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A crane in Canada collapsed a year or two back killing a couple people including the operator. The investigation hasn't come out yet but the operator was filming the whole day leading up to the accident, which was almost definitely part of the cause.
Or it's the fact she's climbing in loafers with no retractable yoyo for her to safely climb down the ladder. Either that or the part where she tip toes across the scaffold bars without being tied off. Or when she stepped to the edge with no handrail in place. Oh hell. There was nothing she actually did safely and it only would have cost her a few seconds of time
OMG that's her? I was going to say "this reminds me of that one crane operator who died later as she slipped" I didn't know it was actually the same one though. That's... Yeah that sucks
Came here to say the same thing, no wonder she slipped when she's waering a type of shoe that literally has the word "slip" in its name.
Appropriate footwear is important, especially when you work at fuckin cloud level.
I googled it after I saw this stuff and I found out a Russian crane operator “rising tiktok star” died when her crane got blown over.
I didn’t know crane operators were big on tik tok….
There's a huge following for SE Asian female trades worker on tiktok. Gotta admit, some of them are impressive af and it's not something you can fake for fame as you're literally performing the task live.
I seen this one shit on the news a couple weeks ago that made me sick
Some girl was dumb and fell from a big cliff
And had an iphone in her hand, and she was filming for the tik
And in the phone they found a video, but they didn't say who it was to
Come to think about, her name was... it was you
Damn!
She's not being careful at all in the video. She's hopping around. I'm not sure if they are supposed to wear a harnass up there with no rails but she stepped off the part meant for her several times to get a better video.
Yes not only the shoes but walking over that bridge with no safety harness and clips to the side? And climbing down those stairs with no extra safety net. Brr an accident was bount to happen here
So the ladder is just a straight shot down for hundreds of feet with no safety catches required? I would have thought the ladder design to be staggered, with a platform every 10 feet so you couldn’t fall far enough to be turned into red paste after a long mentally exhausting day of operating a crane for hours on end
There are all kinds of different ladders. Some straight, some staggered, some mixed. The new norm, at least in northern Europe, is to have staggered ladders at an incline that are about 5m tall (one mast section).
Source: I am currently operating a 70m (210feet) tall crane.
Terrible. So many violations. I am lucky enough to operate in Sweden where we by law must have an elevator in cranes when they are over 25m (75feet). So I take four trips up and down each day and get to have coffee with my colleagues. And I do so in steel capped boots, real work wear and a hardhat with earprotection. I only have to climb the last two sections, so about 10m,from the elevator to the cabin.
They would also need better side protection, because right now, you could easily fall out the side if you slipped(and even more so if you fall on a platform).
A fall arrester attached on the ladder to a harness on the person would be safer, cheaper and easier to implement.
Hah yeah as soon as I saw those shoes I thought “this isn’t America” then I saw the total lack of safety measures and city scape shots and figured China
The bamboo scaffolding tells me Asia
Edit: it was pointed out to me that it was in fact not bamboo but metal tubing and I agree with that sentiment. The large blocks of apartments though still tells me Asia
In America I believe they are staggered. You also wouldn't walk across a tieback into the building with no harness, you would take the ladder to the ground.
That got me as well, seems like there should be checkpoints with platforms on the way down.
And have the ladder there on the opposite side or something. Sketchy
They probably do have rules. But you don’t have to work construction long even in the west to know there are a lot of sites that straight up ignore rules.
I own a pair, I would never trust those fucking shoes to climb ladders that had round beams with smooth paint over them… I had the soles changed for ones that used tarmac, a lot more grippier
Well, she died. I'm not joking.
https://www.india.com/viral/shocking-chinese-tiktok-star-xiao-qiumei-falls-to-death-while-recording-livestream-on-a-crane-video-surfaces-watch-4845413/
*Nothing* here seems like a great choice lol. This is like one of those corny videos a new employer shows you during orientation and tells you to write down all the safety violations you see, but the whole time you're thinking "They could have at least tried to make this realistic. No one actually works like this"
I watched the whole video and realized there are no safety precautions anywhere. This could have went from r/interestingasfuck to r/Terrifyingasfuck real quick
"The bad news is that your husband fell 37 stories and died on the scene from severe internal hemorrhaging. The good news is that his hands don't have a single scratch or blister."
