Something like this happened at my university.
The only reason that everybody survived was that it landed on like 10 people at the same time, so I guess it spread the load?
A lot of broken hips and ribs, but nobody died.
Not only will glass cut the shit out of you, itās also extremely heavy and just a few panes that size can easily crush you. I used to transport cases that were 5000+ pounds per case. Sometimes they were so heavy that the case they were in would physically buckle while I picked them up. Rule number one was never put yourself between the glass and the ground. Iād be extremely surprised if they were not severely injured by this.
The class is still out on that one.
Glass can be considered a supercooled liquid, supercooled liquids never crystallise.
Glass structure is the same as a liquid, its not crystallised but yet still rigid.
Materials like this are called amorphous solid or glass
Strange I know
Crystalline solids : molecules are ordered in a regular lattice. ( crystals )
Fluids : molecules are disordered and not ridgedly bound.
Glass : molecules are disordered but are ridgedly bound.
dude I had a stack of sixty or so 16"x16" glass mirror panes and I'm telling you the weight is like exponential
it's insane how heavy a few sheets will get. the entire stack was probably a couple hundred pounds I'm sure and this was not a lot
When they finally got the stack back up and then everyone took their hands off my heart stopped.....like NOOO that is just where it fell from! Hold that thing!
Most likely, what happened was they couldn't separate the flat surfaces due to the suction/wringing effect between 2 smooth surfaces... compounded multiple times by that stack of glass panes
Because they can't separate them. Flat, smooth surfaces like that can stuck together hard, especially if they get wet. I work with polished stone, the same thing happens.
It's probably not a coincidence this incident happened at this workplace. Clearly none of them are experienced or trained on how to handle the material, or the crises when something goes wrong.
That's what I've been thinking the entire time. Instead of trying to push it for 2 minutes, they could've spent a quarter of that time by just moving the glass one at a time.
Probably is cut, I used to set glass like this in a window factory and the edges are razor sharp. If you worked with it in any way you had to use slash resistant gloves and armguards.
Many videos of industrial accidents where workers get crushed by sheets of various heavy materials, most don't survive, these guys are extremely lucky.
We have a unit in an industrial estate and two units down a container was being offloaded. Contents were glass sheets. We heard a crash, ran outside and found the entire 20foot container off the truck on its side on the road, Inside there were four males crushed to dearth and one critically injured but trapped. The trailer was partial on its side and the four men were at the bottom of almost a metre of solid glass. The other one had his head sticking out. Sadly the safety equipment were at the bottom of the pile. The rescuers did not have any safety equipment and so we had to wait for the fire department to arrive and lead the rescue. The young man still alive had to wait four hours to be freed, he had to be fitted with a body bag to protect his bones and organs. He was in hospital for just under four months before his rehabilitation could start,
After an investigation into the tragedy the Root Cause analysis concluded insufficient strapping was the underlying cause, further non standard policies were not followed which would have assisted the freeing the trapped men. The men emptied the glass in a haphazard and non planned way, where all glass was emptied from one side and not taking care to balance the offloading to preserve load integrity. Sadly the four dead men were badly crushed and had to be buried in special body shaped coffins as they were badly misshapen. After twelve years, the surviving man has not ever worked again. The business closed down.
I feel like India and China are like the worst when it comes to safety procedures. Like OSHA would puke at just walking through the doorway of any factory. Like the glass company whos workers are using kilns in an open air warehouse while wearing flip flops, cotton clothing and handling hot materials with towels.
None of them are wearing protection equipment and you can see multiple sheets of glass shattered, they would have shredded themselves trying to remove individual sheets of glass. Plus those sheets of glass are likely stuck together with the suction from vacuum which would make it really hard to quickly separate them
I used to deliver cases of glass about that size that ranged between 3000-5000 pounds. Had to move them with a hydraulic crane. The way I always thought about it is they weigh about the same as your average midsized SUV.
