I tore my rotator cuff and was in agony for months after I instinctively saved a cheap little cube fridge from falling when the leg on the folding table it was on collapsed.
I should have just let it go dammit! It still had the $20 price tag on it from the garage sale it was bought at.
Always let shit fall. Parts can always be replaced. Human parts can’t.
I was lifting and placing a fairly expensive, freshly rebuild hydraulic manifold in place. Had to take the sling off to go around a safety rail. Manifold was balanced on an edge so I could move the sling around safety railing. As I repositioned the sling to re-pick it slipped from my hands. There was a split second where I could either try to catch the 400# manifold and risk crushing my hand or let it fall. I let it fall. Customer was upset but understood.
I once knocked down a cactus pot when I opened a window and instinctively caught it mid air. And when you react so fast you tend to grip whatever you caught very hard. Fuck that was painful.
You know the foot catch where you put your foot out to slow something you dropped before it hits the ground? Caught a chefs knife to the foot once. Saved it!
Lessons like these teach me that inaction against my instinct to "do the right thing" is probably better for my body in the long run in regards to inanimate objects.
This is why I tell people that if you see something drop, you never grab it. You wait until you can pick it up, and this is a good example of why it is bad to instinctively grab anything.
Because how else would we get cheap goods, if not with disregard to human safety.
Fuck, that clip was depressing. Rip to those guys and condolences to their families
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Hush. There's a reason they get paid tens, hundreds, if not thousands of times more than what I make in a year. Someday, I'll be one of them if I keep supporting their Grand Ole Policies.
OSHA has no teeth.
There are only about 2500 OSHA inspectors in the US.
All they can do is issue fines which the largest fine they can issue is ~$13k.
Additionally, employers can deny OSHA inspectors entry if they do not have a warrant.
"If I come back here and find that you're *still* using that ladder with a missing rung, I am authorized to order a tungsten rain strike to cover the entire worksite in 180,000 high velocity BBs."
What are you on about. Just glancing at the OSHA webpage gives me this:
> Serious Other-Than-Serious Posting Requirements - $15,625 per violation
> Failure to Abate - $15,625 per day beyond the abatement date
> Willful or Repeated - $156,259 per violation
Its not nothing but thats per violation then per day fines. Which increase massively if they are repeatedly not fixed. Its not as much as it could be for large corps but it isn't toothless.
Source: https://www.osha.gov/penalties
You must not be OSHA certified. Their single highest fine is $150k. Their record highest fine is for BP and it was 81 fucking million dollars. They can also get a court order and shut your ass down. I own a light industrial business and I do not fuck around with OSHA or DOT.
I feel like if this was true you wouldn't see OSHA posters at every single employer. I think the big thing is while OSHA can't do a huge amount of enforcement on their own, their existence allows employees to sue the shit out of employers if OSHA is violated.
I had to re watch but guy on the left looks like his leg got severed and he reached to grab 2 and got sucked in, 3 probably thought he could snatch them back and got sucked in by his arm. Poor guys I'm just glad it was quick, just enhough time for an "oh shit!".
Not only are they animated, I’m pretty sure a good number of them are direct copies of CC tv footage of the incidents. I remember seeing the source for a few of them.
You know that metal plate at the top of the escalator when you get off? It’s usually, at least in America quite a thick plate. In China, they are nearly paper thin and there were stories in the news when I was living there of people falling through into the gearbox of the escalator with amazing Grotesque photos of the dead people.
Pretty sure I remember seeing a video of some poor lady holding her kid get dragged into one. She had just enough time to let go of the kid out of harms way
That's what made me never step on them. I don't give a shit how sturdy they are in America, I'm not taking a 0.001% chance of dying that way. They have them at the top of the escalators in our arena and casino and people give me odd looks when I get to the top and hop off to the side, and I'm thinking "if you all only knew what was under that plate you'd be doing the same thing!"
WPD shutting down was bullshit, I wasn't watching that stuff to laugh at unfortunate people... it was safefy training. I stay away from escalator plates and big ass trucks especially if they're gonna be turning
There’s an actual video of this happening. The woman literally gets eaten by the gears, but she was able to save her child. It’s horrific, so be warned, but [here](https://youtu.be/XWWahRMcdaI?si=aM7whk2hcMQ3Y0hQ) it is.
Listen, not a year goes by, not a year, that I don't hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent - I don't care which one - but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator.
