Goriest/Worst Workplace Sight You Ever Witnessed
Because of the interest that was shown with 'The Best/Worst job you've
ever had - now, how about his one?
What is the worst that you have seen?
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ever had - now, how about his one?
What is the worst that you have seen?
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Could be the time I saw a man get hit in the back of the head with a lay down hook and thrown clear over the rotary table.
It might be the lady that had her are pulled into the rollers of a laminate glue machine. All the way past the elbow before they got it shut off.
I think the worst was when the fuel tank on a sprayer exploded and burnt the guy filling it with diesel fuel. Don0 -
Tons of chemical sewage seeping into Lake Michigan from decrepite underground waste lines by several different companies along Chicagos' lakefront in the 1980s. It had been going on for decades. Some of the worst offenders, Abbott Labs, Johnson Motors, Johns Manville.Does that count or are we talking about boo-boo mishaps by laborers? 0 -
Those images are buried deep in my mind and I don't like thinking about them. All they do is bring back the bad dreams. It is amazing what human beings will do to other human beings in a time of war. 0 -
Anyone who has worked in the petroleum industry, especially down stream has likely witnessed horrific acidents involving violent death and gastly injuries often involving crushing or dismemberment. In a few cases those who survived would have probably been better off dead [V]. I have seen all of these things and recounting them here serves no valid purpose. I will point out that there are various web sites dedicated to blood and gore and those who are truely interested in these things are free to visit tehem. 0 -
D-DAY,No more needs sayin,Thanks,Paul 0 -
I was working in this huuuge warehouse, was walking around in one part where nobody goes, and saw this guy pinned up against a metal rack by a palette jack going "oooohhhhh.... uuuhhhhhh...." you could barely hear him. I ran to get some help, but somebody else already saw him and they were already on the way.
it was one of those electric jacks you can stand on the end and ride it backwards with your load, apparently he was going high speed, got out of control and went WHACK against the rack, he was there for about 1/2 hour before anybody saw him, I think it broke his back.
just stuck there for a half hour or so going "oooohhhhh.... uuuhhhhhh...."
that's the worst I saw. ain't nothing like what's posted above.0 -
Showed up for work right after a guy lost his arm from the elbow down after trying to air up a lear 23 tire (on a split rim) with 3000 psi. The thru bolts sheared off. Looked like hamburger all over the place. 0 -
Worked at a punch press shop where those around me commonly lost fingers, or part of their hand. While working at the mine/smelter i witnessed (and was involved in) several close calls.
One fun job while at the smelter was "shooting the furnace". This involved driving a pipe down into the buildup on the edges inside, and putting a few sticks of dynamite down the pipe and blowing this buildup off. After sticking the dynamite down the pipe, you quickly inserted a waterhose to keep it cool while you stepped behind a nearby steel plate to set the charge off. Many times, the water got hot enough to boil the charge out on the floor before you could set it off....And i wonder why my ears ring 24/7.[;)]0 -
Uss Iowa 4-19-89
Worked barges in theChicago area. Rubbers,tampons,dead aninals, and funky green water. I vowed never again to drink water in New Orleans.0 -
I just think that anyone who has any interest in these things has been blessed enough to not have gone through anything like it....and I hope for them they never have to experience what they are seeking. 0 -
Worst impression ever was to see a mother die during delivery.
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I am a paramedic in a small but bad city. I also work on the wildland fire in the summer. I have been at this for about 10yrs now I have seen a thing or two. 0 -
I have been pretty lucky...nothing to tell myself....but my Larry was only 17 yrs old and in the local volunteer fire dept when they worked a wreck that the car had another fire dept volunteer's father in that the car ran off into a ditch and caught fire......everyone there heard the screams including the son. Very bad things are hard to think about and even harder to remember. 0 -
Wile re-irrigating an old golf course in Ft.Pierce Florida.(I was the Control wire man) I witnessed a guy standing on a cart-path, wile the HUGE diesel Ditch Witch cut through the path right next to him.
The dig chain snagged a big piece of "cap-rock" from under the path and it caved-in.He got sucked in by the dig-chain, and went all the way through, and got spat out by the "Spoil Auger".[xx(]
CRAPP!!! I had almost forgotten that...
THANKS ZIP!!
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Watched a 20 ton water cooled door from an open hearth furnace
blown up about 30 feet by a gas backup surge ignition - landed
squarely atop a gang boss chatting with two masons. My gang of
slaggers was sitting about 50 feet away eating 'lunch' at about 2AM.
It made an indelible impression in my mind which helped me later on
in my young life. Strange how life sometimes works.0 -
quote:Originally posted by kristov
I have seen all of these things and recounting them here serves no valid purpose.
I agree, but wonder why you recounted them here.0 -
For over 30 years I've been one of those who get called out when things go to hell.
Seen a lot of bad things, but for some reason can't really come up with one I'd call the worst. Instead, ask me about funny stuff that's happened and I can talk all day. Funny how that works.0 -
well... there's a russian saying. "you can't cry for every funeral when you live next to the graveyard." 0 -
I have only been on a Firefighter/Paramedic for a little over 5 years. We run over 9000 calls a year so I have seen some pretty crazy things. I meant to keep a journal since the day I was hired, would have made for great reading material after I retire in another 25 years. 0 -
I saw a plane crash two doors down when I was 9. I saw a man burn up in a mobile home when I was 35. Not at work at the time but I still remember. Don 0 -
Worked in acute care physical therapy department. Did a lot of days in the whirlpool room doing wound care stuff. Burns, infected spider bites, infected surgial wounds, bed sores w/ massive infections, etc. 0 -
Some bad wrecks. Pedestrians that get hit on the Interstate will usually get hit several times before people realize what has happened. By that time they are long past dead and pretty messed up.
