• FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    24 hours ago

    The stories my dad used to tell me about factory machinery used to keep me up at night

    Horrifying stuff

    And most of those stories started with people not using/fucking with the lock-out shit

    • penitentkulak [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      14 hours ago

      There’s a particularly horrifying story from a local dairy farm where a worker

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      climbed into some kind of mixer to unclog it, didn’t lock it out, and for some reason it was controllable via WiFi and the boss decided the mixer should be running.

      Guy was like 30 with a small kids and his own farm, but had to work at this shitty dairy to supplement his income. Big farm in the area bought out his whole place within a few months of him passing.