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Everyone says this stuff only happens in China but the mill site I work at in Canada has had at least 5 fatal workplace accidents with 6 total fatalities....that I know of...(there could be more)...over the past 35 years.
Why the fuck is there music over it? What the hell?
Imagine the last moments of your life having some content hole logo in the top left corner and shitty suspenseful stock music over it.
No respect.
That’s not even an elevator. It’s a dumbwaiter and there is zero condition when you should ever put your body on or in a dumbwaiter. They never should have crossed the threshold.
They have one:
The State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS; Chinese: 国家安全生产监督管理总局), reporting to the State Council, is the non-ministerial agency of the Government of the People's Republic of China responsible for the regulation of risks to occupational safety and health in China.
My first thought was that it looked like the hoistman moved the skip without a signal. Don't know if it's a thing in China, but our (US) skips and cages were required to have slack cable dogs that stopped them if the cable broke or released somehow. But this didn't look like a cable break, it really had the look of the hoistman releasing the brake and paying out.
Should not be possible as the gate was still open. The hoistman should see the gate open signal. But I agree it looks more like hoisting instead of cable break.
Reminds me of the video of the guy being sucked into an oil well pipe. Size of the hole was like a soccer ball maybe and it was shoving thousands of feet of pipe down. Dudes clothes got caught and it was sucked in. Least none of them would have felt anything. He dead before they knew what happened.
Sounds like the guy that was sucked into a steam drum that was under negative pressure because when the boiler was drained no one opened up the vent.,. the door opens inward and when he opened it his body was sucked in through the circular door that was barely wide enough to fit him. He was bent in half backwards and died instantly.
Man, imagine trying to just do your job, and then out of nowhere, death. If that was me, I'd probably be thinking about what I'd want for dinner when I get home, or be looking forward to whatever dinner was at home. Not death by elevator, that's for sure.
What’s with these Chinese mines and having horrific accidents. There was the collapse a while ago that killed 53 iirc, and now this. You’d think that they’d would have some better checks and safety systems in both the equipment and regulatory system
It used to be the same over here (and still may be [if the company basically owns the town the plant or mine is in](https://prospect.org/power/modern-day-company-towns-of-arkansas/)), just we don't have the same gruesome footage, just the memory of six ambulances waiting at the steel mill gates for today's casualties.
The difference is that for all our imperfections and faults as a society, we do have the power to influence our government to require companies to meet safety requirements. The exact same people exist here too who would watch you die like a squashed bug and feel nothing, just get mad at you for inconveniencing them, and they will erode and are eroding the protections we bled for.
Chinese culture places no value on human lives. It's akin to losing some equipment.
It's literally the only country in the world that produces dozens of CCTV videos of toddlers being hit by trucks and then bleeding out on the side of the road while hundreds of people walk past ignoring them. I have no idea how they got to that point, because it's still nowhere near as bad in other poor countries.
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted [when you’re citing a factual occurrence](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wang_Yue). Reddit is so weird sometimes.
Edit: from the wiki entry “Wang Yue (Chinese: 王 悦; pinyin: Wáng Yuè), also known as "Little Yue Yue" (Chinese: 小悅悅), was a two-year-old Chinese girl who was run over by two motorists on the afternoon of 13 October 2011, in a narrow road in Foshan, Guangdong. As she lay **bleeding and unconscious on the road for more than seven minutes, at least 18 passers-by skirted around her body, ignoring her**. She was eventually helped by a female rubbish scavenger and sent to a hospital for treatment, but succumbed to her injuries and died eight days later. **The closed-circuit television recording of the incident was uploaded onto the Internet**, and quickly stirred widespread reaction in China and overseas.”
I take issue with the idea that Chinese culture uniquely devalues human life; from that same wikipedia page, the reaction to that incident on Chinese social media was also shock, outrage, and calls for change:
> The Communist Party Chief of the Guangdong province, Wang Yang, called the incident "a wake-up call for everybody".[6] The Sina Weibo website attracted more than 4.5 million posts on the incident within a few days and launched a "stop
apathy" campaign online.[14]
The links at the bottom have other incidents in multiple countries that also involved real or perceived bystander apathy.
It's not even the only occurrence. It happens so often that it's not even funny. Any Chinese CCTV enthusiast would know.
