Ever wondered what it would be like to die of an OSHA violation in Second Life? Wonder no longer — someone has decided to animate a bunch of industrial accidents for our viewing pleasure.


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The video shows a variety of industrial accidents of varying intensity and stupidity. In some cases, the injured party is not at fault — for example, one guy is hit by a random rock that got compressed under the tracks of an excavator. In other cases, the injuries sustained by our animated friend is entirely down to their own stupidity. Case in point: the dude who attempted a jump from a platform to a nearby ledge, only to fall off. This isn’t Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, dude — you don’t just respawn after a tumble like that!


You may be wondering why I’m describing these things as though they’re something that actually happened. Well, according to some Twitter users, they are.



This user says that these are animated remakes of famous industrial accident videos. Why would they do this? Maybe they wanted to show the dangers of such accidents without including actual video of the event — videos that are, according to people who have seen them, absolutely horrifying.





Personally, I have no interest in seeing a man become pink mist in the workplace, but if you want to see that, apparently it’s out there.


There’s no real sourcing on these animations, though a few claim that they’re produced in China to show the dangers of workplace accidents. That would explain why so many of them are in Chinese.



Are these effective at teaching people how to be safe at the workplace? I don’t know. But is it nice to watch something like this where no one actually gets hurt and there isn’t a LiveLeak logo in the corner? Absolutely.