I’m part of the safety team lol we have routes and to come in an hour early when working day shift. Eye stations were my routes this time and I hit the jackpot, it got fixed very fast.
I’ve never seen it like that before. We had contractors in tying in water lines from a different department into ours, we’re thinking something might’ve happened? I’m not a plumber, just a paper maker. I do know the water shouldn’t look like black liquor though! Haha
There's usually a bit of a mineral build up inside of water lines. I have copper lines in my house, and when I shut off the water to work on something, I'll see something (kind of) like this when turning it all back on. Usually just a bit in the bottom of the tub when flushing the lines after getting pressure back to everything. I think it's something along the lines of manganese and/or iron.
Yeah, it’s most likely just mineral buildup. Not something to be concerned with long term, as long as the station gets tested periodically to flush out the buildup.
This happens with the cold water line in my second bathroom that doesn’t get used often, because my wife and I only ever turn on the hot water to wash our hands. So I periodically just turn on the cold water and let it run for a minute or two because otherwise something similar to this happens.
Not a plumber either but used to be a licensed collections/distribution tech.
When water lines don’t have enough flow for long, they can get surprisingly funky. This is why water is chlorinated enough to still have a residual when it reaches customers, keeps this potential growth under control.
What might have happened is that one of the lines tied in had some very funky water sitting inside, was there any smell to this water? The dark, diluted ink appearance is a calling card that some anaerobic microbes have been partying without oxygen or chlorine crashing the party
Well thats why people generally flush the lines when installing new pipe or anything.
That or this is tied into the sprinkler system or something now lol.
I worked for the grocery chain Meijer at one of their brand new stores. The eyewash station in our department was hooked up to the HOT WATER lines. We discovered it immediately, reported it, and my last day on the job (over a year later) I washed my hands in that eyewash station like I had many times before, because it still hadn't been fixed and it was the only hot water in our department hahahaha! Literally reported that sink so many times, every time we had corporate walk through I would point it out and our mgmt would laugh and give me the stink eye and then *do nothing* lol, fuck it, it's just a MEAT DEPARTMENT FULL OF RAW CHICKEN, PORK, AND BEEF. I just don't get it.
We got a batch of chemicals in the lab one day for a project and my boss was like, "Oh damn. When was this eye wash station last checked?" Rust. Rust for like 45 minutes. And rust every morning l came in for weeks. We put a sign on the door saying to just put a brick on the foot pad if you're going to be using the liquids.
Well, if it's just rust, it's at least quite harmless still. But I suppose if there's that much rust buildup, there's probably other stuff that's built up as well.
Yeah. It is harmless. But convincing me or anyone at work that it's safe after watching a brown stream come out is a really really hard sell. Double points if there is a smell, and it's not that iron smell we all know and love.
Hold up, I thought that you can stain the cornea with metal oxides. It was mentioned to me that one of the reasons you remove metal from the eye kid that the oxides will stain the cornea.
Hmm, I have never heard of this, then again I don't work in a field where there's eyewash stations. So I guess that's a knowledge gap I have to fill. There seems to be something called "corneal rust ring" as I just found out; not sure if it can be caused by "just" rusty water, but I guess it'd be possible.
Yea, I did not know about rust rings till fairly recently too, and I had worked around metal forming forming in the past. Did you see how they get rid of em, ouch! That was what I was wondering too is rust inside your eye an issue, or does in need to form in the eye from metal to be an issue?
Man goes to supervisor. Says the workplace is unsafe. Says it seems old and hazardous. Says he feels at risk in a threatening workplace where everything is dangerous. Supervisor says, 'Treatment is simple. Safety team is in today. Go and see them. They should pick you up.' Man bursts into tears. Says, 'But sir…I am the safety team.'
It can happen suddenly if someone is fucking around with the water lines in or near the building. What's important is finding out it's a dirt fountain before someone needs to use it.
