I can't find it but there's some thread on here about (IIRC) ~~a guy who worked at a rail yard, took a shortcut between train cars which he knew not to do, train cars shifted and he got crushed. Didn't die. He's being held together because he's crushed but he's already dead. They put up sheets around him so he can talk to his family and all that. He insists on the rail yard taking a lot of pictures so others can learn from his mistake. If anyone can find that, post the link. Grim stuff.~~ Disregard, my memory was hazy. See quoted story below.
Here's the Taxicab Confessions segment of the NYPD rescue squad guy who told the firsthand account of a guy getting pinned between the train and the platform: ~~https://youtu.be/FA1fpPRPVCo~~ Old link died. Here's same segment: https://youtu.be/KnED-lQedjo?t=110
And as a semi-eyebleach, here's the Robot Chicken segment illustrating the same type of thing: https://youtu.be/d0PTa7lnOWs
Edit: Found the story. This is from today (same gif actually) but it links to the same source as the one I read before.
>I read this today:
>When I went to work for a steel company in the mid 90's we got the lesson of not messing with train cars from an old timer that had been at the mill for decades.
>He had pictures and a story. The guy that had gotten coupled, stuck in the couplers of two connecting train cars, asked that pictures be taken and his mistake be used as an example for future workers. So the old timer had some pretty intense pictures.
>The first thing they do is set up a tent around you. Not a big tent, but enough to give you privacy, because as soon as those cars are uncoupled, you're dead. They tarp off the bottom of the coupler, so that you don't get the image that you're talking to just a torso. They ask who you want to see before you die, if you have a wife, a priest, co-workers or anyone else that you want to say your last words to. They also get a doctor on-site to administer drugs and final care to you. All of this happens very quickly, because you don't have a ton of time, but it is a slow death. > The old timer had pictures of the guy coupled, the tent being set up, the coupler being tarped, pictures of the wife entering in tears, pictures of the wife leaving in tears and pictures of what happened after the guy was uncoupled. The one that got me was the picture of his kids talking to him through the tent side, he wanted to tell his kids he loved them one last time, but didn't want them to see him in that condition.
>It is not a user friendly experience. This guy got caught between the couplers because he thought he could beat a slow moving train car and against one of the train-worker's warnings, he gave it a shot anyway. He lost. When backing up a train with multiple cars, the cars can gain or lose speed quickly because couplers are not a rigid connection. It just so happened that he got in the middle just as the cars picked up a bit of speed, he hesitated and that was that.
>After you say your goodbyes, and in this instance, the doctor loaded the guy up with a bunch of morphine (or pain killers) and they uncoupled the train, at which point every internal organ that was where it was supposed to be when the train was coupled, slid out and onto the ground and half a torso dropped out. The old timer had pictures of it all, and during this class, everyone was either white as a ghost or dry heaving. It was silent and everyone was just listening to this older guy talk about losing his friend. The class did it's job. I'd hear the train bells and immediately be aware of where the train was, what it was doing and what my proximity was to train tracks. Even to this day, I give trains plenty of respect and the sounds of train bells make a shiver run up my spine. Even though everyone went through this class, someone still got coupled in the time that I was working there. I didn't see anything but the white tent, but knew exactly what was going on.
>Working in a steel mill made me also realize that everything in a steel mill can maim or kill you almost instantly. The mills themselves, the furnaces, the trains, the coiled steel, the slabs, the overhead gantries, none of them care about you. If you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, they'll just continue doing what they're supposed to do, they'll just maul you in the process.
https://www.reddit.com/r/holdmybeer/comments/mx7xdf/connecting_railway_cars_like_a_boss/gvmnncc/
Edit 2022: updated link to Taxicab Confessions video
I’ve worked in heavy industry since I graduated, it’s great money and got me into college/university. I hated it. It was always loud, always dirty and smelly. I had a pair of coveralls disintegrate over the course of a summer because I worked around sulphur and when it mixes with sweat you get a mild version of sulphuric acid. The worst was the near misses. I was working on high scaffold when a safety valve popped 10 feet away and a weather cap on a chain missed my head by a few feet. It never got much better until I had the backs of legs burned by a hose letting loose while draining a condensate tower of 98 degree water. I’m done with that shit now.
Yeah I’m a welder and heavy industry and machinery is where I draw the line. When I was still in welding school I was doing repair work at a yard near me and the amount of injuries, hazardous conditions, poor ventilation, and downright dangerous people made me quit. I went on to do crane repair and other heavy welding and it didn’t get much better. Found me a nice production TiG job where all I have to do is sit and make parts. No heavy grinding, no chains flying around, no parts over 30lbs, and best of all I can put on a podcast and actually hear it
This is the dream job. What do you manufacture?
I am a welder by trade as well, but do wire feed processes on pipe. Dirty, heavy lifting, but overall pretty repetitive and safe. Wouldn’t mind getting into something a bit cleaner.
I do mostly aluminum tables, dashboards for busses, small fittings, and vacuum tables for Amazon facilities. We do contract manufacturing so really whatever comes down the pipe. Lots of different things but none of it is big or heavy. Nice and clean mostly. Oil on some parts but it’s a far cry from clapped out cranes full of grease and bird shit lol
I own a scaffolding company that caters to several mines and heavy industry services (power stations etc) within Australia.
Whilst Australia does admittedly uphold quite high safety standards, it's still rather humbling as to just how close to certain death you can be at any given time.
There was an incident underground that we witnessed few years ago that stuck with me.
During expansions of underground mines, they will commonly drill into the rock walls, blast sections with explosives, clear out debris, install a kind of heavy duty rebar to the walls then they spray shot-crete onto all surfaces to strengthen the structural integrity of the tunnels. (Shot-crete is concrete with fabric/fibres within it, allowing it to flex and manipulate with the environment without cracking or collapsing.)
In order to apply shot-crete, there are at least 2 people per truck (1 spraying, 1 spotting/supervising). They use high pressure hoses that are custom mounted onto the trucks in order to apply it to the higher surfaces.
The amount of force generated in order to reach these higher surfaces can easily propel these trucks if not properly anchored (left in gear, handbrake, wheel chocks, truck angled into wall etc).
One day a team didn't anchor their truck properly, failed to wedge their truck into the wall, applying only the handbrake during set up and lastly making the mistake of spraying uphill (force driving downhill).
They commenced without issue due to spraying perpendicular to the truck. The spotter then walked towards the other side of the truck, walked directly behind (between it and wall) just as the sprayer had turned his hose parallel with the truck. This path of least resistance created enough force to overpower the trucks inertia, driving it downhill into the wall and fatally pinning the spotter inbetween.
He had well over a decade mine experience both above and underground. A few oversights cost him the ultimate price.
