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GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 days agoyeah. the factory was doing diecast parts at 1400° and the shortening was a mould release so the parts would pop out of the dies.
the pressure that those machines push in molten metal plus the high temperature would vaporize the shortening and with 3-12 tons of pressure aerosolize it.
Even after 5 years there I had a bit of a cough, but nothing as bad as the old guys that had been around for 30+ years.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That sounds fucking awful. Did they not give you guys any PPE?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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no.
the best ppe we got was cotton uniforms so when the metal sprayed out (which happened daily) would burn and not melt to our skin.
we also got some pretty nice gloves too for grabbing the parts out of the machines. usually they’d come out around 700° and have to go on cooling racks.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Wtf, were was this at? Assuming not the USA, OSHA would have had a field day with that.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 days ago
this was about 30 years ago in the US. Back in the 2008 recession the factory closed down and moved to Mexico.
The owner was a typical “nice guy” corpo douchebag. you know the type, nice to your face but profits over people.
I gained a lot of experience from that job that I still use to this day.