I'm sure we all get clothes to replace our "dirty work clothes" during the holidays, just take a second and cut off the dangly bits right away, instead of having them (and your face) ripped off by equipment.
I had on a hoodie. A man with one arm came walking by, flicked the drawstring on my hoodie and said “that’s what got me.” The drawstring on his hoodie got caught in a lathe and his arm coming off is the only thing that saved him.
Our safety guy got his job because he accidentally cut into the wrong pipe in an engine room, blowing himself up, and burning the boat to the waterline. He survived because this big drunk former boxer we kept around knocked him out and carried his flaming body to safety and jumped into the river with him. Just another completely insane shipyard story. Ivan was kind of scary to look at, but he really got me to respect safety protocols.
No, you gotta go the Affirmative Action route, and get the one person who checks all the boxes. One eye, one leg, one arm, 3 fingers, the remnant of a big toe, can't hear outta one ear, and brutal facial scars.
One person, all boxes checked. Like the pirate in Family Guy who's got pegs for limbs.
In my mind they send J. Walter Weatherman around to all the new people, and he told one guy he lost it leaning out a moving forklift, and another holding open an elevator door.
We had a machinist who got pulled into a mill or lathe not sure which it was. It was used to scrap zinc off a roll. It was winter and our machine-shop had poor heating and he was wearing a sweater. When he was doing checks the sweater caught on a piece of zinc and pulled him in. He was lucky it was a small 6” roll and not one of the larger ones. It fucked him up pretty bad but he didn’t lose an arm or die.
After that it was short sleeves only for machinists and the next year the whole shop got new heaters.
That's actually funny, I had a job where everything had rollers to compress the product while it was made, one year instead of Christmas bonuses we got two Carhartt hoodies with the company logo on them.
I worked in a shop where the HR director tried to make us wear lanyards for our badges because she wanted them to be more visible. We refused and when she tried to force it someone demonstrated the problem on one of our lathes.
as a teen i was a lifeguard, our instructor had us wear our whistle on a bracelet because a panicky person could choke you if it's around your neck.
someone showed that his was breakaway, so it would be fine. the instructor grabbed it by the breakaway part and choked him for a second, demonstrating that, no, you shouldn't have anything like that around your neck in a workplace.
There's every chance that both strings will get caught and turn your hoodie into a noose. Even if only one got caught, you still might get your face jerked into danger.
Second wash and my Milwaukee heated hoodie string frayed..no big deal I’ll pull it out and a new one through at the same time…the fuck you will said Milwaukee, damned thing is stitched in at the top in two places..
Depending on the thickness of the hoodie and how it was manufactured you can sometimes find the stitch and just cut the stitch so you can remove the string.
I’m really not too worried about it, I honestly can’t remember the last time I tied those anyways…maybe when I was a kid? Knowing my luck that stitch is tied into the one that goes around the border and the whole thing unravels…
Because of those drawstrings, I have had to save two men.
One was at work in 2013. He was using a grinder without the guard on it. I ran over and unplugged it. My foreman and I then had to cut the hoodie off to free him. He had minor cuts on his neck that needed treatment.
The second one was in the parking lot at Autozone in 2025. He was leaning over the engine with the car running, and the reciprocating belt caught the string and pulled him in. A man got there first and was fighting to pull him away. I jumped into the car and turned it off. Someone had to cut the hoodie off to free him from the car. The hoodie guy got hurt pretty badly. The ambulance took him away. I don't know what happened to him. The man who helped him had some injuries to his hands and arms. I don't know what happened to him.
My one cat has a bra pad that is her baby. My previous cat (RIP Tick) had a nylon stocking for a baby, as well as a little stuffed bunny. Another one just turns everything younger or smaller than him into his babies. He's literally gotten in fights because one of his babies wanted to go do something else, but he wasn't done bathing it.
And if my dog had thumbs, he'd probably be a chain smoker or a drunk, because EVERYTHING is either his baby or an existential threat, leading to a lot of anxiety.