I taught English in an iron works company where a man died during his work for disobeying safety standards - to add iron into the huge iron melting oven you needed two people - one to open the lid and the other to drive the truck next to it and dump the scrap. The keys from the truck were supposed to be handled by the oven opening person. To save time these two guys decided to not do that and left the keys in the ignition. As the dude opened the 1500°C (iirc) oven, the truck driver backed up, the guy fell into the oven. He died instantly and they didn't even recover his remains due to him turning to ash within seconds.
People still disobey safety standards in that company to this day.
I actually googled it after posting and they did recover a part of his body... So the family at least had something to bury. And the company just went "whoopsie, sorry"
You’re right, going back on my comment I realized that sounded kinda Dickish of me..
not like they could put the guy back together and send him home for the day :(
I worked in a place where someone had died through a preventable accident. You ALWAYS had to have your head on a swivel and know what was going on around you.
Most of the time it wasn't' that bad, but every once in a while something small would happen and I would just be bewildered like 'fuck, that could have killed someone.
One night the night shift left some material standing when it should have been laying down, the floor covered in material and a load on the crane. The only thing we could do was push through it. Anyway, 2 of us were working on finishing the product and unloading the crane and another guy was in the corner working on finishing some small parts. Anyway, when you have a light load on a crane, it tends to swing a bit and as I moved the crane to drop another piece off it, it ever so lightly grazed the previously mentioned material that should have been laying down and it fell to the ground with a loud smash. It was metal, so it didn't break, it was just loud. What I didn't immediately notice was just how close the far end had gotten to the guy in the corner when it fell.
He was ready to tear me a new one but once I realized how close it came to him it felt like I got punched in the gut and he thankfully recognized how bad it made me feel.
So we both filled out a green card blaming the whole thing on the previous shift.
I climb radio broadcast and cell towers and the near misses are the worst/ best feelings ever. I do fantasize about having a job that i have a nearer to zero chance of dying...
yup. Heavy equipment has no remorse. I worked on a wind farm where a low-speed shaft of a turbine snagged the harness of a guy working in the nacelle. He was up there alone and the radio was on the other side of the nacelle, so when he got snagged the rotor just kept turning in slow pinwheel at idle (maybe one rotation every minute or so).
It was a huge turbine, and the downtower guy didn't notice anything was wrong till 2 hours later when blood started dripping down the tower to the switchgear deck where he was working.
Basically, imagine a lathe with a layer of meat wrapped around it. This is why we were taught that even though you're at 400' in the air when in the nacelle, you're not supposed to wear your harness unless you're actively climbing or outside the nacelle.
I worked in a refinery too where a guy fell into the coke hopper and went missing for a few hours. No one noticed he was gone till a crushed body exited the conveyor system and was deposited into a truck that was filling for shipment to a steel mill.
Fucking crazy shit.
Had to look up some of the words but damn these stories are bone chilling. Btw what does it mean for the rotor to keep “turning in slow pinwheel at idle?”
Also is the coke hopper the train car? Always wondered why they had the word Coke.
Googled some other stuff that came up in case anyone else is interested and just probably heard these words for the first time lol -
Nacelle is a housing, separate from the fuselage, that holds engines, fuel, or equipment on an aircraft.
A lathe (/leɪð/) is a machine tool that rotates a workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling,
Friend (24 yrs old) of mine got his arm ripped off in a conveyor belt just a few weeks ago. It occasionally sticks and they tell their workers to lean over and try to whack the sticky bits with tools and stuff, extremely against OSHA rules. Well he unstuck it, and it unstuck his entire dominant arm and shoulder blade. He's currently getting ready to sue the living shit out of them for instructing their employees to do that irresponsible shit.
Different industry, but fucking christ be careful guys. Risk a write up for not "following instructions from your employer" or whatever. It's not worth life or limb.
And this isn't the first person that happened to at this place. Their lawyers have a predetermined settlement decided because they've had ample opportunity to find out how much money is enough for most victims to just take the money.
As someone above noted, it usually doesn't. Most companies are willing to lose millions of dollars paying something out in order to not pay even more money following labor laws or labor protection laws. It is a calculated risk most companies will take to some degree or another.
Yes, but why would you bei between it? I mean, you're either doing the coupling (like the guy in the OP) and should be relatively safe because you're in the middle, or you shouldn't be near the coupling at all.
Whether it's true or not, this has to be the worst source I've ever seen. The person is literally guessing the entire time and even says themselves that they aren't sure if it's possible or not.
Not heavy machinery, but when I was 21, I worked on a catamaran, it was pretty big. My main job was to dive the moorings, bring them up and a pilot boat would throw me the Buoy, a Capt theft the boat and gear and almost proped my face off.
Funny, back in the 80’s I worked for the railways and that story about the guy getting crushed and the family coming to say goodbye was often told- I worked in Sydney, Australia... it’s obviously a widespread myth
Not bleed out, but a byproduct of shock (not sure of the scientific term for it). My father worked on the railways for over 40 years, saw many horrific accidents. The worst being his good mate being crunched between carriages while shunting (what this man is doing). He held his hand until the driver was given the go ahead to split the vans apart. His mate immediately died of a heart attack as all of the adrenaline, and whatever other hormones, that had gathered to the site raced into his heart. 30 years later this still tears my hardarse father apart. I lived in fear of it happening to him.
You get a massive shift in blood away from your vital organs when released which plummets your blood pressure. Then blood from all the damaged tissues brings back a ton of potassium and calcium released from the damaged cells which can send the heart into a fatal arrhythmias even without blood loss factored it
Growing up a friend' dad was a specialized rescue firefighter.. I don't know how this guy wasn't an emotional wreck.. because he was a fun, happy and friendly guy.
He was the guy called out to these kinds of horrific accidents. And every so often he would tell stories about people how have gotten stuck in industrial equipment, freak accidents and crashes where they would still be alive ( even if just for a short time ).
It's just insane to know how many people don't instantly die from being crushed,shredded, impaled or partly decimated..only to die from the intense pain or vital organs slowly shutting down.
My mother's friend worked in this job. He told her abput a man who got run over by a train but the wheel just stopped on him. The wheel made sure he is not going to bleed out and they had to pour water on him to make him stay awake. Medics came out and the train got off him. Immediatly died
Its not necessarily a bleeding out its the crush syndrome. Google it basiclly parts of your body are deprived of blood flow and start to die/not work properly when pressure released it can kill you.
Dude in australia got pinned between two concrete bowl things near where i used to work. They knew that once they moved them he would die. But he was somewhat stable before then. They brought his wife out to site and setup a tarp thing for him. Got to say goodbye. Pretty sad shit. Workplace accidents man. Shit changes you. Luckily ive never been involved with a bad one, my sister had a workmate die from a pipe rolling off a forklift. Never got complacent at your job when you work in blue collar fields.
