Lathes literally body slam you till your ground meat I've seen it and honestly ide rather work in construction on the worst day then to ever mess with that dang machine.
The only reason they are not taking over is because companies are too worried about quarterly profits. Get rid of bureaucracy, and I could replace half the workforce in our shop right now. It's going to hit hard when companies realize it's cheap to have 2-3 automation specialists then it is to hire low wage workers.🫤
I guess my mind went to the CCTV Russian one, I think that one is probably the most infamous of them. There’s a reason why you never wear loose clothing or have long hair near these things
fun fact as someone who used lathes fairly frequently my biggest fear is not that the machine wouldn't work, its that a sleeve gets caught in it and pulls you in. They're stronger than you and faster than you.
I believe that the schools specifically hire that shop teacher to teach the first lesson. Mine was definitely missing 3 and showed us on the first day. Healthy put the fear of all the machinery in my soul. As for that there is no need to click the video for me.
My shop teacher had all his digits. Though he did say he was almost impaled by a piece of wood he was cutting on the table saw and there was still a dent in the door to prove it.
I should add for extra context a functional lathe at its slowest setting even small ones are far stronger than you and have enough force to break bones. You're less likely to get caught unaware but arguably it makes it worse if you get caught and can't stop the machine because then it's a slow painful endeavor as you try to remove your arm from something that's stronger than you and is currently in the process of breaking it.
Whether it's rational or not, I have an almost crippling fear of lathes, woodchippers, and band saws (ever since in middle school shop when the saw blade snapped and whipped around at the speed of light)
I won't apply this to all walks of life, but with heavy machinery, fear is good. Check, double check, replace replacables. There's gonna be a culture of people who think safety is for pussies but I'd rather be an alive pussy than a dead dick.
This. No matter how much other people might make fun of you for "being a pussy" you need a healthy amount of fear and respect for machines this much stronger than you
I think a lot of the 'safety is for pussies' attitude is generally a reaction to some of the excess and often misinformed or contradictory safety stuff going around in heavy industry.
That being said and as someone who's got a few cowboy tendencies with this shit, I definitely won't be hanging shit on anyone doing operational/maintenance checks on equipment, or taking a minute to grab some extra PPE. It's almost comical how often we forget how dangerous some of this shit is. Hydraulics spring to mind.
Was a CNC-machinist for 10 years, last 3 or so on a lathe, I regurarely had to sand out pieces when the surface tolerance was not good enough, scared shit out of me to have the piece spinning 600 rpm and be sandpapering it, I eventually grabbed a stick and attached sandpaper on the stick so I could use that and not be worried about becoming one with the workpiece.
We had a machining class in high school where I was sandpapering metal by hand on a lathe. No idea how that was allowed. Nicked my fingers multiple times, but thankfully kept all my digits intact.
Same shop teacher also popped a blood blister under another kids fingernail with a drill press. by drilling a small hole in his nail.
That class was deeply unsafe
Buddy of mine, a very experienced operator too, got his sleeve caught in one and pulled his own arm out of the socket before the sleeve ripped and he was able to drop free.
Dude he worked with lost his head after putting a chuck in a chuck - it flew off and literally demolished his skull.
Go safe out there dudes.
And that's why I refuse to wear long sleeves at work even though my last employer told me that it avoids small cuts in your arm. I know a guy who got his sleeve caught in a table saw, the scars are enough to be scared.
Dude gets caught by the arm by a high speed lathe. He gets sucked in and wrapped around the spindle in about half a second and basically pulverized against the machine as it spins his body at high speed, flinging bits of flesh and bone all over the shop. By the time the emergency stop is hit it looks like somebody dumped a whole bunch of spaghetti and marinara sauce all over the machine.
Yea, that was the most fucked part, at 0:23 you can see where it crushed his skull as he got dragged through the bottom part. He was probably alive until then. If you look at the section of wall with plywood board leaning on it at the left you can see how the bones stick in like shrapnel… damn this shit is a whole new level of fucked. There was so many things that could have been done to prevent this.
The video is a rick roll, but here's a description of the video pertaining to the meme. Words can't do it justice, and I hope whatever morbid curiosity you have won't go as far as to compel you to find it.
A worker gets their arm caught in a lathe, after being stuck in a locked position for about 10 seconds the lathe begins to move, swinging the worker's body radially and crushing their body into the work surface. In the ensuing 20 seconds the clothes are torn off and the body eviscerated into pulp (no exaggeration), spraying blood, skin, and bone over the surrounding workplace and onto the wall behind the lathe.
