41 Horrifying Accidents People Witnessed at Work

‘Guy fell into a crucible of molten iron’
41 Horrifying Accidents People Witnessed at Work

As mundane as an office job may be, there’s a bit of relief knowing that the most serious injury you’ll probably experience is a papercut. Other professions don’t have that luxury.

One Redditor recalled the time their coworker caused a “cornstarch dust explosion” at a previous job. All employees were shown a training video about how dangerous cornstarch was if cigarette in an inopportune location. He’s now disabled for life.

Unsurprisingly, there are more devastating incidents where that came from, including quite a few that are straight-up OSHA violations.

dainbramaged64 . 2y ago Death by asphyxiation when he walked into a pure nitrogen environment without the PPE that was hanging on the door and had to be moved to open. Along with disabling all the safety measures (there were many) and didn't notify the required spotter. To this day I still wonder if it was planned suicide.
Friggin . 2y ago At a company I was working at: 2 guys working in a low point, heavier than air gas leak, 2 guys out. The spotter then climbs down to figure out what was going on. 2 more guys come along, and climb down to figure out what was going on. 5 guys asphyxiated.
Reasonable_Slice5324 2y ago Working at McDonalds, a girl slipped walking past a deep fryer and her hand when deep into the fryer. The manager wrapped her hand in a cloth, when she pulled it off to put in water alllll of her skin came off. We were still made to work so we walked off, they were even happy to keep using the fryer after it!
Barquebe 2y ago Working for a specialized trucking company, a fellow driver lost control fully loaded going down a winding mountain road. The truck tipped over, slid across 2 lanes of oncoming traffic and landed in a field. Truck and trailer were absolutely demolished, cab was flattened, and the driver (a huge MFer) crawled out the back window without a scratch. $400k unit wasn't even recognizable. Guy was fired when insurance pulled the ECM out of the rig and found he was going over 100kmh around a 50kmh corner and didn't even touch the brakes.
R3DLOTU5 2y ago 6 Edited 2y ago Man fell 75 feet due to standing on the wrong side of the pipe he was cutting. You ever see those cartoons where they cut the branch while standing on the branch? Не was cutting from inside and everyone thinks he just got disoriented. Man crushed in a 40 megaton stamping press Man fell into a scrap metal grinder. Take your pick
. 2y ago Guy fell 15' and landed on his head, he lived, it fixed his lazy eye and he's still with the company. Не became very irritable, has violent outbursts and is a lil psychotic but otherwise perfectly ok.
No_Cricket808 . 2y ago Guy fell into a crucible of molten iron.
wildwildwaste 9 2y ago Maintenance tech at the fiberglass place I worked at fell into a pool of molten glass because he didn't want to shut the plant down to fix the feeder motor.
Annual_Rooster5678 . 2y ago Collapsed scaffolding. 19 dead over 40 injured.
. 2y ago Had a corn starch dust explosion at a previous job (and no it's not previous because I caused it lol). A truly stupid guy decided he'd sneak a cigarette break in basically the worst place he could. Не came very close to death for his stupidity and could have taken others with him but thankfully he was was the only one seriously injured when the dust went boom. Pretty sure he made himself disabled for life. That night I was pretty far from the boom area doing vacuum decay testing on completed bags of sugar substitute.
BigBennP 2y ago The bank where my wife worked was constructing an expansion. During the construction, rigging on a steel beam slipped and the steel beam fell on a worker killing him. She had to explain to customers all day long why the side entrance of the bank was taped off and police cars and other emergency vehicles were present. Without actually saying that someone had died because they didn't want that being put out there. There was a construction accident OH my God, is everyone ok? I don't really have that information...
Baunos 71Motorfly . 2y ago BERYL When I worked at UPS, a truck fell off a lift & crushed a mechanic. Literally ten minutes after I was talking to him about his family vacation : https://6abc.com/archive/85194741
Mryan7600 . 2y ago When I worked at a grocery store a guy lost his thumb in the meat slicer. Worst part is, because of the blade it went flying and they couldn't find it soon enough to reattach. Deli was closed for 24 hours.
WakingOwl1 . 2y ago Worked for a nursing home that's right near the local fair grounds. They brought a bunch of wheelchair bound residents up on a small embankment overlooking the approach to the fairgrounds to watch the opening day parade. One guys wheelchair didn't get locked and he went over backwards. Fell twenty feet, broke his neck and shattered his skull.
