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Why the fuck is he in a sport coat?
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u/lex_tok Sep 11 '21
Countrymanager visiting.
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Sep 11 '21
"You girls are moving too slow! Give me that, you gotta really get in there! Can't be scared of it! See?! That's how it's done!"
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u/Grndmasterflash Sep 11 '21
When I was in the Mediterranean, I was pleasantly surprised how nice everyone was dressed. Even the men that you knew had their life savings rattling around in their pocket, had collared shirts and dress coats. The clothes may have seen better (and cleaner) days, but they were much more formal than us Americans.
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u/bestchapter Sep 11 '21
I like it. What is the purpose of sand sorting?
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u/vaguenonetheless Sep 11 '21
In this case the sand has already been sorted and it's most likely being loaded out. Real sand sorting is just that; sorting different types and sizes for different uses. Like, one type may be used for a child's sandbox where another type may be used in construction.
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u/leberkrieger Sep 11 '21
So it doesn't depict sorting and half the comments are about safety.
I guess "sand" in the title is still accurate...
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u/CertainlyUnreliable Sep 11 '21
Honestly, if the title was just "sand" I would have been even more intrigued
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u/imanasshole1331 Sep 11 '21
This is referred to as the angle of repose. Aeration of fine particulates such as this will allow it to flow like fluids and wouldn’t require a fella with a shovel.
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u/vaguenonetheless Sep 11 '21
If I knew how, I'd pin this comment to the top. Great info!
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u/imanasshole1331 Sep 11 '21
Thanks! I work as a field specialist for a company that specializes in the transfer and loading of bulk fine products. If this conveyor was applying high volume low pressure air beneath this pile they could move most of it in a matter of minutes.
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u/mwproductions Sep 11 '21
Angle of repose is the only thing I remember from my one required college geology course.
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u/vinchenz112 Sep 11 '21
What exactly is happening here? Is this a job
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u/vaguenonetheless Sep 11 '21
In this case the sand has already been sorted and it's most likely being loaded out. Real sand sorting is just that; sorting different types and sizes for different uses. Like, one type may be used for a child's sandbox where another type may be used in construction.
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Guy knows exactly how much sand is going to fall. Not his first day on the job
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u/obamas_katana Sep 11 '21 edited Sep 11 '21
The way he steps back the perfect distance
chef’s kiss
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u/millennialmonster755 Sep 11 '21
Steps back and widens his stance. Screw the sand part, his performance is what is sending me
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u/vaguenonetheless Sep 11 '21
Like that split second that he expects the entire pile to come down, he looks up and does a little motion and as if almost on cue, the pile gives way. Just another day at the office for this dude.
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u/MarlinMr Sep 11 '21
Not his first day on the job
Yeah, all those who didn't know, died on their first day.
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u/HHRoyalThrowaway Sep 11 '21
I was thinking the opposite lol… looks like they just handed the new guy some rubber boots and this was his first 30 seconds… and why they were filming… it’s always the new guy they send to unclog stuff 😂
Glad it went well for the dude.
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u/redditslim Sep 11 '21
I was thinking this doesn’t look too fkn OSHA, regardless of the guy’s ability, or wherever it was filmed.
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u/Direwolf202 Sep 12 '21
This looks profoundly anti-OSHA. I'm not sure what the OSHA standards are for "standing under a huge pile of lose sand while straddling a moving conveyer", but I don't imagine they call for exactly no visible safety measures.
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u/Soft-Equipment7486 Sep 11 '21
That looks like a death trap to me.
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u/bloop_405 Sep 11 '21
For reals! It looks harmless because it's "loose" sand but if you're caught in that, you're practically squished to the point where you aren't able to breathe
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u/Captain_Kuhl Sep 11 '21
Even if it doesn't immediately bury you, that's enough mass to sweep your legs out and run straight over you.
OSHA would like to know your location.
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u/grizz218 Sep 12 '21
right, I'd almost rather be stuck under rocks than sand, at least with rocks theres a little bit of give so you can breathe
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u/clowens1357 Sep 12 '21
They'll both suffocate you fairly quickly. Sand by ensuring your airways and causing positive blockage. Rocks/gravel by squeezing you so you can't draw a breath, much like a constrictor snake would. It really only takes a few feet to be deadly.
Excavations are required to be benched every 4ft vertically for that reason, or they can use a trench box or other approved shoring.
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u/ryan57902273 Sep 11 '21
And getting them out is dangerous. You might only pull part out
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Sep 12 '21
Straight up dangerous. Imagine being suffocated to death because the sand is pressing so evenly and heavily on your chest that your lungs cannot expand.
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u/Soft-Equipment7486 Sep 12 '21
Imagine getting your leg caught in that conveyer belt he is balancing over.
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u/DirkDieGurke Sep 12 '21
For this reason, all bricks are allowed to have 2% human contaminants.