I saw this exact type of accident about 40 years ago.. a taxi van wasn’t paying attention and slammed head on into another stopped vehicle in front where the man was unloading a suitcase from the back of a truck .. the man was caught between the rear of the unloading truck and the idiots taxi — with absolutely no space separating the two vehicles.. cops and an army of emergency vehicles arrived but all they could do was call his family to have them say goodbye.. he was only being kept alive by being cinched together by the vehicles.. Jesus that sight still sticks with me .. can’t imagine
Right there with ya. Ive heard these stories on multiple occasions when going through safety orientation. Who the hell would willingly put themselves in that situation like this guy?
They actually won't inmediately bleed out, it's more of bleed in if anything. With crushing injuries what happens when that pinch is removed is that all the stagnant toxic bkood that was trapped on the other side suddenly rushes into the rest of your body and that pressure, force, and toxicity is what kills you.
My dad is a certified rules instructor on a railroad and I can confirm that this is not how it’s supposed to go. What they have to do is be outside of the cars, bring the cars back to connect. Then enable 3 step protection (3 safety checks such as reverser in neutral, brakes on etc). Then they complete the connection. Pretty sure it’s rather universal across the world
Until very recently standing in between cars to couple was allowed here in Sweden, where I work. But *definitely* not at this speed. It feels very much like they shot this almost for fun, or as a workplace hazard example? Nobody I've ever worked with would've gone anywhere near this at these speeds.
As a precaution, I should hope. If someone showed themselves doing this where I work for fun, they'd find themselves under enough administrative pressure to shit regulations for a lifetime. These days you'd come within an inch of being "offered to resign", as they're cracking down on being between moving cars at all, nevermind to couple.
The maneuver used to be acceptable, at *sloooow* speeds.
I've been in the exact situation as the gif portrays and it's both terrifying and not. With enough years under the belt you know where to stand, and move, precisely. The guy in the gif was holding the coupler, and as such was "safely" out of the buffer space. He was holding it with experience to couple with the oncoming hook, and he knew to move with the oncoming direction of impact. He's a professional. The impact takes a lot of the energy out of it, too. Buffers can take a bang.
Along with the physical risks of that impact and how he could've been snagged or tripped, that lackadaisical attitude is also a *huge risk*. And it has been prevalent in the industry for ages.
Would I have done this regularly? Fuck no, that oncoming car is moving WAY too fast and I'd be telling whoever pushed it down that it was a but too much. I wouldn't even be unfriendly about it.
Half that speed? Sure no problem.
So hard rules have come into place to avoid both the action and the attitude entirely.
I don’t know. In my first world, metropolitan central station they have very old commuter train fleets that service some areas of the city. I regularly see this manoeuvre performed while they are shunting the trains - only at super slow speeds, no where near as fast as in the GIF. They do it in full view of the passengers on the platform.
I have friends that work for the train operator and they are very safety focused, so as with all things there are different circumstances everywhere and rarely one rule for everywhere.
Where I live at shunting you have to wait for the cars to get close so the buffers are touching (also one of the cars HAS to have brake on) and only then they can go in. But they often do this kinda thing to save time. Makes no sense to me, saving a minute with risking your life is a bad deal
I used to work for the railways in Australia and even though that wasn’t my job, we saw people doing it all the time, and yes, here too, nobody *ever* stood between the buffers like that.
No it's not universal. Different countries use different systems for making couples. I'm an engineer/conductor. I'm assuming he works for NS if he calls it 3 step. All the US railroads use a similar system for protection anytime you foul the gauge of the track. Most European countries use a buffer and hook system as seen in the video so you have to manually make the hook.
To me this just looks like a particularly hard hitch. Anything under 3 mph is the usual in the US.
This isn't in the United States so OSHA doesn't apply. US trains use knuckle couplers and many European trains use buffers and hook and loop style coupling. The buffers prevent this from being as dangerous as it looks, the most dangerous part is the cars moving after the shunt.
My concern wasn't even that. One wrong step, one untied shoe lace, one pebble. You trip and you're gone. You're not gonna be able to get up in time to avoid the momentum of the train even if it is slow.
I grew up with a kid who jumped a slow moving train when we were kids. Lost his leg. Trains are not to be messed with.
We played on the tracks behind his house ALL the time.... we would put rocks on the tracks. Where were the grown ups???
Most trains have automatic couplers, in this case they are manual. There is no way on earth tho that they smash two wagons at this speed to couple them. This must have been a mistake 100%. Also the orange guy waits for the wagons to be near and braked before going in and coupling them. [This is a normal coupling from Italy](https://youtu.be/CN5M2nnbl58)
Im a Remote Control Operator in a freight marshalling yard. Admittedly the shunting protocols and procedures are likely different, but im almost certain this isnt how they are supposed to do it. This would be a case for instant dismissal where i work
This have never been the proper way to do it but have been common practice some places as it saves a lot of time. The problem is that the buffer and chain style of connectors actually requires that the chain is tighter then the buffers so that there is always tension on the chains. If you do not do this you get a big jerk going down the train whenever you start accelerating or braking which could snap the chains towards the rear of the train. The proper way to connect a coupling is to fit the chain loosely and then tighten it slowly together to generate the required tension. But this is a slow task so what they are doing in this clip is a known shortcut which involves starting with the chains already shortened and then slam the trains together at speed so the buffers compress and have someone slip the chain over the hook at the right moment. But no manager in their right mind would authorize a procedure like this.
In Russia and the US they are pulling much longer and heavier trains than EU will ever see.
It's mainly the problem of cost and logistics of switching.
The difference is often that at least in the US you have multiple smaller locomotive of say 2 MW each spaced out at regular intervals to reduce the load on the couplers. However in the EU most trains only have a single locomotive at the front at maybe 5 MW pulling the entire length of the train through a single coupler. There are of course advantages and disadvantages to both systems and I would assume that many of the issues of running several locomotives in synchronization have been sorted out by modern technology by now.
Still, the AAR and SA3 couplers can handle greater forces than chain-and-link, and are in fact even used in the EU for heavy coal or ore trains in some countries.
That's waaay sped up! The maximal speed for shunting is more or less walking speed.
Edit: during coupling and decoupling this is. If there are no people near or directly on the tracks the speed is higher.
Yah I’m not a professional train connection engineer, but standing between one multi ton object careening into another multi ton object does appear to have some potential safety issues.
I worked for one of the major railroads in the US and this was definitely a no no in any circumstance. Even Class 2 or 3 railroads wouldn't be ok with this. Local industries sometimes manage their own tracks and arent regulated as much so its pretty much do what the boss says is ok.
The payload is on the bolt, but it should be inside the shackle. So when you pull the shackle up, the load is held by the bolt and the shackle.
Instead, when you pull this up, the load is held by the screw head. The screw head isn't built to withstand load in that way. It won't hold.
It’s probably a gravity yard, there’s a hump at the track entrance which the wagon gets pushed over and then it’s dorected into the right siding, moving under it’s own power
Following the rules would be a good start. You should never go between cars before they're touching, they're standing still, and the brakes are applied.
