FTFA Although Rotonics was closed this afternoon for investigation, the airport remains open and operational, said airport director Cynthia Barrow.

"It's just sad" said Barrow.

Yer doin' a heckofa job there, Cindy.

/Toastmasters washout?
//learn to speak gooder

Yuck. I worked for an orthopedic surgeon a few years ago and he got called to the ER because a man got sucked into a woodchipper (courtesy of someone turning it on without realizing he was cleaning it). He lived for 9 days in the ICU before dying of a massive blood infection.

Amazing, considering he lost all the flesh from his elbow to his wrist in the machine and had a huge gouge across his abdomen.

My first thought was 'lock out/tag out' and I see smart Farkers agree.

What a shiatty way to die. No matter how you slice it. ;-)

HOLY shiat! This is my hometown...wait...that's not a good thing. Never heard of "lock out, tag out" I suppose. Unfortunate, but we made Fark!!!

When I used to work on the storm detection radar at Whiteman I sometimes had to work in the radome itself. I not only tagged it out, I took a fuse out of the equipment and took it up into the radome with me. Nothing to get sucked into up there, but I didn't want to be on the receiving end of 300,000 watts of microwave energy, even in 2 microsecond pulses.

back in the day, when I was workin in the paper mill, i ran with the sparehands, the osha crew, and the fire brigade. usually on the night shifts.

anyhow, as such, i was well-trained in the previously mentioned lockout/tagout policy.

so, one night, they're doing maintenance on one of the huge saws up at the north end of the mill...this is where the raw lumber/trees get brought into the mill and begin getting cut down to be made into paper. after a soak and ride through a giant dulled cheese grater crossbred with a blue whale's dildo motor (to remove the bark), the HUGE logs (up to three foot in diameter) get fed via a conveyor into this MASSIVE steel saw enclosure. the saws here cut the trees into lengthwise strips. think the circular saw in your garage or at the hardware store, but with a blade more than 8 feet across and powered by a supercharged V8...it could take the length of a three-foot hardwood tree and cut it all the way through in about 12 seconds.

you can see where this is going, right?

you guessed it. the machine was locked down and tagged. the power was physically disconnected.

two millwrights and an electrician went crawling in to to some wiring and replacement of parts. about 20 minutes into the job, the thing lit up for a couple seconds.

they had that end of the mill shut down for three weeks. the cleanup took *days*. they never did find out how it happened, as far as i know.

Strega: Nothing to get sucked into up there, but I didn't want to be on the receiving end of 300,000 watts of microwave energy, even in 2 microsecond pulses.

Don't microwave me bro, eh?

Many a shred of evidence.

“It’s just sad,” said Barrow. “We are going to have to throw out all that plastic now.”

Majin_Buu

The first and third guy in that article are boned, the second guy gets to tell about the dude who got shredded and the dumbass who was responsible.

Isn't everyone working in the danger zone supposed to contribute a lock to the lock-out? That's why there are all those holes in it.

Seems guy number two gets a piece of that action.

Oh, and Mad Scientist; I came in looking for the Mediterranean scenes mural reference. Thank you.

newton

"It's just sad," said Barrow. "We are going to have to throw out all that plastic now."

"Plastic people. Woah, baby-now you're such a drag!"

xaks:

Obviously, the people doing the maintenance forgot the sixth corollary to Murphy's law:

'It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.'

hmmmmmmmm...anyone for chips and extra-chunky salsa?

What was Jeffery Dalhmer`s favorite breakfast?



Mush

Rann Xerox: He got shredded??? Alright you guitar gods out there.....



Bow your heads!!

Dude I saw her in the 80's that chick is sick

xaks: ...they had that end of the mill shut down for three weeks. the cleanup took *days*. they never did find out how it happened, as far as i know.

I take it that the three that were inside got quite permanently retired?

/RTA: Still, if I were the second and third guy's supervisor, I'd be yelling and cursing at them so bad that they'll have to be hospitalized for bleeding ears.

What, no 'Will It Blend?'

I see that "lock out/tag out" has been addressed, but LOCK OUT/TAG OUT, GODDAMMIT!

I feel like getting a lock out/tag out system for home use after reading about this.

Was the guy's name Julian?

Oznog: Huh, I wonder what it does, anyways?

Failing_Junk: Every shop i have ever been in with large dangerous pieces of equipment had a lock out/tag out policy. I believe it is required by OSHA. If they were doing it right it would have been impossible for him to start the machine without a pair of bolt cutters.

This.

There are several levels of fail happening here.

Ya know, I worked in a factory that had lathes the size of an econoline van. They we set up in a series inside a cage with a robot arm in the middle to move the wheels from place to place.

You would NEVAR EVAR EVAR find me inside that cage without it being locket and tagged. Not to mention that when you turn it off you had to flip the switch, which shut the arm down all together. There was also a switch on the cage door which would shut it off when you opened it. All this for a big robot arm.

That said, with all the failsafes, bypasses, security steps, lock out tag out, etc. How the fark do you manage to do what this MORAN did?

Whoops, I shoulda specified that the moran is the idiot turning the machine on with people working on it.

Something similar happened to my father over 30 years ago only instead of a plastic chipper, it was a rock crusher. Nothing left from the waist down and he was conscious the whole time.

/seriously

Fishstick Kitty: Something similar happened to my father over 30 years ago only instead of a plastic chipper, it was a rock crusher. Nothing left from the waist down and he was conscious the whole time.

/seriously

Holy fark! Is he still alive? Sorry, dude...