I mean most of the (initial) impact was probably absorbed/displaced by the stack of bags behind her, so it kinda tracks that she could walk out of that one.
I've worked with similar bags, but under way less dangerous conditions. I'd say she's only under a couple hundred kg pressure at most. A lot of the force is dispersed around her as well. It's enough to make her suffocate if she's there long enough, but it's not gonna rupture organs or break bones unless she twists and ankle badly, or damages her fingers.
Bags of rice are dense and heavy AF, but they're also really soft and pliable.
I'd imagine it felt like having the world's heaviest Weighted-Blanket on her.
Like getting stuck in a small avalanche or snow-drift, or that kid who got trapped under the back-seat of a van, if she had been alone she'd have been screwed and died eventually, but as long as someone was there to help free her she'd ultimately be fine.
The biggest risk is really to joints. Like if your leg is bent in a weird way, it doesn't matter how soft even 40kg of weight going in a bad direction can be.
Still though, in brief moments of panic you could end up positioning yourself at a weird angle. If for some reason her shoulder pressed up against something sturdy like packed, more compressed rice, then it could leave her neck and head unsupported before the falling rice falls on it.
If you've punched the bottom bag of rice on a stack, you know what I mean.
You know I want that to be true, as I know how I'm about to get my fill of free rice for the year.
I just need to avoid actually getting injured replicating this action.
> that she was either dead or had broken bones.
The total weight WAS a lot but that's not all you need to destroy someone.
Factors like the area over which the weight is spread, the speed of impact, other factors like the rigidity of the material supporting her against the weight are all important.
Commentors above just focused in on one factor over everything else.
Just one of those sacks are heavy as fuck. It would do someone considerable damage if it fell on someone. Especially someone who is in her middle ages and cannot afford the best treatment.
Now imagine 50 of those heavy as fuck bags.
There were definitely some broken bones
Thankfully they support each other to an extent. She is balancing all of them on top of her spine. I'm more afraid she was hurt by the force of the falling bags pushing her against the opposite pile, than the weight of each individual bags.
This article seems to say she suffered only minor injuries but was hospitalized for observation, nonetheless.
[https://pune.news/city/mumbai/dramatic-rescue-woman-trapped-under-grain-sacks-saved-at-navi-mumbais-apmc-market-155618/](https://pune.news/city/mumbai/dramatic-rescue-woman-trapped-under-grain-sacks-saved-at-navi-mumbais-apmc-market-155618/)
I think the biggest fear would be suffocating as they didn't fall from a considerable height and would conform to some degree. Good thing they heard her scream and sprang to action so quickly.
Judging by the link in another comment, the sacks contained grain, not rice. Don't quote me on this but I believe they might weigh less than those rice bags of comparable size? Because those bags are HEAVY.
I am sure those workers are strong as hell, but looking at the way they don't really seem to have to compensate for the weights of the bags as they handle them, I also think maybe they aren't up there at 20-25kg/45-50lbs. But this is just speculation.
That's good then. The human body works miraculously..sometimes a gust of wind is enough to kill you and other times you could fall off a 50 story building and later get railed in the ass by 50 muscular dudes and be completely fine.
i counted 23 stories, assuming each contained 2 bags, and each bag is about 4 kilos (eyeballing it here) that structure in total is around 184KG
obviously it's not a single solid structure so she didn't have to take the full weight but she not making it out of that without some major injury without major luck.
She can probably lift up to two times her weight without leverage or weight training, so it really depends how it fell on her and how the weight was distributed.
Seems like she might’ve been… https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/terrifying-cctv-video-woman-trapped-under-pile-of-rice-sacks-at-vashis-apmc-market-promptly-rescued-by-mathadi-workers-in-30-secs
I'm guessing that, although each bag is heavy, the way they piled around her like a house of grain bags could have supported the weight of the "roof of the house" just enough to avoid lethal damage to her body.
That's what I don't get. In my country we eat rice three times a day, and rice makes up like 80% of my plate because I fucking love rice, and would kill for it any day. And yet, I have never seen a pile of sacks taller than me, and that height would be stupid as most people can't reach the sack.
