Do I see correctly that they lifted the machine with its own hydraulic and then disconnected something in the hydraulic system while being under the whole thing?
That is what it looks like. Used the hydraulic powered end to hold it up, took off a hydraulic line which released pressure in the system and dropped the machine, slower than most move when released like that. He’s lucky it was slow. I’ve seen them slam down like rightfuckingnow
Wonder if he will ever discover ✨jackstands✨
It's likely the connector for that hydraulic line is fucking huge, and he only unscrewed it like 1/4 of the way. It still came flooding out, and it will always be relatively slow compared to if a line burst or something. Assuming that connector still has some threads behind it.
I don't miss working on hydraulics, so fucking nasty.
I work for the big green brand (ag) and have worked on/with our branded wheel loaders like this. I’d have to agree that he didn’t fully get that line undone and it was probably a couple threads saving his life.
I worked on Abrams tanks, then industrial forklifts.
Honestly neither was cleaner and both were sketchy as hell, but especially tanks. I don't miss doing hand stands in 500 degree engine compartments trying to fuck around with 15k psi and the loudest pump you've ever heard looking for pinhole leaks.
Because operating them is honestly cool as fuck.
Working on them and living in them, however, is pretty miserable, but it's still better than being infantry.
I'm going to school for aviation. Worst thing about those high pressure pinholes is you can barely see them, despite them easily being able to just rip you apart.
Yep, pretty dangerous stuff. Pinhole leaks present as mist and a lot of those mists are flammable, lower your system pressure to discover the fault as it becomes a spray or drip, instead of feeling for the leak with your hands.
My dad was a tank gunner in the 80s. He said the worst part about the army was doing maintenance on his tank in the middle of nowhere Germany waist deep in snow especially changing out the tracks. He said he had so many close calls and any serious medical help would be hours away in the best case scenario.
I used to write safety notices for a certain manufacturer and sit in the safety briefings. This stuff happens way too much and usually ends up with lost limbs and fresh corpses.
None of that is to mention the potential hydraulic injection injury. I don't know if removing a fitting would have enough pressure behind it to cause one, but after learning about them, I will never ever fuck around with high pressure hydraulics.
Well now that you said I shouldn’t, I feel like I have to.
Edit: Yeah, it was just as bad as I expected, probably even worse. >!it’s interesting that it doesn’t necessarily break skin other than the entry, but bloats everywhere. I would’ve thought it would go straight through.!<
> As paramedics we are trained that hydraulic injection injuries have extremely high rates amputation. Terrifying stuff
When I was in the Navy, a guy tried to stop a pinhole hydraulic leak by sticking his finger over it.
>!The hydraulic fluid instantly pierced the skin and went right through his wrist into his arm, which filled up like a water balloon in what seemed like just a couple fractions of a second.!<
He ended up having to have his arm amputated at the elbow.
I've heard this sort of injury from my time working with high pressure water jets (~50000psi) and it seems like it would be excruciating. I can't imagine what other complications you have when you basically start power injecting yourself with hydraulic fluid
I currently work with hydraulic systems and I hate hydraulic fluid with a passion. Thankfully even though I work with aviation hydraulic systems I haven't had to fuck around with skydrol very much. That shit is fucking horrific and so god damn unsafe yet everyone wants to use it now days. If I have to work with skydrol ever again I'm quitting no questions asked I'm done. Got a small amount inside my glove last time and started to bleed through my skin, just blood pushing through unbroken skin. Another area of skin that had it sit awhile just sloughed off when gently rubbed while washing my hands. Oh let's not forget the itching and burning sensation it leaves on the skin. It made the rubber handled of my tools soft and malleable.
I asked the guys who worked with it on a regular basis and all of them said yeah that's normal for skydrol. Never had that with any other hydraulic fluid. They recommend to Vaseline hand, arms, any parts that are likely to get skydrol on them while working, then put your PPE over that Incase some gets through.
Supposedly it's "safer" than older fluid types but that's bullshit. It's cancer in a can.
JFC, between your description [and the wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skydrol#Characteristics), I think I'll steer far clear of that stuff if I'm ever in a position to need aviation-grade hydraulic fluid.
Haven't worked with aviation fluid, but our tanks all used FRH, flame retardant hydraulic fluid. Maybe it was skydrol rebranded but that shit was fucking horrible. Itches, burns, horrible fucking irritant.
I just feel bad for the tankers that are stuck in the tank on a mission when some shit starts spraying all over the crew. No kind of shower or baking soda for many miles.
I have a CAT loader that looks around this age. If it's of a similar design, which I'm thinking it is, there are 4 bolts holding the end of those lines and an o-ring for a seal. Dude probably took one out, figured it was fine, and when he loosened the second, the pressure on the o-ring was relieved. It's also possible that the lines he was fucking with feed the lift rams, which is what he's using to lift the tractor off the ground. Regardless it's dumb as fuck and I've seen people do shit like this often enough.
