Chinese female stamping machine workers - GIFs

[Jon]

Chinese female stamping machine workers. Or are these all the same person? Anyway, similar aesthetic to a previous Lace stitching workers post. Still don't know if these are real, or propaganda of some sort, or if I care.


















Previously: https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...046#post120348

[McDesign]

Scary - no safeties at all. Wonder how long their fingers and hands will last?
Chinese female stamping machine workers - GIFs
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[WorkerB]

Next set of posts in the making? No eye or hearing protection. Unrestrained long hair near rotating machinery. Safety interlocks nowhere to be seen.

[WorkerB]

Beat me to it

[jdurand]

One job my mom had was filling cans with mothballs. The "cans" were cardboard tubes, crimped metal ends. They came to her station with one end already on, she filled them through the bottom, placed on a lid and crimped in a machine like the stamps. Said if you weren't careful you could lose your hand.

Never saw her dress like the above, just today I was looking at a picture of her from 1929 and she was quite modestly dressed.

She did say it was hard to get a date when your skin smelled of mothballs. No mosquitoes though. That was after her 1st husband disappeared and before she met my pop.

[NeiljohnUK]

Scary - no safeties at all. Wonder how long their fingers and hands will last?

Indeed, I worked in a UK press shop for a short time 30 years ago and even with safety guarding people still got hurt, usually cuts to hands, though every so often a 'flyer' would hit someone too. Most refused hearing protection though as they knew they could claim industrial injury compensation, stupid.

[marksbug]

Ive made the dies and operated the presses, big and small.older than those. no real safty execpt for brains. I remember the 2.5mm thick, by 150mm wide brass in a 3 foot dia roll and just stamping away,,,what a noise.boom boom boom...the entire shop moves...not real good for the cnc mills running, but when doing aircraft stuff on the mills.the press was usualy not being used. I some time miss doing that stuff...especially when I need to make something and have to think read dro and use the hand wheels instead of programing and pussing a button.