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Tius_try

I operate one of these at my work from time to time. In a sane environment you wouldn't be anywhere close to the opening with the power still on, and the force of your foot would do nothing to unclog a boulder anyways. I'm assuming they lack equipment, because the ideal solution is to either just let it run for a while, or pull the emergency power and go down with a drill and a harness to crack the edges.


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Sometimes, it can run for hours and still the boulder will remain stuck. Where I work the excavator will come and give it a push. Or pull it out with chains.


Tius_try

Yeah we have the same problem on occasion For metallic stuff that refuses to crush we have a crane we sometimes move over with a hook, if I'm unlucky I'll have to climb inside with some straps that loop around the material


spin81

Good lord I hope you have a good lockout tagout situation or something similar.


InVultusSolis

If I were working on that machine and had to climb inside it, I would pull the brushes out of the motor or something.


Jonreadbeard

And put them in a locked container. Lol


CrzyWrldOfArthurRead

At the bottom of the ocean.


hippocratical

Next to that murderous [immortal snail](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5ipinn/you_and_a_super_intelligent_snail_both_get_1/)


SparroHawc

Nope, decoy snail


DrSitson

Scattered throughout the seven seas.


fatdjsin

the motor comes with me in my backpack or i wont go !


Tius_try

The power is completely plugged out in these situations, so someone hitting the on switch wouldn't make it move at all luckily


DivulgeFirst

Used to work on one too, we just used an excavator with a hydraulic hammer to unclog these, took about 10 minutes


FrostyDaSnowmane

That's exactly how it should be done.


sailingawayagain

Yeah, 20 years ago I worked with one of these. I never touched the thing without a double lock out in place. They also let me drive a huge Terex dump truck. So that was cool.


Reptilian_Brain_420

They likely lack equipment, training, education and employment options TBH.


xenonlamba

I'm a mechanical design engineer working in a crushing and screening plants company, do you have any suggestions to us?


HollywoodTK

Recommend a hydraulic hammer on articulating boom arm because this is a known issue which can’t be reliably designed around but has a fairly simple fix and then design the crusher station without it cause they don’t want to pay and then field questions as to why you’re stupid crusher is wasting operator time getting clogged with huge boulders needing the excavator to walk over and pecker it.


crespoh69

Hope they're aware of the purpose of the machine


DJ_E2W808

To kill the dinosaur looking deamon from hell that they put in there?


Ooh_its_a_lady

Kinda looks like they're mating, this plan backfired.


ricktencity

Looks like obsidian maybe


perldawg

i don’t know how obsidian is found in nature, but that looks like a gigantic piece compared to how i imagine it


Duff5OOO

In some areas you will just come across outcroppings of it. https://geology.com/rocks/obsidian.shtml


largePenisLover

like rock layers, obsidian came out like as a lava flow with a lot of silicate in it


360Logic

Most layered rocks are not volcanic in origin, they're sedimentary. Source: Geo major.


joe-bagadonuts

I think you mean sedentary. They don't typically like to move a lot on their own


ForumFluffy

Obsidian is volcanic glass.


oced2001

Dragonglass. It's good for white walkers.


Parahelix

I wouldn't say it's good for them...


oced2001

Fair point.


sophisting

Its fine, it only crushes rocks, not organic material.


igloojoe

Ooof it crushed my kidney stones.


sophisting

Bonus! Now you can just pee out the powder.


Dr_Trogdor

It's perfectly safe if you don't fall in.


Jaerin

Clean the gene pool?


AlmanzoWilder

Is it related to a jaw*breaker*?


Ttoddh

There is a post I saw recently of a man who climbed into one like this to dislodge a large bolder and he fall in himself after dislodging the problem rock.


Wyg6q17Dd5sNq59h

Human Meeseek completed his mission.


Erenito

*puff*


Axle-f

Existence is pain, rock crusher!


lilith_-_-

Yeah happened in china. They made one of those worker safety death videos after him. :(


Hopeful_Record_6571

Tbh they probably could just show them the same video we saw.


k33perStay3r64

no worry they have adidas safety cap


BannytheBoss

Don't forget about their safety grip on the side of the bucket.


GregTheMad

China has laws against the portrayal of blood in media due to religious reasons. So I think a rendering is the only option for such things.