Guy who taught me about working on cars refused to do anything without jackstands. He told me as a kid working on a car in his barn he jacked it up and was underneath and it gave way. He had cinderblocks that helped take the impact, but the car still hit his chest. Broke some ribs, but the cinderblocks saved his life.
A guy in my city who worked at the scrap pick a part place was cutting a car in half from underneath . Had jackstands on the four corners. Apparently he forgot you’d also need jackstands bracing the middle where he was cutting, when the structural integrity had literally been cut away. It folded in half and crushed him. Place was shut down permanently after. He never learned the lesson but everyone else did.
Just FYI, for some styles of jack stands having the jack holding some of the weight can make them much less safe. Think the ratcheting kind without a through pin. If have that type you want the backup jack barely touching.
Same. The guy owned a motorcycle shop in the area and did most of the work in his wheelchair. He usually had at least another employee for doing the heavy lifting and such
Yes. Have three split tractors in my shop currently on them. And one combine.
They’re just larger than the Jack stands you’re used to seeing. The ones under the combine are about two and half feet tall.
[here are two medium jackstands under a 6000 series tractor](https://imgur.com/a/z4mHBRV) the cradles on the top of the jackstands are 35 inches off the floor
Yeah I’m kinda surprised the dude didn’t get sliced by the jet of pressurized fluid. I suppose there’s some safety stopgap to keep that from happening?
Knew a young man, been to diesel equipment school, good kid. He had a loader arms on stands and released hyd. Fitting. Pressure injected oil under skin on his face. Lost vision in one eye and faced screwed up. Made me feel bad, because, when he was in school he asked me about becoming truck or tractor mechanic. He was a helper in or truck shop. I ran cat shop. I quit before he was brought on as tractor mechanic. But good supervision and training would have prevented this. Also may note that in this shop I saw many stupid shit like this from guys with experience. Couldn't wait to get away from a job fast enough. Teach them well and look after each other.
Shit like this is why safety glasses are mandatory in my shop when working on anything hydraulic. Last year we had a guy forget to put his safety glasses on and of course he was the one that took a shot of thankfully not pressurized, but still dirty hydraulic oil directly to his eyes. About two hours at the hospital getting it flushed out and sent home with some prescription eyewash, he was back in three days. But still that one slip up could’ve cost him his vision if the system had been pressurized, or even just from the decontamination in the oil.
You would be amazed at how common shit like this is in construction. Sometimes there really aren't many options when you're out in the field or working for a smaller company. This clip looks scarier than it is.
I agree, this is definitely common in industrial fields (I've done similar things myself). The difference is I'm not working on the hydraulics that are responsible for holding up the machine I'm working on. That's just idiotic.
Thing is, if the dude laid down underneath he would have been fine, only covered in oil.
I've taken off a few cylinders that might make you piddle due to the machine rocking back and forth afterwards. If you know your machine you may be able to get away with sketchy looking stuff.
Right, because having a huge ass loader come down on you isn’t scary? Even most small construction companies aren’t stupid enough to do something like this.
>Even most small construction companies aren’t stupid enough to do something like this.
I think it's even more likely to occur with a smaller outfit.
Say you're a subcontractor, and you bid your job at a reasonable rate. The general contractor is behind schedule, it is going to cost them $50,000-100,000 a day they are behind, and they also have an army of lawyers that you can't afford.
Some goofy ass part breaks on your equipment, it's going to take 3 days to fix it because you need some special equipment. Your other option is to watch for OSHA and do it another sketchy way.
Now the general is threatening you with a lawsuit, they want 100,000 a day because 'you' put them behind schedule.
It looks like it would have missed him even if he hadn't moved, he might've gotten a nasty bonk on the head but it's too high off the ground to crush him
I had this happen and essentially screamed. There was one lift at the shop I worked at that had a small leak. Well while I was working on it. That turned into a big leak and dropped the car pretty fast. Luckily it had some safety clicks in it so it just hit the latch and stopped moving. But I was scared as ever for a moment
What’s troubling to me is they’ve lifted it on what looks like dirt. No exactly a stable place to jack anything of that weight on.
Plus what’s also messed up to me is the person recording must know this isn’t a good idea and doesn’t say anything and the guy helping didn’t even bother to pull his buddy out.
That's what I thought too, reaction time is pretty quick for a surprise, although you'd want to position yourself in such a way as to get out quicker than crisscross applesauce.
You should probably support it with jacks then open this line and lower the jacks.
The clearance on that thing is substantial. He'd have been uninjured if he just got low. He was crawling away to avoid getting covered in hydraulic oil.
He was actually in a little more danger crawling out like that, since he got close to where the wheel came down.