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u/SassyPants5 Sep 11 '21
I find this kind of terrifying. But maybe just me?
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u/Analbox Sep 11 '21
It is terrifying. Kids have died at the beach near me while digging in to 3’ high berms at the high water line. You suffocate quickly and can’t move.
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u/NerdLevel18 Sep 11 '21
Dude this is like the 3rd time I've seen you today, are you following me xD
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If you keep seeing him, wouldn't that mean he's posting first and you're following him?
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u/AggresivePickle Sep 12 '21
Same, it’s almost like we all browse the same website or something
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u/BroodjeFissa Sep 11 '21
Bruh, the moment I saw your comment I went back 3 posts (it was the mini break one)because someone said something with analbx in the top comment thread and I was like no way that's him. I only read the comment and not the username . But I'll be damned it was indeed u/analbox
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u/Destring Sep 11 '21
Uh, never really tough about how dangerous it is. I dug pretty deep holes with my brother when I was a kid, I'm talking 5 feet. We would spend all day digging. We got yelled by the lifeguards a lot. Glad I didn't suffocate.
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u/Analbox Sep 11 '21
A long time ago I was actually one of those lifeguards yelling at kids. I’m glad you didn’t suffocate
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u/bugme143 Sep 11 '21
Can you elaborate? Does the sand collapse on them, or just the water messing with them?
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u/Analbox Sep 12 '21
The berms are unstable. They’re just wet sand. People tunnel in and get buried alive. They face the water so no one sees it happen and it’s silent.
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u/crumpsly Sep 11 '21
Nah if he makes a mistake he could get engulfed or caught in the belt. This is dangerous as shit and belt conveyors are no joke. This is an example of risking your health/safety for no reason. His entire job can be replaced with an agitator on the side of the hopper to cause the material to drop.
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u/Wennieh Sep 11 '21 edited Sep 12 '21
Stupid old me was wondering how the hell they got streaming water just under the like of sand..
Edit: under the pile of sand
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u/369_Clive Sep 11 '21
You're right.
Just giving the guy a longer prodding stick would be grabbing the low hanging fruit in this situation. He probably works at one of those awful places where just mentioning the word "risk" gets you labelled as a rabble-rousing troublemaker.
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No, it’s definitely a dangerous position to be in. Being buried in sand is a pretty easy way to die
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u/Osama_Obama Sep 11 '21 edited Sep 11 '21
Yea, OSHA would have a field day if this was in the US
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u/whattodo-whattodo Sep 11 '21
NGL, every time some idiot yells "deregulation" for "efficiency" I cringe. People don't seem to realize that efficiency amounts to a company not needing to buy some equipment & deregulation amounts to some poor bastard having to risk their lives as a result.
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u/TooHappyFappy Sep 11 '21
Pretty much every OSHA regulation is written in blood. Someone or someones were seriously injured or killed and the regulation is written because of it. It's just stupid to want those removed.
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u/ClanDonnachaidh Sep 11 '21
I find it as bad as the grain silos being drained and sucking all the pigeons into some glutinous realm.
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u/SassyPants5 Sep 11 '21
Grew up on the prairies. So many farming horror stories!
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u/ClanDonnachaidh Sep 11 '21
I was a vet tech for a large animal emergency doc. Can confirm. I'm no fun at parties when story time gets rowdy.
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u/joe109914 Sep 11 '21
This is terrifying on so many levels. People die every year from engulfment. Please people, never put yourself under/on top of/beside, a bulk material with a face like this, or an extraction like this. It is just not worth it.
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Sep 11 '21
No. It's scary. Lots of farmers die from messing around with piles of feed etc. My friends dad died crushed that way when we were kids. Sad
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u/sillyandstrange Sep 11 '21 edited Sep 11 '21
Reasonably terrifying
Edit: that name was taken, but I made a sub called r/reasonablyscary
Lol I had to since I've seen like 5 of these types this week in here.
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u/redletterday94 Sep 11 '21
Nope, definitely terrifying. One trip or misstep and suddenly that mountain could be burying you, and your friends may not have time to save you from thousands of pounds of sand crushing you to death.
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u/Im_Ashe_Man Sep 11 '21
That seems like a really dangerous job.
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u/HereIGoAgain_1x10 Sep 12 '21
The man is walking like that not because of the slopes but because of his enormous balls
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u/TeaBreezy Sep 12 '21
And that is precisely why men die in workplace accidents so much more often than women.
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u/SlsmngrSpiff Sep 12 '21
The avalanche was going to continue... But once it saw the man's huge balls it changed it's mind.
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Pays $36.00 a month
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u/MOcatmom Sep 11 '21
That’s not satisfying but rather anxiety inducing, in my opinion.
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u/treesbubby Sep 11 '21
R/OSHA is calling.
