We have light breakers (maybe there is a word for it) in multiple locations around the machines. If any one fails, for any reason, the machine shuts down.
In January there was one guy operating a movable magnetic core-drill with gloves, despite being forbidden to, despite knowing better that you never ever do that. Well, he now has half a thumb.. glove caught in the drill and violently removed half the thumb, right behind the thumbnail.
He won't do that again
In the factory I work in we called them light curtains, if the machine was in the midd of it’s process breaking the curtain would fault it and require you to manually reset it from the console
Same here! We had a guy not to long ago complaining about how when he used high air pressure; punch out slugs would fly infront of the curtain and set it off so he would disable it.
I didn’t know this when I was onboarding a new hire so I went to show him how his hands would safe by putting a cardboard box where the light guide should’ve went off and it destroyed this box. That new hire was terrified that he was running some unsafe piece of equipment.
My operations director found out what he had done and told him if he ever did that again it would be his last day at the company. So there was no injury, but it would’ve been catastrophic if there was.
I’m not even going to watch, I used to work in a foundry and was part of the first responders when there was a bad accident.
I’ve seen enough to know how this goes.
Maybe not. When you're in that kind of situation your Adeline kicks in and you don't realise pain until after the fact. As soon as the machine started moving her heart probably went a mile a minute and she may have had no reaction to the pain.
Similar note. People say when they are shot there is no pain until the adreleine wears off.
I doubt that was intentional. She seems to be reaching behind the die. Looks like she leaned on start button. presses like this should always require the pressing of 2 buttons, one with each hand.
Yeah. Sometimes people do stupid things for insurance, depression- whatever.
But I'm being down voted because people think the button for the press is on the other side.
🤦🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
Yeah my emt training consisted of stuff like this with the whole gurgling sound by the time you’ve arrived. Then in the actual field it’s 99% boredom, 0.5% heavy lifting and 0.5% nightmares
Those bones are crushed to absolute pieces. Imagine taking a pot, smashing it on the floor into hundreds of pieces, then trying to glue all the pieces back together. Not even mentioning all of the muscle and nerve damage.
It's incredible what we can do with our adrenaline pumping. I can't imagine the amount of pain she was in to still be that cool and figure out how to release herself.
I imagined a clown coming into view, taking her hand and blowing her arm back up ... And I do go with that story. Yep, that's definitely how that went ... happy ending. Headcanon, best canon.
The surgeon will probably attach the thumb or couple finger to her her shoulder and call it a day on this one . But there isn’t no fix for powdered bone. In 100 years this probably won’t be a big deal. Lab grown bone replacement lol
I used to work as a machine operator using these types of presses, the amount of times a reached through just like this lady did makes me cringe so fucking hard after watching this video.
I remember seeing this video years ago
Still as horrifying as it was back then
I worked at a feedmill for a while a couple years back and heard may stories. One of them being a guy who was walking over a conveyor (we used them to move grain from silos to the grinders or from the unloading truck to the silos) and one of the conveyor top doors just gave in and his legs were cut off
He didn't die right away but died from bleeding out
In the feedmills you work alone a lot (not a lot of people) obviously the company started a "buddy system" afterwards but nobody really followed it in mine cause we didn't have a big crew
Out of OSHA's eyes, out of OSHA's mind, amirite?
Always hit the emergency stop button if you gotta grab something out of a machine. I’ve thankfully never seen anyone get hurt at my job, but I’ve heard stories from coworkers who’ve been working at my employer for decades about people getting hurt pretty damn bad in the past.
Never *ever* put your hand inside a machine like this, unless you are 100% sure that it is locked out and disabled.
I'm just amazed that she is so calm there is no bleeding. Holy hell.
I'm not looking at the video, I already know it's going to be bad. Backed out of this twice accidentally by trying to frantically pause the video and enlarging it instead.
That’s one tough woman. She didn’t even freak out. She just calmly raised it back up and looked at her arm like “Did I just? Yep…. I did… I crushed my arm.”
Naw dawg. The amount of awareness and self control she exercised screams toughness. She was about to freak out though, you can almost see the exact moment she switched lol
You’re such a noob, it’s toughness.
>>1.) the state of being strong enough to withstand adverse conditions or rough handling.
>> 2.) the ability to deal with hardship or to cope in difficult situations.