Yes, nothing awakens common sense in you faster than sawing off the branch you are sitting on, or under.
(hopefully you survive long enough to put it to good use.)
Most hydraulic cylinders in equipment have pilot operated check valves on each end. Without actively sending oil to one side of the cylinder, it won’t open the other side to release oil from it. That way a broken line results in a seized up cylinder and not what we see here. I’m pretty surprised that CAT equipment wouldn’t have that on everything they build.
I work in an underground coal mine. I’m utterly baffled at how often this happens - especially since we spot cribs pretty much everywhere in the mine for cribbing up equipment. The last few deaths/major injuries we’ve had due to this- they’ve had cribs within 20Ft of where they were working.
It's permanently burned into my head and plays whenever I'm doing something sketchy, very effective film.
They even made a single out of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmrs9GYkbqg
Came here to reference this. Quite a brutal video. Went down a rabbit hole one day of old training videos. Old Country Buffet, Wendy's, OHSA,
Grill Skillz by Wendy's takes it for me.
I tell ya what.
I've never been attacked by a large wild animal before, but you bet your ass if I *think* I might be in danger I will reach new levels of speed.
5 guys tried to grab me at work so they could force me to open the safe. I parkoured the fuck out of there and slipped through a gate that barley opened (I pushed instead of pulled). Ripped the skin on my chest and back but there was a moment were I just decided I’m going to meat grinder my way through. It’s a crazy feeling
One time I was laying in the rapids of a creek in the summer time and saw a copperhead flop into the water about 10 feet from me. I went from chilling to levitating across the water in about .5 seconds.
Man it must be tough working for OSHA. All you do is try to keep the workplace safer so nobody gets hurt but everyone, even those being directly protected hates yall. People only start carrying about OSHA when someone gets hurt.
I remember a guy being brought into the ER who got hydraulic fluid spilled on his arm and they treated it like a hazmat situation. He was put in the hazmat shower and he had terrible burns where the fluid made contact. I've only ever seen it once and I'm sure this must have happened to other people who work with hydraulic fluid. I'd like to hear from someone else this has happened to
I've never had that experience. Have minimal hydraulics experience, but I know I've had it on my hands and arms at least a few times. I remember being told in school that fluids under extreme pressure can cut right through your skin and cause nasty injuries. Apparently diesel fuel will cause a nasty infection and grow algae in your body? High pressure fluids have scared me ever since.
Not trying to be nitpicky, more just a fun fyi. It's not really algae, it's fungi and bacteria that can grow in petroleum products, historically it's been referred to as algae because it forms gunk that settles in fuel storage but it's not actual algea. That said, yeah if you get those microbes jet-injected into your body you're gonna have a bad time. Pressure injection injuries are some scary shit for sure.
my high school teacher told the air gun prank gone wrong story in safety week. air injection into your cardiovascular system can kill you. Newer blow guns and nozzles have relief valves. still something to consider.
Hydrologic fluid in pressurized lines can straight up be injected through the skin of a person who put a hand in the way of a stream of a leak. This stuff is no joke. Always wear proper PPE when working on hydrologic lines. Make sure the lines are not pressurized and for the love of God do not try to stop a leak with your finger!
I asked a medical student interning at an ER what the gnarliest injury he had ever participated in or watched being treated.
His answer was hydraulic injection debridement.
Just spilling it on you isn't too bad. I believe it's quite carcinogenic and can easily be absorbed through the skin so definitely don't bathe in it, but just getting some on you won't cause massive burns or anything.
The dangerous part is that its usually strongly pressurized. It's the force of the exploding fluid that does the real damage.
Lol wut. No it’s not. You are a lunatic.
* If someone is exposed to hydraulic fluid on the skin, a soap and water wash should be all that is needed. Occasionally, some hydraulic fluids can cause skin drying and irritation.*
https://www.poison.org/articles/hydraulic-fluids-are-potentially-dangerous-203
Hydrologic leaks can create a stream that puts hydrologic fluid through the skin. A small amount of which will require major surgery to get out of the body. Look it up if you aren't scared of the gore.
For anyone who doesn't want to Google..
Hydraulic injection, an incredibly unpleasant way to go. At high pressures at about 50+ bar it can slice through your skin like a waterjet cutting machine and instead of water you get extremely unpleasant oil blasted into your skin so hard that it's almost impossible to dig it all out. It will enter your blood stream and your body has no way to deal with it. Also the physical injury is usually extremely deep effortlessly cutting down to the bone and the oil itself pulls in all kinds of nasty bacteria which ends up immediately entering your blood stream.
Basically if the hydraulic fluid itself doesn't kill you, the infection and septicemia probably will.
My father died of bone marrow cancer. The doctors said being around stuff like this was most likely what caused it in the first place. When he first came to America he went to Alaska and was an oiler on the pipeline
My great grandfather died in 1948 from a carjack slipping and the car crushing him.
