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2021-07-26 // day precision

Site visits and the OSHA shortcut joke

Posted by Dan Cary

Original source text

Doing site visits like:
Text meme: How did you get all that work done so fast? Mostly OSHA violations.
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Comment attachment by Tim Thulin: Hard-hat worker meme: when asked how a job was finished so fast, the secret ingredient is OSHA violations; screenshot includes a Reddit attribution.
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Editorial interpretation

The post turns implausibly fast work into an OSHA-violations punchline. Discussion calls it an early OSHA post and contributes a related meme attributed by the commenter to Reddit; that claim does not establish original authorship. SOURCE DISCUSSION — transcribed original comments 2021-07-26 — Ben Ackerman: Can't see OSHA violations if you don't conduct site visits.... 2021-07-27 — Timothy Wilhelm: First OSHA post so far! 2021-07-27 — Dan Cary — reply in Timothy Wilhelm’s thread: Timothy Wilhelm ground breaking! Busting outta silos! 2021-07-27 — Tim Thulin: Borrowed from Reddit [Associated comment image is displayed above.] Coverage: Captured count matches displayed count at selected review; hidden/deleted comments remain unknown. Thread grouping follows source thread-root links; unknown immediate reply parents are not inferred. Dates preserve the displayed day, with timezone unknown. The heading, alt text and opening historical explanation are AI-assisted editorial interpretation. The original caption, preserved image renditions and transcribed discussion are source material. Public images are metadata-stripped display derivatives of Facebook-served files; the original upload files and edit history were not established.

Topics: Early Years, July 2021, Site visits, Construction, OSHA, Expeditionary contracting