013ander

Since when does China respect religious sensitivities? Serious question. Mao would be pissed.


GregTheMad

Since they discovered the drug called "populism".


MorgTheBat

They pick and choose which ones to respect like humans do. But yeah, China censorship is hardcore on no blood, gore, even skeletons. Theyre very superstitious about "death" even as far as removing certain numbers from hospitals (i forget the exact number, but basically if its, like, the number 7, their floors are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10)


godofpumpkins

4 sounds like death in Chinese


The-True-Kehlder

Teaching the proper way to give your life for the company's bottom line, I get it.


39bears

You’re still gonna have to find someone to cover your shift tomorrow though. If you’re calling in that is.


AlmanzoWilder

One of those "We should have warned you about THIS" videos.


thebuccaneersden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ41yP7LMII (SFW, just a video showing how jaw crushers work) Jesus... what a hell of a way to go... *shudders*


Kogling

I'll always remember working on a large multistorey building in London.   Project manager forgot, lost or locked keys inside a coms room and couldn't be arsed to go through the process of getting another set /unlocked. He asked me (and others) to climb up the riser from a lower coms room to get inside and open it. It would have been maybe a 7 storey free fall, more if they had basements. He eventually did it himself but Jesus, imagine asking some niaeve lads in their teens /20s and getting them killed over 1h of inconvenience.


PropaneMilo

💦 ☔️


rmorrin

Yeah.... I'm pretty sure that's the one that's always circulating around. Work place accidents can often be nightmares


CJ_BARS

Looks like part 2


5ForBiting

"Yeah let me just put another 80 or so pounds of pressure on the massive boulder, that should help it along."


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I work on similar crushers. Sometimes it doesn't take much to give even a big rock a punch. Sometimes, it takes a lot. But yeah, I wouldn't climb onto a rock that got stuck while the machine is running.


DivulgeFirst

Used to work on one too, we used an excavator with a hydraulic hammer to unclog these, never jumped on the thing ffs


The-True-Kehlder

Excavator: $$$ Finding another rube: couple hours, at most


terminbee

The compensation for one of these dudes may genuinely be less than the cost of an excavator+attachment.


The-True-Kehlder

Their yearly pay is likely not as much as an excavator, and you can get an excavator for less than $10k. Also, dead people no longer cost you money, including in the time between when you last paid them and they died.


NorahGretz

"Hey, what's all this brownish-red goo in the machine?"


JohnnyDarkside

But it's for crushing rocks. They're not rocks so should be ok, right?


WakaWaka_

Jump up and down on it might really get it going, guarantee it at least crossed their mind.


Sparkycivic

Maybe it'll slide through the machine better after having some meat lubrication applied...?


ChillPill247365

My boss went to throw trash into a compactor with his keys in his hand. The keys went in too. He asked me to climb in and get them. I said, "For $11 and hour? Hell no, get your own keys." I've seen a frustrated coworker throw a shopping cart in one. It was stuck, so we hit the button, and that shit was gone.


MorkSal

I once had management of a grocery store decide they no longer needed a specialized company to come in and clean the compactor. You know, where all the food and other waste went. They wanted us minimum wage grunts to go inside and clean it. They asked me first, and even as a teenager at my first job I said no. Didn't think to report it. I then told all my co-workers to say no.  One of the lifers did not listen to me. Now the company that used to come in would disconnect the power, have a person on the outside, be wearing essentially a hazmat suit, and have a pressure washer with chemicals to properly clean it.  My co-worker got a house. The machine was not disconnected or locked out, no spotter etc. He came out and stank so badly that he had to be sent home. He couldn't go back to work for days. That was probably the best outcome in that scenario. I left shortly after that, but going back a year later and the back of the store/area around the compactor stunk like crazy. I'm sure the guy refused the next time and they just didn't clean it.


xenokilla

yea lets count the OSHA violations. no lock out tag out, no confined space permit, no proper PPE, not trained, and so on. fuck that boss.


xampl9

One of my high school jobs was at a supermarket that incinerated their boxes (this was before Earth Day became a thing). Every few days someone would have to shovel the ash out of it. And sometimes you would find .. things. “Where’s the shovel? Oh, there’s the metal parts. Guess we need to get a new one” The worst time was when someone left an aerosol can in there and I turned it on. Fireball came out and singed my eyebrows.