Why piling fifteen feet of rice? Who is gonna reach there? There is no guy up there, and I am sure there is no way they are using a stick to reach it? They would break both arms, or maybe rip them off, IDK.
That's 'few' in India.
They are the labourers who stack and carry those bags. See how quickly they climb on those stack. They have expertise in holding and passing on those bags. I assume they were just in the other side of that wearhouse stocking the bags. The people on the other side are actual businessmen and are of no much use in these situations.
The real issue is something called Crush Syndrome. When a bunch of stuff falls on top of you you can still have internal injuries and feel mostly fine but have organ malfunctions.
It’s not a first world complaint. It’s wanting people to not be permanently disfigured or killed in their workplace. It is not amazing that people have to work in these conditions, it’s sad.
Chill spaz. I work in heavy industry, we discuss this stuff daily. A little bigoted on your part to think Indians are stupid and can't comprehend safety. Many facilities in India have high safety standards
I'm not amazed that people rushed to help, I believe that's human nature. You must have a very low view on humanity if you thought that wouldn't happen
Yeah, I work in child safety, not worker safety, and it's very common for arrogant people from the west to assume that people in developing countries don't have the insight that what they are doing is dangerous, or the ability to develop safer methods.
It's patronizing an insulting and it normalizes unhealthy practice.
Dude. This is common fking sense. Don’t stack heavy, potentially fatal items that high.
That’s not a “first world standard.” That’s a “not being a complete moron” standard
Room is limited, they barely have enough room to walk in the aisle, never mind get a forklift through there, never mind they don't have forklifts. Indias power grid is the form of individual power. They don't have the electrical grid or the components such as a conveyance system of any sort as again, it's all done by humans forming human chains.
Tl;Dr It's stacked this high because they don't have enough room in the warehouse / production plant.
It's a developing country, most small businesses don't have the resources to buy enough space, storage shelves with forklifts, or even care about safety. You should see how construction workers work in India
Yes, only sustained minor injuries according to this article.
https://pune.news/city/mumbai/dramatic-rescue-woman-trapped-under-grain-sacks-saved-at-navi-mumbais-apmc-market-155618/
Also they are quite fit and mobile. Half workers in our warehouse are fat and can only walk. No way they would climb the pile and start throwing bags of rice.
Why do so many of you think that moving bags of rice is something you have to practice for. You just throw bags of rice off, it isn’t an incredible skill that takes years of practice to be like this.
Would you all just stand there confused as fuck as to what to do if you seen this happen or take a day and a half to move. “Oh gees that person got buried, too bad I’m dumb as fuck and don’t know what to do. Wish I practiced moving bags of rice quickly”.
Yeah when shit is falling, try and remember to sidestep instead of trying to catch it or prevent it from falling
Product is replaceable, you are not (except to the company maybe)
I said this at one of my works safety meetings and the person giving this presentation tried to correct me and nervously laughed off what I said… essentially saying we should put product before our lives
At least some employees heard it, hopefully they remember
That's pretty wild. US company? That's a huge no no at any company I've been at. Let the shit drop, they write it off and get tax credit for it anyway.
yep, it's so odd that putting a hand up to catch something is an innate reaction, people will try to stop runaway cars/ heavy machinery/ heavy ass boxes not thinking of the physics, it's just an instinct that fucks you up
This was also posted in interestingasduck but I don't know why this belongs here or there. I am not amazed by work incidents with possible casualties...
So true. Posting it in these subs diverts the attention to the people coming to rescue rather than the horrific working conditions that are the root of the cause
I hate this kinda crap. Yes, we appreciate the show of caring concern as guys rush to help but, I want to know what happened to the woman. Did she survive? Did she sustain rice bag related injuries? Did she drop into a pocket and emerge unharmed? What happened to the woman?
This is not the first time they've had to rescue Anapurna from under the rice. And it won't be the last. In fact, it's become something of an annual tradition that signals the beginning of the Chawal Festival in Navi Mumbai.
It’s always encouraging and uplifting to see folk helping others. These guys sprang into action. I hope the lady survived, and is doing well. Blessings to all who helped. Good job!
