Originally published at: China's safety video makes "Dumb Ways to Die" look like child's play - Boing Boing
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I’m not sure there is a way to comment on my reactions to these videos without revealing what a terrible person I am. Or at least something not quite right about my sense of humor.
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I laughed and oooohed in equal measures.
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Those look like cheap CGI knockoffs of “Staplerfahrer Klaus”.
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Reading the threads comments: apparently these are all recreations of actual videos? I’m not looking at them but it puts it into perspective.
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A classic which also proves that Germans have a great sense of humour.
I remember years ago when I was training for a retail job at Selfridges. They showed us a gruesome video about accidents involving body parts and heavy duty machinery. My boss muttered, “Don’t get your hand caught in the till.”
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Thank you; that gets me every time I see it. 
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So…this actually isn’t funny for ways I hate to say. All of these videos are based on actual footage from worksites. They’re accessible fairly easily, but I don’t know the rules on providing links or clues to such sites.
They look goofy and silly to a degree. But…the people who made them actually took some degree of effort in getting the mocap correct.
This is not a joke video. This is not a silly video. This is basically rotoscoped evidence. I really hate to be buzz killington here but this is what it looks like if you f up on a job site and die.
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So, it’s not like Dumb Ways to Die at all?
Not denying the reality of what may have happened, but some of these definitely bear a resemblance to something that might have happened in Tom & Jerry or Looney Tunes and suchlike. Which says something about how tastes have or have not changed.
The lathe one seems to be missing from the selections in this post.
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My reaction was similar: “now that’s my kind of physics modelling!”
I had the misfortune of seeing uncensored pictures of the aftermath of someone that had gotten the long sleeve of their shirt caught in a large lathe- it’s absolute nightmare fuel, and I wouldn’t wish that fate on my worst enemy.
If you are going into an active work shop, make sure you are wearing appropriate PPE, and keep your fleshy bits away from the spinning bits.
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Yep.
My high school shop teacher put it well. “You need to understand that this machinery is unforgiving. By ‘unforgiving’, I mean that if you get any part of you stuck in it, it will not say to itself ‘Oh, they’re just some grade 8 twerp. I’ll go easy on them.’”
That, and having participated in some industrial first aid, is why I don’t find the videos in the article funny or entertaining at all. They’re a good visual explainer of exactly how quickly things can go very very bad. And how if there is rotating machinery, it won’t care. “Yep, that’s about what it looks like.”
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having been safety manager at two print shops, employing 50-70 workers each, i fully concur. something about high-speed, tight-tolerance, rolling pressure drums, wheels, inktrain and grippers, makes for unpleasant outcomes when interacting with meaty appendages.
i recall a persistantly negligent press operator we all knew as “spadefinger”.
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Watching these unlucky dudes get crushed by falling objects awakens a sort of PTSD from my days working at a renewable energy technology manufacturing start-up where we all knew just a little something about safety but only by sheer luck managed to avoid getting crushed by falling objects.
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