"Safety first!"

"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
11/09/2015 at 12:11 • Filed to: Construction

Please don’t do this. My heart can’t take a lot on a Monday morning.

DISCUSSION (19)

TheHondaBro > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
11/09/2015 at 12:15

Let him do it. We need to clean the gene pool.

Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
11/09/2015 at 12:24

He’s one of the asshats clogging up 405 on my commute home. Let nature take its course.

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
11/09/2015 at 12:24

How is that board even still holding his weight?

skinnyrook > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
11/09/2015 at 12:28

He has it strapped to the scaffolding with what appears to be ratchet straps.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
11/09/2015 at 12:32

It’s strapped down to the aluminum walkboard.

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
11/09/2015 at 12:33

Oh, well then that's cool. It's in the OSHA Regulations. lol

Ash78, voting early and often > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
11/09/2015 at 12:33

Eh, he’s probably a rapist or murderer, anyway.

/trumped

Chariotoflove > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
11/09/2015 at 12:34

Darwin award finalist?

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
11/09/2015 at 12:39

Fantastic way to freak out passers-by.

Buy I agree, not the best method.

450X_FTW > Stapleface-Now Hyphenated!
11/09/2015 at 12:40

They’re OSHA approved bungie cords

Dunnik > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
11/09/2015 at 13:53

Safety Second!

Or Third. Or whenever, really.

shop-teacher > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
11/09/2015 at 14:06

Eh, I’ve seen a lot worse in the construction field. You wouldn’t catch me out there though!

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > shop-teacher
11/09/2015 at 15:23

But how much worse? No hardhat, no fall protection, standing on what I have to assume is not code (pretty clever contraption though), it’s raining, and if he slips he’s dead end of story.... Well he could survive or shatter his pelvis I suppose.

I feel like I should appreciate life more — I have also partaken in unsafe practices of the labor variety... looking back I feel like a dunce.

shop-teacher > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
11/09/2015 at 17:34

My dad is a residential contractor, I spent every school break from 13-25ish working for him. There has never been a hard hat, a set of earplugs or safety glasses, or even steel toed boots on one of his job sites unless the employee brought them their-self ... upon which they would be made fun of. The worst I ever saw was a high school student who was wearing nothing but a T-shirt, slip on clogs, and mesh shorts (ask me how I know there was nothing under the shorts) Dad sent onto a 10-12 pitch roof 3 stories up to secure a tarp. While he was out there, he learned the hard way that either idiot #1 (this kid who delighted in slipping a nut out into the breeze), idiot #2 (another high school student), or idiot #3 (a guy who had been working for my dad for years simply because my dad can’t stand to fire anybody) had secured the chicken ladder boards with 8-penny nails. So, the board that he was walking on pulled out, and he began sliding down the roof. Fortunately the tarp was secured on the other side of the roof with 16D nails and he had a strong grip, because that’s the only thing that kept him from going over. You would think that he learned, but nope. He worked for 4 or 5 summers for my dad, and that was his uniform the entire time.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > shop-teacher
11/09/2015 at 19:02

Well that sounds awful. I can relate to the gear thing... at a previous job that “my friend” worked at, no one wore their guards, glasses, sometimes even gloves, and hahaha earplugs, and if you made an effort to do so, you were teased by your freaking supervisors. Actually told that production was being slowed because of how long I, I mean, my friend, was taking to make sure he had proper gear. You can guess what happened as a result of not wearing gear *points to thousands of scars* Or so I’m told.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Dunnik
11/09/2015 at 19:03

Safety soonish.

shop-teacher > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
11/09/2015 at 19:26

Yep, that sounds about right. Except for the slowed production part, you were just teased for being a wussy. We did quality work, and I learned tons, but it’s a freaking miracle nobody ever got seriously hurt.

shop-teacher > Dunnik
11/09/2015 at 19:26

Safety maybe!

Svend > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
11/10/2015 at 02:07

Non of that ‘scaffolding’ would pass any form of U.K. inspection.

Hell. Here we have to have scaffolding comply to regulations of installation and have to be assessed and signed off.

This guy would give our local authorities a field day with paperwork.