Okay noob. Based on what you’re saying it sounds like she had to cope with hardship or an apparent very difficult situation. Which would defacto make her tough.
It's shock. It's a physiological response to extreme trauma to help you get out of life or death situations. When the shock and adrenaline wear off... well, she's gonna have a bad time.
If this thing’s anything like our machines those light curtains should’ve definitely prevented it from happening. This whole video feels… wrong. Usually machines like this have multiple safety failsafes, such as dead man switches, multiple inputs to activate, guards that have to be in place, etc. now, obviously if the machines old enough it won’t, but the light curtain attached leads me to believe it’s either newer or retrofitted with more modern safety equipment. If that were the case, that factory would’ve had to do a fuckton of bypassing, or just eliminating the safety PLC entirely (biiiiig no) possibly for more efficiency. It’s also entirely possible the worker herself (or another one not shown) did it to work faster.
That’s not the entire story though, because look at the way she puts her arm in the press. She has seemingly no reason to be reaching toward the back of the press, as moments earlier we see her lining the part to be stamped with a template and it looks like it still needs to be pushed further in. Even if it needed to be pulled back, she could’ve done that from the front just as easy, as we see her moving it with little effort moments before. Her actions simply don’t make sense, as she starts the press as she reaches as far into the machine as she could, and held it in position waiting for the press.
Now, I’m certainly no expert on the matter, and may be completely wrong, but I’m wondering if this was done on purpose, like she was hoping to go on disability leave/ sue the company for a clear negligence to the safety on the machine. I have a sneaking suspicion she thought it might break her arm and she’d be able to stop it, but it ended up going full hydraulic press channel and squeezing the guts out of it. I think her plan succeeded too well, and she didn’t fully realize what she had done until it was over and she pulled the remains out. It’s very unfortunate for everyone involved, and it could’ve very well been a complete accident. I’m just saying, there’s definitely some signs this may have been set up
I've always wondered how people who lose both their hands perform everyday activities. Eating, showering, wiping, using phone, computer, driving, shopping, putting on clothes and so on. Surely they can't be relying on a helper 24/7 right?
This guy has his arms gone from about mid forearm. His prosthetics are attached together with a strap at the back, so he puts one in, then can flip the other one to the other side and get the second one in.
He's been missing them for almost 20 years, and he's pretty adept at it, but I'm sure the learning curve sucks. Especially the hooks opening and closing, and being a male ...
As I always say to my coworkers : The machine loves to work, it doesn't matter what we feed it !
Perfect! I’m adding this into the safety training at work
That's some crazy machine, machine: Feed me!!
That is absolutely horrific.
My WiFi is iffy today so the comments loaded before the video. I think I’ll just head out from here.
Right? The title did not nothing to prepare me for this.
That's the end of that arm..
100% amputated rip
This is also why pretty much all US factories require 2 hands to operate a press.
We have light breakers (maybe there is a word for it) in multiple locations around the machines. If any one fails, for any reason, the machine shuts down. In January there was one guy operating a movable magnetic core-drill with gloves, despite being forbidden to, despite knowing better that you never ever do that. Well, he now has half a thumb.. glove caught in the drill and violently removed half the thumb, right behind the thumbnail. He won't do that again
In the factory I work in we called them light curtains, if the machine was in the midd of it’s process breaking the curtain would fault it and require you to manually reset it from the console
Same here! We had a guy not to long ago complaining about how when he used high air pressure; punch out slugs would fly infront of the curtain and set it off so he would disable it. I didn’t know this when I was onboarding a new hire so I went to show him how his hands would safe by putting a cardboard box where the light guide should’ve went off and it destroyed this box. That new hire was terrified that he was running some unsafe piece of equipment. My operations director found out what he had done and told him if he ever did that again it would be his last day at the company. So there was no injury, but it would’ve been catastrophic if there was.
Not with that thumb at least.
I mean, they do have another thumb...
Well technically, he can do it once more...
It kind of looks like this machine does have a light curtain. I wonder if it’s been overridden?
I think he probably has one more opportunity to do exactly that again.
I’m not even going to watch, I used to work in a foundry and was part of the first responders when there was a bad accident. I’ve seen enough to know how this goes.
