Now that I work retail, it’s normally more mundane, like forgetting something in an oven, but back in my factory days…
About once to twice a week, something caught fire. Sometimes outside the plants, sometimes inside. Hell, on one occasion, while I was actively working inside the thing that caught fire!
Another common one some coworkers had were getting caught in vehicle lifts and crushed/cut in half. Close calls were more frequent than they had any right to be.
Basically, factory work is fucking dangerous, no one should be in that shit, we need massive safety reforms, and those need to come with lowered output expectations, because that is a major part of the stress people are under in a lot of those places. Yeah they’re skipping key safety steps, you’ve given them 20 jobs to do in just as many seconds, and the safety shit adds on time.
Definitely no disagreement here! I’ve seen the shock vid of the dude in an industrial lathe, factory workers deserve better working conditions and safer environments.
Worst I had to deal with in deli was the rotisserie chicken grease trap. Eventually the pump broke on the disposal tank, and they decided to put a dumpster out back temporarily. Said dumpster was on the south side of the building and in the sun ALL DAY, so full of hot rancid chicken grease. And lifting buckets of the stuff overhead to pour into said dumpster.
Oh and a major fryer oil spill (nobody got hurt, it wasn’t let to cool down so it melted through a plastic jug it was pumped into) Manager decided to pour kitty litter over it to clean it up easier, so now I know what burnt/fried litter smells like.
Man, my work nightmare is usually me finding out I didn’t actually quit my job at a grocery store deli and being late for my shift.
Now that I work retail, it’s normally more mundane, like forgetting something in an oven, but back in my factory days…
About once to twice a week, something caught fire. Sometimes outside the plants, sometimes inside. Hell, on one occasion, while I was actively working inside the thing that caught fire!
Another common one some coworkers had were getting caught in vehicle lifts and crushed/cut in half. Close calls were more frequent than they had any right to be.
Basically, factory work is fucking dangerous, no one should be in that shit, we need massive safety reforms, and those need to come with lowered output expectations, because that is a major part of the stress people are under in a lot of those places. Yeah they’re skipping key safety steps, you’ve given them 20 jobs to do in just as many seconds, and the safety shit adds on time.
Definitely no disagreement here! I’ve seen the shock vid of the dude in an industrial lathe, factory workers deserve better working conditions and safer environments.
Worst I had to deal with in deli was the rotisserie chicken grease trap. Eventually the pump broke on the disposal tank, and they decided to put a dumpster out back temporarily. Said dumpster was on the south side of the building and in the sun ALL DAY, so full of hot rancid chicken grease. And lifting buckets of the stuff overhead to pour into said dumpster.
Oh and a major fryer oil spill (nobody got hurt, it wasn’t let to cool down so it melted through a plastic jug it was pumped into) Manager decided to pour kitty litter over it to clean it up easier, so now I know what burnt/fried litter smells like.