Oof. My childhood cat got ahold of a spool of thread one time. She ate a ton of it and we didn't notice. She started acting odd, so Mom took her to the vet where they found there was thread looped around her tongue and running back into her throat. She had to have emergency surgery. The other end of the thread was in her colon. They had to make three or four incisions in her intestines to get it all out.
Needless to say, we were much more vigilant about putting thread away when we were done with it after that
I once had the back of a reflective safety vest 🦺 get caught on a pipe as I was trying to get down off a ladder and just about drag me into a space where I would have been squished... well maybe just ripped in half...but still. We got them sewed into our outfits after that.
My dryer took care of that for me after the first wash. The drawstring got caught in the seal and eventually wrapped up all my clothes. I only noticed because of the thuds from the lump of clothes banging around in the drum.
I think they are suggesting an improvised breakaway connector made with shrink tube. It might work, but I'm not sure I would want to rely on that with it enclosed at the back of my head. Two closer to the openings maybe. I would want to test it first, but then I don't wear hoodies at work or work with equipment where that is a concern anyway.
I wasn't trying to endorse the concept just explain it.
I don't know if you could get enough grip from that setup to make it work while still releasing when necessary. I think I don't pull on hoodie strings anywhere near hard enough to injure myself so a break away that could still function day to day seems possible, I'm not sure heat shrink would get you to the needed range.
We're not allowed any hoodies at work unless the hood has snaps or buttons only just in case it gets caught in machinery.
Probably for a good reason
Yeah, that reason is so it doesn't get caught in machinery, or breaks away if it does, like the dude said.
Cause that generally means getting dragged into the machinery, which tends to turn people into meat chunks
I had on a hoodie. A man with one arm came walking by, flicked the drawstring on my hoodie and said “that’s what got me.” The drawstring on his hoodie got caught in a lathe and his arm coming off is the only thing that saved him.
Lmao, every safety department should keep an one armed guy around
Our safety guy got his job because he accidentally cut into the wrong pipe in an engine room, blowing himself up, and burning the boat to the waterline. He survived because this big drunk former boxer we kept around knocked him out and carried his flaming body to safety and jumped into the river with him. Just another completely insane shipyard story. Ivan was kind of scary to look at, but he really got me to respect safety protocols.
No, you gotta go the Affirmative Action route, and get the one person who checks all the boxes. One eye, one leg, one arm, 3 fingers, the remnant of a big toe, can't hear outta one ear, and brutal facial scars.
One person, all boxes checked. Like the pirate in Family Guy who's got pegs for limbs.
For a second there I thought you were about to say flying purple people eater
CURSE YOU, BAYLE
I wish more people understood that safety rules are written in blood, but unfortunately it usually takes their blood for them to want to read it.
My old job played it all wrong we had a one armed lady but she was born that way. She should have been telling people about safety
In my mind they send J. Walter Weatherman around to all the new people, and he told one guy he lost it leaning out a moving forklift, and another holding open an elevator door.
J. Walter Weatherman: “…and that’s why we don’t wear drawstring hoodies!”
We had a machinist who got pulled into a mill or lathe not sure which it was. It was used to scrap zinc off a roll. It was winter and our machine-shop had poor heating and he was wearing a sweater. When he was doing checks the sweater caught on a piece of zinc and pulled him in. He was lucky it was a small 6” roll and not one of the larger ones. It fucked him up pretty bad but he didn’t lose an arm or die.
After that it was short sleeves only for machinists and the next year the whole shop got new heaters.
Unless you’re my coworker Dave, then it’s mostly fat chunks.
I like my skin, muscles and hones attached thank you very much
Russian lathe anyone?
Ones if my coworkers almost got hanged from a large mixer (cement mixer repurposed for factory work) because he was wearing a hoodie, so yeah.
