Submitted 5 months ago by magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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I was cleaning out a chemical storage closet at work. A hydrogen chloride container leaked out onto some iodine containers. I picked one up (bare handed) and sat it down in the grass. About thirty seconds later, I noticed the steam boiling up from around the bottom of the container. This is about 45 seconds worth of contact.
That sounds like poor storage and containment procedures. You contacted OSHA about the incident, right?
This is the family farm. I AM THE OSHA
chemical storage closet at work…A hydrogen chloride container leaked out onto some iodine containers.
Yep, sounds like a typical day on a typical family farm
My dad was a farmer. I AM AN ORPHAN.
Mike Rowe: oCEaN!
(hold for laughter and applause)
By OSHA, you mean Lemmy right?
Then yes, OSHA was contacted.
HCl‽ Jaysus…
Depends on the concentration, but usually not something you want on yourself.
I know. I’ve worked with it myself, and I once accidentally inhaled a small volume of it.
A-Level chemistry, innit.
Video for context
OSHA is the real culprit of the current world dumpster fires. Stoping natural selection has its consequences
Why is it always the people who most need OSHA who want it removed.
Why is it always the least fit people who want to promote survival of the fittest?
Dude. If I could guarantee that my sacrifice would also remove some N>1 number of dumbshits who shouldn’t be contributing to the ecological load the Earth’s ecosystem is bearing, I’d volunteer.
The Idiocracy intro got a lot of things right.
I don’t want to remove it dude that was a joke.
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I thought it was terrifying because this was a footprint of someone who was lurking around your house, looking through your windows.
guy_threepwood@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And how long had they been standing there on one leg to cause the grass to grow around them?