This Online Community Collects The Worst Work Safety Examples That No Construction Worker Should Follow (120 Pics)

Occupational Safety isn't a joke. If you're fixing an AC compressor on the ledge of the 28th floor with no harness, you're just inviting trouble over, and risking not only your life but ending up on the r/OSHA subreddit as well.

This online community is made up of 725,000 members who are constantly reminding one another to follow safety regulations by posting pictures of people who didn't. And I have to say, it's working — these disasters in the making were so bad, scrolling through them made me put on a helmet before changing the lightbulb in my bedroom and getting inside a hazmat suit just as I was about to take out the trash.

#1 Log Lift (Oregon, 1973)

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#2 This Sight I Stumbled On The Way Back To Work Today

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#3 Woodstock 1969 Sound Crew Members Being Craned Up To Their Stations

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#4 When Tow Trucks Are Too Expensive And A New Paint And Other Minor Repairs Aren't

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#5 One Of My Guys Sent Me This Today...

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#6 Took This Photo A Few Years Ago...

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#7 I'll Do My Best

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#8 The Fire Exit On This College Building.

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#9 *faint Wheelchair Noises In The Background*

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#10 Only Entrance To My Current Job Site.

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#11 Absolutely No Ppe In Sight..

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#12 Heater At My Job Site.

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#13 When I Was Doing Construction I Was Apparently Featured In A "Safety Fails" Site On Pinterest.

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#14 Approved Non-Slip Non-Conductive Tread

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#15 No Need To Lock Out, This'll Just Take A Second

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#16 If You Do It Outside You Don’t Need Respirators, Right?

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#17 Quit My Job After I Got Asked To Climb This Ladder On A 6 In 12 Pitch Roof. $10/Hr Scraping Paint Is Not Worth A Broken Neck.

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#18 No Way This Could Go Wrong.

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#19 I Have No Idea How That Piece Of Asphalt Is Still Supporting Him ?

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#20 Yeah That Should Be Fine

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#21 Fixing An Ac Compressor On A Level 28 Ledge

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#22 Screw It - That's Close Enough.

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#23 Thanks Guys!

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#24 A Little More To The Right.

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#25 How To Hold A Ladder In China

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#26 "I've Done It A Million Times. This Is Totally Safe." - My Coworker

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#27 Yeah, I Think That's Right.

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#28 Sharps Container? These People Apparently Never Heard Of One...the Needles Were Poking Out Of The Box.

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#29 A Contest That Nobody Wins.

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#30 The Hotel I'm Staying In Is Keeping The Plastic Covers On Its Fire Alarms To Keep Them Newer For Longer

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#31 Right Above The Toilet. Good Thing I’m Not 6’1”.

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#32 Yikes

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#33 2nd Leading Cause Of Death In Costa Rica.

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#34 Saw This Quick Fix On My Run Earlier

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#35 This Guy Napping In A Wood Chipper At The End Of My Street

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#36 You Already Know He Was Scooting Along Too, While On The Bucket. Also Job Site Exposed To Coronavirus And Still Open

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#37 Guys Not Worried About Falling Off This Things At All

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#38 20 Meters Above Ground - A Long Way To Fall

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#39 Our Family Hired A Carpenter To Replace The Top Deck. Came Outside To Find Him Balanced Over A Bed Of Rusty Nails.

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#40 Construction Of The Dirigible Uss Macon, 1934. Look At Those Ladders.

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#41 Emergency "Exit" In A Friend's Office Building. First Time They Opened It Was During A Fire Alarm

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#42 Stirling Council Have Photoshopped Hardhats On To Their Workers

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#43 Found This Guy Digging In A Manhole On Busy 4 Lane Road. No Cones, No Truck, Just An Orange Vest.

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#44 The Supervisor Asked Me To Delete The Picture As Well. No Harness On Either Of Them.

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#45 A Great Way To Show That You’re Absolutely Loving Your Job...

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#46 Melting Snow Piles Don't Make For A Good Foundation For Scaffolding Apparently

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#47 Ventilated So They Won’t Fog While Spraying Caustic Chemicals. Get Yours Today While Supplies Last!

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#48 No Actual Words For This Level Stupid

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#49 I Think My City Ordered Their Cones Off Of Wish.com

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#50 Smooth Sailing Ahead

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#51 “Move Along, Nothing To See Here”

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#52 If Only There Was Some Sort Of Moveable Elevating Basket He Could Use, Instead Of Balancing On This Thing...

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#53 Watch And Learn, Boys.

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#54 I Don’t See A Problem Here...

