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
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.
search India railroad deaths. Tons of videos showing them getting run over or electrocuted on top of the trains.
The US gun homicide rate is 26 times that of other high-income countries.
The bad ones are the people working around big lathes with loose clothing. Big lathe don’t care.