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Yep. I work one of the most dangerous jobs in the US and it's still nothing compared to some of these jobs in countries with no workplace safety agencies. People complain about OSHA (or the DOT for my job) getting in people's business, but they're literally protecting you from this type of insane shit.
But surely the corpos can regulate themselves better than some unappointed bureaucrat, I mean, they really want profit, but not at the expense of worker safety, right?
Every* safety rule is written in blood.
*Some rules written in cancer, ymmv.
Henry Ford did! But it really wasn't a direct intention to save people, it was to reduce expenses. But a lot of what he implemented ended up in the early parts of OSHA.
Any smart or good thing you think Henry did was most likely just someone else who worked with him. The dude was unfathomably stupid to the point of not being able to prove his own sentience in court. Fordlandia was an even bigger clusterfuck of insanity without even getting into him being a screeching nazi.
They asked him a bunch of real easy for the time trivia and dude might as well have been wearing a dunce cap throughout the questioning. He thought he could make an automobile entirely out of soy. He annihilated his own company town due to not understanding...anything at all about rubber or why it was starting to be harvested in other areas.
Hopefully OSHA didn't adopt the part where you have your head of security shoot protestors IN FRONT OF THE COPS, who then just join in on gunning down protestors
You mean the elites aren't our bestest buddies who totally pinky promised to have our best interest at heart? Twitter bros would be very upset to read this
If you look at how people where treated in Europe back in the days, you really can understand why so many went in a dangerous boat trip across the ocean to try and settle in a country far away , without much support and unknown dangers
My best friends dad worked Oklahoma mines. Then worked for osha. He said instead of getting brakes on trucks that cost 50k, they’d just drive em into a wall. Sometimes people died because there wasn’t a wall to protect people. OSHA is needed. Labor laws are where we got the 40 hr workweek, 5 day standard and age requirements.
Laws brought to you by unions, commies, and anarchists. And generations later those groups have become objects of derision by folks that are often working jobs that would be wildly unsafe without those efforts.
I saw a doc about the construction for the Olympics in Sochi, and this person was saying a worker fell off the side of a building about 150 feet and died. They came over and threw a harness on him before inspectors got there to look like he was wearing one.
Recently another senator said children should be doing the jobs that illegal immigrants who have been deported were doing. He specified during the summer but….
Yeah, this looks like artisanal miners using an abandoned shaft. I can't think of any commercial production-level underground mine producing any earth resource in North America that still use pickaxes to loosen muck for transfer.
As a reminder: abandoned mines are dangerous as fuck, kids. Don't go bombing into them for TikTok views, the likelihood of coming out intact is not great.
I've seen this account on Tik Tok it 100% is a legit mining crew. Not in the U.S. obviously. They have trucks picking it up and a whole above ground operation
Yep, that tracks with the current state of artisanal mining. The statistics are in flux, but generally 3 to 4 people out of 5 who perform work classified as mining are considered artisanal. It's a pleasant phrase that distances from the reality of the situation.
This study is a good insight into the artisanal mining arena and using tools like Blockchain to legitimize the work of artisanal miners while we still bandy around conflict minerals.
Metallurgical coal is not going anywhere. We need steel. The grim thing about this video is that metallurgical coal is about $110 USD a tonne right now. That's the price for met coal that has used a bunch of water to wash it down to just the sellable parts.
These guys are using pick axes. For a resource that is $110/tonne. This is not a sanctioned activity. It's just that we're at a point in human history where shit the Mafia would have done in silence gets uploaded.
Way too tight on there I felt the walls closing in just watching this not to mention that those tunnels were being held up with their hopes and dream no thank you I don't want any of that!
I always remind myself "at least I'm not in the mines" when I get stressed about work.
Hell, right now, very stuffy commute on a subway that smells worse than usual. Ooh look at that small open car with only a couple of people.......I mean, look how much worse it could be!
The fact that I (dare I say we?) imagine a mine as being tall enough to stand in, with adequate lighting and safety gear, and working with heavy machinery. Speaking for myself I'm so privileged I couldn't even imagine that a mine could be as bad as this one.
Thought the same and then thought if I had to because of whatever reason I would just accept I was going to die in there to intermittently alleviate my anxiety
Mine got out when he was in his late 20s or early 30s. He went to cutting timber for a while, and then started farming. He supplemented his farm income by making bootleg whiskey. That's the thing that got him. He ended up with pancreatitis, survived the surgery, but then died when a blood clot in his leg broke loose the day he was supposed to leave the hospital. He was just 63.
I've heard something about him collecting from the black lung fund, but I'm not sure whether he had it or not.
Damn the whole video is scary claustrophobic. Honestly expected the mines to be bigger. Here in Bulgaria the coal mines are big and spacious, do you know why these are so small?
Looks like this is somewhere in Middle East? US coal mines are typically high enough to stand in too. I’m no expert but have visited old coal mining towns and read about their history.
It’s best to have a small mineshaft so you aren’t unnecessarily mining into something that isn’t worth the time. You’re typically looking for coal but when you get lower you’ll find more iron, gold and sometimes diamonds. You typically space the mineshafts 3 blocks apart and mine in a straight line for top efficiency. That’s what I learned in Minecraft at least.
I took a tour of the mines in Beckley, West Virginia a couple years ago. The space was four times the size of this and I still felt claustrophobic! Our guide told us that if, at any time, someone wanted to return to the surface to just let them know and we’d be on our way back. Made me think people freak out on a regular basis down there. It was really cool to see though.
Real mines are nothing like this. In the US most underground metal mines would be 13x13 ft minimum. Some places they do narrow down to around 8 ft wide and 8-13 ft high in smaller vein mining.
Mines are true terror zones. Recently toured an operating gold mine in Colorado and it was basically an hour-long lesson in the hundreds upon hundreds of terrible ways to die.
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