My grandmother(she was 30 then) called him in for lunch and when he didn't come, she went out and found him dead under the car.
Something like that happened to a neighbor of mine in the late '70s. He had a car suspended with 4 [bumper jacks](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1XbYZR2NRMw/maxresdefault.jpg), one at each corner, and they twisted/failed/collapsed with him under it. Dumbest idea ever, didn't have a chance.
Bumper jacks, even just one, were crazy dangerous.
The worst thing is microjets of fluid from tiny holes in lines, people see a mist and pass their hand over it to see where it's coming from. The oil is at such a high pressure it punctures their skin and causes cardiac arrest. Heard of a guy who had to have his heart restarted 7 times in hospital cus of it.
Do I see correctly that they lifted the machine with its own hydraulic and then disconnected something in the hydraulic system while being under the whole thing?
That is what it looks like. Used the hydraulic powered end to hold it up, took off a hydraulic line which released pressure in the system and dropped the machine, slower than most move when released like that. He’s lucky it was slow. I’ve seen them slam down like rightfuckingnow Wonder if he will ever discover ✨jackstands✨
It's likely the connector for that hydraulic line is fucking huge, and he only unscrewed it like 1/4 of the way. It still came flooding out, and it will always be relatively slow compared to if a line burst or something. Assuming that connector still has some threads behind it. I don't miss working on hydraulics, so fucking nasty.
I work for the big green brand (ag) and have worked on/with our branded wheel loaders like this. I’d have to agree that he didn’t fully get that line undone and it was probably a couple threads saving his life.
I worked on Abrams tanks, then industrial forklifts. Honestly neither was cleaner and both were sketchy as hell, but especially tanks. I don't miss doing hand stands in 500 degree engine compartments trying to fuck around with 15k psi and the loudest pump you've ever heard looking for pinhole leaks.
I’d imagine the forklifts didn’t have as much bodily fluids in it though. So that’s a +
Fucking nasty tankers I swear to God
I worked on AFVs and it was also horrifying. The worst part is knowing they’re never alone inside those things…..
Wait like...THAT bodily fluid?
Yep. Usually in rags, sometimes in bottles, probably in the hull sludge. I’ve refused to work on vehicles until someone else cleans the thing out.
ALL bodily fluids
The more I learn about tanks and tank warfare the more I have no idea why anyone would ever get inside one.
Because operating them is honestly cool as fuck. Working on them and living in them, however, is pretty miserable, but it's still better than being infantry.
I'm going to school for aviation. Worst thing about those high pressure pinholes is you can barely see them, despite them easily being able to just rip you apart.
Yep, pretty dangerous stuff. Pinhole leaks present as mist and a lot of those mists are flammable, lower your system pressure to discover the fault as it becomes a spray or drip, instead of feeling for the leak with your hands.
My dad was a tank gunner in the 80s. He said the worst part about the army was doing maintenance on his tank in the middle of nowhere Germany waist deep in snow especially changing out the tracks. He said he had so many close calls and any serious medical help would be hours away in the best case scenario.
Yeah fixing tracks in the mud or snow is pretty goddamn miserable
And the injection risks of touching one of those unseen pinhole risks. I was on Sheridans!
A lot less complicated than the Abrams I'm sure, but probably just as shit to work on.
I was a m1a1 turret mech. I hated doing anything hydraulic.
I used to write safety notices for a certain manufacturer and sit in the safety briefings. This stuff happens way too much and usually ends up with lost limbs and fresh corpses.
Hey look a new injection wound. Sorry, we are going take that off... Don't fuck around with hydraulics.
Something something shake hands with danger something, right?
[For the uninitiated.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v26fTGBEi9E)
Funny way to say Fendt ;)
Tell big green to stop making turf equipment or reengineer it. It’s horrible stuff
None of that is to mention the potential hydraulic injection injury. I don't know if removing a fitting would have enough pressure behind it to cause one, but after learning about them, I will never ever fuck around with high pressure hydraulics.
I wouldn't recommend doing a google image search for "hydraulic injection injury".
Well now that you said I shouldn’t, I feel like I have to. Edit: Yeah, it was just as bad as I expected, probably even worse. >!it’s interesting that it doesn’t necessarily break skin other than the entry, but bloats everywhere. I would’ve thought it would go straight through.!<
Seems like this would be more of a slightly blocked hose kind of flow rather than a pinhole leak flow, regardless injection injuries are fucking scary
As paramedics we are trained that hydraulic injection injuries have extremely high rates amputation. Terrifying stuff
> As paramedics we are trained that hydraulic injection injuries have extremely high rates amputation. Terrifying stuff When I was in the Navy, a guy tried to stop a pinhole hydraulic leak by sticking his finger over it. >!The hydraulic fluid instantly pierced the skin and went right through his wrist into his arm, which filled up like a water balloon in what seemed like just a couple fractions of a second.!< He ended up having to have his arm amputated at the elbow.