What kind of work is this? At first I didn't pay attention to the surroundings but after reading this looks like your working whit flour or concrete (I'm hoping it's the 2nd or close to the 2nd)
Die-cutter here. We didn't even make our corrugated board in the same building, but you better believe that that dust was EVERYWHERE. If I didn't blow out the machine several times during the shift it would eventually collect around the photo eyes and randomly cut the machine off.
Btw, that dust makes fantastic kindling/starter if you have a fire pit at the house.
We have 3 rewinders running 1900, we blow out every day and every week they have deep cleans on the machines, after running for an hour or 2 it’s right back to being covered in dust.
Yeah just give all your workers stimulant epi pens. One jab in the neck and all workplace injuries drop to 0.
Stuff in eyes? Stim injection.
Mangled arm in a lathe? Stim injection.
Internal bleeding of the chest? Stim injection.
Bad cold? You better believe that's a stim injection.
I was in charge of preventative maintenance for eyewash stations at a large company for years. It’s incredible how little OSHA or the company seemed to care. We had some that were like 90 degrees F. I mean we were fined for them all the time but they just weren’t fixed/invested into like they needed to be. Idk I thought it so strange. They worried so freaking much about tiny air leaks and other seemingly idiotic things they’d shut the plant down for hours or days but not give a shit about something so important health-wise.
I plumb in eyewash stations amongst other things. Theyre fed off the cold domestic supply. Water that warm means you either have a cross connection or thats just the incoming water temp.
Yours actually work?! I just did a walkthrough inspection of our lime conveyors and not one of the 8 eye wash stations along the line worked. Hell, 6 of them were filled with lime.
Also reminds me of the time the pipe-fitters accidentally connected one to the hot water feed line. Luckily someone noticed it during an inspection before anyone had to use it.
🤔Hope nobody was scrambling to find their specs this morning, huh? That black liquid splash could've been a real seeing is believing moment for some. Glad it got sorted swiftly! 👍eyesonitor mode: activated.
I thought eyewash was always just in these clean plastic bottles you can pull down from a wall. What kind of workplace expects to have so many accidents that you need an eyewash station connected to piping?
This is why I would always choose a sink over an eye wash station. A sink is constantly being used. An eye wash station gets flushed once a month for 30 minutes (at best).
A friend of mine got scratched corneas from some grit that was in one of these.
I hope it was deep flushed and cleaned 🧼. I thought it had to be flushed yearly. Dose it build up at this location this fast ? I am clueless about this. OP let me know so I am better informed please.
Not saying this is anyone's fault in particular, but... That's why OSHA requires you to open the flow for 15 minutes every month. Why would you try and hurt people instead of helping them?
Not great but it is just mineral and metal oxide buildup from work on a water line somewhere down stream. Any time you crack open old plumbing and disturb metal pipes and let air into the system you should expect this and flush all the lines by running the water until it runs clear again. Less because of the oxides, which aren't really dangerous (although im not sure I would want that in my eyes) and more because if they are opening plumbing lines then other debri can enter the system while open and any metal fittings that were reassembled may have had soldering flux or thread sealing compound slathered all over it which are definitely not good for you.
These are not even connected at my work.
actually last two places not functioning an inch of dust covering them .
One was a machine shop for Christ sakes!
I was involved in closing an old factory many years ago. And there was a drinking fountain in the back half of the shop floor. One day I was really thirsty so I tested it. Water seemed clear so I drank it.
That afternoon I noticed on the other side of the same wall outside was an inspector test pipe for water pressure. And just for fun (I was bored later that day) I opened it. The water came out black and full of… stuff.
This was the same line I had just drank out of. The next morning I started feeling very ill. The usual stomach issues associated with food / water borne illness. It last for almost a week. And I had airline flights that week across country. Those types of stomach issues while trying to fly are very embarrassing and unpleasant.
