Workplace Horrors | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

This short documentary tells three workplace horror stories, including the story of the first person ever to be killed by a robot in 1979...

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*CHAPTERS:* 🔖
► 00:00 - The Story of Robert Nicholas Williams
► 03:05 - The Story of Alan Catterall
► 06:12 - The Story of Lawrence "Day" Davis
► 09:13 - Lockout/Tagout Devices

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► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory

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[Transit_Angst]

I'm an occupational safety and health coordinator. I try to tell everyone i work with that even some of the more seemingly pointless rules are there becasue someone died for them to be there. We have to look out for each other, make sure the training standards are followed, and not let each other willingly do something needlessly dangerous

[magdalena_dewinter]

each workplace safety rule is written in blood.

[detritivre]

Accidental deaths by high temperatures horrify me the most.

[Yahriel]

This video needs to be part of the Lock Out Tag Out training. Chilling enough to make you really think about WHY this sort of thing is (or should be) required.

[peterdeane]

My Dad was a welder and boiler-maker for many years. At one job, he was working near the ceiling of a shop, repairing an overhead crane. For some reason, someone below started up the crane, which advanced my Dad toward a large ceiling fan. He fell to the shop floor, sustaining a broken arm and a deep cut across the bridge of his nose. He could easily have been killed. Instead, he passed away last year at the age of 93.

[rfa]

I was an electrician for over 40 years. One of the most important thing was Lock Out-Tag Out. We would de energize a piece of equipment. We would tag it and place 2 locks on it. My boss would have one key and I would have the other. Neither of our keys could open the others lock!!

[georgelane]

I've seen so many videos about people killed in kilns, freezers, or chemical showers. People, please never enter industrial machinery that doesn't have an isolater that you control or an easy escape hatch

[VorpalStorm]

The kiln death is one of the most nightmarish things ever.

[ladycdesigns]

Lock out tag out is one of the simplest and most important safety precautions out there. My job, before disability, was to help investigate workplace incidents including deaths. Saw some horrific stuff irl and most of it was totally preventable. Never take safety for granted

[cassinipanini]

Another gruesome yet perfect example of workplace tragedy (and corporate negligence) is the deaths of 5 men at TECO Big Bend. They were cleaning beneath a furnace when molten slag fell on top of them. so much of it that it flooded out onto the factory floor like actual lava. the men practically melted, and it wasnt a fast death for all of them. one of the workers, a temporary worker like Lawrence in this video, named Antonio Navarrete, had called his mom during the incident, leaving her a voicemail along the lines of "Mom help me im burning". One of the most horrific incidents I have ever heard of.

[bellakagamine]

The whole time I was thinking WHY IS NO ONE LOCKING THESE MFING MACHINES OUT oh my god. Horrendous.

[HomeMadeBoards]

As an engineer, please do more workplace compilations 👍

[ottovonbasedmark]

the first thing that my boss did when i started my apprenticeship was to lecture me about every single danger he could think of, on top of the mandatory safety lecture. he was almost killed in a workplace accident 25 years ago, and he told me dead into the eyes that if i were ever to neglect safety regulations to do work that i wasnt able to do otherwise, he would strangle me with his bare hands. if i cannot do the work in the safest way possible, i will not do the work. back in the day i thought he was overreacting, but the sheer amount of negligience i have seen in my workplace so far made me realize how right he was.
if you cannot do the work safely, you do not do the work. how right he is!

[okeydokey]

I worked at a copper smelter. Lock Out/Tag Out procedures were taught carefully and used. Even though I was a secretary, I had to know the procedures. Saved lives.

[measlyfurball]

This channel is what inspired me to become an occupational safety professional. It's very interesting to see an episode covering a topic that I'll work with in my day-to-day life. Thanks for everything you do.

[juanitarichards]

NOTHING would make me go near that kiln, never mind inside it.

[kathyjones]

I worked in a frozen hasbrown factory for 6 1/2 years. It was a small factory, and the owner was very aware of how to keep his workers safe. He took care of us. There were all kinds of safety measure to keep us safe. I mean, there were small injuries, like bruises and cutting a finger, but nothing serious. The whole time i worked there, the worst was a bruise or small cut due to klutziness on the part of the worker. It was a good place to work. They even allowed a bit of fun when the machines were shut down for whatever reason.

[yvettedesmarais]

The kiln story was especially horrifying considering the man’s son in law turned it back on. He must have suffered for the rest of his life from that trauma.

[cameron]

The oven one is wild. Two near misses and they still did nothing

[sarahcoleman]

I work in a 100 year old building that was once the administrative building for a brass refinery that had once been across the street. The refinery was torn down in the 90s, but the older men who had once worked there are still around.

One such man comes around to do maintenance on our building. He was a machinists' apprentice at the refinery in the 60s when he was barely out of his teens. He sat and told me some stories once. Including watching his trainer just casually cut off his own finger while training him how to clean blades.

Factory work was a horror show back in the day.