AC645 . 2y ago Downed firefighter trapped in a fire, never got out And then falling through a roof If we talk about what happened to other people and still talking accidents, impalement through a head after fall, and two kids run over by a train, but the list can go on
the-cosmic-kraken 0 2y ago Teenage girl cut off her finger after refusing to wear the cut proof glove because it was ugly. My cousin had a roofing company and a guy wasn't using his safety tether while on a roof. Не fell off and ended up falling into a hole that had been dug so they could work on some electrical wiring. Не was electrocuted and died on the way to the hospital. Follow safety protocols folks.
permacloud . 2y ago Worked in a grocery store as a teenager. My coworker (and still friend) was lowering a huge pallet of 1L apple juice tetra packs and the whole thing tipped from like 20ft up. Thousands of liters of apple juice flooded the whole back of the store. It was super hot that day and it just smelled like intense hot apple juice. We had the worst ant problem forever. Thankfully nobody was hurt but what a godawful mess.
inkseep1 . 2y ago We had a guy killed by being blown up in a gas explosion at a house. We had 2 employees on a construction site killed by a gunman who then killed himself. We had a director who was driving to the airport for a business trip killed by a truck tire going through his car. Those are the worst ones I know about.
specialkake . 2y ago USCG buoy tender. Pulling up a 15,000lb concrete slab used as an anchor for buoys. Dangling via chain from the boom. Took a wave athwartship and guys pelvis got trapped between the weight and the metal bulkhead. Crushed pelvis.
Spodson . 2y ago I watched a guy, who pinned his safety guard back on his Skill saw with a nail, lay the still spinning blade right into the meat of his thigh. It went right in. I almost ed out when he yanked it out. Не was in shock and laughing about how the blade was so hot it cauterized the cut, so not much blood. Не then got into his yellow Bronco with a bad clutch and drove himself to the hospital.
prunepicker 2y ago It happened at a manufacturing plant before I worked there. A guy fell into a clay mixing machine. Не did not survive. While I worked there, a guy got hit by a car right by the front gate. Не also did not survive. I thought the plant should shut down for the day, but that didn't happen.
hyphen27 . 2y ago Didn't see it, as I was on break. Dude was driving a reach fork truck. Не was retracting the mast, while at the same time driving off into the next hall. The truck was faster than the mast, which didn't clear the doorway; the truck flipped over and threw him out, as he wasn't wearing his seat belt. The mast came down and cut him clean in half.
PhreedomPhighter . 2y ago A wheel on the deep fryer collapsed while it was in use. Flooded the kitchen with 400°F (200°C) hot oil. Thankfully most people were out of the splash so the worst that happened was their shoes got ruined. I got a couple burns on my arms but that wasn't unusual for me. The manager, though, almost lost a leg. The way it collapsed it pretty much splashed directly on his leg. Immediate third degree burns. Happened years ago. He's fine now but a good chunk of his leg got burned off.
EntertainerOk9552 . 2y ago A girl with long hair leaned down to check something near a fast rotating piece of machinery and got it caught. It ripped a good chunk of her scalp out.
juleslimes 2y ago I work at a well known, accredited zoo, which I will not name for obvious reasons. -Chimpanzee escapes (2 or 3, nothing terrible happened but could have ended very VERY badly) -Several kangaroos were spooked and jumped over/through a fence, all but one had to be euthanized immediately -Cassowary escape (again not a terrible ending but big scary aggressive bird on the loose, no thanks) -Maintenance vehicle exploded in a mechanic's face and blinded him
314159265358979326 2y ago It wasn't terrible, just truly unexpected: an employee nearly had her hand amputated after being bitten by the shop cat because she was petting him too much. If a cat bites you, get it treated by a doctor immediately. They inject loads of bacteria deep into your flesh and the hole is very small and heals quickly. She waited 17 hours and at that point it was healed over and unable to be cleaned and so infected she needed IV antibiotics for a week.
StuckInNov1999 2y ago Nothing tragic, mostly funny. Not at my actual work place but I traveled around the big 3 auto maker plants in S.E. Michigan as a consultant for one of their divisions. This dude was driving an electric lift truck and for some reason there was an issue. This dumbass gets the bright idea of pulling the cable that connects the battery to the truck. Instantly loses the ability to stop or steer and is too dumb to press the Ebrake. Goes right through a wall into a bathroom, taking out all the plumbing and flooding half the