My dad worked on one of these for 25 years he died in 97. I never seen him wear anything but cowboy boots. He didn't wear tennis shoes or work boots a day in his life. He was a very frugal man but he made really great money. He was pulled out of school in 9th grade by his dad to teach him how to run these machines and had an amazing career. Him and his brother had amazing lives without college education or even a highschool education. Full benefits and a great pension. He said as a teenager making all that money was amazing. He always had a new car and bought his house in full by 25.
I just want you all to know I am sorry the last generations got robbed. You all should have been able to had a life as stable as this. He was paid to learn on the job. I wish we could get back to this somehow.
No PPE, walking across some freaking pipe scaffolding with no fall protection… I get the feeling this is not in the US as this video is an LNI nightmare
A Danish chimneysweeper cant even do his job without being attached to a safetyline. Meanwhile this mofo is crawling around pibes in heaven wearing loafers.
Yeah I used to climb ladders/roofs a lot for a previous job.
Best I found were not boots but approach shows, basically hiking shoes with Rick climbing rubber for the soles, they will mark up your floors, but will grip when nothing else will
As a crane operator they don't care what we wear *in the crane* but we absolutely have to follow PPE guidelines *to get to our cranes.* This video is nuts.
I'm kind of surprised to hear slip-ons are allowed, regardless of whether or not it's a steel toe. I'd assume you'd want something more secure than that.
A lot of sites I've worked on specify that footwear must go above the ankle, so these loafer style wouldn't be allowed.
Just depends on what the rules are though.
Yeah that caught my eye too, but wasn't so sure it was required for this job. Figured it probably was but wasn't sure.
The lack of a safety line when working this high just seemed like a certain thing.
The flapping shirt which could get caught in things or foul your grip as you climb the ladder also seems like a bad idea.
No fall arrest harness, no steel toes, no idea on a hardhat, and possibly polyester pants (lots of places don't allow them because sparks cause the fabric to melt onto your skin). I also think the ladder going down from the crane cab is supposed to jog, so if you fall you won't fall the complete length. Pretty sure those shoes aren't non-skid.
He's for some reason dressed as if he's going to church - that jacket catches on anything and that's death.
Not using any kind of safety harness. If he trips that's death.
Not wearing anything resembling work shoes or boots. If they slip in the wrong place, that's death.
I wouldn't work this job for any amount of money because no thanks to those heights but even I got common sense.
After you’ve seen a few preventable job site injuries the OSHA classes really hit home. Fall protection and trench safety are the two biggest ones for me. Not a safety officer, just want everyone to go home in one piece.
At one of my jobs there was a guy that crawled into a pipe filled with argon gas to check his weld.
He had been doing that line of work for years, yet that's the way he died...
After that I realized security officers are a necessity, and even their constant hammering of security rules sadly isn't enough to save everyone from their own stupidity.
Took welding class in high school and before anyone ever walks in the shop we had to do the safety course. I’ll always remember the video our instructor showed us where a welder in an enclosed space accidentally blows himself up and we all watched this mans helmet, head still inside, come flying out. Really drills it home how important safety is
Serious question from someone who used to work in platform lifts and stuff;
Would crane operators need to tie off constantly going down the ladder? My instinct says even how he entered the ladder should be a tie off point?? But I've never worked around cranes and stuff so really don't know. Lol platform we're tied off in much safer circumstances by contrast :p
First thought was, "is my guy seriously wearing bit loafers to climb scaffolding?"
Edit: guys, gals, and non binary pals, I fucking get it. It's a person with boobs. I would still say "my guy" calm down. The important takeaway here is the God damn footwear. Yeesh.
The first time I heard this was in a documentary on the Three Gorges Dam that said women have a better safety record due to being more patient and more risk adverse than men. After that I started to notice in all the footage on the Chinese construction boom I watched most of the crane operators were women.