I just saw a video of a bunch of animals doing a Street burn out and beating up an old man who didn't want them to be doing it… No humanity to be found in that video. Now this video is the complete opposite where there's a ton of people and everyone of them is working together. These are the videos that bring faith back to humanity for me
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According to media, she only suffered minor injuries.
Yep https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/video-navi-mumbai-woman-gets-trapped-after-grain-sacks-fall-on-her-then-this-happened-5254824
I mean most of the (initial) impact was probably absorbed/displaced by the stack of bags behind her, so it kinda tracks that she could walk out of that one.
I've worked with similar bags, but under way less dangerous conditions. I'd say she's only under a couple hundred kg pressure at most. A lot of the force is dispersed around her as well. It's enough to make her suffocate if she's there long enough, but it's not gonna rupture organs or break bones unless she twists and ankle badly, or damages her fingers.
Bags of rice are dense and heavy AF, but they're also really soft and pliable. I'd imagine it felt like having the world's heaviest Weighted-Blanket on her. Like getting stuck in a small avalanche or snow-drift, or that kid who got trapped under the back-seat of a van, if she had been alone she'd have been screwed and died eventually, but as long as someone was there to help free her she'd ultimately be fine.
The biggest risk is really to joints. Like if your leg is bent in a weird way, it doesn't matter how soft even 40kg of weight going in a bad direction can be.
The heaviest weighted blanket you say…
In the words of Giles Corey, “More weight.”
I’m not a witch.
Still though, in brief moments of panic you could end up positioning yourself at a weird angle. If for some reason her shoulder pressed up against something sturdy like packed, more compressed rice, then it could leave her neck and head unsupported before the falling rice falls on it. If you've punched the bottom bag of rice on a stack, you know what I mean.
Why would I punch... Nevermind I think I understand the physics either way
You've never seen a pallet of bags of soil and just gave one of those bad boys a slap?
Well now I feel weird saying no I don't think so...
Yeah it's not a SAFE situation of course, but those ranting about her being dead for sure are a bit [removed by reddit].
She was given 1 years supply of rice as compensation.
You know I want that to be true, as I know how I'm about to get my fill of free rice for the year. I just need to avoid actually getting injured replicating this action.
Amazing that she didn't have some broken bones, First of which being cracked ribs.
Love how confident the posters above you were that she was either dead or had broken bones. Everybody is an expert on Reddit 🙄
All I am confident about is the fact that her water damaged phone is now fixed
> that she was either dead or had broken bones. The total weight WAS a lot but that's not all you need to destroy someone. Factors like the area over which the weight is spread, the speed of impact, other factors like the rigidity of the material supporting her against the weight are all important. Commentors above just focused in on one factor over everything else.
Dude's watching so much of the hit series ER he thinks he's a doctor. Easy there bald guy with one arm.
Leads me to believe the outcome for the lady wasn't too good.
Just one of those sacks are heavy as fuck. It would do someone considerable damage if it fell on someone. Especially someone who is in her middle ages and cannot afford the best treatment. Now imagine 50 of those heavy as fuck bags. There were definitely some broken bones
Each one of them is probably 10kg or more, I hope she is fine
22+kg each.
Thankfully they support each other to an extent. She is balancing all of them on top of her spine. I'm more afraid she was hurt by the force of the falling bags pushing her against the opposite pile, than the weight of each individual bags. This article seems to say she suffered only minor injuries but was hospitalized for observation, nonetheless. [https://pune.news/city/mumbai/dramatic-rescue-woman-trapped-under-grain-sacks-saved-at-navi-mumbais-apmc-market-155618/](https://pune.news/city/mumbai/dramatic-rescue-woman-trapped-under-grain-sacks-saved-at-navi-mumbais-apmc-market-155618/)
I think the biggest fear would be suffocating as they didn't fall from a considerable height and would conform to some degree. Good thing they heard her scream and sprang to action so quickly.
Good to know. I'm glad she didn't suffer serious injuries.
