juno. stump: have you all heard of THE RADIUM GIRLS? if you haven’t, go look that up because any post i try to do won’t be enough and will get suppressed. come back when you’re done looking up THE RADIUM GIRLS okay. you done? cool. okay so Clarence Thomas wants to get rid of OSHA

have you all heard of THE RADIUM GIRLS? if you haven’t, go look that up because any post i try to do won’t be enough and will get suppressed. come back when you’re done looking up THE RADIUM GIRLS okay. you done? cool. okay so Clarence Thomas wants to get rid of OSHA

People act like OSHA is this gang of fun-haters who make up stupid rules to make their jobs annoying. Literally every single regulation OSHA has ever written was in response to someone getting maimed; usually killed, but sometimes merely losing a limb or two. Occasionally breathing corrosive gas.

It's the Don't Make Us Make A Rule About You Administration. It's unbelievable what people will do or be made to do without reasonable guidelines in place.

Can't blame this one on Generational ANYTHING. The opposition to OSHA has always come from two places: the the foremen who preferred expending workers rather than purchasing ladders and PPE, and the uneducated who were taught that the regulators are somehow harmful to the common worker.

(Spoiler Alert: The people teaching the uneducated workers were working for the foremen.)

i agree mostly but id put the blame more on managers than on foremen, who, at least where i’ve worked, act as a diplomat between workers and management more than acting as budget hawks

The second best safety talks are those given by foremen who've had someone on their team die or be badly injured. The best are given by guys in wheelchairs.

Regulations are written in blood, as I have seen it said.

I would have used that classic turn of phrase, but I was short on characters and wanted to emphasize exactly what it meant. There's that tough guy attitude that "some pussy stubbed their toe and now I gotta buy expensive boots." No, somebody got their toe sliced off and the machine didn't notice.

This post has @funranium.bsky.social vibes. The safety people are great fun to talk to because they have endless horror stories. And hopefully you'll come away a little bit less likely to kill yourself.

Thank you.

Reminds me of when Mythbusters tested some steel toe boots myths. Somehow those would be worse than regular boots and amputate your toes when a heavy weight falls onto the steel toe boots. Such a very busted myth~

Ooh, I haven't seen that one! *Googles furiously*

Season 4, episode 3: mythresults.com/episode42 Turns out that people still believe the myth today, though... www.reddit.com/r/WorkplaceS... Can bust myths, but can't fix humans, I guess :)

MythBusters Episode 42: Steel Toe-Cap Amputation, Bottle Rocket Blast-offmythresults.com The MythBusters test if you toes can be amputated when a steel toe boot is crushed and if a person can used a pack of water bottle rockets to fly.

Behind The Bastards hits on this in a great two parter about the fucker that pushed Radium during this time despite knowing it was killing people.

Part One: William Bailey: The Gwyneth Paltrow of Radiation | BEHIND THE BASTARDSyoutu.be 🛎 If You're New Subscribe ► https://bit.ly/BtBSubscribePart One: William Bailey: The Gwyneth Paltrow of Radiation | BEHIND THE BASTARDSRobert sits down wit...

i loveeeeeee BTB !! my favorite podcast

SAMEEE

I am pretty sure I have heard almost every single episode and it's like you really learn a lot about Robert Evans lol

And Blue Apron's child hunting island

I thought it was funnier before he decided it was blue apron, for a while there it was "whichever doesn't advertise with us"

I miss bagel throwing

hell yeah and the poison room

The Gwyneth Paltrow of radiation holy shit 🤣

It's really fucking accurate too lmao

Another good podcast was Paula Deming on the Radium Girls [Remember Remember] The Radium Girls 🅴 #rememberRemember podcastaddict.com/remember-rem... via @PodcastAddict

Remember Remember - The Radium Girls - Podcast Addictpodcastaddict.com Listen to Remember Remember - The Radium Girls by Matthew Jude and Paula Deming on Podcast Addict. The young women who worked as watch face dial painters during and after WW1 counted themselves lucky ...

And for a fun chaser, look up the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

We could also throw in the matchstick women for good measure!

also see hawk mountain

I think Clarence Thomas should have a workplace accident

Gavel related would be funny.

A harmless, glowing gavel?

MJOLNIR coded.

CT is definitely not worthy to lift that. Which on second thought would be hilarious in court.

Can't we just like put it on the slack of his robe

He tries to raise it and ends up with a strangulated hernia?

That would be SUCH a shame!

Elevator shaft or stairwell?

🎶 come with me and you’ll be in a world of safety violations 🎶

but just think of all the wonderful songs about death we can write together, in my pretty, chocolate factory?

i am going to die falling into a vat of chocolate because willy wonka is definitely gonna lobby in favour of the death of osha

I was told that the first workplace safety rule was “you must bathe your chimney sweeps once per week”. Keeping in mind that the chimney sweeps were young boys who’d be sent up chimneys naked and the creosote was causing scrotal cancer. There’s so much that we don’t realize we can lose.

that sounds objectively horrible as a job

I had but also I still think it would be an awesome name for an all lady metal band

A nonzero number of bands have adopted this name, e.g. radiumgirls.bandcamp.com

Radium Girlsradiumgirls.bandcamp.com

I know nothing about their music. This is not intended as an endorsement of anything about them.

If nothing else, the "Smash the Patriarchy" shirt is worth endorsing.

But OSHA causes his Very Rich Buddies would make slightly less ludicrous amounts of money than they otherwise might, and we can't have that! 🤦

If there’s any justice, Thomas’ jaw (and dick) will rot off.

Chimney sweeps’ scrotum and fossy jaw are another couple. Try not to see any pictures if you can avoid it.

yeah it’s all really graphic and sad :(

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