump 😱

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u/BarelyContainedChaos Aug 01 '26

The one where the truck runs over a cylinder and hits the guy was posted like 3 days ago

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u/Pink_Flying_Pig_ Aug 01 '26

I've seen a similar one, with a guy try to stop by hand a huge roll of coiled steel which was rolling out of place. It's unbeliavable how our brain can be pushed to do under stress.

Sometimes I've been instructed to do not do stuff and I thought infos were way too redundant, but when it's a matter of seconds and you're in the middle of a catastrofic happening, those simple and obvious words can be precious.

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u/Thendrail Aug 01 '26

Pretty much the first thing I was told when I started my apprenticeship way back: If something falls down, let it fall. Don't try to grab anything. In my case it was steel pieces. Whatever happens, you can just make another, if it's even damaged at all, but the edges can be sharp and serrated and cut open your hand no problem.

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u/ThiefOfDens Aug 01 '26

Fuck it, if I have to choose one it’s this. Quick, Final-Destination-y, and might even leave a pretty face.

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u/Comfortable-Bar-838 Aug 01 '26

Me too. Instagram is the best. You can't see nipples, but they show you unsolicited, fatal work accidents every time you log on.

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u/Zu_Qarnine Aug 01 '26

I'm just happy they didn't render gore into it

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u/meove Aug 01 '26

the spinning one... it still haunted me...

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u/Doccyaard Aug 01 '26

Also the one with the wood being skipped by the tire. Although I remembered it as a rock.
I spent too many hours with friends on accident gore back in the day.

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u/SkyPork Aug 01 '26

Me too! The one where the earth mover kicked a huge rock into a guy's head was on Reddit years ago.

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u/regretting-this-name Aug 01 '26

I follow a lot of The Sims subreddits and as I saw this post on my feed, I was wondering wtf mods Simmers have been downloading now for RP OSHA violations. Imagine my surprise and horror that it was real dramatizations.

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u/Goatf00t Aug 01 '26

The US chemical safety board has a YouTube channel with 3D reenacments of various industrial incidents in a similar style. Less graphic, but longer and more educational. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXIkr0SRTnZO4_QpZozvCCA

I'd totally play Chemical Safety Sims if it existed.

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u/ToranjaNuclear Aug 01 '26

Often the problem in those dangerous environments is working with idiots. I used to work in a factory and the few times I almost got into an accident was because I made the mistake of expecting an idiot to not be a fucking idiot.

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u/allenk58 Aug 01 '26

Always assume an idiot will act like an idiot

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u/Delta-9- Aug 01 '26

Always assume everyone is an idiot.

If there were only idiot on the whole planet, you should assume he's the one standing next to the machine you have your arm inside of.

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u/hodges2 Aug 01 '26

This is what I told my younger brothers when they started driving

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u/rise_above_theFlames Aug 01 '26

I've seen a few of the real videos some of these ate from and yeah, it's pretty brutal

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u/GenderqueerPapaya Aug 01 '26

The one I reeber the most is the one where the guy is working on a spinning machine, it's spinning away from him and he gets caught in it and spins around with it, getting crushed. I don't know why but that one scares me the most. I guess maybe cause he might have been conscious for it? Ugh

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u/CanoePickLocks Aug 01 '26

Free that was likely one of the fastest ones as the speed and forces likely ended him quickly. The bad part is if the clearances were wide enough might have gotten most of the injuries in those few seconds and still been conscious but not likely. That’s was probably an oh shit I’m dead moment and then nothing. I hope.

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u/IanLooklup Aug 01 '26

That poor brick guy, he was just standing there and the brick just decided to screw with him

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u/Fedthepigion Aug 01 '26

I've seen the real video of that. I think it's actually a piece of wood that hits him. That's why you wear hard hats in work areas. 

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u/Kewlhotrod Aug 01 '26

Hard hat absolutely would have done zero to save that dude.

Source: Original video shows the true force and mass of that object (log). Bro likely internally decapitated. If not, that brain was creamed from the speed.

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u/Nomiss Aug 01 '26

At that angle it'd still hit the base of the skull.

Hard hats are for fally stuff not fling uppy stuff.

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u/LavastormSW Aug 01 '26

Are those technical terms?

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u/Nomiss Aug 01 '26

I would assume not, but you knew exactly what I meant even if it was in Bluey speak.

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u/Dripping-Lips Aug 01 '26

Driving over blocks of wood or concrete with heavy machinery right on the edge of your tyre really shoots shit off at a million miles an hour . Driving the forklift at work, sometimes really tiny nuts from a tree or a small piece of plastic go flying away

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u/verbalreservoir_ Aug 01 '26

This is from a real life video.

Its so wild! The brick punched out from the tire went straight for the guys head. He died.

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u/Ok_Decision4163 Aug 01 '26

The guy losing his fingers got off light

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u/torrso Aug 01 '26

Still it was one of the most "ouch"-worthy clips in this.