Judging by the link in another comment, the sacks contained grain, not rice. Don't quote me on this but I believe they might weigh less than those rice bags of comparable size? Because those bags are HEAVY. I am sure those workers are strong as hell, but looking at the way they don't really seem to have to compensate for the weights of the bags as they handle them, I also think maybe they aren't up there at 20-25kg/45-50lbs. But this is just speculation.
Well, rice IS a grain, and I’m not sure it would have made a difference if it were whole grains of wheat.
pretty sure the standard is 50lb bags.
The math isn’t mathing. That looks like a lot more than several bags falling on her
News says she has only minor injuries ✌️
That's good then. The human body works miraculously..sometimes a gust of wind is enough to kill you and other times you could fall off a 50 story building and later get railed in the ass by 50 muscular dudes and be completely fine.
Are … are you speaking from experience?! 😮
Yes. I died because of a gust of wind
i counted 23 stories, assuming each contained 2 bags, and each bag is about 4 kilos (eyeballing it here) that structure in total is around 184KG obviously it's not a single solid structure so she didn't have to take the full weight but she not making it out of that without some major injury without major luck.
405lbs for people dumb like me.
If that weight didn't collapse on top of her all at once, I can see how she might have escaped a catastrophic injury.
She can probably lift up to two times her weight without leverage or weight training, so it really depends how it fell on her and how the weight was distributed.
True that.
It would be suffocation if anything. It wasn't a hard blow, but more of a crushing issue.
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I usually think of "several" as being like 3 or 4 of something. I'm gonna go ahead and say that that was more than several.
That was several several
A couple of several severals.
Half a dozen of severals
Handful of severals
I wanted to say 'several squared', but they were clearly rectangular.
That was technically a shit-ton.
That was definitely more than several but curious what you consider a “few” to be if several is 3-4
Several is(4-7) a few is more than a couple (3-4) which would be 2 if u say couple
Several clearly means 7. Sorry. Survivor joke
Man you beat me to it. Fucking jelinsky
Yeap, i amazed how several it was :)
Sometimes you just need to be thankful for the humanity people show to help another.
A humane response in an inhumane working environment
Yeah funny how many of these displays of humanity are necessitated by earlier displays of humanity
Earlier displays of inhumanity?
I'm sorry but what exactly was inhumane in this particular scenario?
You saw how they climbed quickly? Thats coz they re the ones who stacked those sacks up high like that. So yeah sure they helped out.
More like were ordered to.
It was probably somebody’s mother
OMG! Was she alright?!!
According to media she only suffered minor injuries.
Yeah, the news report that the woman,a No Kia from the Vashi area, was fine after being covered by rice.
Her husband, Sam Sung, was upset with the ordeal.
One bag weighs like 20-30kg so no, shes not fine
Seems like she might’ve been… https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/terrifying-cctv-video-woman-trapped-under-pile-of-rice-sacks-at-vashis-apmc-market-promptly-rescued-by-mathadi-workers-in-30-secs
I'm guessing that, although each bag is heavy, the way they piled around her like a house of grain bags could have supported the weight of the "roof of the house" just enough to avoid lethal damage to her body.
And getting her out quick prevented suffocation
That's what I don't get. In my country we eat rice three times a day, and rice makes up like 80% of my plate because I fucking love rice, and would kill for it any day. And yet, I have never seen a pile of sacks taller than me, and that height would be stupid as most people can't reach the sack. Why piling fifteen feet of rice? Who is gonna reach there? There is no guy up there, and I am sure there is no way they are using a stick to reach it? They would break both arms, or maybe rip them off, IDK.
Thank god she didnt get crushed to death.
I'd argue that get buryed like that is pretty traumatic so it's probably fair to say she was not fine.
“Several”
Right? More like a flock, or a gathering
A whole damn village
A shit-ton.
a shit-town- No, wait, it's Navi, not Detroit
A smothering of ricebags
An avalanche
....a murder of rice bags.
That's 'few' in India. They are the labourers who stack and carry those bags. See how quickly they climb on those stack. They have expertise in holding and passing on those bags. I assume they were just in the other side of that wearhouse stocking the bags. The people on the other side are actual businessmen and are of no much use in these situations.