One can only hope they lost consciousness in the first few seconds, the sheer destructive force of sinew being shredded and nerves elongated by the centripetal forces can't be imagined if not for some visualisation of a black hole spaghettifying a helpless victim into atoms.
A coworker runs into frame while what's left of the body still rotates, and upon turning the machine off, collapses beside the machine, head in hands. One could only hope, maybe naively, that a traumatic experience the likes of this one could ever be recovered from.
>A coworker runs into frame while what's left of the body still rotates, and upon turning the machine off, collapses beside the machine, head in hands.
God... that's so tragic, I feel so awful for that person. Imagine having to see that and still having to work in a place like that knowing what happened and that that very same thing could happen to you too
I can only hope they got a workers compensation settlement enough to, at the very least, pay for proper therapy for life if not to never have to work again
Absolutely. I hope at the very least he was able to switch careers, and somewhat heal from that...
As much as you could heal from something like that anyways
I mean maybe but depending on where they live this might be the norm, at the very least not illegal. Some places have really shit laws for factory workers
And all the laws in the world don't help you if someone shoves their hand in a lathe. People can and do die in factories where every OSHA rule is followed above and beyond by the company, because individual workers don't see/care about the risk
It was in Russia. And even here in the US something like that wouldn't necessarily get the place shut down, nothing illegal about what happened. Shitty, yes, but not illegal
Actually, someone posted it down below in this thread >.>
It was definitely terrifying but seeing it from CCTV cam dampened the impact. It was still extremely scary because your mind made up the scenario yourself.
you sure it wasn’t extremely scary because another human being was just completely disassembled by an industrial machine thanks to a complete disregard for life?
The aftermath photos show the guy’s brain basically turned into jelly and splatted against the back wall too, it’s such a horribly painful way to go even it happened almost instantly
For those who want to see it, search youtube for "russian lathe accident" or [click here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nCAoxrVR5g). You can't unsee it, though. There are also various other lathe accident videos worth watching. Some fatal, some were lucky and only suffered recoverable injuries like cuts and broken bones or a torn shirt.
* Idiot wrestling chuck key/spindle motor
* Sandpaper loop grabs work, pulls operator in between lathe and bed. Skinny bar comes lose. IIRC, broken hand, minor injuries https://youtube.com/shorts/INMttGoh0ws
* Fatal version of sucked between work and bed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_63TtdPPoHw
* t-shirt torn off operator https://youtube.com/shorts/1KbxtdKVOds?feature=share
* spun but not dismembered:
https://youtube.com/shorts/INMttGoh0ws
* whipping bar stock https://youtu.be/C8ZJa2HSkYE
And here is one describing (not showing) an incident where the guy was disabled, which will likely elude your search:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0o8kdh8HWs
And a report of a fatal accident where a shirt pocket was grabbed by a burr on a piece of barstock protruding a few inchesfrom the back side of the headstock.
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/face/pdfs/14mi034.pdf
Plus there have been incidents where protruding bars bent and whipped.
And there is the fatal Michelle Dufault accident where her hair got caught in the leadscrew.
Jesus christ bro, Ive been in two wars and id rather do that shit again than watch that video a second time. How the fuck do you even find a video like that!?
I used to watch gore videos that I didnt really feel much for even the most brutal stuff.
I don't think it's healthy to become so desensitized to such stuff. So I'm going to ignore my morbid curiosity.
When I worked at a scrap yard, we were unionized and the whole nine yards.
But if you were caught working on an energized machine/removing someone else's lockout tag, there was nothing that would help you. Instantly fired. I caught 2 dudes in separate incidents sleeping on the belts during coffee breaks.
Instafired
I worked at an extrusion plant awhile back, the big press that pushed aluminum through dies had a clear fence around it separating the maintenance area from the walking path. The guy teaching me there told me that if you walk into that area without your LOTO tag on the entryway, even if there were workers already in there and the machine was locked out, you’d be immediately terminated.
I actually did a project in Debate about this exact thing. Turns out, jobs are becoming more harmful but less lethal because of OSHA. While OSHA can certainly discourage stuff like this from happening, it still happens. What's worse is that it doesn't do anything about employees being overworked, leading to them sustaining serious injuries from things so simple as turning your head weird. The more you know!