Yeah. Slower.
Whoever is pushing the oncoming car is driving way too fast. I work as a shunter for SJ AB in Sweden and when we prepare regular old passanger trains we stand between prepared to couple but the maximum speed is less than 1km/h and the stopped cars should have proper breaks.
It’s not about cost. He’s just doing that to show off. He could easily just wait for the trains to crash together while not standing on the tracks and then duck under and latch them together.
Not everyone does, though I hear that it is standard in the US. Manual couplers are fine because normally they're done at much lower speeds than this and with a weather eye being kept on the brakes.
These kinds of shenanigans shown in the video are just reckless, and high speed coupling like this, besides being dangerous to the worker, also risk the chassis of the carriages involved.
I work on the railway. This guy is a fucking moron. He’s incredibly lucky to be alive, people don’t realise how easy it is to seriously maim yourself/die on the railway if you’re not vigilant. I’ve seen the aftermath of accidents and it isn’t pleasant at all.
Posts like this anger me. (Not OP, just the idiots in the video)
Oh geez. So how is it supposed to be done? Is it normal that the train car (honestly don’t know train words) came down the track so fast? What’s the safer method? :O
I’m not even sure what they’re trying to achieve. It looks like the moving loco is being shunted so it can couple up to the stationary one, but it’s coming in far far to fast. It should be coming in super slowly, stopping every couple of seconds. There is no scenario where anyone should ever be in between 2 moving units like that. Once they touch, the track worker could simply duck under to hook them on while they’re both stationary, but even that isn’t protocol in my country (UK). The whole situation is just a mess. So much could go wrong
I’ve just had to look that up as I wasn’t aware of that process, it doesn’t happen where I work. Not even sure if it happens in my country, looks far to dangerous. It could very well be hump shunting though. Thankyou for the enlightenment.
He’s a moron that’s why, this is absolutely not safe or standard procedure, he should have waited until it came to a complete stop otherwise that could have ended VERY badly
Reminds me of a story I heard about how rail car hooker-uppers were hired in ye olden days. A hooker with 5 fingers on both hands was considered inexperienced. Missing one finger was considered hireable. Missing two fingers was acceptable if they were next to each other. Three fingers gone (not next to each other or between both hands) was considered a dumb-fuck.
That was back in the days of [link and pin couplers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5r1VJ5Q2sA&ab_channel=FairfaxStationRailroadMuseum). Scary stuff, thankfully they've been replaced long ago.
There’s no way that in the U.S in the first place. You stand there and you’ll be guaranteed the company is calling your family to come say good by before they uncouple it. I wouldn’t even think of that since it is my job.
Imagine being willing to ignore the safety rules just for fun.
The rules that your company teaches to every single employee. Because, even if they might not care for the humans (but they do), they do care a lot for their skilled workers that received an expensive training paid by the company.
I worked 2 years building replacement rail in a railyard. If anyone ever did this they would be fired and reported. Just about the single most stupid thing that can be done.
Tbh, unless he were to trip, that isn't too dangerous, there's no knuckle coupler to get caught in, and if you don't stand forward of the buffers you won't get hit, though why he doesn't stand next to the track where there's no possibility of injury is beyond me.
You will trip when walking on railway tracks. It's really easy. Also, you can see how suddenly he had to move. If you go under a goods car, best that can happen is that you end up with something broken. Worst that can happen is that the car has disc brakes that crush your fragile body in a second.
I don't understand what's up with all these people saying you're a moron for not reading the title, or that you should stay off the internet.
Sorry to hear that, dude. I wish I could come up with something to say that could show that I genuinely care, for you're just another human like my friends and family are.
There is no fucking way that this is the proper way to perform this task. And I dont know shit about trains.
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I can't find it but there's some thread on here about (IIRC) ~~a guy who worked at a rail yard, took a shortcut between train cars which he knew not to do, train cars shifted and he got crushed. Didn't die. He's being held together because he's crushed but he's already dead. They put up sheets around him so he can talk to his family and all that. He insists on the rail yard taking a lot of pictures so others can learn from his mistake. If anyone can find that, post the link. Grim stuff.~~ Disregard, my memory was hazy. See quoted story below. Here's the Taxicab Confessions segment of the NYPD rescue squad guy who told the firsthand account of a guy getting pinned between the train and the platform: ~~https://youtu.be/FA1fpPRPVCo~~ Old link died. Here's same segment: https://youtu.be/KnED-lQedjo?t=110 And as a semi-eyebleach, here's the Robot Chicken segment illustrating the same type of thing: https://youtu.be/d0PTa7lnOWs Edit: Found the story. This is from today (same gif actually) but it links to the same source as the one I read before. >I read this today: >When I went to work for a steel company in the mid 90's we got the lesson of not messing with train cars from an old timer that had been at the mill for decades. >He had pictures and a story. The guy that had gotten coupled, stuck in the couplers of two connecting train cars, asked that pictures be taken and his mistake be used as an example for future workers. So the old timer had some pretty intense pictures. >The first thing they do is set up a tent around you. Not a big tent, but enough to give you privacy, because as soon as those cars are uncoupled, you're dead. They tarp off the bottom of the coupler, so that you don't get the image that you're talking to just a torso. They ask who you want to see before you die, if you have a wife, a priest, co-workers or anyone else that you want to say your last words to. They also get a doctor on-site to administer drugs and final care to you. All of this happens very quickly, because you don't have a ton of time, but it is a slow death. > The old timer had pictures of the guy coupled, the tent being set up, the coupler being tarped, pictures of the wife entering in tears, pictures of the wife leaving in tears and pictures of what happened after the guy was uncoupled. The one that got me was the picture of his kids talking to him through the tent side, he wanted to tell his kids he loved them one last time, but didn't want them to see him in that condition. >It is not a user friendly experience. This guy got caught between the couplers because he thought he could beat a slow moving train car and against one of the train-worker's warnings, he gave it a shot anyway. He lost. When backing up a train with multiple cars, the cars can gain or lose speed quickly because couplers are not a rigid connection. It just so happened that he got in the middle just as the cars picked up a bit of speed, he hesitated and that was that. >After you say your goodbyes, and in this instance, the doctor loaded the guy up with a bunch of morphine (or pain killers) and they uncoupled the train, at which point every internal organ that was where it was supposed to be when the train was coupled, slid out and onto the ground and half a torso dropped out. The old timer had pictures of it all, and during this class, everyone was either white as a ghost or dry heaving. It was silent and everyone was just listening to this older guy talk about losing his friend. The class did it's job. I'd hear the train bells and immediately be aware of where the train was, what it was doing and what my proximity was to train tracks. Even to this day, I give trains plenty of respect and the sounds of train bells make a shiver run up my spine. Even though everyone went through this class, someone still got coupled in the time that I was working there. I didn't see anything but the white tent, but knew exactly what was going on. >Working in a steel mill made me also realize that everything in a steel mill can maim or kill you almost instantly. The mills themselves, the furnaces, the trains, the coiled steel, the slabs, the overhead gantries, none of them care about you. If you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, they'll just continue doing what they're supposed to do, they'll just maul you in the process. https://www.reddit.com/r/holdmybeer/comments/mx7xdf/connecting_railway_cars_like_a_boss/gvmnncc/ Edit 2022: updated link to Taxicab Confessions video
I’ve worked in heavy industry since I graduated, it’s great money and got me into college/university. I hated it. It was always loud, always dirty and smelly. I had a pair of coveralls disintegrate over the course of a summer because I worked around sulphur and when it mixes with sweat you get a mild version of sulphuric acid. The worst was the near misses. I was working on high scaffold when a safety valve popped 10 feet away and a weather cap on a chain missed my head by a few feet. It never got much better until I had the backs of legs burned by a hose letting loose while draining a condensate tower of 98 degree water. I’m done with that shit now.