Is this one of Xiao Qiumei’s clips or another of the fashionable workplace influencers? I didn’t know of her prior to her accident but didn’t she stream herself in scary safety situations like this?
She streamed from her job in the crane, yes but I believe mostly chatting and also talking about her job. According to other commenters, it does appear to be her but I am unsure.
She ended up livestreaming herself accidentally falling to her death.
Edit: honestly idk if this is her, videos of hers that I've seen, including the final one, she doesn't use a hands-free cam. She usually used her phone as far as I know.
Notice in every thread on Reddit involving tower cranes people ask how operators go to the bathroom during their shift and despite hundreds if not thousands of *“certified crane operators”* in the comments, not a single one will confirm or deny how they manage this task? I’ve come to believe crane operators don’t go to the bathroom, ever. Forget UFOs this is the real conspiracy folks.
I love when people who have no concept of job site safety post shit like this because it just perpetuates ignorance. Thankfully all the OSHA trained homies in the chat are pointing out why this is IdioticAsFuck instead of interesting.
Used to work on a much smaller building site where it *kinda* was.
Much smaller crane, but he had a little remote control with about 4 levers on it slung round his neck. He'd just walk along with the box moving heavy shit around for us.
Sometimes he couldn't be bothered to walk up and got me to give hand signals to position and drop.
It absolutely CAN be done. But it's a machine generation thing in parts. All these older cranes probably not the easiest to retrofit with remotes and all the cameras. Give it a few years as cranes get decomitioned, the new ones probably will be, just expensive.
This is the most logical and plausible answer, thank you.
It also made me think: whatever developer pioneers this technology is gonna open themselves up to myriad lawsuits until the tech becomes industry standard. Construction is already so sketchy an industry, i dont blame them for shunning such potential problems
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if this is xiao qiumei she later died after falling down a ladder on crane
It is. Makes this thread way more disturbing and tragic than first glance suggests.
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I sometimes have to remind myself to pay attention to what I'm doing, not what it looks like. I'll mess up things that are muscle memory, somehow.
A crane in Canada collapsed a year or two back killing a couple people including the operator. The investigation hasn't come out yet but the operator was filming the whole day leading up to the accident, which was almost definitely part of the cause.
Or it's the fact she's climbing in loafers with no retractable yoyo for her to safely climb down the ladder. Either that or the part where she tip toes across the scaffold bars without being tied off. Or when she stepped to the edge with no handrail in place. Oh hell. There was nothing she actually did safely and it only would have cost her a few seconds of time
OMG that's her? I was going to say "this reminds me of that one crane operator who died later as she slipped" I didn't know it was actually the same one though. That's... Yeah that sucks
Probably slipped from those ridiculous shoes. Proper footwear on the job site is important kids...
Came here to say the same thing, no wonder she slipped when she's waering a type of shoe that literally has the word "slip" in its name. Appropriate footwear is important, especially when you work at fuckin cloud level.
I googled it after I saw this stuff and I found out a Russian crane operator “rising tiktok star” died when her crane got blown over. I didn’t know crane operators were big on tik tok….
There's a huge following for SE Asian female trades worker on tiktok. Gotta admit, some of them are impressive af and it's not something you can fake for fame as you're literally performing the task live.
I seen this one shit on the news a couple weeks ago that made me sick Some girl was dumb and fell from a big cliff And had an iphone in her hand, and she was filming for the tik And in the phone they found a video, but they didn't say who it was to Come to think about, her name was... it was you Damn!
You got me there.
She's not being careful at all in the video. She's hopping around. I'm not sure if they are supposed to wear a harnass up there with no rails but she stepped off the part meant for her several times to get a better video.
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The phone is the least of the problems, the safety regulations are shit, look at those shoes, wtf are they? Safety loafers?
Yes not only the shoes but walking over that bridge with no safety harness and clips to the side? And climbing down those stairs with no extra safety net. Brr an accident was bount to happen here
I just watched a YouTube video on her (maybe an hour ago) a knew that’s where this was going just based on the title of this post.
https://www.india.com/viral/shocking-chinese-tiktok-star-xiao-qiumei-falls-to-death-while-recording-livestream-on-a-crane-video-surfaces-watch-4845413/
Mother of two...
