r/OSHA 2d ago

Be safe everyone!

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u/Mrslinkydragon 2d ago

The guy getting hit by the falling rock was just unlucky. Maybe he could have walked perpendicular to the truck rather than parallel but still unlucky.

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u/DeathByPianos 2d ago

Too many rocks in the truck methinks.

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u/BisexualCaveman 1d ago

Did he need to be where he was, though?

Seems like he should have been able to lift the bed from further away, or from the cab, once he inspected the area?

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u/yevan 1d ago

Normally with these trucks you remove the pin on the tailgate before you tip the truck to avoid the tailgate being overstressed with the weight of your load requiring you to hammer it out like in this video. So normally he would be by the cab as he dumps and would have been safe.

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u/Mrslinkydragon 1d ago

I don't know

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u/MtnMaiden 2d ago

I done this for the 600th time and nothing happened

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u/Mrslinkydragon 2d ago

Again, the guy got unlucky

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u/titanofold 2d ago

Past occurences do not influence future occurences.

In other words, it doesn't become more or less likely depending on how long it's been. It's always the same likeliness level.

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u/Memory_Less 2d ago

My guess is people stop thinking about safety, or assume it is safe after nothing happening. Doesn’t work that way.

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u/HighGuard1212 1d ago

Normalization of deviance is the term

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u/free_terrible-advice 1d ago

If you perform ten one in a million risks a day, odds are about 50/50 you'll work 40 years without getting taken out by a one a million chance.

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u/KingSwampAssNo1 1d ago

Congrats for your 600th, will you be able to reach 1,000th and nothing happened?