Yes, but I'm going to do this anyway:
The Exterminator, 1980.
Posted on 04/24/2019 2:08:57 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
(Newser) – "This was a horrible accident" seems an understatement considering how a plant worker died Monday in Pennsylvania. Lycoming County Coroner Charles E. Kiessling Jr. said 35-year-old Jill Greninger fell or was pulled to her death inside a large commercial meat grinder she was operating at Economy Locker Storage Co. in Pennsdale around 11:40am, per PennLive and the Williamsport Sun-Gazette. Greninger, who died instantly of massive trauma, was standing on a rolling staircase "as she was perhaps reaching for something in the grinder, which was about 6 feet off the ground," Kiessling said. A fellow employee heard a noise and went to investigate, turning off the machine before calling for help.
This is the first reported death at the facility, which has been in business since the early 1900s, per WNEP. PennLive describes Economy Locker Storage Co. as a wholesale meat-processing business, with products sold under the brand Country Store. "Everyone is shaken and thinks that this is a tragedy that something like this had to happen to such a young lady," a neighbor tells WNEP. "My heart goes out to everyone who is affected by this." Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigators have been to the scene, where firefighters spent 45 minutes breaking down the meat grinder so Greninger's body could be recovered. (Earlier this year, a worker in Michigan fell into a vat of acid.)
Yes, but I'm going to do this anyway:
The Exterminator, 1980.
Industrial deaths are often really gruesome because of te scale of equipment involved. Also why few women are the ones killed on such jobs. Note they didnt even declare the gender of the male worker who they mention in passing who died in a vat of acid earlier in the year. No big shakes if that happens.
OMG, what an unfortunate miscast! haha
Aww, Reno.
Did you report abuse on your own post?
It was epic.
I wonder at your posting almost simultaneously killer meat grinder and killer bird posts.
I guess they never heard of lockout - tagout.
I posted them both together to trip you up.
(laughing sinister like)
You obviously have never worked in a manufacturing facility. Supervisors are not there to observe each and every worker on their shift but rather assign the workers to their respective work positions then insure that the production lines are running smoothly.
Having worked in a Tier I stamping plant all my life, since the creation of OSHA and their brothers on the state level, virtually every industrial accident that happened in my plant was due to human error and a violation of the safety protocols required in those jobs........
The last fatality at my plant involved an electrician who had to climb a ladder at the back of the press shop in order work on the circuit breakers controlling the press lines. Meanwhile back on the floor, the over head crane operator picked up a pallet of steel and proceeded to transport it to the back of the press shop and ultimately crushed the electrician working on the ladder.
What went wrong? The electrician failed to lock out the overhead crane control and the crane operator was running the crane from an area behind a press that prohibited his view of the back of the shop where the electrician was working..........
You can't blame supervision because workers will do stupid things on their jobs........That's why the word "Accident" is in the dictionary......
When I had to crawl into a machine, I would always open the mail breaker and lock up the fuses till I was done.
Our supervisor made us very aware of what could happen by showing us photos of industrial accidents. Unfortunately we still had some dum-basses who would not listen.
My bet is that it was a very long instant.
I am appalled at the number of responses trying to be cute and clever with this story. I suppose there is some aspect of the human psyche that prompts humor when reality is too difficult to contemplate.
[You can’t blame supervision because workers will do stupid things on their jobs........That’s why the word “Accident” is in the dictionary...... ]
I occasionally did contract maintenance welding for concrete block plants and was sometimes required to crawl into and among the parts that could move to make necessary repairs...
I carried my own safety placards and padlocks, painted bright red and nobody else ever had the key...Used to placard, shut down and lock off the power box then verify power off to all related machinery personally before ever entering the work area...
Never did trust a switch and red tag alone...Some knucklehead might just come along and wonder “why isn’t this machine running?”, and restore power...
Human body versus machinery, the machine wins every time...
Yes. See post 18. I was tempted to make a very similar comment. But in a rare case of common decency on my part, I refrained. Maybe next time I’ll be crass and gross.
What a stupid comparison.
One could say the same about the 9-11 attacks, or the mass killing of Sri Lankan Christians, or for that matter a deadly attack on your own family by thugs with hammers.
All are examples of grievous tragedies, not entrants into some sweepstakes of death.
I know what you are saying but having worked production at my plant, it's more like the employee ignoring safety procedures and taking a short cut........
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