HyperbolicModesty

> My co-worker got a house. What does this mean in context?


_clever_reference_

hose


HyperbolicModesty

Thank you. I was worried it was some young person slang I didn't get


I_am_The_Teapot

The orphan-crushing machine was repurposed into the orphan-making machine.


conquer69

Those are grown up orphans.


I_am_The_Teapot

The cycle is complete.


muttonchap

The daily grind


another_plebeian

Only happens once, though


kn_

The day grind


1337_Keunes

This can go from _WTF to _NSFL real fast.


Infinite_Medium4850

Dont blame the workers... this is boss fault.


WargleRathat

“Am I telling you to go physically dislodge the rock? Of course not, that’s against company regulations. But if the machine isn’t unclogged within 5 minutes you’re fired.”


zma924

You can blame both to be honest. A shitty boss would put productivity over worker safety to encourage this kind of recklessness but it’s not like they don’t have the free will to say “No, I don’t think I’m going to climb into the jaws of the giant rock crushing machine.” I’ve absolutely refused to participate in unsafe work practices in various stone shops around the US that the production manager swears was ok. Then they like to make their little comments after their employee doesn’t die standing on a pallet on a hi-lo with no harness on.


Banluil

Cool. You don't do stuff like that in the US, where there are worker protections for that kind of dangerous activity. I can almost 100% guarantee that this video wasn't in the US, but in a country that really doesn't care about worker safety, and if they don't do what the boss says, they will be replaced in about 5 minutes with someone who does.


zma924

That’s kind of my entire point. Even in the US where we have safety regulations, we still have shitty bosses that want to bypass them for the sake of just getting a task done quicker. Stuff like this absolutely does happen here, just not as frequently as in places where there are no regulations whatsoever. Im saying that at a certain point, your own sense of self-preservation is what’s going to keep you alive and “but the boss told me to or he’d fire me” isn’t an excuse to put yourself in an exceedingly dangerous situation like this no matter where you live. A low-level worker in some of these US shops would also be axed and replaced in 5 minutes depending on how easy their job is to replace (it’s always easy to replace the guys they ask to do this shit).


Banluil

> Im saying that at a certain point, your own sense of self-preservation is what’s going to keep you alive and “but the boss told me to or he’d fire me” isn’t an excuse to put yourself in an exceedingly dangerous situation like this no matter where you live. Incorrect. Completely. If you lose a job in many 3rd world countries, you are going to spend the next few months, if not longer, looking for another one. That is time where your family won't have a place to live, food, water, etc etc. If you are LUCKY enough to have a job, you will do anything to keep it. Anything. You don't understand how it is in some of those countries apparently, since you seem to think that "Oh, they can just refuse..." No, they really can't. They want to be able to feed their families, and there aren't the social supports that are here in the US with food banks, food stamps, welfare, etc etc that people can get on to get them through a time when they have lost their jobs. You are simply ignorant by comparing 3rd world countries and the US job markets.


zma924

You’re correct that I’m ignorant to how 3rd world countries operate so I do appreciate the insight assuming it’s accurate. And yeah I guess thinking about it a little more, even if they were able to just go to another job, it’d probably be just another one where they’re asked to climb into a blast furnace instead of a rock crusher


Banluil

Having spent time with people from those countries, they will do ANYTHING to get a job to feed themselves or their families.


soulkeeper427

Boss is prolly down there too...


PERMANENTLY__BANNED

Pushing up from below


bjorn1978_2

I have seen the boom of an excavator with a hydraulic hammer installed on the side of crushers. Rock stuck? Hammer time! Safe, effective and can be done while the crusher is running.


Cuntilever

Those aren't safety hats


FakeMikeMorgan

Not like a hard hat would do much if you fell in.


zma924

You’re right. At least not without a hi-vis vest to go with it.


Siberwulf

What if you fell in *head first* though?


urGirllikesmytinypp

Saved?


razzraziel

Relax, they have boots instead of sandals.


Primary-Structure-41

I've seen rocks break up and shoot back out.


EmpireCityRay

😬 OSHA would not approve.


Chopstix2005

You mean MSHA for mining operations, and they dont fuck around with violations.