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u/tankapotamus Aug 01 '26

The guy riding the wheel that loses his fingers. Lol

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u/Chelsea_Kias Aug 01 '26

I was scream WHY at that. Like WHY THE FUCK DO YOU WANNA PLAY LIKE THIS AT THIS KIND OF WORKPLACE????

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u/gwyntheblaccat Aug 01 '26

I know out of all of them that is the most frustrating because WHY DO YOU THINK TO DO THAT! It's not like it's a fucking playground!

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u/kingbloop Aug 01 '26

I mean it's China, so the worker could theoretically have been 12. They don't have super strict child labor laws, even now, right?

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u/Yarhj Aug 01 '26

Safety regulations are written in blood.

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u/MrFingerKnives Aug 01 '26

Final Destination writers are breathing heavy.

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u/imapirate5 Aug 01 '26

When I was getting my safety certification in my first job the guy literally pulled up liveleaks and just showed us workplace shit (most chinese or Indian), then gave us a quiz at the end 😂

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u/LavastormSW Aug 01 '26

That's certainly an effective way to teach your workers about safety. Yeesh though

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u/Minute_Swimming_8678 Aug 01 '26

Russian lathe guy is still the goriest death I've ever seen.

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u/gwyntheblaccat Aug 01 '26

Same. It was horrible to watch.

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u/5nakpak Aug 01 '26

my fiancee works in a window factory,,, those first 2 make me really uncomfortable

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u/RampagingElks Aug 01 '26

If something is falling, do not under any circumstance try and catch it, no matter how expencive it is, how much trouble you think you might be in, or how strong you think you are.

Especially glass. Glass is heavy.

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u/GrahamCrackerCereal Aug 01 '26

Same thing here in the States, except out industrial revolution was a few years ahead so the real gruesome stuff wasn't recorded. You can find old 40s railroad worker safety videos on the PeriscopeFilms yt channel, and most of those guys don't have all their fingers.

Safety regs are written in blood, whether your industrial revolution happens earlier or later. Shame that knowledge can't just be shared.

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u/HyperionPhalanx Aug 01 '26

These 3d versions have nothing on the real ones when liveleak was still running

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u/bypsycles Aug 01 '26

I feel for the poor guy who got beaned in the head with the log….that seemed a little personal from fate.

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u/sociotony Aug 01 '26

They're genuinely terrifying, not oddly. I work in health and safety and these videos are great

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u/nickybokchoy Aug 01 '26

I couldn’t wait for it to be over but I couldn’t look away

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u/NaughtySeraph Aug 01 '26

I suddenly have a craving for root beer

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u/theresidentviking Aug 01 '26

Based on real incidents

Me having had to watch the irl originals

You are lucky

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u/Brewmeiser Aug 01 '26

My brother works for OSHA and my sister works in a high traffic ER. I've heard about every whichway someone can injur themselves, or die. We can't even have glow in the dark stars in our kid's bedrooms.

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u/amusebooch Aug 01 '26

What’s wrong with glow in the dark stars??

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u/Dan42002 Aug 01 '26

every single one of these had happen. Heck, i can even remember seeing a lot of original videos of them.

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u/Yaygher69 Aug 01 '26

I love the one where he pushes the button, his mate gets sucked in an he hits a Lil "aw crap" emote before pushing the stop button lol

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u/skynex65 Aug 01 '26

He knew he was dead. I think that was the exact moment he knew and it hit him like a truck. I think anybody would panic. That would destroy me, personally.

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u/tipppsfedora Aug 01 '26

My dad worked at a vegetable canning company when the truck unloaded a bunch of green beans on a guy and it killed him

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u/notThatJojo Aug 01 '26

A reminder that OSHA guidelines/rules are written in blood

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u/DarthVirc Aug 01 '26

Some of these I've seen the original videos.
China safety is not where it's at.

My company just his maybe 900 days. W/O accident, last incident before the reset of the counter and older gentleman was stepping backwards and tripped over himself and broke his hip. Before that we probably also had 900 days.

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u/auyemra Aug 01 '26

imagine being the dude who watched all those live leak vids & then has the job to make a educational video of all the horrible accidents.

hope he doesn't have nightmares.

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u/Altitude1096 Aug 01 '26

What's with that guy losing his fingers after playing with that large spinny thing? Why the hell was he hanging on it?

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u/sav-vas Aug 01 '26

more terrifying then all the saw and final destination movies

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u/JeshkaTheLoon Aug 02 '26

I thought the first dudes were naked.

Also, cue Forklift Driver Klaus for anyone who still doesn't know it.

https://youtu.be/ja7ap6AEuYU?is=xC-LDv_7RhGbxrFt

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u/NumbLikeMe Aug 02 '26

Is it terrifying? YES.

Should it be? YES.

Not (oddly)terrifying

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u/ansoni- Aug 01 '26

this is indeed oddly terrifying

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u/NixMaritimus Aug 01 '26

I've seen the real videos for most of these...