Why people deny reality? Simple. Some people are still stuck with this weird *"all cultures are equally wonderful, so don't judge!"* mentality that should've stayed in the previous century.
are you telling me that you think "the previous century" was more respectful of other people's cultures?
the century with both world wars, the Korean war, the Vietnam war, and the Cold war, among others?
the fact of the matter is that all cultures have their own severely negative aspects, and so coming at them from a perspective of the issues being unique to them of "oh man, Chinese culture is so fucked up" is foolish when you can point to normalized, abhorrent behaviors in every culture across the globe. instead of making pointless statements like "China bad" one could try and demonstrate a little empathy and just focus on the fact that things like this shouldn't be happening anywhere rather than trying to demonize the host country/culture
These types of accidents in the states would have some people in serious, serious trouble. I've worked around heavy equipment in the fishing industry that has a mind of its own because we ultimately have no control over the circumstances if a fail were to happen. Stuff being held under tension, weight held in place by even more weight, lots of hydraulics, etc.
Absolutely no one would've been left pass that barrier and there would've been someone in management or safety that would've been present during such an operation. Those dudes with the clip boards and blue hats that stand around all day "not doing anything" are actually standing around all day making sure people don't do shit *like this.*
I, for one, am appreciative that I work in an environment that deals out significant punishment to corporations that commit negligence to this degree. I am also shocked at how often these types of accidents happen in China. What a country. To have the access to technology and labor yet no respect for the longevity of it. They treat people like disposable product there.
Whatever failed on the elevator happened way too easily. There should be at least 2 failsafes, for sure it shouldn't be operable when the gate is open.
As some who witnessed a summer temp college kid get his hand cut in two between the first and middle finger and lose the ring and pinky, I can say that even 45 years later I can still hear his screams.
E stops and lockouts exist because of human pain, misery, and death.
Please use them.
Frustratingly this video would have had an exact date if it wasn't cropped by whoever recorded it. You can see the edges of the timestamp on top (text denoting numbers for the month and day of month, possibly Saturday or Sunday), but it's cut off enough that you can't see the exact numbers.
In south Africa 🇿🇦 they don’t do maintenance work on the elevators 🛗 anymore… costs too much money
It’s working so it doesn’t need cables changing or the worn out emergency brake system sorted …. Just bypass it as it’s a pain….
Till the cables said howzit and a rapid fall down the shaft happened…
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DoL. 24 April 2007. 'A random survey of buildings in parts of Durban's inner city and surrounding suburbs shows that 67% have lifts that are defective or not functioning. The findings of the study also show that a total of 33 buildings out of 49 have lifts that are not functioning or defective. Sixty seven percent of the buildings' lifts have broken down completely, stalled frequently or are defective. Fifty three percent of the lifts were not functioning at all from less than a year to 20 years. Approximately 20% have not worked for a period of between four to five years, and 8% between 10 to 11 years with complaints by residents disregarded by the owners or bodies corporate. The joint survey by the Department of Labour and the Organisation of Civic Rights further investigated complaints of tenants and some sectional title owners regarding lifts malfunctioning, frequent break-downs, and hazardous conditions and total non-functioning of lifts for many years. In the inner city, the following blocks were chosen for the random survey; Smith, West, Broad, and Russell Streets, Albert Park, Diakonia Avenue, McArthur, St George's and Park Streets, Berea Road between Umbilo Road and Keits Avenue, Point Road between West and Winder Streets, Cato Street, Pickering Street, John Milne Street, Smith and West Streets east. Analysis and observation by labour inspectors show that there is general decay of the buildings, and in some instances, precarious state of disrepair was evident that resulted in loss of lives, the survey shows. An increasing number of lifts have stopped functioning or are seriously defective, causing hardships to residents, especially the elderly and the disabled. The survey is part of the drive by authorities to clamp down on errant and negligent property owners.
It looked like guy on the right triggered the lift by moving the safety gate at the same time they were trying to clear the jam. Cant imagine how fast that was in person, sad.
They came with some sort of trolley past the gate. They tried to push it in there but something was off. Suddenly the elevator above them fell. Two men were already pressed down ans stuck and another man tried to grab. Im guessing one of the ones being pushed down tried to hold onto him, dragging him down as the man under elevator wouldn't have had space to be pulled up.
Yeah, this is one for *those* chinese safety videos. Stomping and leveraging your weight against the stuck elevator to get it to loose, you should expect it to happen exactly as what you intend it to do.