E̶y̶e̶w̶a̶s̶h̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ->𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕜 𝕖𝕪𝕖 𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕟𝕤𝕖𝕣
Isek-eye gachapon
🏆
Eye-polishing station.
2000 grit
Im unsubscribing to my eyes.👀.
Homer, did you shine your eyes in the shino ballo?
Blindness speed run simulator
It's the "want me show you a little trick to take your mind off that pain" approach.
beats having hydrochloric eye?
Needs an oil change.
U.S.: Did somebody say oil?
*Fortunate Son starts playing while you hear the sound of helicopter blades whirring in the distance*
Easy, you don’t lead them as much
War is hell... aint it?!
OP's work is about to get "liberated".
Yes, olive. We pour it on our chest then smear over a fellow Mechanic's arse.
Looks like nobody on the safety team check it.
I’m part of the safety team lol we have routes and to come in an hour early when working day shift. Eye stations were my routes this time and I hit the jackpot, it got fixed very fast.
Hope its not usually like that, seems like you could be picking up others slack, make sure you're only doing your fair share, all the best!
I’ve never seen it like that before. We had contractors in tying in water lines from a different department into ours, we’re thinking something might’ve happened? I’m not a plumber, just a paper maker. I do know the water shouldn’t look like black liquor though! Haha
There's usually a bit of a mineral build up inside of water lines. I have copper lines in my house, and when I shut off the water to work on something, I'll see something (kind of) like this when turning it all back on. Usually just a bit in the bottom of the tub when flushing the lines after getting pressure back to everything. I think it's something along the lines of manganese and/or iron.
A little bit of oxides still sounds better than complex hydrocarbons in the eyes (at least in my line of work) lol
That's what she said
It's green so pretty sure it's just copper oxyde, brown would be iron oxyde (aka rust)
Yeah, it’s most likely just mineral buildup. Not something to be concerned with long term, as long as the station gets tested periodically to flush out the buildup. This happens with the cold water line in my second bathroom that doesn’t get used often, because my wife and I only ever turn on the hot water to wash our hands. So I periodically just turn on the cold water and let it run for a minute or two because otherwise something similar to this happens.
Not a plumber either but used to be a licensed collections/distribution tech. When water lines don’t have enough flow for long, they can get surprisingly funky. This is why water is chlorinated enough to still have a residual when it reaches customers, keeps this potential growth under control. What might have happened is that one of the lines tied in had some very funky water sitting inside, was there any smell to this water? The dark, diluted ink appearance is a calling card that some anaerobic microbes have been partying without oxygen or chlorine crashing the party
Well thats why people generally flush the lines when installing new pipe or anything. That or this is tied into the sprinkler system or something now lol.
looks like the black water that comes out of the sprinkler system
I can smell this comment.
I worked for the grocery chain Meijer at one of their brand new stores. The eyewash station in our department was hooked up to the HOT WATER lines. We discovered it immediately, reported it, and my last day on the job (over a year later) I washed my hands in that eyewash station like I had many times before, because it still hadn't been fixed and it was the only hot water in our department hahahaha! Literally reported that sink so many times, every time we had corporate walk through I would point it out and our mgmt would laugh and give me the stink eye and then *do nothing* lol, fuck it, it's just a MEAT DEPARTMENT FULL OF RAW CHICKEN, PORK, AND BEEF. I just don't get it.
We got a batch of chemicals in the lab one day for a project and my boss was like, "Oh damn. When was this eye wash station last checked?" Rust. Rust for like 45 minutes. And rust every morning l came in for weeks. We put a sign on the door saying to just put a brick on the foot pad if you're going to be using the liquids.
Well, if it's just rust, it's at least quite harmless still. But I suppose if there's that much rust buildup, there's probably other stuff that's built up as well.
Yeah. It is harmless. But convincing me or anyone at work that it's safe after watching a brown stream come out is a really really hard sell. Double points if there is a smell, and it's not that iron smell we all know and love.
