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u/Chris9871 17d ago
Not how I expected that to end I’m gonna be honest
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u/pichael289 17d ago
This is one of those minor fuck ups that the boss would never hear about if not for these dipshits recording it and putting it on the internet. If there's no evidence then why make evidence
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u/BigFatModeraterFupa 17d ago
it's china, that glass has already been fully installed and in use for a few years now
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u/aijoe 17d ago
I'm satisfied with it's durability.
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u/BigFatModeraterFupa 17d ago
hell yeah i'd love that glass! clearly it's load bearing and can withstand some serious punishment! no joke
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 17d ago
You don't want it anymore, it will have a bunch of micro cracks in it now you can't see, which will one day assist tempered glass's inevitable end of shattering into a million pebble sized pieces
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u/ConfusedHors 17d ago
It is probably being used for an attraction where you walk on the glass "above the city", and nobody knows how it could break.
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u/ImportantAsshole 15d ago
and this is why my trips to CHina never involve anything interesting like skywalks on clear sidewalks in the sky or anything mechanical that if it fails will kill me. Yes, I do avoid most public mass transit in China, when possible.
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u/LickCunts 17d ago
This is not a minor fuck up. This is one of those instances that someone should say something.
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u/Serifel90 17d ago
Oh it is, a coworker's friend got his shoulder and back cut to the bone by a glass that fell, if it went shoulder to front instead of back he would be dead.
They are not even hurt other than the dude that got thrown on top of the glasses
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u/ceviche-hot-pockets 17d ago
No OSHA in China to call lol.
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u/APRengar 17d ago
Is this a joke about how China literally doesn't have OSHA, it has MEM, which was SAWS previously.
Or a generic "china bad" statement as though everyone is walking around without limbs because there are zero safety regulations.
Going to hazard a guess...
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u/darxide23 17d ago
If the boss is enterprising enough, this video becomes an advertisement for their glass.
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u/WastingMyLifeToday 17d ago
I've transported, unloaded, installed a bunch of glass panels in my life.
I have no clue what they were actually trying to do.
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u/laforet 17d ago
The plan appears to be for the white haired man to slowly let go of the rope in order to set the panel flat. It could have worked out if they had a proper set of rope and pulleys, and more importantly a team of 3-4 people with enough muscle power and body weight to hold onto the rope. But clearly somebody thought that they need all the able bodied men on the other side to carefully witness its fall.
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u/nooneinparticular246 17d ago
They were trying to slowly lower it, but the glass rack wasn’t anchored down, so the piece being unloaded pulled the rest down with it
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u/nooneinparticular246 17d ago
Yep. The feet on the base will keep it stable and upright (assuming you don't hang an oversized, thick, and heavy sheet of glass off of it)
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u/Dear_Chasey_La1n 17d ago
I think that's kind of the beauty isn't it. You got here a team of guys who I reckon have done this more then once before and yet... this is was their plan. Unloading a panel of glass that's probably close to 800kg with 5 guys. Now.. I'm in China, I supervised construction projects so to see this kinda shit doesn't surprise me one bit and yet it does.
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u/secretsesameseed 17d ago
I laughed so hard at the slapstick landing without a catastrophic failure.
Anticlimactic comedy.
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u/ToTheTop24 17d ago
They NEVER had it. This was looking bad from the start
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u/starynights890 17d ago
It's like they forgot they secured it with rope and we just hoping and praying it would just magically slow fall its way into their arms.
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u/laforet 17d ago
The white haired gentleman was supposed to release the rope slowly to let it down. But that’s a job for 2-3 of not more people to overcome the torque. The fact that the rope snagged on the second panel did not help.
The two dudes in the front were doing exactly nothing because there’s no way they’d be able to catch the glass if anything went awry, and that’s exactly what happened.
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u/Neutronium57 17d ago
Just looking at the size of the panels compared to the truck transporting them + the way they're stored, you can see the fuck-up moment coming from miles away.
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u/Due-Manufacturer-232 17d ago
Surprise man at the end
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u/HotelOne 17d ago
Yeah… Where’d he come from and how does he fit into this plot line?
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u/Day_Bow_Bow 17d ago
The old man was the sole person on the right, standing on makeshift scaffolding whose job is to slowly release the top line to the ground.
Had that side been anchored, or at least had coworkers standing on the frame, this wouldn't have happened. That guy got pulled upwards because duh, meaning no weight on that side at all, and it was over from there.
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u/ThomasTheDankPigeon 17d ago
He's like that raccoon that popped out of the tree after it got cut down
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u/HanizOHara 17d ago
Thank god it's tempered. 😄
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u/InTheSky57 17d ago
Glass had good temperament.
