Jesus Christ, US automakers will stamp anything these days to compete with the Japanese.

1 ticket please.

"You're terminated, farker"

sadly, that wrecked machine is coming out of his pay

Booooo.


+1

At Ford, safety is now job #7.

My friend's wife works at a stamping plant, and as soon as I pick myself up and stop laughing at the headline I'm going to get good and pissed off.

See what happens when you dont take the retirement package...

And he had just sort of fallen into that job.

I'll pay extra to buy the engine he was working on when he was crushed to death.

/exotic car collector

Oh... engine stamping plant?

All our workers put their seal of approval before the product ever leaves.

Casting. It's a *casting* plant. Engines are made out of castings, not stampings.

Then again, we *are* talking about the same liberal-arts majors who think all airplanes are made by Boeing.

/lives right up 130th about a mile from the plant where this happened

One of my college professors saw a similar accident in a stamping plant when he was young and working his way through grad school. Said that the guy was cut in half by the machine. Yeach!

We all know what kind of car will come out of that:

What happened to the industrial accidents of the 40s where loose hanging skirts and blouses were torn off? This isn't a comedic situation!

He was told to shape up or ship out, so he wanted to make a big impression.

Yeuch.

My bf is from the north east of scotland, and it's a fishing dependent village / town.

Horrible story: on one long (several weeks) fishing 'trip' or whatever the word is, one guy hung himself and another was cut in half by a steel cable. The weather was so bad they just had to leave the bodies were they were until they got back home.

Far be it from me to cast aspersions at Ford, but...

didn't someone else just get ground to bits this weekend?

fell into a shredder?

Everyone in this thread owes me a new computer.

/just ate a sammich
//came back through the express route

Mister Peejay: Then again, we *are* talking about the same liberal-arts majors who think all airplanes are made by Boeing.

Oh SNAP! Stupid liberal-arts majors. They know far less manufacturing trivia than you.

Knight Rider wasn't evil!

It's windshield wipers were... they didn't get into that much on the show.

headline would have been hilarious without the first sentence.

Casting. It's a *casting* plant. Engines are made out of castings, not stampings.

Then again, we *are* talking about the same liberal-arts majors who think all airplanes are made by Boeing.

Huhu grr casta casta!

I wanna buy the bloody engine.

Baz the Spaz

I worked on offshore supply boats to afford college.

I saw two people die during that time.

One was cut in half by a rig rope that popped...he was standing 4 feet from me.

The other was crushed by the rudder stops in the rudder room.

I once worked in an industrial plant, and I saw several workers killed. One died when a fully assembled Saturn V rocket fell on him. Another died when he fell on a mesh of monomolecular wire...forever after, he was referred to as "Chunky." The last one died when he ingested some antimatter on a dare and vaporized, resulting in what some people now know as the Tunguska event.

Did he look like this?

What an awful way to go.

/window seat

Anyone else notice that this article about a tragedy at Ford was brought to us by The Mercury News?

I don't know if I could ever use that machine again, or even look at it the same way after that happening. Maybe making funny comments about death cheers you guys up, but it puts me the fark down when I see it from 90% of the users here. Are you people that out of touch with reality?

1. Crush workers in machine.
2. ???
3. MASSIVE LOSSES!

This submission delivered with the headline, and the thread continued. Well done.

MetalLizard:I don't know if I could ever use that machine again, or even look at it the same way after that happening. Maybe making funny comments about death cheers you guys up, but it puts me the fark down when I see it from 90% of the users here. Are you people that out of touch with reality?

You really know how to kill a mood don't you?

MetalLizard

Im getting down about it too, but thats because I work at a Ford engine stamping plant, so im getting a kick out of these replys...

/yes, put me in that 90%
//also worked at a car part factory, definitely not that safe
///would rather work with slashys

Didn't Kafka write a story about this?

I worked in Detroit during a big down turn in the economy in the 1980s. Two guys showed up with identical injuries 2 years apart. They both had their hands caught in a sheet metal slitting machine and it essentially squeezed their entire nondominant forearms into a nonusable mess and gained them 100% disability. I didn't think too much the first time and then I saw the second guy with the identical injury and it is hard not to be suspicious.

One of the guys I worked with at the hospital's dad was an exec at GM and he said that he was working at a wheel stamping plant on a summer basis which the contract with the UAW allowed and that one of his coworkers, who was a lifer, turned to him one day and said, "Watch this." and proceeded to stick his dominant index finger in the wheel stamping machine which nipped it off the way you'd take off a nose hair. He used the workers comp settlement to pay down on a Corvette.

Hey! The filter just slammed my comment

He was hard pressed to get his job done.

It did it again... Is there a family guy filter?!?

I tried to say the family guy rrefernce for a country whose capitol is Moscow, and the country was under communist rule.

Test:

I_n S_o_v_i_e_t R_u_s_s_i_a

FTFA:Francisco Fraticelli, 59, of Broadview Heights, died from injuries to his chest, abdomen and pelvis after accidentally falling into a machine at Ford's casting plant Friday night,...

You just know that they are soon gonna refer to him as Frank "Flat"-icelli from now on.

NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Article says both engine stamping and engine casting plant. Either way he must've been exhausted.

judan

Oh SNAP! Stupid liberal-arts majors. They know far less manufacturing trivia than you.

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Actually I believe he was trying to say you all are a bunch of spineless idiots.

Probably a maintenance guy with a bunch of OT hours. When the stampers are operating, they have two sets of guards blocking the molds that even the operator can't unlock. With all the layoffs, the 50+ year olds are probably all that is left.

HowlingPook: Probably a maintenance guy with a bunch of OT hours. When the stampers are operating, they have two sets of guards blocking the molds that even the operator can't unlock. With all the layoffs, the 50+ year olds are probably all that is left.

To add more, probably a maintenance guy not following Lock Out / Tag Out properly.