Went digging once myself and I found an old 10-ounce can of Coke. that was a WTF moment, I was a kid then and didn't know Coke had ever come in can sizes other than 12-ounce/355 mL.
ikill fh We had an incident of a bridge collapsing onto 3 workers and they got thrown into the toxic river with the concrete blocks, one died and two were heavily injured and had numerous infections. Cut up from some steel wires and stuff. Real sad stuff when people have to risk their life for minimum wage.
@@old_account189 i almost lost my arm working for free for a farm (1month traine/intern to test me out before they hire me) got hoodie stuck in the firewood chopper/processor. basicaly it got this spiked roller that is run on hydraligs that pull the big logs in to be cut and then chopped. the roller grabed my hoodie and started to pull me in. with pure adrenalin and muscle i held back that roller but slowly it keept sucking me in. scremed for help but nobody could hear me over the loud tractor that was running the machine via PTO. thankfully a co worker finally heard me and came running. stopped the machine just as the spikes started to penetrate my arm. was about 1min away from braking my arm in half. which is scary but not as scary as imagine having your arm broken in half and then still be stuck there and still having the machine suck me in. lost usability in the arm for 2weeks but then i was back again and i learned my lesson to walk around it. took me from 1 full load per day to 3/4 full load per day but worth it for the safety
Do you know when the memorial will be completed? I think many other Australian’s would like to go on a pilgrimage to see where the boots were lost. Never forget......
Whoever the genius worker was that saw the present danger of the situation and tied the lifting strap to the pipe and up under his arms very likely saved his coworker's life.
Oh shit, a 'Delta P' situation! Gotcha! I love WorkSafeBC, you guys and gals do great work. Thanks for keeping folks safe and for the great analyses that you do. Goes to show that learning is the only constant!
i love these video because they give me such a greater understanding and respect for construction workers. Sadly, its often a job that's demeaned by Americans, so its humbling to see all the safety precautions that need to be considered when doing a job even as easy as routine as this one. Even if you're not in charge of the planning, you are still putting your life at risk every day on the job.
No matter how safe you think you are. There is always that one unforeseen incident. Sadly the only way we learn to be safe is through other peoples accidents.
I've built a few lift stations, employee number one is lucky to have coworkers that know how to react in time. He could be with his boots, they saved his life. That hydrostatic suction can pull a man in half!
Stories like this remind me why I'm glad I don't work construction anymore. I was leg deep in a construction site in BC and had to have an excavator send his bucket in my direction so I could pull myself out.
I don't think the boots were pulling him down as such, it was likely just easier to get free once he got out of them. I think the pressures had almost certainly balanced out by the time he was able to wriggle free, by which point he would've just been 'floating' in the material.
I believe the second scenario at 6:03 is more likely. Apparently the lower aquifer was identified in another report meaning the driller had to have located it. It would also be interesting to note that if the driller drilled down to the lower aquifer in the exact spot of the proposed lift station this would have been the cause of the boil and thus this incident.
The boiling water in the steel housing was open to the atmosphere. Without heating the water, it can't boil under such conditions. It's rather possible that the other workers saw air bubbles and mistook them for boiling bubbles. Another point is: The other workers saw the water level rising, inside the steel housing. How to create a negative pressure, inside a partially closed steel housing, when you increase the fluid level inside the steel housing ? A liquid can start to boil at lower temperatures, when you have a negative pressure and the liquid is contained inside a closed (to the atmosphere) structure. Like a pressure cooker. If I fill a tank with water via a pump, will the water inside the tank start to boil ? No it won't
@@ImplantedMemoriesa water boil is a term for turbulent, aerated water. We use it while kayaking/canoeing. The report is correct in calling it boiling water
My youngest daughter got in quicksand in an old parking lot behind where I worked. I jumped in ,I'm 6'4" tall ,to get her ,knowing there was solid ground below us. 911 was called and two fireman also became stuck. The only way out was use of a ladder and plywood. All 4 of us trapped eventually were pulled out. This quicksand is no joke. The suction is too strong. The more u move the quicker you sink. If you are around water soaked sand please be careful!