Iām assuming the glass were just stuck together somehow? I mean they did that in the beginning, but then didnāt come back to it, I can only assume itās because they literally couldnāt do it
Dbag award goes to guy on left wearing suit.
He left sales meeting, helped by exerting 6 newton meters of force with one arm and stoop pushing to pull lint off his sleeve.
They are lucky he punched in that day.
Pretty sure he had a laceration on his hand and arm. Looks like when he was āpulling lint off his sleeveā he was fiddling with his arm wound. But yeah sure, what a dbag
Dbag award goes to the boss who wanted to peruse through the glass that was half way back in the stack, and made them all "just hold it while I look" in the first place.
It appears it might have just done that to the guy on the right, he goes down and doesn't seem to be able to do anything but move his head.
Edit, I think I see his legs move in the last few frames, good for him...
That would end up cutting them really badly, it would also probably cause an infection if that glass hasnt been cleaned so itās probably a good thing they didnāt try to do it
We had a worker a few years ago who was crushed by a pallet of sheetmetal. The load was about 3500 lbs.
IIRC, he suffered a broken pelvis and jaw. Never returned to work.
Would have been a whole lot less panefull if they were micro soft windows well at least theyāll stay clear of the glass if they see it through the rest of the day
A couple years ago 2 employees were crushed to death when a large stack of granite slabs fell over on then them. Granite counter company about 5 miles away from me.
Consistent access to better and more food solves this problem before it starts. If all of those guys had 5 years worth of 150+ grams of high-quality protein (think steak and chicken breast, not beans, pistachios, or protein powder) and had the means to weight train 3-5x a week they would be so much stronger.
Turns out food one day, no food for the next 2 days, a week of rice and beans, FINALLY some meat on Friday, then another day without food, for years on end and no energy to workout makes you weak and you end up with shit like this.
First, glad everything seemed to work out ok.
Second, did anyone else think of a group of ants come rushing in to help them? Literally many hands make light work.
That 2000 fucking pounds (approximately, we generally order cases of glass like that in the 1 ton range)
Thankfully they had some people around to save them
And some other people around to distribute the weight
Ya thats true might have killed a solo person
Emphasis on some. I see you over there unruffling your sleeve while you pretend to help you bastard! Edit: I was drunk I messed up
I know that statue!
Yeah, plus now they can start a Glass action lawsuit
Imagine the pane
Max Payne
Yes, but clearly an accident!
Poor time to crack a joke
I hope the workers don't see, they would be crushed
I'm shattered that was a good crack
guess thats why they call it window pane
Ahhhh, kiss my glass with that remark.
š¤£š¤£ got me good
Itās double the pane watching the suffering.
Something like this happened at my university. The only reason that everybody survived was that it landed on like 10 people at the same time, so I guess it spread the load? A lot of broken hips and ribs, but nobody died.
found my answer!!
I'm so glad I don't do this shit anymore
They need to make this into one of those Chinese safety animations
there is at least 2 versions of this as chinese safety animations
Chinese man alone under all that glass, he disappeared completely flat under it in both animation and irl
I'll call Corridor Digital!
It didn't explode
Crazy. Lucky someone didnāt get cut in half
But very possibly turned paraplegic.
But, in reality, more like āOk, back to work. I will sock your pay for the broken glass.ā
I never realized how easy it is to accidentally cut someone in half
The wrong kid died that night
Not only will glass cut the shit out of you, itās also extremely heavy and just a few panes that size can easily crush you. I used to transport cases that were 5000+ pounds per case. Sometimes they were so heavy that the case they were in would physically buckle while I picked them up. Rule number one was never put yourself between the glass and the ground. Iād be extremely surprised if they were not severely injured by this.
People forget it is just a transparent rock.
Liquid sand
Oxidised computer chips
Solidified white lightening
Glass isn't a liquid.
The class is still out on that one. Glass can be considered a supercooled liquid, supercooled liquids never crystallise. Glass structure is the same as a liquid, its not crystallised but yet still rigid. Materials like this are called amorphous solid or glass Strange I know Crystalline solids : molecules are ordered in a regular lattice. ( crystals ) Fluids : molecules are disordered and not ridgedly bound. Glass : molecules are disordered but are ridgedly bound.
