Idiots

[jdwelder]

Today we had a lucky break with a bottle of 90/10. Some idiot didn't feel the need to chain the bottle off so it couldn't fall. It got knocked over by a torque arm that hung up on a passing frame but thank God my 1000lb box of wire broke it's fall so we didn't have a torpedo on our hands!!!

p.s. The guy who left it unchained now has a three day vacation (unpaid ofcourse) to think about it.

[WelderBoy]

Was it capped? And was there anything that could have directly hit the fitting on the top? If not then it really isn't as dangerous as people lead you to believe. This doesn't mean you don't need to be careful, but unless there is a direct and fairly hard hit to the fitting on the top then the bottle won't break. Most of those in exception to the HUGE tanks are one piece extruded steel so it's unlikely that they would just crack.

Either way, glad nobody got hurt. There is no excuse for not taking the proper precautions. Hope he learned a lesson from this. A bottle on the loose is no joke.

[turboblown]

Remember- an unsecured bottle is an OSHA violation!

[jamlit]

I remember going to a job site. their was just two of us finishing up some loose ends for an inspection. Well we go up on the decks and we here this bang and big whoosh. We walk over to the edge of the deck and look down to see three boys that had set up a bed to hold the bottles then smashing the valve off with a large hammer. I remember seeing the first bottle go before we yelled at them. they were shooting the bottles into the water. Man would they skip across the water and go like crazy fast. Crazy kids, could have been killed. Anyway since seeing that my bottle are always capped or locked in place. the movies do not show the real power and danger for this situation.

[zapster]

This all happened last year..


I had to strip the rubber coating off a roll in the lathe..
My boss is about 30 feet away heating rebar up with a torch to bend it like a candy cane...red hot and bend then throw on floor...

When the torch gets low on oxygen the tip starts to "pop"..
I hear this and grab a new tank...
They are right behind me..

Numbnuts from down front who has no buisness coming out back hears the pops also...and desides to ask if he should get another tank...

I smell rubber burning thinking that its from the roll i'm stripping..

Nope...:eek:

Numbnuts ended up standing on the freshly bent rebar and DOES NOT realise that his SNEAKERS are melting..(who in the first place would wear sneakers in a machine shop anyway?)

He has "aquatread" sneakers as we call it now.. and they were rather new

Then a couple of days later he was not there for 3 minutes before he ended up on the floor with the torch cart on top of him...

Fortunatly this employee is no longer employed here..


Now its rather boring in the shop..
No more "entertainment" like that anymore..




...zap!
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[gnm109]

Years ago when I worked at the Rocketdyne Propulsion Field Laboratory near Los Angeles, I saw a 300 cf cylinder of GN2 (nitrogen) fall out of a rack that was being set down on the ground with several cylinders in it. There was no safety cap on it since it was about to be transferred to a manifold bank. It should have had a cap of course.

The valve broke off and the cylinder took off like a serpent. It went about 100 feet in less than 2 seconds and buried itself in a nearby hill while the rest of the gas vented off.

It was convincing to say the least~! It taught me a good lesson. I keep my clyinders chained and capped when stored.

[olddad]

Today we had a lucky break with a bottle of 90/10. Some idiot didn't feel the need to chain the bottle off so it couldn't fall. It got knocked over by a torque arm that hung up on a passing frame but thank God my 1000lb box of wire broke it's fall so we didn't have a torpedo on our hands!!!

p.s. The guy who left it unchained now has a three day vacation (unpaid ofcourse) to think about it.
Yep, gotta watch your back, shops like that don't require IQ tests. There's some real winners in some of them places...lol.

Gotta ask though...was it pointed at you if the trigger had gone off ?...lol

[Me!]

Myth Busters did one on the high pressure cylinder going through a cement block wall.

It did... and busted the other cement block wall behind the test wall, oops!

[Vicoor]

I don't think IQ has much to do with it, I know some pretty smart people that don't have a lick of common sense.

The really dangerous ones are the ones that think they know it all.

My grandpa told me that if you meet someone who says they know it all, Run like heck. That person is either a liar or a fool and you don't want to be around either one.

[MJDamiani]

In High School my IQ was tested and it was, not to my surprise 161. I was offered several scholarships into schools that I was not interested in attending. I even turned down a full scholarship to MIT. That's where I was incredibly stupid. A full boat ride to the most technical school in the USA / Northeast, I was the dummy here. Girls and cars, I just didn't want to go to Boston. Sh*T, it's only 45 minutes to the north, and it was free. The Govt. then got involved and I ended-up in Central America.Teaching at a "special school" . The school will remain nameless for security reasons.

I was (a patriot) not an idiot, but knowing what I know now, I should have taken the scholarship to MIT

MIKE

[jdwelder]

No, it was not pointed at me but we would have retested myth-busters concrete wall theory.

[JeffB]

Just be glad most businesses nowadays enforce safety rules. People will do dumb things, but a 3 day suspension will make that person(and everyone else) pay more attention next time. A guy in my shop got a verbal warning and lost his safety bonus for using the trigger lock on his grinder the other day.

[enlpck]

Was moving bottles returned from a job this morning at work, separating empties, fulls, and partials into the appropriate cages. One of the O2 bottles didn't roll right.. felt off balance. So I took a good look at it and the bottle is bent, like it had been kicked with a pipe bender. No wrinkles, but near the center is a nice clean bend, putting the top of the bottle maybe 1" off center.

I didn't ask how they did it...

[welder_one]

this one is not about bottles, but it is a pretty stupid one. a guy brought a trailer to me to have me weld a piece of expanded metal onto the tailgate. i used a 110 volt stick machine(didnt feel like getting out the suitcase and engine drive for a couple tacks) with 6011 rod. so i fit the metal, and begin to weld. i hear the man yell" holy sh*t" i look up quickly thinking a fire or something and ask what. he said crap dude, that light is bright. i said well you aint supposed to look at it. he asked me well how are you looking at it. i resisted saying i keep my eyes closed, but i said that is what a hood is for. so he leaves and i weld some more and he yells again. i stop and look up and there he is again rubbing his eyes and saying it didnt work. i asked what. he handed me a pair of sunglasses...lol i asked him to leave before he got hurt and i would call him when his trailer was done

[Vicoor]

this is the kind of stuff Darwin awards are all about

[PivotLok]

Had an unsecured 250cf bottle fall on a guys foot and it crushed his big toe.

CHAIN 'EM UP!

[RoRo72]

For those who do not live near dallas. watch original video for flying bottles.

Link - http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail;jsessionid=5DD9FA37508282022AEB5A3C59E4411D ?contentId=4077230&version=7&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1

Video Link - http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/MyFox/pages/sidebar_video.jsp?contentId=4079930&version=1&locale=EN-US