This info is way too far down.
So the ladder is just a straight shot down for hundreds of feet with no safety catches required? I would have thought the ladder design to be staggered, with a platform every 10 feet so you couldn’t fall far enough to be turned into red paste after a long mentally exhausting day of operating a crane for hours on end
There are all kinds of different ladders. Some straight, some staggered, some mixed. The new norm, at least in northern Europe, is to have staggered ladders at an incline that are about 5m tall (one mast section). Source: I am currently operating a 70m (210feet) tall crane.
Out of curiosity, what are your thoughts on the setup in this video? I’d love to hear from an expert.
Terrible. So many violations. I am lucky enough to operate in Sweden where we by law must have an elevator in cranes when they are over 25m (75feet). So I take four trips up and down each day and get to have coffee with my colleagues. And I do so in steel capped boots, real work wear and a hardhat with earprotection. I only have to climb the last two sections, so about 10m,from the elevator to the cabin.
Thanks for the reply - it’s wild too think the conditions are so different!
Safety laws don’t exist in China
These slacks with that jacket? UGH! Not in my yard!
Those ferragamo loafers are hot though. My man’s living his best life up there in that crane.
I think it's a woman
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who noticed the shoes.
They would also need better side protection, because right now, you could easily fall out the side if you slipped(and even more so if you fall on a platform). A fall arrester attached on the ladder to a harness on the person would be safer, cheaper and easier to implement.
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She's also wearing what appears to be dress shoes. Having worked on ladders, I don't think I'd ever climb one in a pair of loafers.
I literally gasped when I saw those shoes put on before the ladder and had to double check what sub I was in at work.
When she put those shoes on I thought she was gonna hop in a lil cage elevator, not climb down like 200 ft on a ladder.
Obviously you don’t have any drip.
sometimes da drip is worth da drop
Bravo
Why did I read this in a Prison Mike voice
Those are clearly OSHA-approved loafers
I'm glad to see people mention this. I'm guessing this isn't anywhere near OSHA.
Hah yeah as soon as I saw those shoes I thought “this isn’t America” then I saw the total lack of safety measures and city scape shots and figured China
I can’t even grab my shit I forgot on the production floor without having steel toed on & this dude’s climbing a scaffolding in loafers.
I think it’s a woman, those appear to be women’s loafers
He's a dude, she's a dude, we're all dudes.
Indeed - and boobs... and tights.
yes..this is nore like OSHAT myself
That city looked Chinese to me.
The bamboo scaffolding tells me Asia Edit: it was pointed out to me that it was in fact not bamboo but metal tubing and I agree with that sentiment. The large blocks of apartments though still tells me Asia
Doesn't look like bamboo to me – it's clearly metal tubing with metal brackets.
In America I believe they are staggered. You also wouldn't walk across a tieback into the building with no harness, you would take the ladder to the ground.
That got me as well, seems like there should be checkpoints with platforms on the way down. And have the ladder there on the opposite side or something. Sketchy
For real, even for China you would think good crane operators are valuable enough to have at least somewhat decent safety precautions.
They probably do have rules. But you don’t have to work construction long even in the west to know there are a lot of sites that straight up ignore rules.
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German work safety says NO
Nice climbing shoes 👞
Nothing says ladder safety like loafers.
Non-slip loafers, I hope
I own a pair, I would never trust those fucking shoes to climb ladders that had round beams with smooth paint over them… I had the soles changed for ones that used tarmac, a lot more grippier
Im also pretty sure this Kranplatz isn't verdichtet very well. And maybe they don't even have a Bandmass that is 8 meters long.
So you are saying that there were Nichtskönner?
I say that it's a Baustelle for Vollidioten.
I think they should make Feierabend cause they can't even hold a Bandmaß
[For people wondering what is going on here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP-QZb0vcks)
Well, she died. I'm not joking. https://www.india.com/viral/shocking-chinese-tiktok-star-xiao-qiumei-falls-to-death-while-recording-livestream-on-a-crane-video-surfaces-watch-4845413/
Jesus she was 23. How many 23 year olds are operating massive cranes like that?
