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Don’t water a grease fire, don’t try to replace with a garage spring. What are some OTHER potentially life-saving tips? (reddthat.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just posted elsewhere in the thread, neighbor had his car roll off his jack stands because he was, let's face it, dumb enough to be working on a sloped driveway. Crushed his head and killed him. His parents found him.

If you're only using two jack stands get chocks too, not just a log from the wood pile.

People seem to think nothing bad will happen to them because it never has before. This is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

People are way too comfortable with getting underneath unsecured loads, especially cars. I feel bad for the kid, but damn, don't get under a car on a slope.

I need to buy some chocks now that you mention it. Parking brakes aren't enough

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

People are way too comfortable with a lot of dangerous situations. There were two sanitation engineers in my city just a week ago who died trying to replace a pump in a subsurface pumping station (read: one of those big manholes that had a pump inside it). One dude went down to secure a rope around the pump, didn't come back up, his buddy went in to save him, also didn't come out. This is an almost identical event to one that happened 6 years ago in the same city, for the same sanitation department.