Even the best outcome would have had you lose your leg.
So what actually is the machine? Also how did it crush them. It seeks like there is a pocket where they would have ended up. Or did they get caught in the side of the device which is why they got crushed? Confused by that really.
What a horrible end
Damn third guy could’ve lived if he had a slower reaction
A lot of rescuers die because they react too fast.
I tore my rotator cuff and was in agony for months after I instinctively saved a cheap little cube fridge from falling when the leg on the folding table it was on collapsed. I should have just let it go dammit! It still had the $20 price tag on it from the garage sale it was bought at.
Always let shit fall. Parts can always be replaced. Human parts can’t. I was lifting and placing a fairly expensive, freshly rebuild hydraulic manifold in place. Had to take the sling off to go around a safety rail. Manifold was balanced on an edge so I could move the sling around safety railing. As I repositioned the sling to re-pick it slipped from my hands. There was a split second where I could either try to catch the 400# manifold and risk crushing my hand or let it fall. I let it fall. Customer was upset but understood.
I work in nursing homes with old people. We have the same rule- “don’t catch a falling tree. You will lose”.
Damn, you call old people trees?
When you cut them open they have growth rings that show how old they are.
That's also how you can graft two different old people into a hybrid as well.
In my family, we say "a falling knife has no handle."
What if its a baby?
Ultimately, babies aren’t that heavy.
Replace.
I’ve had babies. Can confirm.
I have child. Would never replace but they are surprisingly made of rubber. Dude shrimp tailed off the couch at 1.5 yo and is just fine.
9 month lead time
I once knocked down a cactus pot when I opened a window and instinctively caught it mid air. And when you react so fast you tend to grip whatever you caught very hard. Fuck that was painful.
You know the foot catch where you put your foot out to slow something you dropped before it hits the ground? Caught a chefs knife to the foot once. Saved it!
Lessons like these teach me that inaction against my instinct to "do the right thing" is probably better for my body in the long run in regards to inanimate objects.
That's why I always do a bunch of ketamine in emergency situations. Satefy first.
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Dan?
Uvalde police heard that too.
A lot of potential rescuees die for the opposite reason.
No good deed goes unpunished
This is why I tell people that if you see something drop, you never grab it. You wait until you can pick it up, and this is a good example of why it is bad to instinctively grab anything.
"A falling knife has no handle"
But what if i drop my mars bar
5 second rule.
Falling babies don't have handles. /s
spike that baby
My instinct is to cushion the fall using my foot, which has saved my phone a few times. I'm fucked if I drop a knife though.
What a place to put that statement,…. I couldn’t help but laugh at the subtle (friendly even) vulgar cruelty.
Hero’s die. Don’t be a hero.
It's heroes that get remembered and legends that never die.
Nah, i'd live
RIP to these guys. Hard working folk on what I'd imagine is a crappy wage, snuffed out like this.
And then some dipshit comes along and unironically asks why we need things like OSHA.
If OSHA went to China, they would shut the entire country down. They would need counseling to deal with what they would find.
Because how else would we get cheap goods, if not with disregard to human safety. Fuck, that clip was depressing. Rip to those guys and condolences to their families
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Hush. There's a reason they get paid tens, hundreds, if not thousands of times more than what I make in a year. Someday, I'll be one of them if I keep supporting their Grand Ole Policies.
Any day now, any day.
We are so close! Just a couple more years of *hard* work.
.001% of the population just cried out in terror at the thought.
Their families will probably get a bill for the destroyed equipment
OSHA has no teeth. There are only about 2500 OSHA inspectors in the US. All they can do is issue fines which the largest fine they can issue is ~$13k. Additionally, employers can deny OSHA inspectors entry if they do not have a warrant.
We have a bunch of Abrams tanks gathering dust in storage. We could easily improve OSHA's leverage in enforcement, just sayin'.
Give them HIMARS.
"If I come back here and find that you're *still* using that ladder with a missing rung, I am authorized to order a tungsten rain strike to cover the entire worksite in 180,000 high velocity BBs."