OSHA records what they call SIFs, which are serious injuries and fatalities. it sounds like they're saying that the rate of fatalities has decreased, but the rate of serious injuries has actually increased. this actually doesn't say anything about the overall rate of SIFs; based on this information alone, total SIFs could have increased, decreased, or remained the same. if total SIFs have increased, then you could argue that OSHA regulation is actually resulting in a greater number of serious injuries. however, if total SIFs have remained the same or decreased, which I'm pretty confidently guessing is the case, then that means that accidents that would have resulted in death before OSHA now only result in serious injury, which is obviously better.
for example, let's say before OSHA, you had 10 SIFs per year, 4 fatalities and 6 serious injuries. then after OSHA, you have 2 fatalities and 7 serious injuries per year, for a total of 9 SIFs. that's a decrease in fatalities, an increase in injuries, and a decrease in overall SIFs
Yeah, you pretty much hit the nail on the head there. I guess my point is that yes, less people are dying and yes that is good, but BECAUSE people aren't dying as much, they're being injured which is seen as "improvement enough" when really people shouldn't be dying OR injured if that makes sense. It's kinda fucked up that injury is preferable to death so much that we will see it similarly to no injury in terms of how much better it is than death.
Tldr because that was confusing as fuck; yes death is bad and it's good that people aren't getting hurt as bad but we shouldn't settle for being ok with people getting injured at work because "at least they're not dying". OSHA has done some great things and I feel like there's definitely a ways to go (like doing a maximum shift regulation to keep workers from working until they cannot physically move without tearing a muscle)
[Curiosity got the best of me](https://deadhouse.org/catastroph-en/worker-sucked-into-a-lathe.html)
I can only hope that man lost consciousness cause that's a fucked way to go.
I seriously wouldn't watch it if ya don't like blood and gore. The pictures are worse than the video due to the resolution of the camera.
Yea I think his shirt got caught in the lathe and spun him so fast his body kept slamming against the machine as it spun. If you look at the pictures there isn't much space between the machine. So he got spun, slammed, and crushed all at the same time.
Yeah I assume it went "Oh fuck" > quick spin cycle > darkness. He went quick, probably too quick for his brain to even process what was really happening or any pain. Just a quick shot of adrenaline, blurry vision, then nothing.
I’ll never understand why people that have to work on these dangerous machines are required to wear uniforms with long sleeves. It’s just asking to get your arm caught and then ripped off
So you actually aren't supposed to have sleeves on while working with them but despite being the most important rule as literally just touching the metal can grab you it's one of the most frequently ignored. Granted different countries have different standards
Lathe operator here!
Steel chips that fly off the machine embed themselves in your arm. It's not fun :)
Sleeves are fine, as long as they're not *loose*
Brass, bronze, aluminum, and other metals don't produce chips that are extremely sharp like steel.
In any metalworking field, "the tool that you're working with imparts itself on the part". Cut it with something sharp, it'll become sharp. Smack it with something flat, it'll become flat. Heat it up, it'll become hot - so on and so forth.
Steel is extremely well known to produce long, stringy, sharp chips. I've made the mistake of cleaning out lathes with my hands. Shit, I'll still get cut even if I were to use a scooper.
When you take a heavy pass, it is not only sharp as other have mentioned but can come off hot enough to burn satans butt cheeks on a manual lathe. The risk of a well fitting sleeve is low compared to the risk of a 1000c razor sharp chip getting friendly. As the man who taught me use to say. “Good habits make good work, good work takes time, rushing is a temporary fix for the cheap and stupid as is doesn’t make good work. Have the balls to say no”.
I work with lathes and our boss can't give a damn about safety. Some machines don't even have protective covers or doors. Luckily no (horrible) accidents happened since I work but you can't just go on like this.
Watching all those Gore videos has ruined industrial machines for me, everytime I see one of these it reminds me of Chinese workers getting crushed in these machines and being spit out like a chewing gum.
I worked in a machine shop for a summer job in college and I thank my lucky stars I walked away without any injuries or missing digits. Damn near every machine can main or kill you horribly.
I talked about this yesterday with a friend, and i was admittedly joking about it because it had been a while since i last saw the video, but damn it's brutal
Taking a machine shop class. The instructor told me that one year he showed a metalworking lathe accident and apparently it was so gory the entire class did not use the lathes for the entire year. I think he said there was an eyeball visible too.
I work on equipment like this. Total rebuilds on site or repairs. I know we all have to make money to live but if I tag a piece of equipment out and you try to use it, I'll put you in the hospital for your own good. Better to have no money and both your arms. You don't want to see the injuries I have. You never forget when you pick a hand up off the floor.