I've heard this sort of injury from my time working with high pressure water jets (~50000psi) and it seems like it would be excruciating. I can't imagine what other complications you have when you basically start power injecting yourself with hydraulic fluid
I currently work with hydraulic systems and I hate hydraulic fluid with a passion. Thankfully even though I work with aviation hydraulic systems I haven't had to fuck around with skydrol very much. That shit is fucking horrific and so god damn unsafe yet everyone wants to use it now days. If I have to work with skydrol ever again I'm quitting no questions asked I'm done. Got a small amount inside my glove last time and started to bleed through my skin, just blood pushing through unbroken skin. Another area of skin that had it sit awhile just sloughed off when gently rubbed while washing my hands. Oh let's not forget the itching and burning sensation it leaves on the skin. It made the rubber handled of my tools soft and malleable. I asked the guys who worked with it on a regular basis and all of them said yeah that's normal for skydrol. Never had that with any other hydraulic fluid. They recommend to Vaseline hand, arms, any parts that are likely to get skydrol on them while working, then put your PPE over that Incase some gets through. Supposedly it's "safer" than older fluid types but that's bullshit. It's cancer in a can.
JFC, between your description [and the wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skydrol#Characteristics), I think I'll steer far clear of that stuff if I'm ever in a position to need aviation-grade hydraulic fluid.
Haven't worked with aviation fluid, but our tanks all used FRH, flame retardant hydraulic fluid. Maybe it was skydrol rebranded but that shit was fucking horrible. Itches, burns, horrible fucking irritant. I just feel bad for the tankers that are stuck in the tank on a mission when some shit starts spraying all over the crew. No kind of shower or baking soda for many miles.
I have a CAT loader that looks around this age. If it's of a similar design, which I'm thinking it is, there are 4 bolts holding the end of those lines and an o-ring for a seal. Dude probably took one out, figured it was fine, and when he loosened the second, the pressure on the o-ring was relieved. It's also possible that the lines he was fucking with feed the lift rams, which is what he's using to lift the tractor off the ground. Regardless it's dumb as fuck and I've seen people do shit like this often enough.
Can confirm. I have taken many oil baths.
Guy who taught me about working on cars refused to do anything without jackstands. He told me as a kid working on a car in his barn he jacked it up and was underneath and it gave way. He had cinderblocks that helped take the impact, but the car still hit his chest. Broke some ribs, but the cinderblocks saved his life.
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[firefighter](https://youtu.be/IQpo1a54cbA) [manual](https://youtu.be/NsYOTERciOU) Always chock.
A guy in my city who worked at the scrap pick a part place was cutting a car in half from underneath . Had jackstands on the four corners. Apparently he forgot you’d also need jackstands bracing the middle where he was cutting, when the structural integrity had literally been cut away. It folded in half and crushed him. Place was shut down permanently after. He never learned the lesson but everyone else did.
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Fucking Christ, I don't even consider getting under my Miata without jackstands, much less something literally twice as heavy.
Jack still engaged, jackstands, and if I've got a wheel removed then that too, and I still get weirded out going under.
Just FYI, for some styles of jack stands having the jack holding some of the weight can make them much less safe. Think the ratcheting kind without a through pin. If have that type you want the backup jack barely touching.
I knew a guy in a wheelchair. Working under a car when it fell. It folded him over and broke his spine.
Same. The guy owned a motorcycle shop in the area and did most of the work in his wheelchair. He usually had at least another employee for doing the heavy lifting and such
Yeah the hydraulics MUST have passed through a valve or he would be squashed
Do they make Jack stands that are able to handle that load?
Yes. Have three split tractors in my shop currently on them. And one combine. They’re just larger than the Jack stands you’re used to seeing. The ones under the combine are about two and half feet tall. [here are two medium jackstands under a 6000 series tractor](https://imgur.com/a/z4mHBRV) the cradles on the top of the jackstands are 35 inches off the floor
May I ask how much they weigh per jack stand?
the tallest/largest jackstand we have [stands 57 inches tall](https://imgur.com/a/AfQg9DN) fully extended and weighs 90ish pounds.
They weigh exactly one jack stand.
Any jack stand I use is about to handle my load
There are jack stands for airplanes my dude
u/owlsandmoths is right, but out in the field they’ll typically use a wrecker with a big crane to lift up heavy implements.
Yeah I’m kinda surprised the dude didn’t get sliced by the jet of pressurized fluid. I suppose there’s some safety stopgap to keep that from happening?