A neighbor lost a horse in quicksand in the woods behind our barn. Until then, our Dad didn’t know it was there, although we did know there were patches of it in the area. We kids used to play in those woods frequently. After that, we still went in the woods, but with a lot more caution. We had a dog go missing and he could very well have gotten sucked underground because we never found any sign of him.
Normal quicksand doesn't pull animals under the surface, they get stuck. It's effectively like water but heavier and thicker - you sink a certain amount and then 'float'. It's probably one of the few natural situations that humans are better equipped for than animals, due to our high arms. The case in the video involved suction being created, a similar situation could've occurred with just water.
I just started learning about this stuff about 2 mo's ago , very interesting , VERY EASY TO GET HURT , OR GET DEAD ! Job I was on last year , we ALL HAD MANDATORY , PAGER TYPE APPARATUS ,that could tell what floor we were on ,a locator (within 10'), and , could detect if you were sedentary , or if you fell , (or dropped it ) also kept track of hours on site , (had a 10' perimeter around the site ) Also , a great way to catch slackers , too !
Why were they unable to determine the exact cause of the quicksand condition? Couldn't they have gone in afterwards and taking detailed measurements to figure out how the material shifted?
In our day to day lives, we trust the ground to be solid. Then there's an earthquake, or a sudden quicksand-like transformation of the ground under one's feet. So glad the guy made it out. Wow! That was close.
"Fencing was added AFTER the incident" tells me all I need to know about the contractor. You take shortcuts and any HS student could tell you that those core drills weren't deep enough, especially on the lower mainland and Vancouver Island.
Boiling water indicates present of air while the suction applied to the worker indicates that the soil is still saturated with water. My OPINION is this: there was an underground cavity that collapsed under static pressure of water in the steel casing. I wouldn't be surprised if the dewatering was stopped automatically by overflow valve or accidentally by an operator.
Quicksand may be a good word to use to make people understand what happened in the video, but it is factually incorrect. Quicksand does not suck you in, but it allows you to work your body down into the soil. Although you can be killed in quicksand, you cannot drown in the quicksand itself. You can only work your body down into quicksand up to your waist, at which time you will become buoyant. However, if the surrounding grade level is higher than your head, it is possible that you could become stuck, and the hole could fill up with water, causing you to drown. Or an alligator could come and eat you. Sorry...
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Imagine digging and just finding a random pair of boots in the ground
Went digging once myself and I found an old 10-ounce can of Coke. that was a WTF moment, I was a kid then and didn't know Coke had ever come in can sizes other than 12-ounce/355 mL.
internets says time travel explained
Well Free boots
Everybody gangsta until jim begins to sink into the ground
And you keep digging.........
Nice to see someone didn't die for a change, in a WorkSafeBC video.
hey at least we hear reports of it... in shithole countries workers die like flies and it doesnt even get reported
ikill fh
We had an incident of a bridge collapsing onto 3 workers and they got thrown into the toxic river with the concrete blocks, one died and two were heavily injured and had numerous infections. Cut up from some steel wires and stuff.
Real sad stuff when people have to risk their life for minimum wage.
2 soles were lost!
@@old_account189 i almost lost my arm working for free for a farm (1month traine/intern to test me out before they hire me) got hoodie stuck in the firewood chopper/processor. basicaly it got this spiked roller that is run on hydraligs that pull the big logs in to be cut and then chopped. the roller grabed my hoodie and started to pull me in. with pure adrenalin and muscle i held back that roller but slowly it keept sucking me in. scremed for help but nobody could hear me over the loud tractor that was running the machine via PTO. thankfully a co worker finally heard me and came running. stopped the machine just as the spikes started to penetrate my arm. was about 1min away from braking my arm in half. which is scary but not as scary as imagine having your arm broken in half and then still be stuck there and still having the machine suck me in. lost usability in the arm for 2weeks but then i was back again and i learned my lesson to walk around it. took me from 1 full load per day to 3/4 full load per day but worth it for the safety
You should see USCSB
"His boots remain underground to this day" never forget....
