Spooky PSA for all the fabricators/welders out there
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Yikes
no chit mang!
Sh*tty. As many chemicals as I/we deal with around the airplanes, I guess you need a reminder sometimes that MSDS is your friend.
Holy moly, that's some WWI sh!t right there.
its kind of frightening learning what kinds of conditions cause compounds to breakdown into toxins. I attended a number of lectures on this when I was in the pharma industry.
That happened to my brother and upon googling I came acrossed that link. Luckily my brother didn't get it nearly as bad.
Back in the day..... There was an automotive/Air conditioning tool used to find refrigerant leaks. It was a suction line, a bottle of propane, and a controlled flame encased behind a glass window.
The suction hose was the air feed to the flame, and you would wave the hose around refrigerant fittings and lines waiting for the flame to change color. There was always one big rule to this tool.... NEVER use it inside enclosed area's, second rule always light it in known clear air.
Well this tool went away many years ago for a simple reason, it was dangerous. Now its not dangerous because it started fires, its dangerous because burning refrigerant makes very dangerous gas's.
About 14 years ago now I was working at the truck stop when our old timer busted out this old tool, went inside a truck and started using it. Three hours later we went looking for him and found him dead in the truck. He lit the tool inside the cab which happened to have an evaporator leak, never saw the flame change color, and basically killed himself with mustard gas.
Chemicals are no joke, be safe with them, try not to die
The suction hose was the air feed to the flame, and you would wave the hose around refrigerant fittings and lines waiting for the flame to change color. There was always one big rule to this tool.... NEVER use it inside enclosed area's, second rule always light it in known clear air.
Well this tool went away many years ago for a simple reason, it was dangerous. Now its not dangerous because it started fires, its dangerous because burning refrigerant makes very dangerous gas's.
About 14 years ago now I was working at the truck stop when our old timer busted out this old tool, went inside a truck and started using it. Three hours later we went looking for him and found him dead in the truck. He lit the tool inside the cab which happened to have an evaporator leak, never saw the flame change color, and basically killed himself with mustard gas.
Chemicals are no joke, be safe with them, try not to die
chemicals are in fact serious business. Even in my field I have to take annual training regarding handling and safe storage of chemicals, in addition to BBP training.
This is why I HATE dealing with chemicals and electricity. If I'm going to be killed by something, I want to at least see it coming.
I agree with you 100%- both are extra scary because you can't see them.
Got myself sick TIG welding the other day with fume extractors and clean metal in a similiar situation (different chemical). Not as bad as this dude, but between my experience and this article, I have officially had a wakeup call.
Thanks for posting.
i honestly thought this was gonna be a thread about spooky bikes.
The title was way too normal for Mickey though.
mickey didn't start the thread though 
Touche.
got moves like hawking
That old artwork is creepy!Holy moly, that's some WWI sh!t right there.
Extra creepy because it sounds like one little whif and you're a gonner anyway...
Because that's what men do.
Personally, I always wait for day 3 of kidney failure before I go in...
Maybe no insurance? You have to remember, health care decisions by many people in America have more in common with people in rural India then they do the rest of the first world.
Maybe no insurance? You have to remember, health care decisions by many people in America have more in common with people in rural India then they do the rest of the first world.
I had no idea fly larvae could live in my navel.
holly **** thats slightly concerning....
I did wonder whether that had anything to do with it when I read the article.
All I can say is thank fvck I live in a country infested with the evils of socialism.
you guys have free medical down there too?
Part of what I do for a living. Heat, especially welding heat, is bad news with quite a few chemicals. Surprising how relaxed people get around stuff that will kill them in a heartbeat just because they use it all the time.
Well we pay via taxes of course but yeah I have a little card in my wallet and when I hurt myself I go to hospital and show it to them and they fix me.
Aint a perfect system by any stretch but I'm glad we have it.
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Damn that sucks. Talk about lucky.
Kind of off topic, yet on topic at the same time. I tell my mom every single time that she cleans her house to stop dumping copius amounts of bleach into the toilet and leaving it there.
I'll never forget the first time I pissed into a bowl of bleach...
Kind of off topic, yet on topic at the same time. I tell my mom every single time that she cleans her house to stop dumping copius amounts of bleach into the toilet and leaving it there.
I'll never forget the first time I pissed into a bowl of bleach...
Tomorrow I have to lift a Tow Motor out of a drainage grate that collapsed. The dude driving the tow motor received a fractured skull for his mistake. I drove a lift and a walkie over that grate a thousand times. We rented a recovery balloon to lift it and the load. 6000lbs all told. The ground has fissures radiating from it. I am pretty nervous about it.
Back when I was a dishwasher at the Post Hotel in Lake Louise, one of my fellow dish pigs was fixin' to mop the floor. he poured bleach, lime scale remover....and something else into the same bucket. It released a whole bunch of what I have always assumed was chlorine gas. We had to clear out the kitchen.
Want to talk scary with electricity? Talk hybrid technology. Your talking relatively low voltage, but enough current to kill you almost instantly. If you happen to survive the current, you will probably be losing one, if not two limbs. Voltage has never scared me, amperage on the other hand..... that **** will **** you up.
Yeah but you don't have to worry too much, you don't have enough fingers left to push the button on the spray cans anymore.
Plenty of suicide recipes on the internet that look pretty close to that. Oh what fun those are.
20 ma in the wrong place will kill you.
In high school, we had this kid who was emo before emo, if you know what I mean. He took a gallon of bleach and ammonia into a small bathroom, poured them both in the sink, took a towel and did this.
Last I heard, he still had half functionality in one lung.
Another one: Dude is playing around with mercury, which is not the safest thing, but can be handled if you are careful. Unfortunately he knocked the container and a drop of mercury fell on a heated burner. He was dead before he hit the floor. Apparently vaporized mercury is instantly fatal.
Last I heard, he still had half functionality in one lung.
Another one: Dude is playing around with mercury, which is not the safest thing, but can be handled if you are careful. Unfortunately he knocked the container and a drop of mercury fell on a heated burner. He was dead before he hit the floor. Apparently vaporized mercury is instantly fatal.
Yeah, the hybrid electric side will push a lot more than 20 ma across your heart.
We have plenty of high voltage/high current equipment at work that I avoid.........I know all about it.
Yeah, and what happens when you're in a bad wreck and those batteries get all busted up? Do they still function? Cover you with acid? Light on fire? Honest question here...
GNARLY- this was at your high school?
Some weird local guy who had half a mason jar of mercury, for some unfathomable reason.
A few years ago, several people required medical attention after going to a local swimming pool. Apparently, there was a problem with the chemicals used to clean the waters (can't remember if it was a matter of proportions, wrong labels or both), but people had to be taken to the hospital to recover.
The incident gained some notoriety because of the weird explanation given to the news by the young pool watcher (perhaps a teenager) that did the mixture, not by the fact that she probably was a minimum-wage worker without any knowledge or experience to do such things.
And I don't get either how you wait 9 days to see a doctor, when you fainted with a small puff of smoke and piss in weird colors.
The incident gained some notoriety because of the weird explanation given to the news by the young pool watcher (perhaps a teenager) that did the mixture, not by the fact that she probably was a minimum-wage worker without any knowledge or experience to do such things.
And I don't get either how you wait 9 days to see a doctor, when you fainted with a small puff of smoke and piss in weird colors.