My jackets drawstring got caught in the big fan at work. Just went Sswooooooop! Thought it was over for a second. That tug on the neck is scary
I was given a work hoodie and I quickly removed the drawstrings
That's actually funny, I had a job where everything had rollers to compress the product while it was made, one year instead of Christmas bonuses we got two Carhartt hoodies with the company logo on them.
I worked in a shop where the HR director tried to make us wear lanyards for our badges because she wanted them to be more visible. We refused and when she tried to force it someone demonstrated the problem on one of our lathes.
Broken neck, or decapitation?
Spin the wheel! I just realized that's a pun in this case....
Your shop never heard of breakaway lanyards? Lol
Company full of idiots
They were breakaway actually but none of us were willing to risk it. You do you though.
as a teen i was a lifeguard, our instructor had us wear our whistle on a bracelet because a panicky person could choke you if it's around your neck.
someone showed that his was breakaway, so it would be fine. the instructor grabbed it by the breakaway part and choked him for a second, demonstrating that, no, you shouldn't have anything like that around your neck in a workplace.
just as relevant in construction as it was there.
Yep. Why take the chance with a life?
Wow. You work in a shop full of unicorns: folks who take their lives seriously instead of succumbing to testosterone poisoning.
And why remove your hoodie strings? Any power tool will simply rip them out!
There's every chance that both strings will get caught and turn your hoodie into a noose. Even if only one got caught, you still might get your face jerked into danger.
You can just pull them out.
A lot are stitched in at the back now
Best innovation in the 21st century
Don’t let your memes be dreams 🪡
I've done this to all my hoodies
OMG Is that why
Why waste effort? The lathe will pull them out for me
Not always, some are sewn into the back
Then the Lathe will pull them in for it.
https://imgur.com/a/eXSZYIw
They're actually sewn on most garments to avoid pulling out
Is imgur not working today or is it just me?
recently got blocked in some places
Are you in the UK?
No I am not, but I notice my phone sets off cloud flare captchas all the time now
I'm in Australia. Imgur comes up but the OP's link just redirects to the front page.
I stilll remember the first imgur post.on reddit ...
Imgur went down the drain
Are you in the uk because the government blocked it
It doesn’t work if I have my VPN on
Most? I’ve never had one stitched on a sweatshirt in my life.
Second wash and my Milwaukee heated hoodie string frayed..no big deal I’ll pull it out and a new one through at the same time…the fuck you will said Milwaukee, damned thing is stitched in at the top in two places..
Depending on the thickness of the hoodie and how it was manufactured you can sometimes find the stitch and just cut the stitch so you can remove the string.
I've been using a seam ripper on my clothes lately, just removing annoying tags and stuff. Very handy
They're pretty useful to keep around, for crap you don't even expect to use it for.
Then again, I've stemmed strawberries and cored tomatoes with a seam ripper at separate points, so maybe I'm just resourceful?
I’m really not too worried about it, I honestly can’t remember the last time I tied those anyways…maybe when I was a kid? Knowing my luck that stitch is tied into the one that goes around the border and the whole thing unravels…
YMMV
I had to cut both of the ones I got for Christmas because they were sewn in the back.
Well then certainly it isn’t possible
Your link doesn't work.
In 40+ years, and the last 10 being Carhartt hoodies, I've never heard of this.
I don't know that I'd say "most". More like "depending on brand".
Most? C'mon dude, absolutely not.
Every once in a while, perhaps.
Because of those drawstrings, I have had to save two men.
One was at work in 2013. He was using a grinder without the guard on it. I ran over and unplugged it. My foreman and I then had to cut the hoodie off to free him. He had minor cuts on his neck that needed treatment.
The second one was in the parking lot at Autozone in 2025. He was leaning over the engine with the car running, and the reciprocating belt caught the string and pulled him in. A man got there first and was fighting to pull him away. I jumped into the car and turned it off. Someone had to cut the hoodie off to free him from the car. The hoodie guy got hurt pretty badly. The ambulance took him away. I don't know what happened to him. The man who helped him had some injuries to his hands and arms. I don't know what happened to him.
