kshansen
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- Retired Mechanic in Stone Quarry
Reading the last few post makes me wonder how many here still think OSHA MSHA and the EPA are the problem some think they are for companies.
I would be the first to agree that every one of those outfits have a rule or two that are way over the line. Like when I hear of some inspector writing up a company because he spotted a banana peel or half a donut in an uncovered waste basket.
Or Or a mechanic using a homemade tool like some of us here have used to remove the nut off the end of a hydraulic ram with the aid of a back hoe bucket's down pressure.
One has to understand that most, if not all, of those rules have solid information behind them. For every home-made tool that has been used for years with not so much as a broken finger nail there is one out there being made by someone who has less brains that a bucket of rocks! The problem is too often those trying to enforce the rules are under the gun from those above them to write paper and not to make judgments on what is safe or dangerous!
I would be the first to agree that every one of those outfits have a rule or two that are way over the line. Like when I hear of some inspector writing up a company because he spotted a banana peel or half a donut in an uncovered waste basket.
Or Or a mechanic using a homemade tool like some of us here have used to remove the nut off the end of a hydraulic ram with the aid of a back hoe bucket's down pressure.
One has to understand that most, if not all, of those rules have solid information behind them. For every home-made tool that has been used for years with not so much as a broken finger nail there is one out there being made by someone who has less brains that a bucket of rocks! The problem is too often those trying to enforce the rules are under the gun from those above them to write paper and not to make judgments on what is safe or dangerous!