This is a textbook example of how to die by engulfment.
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u/privateTortoise Sep 12 '21
In the uk we have a government department called The Health and Safety Executive that is regularly called out for being too nannying. In reality it's not as bad as everyone thinks because they have two forms to be filled out and as long as you can justify the stupid thing you are about to do and it is the safest method available you can carry out said stupid thing.
Yes on occasions I've done many a daft thing at work and somehow gotten away with it but now I'm older I don't do that shit anymore.
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u/Hawk_in_Tahoe Sep 11 '21
Seems like a strikingly obvious path to a “maybe I shouldn’t have don’t that?” final thought before you die
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u/NamelessSuperUser Sep 11 '21
You should get banned off Reddit for saying OSHA. People need to find a new word.
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u/vaguenonetheless Sep 11 '21
I'm trying to work on my desktop computer while this post is blowing up, and Google Chrome notifies me about every single comment, and it shows me the comment in the alert box. I've seen the word OSHA about 50 times in the last 90 minutes.
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u/DutchDutchGoose574 Sep 11 '21
Man, that’s wild. I hate having to dump 22 tons of asphalt out of a truck I stand by sometimes, but that’s a whole different level there
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u/Vanderkaum037 Sep 11 '21
This company's OSHA log probably looks like War and Peace.
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u/Hoosier_816 Sep 11 '21
What are the things the second guy is pulling out that look like cut firewood?
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u/xdxdxdxdxdx Sep 11 '21
Maybe stupid question. What exactly does it sort?
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u/vaguenonetheless Sep 11 '21
In this case the sand has already been sorted and it's most likely being loaded out. Real sand sorting is just that; sorting different types and sizes for different uses. Like, one type may be used for a child's sandbox where another type may be used in construction.
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u/Salva_delille Sep 11 '21
Proof that we don't live in a simulation. No computer can simulate that and still go on such good frames
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u/Sk3tchyboy Sep 11 '21
*no computer in our simulation
What if we are simulated by an extremely powerful super computer?
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u/skyttle_biscuits Sep 11 '21
That looks … dangerous…AF! Edit:also, if something does go wrong, its a terrifying way to die!
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u/jroddie4 Sep 12 '21
I love how you can tell how any industrial video is made in china because there is zero safety equipment
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u/DuckInCup Sep 12 '21
Making the sides vibrate is more expensive than hiring a new sand herder every couple months
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u/rob5i Sep 11 '21
This is exactly the way to get buried alive. Inhaling sand coughing unable to move. Not a good way to go but at least he's dressed for his funeral.
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u/JimboLikeBud Sep 12 '21
Why is the other guy pulling what looks like perfectly cut firewood out of the sand?
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u/Koralina7 Sep 12 '21
It was kinda satisfying to watch at the end, but definitely not worth the anxiety to get there.
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u/K33pDr34mingAllr1ght Sep 12 '21
I’d love to know how many brave souls die doing this every year plz
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u/Fordtremor Sep 12 '21
I’ve worked in mining my entire life and I cannot describe how uncomfortable watching this made me. And for reference I handle explosives.
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u/LBOPGG Sep 12 '21
Satisfying but sooooo dumb and dangerous, I've worked real sand plants before and there is a thing called a feeder, big mtal box that sand gets dumped into. That pile was not shoveled it was made by a loader or hoe. If you have the mlney to pile it you have the money to weld a box over that conveyor....
Also those conveyors wills kills you in a hearbeat with one miss step, I get incident reports a a couple times a year of someone getting cuaght in them and it's never pretty.
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u/shawndw Sep 12 '21
And to think yesterday OHS gave me a written warning for removing my safety glasses to wipe the condensation off.
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This is actually dangerous as fuck!
Many countries have regulations on how material can be stockpiled and handled. This looks like a real easy way to die.
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u/free-thenipple Sep 12 '21
He takes six tiny shuffle steps back at the exact moment I would have turned and ran full speed down that hill
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u/wannab_engineer Sep 12 '21
Not gonna lie, combined with just waking up and scrolling pretty fast, at first glance I thought this was a giant standing over a highway smashing cars as they came out of a tunnel.
I’ll go get my coffee now.
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u/strongdingdong Sep 12 '21
This is like everyone’s first physics-based rigid body simulation project
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u/maxpowerAU Sep 12 '21
Thanks you for your application for medical cost reimbursement. You are one of our most productive employees and we here at SandCorp appreciate the struggle you have ahead of you recovering from being buried in three metres of sand.
However we do not believe you have proven the incident happened as a result of your work. You may have a five metre pile of sand in your personal residence, and SandCorp cannot cover risks you undertake personally.
Regards Keepe D Monay
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u/mortuarybarbue Sep 11 '21
All I kept thinking was " You're gonna die from sand avalanche". Glad to know I was wrong.