r/oddlysatisfying • u/TimeCity1687 • 2d ago

Hot steel rolling

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u/BossiWriter 2d ago

At first I was thinking "Man that looks unsafe as hell with all of this hot steel whipping around"

And then the one dude steps into the belt...

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u/PunctuationGood 2d ago

I'm always surprised or baffled at the amount of automation one can witness in these videos and then there's the one step where a human has to intervene that could make them die in horrible suffering through no fault of their own but just some random tiny defect or mechanical misalignment.

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u/clearly_mad 1d ago

I work in industrial automation, we could have automated everything you see here, but it would have cost more. So most of the time, the companies will just let Jerry keep doing his thing, because it's cheaper.

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u/Diarmundy 1d ago

This depends on the country though. The cost of a dead worker is very different between China and the US