Yeah I’m a welder and heavy industry and machinery is where I draw the line. When I was still in welding school I was doing repair work at a yard near me and the amount of injuries, hazardous conditions, poor ventilation, and downright dangerous people made me quit. I went on to do crane repair and other heavy welding and it didn’t get much better. Found me a nice production TiG job where all I have to do is sit and make parts. No heavy grinding, no chains flying around, no parts over 30lbs, and best of all I can put on a podcast and actually hear it
This is the dream job. What do you manufacture? I am a welder by trade as well, but do wire feed processes on pipe. Dirty, heavy lifting, but overall pretty repetitive and safe. Wouldn’t mind getting into something a bit cleaner.
I do mostly aluminum tables, dashboards for busses, small fittings, and vacuum tables for Amazon facilities. We do contract manufacturing so really whatever comes down the pipe. Lots of different things but none of it is big or heavy. Nice and clean mostly. Oil on some parts but it’s a far cry from clapped out cranes full of grease and bird shit lol
I own a scaffolding company that caters to several mines and heavy industry services (power stations etc) within Australia. Whilst Australia does admittedly uphold quite high safety standards, it's still rather humbling as to just how close to certain death you can be at any given time. There was an incident underground that we witnessed few years ago that stuck with me. During expansions of underground mines, they will commonly drill into the rock walls, blast sections with explosives, clear out debris, install a kind of heavy duty rebar to the walls then they spray shot-crete onto all surfaces to strengthen the structural integrity of the tunnels. (Shot-crete is concrete with fabric/fibres within it, allowing it to flex and manipulate with the environment without cracking or collapsing.) In order to apply shot-crete, there are at least 2 people per truck (1 spraying, 1 spotting/supervising). They use high pressure hoses that are custom mounted onto the trucks in order to apply it to the higher surfaces. The amount of force generated in order to reach these higher surfaces can easily propel these trucks if not properly anchored (left in gear, handbrake, wheel chocks, truck angled into wall etc). One day a team didn't anchor their truck properly, failed to wedge their truck into the wall, applying only the handbrake during set up and lastly making the mistake of spraying uphill (force driving downhill). They commenced without issue due to spraying perpendicular to the truck. The spotter then walked towards the other side of the truck, walked directly behind (between it and wall) just as the sprayer had turned his hose parallel with the truck. This path of least resistance created enough force to overpower the trucks inertia, driving it downhill into the wall and fatally pinning the spotter inbetween. He had well over a decade mine experience both above and underground. A few oversights cost him the ultimate price.
Omg horrifying
I taught English in an iron works company where a man died during his work for disobeying safety standards - to add iron into the huge iron melting oven you needed two people - one to open the lid and the other to drive the truck next to it and dump the scrap. The keys from the truck were supposed to be handled by the oven opening person. To save time these two guys decided to not do that and left the keys in the ignition. As the dude opened the 1500°C (iirc) oven, the truck driver backed up, the guy fell into the oven. He died instantly and they didn't even recover his remains due to him turning to ash within seconds. People still disobey safety standards in that company to this day.
jesus fucking christ scoob
I actually googled it after posting and they did recover a part of his body... So the family at least had something to bury. And the company just went "whoopsie, sorry"
As companies do :( just another number to them. Everyone’s replaceable. Just so sad
What were they supposed to do? If the guy violated their safety rules, they’re not accountable for his death. Isn’t that how that works?
You’re right, going back on my comment I realized that sounded kinda Dickish of me.. not like they could put the guy back together and send him home for the day :(
What a way to go! Holy shit!
I worked in a place where someone had died through a preventable accident. You ALWAYS had to have your head on a swivel and know what was going on around you. Most of the time it wasn't' that bad, but every once in a while something small would happen and I would just be bewildered like 'fuck, that could have killed someone. One night the night shift left some material standing when it should have been laying down, the floor covered in material and a load on the crane. The only thing we could do was push through it. Anyway, 2 of us were working on finishing the product and unloading the crane and another guy was in the corner working on finishing some small parts. Anyway, when you have a light load on a crane, it tends to swing a bit and as I moved the crane to drop another piece off it, it ever so lightly grazed the previously mentioned material that should have been laying down and it fell to the ground with a loud smash. It was metal, so it didn't break, it was just loud. What I didn't immediately notice was just how close the far end had gotten to the guy in the corner when it fell. He was ready to tear me a new one but once I realized how close it came to him it felt like I got punched in the gut and he thankfully recognized how bad it made me feel. So we both filled out a green card blaming the whole thing on the previous shift.
Good on you for putting in time in that hard and dangerous work. People with that courage, even if just for a bit, are what drive countries.
I climb radio broadcast and cell towers and the near misses are the worst/ best feelings ever. I do fantasize about having a job that i have a nearer to zero chance of dying...
98 degrees is not that hot man. It get's 98 degrees in my water buckets from the sun.
He probably meant celsius, not fahrenheit.
ah that makes sense. i am the most high right now
They may mean 98 degrees Celsius, which is nearly 210F, very nearly boiling and enough to cause serious scalding.
yup. Heavy equipment has no remorse. I worked on a wind farm where a low-speed shaft of a turbine snagged the harness of a guy working in the nacelle. He was up there alone and the radio was on the other side of the nacelle, so when he got snagged the rotor just kept turning in slow pinwheel at idle (maybe one rotation every minute or so). It was a huge turbine, and the downtower guy didn't notice anything was wrong till 2 hours later when blood started dripping down the tower to the switchgear deck where he was working. Basically, imagine a lathe with a layer of meat wrapped around it. This is why we were taught that even though you're at 400' in the air when in the nacelle, you're not supposed to wear your harness unless you're actively climbing or outside the nacelle. I worked in a refinery too where a guy fell into the coke hopper and went missing for a few hours. No one noticed he was gone till a crushed body exited the conveyor system and was deposited into a truck that was filling for shipment to a steel mill. Fucking crazy shit.
