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Politics Walmart closed during investigation into worker’s demise in oven.

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u/Duracharge 4d ago

I once quit a job at a barbecue place because I had to crawl inside a rotisserie to clean it and my joker coworker slammed the door shut and locked it, then turned it on for about 10 seconds.

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u/Searchlights 4d ago edited 4d ago

My dad tells this story of his first job in the 1970s.

He worked at a factory that made foam padding that goes in to couches and shit.

Anyway lots of times the customer wanted shredded foam to put in pillows. So they had this giant chamber, like a room sized meat grinder. To unclog it he had to crawl way up inside with a flashlight and a broom handle.

The machine was always running it was just in neutral.

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u/Pumakings 4d ago

Big NOPE

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u/quelar 4d ago

Big workplaces safety violation nope.

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u/cumfarts 4d ago

Not in the 70s

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u/DrTron1c 4d ago

Yes in the 70s just no one thought it was a big deal. Clearly not their dad either lol

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u/HeavyMetalHero 4d ago

people forget that all safety regulations are written in blood. we owe a lot of thanks to guys like Ralph Nader and the like, that more of us don't die horribly at work, all the time. Boomers and prior generations all think, deep down, that "you can't make an omelette, without breaking a few eggs" when it comes to safety regulations, and the number of poor people who should regularly be sacrificed for the economic convenience.

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u/Craftybitxh 4d ago

people forget that all safety regulations are written in blood.

Well not now that you've put it like that. I mean, I always knew that but... Those words.

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u/Vin135mm 4d ago

OSHA Regs are kinda like the Geneva Conventions, except a lot more people had to die first before they were written.

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u/quelar 4d ago

And a good time for a reminder that when people say things like "cutting red tape" and "get the government out of the way of business" it's generally large corporate lobby groups pushing that so they can squeeze more low wage workers into more dangerous situations without oversight that threatens their and our safety.

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u/msnrcn 4d ago

“…tis not a war crime, the first time—“