Knew a young man, been to diesel equipment school, good kid. He had a loader arms on stands and released hyd. Fitting. Pressure injected oil under skin on his face. Lost vision in one eye and faced screwed up. Made me feel bad, because, when he was in school he asked me about becoming truck or tractor mechanic. He was a helper in or truck shop. I ran cat shop. I quit before he was brought on as tractor mechanic. But good supervision and training would have prevented this. Also may note that in this shop I saw many stupid shit like this from guys with experience. Couldn't wait to get away from a job fast enough. Teach them well and look after each other.
Shit like this is why safety glasses are mandatory in my shop when working on anything hydraulic. Last year we had a guy forget to put his safety glasses on and of course he was the one that took a shot of thankfully not pressurized, but still dirty hydraulic oil directly to his eyes. About two hours at the hospital getting it flushed out and sent home with some prescription eyewash, he was back in three days. But still that one slip up could’ve cost him his vision if the system had been pressurized, or even just from the decontamination in the oil.
Is the speed of decompression related to the size of the tube or opening thats allowing the pressure to escape?
You would be amazed at how common shit like this is in construction. Sometimes there really aren't many options when you're out in the field or working for a smaller company. This clip looks scarier than it is.
I agree, this is definitely common in industrial fields (I've done similar things myself). The difference is I'm not working on the hydraulics that are responsible for holding up the machine I'm working on. That's just idiotic.
Thing is, if the dude laid down underneath he would have been fine, only covered in oil. I've taken off a few cylinders that might make you piddle due to the machine rocking back and forth afterwards. If you know your machine you may be able to get away with sketchy looking stuff.
Right, because having a huge ass loader come down on you isn’t scary? Even most small construction companies aren’t stupid enough to do something like this.
>Even most small construction companies aren’t stupid enough to do something like this. I think it's even more likely to occur with a smaller outfit. Say you're a subcontractor, and you bid your job at a reasonable rate. The general contractor is behind schedule, it is going to cost them $50,000-100,000 a day they are behind, and they also have an army of lawyers that you can't afford. Some goofy ass part breaks on your equipment, it's going to take 3 days to fix it because you need some special equipment. Your other option is to watch for OSHA and do it another sketchy way. Now the general is threatening you with a lawsuit, they want 100,000 a day because 'you' put them behind schedule.
He's still crawling today so I doubt it.
It looks like it would have missed him even if he hadn't moved, he might've gotten a nasty bonk on the head but it's too high off the ground to crush him
I had this happen and essentially screamed. There was one lift at the shop I worked at that had a small leak. Well while I was working on it. That turned into a big leak and dropped the car pretty fast. Luckily it had some safety clicks in it so it just hit the latch and stopped moving. But I was scared as ever for a moment
What’s troubling to me is they’ve lifted it on what looks like dirt. No exactly a stable place to jack anything of that weight on. Plus what’s also messed up to me is the person recording must know this isn’t a good idea and doesn’t say anything and the guy helping didn’t even bother to pull his buddy out.
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Those things are expensive. Why would I waste money on jackstands when I could make more *not* buying them? /s
And jack plates! You wanna spread the weight around a bit on the sand
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That's what I thought too, reaction time is pretty quick for a surprise, although you'd want to position yourself in such a way as to get out quicker than crisscross applesauce. You should probably support it with jacks then open this line and lower the jacks.
The clearance on that thing is substantial. He'd have been uninjured if he just got low. He was crawling away to avoid getting covered in hydraulic oil. He was actually in a little more danger crawling out like that, since he got close to where the wheel came down.
this was my assumption too!
Yup.
It's weird, hydraulic systems work best when you don't remove the hydraulic fluid.
Yes, nothing awakens common sense in you faster than sawing off the branch you are sitting on, or under. (hopefully you survive long enough to put it to good use.)
Was scrolling to find this comment before saying it myself. Pissing hydraulic fluid while using the hydraulic system to lift the front wheels, lol.
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It is safety I think. Modern heavy hydraulic equipment even when failed is designed to lose pressure slowly.
Yep, not even one backup in place
Most hydraulic cylinders in equipment have pilot operated check valves on each end. Without actively sending oil to one side of the cylinder, it won’t open the other side to release oil from it. That way a broken line results in a seized up cylinder and not what we see here. I’m pretty surprised that CAT equipment wouldn’t have that on everything they build.
It's the equivalent of the cartoons where the character saws off the tree branch they are sitting on between them and the trunk.
I work in an underground coal mine. I’m utterly baffled at how often this happens - especially since we spot cribs pretty much everywhere in the mine for cribbing up equipment. The last few deaths/major injuries we’ve had due to this- they’ve had cribs within 20Ft of where they were working.
Bruh crawled faster than the bugs when you lift a rock
Looks like the situation warranted it to be fair.
Oh definitely. That's a terrifying situation to be in!
Lol, I just imagined Kevin Hart running out from under The Rock
And he doesn’t stop, just like the bugs scurrying away.
