GuyWearingTripps

Oct 11, 2025 00:47

There is a chop saw where I work that people will cut a piece off of a board that is small enough to fall in the guards the blade goes down into, I use it every day but when it catches one of the small hidden pieces of wood and it jars my arm it makes me jump every time. Also I applied to be an operator of a machine that in two years have taken the fingers from three people.

Dr. Sus

Oct 11, 2025 01:28

So far I haven't used any that scared me, but I haven't used a ton either. I used to think about sticking my head into the break press though. It had a foot pedal to make it go down, and stick my head through it and slowly chop it off. How Rad would that be? Imagine my s**tty bosses seeing that.

Kain

Oct 11, 2025 15:29

I have an irrational fear that the baler at my job is gonna malfunction and cause the crushing part to fall really fast and break my arms in half

sportsbitch

Oct 11, 2025 16:40

lathes are scary, saw a chinese factory worker get sucked in and mangled by one on liveleak

Mercurius Mesmerize

Oct 11, 2025 18:38

The clock-in machine's finger print reader when it fails to read your finger with just seconds to go before start time.

Dr. Sus

Oct 11, 2025 21:43

I seent that video Sports, one of the most gruesome I've ever seen, that and the kid in thr elevator, that one was f**ked up but almost cartoonish because it's so insane.

Kain, you have to keep your hands in the bailer? Also, since it's probably hydrolic it's alnsot impossible for it to slam down. The same principle that makes it crush really well, is the same principle that makes it not able to slam down fast. How heavy is the piece that actually touches the cardboard, or whatever you're crushing?

Dude, Mesmerize nailed it. Do they only give you a one minute clock in window? I was at a place where we had to clock in on the 0:59th minute. Luckily there were too many people per machine, but ours was janky af.

Mercurius Mesmerize

Oct 11, 2025 21:49

No it's when you get to work just in time and the finger scanner decides to either not detect your finger or it scans and says fail, meanwhile you're watching the seconds tick between being late and being on time.

Mercurius Mesmerize

Oct 11, 2025 21:55

In my first job I wasn't keen on the abrasive blaster/sand blaster. The job was easy, but I heard a story about someone being locked inside one because the next guy didn't know someone was in there and he started it up. Completely pulverised the guy into minced meat.

Dr. Sus

Oct 11, 2025 23:37

Ohhhhh, yeah, that would suck. I was at a place that had a scanner, but it was janky as hell. They made us clock in exactly at the start hour (that changed based on demand) then leaving for lunch clock out exactly the minute before, then when clocking back in exactly on the 30 minute mark. Luckily we left whenever the work was done so we didn't have to deal with precision there too. I got shafted out of all that covid unemployment money because of that place. I should've applied anyways.

sportsbitch

Oct 12, 2025 00:06

ironworker stations can easily mangle you too, the ones that punch holes, shear angle iron and do one more thing i forgot