Posted on 12/13/2018 5:38:56 AM PST by BenLurkin
Actually it’s a matter of hyphenation, and the journalist got it right (probably by chance).
10 foot-long steel spikes were what got the worker, not 10-foot-long steel spikes.
This is in China. Those are 30 centimeter spikes.
It’s China. He’s probably back to work this morning.
We DO have that book........
Greg Gutfeld was right.
I remember my grade school teacher fondly telling of how robots will do all the work and we will have so much leisure time to go anywhere in our flying cars we want too.
I know the kids today are into body-piercing but this is ridiculous.
LOL!
As I said, something like that. The headline sounded like the spikes were 10 feet long. 8~)
No, not something like that. “10 foot-long spikes” means 10 spikes, each a foot long, as in the story. “10-foot-long spikes” means some number of spikes, each ten feet long. Not the same thing at all, and it’s the hyphen that makes the difference.
We’ve had two fatalities regarding lock out procedures disobeyed. Both were Korean workers.
I really don’t see the long term success in a country like that. Sooner of later, you have people born and wired to do menial tasks, just like in the book Brave New World.
The Free Market takes care of these issues, whether it’s safety, global weather etc.
OSHA didn’t make our plants safer, companies were making them safe already without OSHA.
OSHA doesn’t prevent injuries either, infraction occur in those companies where they don’t give a hoot about the workers.
“The robots all had lockout stations where personal padlocks could be used to completely disable the robots. Each of us carried color coded padlocks, each with a single key that could not be duplicated. Guards were placed at each fence gate to assure that our padlocks were placed properly before we could enter the robot stations.”
It appears that “Lock out, Tag out” is not a big thing in China.
I wonder what this button does?
I am glad I am not on the safety committee anymore at my job. Guess what the next video series will probably include 8-0
Actually the number of spikes is a count, not a measurement, so it would be, ten foot-long spikes, or to be sure of no confusion, ten 1-ft-long spikes.
Duh, counts of ten and up get numerals anyway.....
Duh, counts of ten and up get numerals anyway.....
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