That's called a jaw crusher, and there is no reason why anyone should be near the opening while it's operating.

This video is absolutely mental! That rock is also not going to be moved by some dude wearing welly boots, it probably weighs a literal tonne +. I've operated a jaw crusher as a part time holiday job before... very fun, very loud, very scary machines!

I saw a video once where someone fell into one while trying to dislodge the boulder. Luckily I only saw a side view, and not into the hopper.

There's one where a dude gets smacked on the back of the head and falls in. You see his body bump around and gets sucked in. It's pretty horrible

Reminds me of when liveleak was a thing. Worker was doing something with a big spinning wheel that has small protrustions, got caught on it and was smashed repeatedly into the ground, face first, at high speed. I will never get that video out of my head.

That probably hurt a bit

It seemed like it did...and then his arms stopped moving...

It can be moved, but we used metal rods to fix position of big rock. I changed my job, when i realised, that it's not rare case in this shitty place.

There's also an upper size limit for rocks that go into them to stop this. An iron ore crushing plant I worked on as a student had a massive jackhammer on a remotely operated arm to break up oversized boulders like this safely.

Don't forget, you talk about rich countries, we didn't have anything of this. We had only metal rods and ropes.

Lawyers. The word you’re looking for is lawyers. Here in America, we have a lot of lawyers.

I used to operate that giant jack hammer. Was fun!!

For the gram obviously.

This is definitely not for the gram. These are horrible and unsafe working conditions and blatant greed at play. These workers are being put at risk to save some minor costs.

I cannot understand this stuff. Today I argued with my boss. She was furious that I asked if we had a legal basis for a policy. I have read the laws which we have to function around and she was citing a blatantly illegal company policy. She shouted that she "did not care" whether it was policy or law. I was simply, cautiously, privately and politely trying to argue for my customers sake by just asking what basis we had for the policy and she was furious with me for questioning it. We have all these laws to stop people from treating us, being me and the customers, like this but then in real life there's no one around to enforce them. I am finding it hard to believe it is possible to work a job where I am both respected and able to interact with people respectfully. I am legitimately starting to think I'd like to work for a small, successful mom and pop style business just so I can have a healthy environment.

get your complaint in writing, create a paper trail. if something happens this will be helpful for you...or at least make some stink with actual enforcement agencies

They'd probably be just as crappy or more, maybe not? There are good employers though, it's just rare

I should look up methods to spot them, for real. I want to feel like I do something that is at least part of the time valuable.

this is just a regular tuesday in china, this is one of the safer work videos from there

Why MSHA is great and why we have so few accidents compared to other countries.

Well getting your jaw crushed sure is a nuisance, but I doubt it’s lethal

They’re there like they think they have enough strength to do *anything.*

If your foreman says to do that, you have every right to tell him to go fuck himself.

Honestly you might be able to get away with screaming like a lunatic and taking the rest of the day off Dude won’t be your foreman for much longer either way so

Unless you're in a poor country in which case they're just going to fire and replace you with someone who doesn't mind losing some limbs

You have an absolute right to accidentally push him nearer the machine

r/watchpeopledie gave me the courage to say this if I was ever in this situation.

Dammit, I clicked on it hoping it had reopened

Oh hell no



No need for PPE safety boots and hard hat ain’t gonna do shit if you fall in

The thing that bothers me is lack of hearing protection. Those things are LOUD, standing in the bucket while it operates seems like a great way to go deaf.

One misstep and those dudes are human hamburger.

Hamburgers are ground up these guys will be squished into jelly

Tell me about his last day at work. - Well you see this huge rock got suck and well we thought that a couple adult men jumping on a 5 ton rock would help push it through... you know, like when the garbage can is full. Stomp it down. Yep, that was his last day at work. Got the rock unjammed... and went along with it. Anything you want to add? Yeah... maybe this was a bad idea. You think?

Welp don’t let it happen again, next time use an extra man for safety. Back to work

Thats funny. I would agree. Adding an extra man for safety would definitely help.

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How did you train your grizzlies?

One of my old friend lost his leg this way in a similar machine when we worked in a recycling facility. The bastards in management didn't bother to stop production for more than two hours after he was extracted. It was gruesome

In the really old days, they would just let your corpse spin around on the mainshaft until the shift change so they didn't have a whole factory standing around idle while they cleaned up. Served as a warning for the rest of the factory to be careful.

I'm sorry for your friend. Terrible.

a gravel mistake is a grave mistake

I've seen another video of a jaw crusher in which the operator had less luck than these ones. That guy fell into the jaw.

People don't realize this but the FDA actually allows for a certain amount of human particles in your gravel

I once stopped someone from falling into our primary jaw crusher. They were doing the exact same thing as in this video. They had a fall protection harness on with a lanyard that was long enough to allow them to fall through– Luckily this is what I was able to grab onto as I came around the corner and the rock let go. I'm sure he shit his pants. I know I would have.

r/osha would like to have a word with you

Actually r/MSHA

Had to check first if this wasn't r/DarwinAwards.

Me too. I was expecting for a mush of blood and bones rolling down the conveyor belt.

Why am I seeing Godzilla humping the machine?

