Shake Hands With Danger (1980)

this is your focus leader adjust the focus until the picture is sharp now adjust the sound to a normal volume Hey Hey what have it bumped that controlled by accident you'd be mincemeat by now what have I told you yet don't work on equipment when the engines running well I told him not to touch anything all right I guess I wasn't thinking y'all weren't thinking you mean you'll work on engines and machinery and not think of your own personal safety hair shake hands with danger shake hands with danger did a guy who ought to know I used to laugh at safety now they call me three finger Joe shake hands a danger find it anywhere you choose be careless for a woman spend a lifetime with a blue earthmoving machines are designed for safety but they're big enough to hide a man just stop dead you could have killed me this mechanic is lucky he's able to complain he should have protected himself by removing the key and couldn't do not operate tag on the controls any time you pick up a wrench reach for a control use a grease gun grab a welding torch or work on any machine while forgetting a safety your shaking hands with danger all right now you take the loader up behind the hill where they're working now I'll Drive up on the road and I'll meet you at the top all right okay you know cliff I never operated this model before well all right all I have to do is back it up and then let it down nice and easy like you you want me to do it oh there's no sweat there take care okay all right I'll see you later you what this man didn't know was that the operator had left the lift lever in the raised position so the arms would rise automatically when the engine started a qualified operator would have known better a man shouldn't have tried to perform as an operator when he wasn't one you kidding you said you didn't ought to run anything suck Hamlin is a no beginner before he begins changing an o-ring on an excavator boom he checks oil temperature down engine off bucket grounded hydraulic lock engaged okay you'll have that o-ring installed in minutes with danger take a chance that you won't fall you'll save yourself a minute but you made damn well lose it all Oh wherever possible the stick should be extended in the boom Lord so the work can be done at ground level finding that impossible the next man used the service truck as a safe work platform climbin with tools can create a hazard use the steps and the grab irons keep at least three points of contact two feet in one hand unencumbered any shortcuts and your invite an injury-in-fact taking shortcuts is often a quick road to trouble for example consider what happened to Harry Sanders Harry has come to work with a problem his son is having a football injured knee operated on this morning Harry wants to finish this job and take a couple hours off to visit his son the operator is complained that the scraper is shipped in too slow and the controls are sluggish in a hurry Harry pulls only one axle the service manual says to pull both axles and disconnect steering but Harry knows with one axle removed and the differential unlock the machine shouldn't move he's taken a shortcut before while waiting for the operator to return Harry starts the machine in order to judge the problem while he waits for the engine to warm Harry's thoughts drift to worries about his son the accelerator feels stiff so then he checks the feel of the service brakes his attention is divided thinking about his son his hands and feet go through motions he believes have become automatic in this absent-minded state he unconsciously starts to steer jams his foot on the differential lock and the machine takes off lucky for the stunned operator the machine stops itself Harry is only bruised but in a crowded area he could have killed someone because he ignored safe procedure to save a few minutes worth now most people have days when they come to work with worries hangovers or distractions those are times for being doubly cautious when the body's on the job but the mind is elsewhere it's danger time glam Greenwood was victim of another kind of mental hazard ego hotshot that's it take to get that pin brown no but I got this drift just give it a whack Glen knows the risk of striking hard against badly chip metal but he's wearing safety glasses and there's a macho thing involved here Glen doesn't want his friend to sneer at him for being overly cautious so Glen shakes hands with danger maybe his friend would have laughed if Clannad insisted upon playing it safe but he sure as hell isn't laughing now with tools the time to make sure you have a safe engine is before you start using them they should be the right tools for the job and in safe condition if Glenn's friend had ground off that mushroomed face taken care of the tools he uses he could have prevented that accident some old-timers think accidents happen only to greenhorns I got a crack on you want to come take a look at learn the hard way they say I'll let them learn the hard way can be an attitude that results in a serious injury one word of caution from the old-timer would have saved a lot of pain and lost work time and even the old timer can lapse into carelessness the safety gap is correct when he starts but he doesn't think about how much he's grinding down the wheel he gets by with it on that longer piece dangers step right up and say hello grinding wheels and metal are what made three-finger Joel Oh fingers aren't the only things to think about when working with track a near-miss due to the mechanics payer to restrain the track before he unloosened it at a high point here they're about to push a high sprocket and machine from an old set of tracks onto a new set with both tracks removed the machine is free to roll on a slight grade it may just take off if they'd had an operator in the machine he could have stopped it by dropping the Ripper or bleed they should have planned proper block and then restraint but better still they should change one track at a time then there can't be a rollaway have we got going here huh hurry and failure to heed safety warnings can also endanger those doin routine maintenance despite constant warnings about hot oil and pressure systems some optimist always thinks he can get his hand away in time needn't have happened the temperature gauges pressure gauges and the safety caps on cooling systems are there to prevent accidents from occurring the people who shake hands with danger are those who don't learn beforehand what they're getting into like the owner whose brake rotor chamber has been losing air pressure I got the brake chamber off the loader I got a run into the dealers to get some repair parts well I'm gone will you take it apart to save us some time okay go at this point the service manuals called for the insertion of a threaded tool to hold a spring force Sam hasn't read the manual he doesn't know he's releasing a force it might be as high as seventeen hundred and fifty pounds whether you're working on anything from nitrogen accumulators to inflated tires it pays to know the kind of power you're dealing with before head warnings about gasoline are as old as use of the fuel it's somewhere somebody is always deciding it won't hurt to use it as a cleaning fluid just this one time oh he'll empty the pan very carefully just as soon as he finds a rag to wipe off the carburetor meanwhile the fuel keeps vaporizing another hour to go on this thing I gotta get that state Awards over there it's possible to become overconfident about Hamelin dangerous materials a good reason why safety instructions should be repeated at frequent intervals oddly enough it isn't lack of familiarity with a job that causes most accidents often it's the routine Nisour the work that makes a person overconfident bill Myers is changing buckets a job he's done at least a hundred times if he were new at it bill would be watching and thinking about every step now it's so routine that caution has been dulled the whole is Drive the pin won't slide in there's no stick or swab in the grease can but he could surely find one if he took the time to search around this is the moment that split-second when a man decides between being safe or shaking hands with danger if he couldn't find a stick or a swab bill could have had the linking members moved apart and greased them separately it would have been a nuisance but bill Meyers would give anything to be able to go back and do it the right way hey Ernie yeah I got this hose off the dozer blade here wanted to put this boat in that input I'm going to take us into the show all right I'll get it he should have blocked both push our and he should never have relied upon anything as unstable or crushable as building blocks improper blocking and failure to block our major causes of crushing accidents we're dealing with enormous weight and we should never depend upon hydraulics alone to hold it up I saw something back there Ted the position as truck Beth was in without these locking pins in and you're working underneath the truck bed you have failed you had especially the place is such and it's always important to look out for the other guy safety is always in the hands of people on the job the warnings and cautions are there for those who heed them safety procedures are spelled out and illustrated in lubrication and maintenance guides operators guides and service manuals the protection is there and machine design and safety device because you might be working for a while she's safety instruction emphasizing knowledge and awareness prevents accidents by encouraging the safety consciousness and protective clothing helps shield a body from the unexpected the human element remains it can lend itself to safety or turn a routine situation into a dangerous one get that out here that engine is not running I don't care drop some drugs go come through here I love it out here right now we all know that the serviceman doesn't always work under ideal conditions mechanic Bob Murray is an excavator with a dead engine it won't start which means the brakes are locked which means it's going to sit right here until Bob disconnects the final drives then he'll have a machine he can move what he should also have but doesn't is a second vehicle to provide braking shake hands with danger hurry up and get it done it takes two men to move this thing but I'll make do with one now Bob isn't done he wouldn't tried towing it all the way to the shop without help but he just wants to drag it a hundred yards or so and get that Foreman off his back Oh Oh Bob Murray will never again tow a freewheeling machine without having control over the breaker Bob was lucky others were not shake hands with danger shake hands with danger shake hands with danger shake hands with danger friends I used to know compared to them I'm lucky to be just three finger Joe ah ah