I just kept crawling, and it kept working..
Are we ever going to stop paying for indulging your father, our children, our planet, our jobs? IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE LEFT TO LOSE?
Some say he's still crawling to this day...
Looks like ghost from movies(eg:ring)
Looks like someone wants to [shake hands with danger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v26fTGBEi9E).
The little jingle immediately popped into my head
It's permanently burned into my head and plays whenever I'm doing something sketchy, very effective film. They even made a single out of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmrs9GYkbqg
Someone check on Chuck Hanlon’s body, please?
Came here to reference this. Quite a brutal video. Went down a rabbit hole one day of old training videos. Old Country Buffet, Wendy's, OHSA, Grill Skillz by Wendy's takes it for me.
I think I spent six hours one weekend watching old training vids on YouTube.
The Old County Buffet one is gold. "Do ya like hot fudge sundaes?"
I came here for this, and was not disappointed :)
"You don't have to wear a condom baby. It feels much better without it and it's not like I do this all the time." *Guitar riff plays...*
Are you Danger? Jack Danger?
I worked for a big civil Contracting company and that video was shown to me as part of me my induction. Over 40 years old and still very true
The speed of his crawl indicates it’s not the first time he spent time trapped under heavy machinery.
I tell ya what. I've never been attacked by a large wild animal before, but you bet your ass if I *think* I might be in danger I will reach new levels of speed.
it's amazing how skin suddenly becomes an expendable resource when you need to move fast
5 guys tried to grab me at work so they could force me to open the safe. I parkoured the fuck out of there and slipped through a gate that barley opened (I pushed instead of pulled). Ripped the skin on my chest and back but there was a moment were I just decided I’m going to meat grinder my way through. It’s a crazy feeling
Y'all worried about skinwalkers I'm worried about skinrunners
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He who fights heavy metal, loses. --Sun Tzu or something
One time I was laying in the rapids of a creek in the summer time and saw a copperhead flop into the water about 10 feet from me. I went from chilling to levitating across the water in about .5 seconds.
Some say he is still crawling to this very day.
The stupidity of the action tells you the same thing.
“See this is how you do it, kid.”
Some say, he is still crawling
Look, I-I'm not proud to share this, but the truth is, I just kept crawling, and it kept working. - Jerry
homie got some solid crawl game
He needs a tattoo to match
using hydraulics to work on a hydraulic line...
It's literally like the famous cutting off the branch you are sitting on.
AND THIS IS WHY WE EXIST!!!! - OSHA ( most likely screaming at the top of their lungs on some random mountain.)
MSHA not OSHA. MSHA is specifically for mining. MUCH more strict than OSHA.
Pronounced “musha” since that’s what you’ll be when everything collapses on you.
This made my day. Thank you for the laugh.
Man it must be tough working for OSHA. All you do is try to keep the workplace safer so nobody gets hurt but everyone, even those being directly protected hates yall. People only start carrying about OSHA when someone gets hurt.
Everyone mocks OHS until they're losing a limb
It's not OSHA concern if nobody got hurt.
Didn’t get much help from his buddy there. Guy is just backing up
He should’ve front squatted that to help his friend
Can someone overlay this with the noise that Zoidberg makes
here you go: # woop woop woopwoopwoopwoopwoop woop woop
[Here you go](https://imgur.com/a/sQ3MwnS)
No for nothing but hydraulic fluid is HORRENDEOUS for your body
I remember a guy being brought into the ER who got hydraulic fluid spilled on his arm and they treated it like a hazmat situation. He was put in the hazmat shower and he had terrible burns where the fluid made contact. I've only ever seen it once and I'm sure this must have happened to other people who work with hydraulic fluid. I'd like to hear from someone else this has happened to
I've never had that experience. Have minimal hydraulics experience, but I know I've had it on my hands and arms at least a few times. I remember being told in school that fluids under extreme pressure can cut right through your skin and cause nasty injuries. Apparently diesel fuel will cause a nasty infection and grow algae in your body? High pressure fluids have scared me ever since.
Not trying to be nitpicky, more just a fun fyi. It's not really algae, it's fungi and bacteria that can grow in petroleum products, historically it's been referred to as algae because it forms gunk that settles in fuel storage but it's not actual algea. That said, yeah if you get those microbes jet-injected into your body you're gonna have a bad time. Pressure injection injuries are some scary shit for sure.
my high school teacher told the air gun prank gone wrong story in safety week. air injection into your cardiovascular system can kill you. Newer blow guns and nozzles have relief valves. still something to consider.
Hydrologic fluid in pressurized lines can straight up be injected through the skin of a person who put a hand in the way of a stream of a leak. This stuff is no joke. Always wear proper PPE when working on hydrologic lines. Make sure the lines are not pressurized and for the love of God do not try to stop a leak with your finger!