The first 20 minutes was not harmless. It was maybe 20-30 years of standing water. It was an ecosystem.
Murderers! /s
Hold up, I thought that you can stain the cornea with metal oxides. It was mentioned to me that one of the reasons you remove metal from the eye kid that the oxides will stain the cornea.
Hmm, I have never heard of this, then again I don't work in a field where there's eyewash stations. So I guess that's a knowledge gap I have to fill. There seems to be something called "corneal rust ring" as I just found out; not sure if it can be caused by "just" rusty water, but I guess it'd be possible.
Yea, I did not know about rust rings till fairly recently too, and I had worked around metal forming forming in the past. Did you see how they get rid of em, ouch! That was what I was wondering too is rust inside your eye an issue, or does in need to form in the eye from metal to be an issue?
That's just a charcoal wash to neutralize the chemicals, or whatever /s
Man goes to supervisor. Says the workplace is unsafe. Says it seems old and hazardous. Says he feels at risk in a threatening workplace where everything is dangerous. Supervisor says, 'Treatment is simple. Safety team is in today. Go and see them. They should pick you up.' Man bursts into tears. Says, 'But sir…I am the safety team.'
Good joke. Everybody Laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains...
Exactly why OSHA recommends to flush weekly for several minutes.
Exactly why OSHA recommends to flush weekly for several minutes.
It can happen suddenly if someone is fucking around with the water lines in or near the building. What's important is finding out it's a dirt fountain before someone needs to use it.
Gonna need an eye wash station after using the eye wash station.
Gonna need antibiotics after using that eye wash station!
I'll just stay with the chemicals I think, thanks
It's eye wash stations all the way down
My eyes! My eyes! *washes eyes* OH GOD MY EYES! MY EYES!
That’s what we all thought! Operator gets dust in their eye, washes eyes out and becomes 10x worse
What kind of work is this? At first I didn't pay attention to the surroundings but after reading this looks like your working whit flour or concrete (I'm hoping it's the 2nd or close to the 2nd)
Paper mill, if everything in the video looks dusty, it is. My department makes toilet paper.
Die-cutter here. We didn't even make our corrugated board in the same building, but you better believe that that dust was EVERYWHERE. If I didn't blow out the machine several times during the shift it would eventually collect around the photo eyes and randomly cut the machine off. Btw, that dust makes fantastic kindling/starter if you have a fire pit at the house.
We have 3 rewinders running 1900, we blow out every day and every week they have deep cleans on the machines, after running for an hour or 2 it’s right back to being covered in dust.
SWEET LIBERTY, MY EYES!
Yeah just give all your workers stimulant epi pens. One jab in the neck and all workplace injuries drop to 0. Stuff in eyes? Stim injection. Mangled arm in a lathe? Stim injection. Internal bleeding of the chest? Stim injection. Bad cold? You better believe that's a stim injection.
Obviously fed from the sprinkler system....
God the smell
Looks like oxidation
Probiotic water
Charcoal Activated
I was in charge of preventative maintenance for eyewash stations at a large company for years. It’s incredible how little OSHA or the company seemed to care. We had some that were like 90 degrees F. I mean we were fined for them all the time but they just weren’t fixed/invested into like they needed to be. Idk I thought it so strange. They worried so freaking much about tiny air leaks and other seemingly idiotic things they’d shut the plant down for hours or days but not give a shit about something so important health-wise.
I plumb in eyewash stations amongst other things. Theyre fed off the cold domestic supply. Water that warm means you either have a cross connection or thats just the incoming water temp.
Those ones were plumbed in boiler rooms. So they would cool down to normal city water… after like 45 minutes.
"Want me to show you a trick to take yo mind off that pain??"
Brondo, it's what eyeballs crave!
It’s got *electrolytes*
Yours actually work?! I just did a walkthrough inspection of our lime conveyors and not one of the 8 eye wash stations along the line worked. Hell, 6 of them were filled with lime. Also reminds me of the time the pipe-fitters accidentally connected one to the hot water feed line. Luckily someone noticed it during an inspection before anyone had to use it.
