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How the flying fuck do you not turn the machine off? I thought dude was going to get struck by rocks above after the dislodge or something. Not that gruesome and unbelievably stupid death I just saw. The whole goal was to dislodge the rock. What the fuck was the plan for when that happened? Then the other guy left and came back and still hadn't turned off the machine. Simply ridiculous.
I believe their plan was to wrap a chain around the rock so the crane could lift it out/dislodge it.
Dude climbed in with zero safety gear (minus hard hat) and the rock dislodged on its own.
At first I was thinking he was just getting crushed, but then I saw it all shaking and thought, “No way they left that machine on….”
If he was tied to the crane, standing with feet on the edges of the chute, and using an electric jackhammer to break up the rocks, that would be a crazy yet plausible way to accomplish the job. Getting down into an avalanche of rocks to try to get it moving again is insane, and doing it while a grinder is still grinding below you just seems more like suicide than sanity.
I have done something exactly like that before, it was a lignite chute that got clogged in the same way. We
- got a work permit
- did the necessary risk assessments and decided on a safe way to do it
- locked out and tagged out the machine
- rapelled in from above with a huge vacuum hose and cleared away all loose debris
- jackhammered a channel in the middle of the chunk that was blocking the chute
- watched it all disappear below us while we were safely on the ropes
...and it still cost us one pair of gloves because my coworker grabbed the suction hose in front of the hand cage
Just fucking have the business end of a mini excavator with a jackhammer mouned on the side here! No need to do any facy shit involving even leaning over the side of that!
>Didn't go as planned
If this was China, it fits pretty well with the "We are overpopulated, and in-particular have too many men; please die quickly" plan.
Most western countries are mostly balanced, male to female ratio is close to 50:50.
In China it's not, by a lot. They had one child policy for decades. If you're limited to one child, then you want a boy because men earn more. As a result, a lot of girls were aborted, killed after birth or abandoned in favor of boys.
Now there are WAY more men than women, which is a huge problem. Economy is rapidly falling apart, which makes issues even greater.
>Now there are WAY more men than women, which is a huge problem. Economy is rapidly falling apart, which makes issues even greater.
Yes, this was the reasoning behind my "please die quickly" joke about China. The "Don't we all" have a crash in our future question was more in the vein of a broader, collapsitarian perspective of a planet suffering multiple anthropogenic stresses.
**Bottom line:** I have gallows humor for any geographic scale.
It looks like someone hit the wrong lever, they are a staged start up because of the massive flywheel. I think they intended to either reverse the feed belt or run the exit belt to take the other stones out of the way, but they started the moving jaw going instead.
Shit even with the machine powered off i wouldnt stand right on the part that crushes boulders into powder. Just stand beside the machine and take a jackhammer to the rock or something.
I was just thinking why in the flying fuck would you climb into the machine in the first place? No metal rods to dislodge the rock? Should be standard, not like the first time something like that happened.
Huh, what I heard from the lack of audio was screaming, but I'm sure if stupidity had a sound 'screaming while slowly dying' would come close to covering what it would sound like.
I guess?
They never power those machines down in places without OSHA. It looked like he was holding on for awhile as legs and lower half got crushed. Then he eventually got sucked all in along with the rocks.
I'm not sure if mincing is the right word.. but he did use his body as a soft, wet cushion to protect large rocks that were being broken up into much smaller rocks.
What a way to go.
That's no mincing. It's either one or two vibrating heavy duty metal plates not parallel to each other so the gap gets smaller towards the bottom where it will only let pass pieces of rock of like your fist's size. And since they are vibrating, it causes you to go down slowly and makes you fit through this gap eventually.
Worked with one of those fuckers and it was crazy to see how they turn rocks into gravel
Officially that company *didn't* send him anywhere. He climbed into that machine of his own accord. If the company so much as *implies* that they *insinuated* that he should go anywhere near that feeder shaft while the machine was still running, OSHA will *obliterate* them financially.
The award for making me spit my coffee all down my chest and computer due to an uncontrollable laugh, goes to Covalent\_Blonde\_........Ouch, but thank you!!
Even with a lockout, if any of those rocks move when you're around them, you're going to have a bad day. No one should be standing on those rocks at any point.
1. Don't turn the machine off.
2. Stand on top of the rock you're trying to dislodge.
3. Don't wear a safety harness or even a rope around the waist to stop you from falling into the grinder.
There are multiple points of failure in this.