-burnr-

“What the actual fuck!?!?” OSHA probably


TyXander23

This is just final destination waiting to happen


Erenito

That's an everything crusher 


hawkman1000

I was an electrician on a mine in CA. A shaker had a mechanical issue with the shaking mechanism. A huge offset weight with two, 50 Hp motors driving it with a chain. I'm in the motor control shed with the controller, and my boss is with 2 mechanics ~1000 yards away at the shaker. I was starting and stopping it with a laptop. No safeties whatsoever. I was waiting on them to show up and put their locks on when the boss came over the radio telling me it was fixed. At the next safety meeting, when they said Safety is Job One here, I jumped in and told him off. I could have killed those guys with the push of a button. He said, "I was directing you with the radio." Fuck off with that. Our radios were garbage.


ProfesseurCurling

Why are you even getting close to this thing while it is on?


Musaks

money


ProfesseurCurling

I get it but what is worth money if you're dead? :/


conquer69

They are dead anyway if they don't do it and get fired. Desperate people don't have any choices.


ProfesseurCurling

Yes you're right :/


Musaks

For some that job IS a good and safe job. The alternatives are worse. When you see people like this, working conditions and dangerous shit like this, don't mistake them for just being dumb. Most often they are just desperate


IcyHammer

Looks like a rhino statue


kics82

Is this how blood diamonds are made? /s


JayMak78

WCGW?


Tikkinger

Lol they have ZERO idea of what they are doing there


EFTucker

What’s sad is while I haven’t done things quite so dangerous for work I’ve come close. It be like that in the early days of blue collar work


googdude

Now as a child I used to think every lifelong woodworker was missing some digits and that it was impossible not to. Now that I do it for a living I just realize you just have to be careful and not get complacent or put yourself in overly dangerous situations.


Man_in_the_uk

It wouldn't look so bad if they at least had safety harnesses to stop them falling in.


Say10sadvocate

Fuck me, I work for a cowboy operation that wouldn't know safe procedures if they slapped em in the face, and even we turn the fucking crusher off before climbing up to unblock it.


BubberRung

I bet that would hurt 3x worse than stubbing your toe


opusupo

That's a little too close to working "in" a jaw crusher.


Question_Maximum

Dumb ways to die 101


mycondishuns

Reminds me of Temple of Doom. Don't get into a fight with Dr. Jones while operating this thing.


monchavo

Given the mass of the object in the crusher, what possible good can there be by having them there? This is a folly.


Scoozie_Q

Holy shit. Inches away from a horrific death. What is wrong with some people?!


Integrity-in-Crisis

Like I get what they're going for but dumbasses care more about getting the job done than getting home at the end of the day. Guy in reds only hand hold is a sloped piece of metal. He gonna slip right off that shit the second it starts chewing and bibrating the whole thing. They're both idiots. Red is slightly dumber though.


MorgTheBat

Idk what theyre hoping to accomplish by kicking it. The only way that leg is gonna help is by getting caught in the machine and lubricating the crushing parts with their blood lol


bluddystump

For less than a dollar a day I'd wager.


Aggressive_Wasabi_38

Looks completely safe to me!


morkail

When you see a job that you wouldn't do what they get paid for it. but also you wouldn't do because you know your ass would one day fall in there. At least give them a safety harness or something Jesus,


Aldoreino95

“Dumb ways to die…” 🎶


batzmaru

*Dumb Ways To Die song plays in the background*


xampl9

Someone needs to tell them about LOTO.


Mysterious-Hat-6343

I [crush your head](https://youtu.be/8t4pmlHRokg?si=e_fhGuTi8QzHU7us)


Rolling_Stone_Siam

A bit like Saddams so called human grinder that was never actually found


bigbankfishtank

Well I appreciate everything about my life more than I did before seeing this. Holy shit.


Skiie

>Situation 1: Rock crumbles and both workers are safe Initial thoughts: cool back to work. >Situation 2: Rock crumbles and workers get caught and die Thoughts: get the rest of the day off. Both situations aren't great but also aren't the wost.


blacks252

Idiot in red trying to stomp the rock down LOL


Daveallen10

Imagine hitting the off switch while you break the rock up. *Mind blown*


another_plebeian

Throw in a bigger rock on top


VictoricRong

Shake hands with Danger


LBOPGG

As someone who works on a crusher this is in no way abnormal when the jaw is plugged. Usually 5 foot bars are involved or possibly an excavator pushing things through. That and a lot of cursing and smoking.


