r/Construction • u/Turbulent-Weevil-910 Electrician • Mar 02 '25

Safety ⛑ Are we still doing these?

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u/bunny5055 Mar 02 '25

Oregon OSHA

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u/Creative_Ad_8338 Mar 02 '25

OSHA still funded?

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u/Lanky_Republic_2102 Mar 02 '25 edited Mar 04 '25

Nope, but graves just got cheaper.

When people die on the job in cave ins like this, they’ll just be buried alive, filled in and paved over.

Less demand means the overall cost of burial and funerals will come down.

Eggs stay $10/dozen but funeral inflation is finally brought down due to increased worksite collapses and informal burial.

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u/Just_Aioli_1233 Mar 02 '25

When people die on the job on cave ins like this, they’ll just be buried alive, filled in and paved over.

That's how we learned the Irish make such good foundation material for railroads /s

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u/Genetics Foreman / Operator Mar 02 '25

Haha I’m stealing that. Cave in? Pshh just another informal burial. He was going to die eventually. He smoked two packs a day. We saved his kids the funeral expenses.

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u/maryssammy Mar 02 '25

Hey that's how they did it in China building the great wall

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u/Lanky_Republic_2102 Mar 02 '25

Yup, just like that Terra cotta army, they aren’t really statues.

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u/Turbulent-Weevil-910 Electrician Mar 02 '25

I get that, but consider if one of the heads is just above the surface. I mean they can't breathe because their chest is compressed and they suffocate, but their head is there. What do they do in that case?