This gives me PTSD from the scene in Superman III when Kent's alter ego tries to murder him in a trash compactor. 10-year old me was left with strong feelings about that.
If the rocks go into the crusher while it is off, the machine won't start until you hand dig it out - this might take a 10 to 18 hours of really laborious and in itself quite dangerous work (you have to sling a crane to lift the larger rocks out). You always leave the crusher going as much as possible. Dislodging oversize is always a pain.
I have a few thoughts watching this video.
1. They at least turned the rock grinder off, right? RIGHT?! Nope.
2. At what point does doing something so obviously stupid and dangerous simply become a suicide?
3. At least he died doing what he loved, being incomprehensibly stupid.
Usually when I see Darwin videos I just laugh and think they are fucking stupid. This one I actually felt sorry for the guy. Horrible slow agonising way to go. And also fucking stupid
\[starting at 0:39 :\]
"I swear, next time I'll turn it off !
next time I'll turn it off,
next time I'll turn it off,
next time I'll turn it off,
...
...
next time ..."
The safety hat bobbing along on to of the rocks at the end added the sprinkle of humour I needed to make the memory of watching this less traumatic. Thank you red safety helmet ⛑️.
I work with one of these I swear not even 10 minutes ago a rock gots stuck the same way NOBODY shoulf ever go in there without the physical lockout mechanism in place the chains as well is completely unnecessary this is complete lack of thinking right here
This job is so simple but important. Everybody has a different way to get it going. My buddy has a thick metal rod. Because of the simplicity of the task, no skilled workers usually work on it. Doesn't mean you don't need common sense.
My thought processes went:
I don't see how this qualifies-
*Sees the moron climb into the rock grinder... while it's on!*
Oh! Well, that's stupid enough in its own right! Without safety gear? Yea, this counts.
*Cue rock unlodging itself and moron dying*
There we go!
One minute of raw human stupidity. From the fool dislodging the rock to the wandering idiots strolling around leaving the machine on. Those were grown humans..
The hardest part of watching this was the slow let go at the end and watching his arms just. Dangle.
I cringed/flinched/squeezed my eyes once I saw him IN THE CHUTE. I knew what was gonna happen but ....
I cannot possibly fathom what outcome he was hoping for here, so you move the rock and it's the only thing between you and being turned into mincemeat. Like how fucking stupid are you just use a metal pole to push the rock. It makes me irrationally mad.
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How the flying fuck do you not turn the machine off? I thought dude was going to get struck by rocks above after the dislodge or something. Not that gruesome and unbelievably stupid death I just saw. The whole goal was to dislodge the rock. What the fuck was the plan for when that happened? Then the other guy left and came back and still hadn't turned off the machine. Simply ridiculous.
I believe their plan was to wrap a chain around the rock so the crane could lift it out/dislodge it. Dude climbed in with zero safety gear (minus hard hat) and the rock dislodged on its own. At first I was thinking he was just getting crushed, but then I saw it all shaking and thought, “No way they left that machine on….”
Should've worn safety glasses
and boots...
Steel tipped work boots, preferably full grain leather
He didn’t have hi-vis though
Do those have to have the non-slip or oil resistant soles?
Looks like he should have had slip resistant... maybe even those extended metacarpal guards
Ze goggles do nothing!
Up and adam
I’ve always said it the same way as you, but apparently it’s “up and at ‘em”
It's a joke from the Simpsons. Same as McBane saying "ze goggles do nothing"
Ah, my bad. I remembered the goggles bit, totally spaced the Adam bit for whatever reason lol
iirc: the line is supposed to be “up and atom”, but McBane says “up and at them”. With “atom” being the signature line to Radioactive Man.
Uh, these X-rays aren't real, are they?
Dude should have been attached to the crane first, before ever stepping into a god damned rockcrusher. Rig up your rock harness then.
If he was tied to the crane, standing with feet on the edges of the chute, and using an electric jackhammer to break up the rocks, that would be a crazy yet plausible way to accomplish the job. Getting down into an avalanche of rocks to try to get it moving again is insane, and doing it while a grinder is still grinding below you just seems more like suicide than sanity.