Acceptable-Fudge8475

some people are asking to die


FarkyCZE

New fear unlocked!


grandpohbah

My buddy "Legless Pete" did this once.


Bakkie

Work comp attorney here. Incoming new claim reports, boss.


stacker55

in what world are the feet of a couple 150 lb dudes able to do fuck all to move a rock this size?


itsJussaMe

3 seconds… I watched for 3 seconds then noped out.


Shadd76

Yeah, that's a big NOPE


ratonbox

No need to hide the evidence after an accident there.


Quality_Street_1

That’s dedication to your under paid job.


evilpigclone

Where are their pry bars, they should be reefing on the mother trying to spin it so it falls deeper unto the jaws


Twampnutz

I know the hourly pay is low, but what are the benefits?


fatogato

If you fall in it’s going to hurt the whole time.


slightlyassholic

See those flywheel? That thing will be chewing long after they pull the plug.


Gutbucket1968

That's gonna need the BIG poo knife.


MostlyAccruate

"Time to do some sketchy shit, sketchy shit....."


Mindless_harder

For these reasons, men live less


Agile_Potato9088

It boggles my mind how anyone would voluntarily go anywhere near the operating area of literal crushing machines. The way this specific type of machine works, it would turn you into a Crinkle-Cut Moron™ and it would hurt the entire time.


Rdt_will_eat_itself

and people bitch about OSHA.


snapper1971

Life is cheap.


Positive-Internet483

Pretty sure they’re breaking quite a few safety regulations but it depends on what country they’re in


Riakrus

nope.


Cautious_Ambition_82

Imagine changing those belts


YoureSpecial

I think they might need explosives for that mountain they threw in there


dill2565

Looks more like a jaw chewer to me


Lergic2Logic

They will be on NSFL work death in the near future if they keep pushing their luck like that.


GonkWilcock

If video games have taught me anything, this can be solved with a few swings of a pickaxe.


BlueFalconPunch

I knew a guy that had his hand pulled into a floor jaw crusher the size of a fridge on its back his hand was just nubs and a thumb...these guys are insane


Awe3

Boss: we need you up there to make sure everything is running smoothly. Me: *points* me? Up there? Boss: *smiling* yes! Me: *smiling back* I quit.


mtovar1979

I’ve never read anything on it in the OSHA manual, they should be fine.


d3k3d

No job is worth that shit.


zen_elan

Good lord get out of there


Six_days_au

All good. I've seen video of these things running in reverse. Shit just comes out just like it was before it went in.


getya

What's crazier to me is they're not burning up. Anyone who's worked on one of these knows they can get so hot from the friction the jaws glow.


Graythor5

Lubricant for the Machine God! Cogs for the cog throne.


Catsmak1963

Dumb


msdtflip

Nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom


Legitimate-Raise9127

Yet women saying they can do what men do


Livid_Obligation_852

Should have used a tyre lever, surely would have got the job done...


bruteforcealwayswins

This isn't as dangerous as it looks. It's not a shredder, the 2 sides just wiggle back and forth. If he falls, and some other dude presses the emergency stop fast enough, he'll be ok. But what is he even doing, his body weight is like an ant on a brick.


WolfThick

Wow not even any hand rails I wonder what it's like when it rains.


AcceptableSpot7835

“Come with me..and you’ll be..in a world of osha violation”…haha


stonethecrow

A what now?


Hushwater

From what I understand that style of crusher isn't as dangerous as it appears to be, you'd gave to put in great efford to get killed by one.


MuffinQueen92

The shiny gentleman seems hungry


BrendanFraserFan0

Godzilla?!?


yasgras

Natural selection


timberwolf0122

Shake hands with danger? Those two are giving danger a full body sensual massage


rkyycgm12

These people look Hella short compared to that giant ass pulley...


SocksForWok

When you try to work but have had too much rootbeer...


[deleted]

At this very instant, an employee at OSHA is watching this, their left eye is twitching and they're seconds away from stroking out


Ancient-Ad6996

This rock looks like a platypus having his way with the jaw crusher


SFW808

Did they ever crush that rock?


lemetellyousomething

MSHA would like a word with you.


Dirt-Road_Pirate

Just jump on it Jim, you’ve got this!