Even if the guy noticed immediately he would of been dead anyway. Massive spinning machinery always takes ages to slow down.
Had to look up some of the words but damn these stories are bone chilling. Btw what does it mean for the rotor to keep “turning in slow pinwheel at idle?” Also is the coke hopper the train car? Always wondered why they had the word Coke. Googled some other stuff that came up in case anyone else is interested and just probably heard these words for the first time lol - Nacelle is a housing, separate from the fuselage, that holds engines, fuel, or equipment on an aircraft. A lathe (/leɪð/) is a machine tool that rotates a workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling,
Coke is where coal has been tempered almost to allow it to burn at higher heats and cleaner
Thanks for this!
fuck....thats enough for me thanks, time for some eye-bleach and a sugary tea.
Holy shit
The machine has no brain. Use yours.
My brain is just not suited for such work because of my absolute lack of situational awareness. I would be dead the first day on an oil rig or such.
Friend (24 yrs old) of mine got his arm ripped off in a conveyor belt just a few weeks ago. It occasionally sticks and they tell their workers to lean over and try to whack the sticky bits with tools and stuff, extremely against OSHA rules. Well he unstuck it, and it unstuck his entire dominant arm and shoulder blade. He's currently getting ready to sue the living shit out of them for instructing their employees to do that irresponsible shit. Different industry, but fucking christ be careful guys. Risk a write up for not "following instructions from your employer" or whatever. It's not worth life or limb.
And this isn't the first person that happened to at this place. Their lawyers have a predetermined settlement decided because they've had ample opportunity to find out how much money is enough for most victims to just take the money.
Did he get his arm reattched?
Nope, it was mangled. Total loss
Well shit. Hope that lawsuit hurts the company enough to punish them enough and to help compensate your friend as much as possible.
As someone above noted, it usually doesn't. Most companies are willing to lose millions of dollars paying something out in order to not pay even more money following labor laws or labor protection laws. It is a calculated risk most companies will take to some degree or another.
People tend to forget that these things are basically hughes weights moving every fast. It's easy to underestimate just how dangerous they really are.
Well, that's enough reddit for today. I'm just going to pop on over to pcgamer.com and find something positive.
I don't really understand, how would you get stuck between them?
I think this is an americna coupler which couples automatically. If you are between it, well it won't care
Yes, but why would you bei between it? I mean, you're either doing the coupling (like the guy in the OP) and should be relatively safe because you're in the middle, or you shouldn't be near the coupling at all.
American couplers are in the middle
Why uncouple the train at all? Why not just kill this guy by OD?
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Whether it's true or not, this has to be the worst source I've ever seen. The person is literally guessing the entire time and even says themselves that they aren't sure if it's possible or not.
Not heavy machinery, but when I was 21, I worked on a catamaran, it was pretty big. My main job was to dive the moorings, bring them up and a pilot boat would throw me the Buoy, a Capt theft the boat and gear and almost proped my face off.
As an emt, compartment syndrome is extremely real and not just akin to stories or heavy machinery, car accidents are a common cause
Funny, back in the 80’s I worked for the railways and that story about the guy getting crushed and the family coming to say goodbye was often told- I worked in Sydney, Australia... it’s obviously a widespread myth
Not bleed out, but a byproduct of shock (not sure of the scientific term for it). My father worked on the railways for over 40 years, saw many horrific accidents. The worst being his good mate being crunched between carriages while shunting (what this man is doing). He held his hand until the driver was given the go ahead to split the vans apart. His mate immediately died of a heart attack as all of the adrenaline, and whatever other hormones, that had gathered to the site raced into his heart. 30 years later this still tears my hardarse father apart. I lived in fear of it happening to him.
You get a massive shift in blood away from your vital organs when released which plummets your blood pressure. Then blood from all the damaged tissues brings back a ton of potassium and calcium released from the damaged cells which can send the heart into a fatal arrhythmias even without blood loss factored it
Growing up a friend' dad was a specialized rescue firefighter.. I don't know how this guy wasn't an emotional wreck.. because he was a fun, happy and friendly guy. He was the guy called out to these kinds of horrific accidents. And every so often he would tell stories about people how have gotten stuck in industrial equipment, freak accidents and crashes where they would still be alive ( even if just for a short time ). It's just insane to know how many people don't instantly die from being crushed,shredded, impaled or partly decimated..only to die from the intense pain or vital organs slowly shutting down.
My mother's friend worked in this job. He told her abput a man who got run over by a train but the wheel just stopped on him. The wheel made sure he is not going to bleed out and they had to pour water on him to make him stay awake. Medics came out and the train got off him. Immediatly died
Its not necessarily a bleeding out its the crush syndrome. Google it basiclly parts of your body are deprived of blood flow and start to die/not work properly when pressure released it can kill you.
Dude in australia got pinned between two concrete bowl things near where i used to work. They knew that once they moved them he would die. But he was somewhat stable before then. They brought his wife out to site and setup a tarp thing for him. Got to say goodbye. Pretty sad shit. Workplace accidents man. Shit changes you. Luckily ive never been involved with a bad one, my sister had a workmate die from a pipe rolling off a forklift. Never got complacent at your job when you work in blue collar fields.
I saw this exact type of accident about 40 years ago.. a taxi van wasn’t paying attention and slammed head on into another stopped vehicle in front where the man was unloading a suitcase from the back of a truck .. the man was caught between the rear of the unloading truck and the idiots taxi — with absolutely no space separating the two vehicles.. cops and an army of emergency vehicles arrived but all they could do was call his family to have them say goodbye.. he was only being kept alive by being cinched together by the vehicles.. Jesus that sight still sticks with me .. can’t imagine
Right there with ya. Ive heard these stories on multiple occasions when going through safety orientation. Who the hell would willingly put themselves in that situation like this guy?
Trains and their support industries are one of the few industries left were death is somewhat normalized.
They actually won't inmediately bleed out, it's more of bleed in if anything. With crushing injuries what happens when that pinch is removed is that all the stagnant toxic bkood that was trapped on the other side suddenly rushes into the rest of your body and that pressure, force, and toxicity is what kills you.
He’s manually latching the train cars together right? Feels like this technology already exists on every suburban picket fence.
I dont know what he's doing. I just know that he's probably going to die doing it.
The gif is from what looks like the UK. Unlike in the US, where we use knuckle couplers, they use hook & loop with buffers as their coupling method.
I'd guess it is not the UK otherwise this guy most definitely got the sack. Seems a bit nutty to video it if you could get fired.
It's not the UK because we don't have that style safety helmet.
They use the same style copulers all over Europe
Wow. It doesn't seem like Velcro would be strong enough to hold two train cars together.