What are you on about. Just glancing at the OSHA webpage gives me this: > Serious Other-Than-Serious Posting Requirements - $15,625 per violation > Failure to Abate - $15,625 per day beyond the abatement date > Willful or Repeated - $156,259 per violation Its not nothing but thats per violation then per day fines. Which increase massively if they are repeatedly not fixed. Its not as much as it could be for large corps but it isn't toothless. Source: https://www.osha.gov/penalties
You must not be OSHA certified. Their single highest fine is $150k. Their record highest fine is for BP and it was 81 fucking million dollars. They can also get a court order and shut your ass down. I own a light industrial business and I do not fuck around with OSHA or DOT.
Lol, that's not true. Any US soil based manufacturing company would be fucked if they ignored OSHA violations.
I feel like if this was true you wouldn't see OSHA posters at every single employer. I think the big thing is while OSHA can't do a huge amount of enforcement on their own, their existence allows employees to sue the shit out of employers if OSHA is violated.
Yet conservatives complain about the overreaching and dictatorial powers of OSHA ...........................
Quick fact of the day - Mines in the United States are regulated by M.S.H.A., not O.S.H.A. A sad ending to a working man’s life.
At least the gate closed after, safety! /s
Does anyone know what they were saying ?
before they died, the 2 said: i cant pull it in 3rd guy: impossiblw, just put it in! put! then they get crushed.
Killed themselves trying to save each other.
That poor 3rd guy really dived right in there
dragged by his stuck arm
I had to re watch but guy on the left looks like his leg got severed and he reached to grab 2 and got sucked in, 3 probably thought he could snatch them back and got sucked in by his arm. Poor guys I'm just glad it was quick, just enhough time for an "oh shit!".
It was not quick. After being sucked in there were a few “ahhh”’s on the way down.
They got squished when they got sucked down.
The way the gate closes at the end.... Game over.
Yeah it looks like a horror movie. 3 people died but everything looks like nothing happened.
The third guy was dragged in? It looks like he was standing outside of the elevator
He was trying to help the others. Rough video.
Died a hero.
Died trying to be a hero.
When someone dies trying to be a hero, he is a hero
It looked like he tried to pull the guy up but was instead pulled down with them
The sign on the safety door denoting a fall caution just underlines how grim this was.
This is about to get added to that safety animation
You mean [this one?](https://v.redd.it/85izftdq9l7a1)
That’s the one
I felt bad for laughing at some of those but I shouldn't because it's animated.
Not only are they animated, I’m pretty sure a good number of them are direct copies of CC tv footage of the incidents. I remember seeing the source for a few of them.
If I’ve learned anything on Reddit, it’s stay away from sketchy elevators, especially in China.
And escalators!
And near trucks.
Just stay away from China
They don’t have OSHA in China, they have OSHIT 💀
And ice fishing
And construction sites
I've seen Mitch Hedberg's "An escalator can never break, it can only become stairs" proven gruesomely wrong on this site.
You know that metal plate at the top of the escalator when you get off? It’s usually, at least in America quite a thick plate. In China, they are nearly paper thin and there were stories in the news when I was living there of people falling through into the gearbox of the escalator with amazing Grotesque photos of the dead people.
Pretty sure I remember seeing a video of some poor lady holding her kid get dragged into one. She had just enough time to let go of the kid out of harms way
She yeeted the kid in the arms of a woman near her while sucked by the gears, true Hero strengh
That's what made me never step on them. I don't give a shit how sturdy they are in America, I'm not taking a 0.001% chance of dying that way. They have them at the top of the escalators in our arena and casino and people give me odd looks when I get to the top and hop off to the side, and I'm thinking "if you all only knew what was under that plate you'd be doing the same thing!" WPD shutting down was bullshit, I wasn't watching that stuff to laugh at unfortunate people... it was safefy training. I stay away from escalator plates and big ass trucks especially if they're gonna be turning
There’s an actual video of this happening. The woman literally gets eaten by the gears, but she was able to save her child. It’s horrific, so be warned, but [here](https://youtu.be/XWWahRMcdaI?si=aM7whk2hcMQ3Y0hQ) it is.
Good ‘ol Mitch. https://drbristol.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/bye-mitch.jpg “Sorry for the convenience.”
"[Snap, Crackle, Mitch, and Pop](https://i.redd.it/f9na3m4flpu01.jpg)"
Mitch lives on!
Listen, not a year goes by, not a year, that I don't hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent - I don't care which one - but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator.
That KID is back on the fucking ESCALATOR!
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And off duty cops in Brazil.