I have to do this at home with non-work hoodies because i have a cat with a string problem 😅
The cat has no problem with strings, you have :-)
Tell that to the two emergency vet visits where they had to remove hair ties from his guts.
My one cat has a bra pad that is her baby. My previous cat (RIP Tick) had a nylon stocking for a baby, as well as a little stuffed bunny. Another one just turns everything younger or smaller than him into his babies. He's literally gotten in fights because one of his babies wanted to go do something else, but he wasn't done bathing it.
And if my dog had thumbs, he'd probably be a chain smoker or a drunk, because EVERYTHING is either his baby or an existential threat, leading to a lot of anxiety.
Oof. My childhood cat got ahold of a spool of thread one time. She ate a ton of it and we didn't notice. She started acting odd, so Mom took her to the vet where they found there was thread looped around her tongue and running back into her throat. She had to have emergency surgery. The other end of the thread was in her colon. They had to make three or four incisions in her intestines to get it all out.
Needless to say, we were much more vigilant about putting thread away when we were done with it after that
I once had the back of a reflective safety vest 🦺 get caught on a pipe as I was trying to get down off a ladder and just about drag me into a space where I would have been squished... well maybe just ripped in half...but still. We got them sewed into our outfits after that.
Does nobody else here tuck? Smh…
The company I work for actually has hoodies with the drawstring holes on the inside of the cowl.
It’s pretty awesome.
A shop I used to work for gave out jackets with the draw strings in the pockets. My favorite part of working there tbh.
Hoodies are banned on our sites, had a few near misses related to them!
I work with cnc lathes and mills, and our company clothes have long / thick drawstrings. No one seemed to think that that isnt a very great idea.
Getting sucked into a lathe dick first is probably one of my top 3 ways of not wanting to die.
At least you got your dick sucked...?
No
Yk you dont have to cut them most of the time. Just pull it out on one side and you can reuse it for other things
Or put in a drawer with all the other random stuff you’ll never use.
I see you got the CAT hoodie from costco, its quite thick makes a good layer
I just a t tuck mine in
Like Buffalo Bill
Goodbye horses…..
Why don't you use clothes made for working? Your employer should give you that.
Or alternatively you can simply pull it out intact
Drawstrings aren’t SQF
Just yank em out
I’ve been doing this since middle school. I would walk to school and the cold wind would make these shoestrings whip me in the face.
My dryer took care of that for me after the first wash. The drawstring got caught in the seal and eventually wrapped up all my clothes. I only noticed because of the thuds from the lump of clothes banging around in the drum.
Maybe wear work clothes instead of a hoodie?
I got a hoodie as my work clothes so I can work outside in cold weather.
Why not pull them halfway out, cut them, use shrink wrap to reconnect them in a detachable way, then repulll them through?
Huh
I think they are suggesting an improvised breakaway connector made with shrink tube. It might work, but I'm not sure I would want to rely on that with it enclosed at the back of my head. Two closer to the openings maybe. I would want to test it first, but then I don't wear hoodies at work or work with equipment where that is a concern anyway.
Defeats the purpose other than aesthetics though...pull to tighten and they pop off?
I wasn't trying to endorse the concept just explain it.
I don't know if you could get enough grip from that setup to make it work while still releasing when necessary. I think I don't pull on hoodie strings anywhere near hard enough to injure myself so a break away that could still function day to day seems possible, I'm not sure heat shrink would get you to the needed range.
"Man dies as homemade release mechanism attached to his hoodie strings didn't release when needed"
Ya ill pass
I never personally use them, if it's cold enough that I'd need to tighten my hood I'll be wearing a neck gaiter and tuque anyway
Why not just shit your pants? I’d rather just shit my pants than do that.
I'd shorten them to a non-dangerous length. But I guess "non-dangerous" can vary a lot.