20 "Illegal" Garage Fixes Every 1960s Dad Did That OSHA Would Lose Their Mind Over Today

Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLostHandyman?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Start Saving Money By Fixing Everything Yourself Ebook: https://forgottenhandymansecrets.netlify.app/ In the summer of 1963, a railroad car man in Altoona melted a ladle of babbitt over a gas burner in his one-car garage, with his nine-year-old son standing four feet away. His safety gear was work gloves and his reading glasses. That truck ran 14 more years. In 1970 Congress passed the law that would have broken half the things in that garage — and some of those rules were paid for in blood. But something else got thrown out with the danger: the idea that a grown man could look at a job and judge it himself. Here are twenty of those lost fixes. Sources: https://www.osha.gov/data/commonstats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WD-40 https://lawwiselab.org/when-lead-products-were-banned-united-states/