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Safety lesson for day

Mike1950

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As we slowly move through retirement, we need to keep ourselves occupied with small projects.........like this guy.

I know, I saw it right away too .... No safety glasses or hearing protection.


And I caught something else that is really important: he's not wearing gloves

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Is anyone really that stupid? That's got to be a joke.

On second thought there's a lot of people that stupid . . . . :eek: o_O
 
Oh I agree it's funny. Caption for it:

The Richard Smalls School of Chainsaw Safety . . . :D
 
I had seen this pix elsewhere prior to today I just kinda blew it off as a joke but on second thought there could be guys who have major brain farts like this one. :eek::eek::eek:
 
Yup; this guy makes me understand what prompts manufacturers to write all those warnings on their tools. I met an OSHA inspector once who said he is always amazed at what lengths folks will go to injure themselves
 
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Patrude said:
Yup; this guy makes me understand what prompts manufacturers to write all those warnings on their tools. I met an OSHA inspector once who said he is always amazed at what lengths folks will go to injure themselves
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I have a bunch of safety violation pics from OSHA inspectors. The most memorable one is a very large probably 15,000 lb capacity forklift extended all the way up probably 20'+ with a smaller forklift on the forks-it's forks extended probably 15'. There is a man basket on the little forklifts forks and 2 men changing light fixtures in some sort of building. Now you have to give them an A for ingenuity but probably not the brightest bulbs on the tree. I cannot imagine the fine but I bet it was a big one. I will have to track those down one of these days......
 
Mike1950 said:
I have a bunch of safety violation pics from OSHA inspectors. The most memorable one is a very large probably 15,000 lb capacity forklift extended all the way up probably 20'+ with a smaller forklift on the forks-it's forks extended probably 15'. There is a man basket on the little forklifts forks and 2 men changing light fixtures in some sort of building. Now you have to give them an A for ingenuity but probably not the brightest bulbs on the tree. I cannot imagine the fine but I bet it was a big one. I will have to track those down one of these days......
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The factory I worked at during college had made me the weekend supervisor and forklift driver during my senior year. One weekend they were running overtime, so everyone from the weekday shifts were there too. We had a problem with a pallet on the top level of the racks. Whoever put it up there managed to get it stuck. And we needed that pallet NOW so as to not get in trouble. Problem was, our man basket was buried elsewhere in the building and would have taken us quite some time to get at. When no one was looking, the head forklift driver for the factory loaded a pallet onto the forks and had me send him up with him standing on the pallet. On a forklift that didn't operate the smoothest. Thankfully nothing bad happened, but not one of our finest moments. We did a lot of things we shouldn't have - glad OSHA never caught us, glad we never got hurt, and glad to now know better.
 
I don't see anything wrong with the photo... I wish more people would realize that they shouldn't reproduce.(insert Barry's ambiguity/poker face here).
 
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DKMD said:
I don't see anything wrong with the photo... I wish more people would realize that they shouldn't reproduce.(insert Barry's ambiguity/poker face here).
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I have to agree on that one - I have a huge list of politicians that we sure would have been better off if their parents had not reproduced.
 
Kevin said:
Is anyone really that stupid? That's got to be a joke.

On second thought there's a lot of people that stupid . . . . :eek: o_O
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Maybe he was checking if he had a hole in his piston! IF you want to see "REALLY" stupid google homemade sawmills and see the number of people running without a sign of blade containment! I know that I run an open (sort of) saw, but it is on the other side of the machine when it is operating and no is in the area where the blade slings off.
 
I used to do construction with two guys that were room mates. They were both very heavy drinkers. They both injured themselves using a chainsaw drunk. One of them managed to step on the sharp part. One is no longer living and I hear the other will be doing time soon! Nothing is too surprising when it comes to being done. That said I need to be a little more diligent about safety what little I use a chainsaw after seeing your comments.

Yeah and the bar will never go there! Wow
 
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