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* '''Exaggerated''': The factory has an XDaysSince counter that measures in ''minutes''.

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* '''Exaggerated''': The factory has an XDaysSince counter that measures in ''minutes''.''nanoseconds''.
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** While it may seem like an OSHA violation, the circumstances were way beyond what OSHA regulations accounted for. (EG: the regulations call for the electronics to withstand (and safely dissipate) a power spike of 10 times operational voltage, but this was a 100 times spike)

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** While it may seem like an OSHA violation, the circumstances were way beyond what OSHA regulations accounted for. (EG: the regulations call for the electronics to withstand (and safely dissipate) a power spike of 10 times operational voltage, but this was a 100 1,000,000,000 times spike)spike).
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** While it may seem like an OSHA violation, the circumstances were way beyond what OSHA regulations accounted for. (EG: the regulations call for the electronics to withstand (and safely dissipate) a power spike of 10 times operational voltage, but this was a 100 times spike)

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* '''Implied''': The factory's owners are last seen being handcuffed by the Occupational Health and Safety Agency, but it could easily be for issues at another place.



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* '''Exaggerated''': The factory is actively malevolent towards the characters (see MalevolentArchitecture) and requires regular human sacrifices to function.

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* '''Exaggerated''': The factory is actively malevolent towards the characters (see MalevolentArchitecture) and requires regular human sacrifices to function.has an XDaysSince counter that measures in ''minutes''.


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** The factory is cartoonishly evil toward the characters (see MalevolentArchitecture) and requires regular human sacrifices to function.
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* '''Inverted''': A SafetyFreak either designs or retrofits the factory. Things that are harmless come with overly elaborate safeguards, like a baby carriage with locks, or a three-inch drop with a five-foot railing and foam padding.

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* '''Inverted''': A SafetyFreak either designs or retrofits the factory. Things that are normally harmless come with overly elaborate safeguards, like a baby carriage with locks, or a three-inch drop with a five-foot railing and foam padding.padding. Even when there's ''practically no need'' for another safeguard, it's still added because why the hell not.
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** The factory ''does'' actually comply with safety regulations...except the regulations are ''decades'' out of date, and based on the assumption that the factory hadn't changed in size, or factoring in the addition of new technologies and dangers.
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* '''Exaggerated''': The scenery is actively malevolent towards the characters (see MalevolentArchitecture).

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* '''Exaggerated''': The scenery factory is actively malevolent towards the characters (see MalevolentArchitecture).MalevolentArchitecture) and requires regular human sacrifices to function.

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* '''Exploited''': The place was built cheaply so the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive the boss]] could save money, not caring about their employees.

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* '''Exploited''': '''Exploited''':
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The place was built cheaply so the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive the boss]] could save money, not caring about their employees.employees.
** The factory's utter disregard for OSHA makes it easy to MakeItLookLikeAnAccident.
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** [[{{Documentary}} The movie documents the birth of OSHA]], it's only natural that it depicts ''why'' it came to be.

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* '''Enforced''': The final fight scene in the big action movie almost has to occur in the Smoke and Fire Factory for audiences to accept it. It gives the villain more opportunities to use trickery and the hero more opportunities to [[DeusExMachina turn the tables]].

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* '''Enforced''': '''Enforced''':
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The final fight scene in the big action movie almost has to occur in the Smoke and Fire Factory for audiences to accept it. It gives the villain more opportunities to use trickery and the hero more opportunities to [[DeusExMachina turn the tables]].tables]].
** This is the wrong way example in a {{Right Way Wrong Way|Pair}} [[PublicServiceAnnouncement OSHA PSA]]
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** People aren't actually supposed to be in the part of the factory where the fight is taking place without special protections and shutting down active machinery. Bob and Charlie are too busy fighting each other to care about that.
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** The reason there's no OSHA compliance is because any OSHA inspectors assigned to investigate the factory have a particularly nasty habit of disappearing without a trace.
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** A battleground that unsafe is going to end with both sides hurt, regardless of who actually wins.


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* '''Played For Horror''':
** So many people died because of the factory's unsafe conditions that a {{Curse}} manifested from their collective desire for payback, which will kill or maim anybody who enters the factory (or the factory's perimeter, if [[IndianBurialGround anything else was built to replace it]]). And of course, [[GhostlyGoals you don't wanna find out what will happen]] when they finally get their hands on the person responsible for their deaths...
** The factory was deliberately built as a death trap by a sociopath or SerialKiller who was aiming for maximum casualties to get their kicks.
** The reason why everything is unsafe is because it's possessed by demons/aliens/[[AIIsACrapshoot psychotic AI]], and no amount of OSHA inspection is going to be able to stop it.
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** The higher-ups see safety as overhead and nothing more and refuse to pay for anything that they do not absolutely have to or budge on production demands, and they churn though safety managers almost yearly as a result. This also leads to numerous inspections by OSHA that turn up serious violations, and the company's refusal to take responsibility and consistently hostile and combative attitude towards OSHA earns them a spot on their shitlist. After a worker is seriously injured and almost killed in an accident, OSHA doesn't waste time in throwing the book at them and assesses everything as either a willful or repeat in the ensuing investigation, and by the time they have finished their investigation, the fines are well into the six figures.

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** The location was made for the express purpose of being a deathtrap.

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** The location was made [[MalevolentArchitecture for the express purpose of being a deathtrap.deathtrap]].