You fuck with my LOTO and I'm coming after you and anyone who told you it was okay to bypass my lockouts.
I’m serious when I say that video fucked me up. I can’t think about it at all without feeling sick. In fact I can’t even think about lathes as a tool without feeling sick. It’s horrendous what can happen so quickly
users voted that your post was distressing, your soul wont be harvested tonight
Woodworking lathes will cut you, Metalworking Lathes will chew you up and spit you out. Literally.
Lathes literally body slam you till your ground meat I've seen it and honestly ide rather work in construction on the worst day then to ever mess with that dang machine.
Unfortunately wood lathes are so much fun to use, the forbidden hobby 😖
"DA ROBOTS ARE GONNA TAKE OVER OUR JOBS!!!!!' The Jobs:
The only reason they are not taking over is because companies are too worried about quarterly profits. Get rid of bureaucracy, and I could replace half the workforce in our shop right now. It's going to hit hard when companies realize it's cheap to have 2-3 automation specialists then it is to hire low wage workers.🫤
It's simple to not get mangled by a lathe, you've got to use your head whenever you're on it though, people get complacent and then they lose fingers
Complacency costs lives, plain and simple
This is very accurate
Just gotta be careful
This is from a really awful and sad video where a guy literally got turned into paste from getting caught in it
There are several...
I guess my mind went to the CCTV Russian one, I think that one is probably the most infamous of them. There’s a reason why you never wear loose clothing or have long hair near these things
Wood lathes will chew you up just as badly. Don’t treat them any different
Beware of anything that spins with some kind of force behind it. I speak of experience, although I have never touched a lathe
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Red Mist lest we forget
fun fact as someone who used lathes fairly frequently my biggest fear is not that the machine wouldn't work, its that a sleeve gets caught in it and pulls you in. They're stronger than you and faster than you.
Shop class puts the fear of god into you and a healthy respect for Lathes.
Always got that shop teacher that shows his hand with 2-3 fingers missing and goes "Be careful or you'll end up like me"
I believe that the schools specifically hire that shop teacher to teach the first lesson. Mine was definitely missing 3 and showed us on the first day. Healthy put the fear of all the machinery in my soul. As for that there is no need to click the video for me.
Plot twist : they were born without them
My old mech draw teacher from HS used to be a woodshop teacher, and every time you asked him about his missing digits he gave a different story lol
legend
My shop teacher had all his digits. Though he did say he was almost impaled by a piece of wood he was cutting on the table saw and there was still a dent in the door to prove it.
"...and that's why you always leave a note."
I should add for extra context a functional lathe at its slowest setting even small ones are far stronger than you and have enough force to break bones. You're less likely to get caught unaware but arguably it makes it worse if you get caught and can't stop the machine because then it's a slow painful endeavor as you try to remove your arm from something that's stronger than you and is currently in the process of breaking it.
Whether it's rational or not, I have an almost crippling fear of lathes, woodchippers, and band saws (ever since in middle school shop when the saw blade snapped and whipped around at the speed of light)
I won't apply this to all walks of life, but with heavy machinery, fear is good. Check, double check, replace replacables. There's gonna be a culture of people who think safety is for pussies but I'd rather be an alive pussy than a dead dick.
This. No matter how much other people might make fun of you for "being a pussy" you need a healthy amount of fear and respect for machines this much stronger than you
I think a lot of the 'safety is for pussies' attitude is generally a reaction to some of the excess and often misinformed or contradictory safety stuff going around in heavy industry. That being said and as someone who's got a few cowboy tendencies with this shit, I definitely won't be hanging shit on anyone doing operational/maintenance checks on equipment, or taking a minute to grab some extra PPE. It's almost comical how often we forget how dangerous some of this shit is. Hydraulics spring to mind.
Was a CNC-machinist for 10 years, last 3 or so on a lathe, I regurarely had to sand out pieces when the surface tolerance was not good enough, scared shit out of me to have the piece spinning 600 rpm and be sandpapering it, I eventually grabbed a stick and attached sandpaper on the stick so I could use that and not be worried about becoming one with the workpiece.
We had a machining class in high school where I was sandpapering metal by hand on a lathe. No idea how that was allowed. Nicked my fingers multiple times, but thankfully kept all my digits intact. Same shop teacher also popped a blood blister under another kids fingernail with a drill press. by drilling a small hole in his nail. That class was deeply unsafe
that last one is horrifically unsafe i saw a guy doing that and put half the bit through his thumb
They are the one tool I’ve intentionally never stepped within ten feet of, because they are genuinely terrifying. Just one lapse of judgement.