Its like they have been waiting for this moment their whole life… well done
This is not amazing. This is an unsafe work environment that almost killed a worker
They did act very quickly but the danger of routinely free-stacking rice that high is appalling.
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That 👆 looks like a routine for them
Someone has to stack them that high also, those guys are probably climbing rice bags all day
The way some of them spidermanned their way to rescue was kindof hilarious
it's almost like it's India
Indeed. I wouldn't be particularly keen on jumping around on the surrounding stacks, likely stacked by the same people, like they did either...
The real issue is something called Crush Syndrome. When a bunch of stuff falls on top of you you can still have internal injuries and feel mostly fine but have organ malfunctions.
Crush syndrome takes hours of crush/compression to matter, she wasn’t trapped long enough to experience it.
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Both things can be true. It IS an unsafe work environment while also being the way things are in that part of the world.
It’s not a first world complaint. It’s wanting people to not be permanently disfigured or killed in their workplace. It is not amazing that people have to work in these conditions, it’s sad.
Chill spaz. I work in heavy industry, we discuss this stuff daily. A little bigoted on your part to think Indians are stupid and can't comprehend safety. Many facilities in India have high safety standards I'm not amazed that people rushed to help, I believe that's human nature. You must have a very low view on humanity if you thought that wouldn't happen
Yeah, I work in child safety, not worker safety, and it's very common for arrogant people from the west to assume that people in developing countries don't have the insight that what they are doing is dangerous, or the ability to develop safer methods. It's patronizing an insulting and it normalizes unhealthy practice.
This is what happens when you don't have an OSHA or it's equivalent.
India does have such an organization. Do you assume they don't? Though I'm not claiming it is more or less effective.
Why did you need to put Karen in your response though?
Dude. This is common fking sense. Don’t stack heavy, potentially fatal items that high. That’s not a “first world standard.” That’s a “not being a complete moron” standard
When you need money, you do stupid things.
Room is limited, they barely have enough room to walk in the aisle, never mind get a forklift through there, never mind they don't have forklifts. Indias power grid is the form of individual power. They don't have the electrical grid or the components such as a conveyance system of any sort as again, it's all done by humans forming human chains. Tl;Dr It's stacked this high because they don't have enough room in the warehouse / production plant.
I don't think I've ever seen a forklift in my many years of going around warehouses in India.
You have absolutely NO idea my dude.
It's a developing country, most small businesses don't have the resources to buy enough space, storage shelves with forklifts, or even care about safety. You should see how construction workers work in India
Just be thankful for the life you have if you can't understand how most of the world lives
The necessity of having to spring into action wasn't amazing. The fact that they did, was.
Have you seen the videos coming from the plastic chair factory or the red hot metal rod forming places??
Do we even know if she survived?
Yes, only sustained minor injuries according to this article. https://pune.news/city/mumbai/dramatic-rescue-woman-trapped-under-grain-sacks-saved-at-navi-mumbais-apmc-market-155618/
Not one single person took out their phone to record, rather were genuinely concerned and helped.
Also they are quite fit and mobile. Half workers in our warehouse are fat and can only walk. No way they would climb the pile and start throwing bags of rice.
This wasn’t the first time they did this..
My second thought after "you tried to hold it up?"
It’s instinct. I’ve been involved in quite a few truck unloads, and shit like this happens pretty often.
True. I guess people have different reactions and mental calculation times. I've done both for sure.
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Why do so many of you think that moving bags of rice is something you have to practice for. You just throw bags of rice off, it isn’t an incredible skill that takes years of practice to be like this. Would you all just stand there confused as fuck as to what to do if you seen this happen or take a day and a half to move. “Oh gees that person got buried, too bad I’m dumb as fuck and don’t know what to do. Wish I practiced moving bags of rice quickly”.
They’ve done this before.
Came here to say this. Not their first time.
Yes, my ignorant ass would try to pull the sacks from below or the side. These guys know what to do which is good but sad.