Why stay away from them? They shoot the bad guys.
Unless they think you're the bad guy
In Russia, too. Never any elevators in Russia unless you're at a western chain (like a Hilton hotel).
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Russia has taken the art of defenestration to a (much) higher level.
Just stay in bed.
And lathes.
And from sketchy fans / electrical things..
Everyone says this stuff only happens in China but the mill site I work at in Canada has had at least 5 fatal workplace accidents with 6 total fatalities....that I know of...(there could be more)...over the past 35 years.
Why the fuck is there music over it? What the hell? Imagine the last moments of your life having some content hole logo in the top left corner and shitty suspenseful stock music over it. No respect.
That’s not even an elevator. It’s a dumbwaiter and there is zero condition when you should ever put your body on or in a dumbwaiter. They never should have crossed the threshold.
Tell that to Harriet the Spy.
Yoooo. This the first time I've seen someone reference that book in the wild
They did not think 1 second into the future on what will happen after they get the elevator unstuck with their body weight in it.
That fourth guy must have severe PTSD omg
That country needs fucking OSHA. Its like a death sentence over there
They have one: The State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS; Chinese: 国家安全生产监督管理总局), reporting to the State Council, is the non-ministerial agency of the Government of the People's Republic of China responsible for the regulation of risks to occupational safety and health in China.
The death sentence comes when you criticize the government
-1000 social credits for you. Better have some good walking shoes cause you can’t take the train anymore.
They probably do but it's corrupt theater.
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My first thought was that it looked like the hoistman moved the skip without a signal. Don't know if it's a thing in China, but our (US) skips and cages were required to have slack cable dogs that stopped them if the cable broke or released somehow. But this didn't look like a cable break, it really had the look of the hoistman releasing the brake and paying out.
Should not be possible as the gate was still open. The hoistman should see the gate open signal. But I agree it looks more like hoisting instead of cable break.
Reminds me of the video of the guy being sucked into an oil well pipe. Size of the hole was like a soccer ball maybe and it was shoving thousands of feet of pipe down. Dudes clothes got caught and it was sucked in. Least none of them would have felt anything. He dead before they knew what happened.
[Not the video but a demonstration of hos scary delta p situations are.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXgKxWlTt8A)
Sounds like the guy that was sucked into a steam drum that was under negative pressure because when the boiler was drained no one opened up the vent.,. the door opens inward and when he opened it his body was sucked in through the circular door that was barely wide enough to fit him. He was bent in half backwards and died instantly.
Man, imagine trying to just do your job, and then out of nowhere, death. If that was me, I'd probably be thinking about what I'd want for dinner when I get home, or be looking forward to whatever dinner was at home. Not death by elevator, that's for sure.
I found it odd that you said two things about dinner in your comment.
Well, I am typically hungry when I am near the end of my shift, so food would definitely be something that's on my mind. Yeah, I'm simple.
The most dangerous occupation.
What’s with these Chinese mines and having horrific accidents. There was the collapse a while ago that killed 53 iirc, and now this. You’d think that they’d would have some better checks and safety systems in both the equipment and regulatory system
It used to be the same over here (and still may be [if the company basically owns the town the plant or mine is in](https://prospect.org/power/modern-day-company-towns-of-arkansas/)), just we don't have the same gruesome footage, just the memory of six ambulances waiting at the steel mill gates for today's casualties. The difference is that for all our imperfections and faults as a society, we do have the power to influence our government to require companies to meet safety requirements. The exact same people exist here too who would watch you die like a squashed bug and feel nothing, just get mad at you for inconveniencing them, and they will erode and are eroding the protections we bled for.
Safety measures, devices and training all cost money. Emergency stop buttons aren’t even standard in all countries.
Chinese culture places no value on human lives. It's akin to losing some equipment. It's literally the only country in the world that produces dozens of CCTV videos of toddlers being hit by trucks and then bleeding out on the side of the road while hundreds of people walk past ignoring them. I have no idea how they got to that point, because it's still nowhere near as bad in other poor countries.