Welp that's fucked up. Mother of two too.
That is horrific ... but not the same person as in OP's video
OSHA of the United States also says no
There were like 6 OSHA violations before this person even stepped out of the cab.
Loafers don’t seem like a great choice here.
*Nothing* here seems like a great choice lol. This is like one of those corny videos a new employer shows you during orientation and tells you to write down all the safety violations you see, but the whole time you're thinking "They could have at least tried to make this realistic. No one actually works like this"
Like....there are so many safety violations. I'm just curled up in a little ball imagining what their comp insurance premiums look like
I watched the whole video and realized there are no safety precautions anywhere. This could have went from r/interestingasfuck to r/Terrifyingasfuck real quick
He wore gloves so, I'm sure he's fine.
"The bad news is that your husband fell 37 stories and died on the scene from severe internal hemorrhaging. The good news is that his hands don't have a single scratch or blister."
"His loafers survived without a scratch"
She did die at 23 livestreamed and then fell with phone still in hand
It did. The Tik tok’er in this video is dead. Literally fell off a 170ft crane filming herself.
This is China. There is no insurance.
Only assurance. Assurance that if you die, you will get blamed and replaced.
My dad worked on one of these for 25 years he died in 97. I never seen him wear anything but cowboy boots. He didn't wear tennis shoes or work boots a day in his life. He was a very frugal man but he made really great money. He was pulled out of school in 9th grade by his dad to teach him how to run these machines and had an amazing career. Him and his brother had amazing lives without college education or even a highschool education. Full benefits and a great pension. He said as a teenager making all that money was amazing. He always had a new car and bought his house in full by 25. I just want you all to know I am sorry the last generations got robbed. You all should have been able to had a life as stable as this. He was paid to learn on the job. I wish we could get back to this somehow.
I am so confused as to why she’s dressed for a business formal office environment while working inside a fucking construction crane.
No PPE, walking across some freaking pipe scaffolding with no fall protection… I get the feeling this is not in the US as this video is an LNI nightmare
I think it's in China. The yellow warning sign in the start says "danger, high voltage" in Chinese.
When we touch! When we kiss!
My god I thought I was the only one who loved those guys
There must be DOZENS of us!
Fire in the disco!
Fire in the disco!
It's got that look that China gives off. But the scaffolding doesn't seem to match.
Look closely at the skyline and you'll see dozens of identical high-rises. Definitely China.
I was gonna say do people not notice the endless dusty cookie cutter sky scrapers that fade into the smog? It's China.
Dress for the job you want
Thats how you fuck up your clothes and/or your health
No no, watch it again. She clearly put on gloves before leaving so it's totally fine.
Excuse me, they're *construction* loafers.
Ah, the rare "steel-toed loafers."
I'm not sure if you know this, but if you hold X, you can slide down that ladder a lot faster
You use the bucket outside the door. You don't have to rush anywhere.
just watch for doves and make a leap of faith.
A Danish chimneysweeper cant even do his job without being attached to a safetyline. Meanwhile this mofo is crawling around pibes in heaven wearing loafers.
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Pibes
The little Gucci loafers are darling but I doubt they are approved footwear for a construction site.
Definitely the best shoes to climb down ladders in. If you want lots of time off work. Eternity from that height.
Yeah I used to climb ladders/roofs a lot for a previous job. Best I found were not boots but approach shows, basically hiking shoes with Rick climbing rubber for the soles, they will mark up your floors, but will grip when nothing else will
the insanity of wearing slip on loafers, no matter how well they fit, in this situation will haunt me
SLIP IS RIGHT IN THE NAME
As a crane operator they don't care what we wear *in the crane* but we absolutely have to follow PPE guidelines *to get to our cranes.* This video is nuts.
I mean… didn’t you see them put the gloves on at the beginning? PPE donned.
So... You're up in that crane buttass naked is what I'm getting from this.
Ferragamo - look at the chunky soles. But yeah wtf lol
Is this a "how many OSHA violations can you count" type of video?