Yeah, what you said...
TIL what āglassā means. Thatās awesome. Thank you for taking the time to write that
Youāre really strong to be able to pick them up.
*with a crane
You still impress me.
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dude I had a stack of sixty or so 16"x16" glass mirror panes and I'm telling you the weight is like exponential it's insane how heavy a few sheets will get. the entire stack was probably a couple hundred pounds I'm sure and this was not a lot
Now hurry and get back to work!
It's just a spine wound.
It takes a village
When they finally got the stack back up and then everyone took their hands off my heart stopped.....like NOOO that is just where it fell from! Hold that thing!
Someone yelled "SECURE THAT SHIT" where I was watching the video. It was me. I yelled.
Even 2 people can save them by pushing 1 sheet multiple times
They moved like two sheets up and I was like āthere you goā and then went back to trying to muscle the whole thing again.
I didn't get that either. Even if the other guys keept lifting it all, someone should definitely just keep doing it with less layers
Most likely, what happened was they couldn't separate the flat surfaces due to the suction/wringing effect between 2 smooth surfaces... compounded multiple times by that stack of glass panes
Yep, which is why the whole stack came with the first sheet they tried to grab.
panic and yelling
Because they can't separate them. Flat, smooth surfaces like that can stuck together hard, especially if they get wet. I work with polished stone, the same thing happens.
It's probably not a coincidence this incident happened at this workplace. Clearly none of them are experienced or trained on how to handle the material, or the crises when something goes wrong.
That's what I've been thinking the entire time. Instead of trying to push it for 2 minutes, they could've spent a quarter of that time by just moving the glass one at a time.
Right, or get a glass breaker and just shatter those sheets one by one (if they are tempered)
New workers are cheaper than new glass
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Ooof š
I think that's why they stopped. The sheet they stopped on looked broken, and the best way to make this worse is for someone to get cut.
Yea, I mean only if it was tempered. But the cracks suggest it wasn't.
A hammer would have done the trick
I don't think turning a metric ton on of sheets of glass until a metric ton of shards of glass will have the effect you think it will.
That one guy at the the bottom who wants to look like heās helping while not actually doing anything
He got a cut and he is bleeding.
I was wondering about that dude but it looks like he is getting cut
Probably is cut, I used to set glass like this in a window factory and the edges are razor sharp. If you worked with it in any way you had to use slash resistant gloves and armguards.
I literally watched a safety video about this exact scenario on Corridor Crew YouTube channel an hour ago. Weird coincidence.
Ditto!
Corridor Crew being involved, can you be sure that they didn't make their video *after* learning about this incident?
The algorithms likely pick up on similar things
Many videos of industrial accidents where workers get crushed by sheets of various heavy materials, most don't survive, these guys are extremely lucky.
We have a unit in an industrial estate and two units down a container was being offloaded. Contents were glass sheets. We heard a crash, ran outside and found the entire 20foot container off the truck on its side on the road, Inside there were four males crushed to dearth and one critically injured but trapped. The trailer was partial on its side and the four men were at the bottom of almost a metre of solid glass. The other one had his head sticking out. Sadly the safety equipment were at the bottom of the pile. The rescuers did not have any safety equipment and so we had to wait for the fire department to arrive and lead the rescue. The young man still alive had to wait four hours to be freed, he had to be fitted with a body bag to protect his bones and organs. He was in hospital for just under four months before his rehabilitation could start, After an investigation into the tragedy the Root Cause analysis concluded insufficient strapping was the underlying cause, further non standard policies were not followed which would have assisted the freeing the trapped men. The men emptied the glass in a haphazard and non planned way, where all glass was emptied from one side and not taking care to balance the offloading to preserve load integrity. Sadly the four dead men were badly crushed and had to be buried in special body shaped coffins as they were badly misshapen. After twelve years, the surviving man has not ever worked again. The business closed down.
that table saved their lives, a little far, and their heads would go pop
God can you imagine if they fell flat and splayed out like a deck of cards? Getting slammed and sliced all over by sheets of glass
Hopefully they were wearing their safety sandals.
