So I thought I'd tell everyone the hell coal power plant workers go thru to keep hundreds of people's often taken for granted power on.
I worked at a coal power plant for 5 years.shoveling coal for 4.5 and cleaning for the rest.The main plant shouldn't have been allowed to stay in operation due to it's condition but the upper management bootlickers constantly bribed health and safety inspectors.The main plant itself was literally 4 rotting wooden studded walls with sheet metal thrown over it.the plant was 12 stories tall.inside the plant there were broken sewer and water pipes everywhere that never got fixed,clogged floor drains so the main plant floor was regularly flooded with over a foot of toxic water that we had to go through on a regular basis.in the winter time there was no heat anywhere in the building.not in the break room, cafeteria,bathrooms,nothing.if it was 20 degrees outside it would be -10 inside the plant.so cold the bathrooms would freeze up and be unusable.the few heat units they had didn't even work.there was asbestos everywhere.wrapped around pipes,air ducts,etc.little bits of asbestos would often be floating around in the air.none of the lights in the plant hardly ever worked you had to take a flashlight everywhere.the people working with the coal aren't given any proper PPE.just disposable masks and gloves that don't do shit.we stand there shoveling coal for 12 hours a day 7 days a week breathing in shit that can give us lung cancer, bronchitis,etc for 8 bucks an hour.yep that's right killing ourselves for 8 bucks an hour to keep everyone's lights on.bareley minimum wage.quit after 5 years and I doubt anyone in this sub has done a worse job than this