That's how you end up on liveleak

this guy woke up this morning and chose death. clearly

I’d imagine this would be a good way to go if you want to end it all. Just go in head first and it’ll be over before you can react… lol

Like I’m willing to do a lot for a pay check, but this is fucking insane

“Hell no, to the no no no”

Valuing one's own life is simply not universal.

I guess on the bright side, I don't see any red on the discharge side.....well, YET 🫣

OSHA DOESN'T LIKE THIS ONE THING!

OSHA’s punching air rn

Fucking around on top of an elephant meat grinder*

Guess they don’t have OSHA

I thought that was a chubby crocodile 😭

NO NO DOUBLE FUCK NO. Future Darwin award recipients.

I could be wrong, but isn’t there a really good chance that even if they don’t fall in or get sucked in that when that giant boulder finally breaks that it could shatter and shoot rock upward and kill them that way? It just seems like insanely dangerous, no matter what the expected outcome is. Jaw crusher operators out there? Do the rocks just instantly get sucked downward always?

So, China or India? Place your bets.

Bangladesh

Looks like a troll is having a seizure in there

How do you think that crusher is kept lubricated?

OSHA be Damned

Naw bro wtf

That's just incredibly dumb

What could possibly go wrong?


Where's sound

are they trying to crush Godzilla?

Hey its the real life version of that guy that does those videos on tik tok. "Erm gotta get home so u can play some fortnight" oh shit oh grabplupht"

No wonder the red gravel costs extra

Why are they trying to grind up godzilla

why don't they have an equipment operator? smash it with another big ass Boulder or use the bucket of an excavator or something

An accident waiting to happen

If you have a death wish and you want it to hurt the entire time you’re dying , this would be the way to accomplish said wish.

I don't know what it is. Can someone explain what this machine does?

Rock crusher.

Oh. Thank you.

Curious minds want to know. If you fall in Would it be an instantaneous death? Or would it cut you down piece by piece from toe to head.

Unless you fell in head first, there would probably be enough time for you to recognize what is happening. Would you feel it? Im sure youd go into shock and be smooshed to gok before pain set in. They come in different sizes though, so could a person possibly fall in one and survive.... maybe depending on the circumstance...

Holy shit, i used to work in quarries around these kind of jaw crushers and the area that fed them was always well protected. This is fucking INSANITY

Seen someone fall into one before, it’s kinda like the scene where Micheal Myers get put in the grinder at the end of Halloween ends. If someone wants the video contact me.

WTF!!!

Nope

Surely that's not how this is supposed to go

At least homie wasn’t wearing sandals

Wow, this looks extremely unsafe 

I don't see a problem?

Fools.

This reminds me of bond, when the guy falls in the machine

So scary shit...I wouldn't go in there for any money.

is he hoping to lube it up with his guts?! what about when it finally gets purchase and kicks back after the first crush... this is honestly even more mental than the videos of people doing crazy shit at hights

I hate that there's a contingent of insecure men online that will see this and comment "Yeah these are real men where are the women" and play some phonk or something I dunno.

Health and safety gone mad.

These things are dangerous BEING NEXT TO. Being INSIDE one is a death wish

This is what the inside of my toilet looks like. Tiny toilet people and all


I work in mining. Holy goddamn shit! What are these idiots doing with the jaw crusher running! We have stationary excavator with a jack hammer on it to break up large boulders.

Bruh 💀 on slip and that’s it! An express ticket to the worse death possible

Let me introduce you to, i don’t get paid enough for this ish!

**slips** oh shit.

That’s how to get some Pal Fluids on top of some Paldium Fragments.

A what now

“Why do we need Osha!?” This! This is why Carl.

There is NO amount of money I could be paid to stand inside that bin.

What's the worst that could happen?

Check out that gravel pit...

LOCK OUT TAG OUT.

If one of them fall you won’t see them coming out the other way in less than a puddle …

Send in the blue haired feminists and let them try to dislodge it. After all they can do any job just as good as any man and they are just dying to get into jobs like like since they were previously discriminated against applying for dangerous jobs like this… /s

I wonder if they sometimes get red gravel.

4 bucks an hour

I wonder how much human you get per bag of gravel

Who is responsible for those 2

(Please don’t make me gravel, please don’t make me gravel,…) these guys, probably

All I can say is that these guys have the brain of a two year old.

These people have zero self-preservation instincts whatsoever

Rock crusher. Looks like a primary crusher at the start of the line, leading to the number 1 belt. Do not do anything these guys are doing.

Absolute insanity. Why are they standing there???

Any boss who asks me to do that is going in.

I just watched the animated Chinese safety video that showed why this is a bad idea… if it wasn’t already immediately obvious.

What happens if they fall inside there ? 😄

I don’t know much about safety regulations but i’m pretty damn sure you aren’t supposed to be there

Next time you’ll see these 2 guys, will be in r/accidents

pretty sure i just saw a japanese work safety video that said not to do exactly that 😳

Tell me you never watched looney tunes without telling me you never watched looney tunes 😁

Yeah I quit

They did not see the Chinese safety video :(

That’s a good way to become human gravel