RIP boots :(
One day a new worker will sprout from those boots and that lucky worker will become a father... That is how it works right?
@@glockamole7128 When a pair of boots love each other very much, they share a special kiss...
I wonder if the worker got kicked off the site and fired without pay for not having steel toes on?
Do you know when the memorial will be completed? I think many other Australian’s would like to go on a pilgrimage to see where the boots were lost. Never forget......
Every time they get to talking about "worker one" I'm always like "oh shit man be careful you have the mark"
Red Shirt #1, and it's not Scotty!
I wouldn't put all the blame on him, Firm A seems to be a little notorious for these kind of accidents
Ah, the equivalent to the red shirt guy.
awwwwe! xD
@@donutves lol why don't they shut down Firm A!?
"His boots remain underground to this day"
the saddest part of this tragedy
I want them boots 🥾!
pair of $400 fkn redwings
And I’m ok with that.
Good
Legend has it that 3 years hence, the worker's boots still remain underground, to this day.
Good thing his coworkers were able to think fast in a split second.
Whoever the genius worker was that saw the present danger of the situation and tied the lifting strap to the pipe and up under his arms very likely saved his coworker's life.
I thought he had died up until 4 minutes in! suspense!
Shout out to his co workers for being quick on their feet to help him. Most people might have let him down under pressure.
Shout out to his boots for being quick off his feet!
Oh shit, a 'Delta P' situation! Gotcha! I love WorkSafeBC, you guys and gals do great work. Thanks for keeping folks safe and for the great analyses that you do. Goes to show that learning is the only constant!
When it’s gotcha, it’s gotcha! [crab killing intensifies]
Yep....them pressure differentials will kill you quicker than you can realize that your "being killed".
LMAO!!!!!!! I was thinking the same thing when I saw him go into the ground!
But for reals, that Delta P video is effin scary.
@KimuTone Shit
I just came here from that video. Probably watched it 3 times over lol
I'm so so glad to hear that everyone got out alive. Typically with these videos it never ends well.
earth: embrace the _SUCC_
Nigel: how about no?
I have been looking through a lot of these safety videos lately. It is crazy all the things that can kill you.
Worker 1 was watching UA-cam videos on his mobile...
i love these video because they give me such a greater understanding and respect for construction workers. Sadly, its often a job that's demeaned by Americans, so its humbling to see all the safety precautions that need to be considered when doing a job even as easy as routine as this one. Even if you're not in charge of the planning, you are still putting your life at risk every day on the job.
This is my favorite work safety channel to watch at midnight.
These WorkSafeBC videos are terrific dramatic entertainment. I'm so glad the guy survived.
I almost died from this in Iraq. This is super scary.
He's lucky he had some coworkers that could think under pressure.
Why do I keep getting recommended work safety videos and why do I keep watching them
Honestly, every time I’m recommended one of these videos it’s a little treat
No matter how safe you think you are. There is always that one unforeseen incident. Sadly the only way we learn to be safe is through other peoples accidents.
Those two workers are heroes! Nicely done!
Whoever thought of attaching that strap to the worker saved his life
I've built a few lift stations, employee number one is lucky to have coworkers that know how to react in time. He could be with his boots, they saved his life. That hydrostatic suction can pull a man in half!
Death by quicksand is one of my irrational fears
Lucky there were good workmates on site who could actually help.
I’m not in construction so idk why I watch these. A lot of this goes over my head. But I’m happy the worker lived.
Great on the spot thinking by his coworkers. The idea to attach the strap most definitely saved his life.
Thank you for the time and effort to inform us.
A rare case when worker 1 doesn't die
I don't work in construction, but this video was very interesting and easy to understand. Amazing work!