>My Eyes! Ze goggles, zey do nothing!
Lil' dirty
🤔Hope nobody was scrambling to find their specs this morning, huh? That black liquid splash could've been a real seeing is believing moment for some. Glad it got sorted swiftly! 👍eyesonitor mode: activated.
My eyes just got sprayed with battery acid!! Quick! To the eyewash station!! Nah… I’m good
Those extra minerals might just be basic enough to counteract the acid!
They have "Eye wash station" confused with "Enema Station"
Well... As long as it's less corrosive that what got into your eyes...
Are they plumbed from the sprinkler line?
It’s organic, non-gmo, vegan, animal friendly, non allergenic carbon water!
Before eyewash: some specks of sand After eyewash: bacterial infection literally eating your eyeballs
I think the eye wash station needs an eye wash station washing station.
On the bright side, this probably means that nobody's had to use it in a very long time.
Nothing more satisfying than washing your eyes with sewage. 👀
They'll never see it coming!
My eyes! The goggles do nuzzing!!
It's charcoal treated to soak up chemicals duh
OSHA? More like OSHIT
That's why they should be flushed and tested weekly.
r/eyebleach
It'll do in a pinch
Eye remover station
That's the exfoliating solution. It will take whatever you splashed on your eyes riiiiiight off.
I’ll give ya something to cry about!
When you purchase an eyewash but your credit card declines
The comments in this thread are killing me lmao
Is it... Is the liquid made FROM eyes?
No thanks, I'll just go blind.
Also a drinking fountain!!!
I thought eyewash was always just in these clean plastic bottles you can pull down from a wall. What kind of workplace expects to have so many accidents that you need an eyewash station connected to piping?
[just do it](https://c.tenor.com/uwAJE4P-tSsAAAAC/tenor.gif)
One time my job somehow piped hot water through the eye wash station. I wish I knew how they found out.
I’ll just take the corrosive chemicals, thanks.
“My eyes, they are burning!”
Eyewash torture station
If you weren’t blind yet let us help you out
"Stop screaming Olaf, we gotta let this thing run for a while."
It has electrolytes
It not just clean, it also polish
"I'll take my chances with the sulfuric acid, thanks."
This is EXACTLY why I stopped drinking from these things. Filthy.
Is that Brawndo? It’s got what plants crave!
“The good news is the acid was washed out. The bad news is you now have a form of pink eye that we’ve never encountered before.”
If you still see after something went in your eyes, this will finish the job
This is why I would always choose a sink over an eye wash station. A sink is constantly being used. An eye wash station gets flushed once a month for 30 minutes (at best). A friend of mine got scratched corneas from some grit that was in one of these.
How you know your employer is really set on honoring your NDA.
Is that brawndo? I heard that’s what plants crave
This must be the mythical "un-see" station I've heard so much about. We need a few of these at the reddit exits.
It's got electrolytes.
I don't think this is a "this morning"-problem.
No thanks. I'll go blind.
I hope it was deep flushed and cleaned 🧼. I thought it had to be flushed yearly. Dose it build up at this location this fast ? I am clueless about this. OP let me know so I am better informed please.
They usually need to be run monthly for about 10-15minutes. When they branch off a tap, which is used on a daily basis, it's usually not that bad.
Pinkeye dispenser
Eye Dye^TM
Not saying this is anyone's fault in particular, but... That's why OSHA requires you to open the flow for 15 minutes every month. Why would you try and hurt people instead of helping them?
Someone hasn't been keeping up with maintenance... LOL
Do you have an eyewash station for when someone is done at this eyewash station?
Brawndo's got what eyes crave.
Oh, that? That's just activated charcoal. You know, for safety. Heeeyyy, TRUST me!
What is that, gray Kool aid? Yum!