cookedart 2y ago Working on a film set. People were rushing on a Friday to get things done. Some peeps on the crew were holding up a wall under construction and another person was drilling through said wall during assembly. They didn't call out the positions well due to speed - and someone's hand ended up getting drilled straight through. The poor guy had to yell to back the drill out of his hand so he could remove his arm from the set. Не made it a few steps away and fainted. Pretty awful experience for everyone involved (I know the guy
SlothOfDoom e 2y ago I used to work in a food processing plant and one day a guy stuck his dick in the pickle slicer. They both got fired.
IDontEvenCareBear . 2y ago Someone had their hand chomped on by a dog. Spent months in physio, has little problems with it to this day and the skin looks deflated where the chunk was healed back on. I was maybe totally that person.
TheMadGoth 2y ago I work in a residential treatment facility for teenagers. We had this horse farm behind our property that was separated from our facility by a small fence. Our kids would sometimes lose balls behind the fence while playing. This happened one day, so one of my coworkers hopped the fence to get the ball (my coworkers have done this multiple times with no issue). I guess a horse was having a bad day that day, because they ended up trampling the coworker.
FunMushroom9524 2y ago Coworker broke his back in a fall. Medium size hardware and lumberyard store. (Late 1970s) Sketchy as hell process to get water heaters out of storage: No safety gear provided; Ride the forklift forks (no pallet or railings) up about 15-20 ft; Walk over an office ceiling; Wrestle the desired water heater onto the forks and ride it down while holding on to said water heater and balancing it on the forks Well the guy and water heater fell. Store manager, who knew about this process, tells us it was coworkers fault for not being careful and
Cheetodude625 . 2y ago High school kid drove a golf cart into a pond Jackass style.
dell02 . 2y ago I had a colleague who cut himself while examining old prints, lost two fingers due to the spread of the infection despite antibiotics and hospital treatment. The funny thing is that it was a medical volume over 500 years old
Gahvandure2 . . 2y ago A tech in microbiology exposed herself to bacterial meningitis while setting up a culture, and didn't know it. Went home the next day with a headache, which was a Friday, and was dead by Monday.
doktarlooney 2y ago I was almost potentially one of these stories. Used to be a stagehand for one of the largest production companies in the US and we were tearing apart a build. They had lowered one of the big trusses filled with equipment so we could strip it down. A little old lady asked me to help her and without hesitating I ducked under the suspended truss to get to her side, stood up to help her, and watched as a good 4 foot long couple hundred pound chain slams down into the ground right where I had been
roonie357 2y ago I was a grocery store warehouse worker in high school. One night I was operating the forklift and accidentally hit one of the overhead water mains for the fire suppression system. I was reversing so I didn't see it, just got hit with a blast of ice cold water and didn't know where it was coming from until I turned around and realized I fucked up. It flooded the warehouse and started flooding into the store, due to the drop in water pressure the fire alarm went off and the store was evacuated. The fire dept showed
exaggeratedcaper 2y ago Worked at Staples. Every two weeks we'd get a paper delivery. I'm talking dozens of cases, each filled with ten reams of paper. And for whatever reason, it always came on just ONE pallet. So that pallet was goddamn HEAVY, easily over a thousand pounds. Bare minimum of two people to push it across the store. One day a guy I knew and my Ops manager were moving it from the truck, him pushing the jack, my manager pulling. I was there just bullshitting with them. The guy pushing the jack must've just not been paying attention,
Ambitious_Skin9558 . 2y ago I use to work at a grocery store. An old man drove into front of the store. Не hit the gas instead of the brake when trying to park. Не broke the big windows and knocked bricks loose on the store. | think he was not hurt to badly. I think he had broken nose and some burseing.onhis face.
. 2y ago A container of formic acid exploded. It injured 6 people (2 were seriously injured) and it literally blew the roof off of the building. I had read that it was due to how the manufacturer packaged it. I wasn't there when it happened, but I learned about it in a training.
nugget_the_third3 . 2y ago Not my story, but my dad told me it. A man got his arm stuck in a machine, which degloved his arm. After he recovered, he was showing the safety people how it happened, and he accidentally degloved his other arm.

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