I know that some of these sites can get dangerous. Thank god this guys co workers helped him out and the guy didn't die.
This guy never knows the ending of his onw stories, so sad.
Me: I'm tired I will go to sleep
UA-cam: Working quicksand accident?
Me: y e s
His colleagues were very smart
Many workers wouldn't have worked in such a brilliant, logical order
Stories like this remind me why I'm glad I don't work construction anymore. I was leg deep in a construction site in BC and had to have an excavator send his bucket in my direction so I could pull myself out.
This makes me never want to tie my shoes tight ever again in case I ever end up in this situation 😂
Yeah, that's probably safer...
@@neophobicnyctophile8264 some see a danger here and forget about one there.
Sure, just be careful not to trip on your shoelaces and right into a cement mixer or something
I don't think the boots were pulling him down as such, it was likely just easier to get free once he got out of them.
I think the pressures had almost certainly balanced out by the time he was able to wriggle free, by which point he would've just been 'floating' in the material.
running out of USCSB videos, found this as a fallback when I run out to feed my -addiction- i just like them im not addicted i swear
I believe the second scenario at 6:03 is more likely. Apparently the lower aquifer was identified in another report meaning the driller had to have located it. It would also be interesting to note that if the driller drilled down to the lower aquifer in the exact spot of the proposed lift station this would have been the cause of the boil and thus this incident.
The boiling water in the steel housing was open to the atmosphere. Without heating the water, it can't boil under such conditions. It's rather possible that the other workers saw air bubbles and mistook them for boiling bubbles.
Another point is: The other workers saw the water level rising, inside the steel housing. How to create a negative pressure, inside a partially closed steel housing, when you increase the fluid level inside the steel housing ?
A liquid can start to boil at lower temperatures, when you have a negative pressure and the liquid is contained inside a closed (to the atmosphere) structure. Like a pressure cooker.
If I fill a tank with water via a pump, will the water inside the tank start to boil ? No it won't
@@ImplantedMemoriesa water boil is a term for turbulent, aerated water. We use it while kayaking/canoeing. The report is correct in calling it boiling water
The boots remaining underground till this day is the biggest tragedy tbh.
Load strap was a great idea.
Rest in peace boots
I dunno why UA-cam recommended me this, but it's really fascinating
Great to see that nobody from the 911 system ever responded!
I don’t know how I got this far down the job site accident rabbit hole but here I am.
“His boots remain underground until this day”. Man, why are these videos so interesting?!
The physics in this new Minecraft update are way too realistic
Rip - Boots.
???? - 2018
Rest their soles!
Very well done. Not CGI, but you bet the point across perfectly. Thanks. 👍
Man, that's chilling - glad they got him out okay.
The tragic accident left two poor soles underground
My youngest daughter got in quicksand in an old parking lot behind where I worked. I jumped in ,I'm 6'4" tall ,to get her ,knowing there was solid ground below us. 911 was called and two fireman also became stuck. The only way out was use of a ladder and plywood. All 4 of us trapped eventually were pulled out. This quicksand is no joke. The suction is too strong. The more u move the quicker you sink. If you are around water soaked sand please be careful!
ah thanks UA-cam my childhood always warned me about quicksand and now I have a reminder now that I’m finally an adult
You know his pants had more than mud in them after that
6:35 is the point and summary of this video. Soil and ground water is very important when building any structure. Know before you dig!
There are very good videos on suction in water and how it can create very dangerous conditions.
A neighbor lost a horse in quicksand in the woods behind our barn. Until then, our Dad didn’t know it was there, although we did know there were patches of it in the area. We kids used to play in those woods frequently. After that, we still went in the woods, but with a lot more caution. We had a dog go missing and he could very well have gotten sucked underground because we never found any sign of him.
Normal quicksand doesn't pull animals under the surface, they get stuck. It's effectively like water but heavier and thicker - you sink a certain amount and then 'float'. It's probably one of the few natural situations that humans are better equipped for than animals, due to our high arms.