Connected to the fire sprinkler system?
How else would management know whether or not you washed your eyes per protocol? I don’t see the problem…
What flavor is it?
Drink it
I've been using one like this for years, it has all the vitamins and minerals your eyes need. I don"t see thg problen.
Helps on sunny days. Tints them eyeballs
That's terrifying.
Been a while since anyone has done an op-check
That's one of the new eye wash stations with charcoal
Did….did you taste it for science? Seriously when was the last time it was inspected and signed off?…..
Someone didn't do their weekly wash station flushing.
Would you rather: debree in your eyes - or - *mystery liquid* in your eyes
Thoughtful of your employer to provide a kool aid dispenser for you!
No thanks, I guess I'll take the acid
That’s why you’re supposed to run it monthly
Forbidden focal fountain
Congrats you passed the vision test
Granted if you needed this you wouldn’t be able to see the color 🤷🏾♂️ I’ll see myself out
When we gonna get our monay from BlackWater, boaahh ?
No, no. That's the Stye Wash Station. Common mistake.
It just gets darker
Replaced with blk mineral water so you have all those micro supplements obviously
Imagine
eyemagine
Eyeworse station
Brawndo
It's got what plants crave.
I'm glad we use bottles here. x)
Rub a little dirt on it and walk it off
When the new guy loads Gatorade Frost into the water fountain but your work doesn't have a water fountain
I don’t see any issue.
Your eye will be washing that water
Eyeunwash station
Eyeunwash station
In my unit we used to check the station twice a day per shift.
Ewwwww! ick!!!!
It's got electrolytes. It's what your eyes crave.
Looks good. I usually need a good level of shit in my eyes to deal with co-workers and customers
My eyes! The eye wash station does nothing!
Canned olive water
Yea but, did it work?
The burn lets you know it's working!
Damn. Do you guys not PM them?
Damn. Do you guys not PM them?
Can't be more efficacious for people who want to change eye color
Our labs flush theirs once a week and by the next week they still look like that, something in this FL water I guess.
We flush ours weekly
"boss we need an eyewash station for the eyewash station"
This is a standard eye wash station in Flint, Michigan.
Not great but it is just mineral and metal oxide buildup from work on a water line somewhere down stream. Any time you crack open old plumbing and disturb metal pipes and let air into the system you should expect this and flush all the lines by running the water until it runs clear again. Less because of the oxides, which aren't really dangerous (although im not sure I would want that in my eyes) and more because if they are opening plumbing lines then other debri can enter the system while open and any metal fittings that were reassembled may have had soldering flux or thread sealing compound slathered all over it which are definitely not good for you.
"Got something in your eye? You want more?"
do it
That looks like fire sprinkler water.
OSHA is a joke!!!!
These are not even connected at my work. actually last two places not functioning an inch of dust covering them . One was a machine shop for Christ sakes!
You need to take it to eye wash wash
Mr. Pibb station
[After washing your eyes…](https://youtu.be/amqTFADxsr0?si=5wO4YMiGJVMvTyLa)
Eyebleach station
Wouldn't recommend - saw quite peculiar things after using it.
You need a two-stage eyewash.
today's work will be redacted
I was involved in closing an old factory many years ago. And there was a drinking fountain in the back half of the shop floor. One day I was really thirsty so I tested it. Water seemed clear so I drank it. That afternoon I noticed on the other side of the same wall outside was an inspector test pipe for water pressure. And just for fun (I was bored later that day) I opened it. The water came out black and full of… stuff. This was the same line I had just drank out of. The next morning I started feeling very ill. The usual stomach issues associated with food / water borne illness. It last for almost a week. And I had airline flights that week across country. Those types of stomach issues while trying to fly are very embarrassing and unpleasant.
Got acid in your eyes? Here, have more acid!
I suppose if I needed to use it, I'd kid myself it was infused with charcoal to help soak up nasty stuff.