“We All Froze”: 30 Job Site Incidents That Still Give Workers Chills

First week of apprentice mechanic: I took off a driveshaft on a decline and the park break didn’t hold the truck it nearly rolled over my head it missed me by millimetres.

Getting electrocuted on a cell tower while installing an antenna almost a 150ft in the air.

Rolled a prawn trawler a 120km of the coast of Port Douglas qld. we lost a deckhand for 8 hours. he was in pitch black shark infested water and he washed up on the same sand island as us and the destroyed trawler 8 hours later.

Working in sewer. got lowered 75 meters down in a cage, radio signal cut out as they kept lowering us. they stopped it due to no response from us. the sewer water was sitting waist high.

When I landed airplanes, the ear protection was so good I couldn’t hear the engines running. One day I put a pylon in front of an engine that was still running. I couldn’t have been more than a couple feet from getting sucked in.

Worked in a hospital - I worked in pharmacy and was on the late shift so I got out after midnight - I was cutting through the main area that went up about 14 plus floors- all the floors had the half walls so people could look out the massive windows … heard a yell and then had a lady hit the ground so hard after jumping from the mental ward. I was covered head to toe in gore, brains, teeth- had to stay for hours doing bloodwork, talking to the cops, head honchos you name it. You bet they made those walls full walls because the lady took a swan dive. Had to do bloodwork for 6 months.

saw someone slipped inside a septic tank.

My brother works for a food distribution warehouse like (Safeway) but not that specific store in the freezer at the top of the door big ice blocks formed on top of the door and once in awhile one specific employee climbed up a ladder to go cut them down (he did regularly) it was not work safe btw he ended up falling off the ladder 20-30 feet high and landing on the freezer floor he was alone my brother herd the ladder fall and went and looked and found him on the floor my brother took off all his jackets covered him called for help they brought him more blankets and covered him up ambulance took 1 hr to arrive (we live in Canada it’s a whole thing about ambulances prioritizing patients) he ended up being okay.

Pulp and paper mill. was up round 500 ft on an elevator (a belt with a sq ft to stand on, strait drop to bottom) and bro above me starts yelling. I look up, and he is trying to throw on his gas mask as a cloud of green chlorine gas was just above us. 💀💀💀💀💀💀

Working in confined spaces with flammable liquids around a 75 pound jack hammer. used to clear the shot tanks under national steel car in Hamilton Ontario.