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#55 After All My Years Working Construction, I Have Given Out My Darwin Award.

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#56 Maybe Too Much For A Pickup Truck?

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#57 Lawncranemower™

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#58 /R/Justrolledintotheshop Said Y'all Would Like This.

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#59 Stairwell Was A Bit Tight For A Ladder, No Problem Though, My Coworkers Are Always There To Support Me!

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#60 A Pyramid Of 2-Steps

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#61 There's No Osha In Peru.

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#62 Today At Work.

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#63 We Had 5-6 People Scrape/Cut Themselves Walking Past This Exposed Thermostat, So We Finally Complained... Came In This Morning To This Solution.

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#64 The Fifth Floor Of Our Building Has Been Held Up By Jacks For 20+ Years

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#65 Can’t You Read The Sign!?

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#66 Where Vegetables Comes From.

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#67 The Cones Will Help

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#68 This Overpass In The Philippines

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#69 This Lightbulb Is Held Up By Three Nails And Loose Wiring

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#70 They Wouldn’t Listen... Just Some Trench Work.

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#71 Quick Release Fire Extinguisher At My Hotel ?

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#72 Palm Tree Removal

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#73 Don't Worry, Got The Safety Squints On, Boss

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#74 Fixing Pipes, Egyptian Edition

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#75 Hold On Buddy...

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#76 I’ve Always Worked In Refineries Where Safety Is Usually Top Priority. Now That I’m Working Commercial I’m Amazed At What I’ve Seen.

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#77 Clamped Broken Railing For Bonus.

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#78 All These Grain Explosions And I'm Like...

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#79 No One Is Gonna Fall Into This Hole! There’s A Cone!

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#80 Nailed It.

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#81 Load Bearing 2x6 Wall. I Just Dont Know What Hvac Was Thinking.

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#82 My Father Has Owned His Own Lawn Care Company For 24 Years.

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#83 “If It Rains Harder Than X Amount, We Have To Empty This Every 5 Minutes “ - Employee Of The Month

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#84 It's Okay, Just Hold Very Very Still!

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#85 “I’m A Surgeon With This Thing”

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#86 Necessity - The Mother Of Invention.

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#87 Working In A Church Made Him So Happy That He Decided He Wanted To Meet Jesus Himself

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#88 I Think This Belongs Here.

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#89 Just A Few More Inches, Almost Got It

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#90 Forgot The Ol Hard Hat At Home

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#91 No Such Thing As ‘Health And Safety’ In Myanmar - This Dude’s Repairing An Air Conditioner On The 22nd Floor. As You Do.

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#92 My Buddy Sent Me This From His Job Site Today

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#93 What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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#94 New Lock Out Procedure

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#95 Ready For Lift Off

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#96 Don't Get Too Hurt

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#97 Emergency Power Shut Off For A Machine Shop Class With 25+ Manual Lathes, 5 Manual Mills, And 4 Cnc Mills Is Behind A Bookshelf

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#98 “Quick He’s Having A Heart Attacking”

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#99 This Is Me About 6 Years Ago. We Were Trying To Measure How Deep The Water Was To Build A Cofferdam Around An Intake Pipe. I Don't Work For That Company Anymore.

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#100 Well This Doesn’t Seem Safe To Leave Over The Weekend..

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#101 Guy Was Installing Balcony Railing On The 6th Floor With This As His Tie Off Point.

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#102 9 Inch Width Of Unsecured Grating Over A 25 Foot Pit. Been This Way For Years.

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#103 Western Kansas Ladies And Gentleman

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#104 Cameramen Filming Before We Had Drones

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#105 I Can't Figure Out How Either Of Them Got There...

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#106 High, Higher, Highest

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#107 They Didn't Even Need The Fourth Ladder

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#108 As Long As We Watch Him He'll Be Fine...

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#109 He Said “I Couldn’t Find The Breaker To Cut The Power So I’ll Just Work With The Lights On”

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#110 Work Place Safety Legend

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#111 Stability Is Key

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#112 Shoes Optional At Work

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#113 Osha Busts My Balls About Dust But Thinks It’s Ok To Wear Her Hard Hat Like That.

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#114 Sometimes You Gotta Improvise

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#115 This Barbeque

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#116 Does This Fit In Here Guys?

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#117 Eye Wash Station = Filled With Empty Oil Cans. First Aid Station = Blocked Entirely By Tires. Bravo.

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#118 At A Warehouse On A Pier

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#119 Texts From My Manager

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#120 Old Army Prototype Helicopter, What Could Go Wrong?

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