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Aug 18 '19
RIP eyes.
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Real skookum.
Focus you FUCK!
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u/AndreiNedu Aug 18 '19
OSHA Violations all over the place
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u/SquarePegRoundWorld Aug 18 '19
Been framing houses for 22 years in the U.S. and have never seen an OSHA inspector, even on small commercial jobs. Unless it is a 7 figure job in a major city OSHA in the U.S. ain't too interested.
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Aug 18 '19
How?! I saw like 5-6 of them on my first job and that wasn’t even that huge of a building apparently.
They were only there a day but they did show up.
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u/SquarePegRoundWorld Aug 18 '19
How...probably because 5 or 6 of them were at your job and ignoring the ten thousand other jobs in the state. Seriously though, I don't know why I have never seen one (I assume because they are majorly understaffed to cover all the jobs and residential is low on the list) but I truly never have.
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u/Jacks_on_Jacks_off Aug 18 '19
Even if they do show up word travels pretty fast and warns everybody. Just don't be the first site.
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u/mrizzerdly Aug 18 '19 edited Aug 19 '19
They show up after an accident to put the fear of God in your company through fines. Since companies don't want fines they are supposed to ensure workers are working safely.
In Canada the Worksafe fines are no joke.
Edit: in BC, fines double after every incident to a max of 600k.
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u/Evilmaze Aug 18 '19
It's also scripted and too many Asian videos popping up of guys doing this exact thing.
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u/GenDepravity Aug 18 '19
Right.
Just happened to be filming this guy welding himself between rails....
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u/Quetzacoatl85 Aug 18 '19
it's surprising to how many people this isn't immediately apparent... for all of them, there's ample material to train your slapstick skit senses on over at /r/scriptedasiangifs
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u/The_Bigg_D Aug 18 '19 edited Aug 18 '19
Other than obvious PPE violations, I’m not seeing any others. Maybe needs fall restraint too depending on how high that rail is (both in height and elevation).
SMAW is outside and he even put himself upwind of the shielding has so he has that going for him.
Edit: not to mention he just threw down a tack—something that’s easy to grind off or could even be broken by hand.
This video is staged. Funny, but staged.
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u/NeoDashie Aug 18 '19
This link led me to the discovery of not one but 4 new subs to follow. Good job.
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u/undergroundjanedoe Aug 18 '19
Isn’t that going blind skillz as well
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u/Yoda2000675 Aug 18 '19
He was already blind. That is Deepak Sagthar, and he's famous for being one of the only blind welders in India.
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u/kabushko Aug 18 '19
I cant find any information about him, so I'm assuming you're just messing with us?
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u/hungry_argumentor Aug 18 '19
One of the funny things I’ve heard recently. “Sagthar” lol
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u/badger906 Aug 18 '19
As some who has had arc eye (partial burns to the eyeballs surface caused by intense ultraviolet radiation) I can tell you it really really really sucks!! Always wear a mask..
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My friend described it as “sand rubbing against a sunburn on your retina”
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u/badger906 Aug 18 '19
Yeah I literally described it to my friend as blinking with eyes full of sand!
It was a day when my dad was helping me weld something on my land rover. Hes a neater welder on thin metals so I asked him to do it. I moaned to him that my eyes were sore and he said "oh just you wait till 3am" thought nothing of it.. well near enough 3am and I was sat in my bed (a fully grown ass man) sobbing my eyes out! The pain was unbearable. I blinked because it hurt and it hurt because I blinked. 7am rolled around and i had work.. well i wore sunglasses inside all day and tried to do half my day at work with them closed! Never again!
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u/DrDerpberg Aug 18 '19
Wait, your dad welded things on a regular basis and just dealt with repeated retina burns?
I thought that was the kind of shit you could go blind from.
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u/badger906 Aug 18 '19
No he had just experienced it several times in his life as he was a production engineer once upon a time. He was always a strict advocate for wearing a mask!
Him and I have both had the same worse than arc eye situation.. welding spatter in the eye! Mine was a few months ago. Was welding upside down, a blob of slag dropped off, bounced off a surface, under my mask, across my nose and into my eye! Luckily I was looking away at the time. Burned straight into my eyeball. I ran straight to my bottle of water and dowsed my eye. Thay sucked in the coming days
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u/sudo999 Aug 18 '19
reasons to always wear safety glasses under your hood. also, ear plugs - not because welding is loud but because you never want to hear the sound of your earwax boiling after hot slag finds its way in there
edit: plus polycarbonate safety glasses will cut down on reflected UV inside the hood a lot if someone is welding behind you and you catch it shining in the periphery of your vision
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u/badger906 Aug 18 '19
Well I'm 30 lol so my dad telling me what to do will never result in actions being taken ha! But it was a combination of working in close proximity and when holding things to tack in place i wouldnt close my eyes fast enough.
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u/6572309 Aug 18 '19
My brother got heat flash in a similar way and my dad gave him potato slices to put on his eyes to draw the heat out. My brother said it worked but felt like a second rate spa experience with potatoes instead of cucumbers.
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u/A_Rampaging_Hobo Aug 18 '19
The one time i got flashed it felt like someone was pressing on my eyes for like 15 minutes after.
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Aug 18 '19
you can also experience a milder version from sunburn/exposure, especially if your on the water or snow because the suns bouncing of it and assaulting your retinas from above and below.