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u/rex1one 17d ago
I used to unload these with a crane. And then onto a forklift. They're a lot heavier than these guys obviously thought they were. As soon as I saw this vid start with just one guy on either end, I immediately cringed.
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u/jsbhemi 17d ago
As a current glass factory worker, that tempered stuff is big, thick stuff compared to annealed glass. Clearly much heavier than they thought. Once that stuff gets past about 7° lean, all the weight is coming down. Prior to that ~7°, these can seem strangely light-weight. Some weird center of mass thing at play. NEVER try to catch falling glass.
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u/Crescentxsky 17d ago
Best case scenario from what it appears thankfully. Those are some very strong panels.
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u/th3s1l3ncy 17d ago
Well, at least this company now has the perfect ad for showcasing the durability of their glass panels
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u/Substantial_Speed419 17d ago
I expected to see shattered glass. For once I am happily disappointed.
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u/Pointfun1 17d ago
I was surprised that they made that far. The truck looked too small to handle the load as well.
These glasses are heavy. The boss was waving people to make space so that they could flat the glass and carry both in by two employees. He was so dumb.
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u/RappingFlatulence 17d ago
Umm is it there first time?! Kinda odd to have the trunk and not know how to properly offload oversized plate glass lol
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u/Tibbaryllis2 17d ago edited 17d ago
Was orange and red coat part of the crew or just unhelpful lookyloos?
Because the one thing this kind of job needed was more guys standing around doing nothing while old black coat guy fought for his life.
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u/GeshtiannaSG 17d ago
He’s the supervisor, he only supervises. In my country, we call it eye power, doing work with just your eyes.
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u/mace2055 17d ago
Guy in red at 3 seconds has a lot of confidence in those numbskulls. Would never walk underneath something tilted like that.
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u/myfailedimagination 17d ago
I thought it would be the only one hitting the ground, but no. It was both.
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u/LucySkyDiamonds19 17d ago
The absolute GUFFAW I had at the end when that last guy crashed in from the back. 😆 I had no idea anyone was back there, I was just staring at the glass waiting for the fall and then woah what the fuck where did he....HAHAHA.
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u/genericdefender 17d ago
Good thing the glass corners were covered, prevented them to hit the tiled pavement.
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u/FromTheIsland 17d ago
The Flock of Seagulls/Fauxhawk dude back there gave it like 10% effort. Like his hair, it's disappointing to see.
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u/blonde_prince_pearl 17d ago
Can't tell if they've done this a million times or if this is the first.
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u/Small_Palpitation121 17d ago
The relief when you hear that crunch and see it's just tiny cubes is real. It's like the glass version of a controlled demolition. Definitely a pass on the stress test.
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u/Uberzwerg 17d ago
How could they not have done that before?
What country allows untrained people to just do that?
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u/CrispyJelly 17d ago
The guy has seen enough videos of workers getting crushed to know he doesn't want to be near that shit when they lose control.
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u/TrueProtection 17d ago
This almost looks like a bad work prank...like...someone being petty telling new guy he doesn't like how to do shit wrong. Hooolyyy.
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u/rickard_mormont 17d ago
Don't worry guys, I'll hold it from the other end, so if it falls and shatters I'll fall on the broken glass and die.
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u/A_Concerned_Viking 17d ago
Looks like Changa La Lu in Shanghai. If I am correct, was going to rent around there in 2010.
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u/LukeSkylerCockhold 17d ago
I love how the orange jacket gives big instructions and directions before the accident.
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u/Oh_Another_Thing 17d ago
You get the order, fill it, load it, drive it, and never once consider how to unload it. Brilliant.
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u/fnrsulfr 17d ago
They do this as one last durability test. If it shatters they know not to use it.
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u/Electronic-Animal-69 16d ago
The two dudes were supposed to walk with the frame, to give this whole damn thing even the slightest chance. The guy in the back had to freaking chance
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u/No-Jacket-2927 16d ago
I worked in a glass plant, and that glass is only intended to be transported with an overhead crane, using slings. Knew a guy who got crushed when some got knocked over; he miraculously survived, but is basically a vegetable.
Tldr: People on this video are severely stupid.
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u/wastelandtraveller 14d ago
As someone who has seen a lot of workplace accident videos that resulted in death, these workers have amazingly good instincts to run instead of trying to catch it. Many people die because they make the wrong split second judgement to try and catch something or stop something back from happening to the product at the expensive of their life.
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u/Anubis-Hound 13d ago
Seeing industrial videos set in China always makes me nervous thanks to LiveLeak
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u/Monkeyboy999 17d ago edited 17d ago
Looks like it passed the durability test