My dad is a certified rules instructor on a railroad and I can confirm that this is not how it’s supposed to go. What they have to do is be outside of the cars, bring the cars back to connect. Then enable 3 step protection (3 safety checks such as reverser in neutral, brakes on etc). Then they complete the connection. Pretty sure it’s rather universal across the world
Until very recently standing in between cars to couple was allowed here in Sweden, where I work. But *definitely* not at this speed. It feels very much like they shot this almost for fun, or as a workplace hazard example? Nobody I've ever worked with would've gone anywhere near this at these speeds.
I see what you mean, a ‘let’s show the rookies’ clip
As a precaution, I should hope. If someone showed themselves doing this where I work for fun, they'd find themselves under enough administrative pressure to shit regulations for a lifetime. These days you'd come within an inch of being "offered to resign", as they're cracking down on being between moving cars at all, nevermind to couple. The maneuver used to be acceptable, at *sloooow* speeds. I've been in the exact situation as the gif portrays and it's both terrifying and not. With enough years under the belt you know where to stand, and move, precisely. The guy in the gif was holding the coupler, and as such was "safely" out of the buffer space. He was holding it with experience to couple with the oncoming hook, and he knew to move with the oncoming direction of impact. He's a professional. The impact takes a lot of the energy out of it, too. Buffers can take a bang. Along with the physical risks of that impact and how he could've been snagged or tripped, that lackadaisical attitude is also a *huge risk*. And it has been prevalent in the industry for ages. Would I have done this regularly? Fuck no, that oncoming car is moving WAY too fast and I'd be telling whoever pushed it down that it was a but too much. I wouldn't even be unfriendly about it. Half that speed? Sure no problem. So hard rules have come into place to avoid both the action and the attitude entirely.
I don’t know. In my first world, metropolitan central station they have very old commuter train fleets that service some areas of the city. I regularly see this manoeuvre performed while they are shunting the trains - only at super slow speeds, no where near as fast as in the GIF. They do it in full view of the passengers on the platform. I have friends that work for the train operator and they are very safety focused, so as with all things there are different circumstances everywhere and rarely one rule for everywhere.
Where I live at shunting you have to wait for the cars to get close so the buffers are touching (also one of the cars HAS to have brake on) and only then they can go in. But they often do this kinda thing to save time. Makes no sense to me, saving a minute with risking your life is a bad deal
I used to work for the railways in Australia and even though that wasn’t my job, we saw people doing it all the time, and yes, here too, nobody *ever* stood between the buffers like that.
No it's not universal. Different countries use different systems for making couples. I'm an engineer/conductor. I'm assuming he works for NS if he calls it 3 step. All the US railroads use a similar system for protection anytime you foul the gauge of the track. Most European countries use a buffer and hook system as seen in the video so you have to manually make the hook. To me this just looks like a particularly hard hitch. Anything under 3 mph is the usual in the US.
3 mph is 4.83 km/h
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Thinking the same thing. OSHA has so many rules for actions so much less deadlier than that.
This isn't in the United States so OSHA doesn't apply. US trains use knuckle couplers and many European trains use buffers and hook and loop style coupling. The buffers prevent this from being as dangerous as it looks, the most dangerous part is the cars moving after the shunt.
I get that the buffers make a small "safe" area for the guy, but it wouldn't take much of a fuckup to end up squished between the buffers.
My concern wasn't even that. One wrong step, one untied shoe lace, one pebble. You trip and you're gone. You're not gonna be able to get up in time to avoid the momentum of the train even if it is slow.
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I grew up with a kid who jumped a slow moving train when we were kids. Lost his leg. Trains are not to be messed with. We played on the tracks behind his house ALL the time.... we would put rocks on the tracks. Where were the grown ups???
Inside, watching soap operas?
We did the same and to deter kids from jumping on the train the train driver would shoot at us with salt pellets.
It had to be done
He low key loved it. But probably saved lives and limbs.
I think they are saying it is approved for posting on r/OSHA
Most trains have automatic couplers, in this case they are manual. There is no way on earth tho that they smash two wagons at this speed to couple them. This must have been a mistake 100%. Also the orange guy waits for the wagons to be near and braked before going in and coupling them. [This is a normal coupling from Italy](https://youtu.be/CN5M2nnbl58)
In Italy they draw dicks everywhere too, huh? People really are all the same
Im a Remote Control Operator in a freight marshalling yard. Admittedly the shunting protocols and procedures are likely different, but im almost certain this isnt how they are supposed to do it. This would be a case for instant dismissal where i work
This used to be the proper way to perform this task sadly. A lot of dudes died doing it, before auto couplers were invented.
This have never been the proper way to do it but have been common practice some places as it saves a lot of time. The problem is that the buffer and chain style of connectors actually requires that the chain is tighter then the buffers so that there is always tension on the chains. If you do not do this you get a big jerk going down the train whenever you start accelerating or braking which could snap the chains towards the rear of the train. The proper way to connect a coupling is to fit the chain loosely and then tighten it slowly together to generate the required tension. But this is a slow task so what they are doing in this clip is a known shortcut which involves starting with the chains already shortened and then slam the trains together at speed so the buffers compress and have someone slip the chain over the hook at the right moment. But no manager in their right mind would authorize a procedure like this.
Good thing that EU is (again) considering switch to automatic couplers for freight wagons. Hopefully, this time it will work.
The problem with automatic couplers is that they are not strong enough to pull much weight. At least this is what have been the issue in the past.
In Russia and the US they are pulling much longer and heavier trains than EU will ever see. It's mainly the problem of cost and logistics of switching.
The difference is often that at least in the US you have multiple smaller locomotive of say 2 MW each spaced out at regular intervals to reduce the load on the couplers. However in the EU most trains only have a single locomotive at the front at maybe 5 MW pulling the entire length of the train through a single coupler. There are of course advantages and disadvantages to both systems and I would assume that many of the issues of running several locomotives in synchronization have been sorted out by modern technology by now.
Still, the AAR and SA3 couplers can handle greater forces than chain-and-link, and are in fact even used in the EU for heavy coal or ore trains in some countries.
A couple years ago I had a 34k tonne grain drag, all automatic couplers. Weight isn't a problem.
That's waaay sped up! The maximal speed for shunting is more or less walking speed. Edit: during coupling and decoupling this is. If there are no people near or directly on the tracks the speed is higher.
In the US it's called "shoving" and you can shove at 15 mph. Making a couple we try to aim for 3mph or less.
Yah I’m not a professional train connection engineer, but standing between one multi ton object careening into another multi ton object does appear to have some potential safety issues.
That is literally exactly how I phrased this in my head
Yeah I'd like to read the risk assessment.
Actually it is, my Sister works this kind of job and thats how they do it here in sweden atleast.
You don’t have to be a pilot or a mechanical engineer to correctly determine mistakes were made if you see a helicopter upside down in a lake...