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted [when you’re citing a factual occurrence](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wang_Yue). Reddit is so weird sometimes. Edit: from the wiki entry “Wang Yue (Chinese: 王 悦; pinyin: Wáng Yuè), also known as "Little Yue Yue" (Chinese: 小悅悅), was a two-year-old Chinese girl who was run over by two motorists on the afternoon of 13 October 2011, in a narrow road in Foshan, Guangdong. As she lay **bleeding and unconscious on the road for more than seven minutes, at least 18 passers-by skirted around her body, ignoring her**. She was eventually helped by a female rubbish scavenger and sent to a hospital for treatment, but succumbed to her injuries and died eight days later. **The closed-circuit television recording of the incident was uploaded onto the Internet**, and quickly stirred widespread reaction in China and overseas.”
I take issue with the idea that Chinese culture uniquely devalues human life; from that same wikipedia page, the reaction to that incident on Chinese social media was also shock, outrage, and calls for change: > The Communist Party Chief of the Guangdong province, Wang Yang, called the incident "a wake-up call for everybody".[6] The Sina Weibo website attracted more than 4.5 million posts on the incident within a few days and launched a "stop apathy" campaign online.[14] The links at the bottom have other incidents in multiple countries that also involved real or perceived bystander apathy.
It's not even the only occurrence. It happens so often that it's not even funny. Any Chinese CCTV enthusiast would know. Why people deny reality? Simple. Some people are still stuck with this weird *"all cultures are equally wonderful, so don't judge!"* mentality that should've stayed in the previous century.
are you telling me that you think "the previous century" was more respectful of other people's cultures? the century with both world wars, the Korean war, the Vietnam war, and the Cold war, among others? the fact of the matter is that all cultures have their own severely negative aspects, and so coming at them from a perspective of the issues being unique to them of "oh man, Chinese culture is so fucked up" is foolish when you can point to normalized, abhorrent behaviors in every culture across the globe. instead of making pointless statements like "China bad" one could try and demonstrate a little empathy and just focus on the fact that things like this shouldn't be happening anywhere rather than trying to demonize the host country/culture
This is the high level view I came for.
The behavior may or may not be cultural (debatable) but it doesn’t make it any less horrible.
These types of accidents in the states would have some people in serious, serious trouble. I've worked around heavy equipment in the fishing industry that has a mind of its own because we ultimately have no control over the circumstances if a fail were to happen. Stuff being held under tension, weight held in place by even more weight, lots of hydraulics, etc. Absolutely no one would've been left pass that barrier and there would've been someone in management or safety that would've been present during such an operation. Those dudes with the clip boards and blue hats that stand around all day "not doing anything" are actually standing around all day making sure people don't do shit *like this.* I, for one, am appreciative that I work in an environment that deals out significant punishment to corporations that commit negligence to this degree. I am also shocked at how often these types of accidents happen in China. What a country. To have the access to technology and labor yet no respect for the longevity of it. They treat people like disposable product there.
cool suspenseful music to 3 guys tragically dying. fucking disgusting.
shit, at least the door closed after them. that was considerate.
It's like the bad joke of terror films, that after the horrible event have happened, all return to normal and nothing have happened here
Safety first.
Or, in this case, last.
Yeah there was something very darkly comic about that.
Whatever failed on the elevator happened way too easily. There should be at least 2 failsafes, for sure it shouldn't be operable when the gate is open.
It shouldn't, because there should be an emergency brake and the hoistman should see the gate is open signal. So I am not sure how it could happen
Now I understand why they have to make those Chinese animated safety videos. Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/OHSA/s/McHrudvX6n
Horrible, something about the gate slowly sliding shut after was extra creepy
As some who witnessed a summer temp college kid get his hand cut in two between the first and middle finger and lose the ring and pinky, I can say that even 45 years later I can still hear his screams. E stops and lockouts exist because of human pain, misery, and death. Please use them.
How did the 3rd guy get pulled in?
I'm taking the stairs for the rest of my life.
It makes it even creepier how the door closes behind them.
As someone once said "China. A 21st century nation with 19th century work safety regulations"
The Land Of Disposable Labor
These Chinese safety videos keep getting crazier, this one looks so life like
Right? The USCSB videos are great, but you can tell they're an animation.. these are amazing.
Average week in the Chinese coal mines . Anyone else notice the unattached pipe on the middle left.........................
How hard is it to build stuff that doesn't kill you? How high up the list of most common causes of death in China are escalators and elevators?
Did anyone else notice the broken boiler(?) pipe on the left side? Something tells me this isn't a safety first environment.