Homicide by claw hammer. House was literally sprayed with blood, looked like from a hose. Victim was making those sucking noises, not quite breathing, when we arrived.
Suicide by 3" 12 ga. 00Buckshot, muzzle placed against right side of head just forward of the ear. Head exploded. Oddly enough, the face was intact, like a mask, and it flopped backward over the hole in the neck where the head was. This took place in the living room of an average two-bedroom apartment. There was some of this feller in every room.
Saw a feller who brought a knife to a gunfight. The fight took place across the front porch of a house, maybe 10 feet. Gun was a 20 gauge single, loaded with bird shot. The load hit the knife hand, removing two fingers and shattering the knife. It continued rearward and made a through and through wound in the lower abdomen, with intestines extruding out of the exit wound. The shot guy ran a couple of blocks before he passed out. He recovered from his wounds.
Lots of "normal" shootings, stabbings, suicides, wrecks, etc.0 -
We have a WINNER!'[:D] 0 -
Watched a girl burn alive from a wreck in a Fiero.
Seen a worker lose a hand at the wrist in a press. Cut it completely off. I flipped out and to this day cannot believe I pulled my belt off put it around his arm and told him to pull tight while I went and got help.0 -
There was a call that I personally wasnt on but it gets passed around the firehouse all of the time. Some drunk and his wife were fighting and the drunk guy decided he was going to kill himself. The wife at him to do it outside so that he didnt get any blood on the sofa. He grabbed his shotgun and sat on the sofa, put the gun underneath his chin and shot his whole jaw and nose off and then passed out on the couch. The wife hearing the noise called the police. The officer showed up and saw the bloody mess lying on the couch and figured him for dead. Much to his suprise the drunk got up and followed him out to his squad which scared the hell out of him. EMS was called and a local fire chief has a picture of the drunk with half a face giving him the finger. The medics said it was the easiest intubation (breathing tube) they had ever done. 0 -
Weird/strange Got sent on a call one day about a suicide, Older man got word from his doctor that he had cancer. He sat outside his trailer in the screen porch with a rifle in his mouth and did himself in. Not much left from the neck up. He had relatives that lived close by and they were there before me and the coroner. We used a local guy for photos and I saw him standing in the parking lot about 50 feet from the trailer talking with a bunch of people. He called me over and said that he hadn't taken any photos yet and asked that everyone else give us some privacy. He had been standing in the same place about 15 minutes talking with the mans grandchildren with the mans severed ear hidden between his feet. 0 -
workplace;
was bout 6 or so went with gran-pa to the local meat processing plant to sell some beef and got a free tour from one of the guys while "pap" did buisiness.
after al the "good" cuts are made the useable scrap got thrown down a schute where it was ground up for...hotdogs
not that bad, except for the WOMAN (biggest, baddest NASTIEST gal i ever seen!) scooping up the scraps as they hit the FLOOR with a shovel and tossing it in the grinder.
and she constantly chewed, but no one ever saw a spittoon anywhere around
also many times first responder tieing up the chisle/file etc that someone didnt want to "waste time" finding a handle for (tang through hand/wrist)
accidents, both worst ones involved drivers either drunk or asleep at the wheel;
1. on way to indiana to visit cousin, about 03:00 car in guardrails.
sterring wheel colapsed, column into stomache/ribcage as driver went through windshield...no hope as most intestinal matter had regurgitated onto hood
2. excessive speed down hill into end of chain link fence.
reflexively raised hand as he hit and the end of the top stretcher pipe went through hand, body and both front and rear seats into trunk somehow missing all vitals!
had no pipe cutter on response vehicle so we had to use a HACK SAW to cut through on both sides of him to extricate and move
he stopped back at the garage 2 yrs later and somehow they managed to save about 85 percent use of the hand! didnt look the greatest but at least it was there
the last was related by my grandpa as happening at the old reading rail road spring street station;
womehow one of the yard workers managed to be between two cars as they were being coupled, got pinched in the couplers dead center crushing the spine
minor bleeding because of the compression, no major pain so they left him there till the doc arrived (NO AMBULANCE SERVICE THEN YET)
doc said he was dead soon as they un-hook and blood flows again, so he had them call his wife, finished last minute arrangements, kissed her goodbuy and then told em to "take 'er away!" dropped and was dead in seconds0 -
A lot like what Nunn described. So sense going into details. Plus scuba diving in zero vis water to recover drowning victums, and plane crash bodies.
Been there done that. The "T" shirt don't interest me. I wish some one else had those images in their head instead of floating around in mine.0 -
I didn't see it happen, but I was working construction on the same job and saw the guy hauled off. He was working on a roof, stepped back and fell up to his thighs into a roofing tar heater. 0 -
I did good not being able to recall the bad things until I got rheumatiod arthritis.The medications brought them all back.Its going to take awhile to get back to normal. 0
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