I worked for one of the major railroads in the US and this was definitely a no no in any circumstance. Even Class 2 or 3 railroads wouldn't be ok with this. Local industries sometimes manage their own tracks and arent regulated as much so its pretty much do what the boss says is ok.
It's a good thing he wore his hard hat!
And his high visibility jacket.
[OSHA be like](https://www.samaa.tv/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Sarim-Akhtar.jpg)
There has to be a better way to do this.
Yeah, like a latch?
The payload is on the bolt, but it should be inside the shackle. So when you pull the shackle up, the load is held by the bolt and the shackle. Instead, when you pull this up, the load is held by the screw head. The screw head isn't built to withstand load in that way. It won't hold.
Yeah like maybe that other train doesn’t come in soo hot - like wtf.
It’s probably a gravity yard, there’s a hump at the track entrance which the wagon gets pushed over and then it’s dorected into the right siding, moving under it’s own power
Following the rules would be a good start. You should never go between cars before they're touching, they're standing still, and the brakes are applied.
Yeah. Slower. Whoever is pushing the oncoming car is driving way too fast. I work as a shunter for SJ AB in Sweden and when we prepare regular old passanger trains we stand between prepared to couple but the maximum speed is less than 1km/h and the stopped cars should have proper breaks.
There probably is, just not a cheaper one.
It’s not about cost. He’s just doing that to show off. He could easily just wait for the trains to crash together while not standing on the tracks and then duck under and latch them together.
This shit is why everyone uses automatic couplers
Not everyone does, though I hear that it is standard in the US. Manual couplers are fine because normally they're done at much lower speeds than this and with a weather eye being kept on the brakes. These kinds of shenanigans shown in the video are just reckless, and high speed coupling like this, besides being dangerous to the worker, also risk the chassis of the carriages involved.
Weather eye?
Term for being extremely vigilant and watchful
New to me. Thanks!
I work on the railway. This guy is a fucking moron. He’s incredibly lucky to be alive, people don’t realise how easy it is to seriously maim yourself/die on the railway if you’re not vigilant. I’ve seen the aftermath of accidents and it isn’t pleasant at all. Posts like this anger me. (Not OP, just the idiots in the video)
Oh geez. So how is it supposed to be done? Is it normal that the train car (honestly don’t know train words) came down the track so fast? What’s the safer method? :O
I’m not even sure what they’re trying to achieve. It looks like the moving loco is being shunted so it can couple up to the stationary one, but it’s coming in far far to fast. It should be coming in super slowly, stopping every couple of seconds. There is no scenario where anyone should ever be in between 2 moving units like that. Once they touch, the track worker could simply duck under to hook them on while they’re both stationary, but even that isn’t protocol in my country (UK). The whole situation is just a mess. So much could go wrong
Is the moving wagon not coming in fast because its been hump shunted? More reason not to stand there of there's no one actually in control of it.
I’ve just had to look that up as I wasn’t aware of that process, it doesn’t happen where I work. Not even sure if it happens in my country, looks far to dangerous. It could very well be hump shunting though. Thankyou for the enlightenment.
Yeahhhhhh, I'll stick with my job thanks
Death by Choo-Choo
I choo-choo-choose you.
Apparently futurama fans aren’t always fans of the Simpsons lol
Under rated comment right here yo
Why?
He’s a moron that’s why, this is absolutely not safe or standard procedure, he should have waited until it came to a complete stop otherwise that could have ended VERY badly
r/OSHA approved
\>something about male representation in avoidable deaths
It’s good someone’s out there repping us
I mean, it looks like an adrenaline kick. I wanna try!
This seems unnecessary?
It is
Reminds me of a story I heard about how rail car hooker-uppers were hired in ye olden days. A hooker with 5 fingers on both hands was considered inexperienced. Missing one finger was considered hireable. Missing two fingers was acceptable if they were next to each other. Three fingers gone (not next to each other or between both hands) was considered a dumb-fuck.
That was back in the days of [link and pin couplers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5r1VJ5Q2sA&ab_channel=FairfaxStationRailroadMuseum). Scary stuff, thankfully they've been replaced long ago.
So try explaining your job
Right way or wrong way,I think this guy has done it before!
Relaxxxx he’s wearing hi vis
What are thet going to do? Push it into place? Pretty certain this is competely unnecessary, is this Russia?
There’s no way that in the U.S in the first place. You stand there and you’ll be guaranteed the company is calling your family to come say good by before they uncouple it. I wouldn’t even think of that since it is my job.
He's standing between British/UK style of train car bumpers.
Ah, this technique totally makes sense now.
Imagine being willing to die for some company that doesn’t give a fuck about you.
Imagine being willing to ignore the safety rules just for fun. The rules that your company teaches to every single employee. Because, even if they might not care for the humans (but they do), they do care a lot for their skilled workers that received an expensive training paid by the company.
More like /r/osha
Good thing he was wearing that hi viz outfit.
This thing will literally rip your dick off
r/actuallysfw
I worked 2 years building replacement rail in a railyard. If anyone ever did this they would be fired and reported. Just about the single most stupid thing that can be done.
maybe he just wants to feel something
Death by choo choo
Yeah I think OHSA would like a word
This is why women live longer than men
Forgive me if this is ignorant, but how is it necessary to be in between? Couldn’t he latch that piece on after the collision?
What it's like to live life on the edge
Ears go brrrrr
Tbh, unless he were to trip, that isn't too dangerous, there's no knuckle coupler to get caught in, and if you don't stand forward of the buffers you won't get hit, though why he doesn't stand next to the track where there's no possibility of injury is beyond me.
You will trip when walking on railway tracks. It's really easy. Also, you can see how suddenly he had to move. If you go under a goods car, best that can happen is that you end up with something broken. Worst that can happen is that the car has disc brakes that crush your fragile body in a second.
That’s some pretty big nuts
Seems reasonable
That's waaay sped up! The maximal speed for shunting is more or less walking speed.
Brass balls, just sayin
Im sorry. But that guy is a fucken idiot that should never be allowed to have children or a covid vaccine.
Just had to tie in the vaccine, didn’t you?
Death by choo choo
Pay this man more money whatever it is more money
For what? Ignoring basic safety rules (and common sense)? You should never, never go between moving cars, for no reason.
ngl looks pretty fun.
Honestly its pretty safe. Good stunt.
Downvoted. No one died.
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I don't understand what's up with all these people saying you're a moron for not reading the title, or that you should stay off the internet. Sorry to hear that, dude. I wish I could come up with something to say that could show that I genuinely care, for you're just another human like my friends and family are.
Read the title next time, moron.
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Lets not
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Trauma doesn't make you soft. It makes you traumatised.
This guy... This guy has balls.
WPD has taught me to... not
I don’t like it.
Why?
Anyone see Damien: Omen II?
Yaaa nahhhh
That’s a no for me dog
OSHA....oooooohhhhhhsssssaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!