Channel: A/V Geeks

Views: 433,957

Rating: 4.8876653 out of 5

Keywords: safety film, construction, caterpillar equipment, construction safety film, 1980s educational film, heavy equipment

Id: v26fTGBEi9E

Length: 23min 22sec (1402 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 03 2013

Reddit Comments

[u/blackbeakedcrab]

Here's the classic theme song, just in case I'm not the only one who needs it in their life.

[u/BigODetroit]

Man, even some of their safe solutions are considered unsafe today. Using the repair truck as a platform is still 7 feet off of the ground.

[u/nadmaximus]

The sequel, "Get a Handy from Peril" is even beter

[u/die-jarjar-die]

Rifftrax did a short with this, it was amazing.

[u/ethanlong22]

As a scraper operator, this video actually is good to watch to remind you of the dangers of this job

[u/likea_yeti]

They were showing us this film at least up until 2006 at Nashville Auto/Diesel College.

[u/dkyguy1995]

Watching that guy slowly unscrewing that spring gave me a lot of anxiety.

[u/WhiteHotGhost]

I uh... kinda liked it. Watched 75% of it. Ha...

[u/NITRO-KRUNK]

Back in the day my old vocational college instructors had us watch this video before we were allowed to work in the shop. Its nice to see it is still appreciated.