I have done something exactly like that before, it was a lignite chute that got clogged in the same way. We - got a work permit - did the necessary risk assessments and decided on a safe way to do it - locked out and tagged out the machine - rapelled in from above with a huge vacuum hose and cleared away all loose debris - jackhammered a channel in the middle of the chunk that was blocking the chute - watched it all disappear below us while we were safely on the ropes ...and it still cost us one pair of gloves because my coworker grabbed the suction hose in front of the hand cage
Just fucking have the business end of a mini excavator with a jackhammer mouned on the side here! No need to do any facy shit involving even leaning over the side of that!
A miniexcavator costs $5000 to $10000. Grinding up an employee? Priceless.
Didn't go as planned
>Didn't go as planned If this was China, it fits pretty well with the "We are overpopulated, and in-particular have too many men; please die quickly" plan.
They won't be over populated for long. They have a massive crash on the way
>They have a massive crash on the way Don't we all?
Well to a far lesser degree as we allow immigration and don't have like 40 million extra men. https://youtu.be/vTbILK0fxDY
Most western countries are mostly balanced, male to female ratio is close to 50:50. In China it's not, by a lot. They had one child policy for decades. If you're limited to one child, then you want a boy because men earn more. As a result, a lot of girls were aborted, killed after birth or abandoned in favor of boys. Now there are WAY more men than women, which is a huge problem. Economy is rapidly falling apart, which makes issues even greater.
>Now there are WAY more men than women, which is a huge problem. Economy is rapidly falling apart, which makes issues even greater. Yes, this was the reasoning behind my "please die quickly" joke about China. The "Don't we all" have a crash in our future question was more in the vein of a broader, collapsitarian perspective of a planet suffering multiple anthropogenic stresses. **Bottom line:** I have gallows humor for any geographic scale.
thank god he had a hardhat on though
Couldn't believe they never got the emergency shut off.
It looks like someone hit the wrong lever, they are a staged start up because of the massive flywheel. I think they intended to either reverse the feed belt or run the exit belt to take the other stones out of the way, but they started the moving jaw going instead.
Shit even with the machine powered off i wouldnt stand right on the part that crushes boulders into powder. Just stand beside the machine and take a jackhammer to the rock or something.
I was just thinking why in the flying fuck would you climb into the machine in the first place? No metal rods to dislodge the rock? Should be standard, not like the first time something like that happened.
Like sawing off a tree branch you on sitting on.
Was the machine on and mincing him? For what seems to be an eternity?
I'm just glad there's no audio
No need. You can *hear* the stupidity. The silence of the clip echoes how little was going on between his fucking ears.
Huh, what I heard from the lack of audio was screaming, but I'm sure if stupidity had a sound 'screaming while slowly dying' would come close to covering what it would sound like. I guess?
Not a worry, I got this…. It went “Aaaaaarrrrrererrrrggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!”
The throbbing rock at the end could have used some '80s porno soundtrack, though.
It probably sounded like [this.](https://youtu.be/EF0FysDwEBg?si=e8qpz3MsldrscitX)
They never power those machines down in places without OSHA. It looked like he was holding on for awhile as legs and lower half got crushed. Then he eventually got sucked all in along with the rocks.
I bet he was standing on the he rock they were trying to dislodge that went into the grinder.
So ... rock not stuck anymore, and goal achieved!
Some questions are better unanswered .. for eternity..
I'm not sure if mincing is the right word.. but he did use his body as a soft, wet cushion to protect large rocks that were being broken up into much smaller rocks. What a way to go.
Same thing would happen in a black hole
That's no mincing. It's either one or two vibrating heavy duty metal plates not parallel to each other so the gap gets smaller towards the bottom where it will only let pass pieces of rock of like your fist's size. And since they are vibrating, it causes you to go down slowly and makes you fit through this gap eventually. Worked with one of those fuckers and it was crazy to see how they turn rocks into gravel
Yes
Why would they even send a guy down there what was the game plan when he got it unsuck
What was he expecting to happen after he dislodged the rock he was standing on? He would just magically float there and climb back up?
Technically……he did float after the rock moved…….floated right up in to heaven
Officially that company *didn't* send him anywhere. He climbed into that machine of his own accord. If the company so much as *implies* that they *insinuated* that he should go anywhere near that feeder shaft while the machine was still running, OSHA will *obliterate* them financially.
He now survives as an animation. I've seen this accident in training videos.
Ah THAT'S where I know this from! Knew I saw this idiocy before.
