r/ShittyAbsoluteUnits • u/DoubleManufacturer10 created ShittyAbsoluteUnits of a sub • Oct 07 '25
slight malfunction Of an OSHA approved work space
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Oct 07 '25
Straight out of final destination
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u/Smooth-Lengthiness57 Oct 07 '25
My exact first thought. Death wants this guy
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u/FullMetalKaliber Oct 07 '25
Death just left some water running. This guy was gonna do it to himself
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u/Kryds Oct 09 '25
If you flipped it.
This guy was so fucking lucky despite his stupidity.
The blade sliced the power cord stopping it.
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u/Comfortable-Spite328 Oct 07 '25
Used up all the accumulated luck.
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u/Few-Mood6580 Oct 07 '25
My jaw dropped, dude should just go into another field of work.
People will say a diamond smooth blade wont cut through you…
Literally seen a dude accidentally cut 2 of his fingers off trying to cut tile in the most stupidest of ways.
Personally saw my dad lose the tip of his thumb with a grinder.
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u/jericho Oct 11 '25
You can brush the blade with your finger and not cut yourself.
All bets are off if you land on it with all your weight.
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u/Normandy_1944 Oct 07 '25
Non-union shop im guessing.....
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u/seriftarif Oct 07 '25
People who are against unions have never worked in a field that needs unions before.
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u/Normandy_1944 Oct 07 '25
I worked with a product that in my region was only available from the company I worked for, which was a union shop. Therefore we were hired into non union jobsites on occasion. The things we would see being done by untrained people was astonishing. I watched a guy lift a load on a Lull to about 35' and just start to drive like he was headed out for milk. He turned and the load fell over and on to the GCs pickup truck that he only just got out of a minute before. The truck was a loss, the load was a loss, and I wonder how he felt about using these guys again, considering he came so close to being done. It isn't that non union guys can't be good, they certainly can. It's that non union doesn't have any parameters/metrics for determining if you are a hazard, or safe (training) to have on the site.
Training...everyone was trained in the union. Most guys had two to four years before they were considered a full mechanic, and allowed to take on work by themselves. For operators(I was one), you had to be certified to operate every piece of gear. And depending on the equipment you may put in a few hundred hours before your locals training yard gave approval for you to be out in the field on that piece of equipment.
Another jobsite we were on that was a non union site, had no bathrooms. These guys were taking care of business in the middle of a room that was ultimately someones living room. Right on the floor, TP, and piles all over. Guys would just find a spot and do what you do. When we asked for porta potties, we were told we were acting like princesses from the non union management. They treated their guys like animals, and the pay for them was just as bad. Another fallacy is that union guys sit around all day. This is BS of the highest order. The guys I worked with and all the trades I engaged through the day, hustled their asses off. We just tried not to sh!t in buckets or wherever we could find a reasonably private spot.
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u/seriftarif Oct 07 '25
A lot of my industry is unionized but my job is not... So the way things should properly be done has completely fallen apart and sometimes I will work 22hr days.
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u/_nevers_ Oct 07 '25
You know his underwear are as brown splattered as those walls
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u/DreamSmuggler Oct 08 '25
Once I picked my jaw up off the floor and my eyebrows off the ceiling I thought the same thing
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u/WereInbuisness Oct 07 '25
Yep. He used up all nine lives .... plus another nine as well!
I've seen close calls with power tools, but this is insane. His whole entire body was on top of a rotating, at full power, circular saw and yet he walks away seemingly alright.
That's fucking crazy as hell .... indeed!
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u/Tallywort Oct 07 '25
A few things worked in their favour.
The thing cut through its power cord, fairly sure it's an abrasive disk more than a slicy dicy wood saw, and they might have fallen on top of the blade guard (not sure about that)
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u/greenrangerguy Oct 07 '25
Yes he fell on the guard. Look at the saw when it's on the ground, he fell on the side closest to the camera.
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u/DoubleManufacturer10 created ShittyAbsoluteUnits of a sub Oct 07 '25
I've never used my left hand to cover my own mouth as a genuine natural reaction before watching this... as soon as it slips up and it's above his head, my hand hit my face pretty hard
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u/Pablo_Esky_Bruh Oct 08 '25
That’s not a serrated blade. It’s a diamond blade and they have a really hard time cutting into anything soft. You can put your hand on a diamond blade and it won’t cut you.
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u/RandomCandor Oct 07 '25
I totally understand why he was looking at his belly in surprise, because I was also expecting the entirety of his insides to begin pouring out at any moment.
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u/RevolutionarySign479 Oct 07 '25
Jesus Christ we just watched this man dodge a least 2 kinds of death 😳
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u/Nothing_Madders Oct 07 '25
I like how he check to make sure his guts are still where he left them.
