Largest safety hazard youve seen in a shop

[pbfourever]

So every one has seen them, but whats the largest safety hazard that youve seen in a welding shop or any shop in general.
Mine is I walked into the diesel shop across from where i go to school. They have a little mig welder so they just come to our shop to get some argon. I walked in and there was the bottle with no safety cap and no chains. It was just standing in the middle of the shop.:realmad:

[zapster]

Where I work is one big hazard..:D

...zap!

[Tim M]

This wasn't "In a Shop" it was on a roof that was being redone. The roofers were using a gas powered cut off saw and showering the gas can behind them with hot sparks. I was on another roof looking down. All I could do is watch and wait for the "Kaboom" to go off. Luckily, someone on their job saw it too and corrected their evil ways before anyone was killed. :nono:

Just visited a local welding shop and saw several tanks with no caps or chains. They were just waiting to get knocked over and have the valve knocked off. :blush2:

[Patriot Performance]

Last year I was painting in a bottle factory. Working on some paletizing machines. The millwrights were welding handrail overhead of me while I was puttin on Kemchromic primer. The primer is a xylene based paint. Xylene is extremely flammable, more so than lacquer base paints.

[Mark...]

Okay, laying under a fuel tanker(pup trailer) up on jackstands with the wheels off. Working on rebuilding the scams on a creeper. Before I knew it the dork manager was trying to hook a truck up to the tounge. Well he backed up a little too far and all four jackstands began to lean back:eek:. Within half a heartbeat I slung out from under that trailer and jumped to my feet in disbelief. How could he? I learned to chew a bosses a$$ that day.

[daddy]

It's amazing how fast you can move when you have to, eh Mark?:eek:

[dabar39]

I had to install some citrus machinery we built at our shop down in Quito, Ecuador. When we were just about ready to test run the machines they had the electricians come in and hook us up some temporary power.

Well, just look at the picture and you'll notice more than a few safety violations.

[pbfourever]

I had to install some citrus machinery we built at our shop down in Quito, Ecuador. When we were just about ready to test run the machines they had the electricians come in and hook us up some temporary power.

Well, just look at the picture and you'll notice more than a few safety violations.

hes got us all beat with pics.

[dabar39]

It's kinda hard to see it in the pictures, but those wires were all used pieces of wire that were twisted together to make it to the machinery. Instead of using electrical tape or wire nuts they used old plastic bags tied in knots where the splices on the floor were. Needless to say, we were very careful where we stepped for a while. Dave

[rookiewelder]

I see lots on a daily basis need to find some pics thankfully no one has been killed

[denrep]

...whats the largest safety hazard that you've seen...?


Leroy - About six foot five @ 250, could lift a ton... but couldn't spell it!

You'd hold your breath whenever you saw him, 'cause you just knew that something was gonna happen! :laugh:

He charged me five bucks, (and I paid him!) for the world-wide distribution rights, to a picture showing him in action. I'm still thinking about it.

[drivethruboy54]

working in the air without being tied off. its not the fall that hurts, its the sudden stop...

[txfireguy2003]

This week we had two massive storm systems come through my local area of Texas causing lots of power outages and downed trees. So Wednesday morning when I got off of work, I went to my dad's house to cut up the huge hackberry tree that was blown over in his driveway and then to my grandmother's to cut up the pecan "limb" that was laying across her front steps. When I got to her house, there was no limb. It seems that the tree that dropped the limb was the neighbors and they had already called a tree service to remove it and several other branches from the tree. Here's the safety violation...teenage kid, 30' up in the tree, chainsaw running in one hand, other hand out to the side WALKING upright through the branches. He had no harness on, no helmet, no ropes tied to him, although they did have one tied to the branch he was going to cut off and draped up and over a higher limb so they could lower it to the ground, but that kid....scared me, so being the good EMT that I am, I recommended to his "supervisor" (a cousin I think) that he be wearing some kind of safety harness etc, then I stayed and watched until they were done, with my trauma kit on the tailgate, just in case. He never did fall, or even come close that I saw, but geeze!

[aczeller]

ummm... do "I" count as a safety hazard ;)

Later,
Andy

[Black Wolf]

ummm... do "I" count as a safety hazard ;)

Later,
Andy

Probably....:waving::p:D

[Row Of Nickels]

ummm... do "I" count as a safety hazard ;)

Later,
Andy



only if you're building something



Pete

[Stack of Dimes]

only if you're building something



Pete



:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

Or TRYING to build something!

:jester:

[Wildcat]

I was under a friends truck welding in a new crossmember when without informing me he decided to change his fuel filter. He didn't realise that it would spray fuel until he saw me rolling across his driveway lighting up the evening sky.
After a few seconds of teaching the neighbourhood children some colourfull language and challenging whether his parents were related prior to marriage we got back to work.
Since then my rule is ONE and only one person works on any vehicle at any given time.

[drivethruboy54]

This week we had two massive storm systems come through my local area of Texas causing lots of power outages and downed trees. So Wednesday morning when I got off of work, I went to my dad's house to cut up the huge hackberry tree that was blown over in his driveway and then to my grandmother's to cut up the pecan "limb" that was laying across her front steps. When I got to her house, there was no limb. It seems that the tree that dropped the limb was the neighbors and they had already called a tree service to remove it and several other branches from the tree. Here's the safety violation...teenage kid, 30' up in the tree, chainsaw running in one hand, other hand out to the side WALKING upright through the branches. He had no harness on, no helmet, no ropes tied to him, although they did have one tied to the branch he was going to cut off and draped up and over a higher limb so they could lower it to the ground, but that kid....scared me, so being the good EMT that I am, I recommended to his "supervisor" (a cousin I think) that he be wearing some kind of safety harness etc, then I stayed and watched until they were done, with my trauma kit on the tailgate, just in case. He never did fall, or even come close that I saw, but geeze!

i do alot of tree work, spikes, and all...

Most tree guys use only a body belt, which is no good for anything but positioning. If someone were too fall wearing a body belt, normally they end up with a broken back, punctured lungs, lacerated organs (im an EMT too:waving:) Anyways when i climb, i use a full body harness and connect my life line to my back d ring with a figure 8 knot backed up with 2 half hitches. My harness has a built in belt, with side d rings, which i use for positioning. Under no circumstances though do you move and reposition in a tree with a running saw, especially if your not tied off. That guy you saw must be nuts...:nono:

[rookiewelder]

here is a pic from my shop guess how many osha violations can you see?



saw on a sticker once that said if you think osha is a small town in Wisconsin
you are in serious trouble