If you’re a morbid little gremlin, have I got the r/AskReddit thread for you. u/MyCatHasN0Name asked the forum, “People who knew somebody who died at work, what happened?” and the floodgates opened, letting loose a torrent of *****-up stories about people dying in all sorts of unthinkable ways while on the job.

It starts off pretty chilling, and only gets worse from there. The most upvoted comment reads, “Dude was hanging out in the break room cracking jokes. Laughed, fell over and was dead. Brain aneurysm. It’s terrifying how fragile our lives are and how quickly it can end without warning.”

Another commenter shared a horrifying story from a construction site: “A worker at one of my construction sites got flattened by a precast concrete wall, after it fell from the third floor. Everyone who saw it just froze in place, except one elderly worker who ran around screaming ‘Don’t call anybody!! Did he have a helmet on?!?’ Nobody answered him, so he got the crane worker to lift the concrete wall slightly and threw a helmet under the wall before ordering the wall to be lowered again. He did it to make sure that the insurance would payout the full amount to the poor guy’s family.”

A different commenter shared their own gruesome story: “Guy had the crown of his head sliced clean off when a hydraulic press suddenly decided to drop because they forgot to bleed the pressure before starting to do maintenance on the machine.” While someone else shared an experience that’s particularly chilling to anyone who’s ever been bored in class and found themselves chewing on a writing implement: “A student. He was chewing on a cap to something while walking in the hallway. Ended up choking and died.”

Meanwhile, this commenter seems to have worked at a cursed supermarket: “I worked at a supermarket in the mid 2000s. We were doing inventory prep one night, and the store manager said he was feeling kind of weird. He went to sit down in the office and suffered a fatal heart attack. He was fairly young (late 30s) and in relatively good shape and was a really nice guy, so it hit a lot of us hard." 

“The guy selected to be our new manager was very popular in the company and came in the next day to introduce himself. Seemed like a really cool guy. On the morning with what would have been his first shift at our store, he was killed in a motorcycle accident on his way in. Definitely the craziest work week of my life.”

We can only hope this supermarket has been destroyed and the earth where it once stood salted, because yikes.