Plastic Molding Incident

Person got stuck inside a plastic molding machine (no sound)

[stephenchandler]

First thing you ever show a machine operator - the big red Emergency Stop button.

[YoutubeLovesCowards]

There's usually a giant red button that you push to stop all machinery. Dude got lucky that there was at least one competent person there who knew about it.

[JohnWilson-wggk]

"HAL. Open the molding machine door, please. "
"I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that. "

[brennenmc.]

This is why I had no problem leaving a job when I realized my coworkers were idiots.

[topmenace]

How does ANYONE in that environment NOT know about an E STOP button??!?!?!

[Sodiumreactor]

Homegirl flew in there like a guardian angel.

[robertl]

That place is an OSHA nightmare. There is SO much wrong with that scenario, the most obvious of which is a lack of training.

[TheLambdaTeam]

"You FOOL! Why didn't you press the big red emergency button?"
"Umm...isn't that the self-destruct system?"

[djfearross]

I worked in an office above an injection molding warehouse in Spain. Whenever someone went inside, they'd switch the machine off and put their padlock there on the switch so it couldn't be switched on again. If another engineer went in, they'd put their padlock there as well. Pretty good system. The amount of noise in these places mean your shouts and cries will not be heard. You gotta look after yourself.

[ronnieboucherthecrystalcraftsm]

machine operator did not even know what button to press = the lady saved the day !

[DATo_DATonian]

For people who do not understand what is going on the injection molder, inside the room, has a mold which is divided into two parts which spreads apart and closes back together. It opens to allow the plastic parts to be extracted after the plastic is forced into the mold cavity or cavities to make the parts. Judging from the size of this mold room I'd say the pieces being manufactured might be plastic buckets or something like that. If the man had stayed in the room when the two halves of the mold closed to repeat the process it would have crushed him LITERALLY flatter than a pancake.

[Sypher]

Productivity must be incredible with staff that don't even understand 'big red button make bad stop'.

[WileeC]

The one person who pays attention during the safety meetings

[josephkovalcik]

I'm a retired journeyman machinist, I've worked with manual and automatic CNC equipment. You can't always trust the machine to do what you want, so you need to be vigilant at all times.

[kingbugs]

His supervisor should have immediately been fired. It's unconscionable to have such poorly trained people operating machinery.

[machobunny]

It took HOW MANY of these highly trained, brilliantly skilled "workers" to figure out where the off button is?

[UntitledKirk]

Bro, I work in a place with this exact type of machine. The fact that the employee didn't know to hit the big red button that says EMERGENCY STOP is baffling to me. Common sense seriously escapes people. It's astounding!

[billdunlop]

No way the doors should close by themselves once opened, No machine manufacturer would ever program the system to work like that, Either the door safety interlocks are not working, have been bypassed or the reset operation switch has been " modified". Also the dude that was trying to help the guy in the system should really be trained where the Emergency stop button is located and what it does, Good thing that the Lady ran over to hit the E-stop.

[albertol]

When you lie on your resume about having experience.

[Gunners_Mate_Guns]

I used to work in an injection molding plant, but none of our machines was as big as this one.
It's terrifying to think just how close this poor guy came to having that mold slam shut on him.