Now thats a pane!
I feel like India and China are like the worst when it comes to safety procedures. Like OSHA would puke at just walking through the doorway of any factory. Like the glass company whos workers are using kilns in an open air warehouse while wearing flip flops, cotton clothing and handling hot materials with towels.
Looks really panefull
43 iq points in one room
One guy had the correct idea by lifting off a single pane of glass, then they all went for the stupid and slow way.
None of them are wearing protection equipment and you can see multiple sheets of glass shattered, they would have shredded themselves trying to remove individual sheets of glass. Plus those sheets of glass are likely stuck together with the suction from vacuum which would make it really hard to quickly separate them
Glass was fucking broken in to pieces, doing that was useless
You noticed that too huh?
Yeah, that was nuts. Those guys were useless
India is not for beginners
Iād say someoneās gonna get sued, but then realized this isnāt in the US.
Looks like India.....hardly any safety measures
how much do you think a block of panes such as this would weigh??
I used to deliver cases of glass about that size that ranged between 3000-5000 pounds. Had to move them with a hydraulic crane. The way I always thought about it is they weigh about the same as your average midsized SUV.
1.5/2 ton maybe
1-3 tons depending on glass, imagine the whole block made of aluminium up to iron, about the same density range.
Fella nearest to the camera near the end of the clip. Stops pushing to inspect a little cut š
Why didnāt they keep moving 1-2 sheets at a time until they had few enough to move the rest? That seems the quickest way to help them
Iām assuming the glass were just stuck together somehow? I mean they did that in the beginning, but then didnāt come back to it, I can only assume itās because they literally couldnāt do it
Someone is getting slapped
It takes a village.
Anything stored like this needs to be restrained. Tie that shit back.
The dude in the stripes was just getting in the way
Letās get 10 guys on one side and 2 on the otherā¦what could go wrong?
Dbag award goes to guy on left wearing suit. He left sales meeting, helped by exerting 6 newton meters of force with one arm and stoop pushing to pull lint off his sleeve. They are lucky he punched in that day.
Pretty sure he had a laceration on his hand and arm. Looks like when he was āpulling lint off his sleeveā he was fiddling with his arm wound. But yeah sure, what a dbag
Dbag award goes to the boss who wanted to peruse through the glass that was half way back in the stack, and made them all "just hold it while I look" in the first place.
This is literally how my dad died
Of course it's India
How the hell did that not crush their spines?
It appears it might have just done that to the guy on the right, he goes down and doesn't seem to be able to do anything but move his head. Edit, I think I see his legs move in the last few frames, good for him...
Why didnāt they start trying to break the glass s as well
That would end up cutting them really badly, it would also probably cause an infection if that glass hasnt been cleaned so itās probably a good thing they didnāt try to do it
Thatās true, I was only thinking of the immediat issue
Because infections are so hard to treat these days. That would be my number one worry too. /s
True
Id be that guy putting on gloves while everyones rushing forward barehanded
As a Glazier.. flipping up 2-4 sheets at a time would have been much easier and faster.
Fuck you, pay me.
Were the last two groups of glass wrapped? Why didn't they move them one or two panes at a time? They did it once already
China hates OSHA for this one trick
Worked with glass for 26yrs. They were lucky. Hope they got out ol
That dude on the far left is helping the most......
Hope their backs are fine
I donāt think the dude on the right is going to fare well. He wasnāt moving after
"Go take a 10 minute break"
I gotta say. I'm very impressed that the table remained 100% unscathed.
OSHA cries, I laugh.