* '''Inverted''':
** Things that are harmless come with overly elaborate safeguards, like a baby carriage with locks, or a three-inch drop with a five-foot railing and foam padding.
** The factory was designed or retrofitted by a SafetyFreak.

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'''Inverted''': A SafetyFreak either designs or retrofits the factory. Things that are harmless come with overly elaborate safeguards, like a baby carriage with locks, or a three-inch drop with a five-foot railing and foam padding.
** The factory was designed or retrofitted by a SafetyFreak.
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** It's not a movie set, they're shooting on location at a horribly unsafe factory.

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* '''Inverted''': Things that are harmless come with overly elaborate safeguards, like a baby carriage with locks, or a three-inch drop with a five-foot railing and foam padding.

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Things that are harmless come with overly elaborate safeguards, like a baby carriage with locks, or a three-inch drop with a five-foot railing and foam padding.padding.
** The factory was designed or retrofitted by a SafetyFreak.
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** Alternatively: The story takes place in [[TheEmpire a country with literally no OSHA]].

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** Alternatively: The story takes place in [[TheEmpire a country with literally no equivalent to OSHA]].
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** The building is currently closed for remodeling, and Bob and Charlie entered illegally for whatever reason.
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** The factory is abandoned and falling apart, many of the original safety features rotted away or stripped out.

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** The factory is abandoned and falling apart, many of the original safety features rotted away or stripped out.out for reclamation or scrap years ago.
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** The factory is abandoned and falling apart.

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** The factory is abandoned and falling apart.apart, many of the original safety features rotted away or stripped out.
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** The place is getting torn apart as collateral damage of the battle and this is going to bite somebody in the ass.
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* '''Conversed''': "Have you ever noticed how big fight scenes always take place in places that are horribly unsafe?"

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* '''Conversed''': "Have you "Bob is trash. Most useless safety guy I've ever noticed how big met. This place is like something you'd fight scenes always take place the bad guy in places in a bad action movie and I keep telling him about stuff that are horribly unsafe?"needed to be fixed last year, but nothing gets done." "I understand you're new here and it may feel like Bob is useless, but trust me, he's just as sick of this as you are. We go through a new safety guy almost every year because the company doesn't value safety in any way, shape, or form and they quickly learn that the only way to do your job here as a safety guy is to abandon all ethics and turn a blind eye to everything because all they want you to do is make things look good for OSHA. I know for a fact that he's sending out resumes like a madman right now - frankly, I would judge him a lot more harshly if he wasn't trying to leave this place."
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** The factory is a linchpin of a local economy and there really isn't another way to reliably make a living around that area, and the owners know this and play fast and loose with health and safety because they know that no one wants to be the dick who calls the relevant regulatory authority and ruins it for everyone.
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** Bob or Charlie is deliberately making the factory more unsafe to hopefully catch their opponent in an environmental hazard.
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** Or the story takes place before the OSHA.
** Or, it is an illegal sweatshop.
** Or the place hasn't been used in a while and is still being rebuilt.
** Or the factory is sentient and doesn't like when people fight in it.
** The factory has been abandoned for years and is falling apart.

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** Or the The story takes place before the OSHA.
** Or, it is an illegal sweatshop.
** Or the place hasn't been used in a while and is still being rebuilt.
** Or the factory is sentient and doesn't like when people fight in it.
OSHA, or any other relevant organizations, were founded.
** The factory has is run by a CorruptCorporateExecutive who bribed the safety inspectors so he wouldn't have to pay to install safety measures.
** The factory is an illegal sweatshop/drug operation/something similar. It was constructed on the cheap and the owners both don't care about the workers' safety (there's always desperate people to hire, and what are they going to do- admit they were involved in illegal operations) and don't have to answer to OSHA anyways.
** The factory met safety standards when it was built, but they've since
been tightened and the OSHA hasn't gotten around to a second inspection.
** The factory is
abandoned for years and is falling apart.



** The factory turns out to actually [[ShowWithinAShow be a movie set]], which is also horribly unsafe.

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** The factory turns out to actually [[ShowWithinAShow be a movie set]], which is also ''also'' horribly unsafe.


* '''Enforced''': The final fight scene in the big action movie almost has to occur in the Smoke and Fire Factory for audiences to accept it. It gives the villain more opportunities to [[TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty fight dirty]] and the hero more opportunities to [[DeusExMachina turn the tables]].

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* '''Enforced''': The final fight scene in the big action movie almost has to occur in the Smoke and Fire Factory for audiences to accept it. It gives the villain more opportunities to [[TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty fight dirty]] use trickery and the hero more opportunities to [[DeusExMachina turn the tables]].
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** The factory has been abandoned for years and is falling apart.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': The central premise of the film is the extravagant lengths management goes to in order to keep the factory from being condemned. The cover-ups and bribes end up becoming [[CompletelyMissingThePoint more expensive then the repairs themselves]], but management doesn't notice or [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules doesn't care]].

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* '''Played For Laughs''': The central premise of the film is the extravagant lengths management goes to in order to keep the factory from being condemned. The cover-ups and bribes end up becoming [[CompletelyMissingThePoint [[SunkCostFallacy more expensive then the repairs themselves]], but management doesn't notice or [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules doesn't care]].
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One of those was not an in-universe justification, and the other was fully redundant with the illegal sweatshop example.


** Or, [[EternalEngine the factory itself is the]] BossBattle.



** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive The owner]] doesn't care about his workers and wants to save as much money as possible.

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