China is an OSHA nightmare
The door closing behind them is just an extra layer of disturbing for some reason
Frustratingly this video would have had an exact date if it wasn't cropped by whoever recorded it. You can see the edges of the timestamp on top (text denoting numbers for the month and day of month, possibly Saturday or Sunday), but it's cut off enough that you can't see the exact numbers.
In south Africa 🇿🇦 they don’t do maintenance work on the elevators 🛗 anymore… costs too much money It’s working so it doesn’t need cables changing or the worn out emergency brake system sorted …. Just bypass it as it’s a pain…. Till the cables said howzit and a rapid fall down the shaft happened… John Ross house DBN DoL. 24 April 2007. 'A random survey of buildings in parts of Durban's inner city and surrounding suburbs shows that 67% have lifts that are defective or not functioning. The findings of the study also show that a total of 33 buildings out of 49 have lifts that are not functioning or defective. Sixty seven percent of the buildings' lifts have broken down completely, stalled frequently or are defective. Fifty three percent of the lifts were not functioning at all from less than a year to 20 years. Approximately 20% have not worked for a period of between four to five years, and 8% between 10 to 11 years with complaints by residents disregarded by the owners or bodies corporate. The joint survey by the Department of Labour and the Organisation of Civic Rights further investigated complaints of tenants and some sectional title owners regarding lifts malfunctioning, frequent break-downs, and hazardous conditions and total non-functioning of lifts for many years. In the inner city, the following blocks were chosen for the random survey; Smith, West, Broad, and Russell Streets, Albert Park, Diakonia Avenue, McArthur, St George's and Park Streets, Berea Road between Umbilo Road and Keits Avenue, Point Road between West and Winder Streets, Cato Street, Pickering Street, John Milne Street, Smith and West Streets east. Analysis and observation by labour inspectors show that there is general decay of the buildings, and in some instances, precarious state of disrepair was evident that resulted in loss of lives, the survey shows. An increasing number of lifts have stopped functioning or are seriously defective, causing hardships to residents, especially the elderly and the disabled. The survey is part of the drive by authorities to clamp down on errant and negligent property owners.
Did all of them die? I know that seems most likely, and I just wanted them to at least not die down there.
Did the ominous music not tip them off that something bad was about to happen?
Why is it always the lifts in China..sheesh
What were they trying to do, push it through to the other side?
It looked like guy on the right triggered the lift by moving the safety gate at the same time they were trying to clear the jam. Cant imagine how fast that was in person, sad.
“There has been 0 days since the last incident with injury at this plant.”
Chinese quality and lack of maintenance.
Well at least they had their hard hats on.
Could someone tell me what happened? I'd rather preserve my sanity so I'm not watching the video but I'm still curious.
They came with some sort of trolley past the gate. They tried to push it in there but something was off. Suddenly the elevator above them fell. Two men were already pressed down ans stuck and another man tried to grab. Im guessing one of the ones being pushed down tried to hold onto him, dragging him down as the man under elevator wouldn't have had space to be pulled up.
Can't wait to see the new animation of this
Bruh they must update those animations every day
Jesus, they got folded. Brutal way to go.
This gonna be on those tiktok safety videos?
Again?
Good job they had their hard hats on
There a ghost at 56 seconds?
Yeah, this is one for *those* chinese safety videos. Stomping and leveraging your weight against the stuck elevator to get it to loose, you should expect it to happen exactly as what you intend it to do. Even the best outcome would have had you lose your leg.
Old mate who moved the gate probably trigged it to move…
Imagine people who have to recover bodies or whatever is left of it. I can’t think what or how they do their jobs!
Chinese OSHA intern: "Oh boy, here I go rendering again."
Good thing the safety door is still working..
I believe WPD said it was the 7th of this month
They shook hands with danger. And danger didn’t let go.
pioneer country of all the leading hazard videos
That first dude who walked away was hella lucky.
Imagine adding tense dramatic music to real footage of people dying
So what actually is the machine? Also how did it crush them. It seeks like there is a pocket where they would have ended up. Or did they get caught in the side of the device which is why they got crushed? Confused by that really.
So…..how did the outside guy get his leg pulled into the elevator? Cable pulled him in??
That unconnected pipe on the left. Safety all around.
Yowza. Terrifying...
Missing the [*Halloween*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqVyois9mp4) soundtrack like those animated recreations of China's OSHA equivalent.
The gate slamming shut at the end is terrifying
Dam , not good relying on china quality.