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Why'd They Do That?
- significantly blocked exit_1
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Description:
How many ways can you block an exit?
- Damaged fly of ladder used
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Description:
Fly section of an extension ladder being used as a straight ladder.
- Rigged light cord_1
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When you conduct inspections, look up from time to time.
- Homemade cord set_1
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This box/cord set has a chain wrapped with tape used as a strain relief.
- Grinder Handle_1
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Kind of a strange handle and what happened to the guard?
- Can't Get There From Here
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Description:
Standing in this warehouse we could see the exit but we couldn't get to it.
- Unsafe Light Switch Wiring
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Description:
Interesting way to wire a light switch
- Damaged extension cord in use
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Description:
A damaged extension cord with about 3" of electrical tape to hide some of the damage.
- Smoking in a No Smoking area
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Description:
A smoker exiting a paint storage area that was clearly marked for "no smoking" with a cigarette in his mouth.
- Tool Box with Lockout Lock
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Description:
Workers are to use their Lockout locks only for lock out and not to secure their personal items or tools
- HazCom Labeling Problem
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Description:
That wasn't coffee or water in those containers
- Ladder Jack Scaffold Mess
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Description:
Ladder jack scaffold safety disaster waiting to happen
- electrical knucklehead
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Through the wall, too small a gauge, missing outer sheath, no ground
- Unprotected Worker on End of Forklift
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Look Mom! No Hands!!
- Lets just hook to here
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Electrician taps into back of motor to power something else
- Scaffold Missing Rails
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Description:
The entire top was missing railing. Didn't stop work though.
- Protected E Stop
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Wouldn't you want the E-stop to be the button you can most easily hit?
- Missing Ground Prong
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Description:
If we had a dollar for every one of these we find.
- Open Electrical Box
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Description:
The irony here is this was in an electrical contractor's shop.
- Heating Oxygen Bottles
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Description:
Unsecured oxygen bottles with electric salamander heater
- Painted Ladder
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Used in a paint booth and totally painted with over spray.
- Residential Construction Fal Hazard
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These contractor are living a bit vicariously don't you think?
- Poor Housekeeping Extreme
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This wasn't staged, it was for real and an absolute mess.
- Broken Step Ladder
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Description:
Just because it was broken didn't stop the workers from still using it.
- Workers on Unsafe Scaffold
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Description:
With no fall protection and stepping onto a roof with no fall protection.
- Unsecured Helium Tank
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Description:
Unsecured helium tank in a restaurant. Look what it is between.
- Unsafe Wheelbarrow Ramp
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Description:
The workers were pushing (running) wheelbarrows up this ramp to be dumped into the dumpster.
- Hidden Fire Extinguisher
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Description:
Good luck finding/getting to this extinguisher in an emergency.
- Unguarded fan
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Description:
Unguarded improvised box fan
- Unapproved Gasoline Can
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Description:
This gasoline can is unapproved for industry
- Standing on Scissor Lift Rails
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Description:
You must stand with both feet firmly on the floor of the lift
- Cylinders in Storage and Use
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Description:
Welding gases mixed storage and use.
- Standing on Top Step of Step Ladder
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Description:
Worker standing on the top step of a step ladder
- riding the forks of a fork lift
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Description:
Worker riding the forks of a powered industrial truck
- Working Off the forks of an All Terrain Lift
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Description:
Worker on the forks of an all terrain lift with no fall protection
- Electrical Fire
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Description:
Signs of an electrical fire from an outlet
- Extension Cord Run Under a Door
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Description:
Extension cord run under a door
- Contaminated Drinks
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Probably not the best place to put your drinking water or Gatorade
- Damaged Outlet
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Description:
Damaged electrical outlet still in use
- Blocked Fire Sprinkler
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Blocked fire sprinkler head