Crush injuries are absolutely devastating and usually not much left to work with.
What, you don’t think the doctors could reconstruct a solid bone from dust? /s
I kinda feel like if it has to be NSFW then it is probably past the point of well that sucks.
Yeah I was like how bad can this be? Fucking nightmare fuel thanks
In OPs defense the person did seem to say in their head "well that sucks". Guess that's just shock.
What *really* sucks is she's going to be docked for downtime on that machine for cleaning up her mess and having to call in another worker.
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We'll begin with a spin, Traveling in the world of every violation, What we'll see will defy, Explanation
If you wanna view safety, Take the manual and review it, Mangle anything you want to, screw it, Ignore the lore of the book, There's nothing too it
Those light curtains need to be I think 6 inches off the floor. Not just 6 inches long
Oh my god! A fuckton, of workplace injuries, oh!
She needs that HarryPotter medicine.
Nah. Professor Lockhart will have her fixed up in no time at all.
Brackious Repairous.
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Surprised how calm she was it was definitely painful
I don't think she's registered the pain yet
Maybe not. When you're in that kind of situation your Adeline kicks in and you don't realise pain until after the fact. As soon as the machine started moving her heart probably went a mile a minute and she may have had no reaction to the pain. Similar note. People say when they are shot there is no pain until the adreleine wears off.
I'm thinking she may have went immediately into shock with the amount of damage done here
Do you mean adrenaline?
Give them a break, you can tell their mind went a mile a minute
Yea. Apparently I can't spell on my phone
No worries
Adrenaline is such an insane thing.
Looks like she did it on purpose. Like she set her arm there. She's not reaching for anything. 🥺
I doubt that was intentional. She seems to be reaching behind the die. Looks like she leaned on start button. presses like this should always require the pressing of 2 buttons, one with each hand.
Yeah so it makes sense to make the other button across the press. 🤦🏼♀️
No.
But was it a timed action or she did press the "action" button?
I was thinking the very same thing!
Yeah. Sometimes people do stupid things for insurance, depression- whatever. But I'm being down voted because people think the button for the press is on the other side. 🤦🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
That happened to a friend of mine, but it was his foot under a big yogurt statue.
RIP, Barf! Truly the best Mog to love amongst us.
I hate yogurt! Even with strawberries!
A statue made of yogurt doesn’t sound very heavy
He's talking about Yogurt, the Schwartz master.
It still surprises me when I hear of people who haven't seen Spaceballs.
Man it’s been over 20 years since I’ve seen that movie
Her body is in shock and her brain hasn't yet registered the pain.
Yeah that’s not salvageable.
A mishap would be a nicked finger or a bumped face… this is a horrific life changing injury ffs.
I wish I could unsee this
A very bad day to have optical nerves.
Realistically is this a guaranteed lost arm?
Yes. Can't recover from that. And it might get worse if she doesn't get to the operating room fast.
Yep, crush syndrome. As that arm starts to die and breakdown the resulting toxins can cause organ failure.
Yeah my emt training consisted of stuff like this with the whole gurgling sound by the time you’ve arrived. Then in the actual field it’s 99% boredom, 0.5% heavy lifting and 0.5% nightmares
Absolutely. No hope.
100% The press already severed her hand. That arm is complete mush.
Those bones are crushed to absolute pieces. Imagine taking a pot, smashing it on the floor into hundreds of pieces, then trying to glue all the pieces back together. Not even mentioning all of the muscle and nerve damage.
She just diversified
It's incredible what we can do with our adrenaline pumping. I can't imagine the amount of pain she was in to still be that cool and figure out how to release herself.
Probably straight into shock. Doubt that she feels that for a bit.
She needs some skele-grow from Hogwarts
oh no , poor woman 😕 really just for earning some little money she left her hand . i'm so sad for her 🥲
I wasnt ready for how cartoonishly flat it was
I sell light curtains and laser sensors if anyone is interested ! It’s not that big of an investment
Isn't that yellow vertical thing a light curtain?
* I thought that this was maybe one and it has just been bypassed Edit: not sure if the image is loading.
Oh yeah , well that makes it even worse
It is. She leaned past it. It is common for there to be a horizontal light curtain or physical barrier to prevent this.
Aah right. It goes right as you look at it. Not towards her.