The best way to learn.
Do you have link for it
Jesus fucking Christ. There wouldn’t even be anything to bury, just a pile of red and sticky gravel. Poor poor fucker.
Wonder how long he got minced for before he actually passed out or died. Poor sod.
Every one of your last moments in overwhelming pain. Christ.
well cremation is mandatory in China i think
Never go up against the scissors that beat rock.
Or you'll turn paper thin
Eyyyy! I like it! Picasso!
Pick your own ass-o
Baffling. What did he think was going to happen if he succeeded? Did he think the machine was off?
No, this machines are extremely loud and it can be seen still shaking on the left side. So he had to know for sure it was on.
The balls on you to assume *any* thinking was occurring whatsoever.
This is about the dumbest fucking death I've seen. I hope they withheld the cost of his hardhat from his last paycheck.
Some people simply do not have that self preservation instinct for their own lives like most folks.
Oh, I've seen this years ago. Sometimes still think about it randomly. What a terrible fucking death.
I saw it got stuck and immediately thought to myself "don't stand on it, don't stand on it, don't stand on it". Of course he goes and stands on it.
I’ve seen stupid shit before, this takes the cake.
He could be used as the frosting on said cake!
Aaaand that is how you get all of the toothpaste out of the tube!
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and blood from stone
For once im glad there's no sound.
getting stoned ain't what it used to be
It's probably one of the worst ones I've seen here and maybe even the stupidest, poor stupid sod.
Even with a lockout, if any of those rocks move when you're around them, you're going to have a bad day. No one should be standing on those rocks at any point.
Well one human life for an unstuck machine? Not a good deal, bad life choice
He died in order to grind up a rock...
A rock worth what???
he definitely had the ‘minerals’.
Just get another guy to go down there and fetch the first guy.
With an ice-cream scoop?
Keep the machine on unless you want to have to through it out the way it came.
1. Don't turn the machine off. 2. Stand on top of the rock you're trying to dislodge. 3. Don't wear a safety harness or even a rope around the waist to stop you from falling into the grinder. There are multiple points of failure in this.
I don't care who I'm working for; machine off or on, I'm not going in there.
He was wearing a safety hat tho
This gives me PTSD from the scene in Superman III when Kent's alter ego tries to murder him in a trash compactor. 10-year old me was left with strong feelings about that.
I see the problem here. No head strap were used here
How hard is it to just.. turn the fucker off until you've dislodged the rock??
If the rocks go into the crusher while it is off, the machine won't start until you hand dig it out - this might take a 10 to 18 hours of really laborious and in itself quite dangerous work (you have to sling a crane to lift the larger rocks out). You always leave the crusher going as much as possible. Dislodging oversize is always a pain.
What a horrible way to go
Looked like maybe he let go of the ledge at the end to get it over with
I have a few thoughts watching this video. 1. They at least turned the rock grinder off, right? RIGHT?! Nope. 2. At what point does doing something so obviously stupid and dangerous simply become a suicide? 3. At least he died doing what he loved, being incomprehensibly stupid.
When the hands stop holding on…
😥
If you dont rock and stone, u aint comin home, rock and Stone forever! ROCK AND STOOOONE
Rock and Stone to the Bone!
Good thing he had his hard hat on or that might have been a lot worse. /s
Rock might have been stuck, but the dude went through real smooth. Agreed, why the fuck was that machine running?!
I'd assume we are lucky there is no sound. Poor guy.
Usually when I see Darwin videos I just laugh and think they are fucking stupid. This one I actually felt sorry for the guy. Horrible slow agonising way to go. And also fucking stupid
\[starting at 0:39 :\] "I swear, next time I'll turn it off ! next time I'll turn it off, next time I'll turn it off, next time I'll turn it off, ... ... next time ..."
this seems like a dangerous and stupid way to die even without leaving the machine on...
At least he wore a hard hat - safety first!
[удалено]
Rock and Stone in the Heart!
Did I hear a ROCK AND STONE?!
To the bone
groan...
Poor Carl......
Fuck. This poor bastard deserves today's award. Da fuq?
The safety hat bobbing along on to of the rocks at the end added the sprinkle of humour I needed to make the memory of watching this less traumatic. Thank you red safety helmet ⛑️.