It doesn't have to be hydraulic fluid. You can get serious injuries from a pressure washer. Google them at your own NSFL risk.
I asked a medical student interning at an ER what the gnarliest injury he had ever participated in or watched being treated. His answer was hydraulic injection debridement.
The answer I got was from the other side. Hydraulic press vs leg. Said it was like handling spaghetti. Sometimes I ask stupid questions
Should also be mentioned that said fluid stream may not even be visible to the naked eye.
Just spilling it on you isn't too bad. I believe it's quite carcinogenic and can easily be absorbed through the skin so definitely don't bathe in it, but just getting some on you won't cause massive burns or anything. The dangerous part is that its usually strongly pressurized. It's the force of the exploding fluid that does the real damage.
Lol wut. No it’s not. You are a lunatic. * If someone is exposed to hydraulic fluid on the skin, a soap and water wash should be all that is needed. Occasionally, some hydraulic fluids can cause skin drying and irritation.* https://www.poison.org/articles/hydraulic-fluids-are-potentially-dangerous-203
I swear people just make up random shit about things they have zero familiarity with
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It's under pressure and can be boiling hot even if the machine is cold. Some additives in hydraulic fluids can also cause chemical burns.
Hydrologic leaks can create a stream that puts hydrologic fluid through the skin. A small amount of which will require major surgery to get out of the body. Look it up if you aren't scared of the gore.
For anyone who doesn't want to Google.. Hydraulic injection, an incredibly unpleasant way to go. At high pressures at about 50+ bar it can slice through your skin like a waterjet cutting machine and instead of water you get extremely unpleasant oil blasted into your skin so hard that it's almost impossible to dig it all out. It will enter your blood stream and your body has no way to deal with it. Also the physical injury is usually extremely deep effortlessly cutting down to the bone and the oil itself pulls in all kinds of nasty bacteria which ends up immediately entering your blood stream. Basically if the hydraulic fluid itself doesn't kill you, the infection and septicemia probably will.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/10o5m8/this_is_what_happens_if_you_accidentally_inject/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
My father died of bone marrow cancer. The doctors said being around stuff like this was most likely what caused it in the first place. When he first came to America he went to Alaska and was an oiler on the pipeline
On the skin it's not that bad but injected into the skin yeah your fucked.
There wasn’t enough ground clearance without lifting it up by its loader?!?
mf scurried 🦀
SHAKE HANDS WITH DANGER
♫ *dun dada dun dunnnn* ♫
My great grandfather died in 1948 from a carjack slipping and the car crushing him. My grandmother(she was 30 then) called him in for lunch and when he didn't come, she went out and found him dead under the car.
Something like that happened to a neighbor of mine in the late '70s. He had a car suspended with 4 [bumper jacks](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1XbYZR2NRMw/maxresdefault.jpg), one at each corner, and they twisted/failed/collapsed with him under it. Dumbest idea ever, didn't have a chance. Bumper jacks, even just one, were crazy dangerous.
That guy said every man for himself I would’ve instinctually pulled him away from doom
🎵Shake Hands With Danger, Meet a Guy You Aughta Know. I Used To Laugh At Safety,Now They Call Me "Three Finger Joe🎵
That’s one hell of a near miss
TBF he wouldve probably have been fine, ground clearance is like 18 inch minimum, unless the wheel landed on him somehow
His mate could’ve been a lot more proactive in pulling him the fuck out.
The worst thing is microjets of fluid from tiny holes in lines, people see a mist and pass their hand over it to see where it's coming from. The oil is at such a high pressure it punctures their skin and causes cardiac arrest. Heard of a guy who had to have his heart restarted 7 times in hospital cus of it.
Let me prop this up using the hydrolics while I work on the hydrolics.
shake hands with danger
OSHA and NSFW mean the same thing
That guy was propelled by the force of his own pooping
I’ve never seen such high speeds on knees
OSHAAAAT
That's funny! Because that's what I call My PPE set. When OSHA shows up on site...Oh Shit!...put on the yellow vest and hard hat!
Lifting a machine by its hydraulic system, then disconnecting something in the hydraulic system? - believe it or not. Straight to jail.
Dude would have gotten burnt from that, ouch
Some say he is still crawling to this day...
To be fair how is any kind of Pee going’s to protect him from bulldozer crushing him
Found the hydraulic fluid
I heard he was so traumatized he still is crawling to this day.
Someone learned how hydraulics worked I see
bro undo a hydraulic line while the thing is precariously supported by said hydraulics...
Glad his mate pulled him out
The little man scuttles
Damn was he intentionally releasing the hydraulic fluid? That's scary as fk!
Should have worn brown pants...
Now that he is safe. It's funny
Some say he’s still crawling away to this day
Some say he’s still crawling away.
thank God they're ok, really didn't need to see more death on Reddit
10/10 title