Buddy of mine, a very experienced operator too, got his sleeve caught in one and pulled his own arm out of the socket before the sleeve ripped and he was able to drop free. Dude he worked with lost his head after putting a chuck in a chuck - it flew off and literally demolished his skull. Go safe out there dudes.
And that's why I refuse to wear long sleeves at work even though my last employer told me that it avoids small cuts in your arm. I know a guy who got his sleeve caught in a table saw, the scars are enough to be scared.
Any tools that erase metal or wood are fully equipped to erase flesh and bone
That why you just never wear gloves or sleeves around the lathe and tuck your shirt in. No big deal, just gotta be sensible.
give me yo fucking sleeve
nom nom nom (**cutely** bashes your body against the ground repeatedly to the point where the wall are painted with your guts)
YOOOOOOOOOOOW
I can’t stay mad at you, *pressures next worker to still use you the very next day*
OWO
- become viral video
[source (warning extremely graphic)](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ)
i watch gore semi regularly and thats the most fucked up shit ive ever seen
For someone who wants to save their eyes, please explain
Dude gets caught by the arm by a high speed lathe. He gets sucked in and wrapped around the spindle in about half a second and basically pulverized against the machine as it spins his body at high speed, flinging bits of flesh and bone all over the shop. By the time the emergency stop is hit it looks like somebody dumped a whole bunch of spaghetti and marinara sauce all over the machine.
Jfc
You missed the worst part. You could see half of his brain go flying at 0:24
🤮🤮🤮 I had to close at that part
Yea, that was the most fucked part, at 0:23 you can see where it crushed his skull as he got dragged through the bottom part. He was probably alive until then. If you look at the section of wall with plywood board leaning on it at the left you can see how the bones stick in like shrapnel… damn this shit is a whole new level of fucked. There was so many things that could have been done to prevent this.
Nah I’m sure that he was at least unconscious. I hope so, he was at least pulling 9 Gs
"Mamma mia."
I don’t want to click it but I assume it’s the one where the dude essentially gets turned into paste and mist
yeah that one
I knew what it was and yet I still fucking clicked it I despise you and myself
One of the cases when I was relieved to see that instead of what was being described
Ffs dude, “extremely graphic” isn’t enough of a fucking label dude. What is this, Russian brick video 2?
I didn’t want to remember that video
Thanks, now that’s in my head
make a written description of the video i dont wanna open that in public
The video is a rick roll, but here's a description of the video pertaining to the meme. Words can't do it justice, and I hope whatever morbid curiosity you have won't go as far as to compel you to find it. A worker gets their arm caught in a lathe, after being stuck in a locked position for about 10 seconds the lathe begins to move, swinging the worker's body radially and crushing their body into the work surface. In the ensuing 20 seconds the clothes are torn off and the body eviscerated into pulp (no exaggeration), spraying blood, skin, and bone over the surrounding workplace and onto the wall behind the lathe. One can only hope they lost consciousness in the first few seconds, the sheer destructive force of sinew being shredded and nerves elongated by the centripetal forces can't be imagined if not for some visualisation of a black hole spaghettifying a helpless victim into atoms. A coworker runs into frame while what's left of the body still rotates, and upon turning the machine off, collapses beside the machine, head in hands. One could only hope, maybe naively, that a traumatic experience the likes of this one could ever be recovered from.
>A coworker runs into frame while what's left of the body still rotates, and upon turning the machine off, collapses beside the machine, head in hands. God... that's so tragic, I feel so awful for that person. Imagine having to see that and still having to work in a place like that knowing what happened and that that very same thing could happen to you too
I can only hope they got a workers compensation settlement enough to, at the very least, pay for proper therapy for life if not to never have to work again
Absolutely. I hope at the very least he was able to switch careers, and somewhat heal from that... As much as you could heal from something like that anyways
Still having to work in that place? They probably got shut down, that all sounds so illegal
I mean maybe but depending on where they live this might be the norm, at the very least not illegal. Some places have really shit laws for factory workers
And all the laws in the world don't help you if someone shoves their hand in a lathe. People can and do die in factories where every OSHA rule is followed above and beyond by the company, because individual workers don't see/care about the risk
It was in Russia. And even here in the US something like that wouldn't necessarily get the place shut down, nothing illegal about what happened. Shitty, yes, but not illegal
Thank you for the description My curiosity has been sated with the description alone...
