Hard to decide which of these scenarios are most worthy of Darwin Awards.

A lot of those gave me anxiety - unprotected trenches, anyone ?

OSHA can be kind of a joke itself if you’ve ever tried turning in your own company. I never got finished with the paperwork, but my former retired boss turned some in and he didn’t even tell me until almost a year later. Everyone else was too scared and everyone assumed it would be me. So yeah, guess who got fired eventually. At least they did fix a couple of the problems. But unless someone loses an arm or leg OSHA doesn’t seem to care.

I used to work at a steel stockholder, we would cut beams to size using an oxyacetylene torch. We had a new cutter join us who was a little lax with his connection checking. We were under strict instructions not to enter the cutting area whilst he was cutting beams. His acetylene connection was leaking at the top of the regulator, he didn’t know, he carried on cutting and the leak caught fire. He flipped out at me when I disturbed him mid cut and started to rant about safety. I got to walk away saying ‘well I won’t tell you that your bottle is on fire then….’. Fire got extinguished but the fire service attended and we got shut down until the bottle cooled down. Our proximity to Manchester Airport meant flights got a small reroute to avoid our building. Luckily no harm came to anyone or the building but our cutter got a royal rollocking. Got a plasma cutter not long after that incident 😀

This is just a lengthy list of why women live longer.

Stop reloading the damn page.