Posted on 05/11/2026 1:04:45 PM PDT by Libloather
A Vietnamese factory worker was killed after falling into a giant industrial shredder, with a horrific video showing the moment he was sucked into the machine.
Ro Mah J, 34, was standing inside a large container feeding material into the machine just after 6 a.m. Thursday when his tool suddenly got stuck, local outlet Dan Tri reported.
He frantically tried to yank his tool out of the shredder before being dragged into the machine at the Chanh Tay Gia Lai Joint Stock Company plant, disappearing out of shot.
Seconds later, a spurt of water shot out of the container.
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In before the Fargo references.
It’s crazy. The Internet is full of the short videos of industry all over the world, and my brother and I were watching one recently, where there was a large hopper with boulders in it, and the hopper fed the boulders into a crusher that turned the big boulder into the little boulders.
I suspect this was over in Pakistan or something like that, but I couldn’t tell… But one guy had the job of standing on top of the hopper with a large thick metal pole to help break up long jams of boulders that were oddly shaped or a bit too big.
I watched this guy jumping on top of this boulder to try and get it loose and I thought “what on earth is this guy going to do if that boulder suddenly breaks loose and goes into the hopper?“
If that had happened, there is no way that guy would not have followed that boulder into the hopper. But nobody cared. Nobody was even wearing any eye protection… My brother and I watched this in open mouth, astonishment, even though we were both fully aware of how things work in the third world because we have both spent time there before…
Life simply means less there. If the guy falls into the hopper and gets chewed up, it opens up a job for somebody else. Sad but true…
I like the videos of them wearing sandals and skirts around dangerous equipment
A lawsuit against his employer will be tough.
They shredded the evidence.
“He frantically tried to yank his tool out of the shredder before being dragged into the machine at the Chanh Tay Gia Lai Joint Stock Company plant, disappearing out of shot.” Why in the hell didn’t he just let go of the thing?
My thought, exactly.
Have you watched any of the “factory” videos in India and Pakistan? My God, filthy, dangerous places, no eye or hearing protection, bare feet, bare legs, no safety guards, open gears, belts and pulleys, almost white-hot steel and no thermal protection on workers. They do things like take low-grade rebar steel, forge it into billets, and convert it into large hex nuts. Now I know why the quality of nuts sold at at Home Depot is so piss-poor.
Poor guy in the story couldn’t “get his tool out.” No comment.
Horrible. Why post this?
“Why in the hell didn’t he just let go of the thing?”
Probably because they would charge him for it and he’d lose a day’s wages or a week’s wages. Boss man had drilled into him from Day One: “Do NOT lose your tool. Protect it at all costs. You lose that tool and You’re FIRED!”
“Ro Mah J, 34, was standing inside a large container feeding material into the machine just after 6 a.m. Thursday when his tool suddenly got stuck.”
I hate when that happens.
We’ve all been there a time or two..
I’ll pass on watching that.
However, I did watch the video of the guy in Denver who was out on the runway, but they stopped the video before he was ingested by the engine. He was just casually walking across the runway and didn’t even seem to be aware that a plane was coming toward him.
It would seem to be as dangerous as riding on a motorcycle with a long, flowing scarf bouncing behind and below you, waiting to be caught in the bike spokes.
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
— Bilbo Baggins
Looked like a safe place to work.
>>> wearing sandals and skirts around dangerous equipment
https://youtu.be/NYFxJ66liTA?si=upuAflYx_rvZmYgA&t=99
The company was going to charge him for another lost tool. ?
Probably as close to the truth as anything else.
Why would anyone want to see thar?
The worst I’ve ever seen was a video from a factory’s shop floor where a man operating a large engine lathe had his clothing get caught in the spindle and chuck. He was flung around like rag doll until there was almost nothing left of him. It just kept on spinning until a co-worker walked in and saw what was happening.
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