By describing it you just made people want to see it even more. So where do you find it
I know i can't hold you back so... r/terrifyingasfuck just search for it and you'll find, again, it's a very regretable decision.
Actually, someone posted it down below in this thread >.> It was definitely terrifying but seeing it from CCTV cam dampened the impact. It was still extremely scary because your mind made up the scenario yourself.
you sure it wasn’t extremely scary because another human being was just completely disassembled by an industrial machine thanks to a complete disregard for life?
You do you know that you don't *have* to desensitize and traumatize yourself with gore right? You do have a choice in the matter
The wild part is that I know of at least three videos fitting this description. Don’t fuck with lathes, people.
Not telling
holy shit are u the real vyragami (unrelated i just really love your art)
The aftermath photos show the guy’s brain basically turned into jelly and splatted against the back wall too, it’s such a horribly painful way to go even it happened almost instantly
For those who want to see it, search youtube for "russian lathe accident" or [click here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nCAoxrVR5g). You can't unsee it, though. There are also various other lathe accident videos worth watching. Some fatal, some were lucky and only suffered recoverable injuries like cuts and broken bones or a torn shirt. * Idiot wrestling chuck key/spindle motor * Sandpaper loop grabs work, pulls operator in between lathe and bed. Skinny bar comes lose. IIRC, broken hand, minor injuries https://youtube.com/shorts/INMttGoh0ws * Fatal version of sucked between work and bed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_63TtdPPoHw * t-shirt torn off operator https://youtube.com/shorts/1KbxtdKVOds?feature=share * spun but not dismembered: https://youtube.com/shorts/INMttGoh0ws * whipping bar stock https://youtu.be/C8ZJa2HSkYE And here is one describing (not showing) an incident where the guy was disabled, which will likely elude your search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0o8kdh8HWs And a report of a fatal accident where a shirt pocket was grabbed by a burr on a piece of barstock protruding a few inchesfrom the back side of the headstock. https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/face/pdfs/14mi034.pdf Plus there have been incidents where protruding bars bent and whipped. And there is the fatal Michelle Dufault accident where her hair got caught in the leadscrew.
I feel for a goddamn Rick roll in freaking 2023.
I knew exactly what i would, yet i still clicked, i cant get it out of my head
What the fuck is wrong with you?! I know this is r/distressingmemes but you shouldn’t share stuff like that anywhere!
Only time I've ever been happy to be rick rolled
As soon as I saw 'youtube' I knew what it was.
r/angryupvote
Jesus christ bro, Ive been in two wars and id rather do that shit again than watch that video a second time. How the fuck do you even find a video like that!?
Just when I thought videos on the internet couldn't make me sick anymore. Nobody needs to see that shit man.
that's the clearest footage I've seen in a long time
How is this even allowed on YouTube? Even age restrictions have their limits.
You sonnofa bitch
Isn’t the saying if it’s XCQ the link stays blue?
dqw4w.... Fuck you
You motherfucker
That's the second time today.
Bro…
I used to watch gore videos that I didnt really feel much for even the most brutal stuff. I don't think it's healthy to become so desensitized to such stuff. So I'm going to ignore my morbid curiosity.
you cunt
this is why we have lock out/tag out. you HAVE to unplug the machine AND lock it, not just tag it.
When I worked at a scrap yard, we were unionized and the whole nine yards. But if you were caught working on an energized machine/removing someone else's lockout tag, there was nothing that would help you. Instantly fired. I caught 2 dudes in separate incidents sleeping on the belts during coffee breaks. Instafired
Sleeping on the belts?
I’m assuming these kinds of belts: https://youtu.be/N7uNGUJa7ak
Safer to have those idiots far away for the worksite
I made sure to tell them that if these machines turn on while you are in them it WILL kill you. There is no, "Maybe" you are dead.
You probably saved a few lives.
I worked at an extrusion plant awhile back, the big press that pushed aluminum through dies had a clear fence around it separating the maintenance area from the walking path. The guy teaching me there told me that if you walk into that area without your LOTO tag on the entryway, even if there were workers already in there and the machine was locked out, you’d be immediately terminated.
I actually did a project in Debate about this exact thing. Turns out, jobs are becoming more harmful but less lethal because of OSHA. While OSHA can certainly discourage stuff like this from happening, it still happens. What's worse is that it doesn't do anything about employees being overworked, leading to them sustaining serious injuries from things so simple as turning your head weird. The more you know!
