Man died in recycling plant shredder

Can't make a joke about this one

No way it was suicide. No way.

Like post on first page said, kind of do hope it was head first
Horrendous
 
cheesyboy said:
In spite of the description, I still struggle to actually figure out how that happened.

Must sting a bit though :D
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mavity and pressure from a small area on them. Its happened more than once and is a well known hazard from wearing harnesses incorrectly.
 
Legislation for different industries is a bit of a joke. I work in the chemical industry and you honestly can not fart without a COSHH assessment, work permits, isolations, and safety gear.

This was done here it would not have come anywhere near happening.

Also saw a TV doc on immigrant workers (which looks the case here going by the names) under appaling conditions sorting household waste going for shredding. At one point the conveyor was jammed and there were told to get on the belt to free it off to stop down time. Having seen that and this im not surprised.

Surely these days theres a way to get auto sensors to detect a human in there and shut it down.

All down to the same thing these days - money.
 
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Greebo said:
mavity and pressure from a small area on them. Its happened more than once and is a well known hazard from wearing harnesses incorrectly.
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I'd never considered it would be possible. I mean, I've seen some things on the internet and that ^ was never the result.
 
cheesyboy said:
You know the chestburster scene from Alien? Well, imagine that but swap the chest for your scrotum and the alien for your testicles.
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That is quite possibly the most simultaneously amusing, painful and yet accurate description of an image I've ever heard. 10/10! :D
 
Tefal said:
Yup not quite the same scale but all the striaght/angle head windy drills in our place have this annoying safety latch on the trigger that makes using them one handed a night are. But it stops the trigger pressing if say it's put down or it rolls onto the trigger (trigger is a big long lever) so mine and everyone else has this little latch taped up so you can use it easily but yeah it could go off if you knocked it with your foot or hand an it rolled onto the trigger
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You're admitting to a criminal offence here. You may want to edit the post :o
 
Orionaut said:
I don't mean to make light of this at all, but I really hope he ended up going in head first! :(

Now I do not know what happened here, but it is often taken for granted in situations like this that, somehow, the "Management" are to blame for "shoddy practice". However.....!

The trouble with safety devices (And I remember this from my experiences in the electrical industry 30 years ago)

They are often a complete PITA for the people who actually have to endure them. As a consequence the biggest problem for management is members of the workforce devising "Secret Workarounds" that disable the safety systems so they can make their working lives easier.

I remember people who had machined out the insides of their safety interlock keys so they could enter HV compounds to perform "Minor" (IE Non electrical) work without having to have operated the keys "twin" first to switch off the power so they could save a bit of time/effort/ballache! :eek:

Unfortunately the consequence of this sort of thing is that, sometimes, people end up being badly injured or killed!

The "Longer term" solution to this problem is, perhaps, to make a greater effort to try to make safety "Easy". But somehow I cant see that happening any time soon sadly :(
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happens in my work all to often.

procedure is that anyone who has work to do on the machine isolates the air valve and main power isolator with their own security padlock and also a controller who makes sure everyone is safe. eventually i just walk away from these people. if there is an accident i don't want to be dragged into it.
 
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