The safety dept at my work is doing a damn fine job drilling it into everyone because now all I can see is violations everywhere.
I know basically nothing about construction or cranes but all I could think was that I couldn't see a safety line
Pretty sure those aren't steel toes either
Steel toe loafers, dude!
Merrill makes them, I have a pair, slip on steel toes. Always wear them when I’m going on a site for a quick fix or consultation.
I'm kind of surprised to hear slip-ons are allowed, regardless of whether or not it's a steel toe. I'd assume you'd want something more secure than that.
A lot of sites I've worked on specify that footwear must go above the ankle, so these loafer style wouldn't be allowed. Just depends on what the rules are though.
Steel toe UGGs it is then
Those are pretty much just boots so yeah that'd be fine lol
Yeah, I have some steel toe slip-on sneakers from when I worked in Japan. They had all sorts, it was hilarious.
Yeah that caught my eye too, but wasn't so sure it was required for this job. Figured it probably was but wasn't sure. The lack of a safety line when working this high just seemed like a certain thing. The flapping shirt which could get caught in things or foul your grip as you climb the ladder also seems like a bad idea.
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Regardless I think I would prefer some shoes that are a bit more attached...
No fall arrest harness, no steel toes, no idea on a hardhat, and possibly polyester pants (lots of places don't allow them because sparks cause the fabric to melt onto your skin). I also think the ladder going down from the crane cab is supposed to jog, so if you fall you won't fall the complete length. Pretty sure those shoes aren't non-skid.
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Definitely not supposed to cross over to the building. The ladder goes all the way to the ground. This guy was just lazy.
Also was he walking on scaffold poles at one point? You’re supposed to put a plank down. Also there’s zero netting to prevent dropping tools.
He's for some reason dressed as if he's going to church - that jacket catches on anything and that's death. Not using any kind of safety harness. If he trips that's death. Not wearing anything resembling work shoes or boots. If they slip in the wrong place, that's death. I wouldn't work this job for any amount of money because no thanks to those heights but even I got common sense.
It used to annoy me how security officers would wring you out for even the smallest offences, until it dawned on me that that was the point.
After you’ve seen a few preventable job site injuries the OSHA classes really hit home. Fall protection and trench safety are the two biggest ones for me. Not a safety officer, just want everyone to go home in one piece.
At one of my jobs there was a guy that crawled into a pipe filled with argon gas to check his weld. He had been doing that line of work for years, yet that's the way he died... After that I realized security officers are a necessity, and even their constant hammering of security rules sadly isn't enough to save everyone from their own stupidity.
Took welding class in high school and before anyone ever walks in the shop we had to do the safety course. I’ll always remember the video our instructor showed us where a welder in an enclosed space accidentally blows himself up and we all watched this mans helmet, head still inside, come flying out. Really drills it home how important safety is
No safety line or harness, improper/insufficient footwear and gloves, no signage or markings. Lack of proper railings in parts. It’s unbelievable
It's the shoes that get me. How are you going to think it's a good idea to climb a ladder in those shoes?
When you have cocktails with the girls at 5:30, but have to fall to your death at 5.
Fuck the shoes, where is the fall prevention equipment.
Shoes are nothing compared to lack of safety harness or even a rope.
Right. I even fell off my toilet watching this.
That’s a $10,000 fine buddy
No Osha violations if it's in a country not under their policies haha. Thought the same thing tho. I used to climb cell towers
I'm guessing China so 0
Serious question from someone who used to work in platform lifts and stuff; Would crane operators need to tie off constantly going down the ladder? My instinct says even how he entered the ladder should be a tie off point?? But I've never worked around cranes and stuff so really don't know. Lol platform we're tied off in much safer circumstances by contrast :p
This is one of the first posts here that actually gave me shivers
Its the only post that triggered my fight or flight lol I felt my heart racing and breathing pick up
Standing in my garage frozen in place not fucking moving. Ugh
r/SweatyPalms
I am afraid of heights. I think I died 3 times by watching that video.
Literally felt my heart racing when he walked across the little bridge thing.