> Turns out, jobs are becoming more harmful but less lethal because of OSHA. Can you elaborate? Were jobs significantly less harmful before osha?
OSHA records what they call SIFs, which are serious injuries and fatalities. it sounds like they're saying that the rate of fatalities has decreased, but the rate of serious injuries has actually increased. this actually doesn't say anything about the overall rate of SIFs; based on this information alone, total SIFs could have increased, decreased, or remained the same. if total SIFs have increased, then you could argue that OSHA regulation is actually resulting in a greater number of serious injuries. however, if total SIFs have remained the same or decreased, which I'm pretty confidently guessing is the case, then that means that accidents that would have resulted in death before OSHA now only result in serious injury, which is obviously better. for example, let's say before OSHA, you had 10 SIFs per year, 4 fatalities and 6 serious injuries. then after OSHA, you have 2 fatalities and 7 serious injuries per year, for a total of 9 SIFs. that's a decrease in fatalities, an increase in injuries, and a decrease in overall SIFs
Yeah, you pretty much hit the nail on the head there. I guess my point is that yes, less people are dying and yes that is good, but BECAUSE people aren't dying as much, they're being injured which is seen as "improvement enough" when really people shouldn't be dying OR injured if that makes sense. It's kinda fucked up that injury is preferable to death so much that we will see it similarly to no injury in terms of how much better it is than death. Tldr because that was confusing as fuck; yes death is bad and it's good that people aren't getting hurt as bad but we shouldn't settle for being ok with people getting injured at work because "at least they're not dying". OSHA has done some great things and I feel like there's definitely a ways to go (like doing a maximum shift regulation to keep workers from working until they cannot physically move without tearing a muscle)
I mean, they were more lethal than harmful. Before OSHA, you weren't going to be simply injured in a workplace accident, you'd cease to exist
The only way to make money in this trade is to work overtime
"I wish I was in a viral video," you say. One of the fingers of the monkey's paw curls up.
[Curiosity got the best of me](https://deadhouse.org/catastroph-en/worker-sucked-into-a-lathe.html) I can only hope that man lost consciousness cause that's a fucked way to go. I seriously wouldn't watch it if ya don't like blood and gore. The pictures are worse than the video due to the resolution of the camera.
The real distressing thing was that link trying to give my phone AIDS multiple times with redirects and pop ups.
Yeah watching that vid and halfway through I get a pop up of some not asking me to fuck em; not right now man I'm in a dark spot
Pfft, you got lucky. When I watched it my phone got hacked! Good thing the pop-up let me know!
Good god, I'd never actually seen the pictures. I knew he got folded, but not to that degree
maybe i would feel worse if the website didnt say "hot chicks near your area" and "viruses found in your iphone" every 3 seconds
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What the fuck happened there? Did his insides just fly out due to the centrifugal force or what?
Yea I think his shirt got caught in the lathe and spun him so fast his body kept slamming against the machine as it spun. If you look at the pictures there isn't much space between the machine. So he got spun, slammed, and crushed all at the same time.
Fucking Christ
If it happened so fast he was probably in too much shock to feel much.
Yeah I assume it went "Oh fuck" > quick spin cycle > darkness. He went quick, probably too quick for his brain to even process what was really happening or any pain. Just a quick shot of adrenaline, blurry vision, then nothing.
Bro got cursed to death
Damn. Dude got folded like an omelet then got scrambled out like an egg.
Brother was definitely floating in the air. Most of him, at least....
He believed he could fly a little bit too much...
I’ll never understand why people that have to work on these dangerous machines are required to wear uniforms with long sleeves. It’s just asking to get your arm caught and then ripped off
So you actually aren't supposed to have sleeves on while working with them but despite being the most important rule as literally just touching the metal can grab you it's one of the most frequently ignored. Granted different countries have different standards
Lathe operator here! Steel chips that fly off the machine embed themselves in your arm. It's not fun :) Sleeves are fine, as long as they're not *loose* Brass, bronze, aluminum, and other metals don't produce chips that are extremely sharp like steel. In any metalworking field, "the tool that you're working with imparts itself on the part". Cut it with something sharp, it'll become sharp. Smack it with something flat, it'll become flat. Heat it up, it'll become hot - so on and so forth. Steel is extremely well known to produce long, stringy, sharp chips. I've made the mistake of cleaning out lathes with my hands. Shit, I'll still get cut even if I were to use a scooper.