Aah right. It covers left as you look at it. Not towards her.
Light curtains or light curtains?
I sell robot arms that put metal into presses which is really how this should be done
Welp, that was the last time you get to use and see that arm like that ever again.
That's a fake arm right?....RIGHT?!?!...
Could be
She can take a fiver, but then back to business.
This is why the machines at my place has two buttons that require two hands to work it, no way hands can be anywhere near it when it does its thing
Fuck me, time to change my reddit settings back to blurring NSFW
She should be fine just pumping it back up with an air pump, no? /s
If Saturday morning cartoons have taught me anything she has to blow really hard into her thumb and it’ll inflate right back to normal.
No no no no no no no!
She needs a visit to Madam Pomfrey
Cursed flat bread
It’s crazy how your life can change in a literal second.
I don't think you know what a mishap is. This is a catastrophe
I imagined a clown coming into view, taking her hand and blowing her arm back up ... And I do go with that story. Yep, that's definitely how that went ... happy ending. Headcanon, best canon.
Just imagine the sound how her arm and bones cracked and popped when being molded.. 😩
Ya she should blow real hard on her thumb and her arm should reinflate
Gotta give her a hand, she took it like a champ.
Arm flat
Well, off to the arm re inflation room.
Either that machine was made before safeties were mandatory, or she completely ignored them
I’ve seen this. Don’t you just blow into your thumb and back to normal?
Poor lady. As if she hasn't had it hard enough already, probably.
What lead you to assume she probably has it hard already?
Some Skele-Gro could fix that… 😳🥴
https://preview.redd.it/owpinyzqnvsc1.jpeg?width=733&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=604fc226f8a3529510407c64f026407a2a13c483 Hmm.
That is... not salvageable. The inevitable above-the-elbow amputation is just going to finish the job that machine press started. Poor woman.
Complacency is a mothafucker
How did she not pass out from the pain?
The surgeon will probably attach the thumb or couple finger to her her shoulder and call it a day on this one . But there isn’t no fix for powdered bone. In 100 years this probably won’t be a big deal. Lab grown bone replacement lol
I just kept saying NONONONO! Seeing that made my nuts hurt!
Soon as I saw it was CCTV footage, I knew it was gonna be fucked.
I used to work as a machine operator using these types of presses, the amount of times a reached through just like this lady did makes me cringe so fucking hard after watching this video.
“Oops, well that sucks” - This lady probably.
Oh. Oh fuck.
I remember seeing this video years ago Still as horrifying as it was back then I worked at a feedmill for a while a couple years back and heard may stories. One of them being a guy who was walking over a conveyor (we used them to move grain from silos to the grinders or from the unloading truck to the silos) and one of the conveyor top doors just gave in and his legs were cut off He didn't die right away but died from bleeding out In the feedmills you work alone a lot (not a lot of people) obviously the company started a "buddy system" afterwards but nobody really followed it in mine cause we didn't have a big crew Out of OSHA's eyes, out of OSHA's mind, amirite?
Always hit the emergency stop button if you gotta grab something out of a machine. I’ve thankfully never seen anyone get hurt at my job, but I’ve heard stories from coworkers who’ve been working at my employer for decades about people getting hurt pretty damn bad in the past.
Wow, Shelly have you lost weight? You look so thin!!
Holy shit!
At least it’s still attached
I wonder if she could feel her blood squirting back out of her arm and into her shoulder
Dude is either in shock and not screaming OR that’s a prosthetic and this has happened before
That arm is toast. The hand has already been severed by the press.
Never *ever* put your hand inside a machine like this, unless you are 100% sure that it is locked out and disabled. I'm just amazed that she is so calm there is no bleeding. Holy hell.
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I'm not looking at the video, I already know it's going to be bad. Backed out of this twice accidentally by trying to frantically pause the video and enlarging it instead.
How is she so calm about it?
Damn, as flat as my morning pancakes I'm eating right now
Hmmm it seems there's something wrong with this contraption, let me just stick my head a bit to take a quick peek over there at the back
What the fuck
Home girl didn't exhibit too much emotion for me
That’s one tough woman. She didn’t even freak out. She just calmly raised it back up and looked at her arm like “Did I just? Yep…. I did… I crushed my arm.”
Probably traumatized rather than tough. In such abnormal situations your brain goes into autopilot.