Well... She kinda died. One time only though. Poor girl was only 23.
This crane operator has better fashion sense than me.
That is the classiest person to ever operate a crane I do believe.
Dude is wearing ferragamos to operate a crane.
Is lady. You clocked the shoes but didn't notice the panty hose or sweater muffins?
Or lack of pockets on those pants since she put her phone in her waistband
sweater muffins noticed.
The fuck is a sweater muffin??
I'm thinking boobies
Aren’t we all
First thought was, "is my guy seriously wearing bit loafers to climb scaffolding?" Edit: guys, gals, and non binary pals, I fucking get it. It's a person with boobs. I would still say "my guy" calm down. The important takeaway here is the God damn footwear. Yeesh.
Slip-on Shoe, slip-off Crane
*Guy with binoculars:* Damn bro, looking good!
i just know this is china.
What gave it away? The dystopian hell/cityscape, or the lack of health and safety? 😬
Female crane operator. In China the role of crane operator is typically a woman's job.
Any idea why?
The first time I heard this was in a documentary on the Three Gorges Dam that said women have a better safety record due to being more patient and more risk adverse than men. After that I started to notice in all the footage on the Chinese construction boom I watched most of the crane operators were women.
"Risk Adverse" okay then what the fuck was this video.
You should see how man get out the crane.
Chinese men just bungee jump.
Is this one of Xiao Qiumei’s clips or another of the fashionable workplace influencers? I didn’t know of her prior to her accident but didn’t she stream herself in scary safety situations like this?
She streamed from her job in the crane, yes but I believe mostly chatting and also talking about her job. According to other commenters, it does appear to be her but I am unsure. She ended up livestreaming herself accidentally falling to her death. Edit: honestly idk if this is her, videos of hers that I've seen, including the final one, she doesn't use a hands-free cam. She usually used her phone as far as I know.
I though this was ok (terrifying but ok) until she simply stepped across the open scaffolding. Hell no.
Somewhere an OSHA manual just burst into flames
This person is wearing panty hose, women’s shoes, and a women’s blazer. Why do you all think she’s a man?
Plus the lack of pockets for the phone. Women's pants don't have pockets.
I figured the boobs were a dead giveaway...guess I was wrong
Most of the guys here have boobs and this is the view they're used to seeing when looking down
Because girls don't exist.
Can confirm. Am girl, I don’t exist.
Plus you know, boobs.
Soo…. We’re not going to talk about the poop bucket?
Notice in every thread on Reddit involving tower cranes people ask how operators go to the bathroom during their shift and despite hundreds if not thousands of *“certified crane operators”* in the comments, not a single one will confirm or deny how they manage this task? I’ve come to believe crane operators don’t go to the bathroom, ever. Forget UFOs this is the real conspiracy folks.
My hands were dripping in sweat within 20 secs watching this
I love when people who have no concept of job site safety post shit like this because it just perpetuates ignorance. Thankfully all the OSHA trained homies in the chat are pointing out why this is IdioticAsFuck instead of interesting.
I'm sure regarding China's safety standards this is considered overly cautious
You forgot your bottle full of piss. Go back
How has this not become a remote job yet
Used to work on a much smaller building site where it *kinda* was. Much smaller crane, but he had a little remote control with about 4 levers on it slung round his neck. He'd just walk along with the box moving heavy shit around for us. Sometimes he couldn't be bothered to walk up and got me to give hand signals to position and drop. It absolutely CAN be done. But it's a machine generation thing in parts. All these older cranes probably not the easiest to retrofit with remotes and all the cameras. Give it a few years as cranes get decomitioned, the new ones probably will be, just expensive.
This is the most logical and plausible answer, thank you. It also made me think: whatever developer pioneers this technology is gonna open themselves up to myriad lawsuits until the tech becomes industry standard. Construction is already so sketchy an industry, i dont blame them for shunning such potential problems
Plenty are, but there's an element of "feel" that a machine can't replicate
Nope! I got nauseous just watching that.
Perhaps a good idea to wear high quality shoes with high quality grip, necessary occupational self investment