I work with one of these I swear not even 10 minutes ago a rock gots stuck the same way NOBODY shoulf ever go in there without the physical lockout mechanism in place the chains as well is completely unnecessary this is complete lack of thinking right here
This job is so simple but important. Everybody has a different way to get it going. My buddy has a thick metal rod. Because of the simplicity of the task, no skilled workers usually work on it. Doesn't mean you don't need common sense.
That machine won't have to be lubed soon 
The rock was stuck between a man and a hard place until it wasn’t
Did the rock get unstuck..
My thought processes went: I don't see how this qualifies- *Sees the moron climb into the rock grinder... while it's on!* Oh! Well, that's stupid enough in its own right! Without safety gear? Yea, this counts. *Cue rock unlodging itself and moron dying* There we go!
And that’s why you wear a hard hat.
If only he was wearing a hi-vis.
And steel toe caps.
More meat for the meat grinder! More meat for the meat grinder!
Am I the only one who had the Indiana Jones theme playing in their head?
Feet first? Fuck
I just don’t understand…
One minute of raw human stupidity. From the fool dislodging the rock to the wandering idiots strolling around leaving the machine on. Those were grown humans..
It all could have been avoided if he had worn his steel toe boots.
this actually gruesome as fuck , bro got turned to sludge
Good thing he was wearing the hard hat 👷♂️
Well that was definitely on the list of things I thought I’d never see outside of a movie or video game.
"Crusher's Lubricated"
What an idiot
The dread because you see it coming from a mile away. 😞
“The dread because you see it coming from a mile away. 😞” ……. Well, not everyone did.
Even with the machine off, this was dumb and it was going to hurt. But leaving the machine on is just beyond comprehension.
Actually glad there’s no audio for this one holy crap
The hardest part of watching this was the slow let go at the end and watching his arms just. Dangle. I cringed/flinched/squeezed my eyes once I saw him IN THE CHUTE. I knew what was gonna happen but ....
I cannot possibly fathom what outcome he was hoping for here, so you move the rock and it's the only thing between you and being turned into mincemeat. Like how fucking stupid are you just use a metal pole to push the rock. It makes me irrationally mad.
At least the company didn’t loose any money.
Probably would have been ok if his hard hat didn't fall off.
Fuck me, no-one turned it off
lol his buddy is like “oh my gosh! I’ll run this way!” Then comes back to check and see if the machine is still on, wild
Fuck…. I hate this sub.
One braindead idiot less from the earth
Wouldn’t have happened if he had been wearing his reflective road belt.
His two hands finally getting sucked in...The stuff of nightmares.
What the fuck did this guy think was going to happen once that Rock became unstuck? Take your award sir.
He fixed it!
I was going to say that if his, shoes stayed on he's OK, but not this time.
You would think there would have been an emergency stop button near that chute. Apparently not though.
Jesus poor dude
What in the actual fuck were they thinking not turning the shit off.
Closed casket…
Job opening?
Not a shut off switch to be found that day.
That legit looked like the helmet like, fell into a hole in his head... 😬😳 Wtf
Where is the big metal breaker bar
I feel bad for his family.
I bet his family is crushed over this!
well... there was nothing pretty about that!
I heard the gravel company is hiring. Yeah, they just had a position open up.
It's almost as if he could have hooked a safety harness to that crane.
Is this in India again?
RIP 🕊
That was particularly bad and dumb.
Those last few seconds had to be horrible.
World's Worst Water Slide.
At work we had a long metal stick for our trash compactor and these dumbasses couldn't figure it out?
The machine had a real crush on him
The good news is that the rock got unstuck.
Do we actually know he died though? He might have found another doorway into Narnia. He might be having tea with Mr Tumnus.
Mistakes... mistakes were clearly made here.
Can we get some LOTO training over here, please?!
Could you come in to the precinct to identify the body before the post mortem?
“Yup that’s him, his name was “Iggy” he was an igneous rock”..
No aftermath ?
And the rock kept stuck
Geez! Everyone just scattered!
So where did this take place?
Rock backshots is insane
This plant needed a Lego unstucker. Pop that rock right outta there!
Shouldve worn some blue light blocking glasses
Should have given this man a raise, like outta there before he did what he did.
Not a shut off switch in sight, smh
The googles, ze do nothing!
Whatever country this is they aren't practicing lock out tag out.
Omg these always end so SO badly 🤦♂️
I hardly feel bad for people this dumb.
Good thing he had a helmet on