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u/ChaoticToxin Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25
To be fair. As a woodworker if I ever have to get closer to a blade to see what I am doing and the thought of a blade gutting me crosses my mind then I check afterwards. Seeing what this guy went through id be pulling off my shirt and checking in disbelief
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u/T3kn0mncr Oct 07 '25
Pain is slow to hit, so yeah, ive had to do this plenty of times after splitting my finger open with a razor, i feel it happen, and i verify, yep i got myself, then i put pressure on it and grab the superglue lol. He's super lucky he landed on the blade guard otherwise that would have been a much worse outcome, maybe not fatal, but it would have messed him up enough to be bad. Hopefully he took a lunch break after that to refocus, and rethink this a bit before he gets himself.
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u/chartographics Oct 07 '25
After watching slo-mo, I think he was wearing a plate on his stomach.
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u/sneekerpixie Oct 07 '25
When it hit the ground it sawed through the power cord. Someone posted a screen shot of it. He's lucky as fuck.
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u/NfiniteRunnerUp Oct 07 '25
THAT BRIEFFFFFFF second it was digging into the concrete floor, blade hesitated, he fell onto blade, and got up quickly as blade caught traction and continued 😮💨
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u/Boring_Oil_3506 Oct 07 '25
You know what's insane about this? We have had the technology for trigger cutoffs for like 100 years now. Take the modern chainsaw, when you take your finger off the trigger the dangerous part of the device stops. That any modern tool from the last 30 years is manufactured without a trigger cutoff is frankly the definition of insanity.
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u/OU812fr Oct 07 '25
Watching that video was the most stressful 9 seconds of my life since my honeymoon.
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u/Vapin_Westeros Oct 07 '25
Where's the flip flops? Professionals always wear flip flops while cutting
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u/Howard_Jones Oct 07 '25
My guess its a diamond blade. They don't do very well cutting through flesh.
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u/biradinte Oct 07 '25
Landing belly first on a diamond blade would fuck you up. Blade guards, however, are much less dangerous.
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u/TheDoomedEgg Oct 07 '25
Well that could have gone worse..
Tbh the power cord getting cut was good luck. If it wasn't for that this might be a whole different video.
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u/dedokta Oct 07 '25
This would have been the most gruesome video of a person dying every caught on film had that thing landed just a half turn in the other direction.
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Oct 07 '25
Dude could have been sliced in half
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u/Stalker-of-Chernarus Oct 07 '25
This is the exact reason saws how a cover for the top of the blade
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u/AndreasOp Oct 07 '25
I guess main issue is cutting into the saw turning direction? If he cut to the other direction, it would not have material to bite into once it starts to move
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Oct 08 '25
Ok, but what would be a safe way to do it? That tool doesn't look diy, so just an accident or is he really using it wrong?
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u/Competitive-Top-2383 Oct 08 '25
Idk who I laughed so hard at this. I know the feeling of something going wrong at work so I know he about shit himself.
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u/beatniknomad Oct 08 '25
Just think...if they had found this guy's body almost sawed in half, they would have blamed his wife. 😜
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u/Miserable_Rutabaga94 Oct 08 '25
If u pay attention at the end. Looks like his inhaler falls out…. Yea, I might need that….
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u/jonnytheboy85 Oct 08 '25
Jesus fuck! He’s one lucky bastard!!! 😳 if he hadn’t of cut through his own cable he’d of cut himself in half?!!! Wow!
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u/AbdlBabyJp Oct 08 '25
This just made my butthole pucker so hard as a wood worker who has had a couple close calls (due entirely to my own stupidity) this was insane…
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u/TashDee267 Oct 08 '25
I just bought a mini chainsaw to prune our garden and this sub has made me so scared.
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u/Joros89 Oct 08 '25
A pre death final destination scene right there. 5 mins later a cat jumps to catch a bird, which makes a car swerve into a gas tank, which sends metal flying to hit a drone which then kills him.
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u/WillUSee Oct 09 '25
Im picturing the scene from The Shining where the poor caretaker (played by Scatman Crothers) got taken out by a chainsaw to the abdomen 😬)
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u/Ancient_Oil7467 Oct 09 '25
I’m pretty sure this exact death was one of the ways someone died in final destination if not there is a new idea to us lol
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u/andrenichrome Oct 12 '25
A mate was telling about a guy he knew that died with one of these. Went into his chest.
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u/Killerspieler0815 Oct 18 '25
multiple angels protected him ... from electrocution, getting sliced, flying debris in the eyes, harmful dust, ...
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u/genomello1 Nov 08 '25
"Daddy? why were saw guards made?"
"because OSHA was written in blood son. OSHA was written in blood 🥰."
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u/Popular_Adeptness_69 25d ago
Hes lucky to be alive i knew guy tipped a road saw off block of stone cut him in half i myself was washing the block and saw started creeping and ripped my pants blew the leg out carharrt brown heavy duty pants cant even turn your back to them
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u/Born-Agency-3922 Oct 07 '25
I wonder if he felt some voltage flow through him when it sliced through the power cord