"This is the dramatic moment a marine flare exploded in the hands of a man at a recycling plant after it was left in with household waste.
People are now being urged to "think safe" when throwing out festive rubbish after the item exploded as the employee picked it from a conveyor belt at a waste treatment room in Waterbeach, Cambridge."
Shocking though this is, I do wonder if the chap actually pulled the activation tab, since he does seem to examine it for a few seconds.
Just goes to show that you shouldn't fiddle with strange objects, just like the couple that disturbed the old Mustard gas bombs found at the old MOD Site, previously used as a WWII Bomb Dump.
If you don't know what it is, no matter where it is - Leave the ruddy thing alone!!!
bernicarey wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2017 3:10 pm
Shocking though this is, I do wonder if the chap actually pulled the activation tab, since he does seem to examine it for a few seconds.
Just goes to show that you shouldn't fiddle with strange objects, just like the couple that disturbed the old Mustard gas bombs found at the old MOD Site, previously used as a WWII Bomb Dump.
If you don't know what it is, no matter where it is - Leave the ruddy thing alone!!!
Presumably his entire job is to poke at things in order to determine which (if any) class of recycling they belong to... For that type of role, I'm really not sure where I'd begin in putting in reasonable controls to prevent bizarre occurrences like this.
We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'
witsd wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2017 5:00 pm
Presumably his entire job is to poke at things in order to determine which (if any) class of recycling they belong to... For that type of role, I'm really not sure where I'd begin in putting in reasonable controls to prevent bizarre occurrences like this.
The 'Reasonable Controls' would be that if you find anything you do not immediately recognise, if it has any Buttons, Tabs, Tapes or other 'something' that looks like it might make something happen, DON'T OPERATE IT!
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