Hacker News with Generative AI: Industrial Accidents

List of Non-Water Floods (wikipedia.org)
Most non-water floods (excluding mudflows, oil spills, or volcanic lahars) involve storage facilities suddenly releasing liquids, or industrial retaining reservoirs releasing toxic waste.

Floods, Environmental Hazards, Industrial Accidents, Safety

6 points by repost_bot 6 days ago | 0 comments

Fatal Accident at Universal Stainless Leads Steelworkers to Flag Safety Failures (hntrbrk.com)
A worker died this week while operating a crane at a steel mill in Dunkirk, New York, according to former and current employees.

Industrial Accidents, Safety, Labor, Steel Industry, New York

6 points by impish9208 45 days ago | 0 comments

Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996) (amasci.com)
David Swenson of 3M Corporation describes an anomaly where workers encountered a strange "invisible wall" in the area under a fast-moving sheet of electrically charged polypropelene film in a factory.

Physics, Manufacturing, Industrial Accidents

403 points by Simon_O_Rourke 122 days ago | 221 comments

Foundry worker puts wet scrap metal into furnace (youtube.com)

Safety, Industrial Accidents, Manufacturing

11 points by lifeisstillgood 193 days ago | 4 comments

Fire at South Korea lithium battery plant kills at least 16 people (nbcnews.com)

Fire Safety, Lithium Batteries, South Korea, Accidents, Industrial Accidents

98 points by rntn 333 days ago | 39 comments

In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure (mastodon.social)

Health, Industrial Accidents, Personal Experiences

10 points by viraptor 333 days ago | 0 comments