The case in the video involved suction being created, a similar situation could've occurred with just water.
Damn that turned out much better than I thought it would at first, a pair of boots is a small price to pay in a situation like this...
hats off to workers 2, 3 and 4. i can only imagine the fear that would go through your mind
Thank God for their quick thinking and acting.
"And this is why you kids aren't allowed to shovel up dirt in my yard."
Now i will be aware of these hazards. I'm glad they got their guy out.
Fun fact you can't sink completely in quicksand since you'll be pretty extremely buoyant
When i can’t sleep I watch this. Never fails
I just started learning about this stuff about 2 mo's ago , very interesting , VERY EASY TO GET HURT , OR GET DEAD !
Job I was on last year , we ALL HAD MANDATORY , PAGER TYPE APPARATUS ,that could tell what floor we were on ,a locator (within 10'), and , could detect if you were sedentary , or if you fell , (or dropped it ) also kept track of hours on site , (had a 10' perimeter around the site )
Also , a great way to catch slackers , too !
RIP boots 👢
That worker what put the belt under him is a hero. Damn what a way to have gone that would've been! 😱
Belt?
Lesson Learned: Never be Worker One.
Future archeologists:
Why the hell are there two boots here???
Thank god Delta P wasn’t there
Finally a video with a happy ending!
Why were they unable to determine the exact cause of the quicksand condition? Couldn't they have gone in afterwards and taking detailed measurements to figure out how the material shifted?
Good hands saved their coworkers, my guys prolly would have just put it on Snapchat
Delta P back at it again
I have this odd feeling that Report 3 did not exist until after the accident.
Honestly watching Wiley Coyote, you'd think quicksand would be a way bigger problem modern day.
it seems it still is. keep your eyes peeled
What about giant anvils falling from the sky
I'm glad he survived!
Props to the man who thought of using straps to stop the guy from sinking any further.
first WorkSafeBC video I've seen where no one died.
In our day to day lives, we trust the ground to be solid. Then there's an earthquake, or a sudden quicksand-like transformation of the ground under one's feet.
So glad the guy made it out. Wow! That was close.
Fucking glad he made it out ok. His buddies saved his life.
A moment of silence for his boots. T_T
"Fencing was added AFTER the incident" tells me all I need to know about the contractor. You take shortcuts and any HS student could tell you that those core drills weren't deep enough, especially on the lower mainland and Vancouver Island.
The lesson? Thank God he had boots on. Let's go!
why did the water "boil" ?
"his boots remain underground to this day." Man, that's deep. Pun not intended.
So happy that the worker survived.
Glad no one was hurt. That would be a horrible way to die.
So, Report 3 had the correct information? Why wasn't that given to the contractor?
His boots are going to be found in ten thousand years and confuse a lot of scientists.
I would have screamed. Drowning in water is scary imagine drowning in quick sand?
Boiling water indicates present of air while the suction applied to the worker indicates that the soil is still saturated with water. My OPINION is this: there was an underground cavity that collapsed under static pressure of water in the steel casing. I wouldn't be surprised if the dewatering was stopped automatically by overflow valve or accidentally by an operator.
After doing some research, it turns out that such problems is known to commonly associate with dewatering and could cause damages to the structures
was this in kelowna?
I'm very relieved the worker survived !
Horrifying. Good thing the other workers were around.
This video made me the man i am today
This is terrifying.
This is why I don't own a jacuzzi
Quicksand may be a good word to use to make people understand what happened in the video, but it is factually incorrect. Quicksand does not suck you in, but it allows you to work your body down into the soil. Although you can be killed in quicksand, you cannot drown in the quicksand itself. You can only work your body down into quicksand up to your waist, at which time you will become buoyant. However, if the surrounding grade level is higher than your head, it is possible that you could become stuck, and the hole could fill up with water, causing you to drown. Or an alligator could come and eat you. Sorry...
Thinking of the two souls lost in this incident.
R.I.P. Boots