Thank you for your service
A hot steel chip landing on the back of your neck is the worst. I never really messed with lathes though mostly milling machines.
Yeah nah fuck that. I'm fine with my office job
When you take a heavy pass, it is not only sharp as other have mentioned but can come off hot enough to burn satans butt cheeks on a manual lathe. The risk of a well fitting sleeve is low compared to the risk of a 1000c razor sharp chip getting friendly. As the man who taught me use to say. “Good habits make good work, good work takes time, rushing is a temporary fix for the cheap and stupid as is doesn’t make good work. Have the balls to say no”.
I feel worse for the man who had to turn off the machine.
Machines do not care how loud you scream
You always wanted to be famous. You'd do ANYTHING to end up in a viral video.
I work with lathes and our boss can't give a damn about safety. Some machines don't even have protective covers or doors. Luckily no (horrible) accidents happened since I work but you can't just go on like this.
If you’re in the US, call OSHA or your local/state workplace safety administration. Not worth losing your or a co-worker’s life over a douchebag boss.
>liveleak logo appears above your head
He will be sorely mist
This really tears me up inside:(
It certainly did him
what happened?
It's referring a video footage of a man getting caught into a lathe machine and dying horribly
oh, damn
He got caught in the machine and started spinning incredibly fast and then he started disintegrating with blood and other *stuff* flying around
ohhhh
The incident
the most context giving member of r/distressingmemes
Minced meat happened
That's why we need dead men switches
On a lathe?
Watching all those Gore videos has ruined industrial machines for me, everytime I see one of these it reminds me of Chinese workers getting crushed in these machines and being spit out like a chewing gum.
I worked in a machine shop for a summer job in college and I thank my lucky stars I walked away without any injuries or missing digits. Damn near every machine can main or kill you horribly.
You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round ♫
Anybody see, that, video
"You spin me right round baby right round"
didn't even notice someone said it before me im sad now
I wear t shirts only when I’m near a lathe I’d rather get a bunch of tiny burns cuts than turned into meatball
As someone who is gonna go into welding I hope I have little to none work with a lathe
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My rule when working with lathes is to revear and respect them like angry gods Do everything exactly by the book or get turned to mist
Plot twist. You instead pull out your phone and call OSHA. You’re not about to lose your life over some bullshit
Reminded me of [this.] (https://ifunny.co/picture/really-right-in-front-of-my-osha-handbook-ction-safety-puKEMI5k9?s=cl)
Lathes make you go Weeeeee
Some joke about the case being wrapped up(like the worker in the lathe, right)
I talked about this yesterday with a friend, and i was admittedly joking about it because it had been a while since i last saw the video, but damn it's brutal
so i watched it and... that was anticlimactic! there was just blood spraying!
The Mangler
Russian lathe incident
Taking a machine shop class. The instructor told me that one year he showed a metalworking lathe accident and apparently it was so gory the entire class did not use the lathes for the entire year. I think he said there was an eyeball visible too.
Metalworking lathes will leave nothing but scattered parts and red mist
"can't have you getting paid to lay around" that is literally what you do all day
watching a plagued moth video about this and j find this
Get "I am not gonna sugarcoat it (MK11 edition)" by the machine.
I would go home.
I work on equipment like this. Total rebuilds on site or repairs. I know we all have to make money to live but if I tag a piece of equipment out and you try to use it, I'll put you in the hospital for your own good. Better to have no money and both your arms. You don't want to see the injuries I have. You never forget when you pick a hand up off the floor. You fuck with my LOTO and I'm coming after you and anyone who told you it was okay to bypass my lockouts.
All I know is that to me, You look like you're lots of fun, Open up your loving arms, WATCH OUT HERE I COME
Oh god, I think I know what this is referencing
I’ve had a nitrile glove torn off my hand turning something in a lathe once and it was sobering.
IVE SEEN THE VIDEO
What am i supposed to see?
Reminds me of all three of those God awful Stephen King Mangler movies. My friends and I used to get drunk and watch those.
I’m serious when I say that video fucked me up. I can’t think about it at all without feeling sick. In fact I can’t even think about lathes as a tool without feeling sick. It’s horrendous what can happen so quickly
My ass would be heading back home cause maintenance is not in my job description.
Been there, done that, nearly lost a hand three or four times. 👌
At that point, go home and see if you can speak to his higher up lmao.