Hazardous Environment Quotes

To be honest, it was slavery. Nobody should have any romantic ideas about working underground. It's very, very dangerous. You always knew you were living in danger. You were on your hands and knees half the day.

When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant.

I used to have to wear a gas mask to school when I was a kid because of the dust. I would tell people that the first light I saw was in a movie theater, because the sun was just a little glow.

Let me guess,' Ian said in a voice like ice. 'You fell on a rock.

People don't like getting dirty or living in an environment that's been contaminated and is covered in hazardous waste.

Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o'clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed!

Now, I figured that the built-up gas in most boys' locker rooms was enough to cause an explosion, so I wasn't surprised when the flaming dodgeball ignited a huge WHOOOOOOOM!

Looks like the safest spot here for a human who doesn’t want to get eaten. (Kish)

Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.

It took me 45 minutes to get in all of the suits and putting all the dosimeters on me so that they knew how much radiation I got and the protective boots and everything.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

I never, ever romanticise life in the pit. It was a hard, dirty, noisy, tiring, dangerous job in a confined space, a very dark world with no toilets or running water to drink or wash with.

The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.

There is nothing to stop him from making coal mines safe except his lack of desire to do so …. J. A. Krug permitted these men to die by his inaction.

A dangerous place.

My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.

I'm putting my life at risk, literally! And if I slipped... You never know. And I think about it. I think about my family and I'm like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something.

And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.

There is not one single cause of any accident.

Because of the nature of this industry, it's a bit dangerous to think far ahead.

People shouldn't be living in certain places - on earthquake faults or on flood plains. But they do, and there are consequences.

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.