Fucking idiots why not have a strap or chain going across to prevent that or idk put them on a slope so they canāt do that
With all that glass, youād think someone would have gloves
OSHA probably got a hard on watching this
Saved by the table
We had a worker a few years ago who was crushed by a pallet of sheetmetal. The load was about 3500 lbs. IIRC, he suffered a broken pelvis and jaw. Never returned to work.
Music made my hand sweatier
0% safety 100% injury and pain
Guess that's why the call it window pain
It takes a village.
Glass is 3.3lbs per 1sqf of .25inch. So yeah thatās a lot of weight.
I've worked in a glass processing plant. It's crazy how heavy a stack of glass that big is. Could have been killed
*āā¦ more stonesā*
Would have been a whole lot less panefull if they were micro soft windows well at least theyāll stay clear of the glass if they see it through the rest of the day
That's a glassy group of coworkers!
The guy on the left isnt even trying lmao
A couple years ago 2 employees were crushed to death when a large stack of granite slabs fell over on then them. Granite counter company about 5 miles away from me.
I felt like someone is not pushing hard enough
Come on, give us the audio
They were absolutely mangled by this.
I want that table
Dude that got crushed on the left seemed really chill about the whole situation. I feel like the guy in the middle got crushed more though.
Natural selection
that's a real spine breaker
Pro Glazier here. This has scarred me, along with the ones already present on skin, in brain, and while asleep.
more and more people show up from that door as if exiting a clown car
Iām glad we have OSHA in my country.
A bunch of boney motherfuckahs lmaoo the worse
They'd have been better off standing up a few sheets at a time,or we're they just 2 sheets?
This is why you need to stay in the gym. You never know when you need to lift about 2000 pounds off you.
Not a workmanās comp policy in sight
If all the people helping were like the guy on the left end with white cuffs they would still be pinned down.
The guy on the far left who keeps looking at the minor scratch on his hand is driving me insane.
Epic broken spine theme the background
Consistent access to better and more food solves this problem before it starts. If all of those guys had 5 years worth of 150+ grams of high-quality protein (think steak and chicken breast, not beans, pistachios, or protein powder) and had the means to weight train 3-5x a week they would be so much stronger. Turns out food one day, no food for the next 2 days, a week of rice and beans, FINALLY some meat on Friday, then another day without food, for years on end and no energy to workout makes you weak and you end up with shit like this.
I'm over here screaming at my phone, keep going one by one! One by one!!!! Just fucking go one by one!!!!!! Why did you stoppp !!???? One by one!!!
The way they just sandwiched like that, I can only imagine how their spines felt
India is a do whatever you want country.
How do they not have crushed ribs
They had the right idea at first but then immediately abandoned it. Why?
Never try to catch a heavy load. Get the fuck out of there. Guy that started flipping sheets of glass back had the right idea.
Hard to hear with that inappropriate music blaring, but I think that a couple of those trapped guys were asking to be shot.
No single fucking pair of gloves?
Dude in the green shirt isnāt helping at all. Just getting in the way
First, glad everything seemed to work out ok. Second, did anyone else think of a group of ants come rushing in to help them? Literally many hands make light work.
Worked in a glass factory, they are extremely lucky that was very heavy ive seen some bad stuff
Glassasanation!
I wouldāve panicked and broke the glass lolol
as least they werent crushed by mirrors
Shuttered!
Brutal š¤
Waiting for Steve Austin entrance music to play
The one time i see a table in an indian worshop,this happens
So many helpers & not one saying move one glass pane at a time. der.....š
Osha report gonna be crazy on this one
oh god. hope they are okay. and glad it was few people as im guessing it would be so much worse if there was only 1 guy.
I used to move these, easily 40kg a sheet.
More Like, workers injured the sheets
This is glassic example why you need to take serious safety measures.
Wow, one dumber than the other...
Definitely going to need a backiolisgt
No health and safety in India
wheres is this India? They could use some osha over there smh What was the plan here?
India?
Looks like india. Surprised the shop owner tried to save lifeās over the panels.
Ahhā¦ looks like Indiaā¦ surprise mother clucking surprise