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As a machinist a lathe is the first thing that comes to mind, you get some clothing or even a rope caught in the wrong place and it'll eat you alive

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[–] shikitohno@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Probably all the knives and the room full of people who spend 8 hours a day cutting things to bits with them. After a while, you get pretty good at finding where to cut through joints, so it doesn't take all that long.

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 5 points 1 day ago

Crushing depression.

Although that’s not really for my job since I don’t have one.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm unemployed rn so uh, some dab wax?

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Going for a home alone style thing huh

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

100' fall into the middle of an arena.

I work as a concert high rigger.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The elevators that always breakdown. They were doing a repair today and knocked out power to the whole building.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

My mind immediately goes to the resident evil movie elevator scene...

[–] Cptn_Slow@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

From what I've seen, airplane crashes can be pretty fatal!

[–] viscacha@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Suffering through eight straight hours of „business alignment workshops“.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well, I work with IT, Ships, and industrial robotics, so I'm thinking that the villain gets maimed by a robot controlled by a perl script to the point where he is unable to prevent his ship from sinking.

EDIT: Oh, and don't gets me started on the seismic source: 4000 cubic inches of compressed air at 2000psi. Seismic sources are scary. In water ut will turn anyone in yhe water into jell-o. I've coordinated these with simultaneous diving ops, and the divers usually call us to stop if they're within 3-4 kilometers.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The printing press. The monster's blood would be spread out over 70000 newspapers.

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Would be an interesting way to spread a vampire curse

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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

There is usually an alligator or two (or three, or..) in the pond by my work. They definitely get big enough to kill a villain before anyone bothers calling to have them relocated.

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I could mistranslate an MRI manual and they could fry themselves to death?

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I would print out the code and Rube Goldbergian series of database triggers that run some of our internal apps; to the untrained mind, it would probably have an effect similar to looking into Medusa's eyes.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

There’s a kid I work with that is going to end up stabbing me with a pencil. He’s gotten pretty close a few times.

The lab closet when I was teaching science might have worked. The stuff you let kids work with is as close to water as you can make it, but the stuff for demos could easily take out a Jason or a Freddy.

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

The contents of the fridge

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

School supplies can be pretty dangerous when used incorrectly. :3

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One of those paper cutters with the blade arm would be a good go to

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

How many painkillers does it take to kill someone? I reckon we have enough for that at work

[–] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

I work in a hospital so: scalpels, oxygen bottles/ wall supply explosions (hard to do without disabling the safety's which I don't know how to do), plenty of radiation sources in the building, loads of dangerous drugs from sedatives to painkillers to chemotherapy. If I'm lucky the monster might just die of MRSA or pneumonia before they get to me.

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