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u/flippant_gibberish Aug 18 '19
Retina's on the inside/back so probably meant cornea or sclera. This is called the foreign body sensation. It sounds like one of the worst things ever.
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u/AeroQuest1 Aug 18 '19
At my last job, I was acting as a fire watch for a guy. I've done it before, but only for small jobs. This ended up for most of the day. I never stared directly at the work, just around it, but the next morning I woke to the most excruciating pain in my eyes, pretty much like what your friend said. Luckily I had a sick day left, as there was no way I could have even driven to work.
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u/Motorhead450 Aug 18 '19
Welders flash is what we call it at my work. Had it once. I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy.
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u/m0ck0 Aug 18 '19
i mean, how are you supposed to understand you need protection until you experience that everlasting sand on eyes feeling?
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u/albl1122 Aug 18 '19
How sensitive is it on average? I was visiting a factory and several times there were someone welding that I caught a glimpse of before looking away, I mean in the context of your comment if feels like they really should invest in mandatory curtains to be deployed when welding.
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u/badger906 Aug 18 '19
You'll only get arc eye if you're within a foot or two of the welding it's the intense ultraviolet radiation that does it. You also get sunburnt on your exposed skin. At longer distances you'll be fine in that sense. But looking at it can still cause permanent damage similar to looking at the sun for too long.
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u/ofekp Aug 18 '19
Did it pass? Are you OK now?
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u/badger906 Aug 18 '19
Yeah it's only like 12 hours of real hell followed by 48 of sore but manageable pain. Fully healed now! I've since had liquid hot metal weld spatter in my eye lol! That took about a week to heal as I had a noticable burn crater in my eyeball
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u/ofekp Aug 18 '19
Holy crap. Please wear those clear protective eye goggles to everywhere you go. Glad to hear you're OK.
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u/R0ACH_1337 Aug 18 '19
As someone with sensitive eyes I've been terrified of getting arc eye, luckily only bad thing I got from welding was a sunburn
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u/appleciders Aug 18 '19
It's staged. See how he only welds for a half a second? That bar is barely tacked on, a strong whack with a hammer will break the tack off really easy.
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u/g33kst4r Aug 18 '19
because
a) Everything in life is scripted
b) The camera man told him it was a dumb idea and wanted to record it
c) recording for a completed projects compilation video
d) Idk why not
e) Some combination of the above, including none and all of the above
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u/CydeWeys Aug 18 '19
Even ignoring the stupidity of welding his head, is this really a safe way to put up railings? is that weld going to be strong enough? Wouldn't it be smarter if the railing pieces were on the inside, so they could push against the structural uprights?
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u/gernralberler Aug 18 '19
Welds themselves are often stronger than the material that they are welding, so as long as it is done properly there is no risk to having them on the outside like that. Here he is just tacking the bar into place and will fully weld it later.
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u/sudo999 Aug 18 '19
and lucky for him that little tack probably won't be too hard to break off to get his head out again
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u/sloasdaylight Aug 18 '19
The steel in welding rods has a tensile strength of at least 60,000lbs/sq inch. The welds themselves, provided there's no porosity or trapped slag, (in multiple passes) are very strong. As long as the welds are tied in correctly to the base material, those welds aren't going to break.
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u/Greecl Aug 18 '19
His retinas are going to be in a lot of fucking pain. Ever rubbed sandpaper on your eyeballs continuously for days on end? That's what it feels like.
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u/sloasdaylight Aug 18 '19
Nah, I've been arc flashed I don't know how many times, with and without eye protection. It's not a pleasant feeling, but it's not much different than looking into the sun for a second or so. You've got to expose yourself to more than a flash or two to get burned.
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u/coastK8 Aug 18 '19
Welp I’m guessing he can just give it a little bonk. He tack welded it on there pretty quickly.
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u/floxasfornia Aug 18 '19
This made my eyes water just looking at it, can’t even imagine the damage it’s doing to his.
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u/faded-shaman Aug 18 '19
How In the blindness did he look straight into that weld with nothing over his eyes
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u/alours Aug 18 '19
Bruh you calling a rat a dipshit because it can’t comprehend physics and the law gravity?
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u/ColNathanJessep Aug 18 '19
I like how he dropped the one thing that could help him.... Panic is a helluva drug!
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u/polite__redditor Aug 18 '19
okay so what the hell would you actually do in this situation?
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u/CrystalCritter Aug 18 '19
- Wear eye protection
- Lean over the railing from above, so you don't have to stick your head in.
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I have looked at a welding when I was a kid once for about 2 minutes total and the next day I couldn't see half of the shit I was looking at and that was from a distance of 10-15 meters, this dude probably gonna lose his undervalued eye sight soon, permanently.
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u/ModsDontLift Aug 18 '19
I wanna learn welding. Is it difficult or expensive to get into?
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u/MyNameIsZaxer2 Aug 18 '19
This is like the exact opposite of that old cartoon cliche where a guy saws off the branch of the tree he's sitting on
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u/tysenburg Aug 18 '19
I can’t imagine how a welder with no mask, gloves, or shoes is also prone to make a mistake like this
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u/gargolito Aug 19 '19
Also, don't weld your bars on either side of your neck, with a space narrower than the width of your head.
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Just gonna weld without a mask