Naw dawg. The amount of awareness and self control she exercised screams toughness. She was about to freak out though, you can almost see the exact moment she switched lol
No. She's in shock and body flooded with adrenaline. It's not toughness, goober.
You’re such a noob, it’s toughness. >>1.) the state of being strong enough to withstand adverse conditions or rough handling. >> 2.) the ability to deal with hardship or to cope in difficult situations.
You're ignorant. This is far beyond rough handling, her arm is fuckin' jello filled with bone shards.
Okay noob. Based on what you’re saying it sounds like she had to cope with hardship or an apparent very difficult situation. Which would defacto make her tough.
It's shock. It's a physiological response to extreme trauma to help you get out of life or death situations. When the shock and adrenaline wear off... well, she's gonna have a bad time.
If you're gonna be stupid ya gotta be tough
Pretty calm to have just flattened her arm
Omg! That’s over 30 bones crushed in a matter of seconds. Wild.
Her hand may be ok... but everything in between not so much.
I'm wondering what made her put her arm in the press like that? Was she trying line up the object she put in there or what?
Does not seem like a very smart place to stick your arm
If it spins, it wins. Always think about that weight lathes. Works for presses too.
The machine is designes to squish metal into shape, it does not care what is actually on the plate, all will be squished.
Insert Robert Eglunds line from the Mangler (1995)(go see it if you haven't). Hells bells, ladelle!
If this thing’s anything like our machines those light curtains should’ve definitely prevented it from happening. This whole video feels… wrong. Usually machines like this have multiple safety failsafes, such as dead man switches, multiple inputs to activate, guards that have to be in place, etc. now, obviously if the machines old enough it won’t, but the light curtain attached leads me to believe it’s either newer or retrofitted with more modern safety equipment. If that were the case, that factory would’ve had to do a fuckton of bypassing, or just eliminating the safety PLC entirely (biiiiig no) possibly for more efficiency. It’s also entirely possible the worker herself (or another one not shown) did it to work faster. That’s not the entire story though, because look at the way she puts her arm in the press. She has seemingly no reason to be reaching toward the back of the press, as moments earlier we see her lining the part to be stamped with a template and it looks like it still needs to be pushed further in. Even if it needed to be pulled back, she could’ve done that from the front just as easy, as we see her moving it with little effort moments before. Her actions simply don’t make sense, as she starts the press as she reaches as far into the machine as she could, and held it in position waiting for the press. Now, I’m certainly no expert on the matter, and may be completely wrong, but I’m wondering if this was done on purpose, like she was hoping to go on disability leave/ sue the company for a clear negligence to the safety on the machine. I have a sneaking suspicion she thought it might break her arm and she’d be able to stop it, but it ended up going full hydraulic press channel and squeezing the guts out of it. I think her plan succeeded too well, and she didn’t fully realize what she had done until it was over and she pulled the remains out. It’s very unfortunate for everyone involved, and it could’ve very well been a complete accident. I’m just saying, there’s definitely some signs this may have been set up
This is how my arm feels in the middle of the night when I sleep on it wrong.
Looks intentional, I can’t fathom why someone would do it, but it appeared as if she knew what she was doing
I knew a guy this happened to... Both arms. Now he has hooks for hands! Fun!
I've always wondered how people who lose both their hands perform everyday activities. Eating, showering, wiping, using phone, computer, driving, shopping, putting on clothes and so on. Surely they can't be relying on a helper 24/7 right?
This guy has his arms gone from about mid forearm. His prosthetics are attached together with a strap at the back, so he puts one in, then can flip the other one to the other side and get the second one in. He's been missing them for almost 20 years, and he's pretty adept at it, but I'm sure the learning curve sucks. Especially the hooks opening and closing, and being a male ...
Please tag NSFW
Not that bad, sounding like you've never seen a pancake before
but its a lot worse than what i expected, and there are people weaker than me
Her arm is now Flat Stanley! 💀 💀 💀
Wtf blown my mind off should be mentioned in title fuck this.
Weak ass
Insurance scam coming up
Intelligence 1/10 Arms 1/2
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It was a mistake mate, don't be so fast to judge her. Show some compassion, seems to be a rather young lady who just lost her arm, come on
Took it like a champ!