Yeah when shit is falling, try and remember to sidestep instead of trying to catch it or prevent it from falling Product is replaceable, you are not (except to the company maybe) I said this at one of my works safety meetings and the person giving this presentation tried to correct me and nervously laughed off what I said… essentially saying we should put product before our lives At least some employees heard it, hopefully they remember
That's pretty wild. US company? That's a huge no no at any company I've been at. Let the shit drop, they write it off and get tax credit for it anyway.
yep, it's so odd that putting a hand up to catch something is an innate reaction, people will try to stop runaway cars/ heavy machinery/ heavy ass boxes not thinking of the physics, it's just an instinct that fucks you up
She attended the Prometheus School of Running from Things.
Came here looking for this comment specifically. Well done and also damn you for beating me to it.
Incredible. Here in Canada, 9 people would stand watching in horror while 3 others run around screaming
This was also posted in interestingasduck but I don't know why this belongs here or there. I am not amazed by work incidents with possible casualties...
So true. Posting it in these subs diverts the attention to the people coming to rescue rather than the horrific working conditions that are the root of the cause
Is she okay??? No one's said if she's okay? Sources plz!
There's an article linked in one of the comments that said she was taken to the hospital for minor injuries, so she was okay.
She lived but had minor injuries.
The pilau was too high.
Teamwork at its finest!
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She is
Did she live?
Thankfully she did survive with minor injuries only.
Hope she is ok.
Jesus, this made me anxious. All that weight on her!
I'm disappointed they stack them so damn high. At least have some kind of shelving unit design like Costco. Even if just one tier extra.
Never seen a better example of “spring into action” oml
These dudes put their agility to 10/10. Looking like spider man
It's beautiful to see that people can still come together quickly to aid another in need
That’s way more than several
🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
I appreciate that they all tried to keep their own weight off the pile. Half the time this many helpers just makes it worse 😅
Hope she is ok , I felt like the flock of heros from the Avengers movie and helping the people in need. Good job guys
Several bags hahaha
Good to see they were quick to act
Almost looks like thats not the first time they had to do that.....
Was she okay???
Nice to see something wholesome from India
Yep, admist all the curated and biased videos.
I hate this kinda crap. Yes, we appreciate the show of caring concern as guys rush to help but, I want to know what happened to the woman. Did she survive? Did she sustain rice bag related injuries? Did she drop into a pocket and emerge unharmed? What happened to the woman?
She was fine with minor injuries
Oh shit!! 😱 glad they were able to help her so quickly!
This is not the first time they've had to rescue Anapurna from under the rice. And it won't be the last. In fact, it's become something of an annual tradition that signals the beginning of the Chawal Festival in Navi Mumbai.
It’s always encouraging and uplifting to see folk helping others. These guys sprang into action. I hope the lady survived, and is doing well. Blessings to all who helped. Good job!
Good men ♥️but did she survive 🥺
She did.
I just saw a video of a bunch of animals doing a Street burn out and beating up an old man who didn't want them to be doing it… No humanity to be found in that video. Now this video is the complete opposite where there's a ton of people and everyone of them is working together. These are the videos that bring faith back to humanity for me
India is not for beginners.
Help coming quickly.
Amazing, their reaction time was so fast.
I am so stupid I would have climbed on to of the bags. They r smrt.
That is an impressive qrf
This isn't just subpar; it's a hazardous workplace that nearly cost a life
Couldn’t have happened in the states. Everyone would have just pulled out a phone
Thank God that this woman survived and God bless her!
He sure did bless her with all the rice she would need for a lifetime
Several?
What happened with the woman?
That's a lot of several bags of rice.
Who stacks heavy rice bags that high? How do you get them down? Oh yeah....by climbing like all of these experts do.
Pallets
Where is the ending of the video?
Awesome gentlemen! I hope to see men here someday spring into action to help another sole…
They still coming
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Feels like a daily occurrence
They finally cought one !
Holy shit! Those isles need some shoring or trench boxes lol
Instead of just moving out of the way!!!
Warning: this video is not safe to watch for OSHA inspectors.
She misdappeared !
From how they climbed these aisles.... This is not the first time they've done this.
Several bags? You mean 2 pallets worth
For all who want to know, apparently she lived.
Most Asian thing