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* [[ComicBook/XMen The Xavier Institute of Higher Learning]] was billed as a safe haven for mutants where they could learn how to develop and control their powers and bond with fellow mutants. Hazards include repeated invasion attempts by kill squads from alien empires, supervillain attacks, training simulators becoming sentient and murderous, anti-mutant hate group attacks, and occasionally the other students. The sad thing is that the Xavier Institute was ''still'' the safest place for mutants in the world. I say "was" because after one too many attacks the ComicBook/XMen finally gave up and moved operations to San Francisco. When that didn't pan out either they created a new mutant "Utopia".

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': And of course we have Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, which is periodically flooded with radioactive waste, occasionally has storage barrels smashing through support columns and causing floors to give way, is infested with rats, has cooling towers that are very badly crumbling, has no lead in its radiation shields, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and doesn't even have urinal cakes in its toilets.]] And that's not even counting the workers, who scream and panic whenever there's a problem with the reactor, who engage in everything from chess games to cockfights to "Nap Time", remove emergency procedure posters to make get-well-soon cards, and engage in log-rolling contests using waste drums. Homer Simpson is hardly the only lazy and incompetent employee at the plant -- if anything, he's a typical example.

** Terok Nor (the Cardassian station now known as [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space 9]] was certainly dangerous for the Bajoran slaves working in the ore refinery. O'Brien tells Jake tales about how hellishly hot it could get.

** Much of the action of ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' takes place on an abandoned and damaged Borg cube, which is now the site of a reclamation project under joint Romulan-Federation control. The obvious dangers associated with the Borg are spelled out in a speech for new workers, and there's even an "XDaysSince" sign indicating how long it's been since anyone wasa accidentally assimilated.

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* The Duel Academia in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''. It's on an island miles away from the rest of civilization, and is sitting on top of the ruins which hold the spirits of 3 evil monster cards. That's not all: there's an abandoned dorm in which all of the students in it have mysteriously disappeared, and the school has made minimal attempts to cover it up. The whole island is a magnet for evil spirits to manifest themselves in card games in which peoples souls are on the line.

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* And of course we have [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]], which is periodically flooded with radioactive waste, occasionally has storage barrels smashing through support columns and causing floors to give way, is infested with rats, has cooling towers that are very badly crumbling, has no lead in its radiation shields, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and doesn't even have urinal cakes in its toilets.]] And that's not even counting the workers, who scream and panic whenever there's a problem with the reactor, who engage in everything from chess games to cockfights to "Nap Time", remove emergency procedure posters to make get-well-soon cards, and engage in log-rolling contests using waste drums. Homer Simpson is hardly the only lazy and incompetent employee at the plant-- if anything, he's a typical example.
-->"Wait... isn't he the [[OhCrap Safety Inspector]]?"
-->"It's best not to think about it."

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* [[SteelMill Steel mills.]] There are around 1000 ways to get killed in one, and none of them are pretty. Lampshaded in the movie ''Film/{{Super 8}}''. The steel mill shown only at the beginning has a prominent banner of the ilk of 'X days since the last workplace accident' ... before a worker resets the already not-stellar number for the time to 1. This sets the tone of the movie to come as one where AnyoneCanDie.

* CTU Los Angeles in ''Series/TwentyFour''. To date (and counting various tie-in works), the building has seen a terrorist bombing, an EMP attack, a nerve gas attack, an assault by Chinese mercenaries, three shootings of unarmed characters, two rampages by the same character in different seasons, a schizophrenic woman committing suicide, a murder disguised as suicide, multiple acts of non-lethal violence (torture, physical combat) between characters and multiple undercover informants working for the enemy. There's a reason why CTU Los Angeles was shut down - the producers of the show couldn't find any credible threat to throw against the division anymore. In total, more than 100 CTU employees died during the first six seasons of the series.

* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': Wisteria Lane. Murder, theft, arson, backstabbing... just another day in the neighborhood.
** Subverted since Wisteria Lane isn't really their workplace, it's ''where they live''. If anything, working overtime at the office is the safest thing possible.

* ''Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys'':

* Early on, the docks of the Series/BabylonFive station were this, as many necessary pieces of equipment had been built with sub-standard parts and there was no money available to fix it. In the end the dock workers go on strike after an accident claims one of their own, a government negotiator invokes the Rush Act to have it broken by the station military, and [[RulesLawyer Sinclair]] - after [[ReadTheFinePrint reading the text of the Rush Act]] and seeing he's authorized to use [[ExactWords any means necessary]] - [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome reallocates money from the defence budget and gives the dock workers everything they demand for on the condition they get back to work]], which they do.

** In the sequel series ''TheHeroesOfOlympus'', the Roman version of Camp Half-Blood isn't much safer. They don't have any magical borders to keep monsters out except around the center of the city, leaving defending the city to the demigods themselves. This actually leads to the camp being attacked multiple times during the series.

* ''Series/TwinPeaks''.

** Sunnydale High, though admittedly this is no longer a problem as of the finale. [[spoiler: Because it was swallowed up by Hell along with the rest of the town.]]

** Wait...isn't he the [[OhCrap Safety Inspector]]?
*** "It's best not to think about it."

* And of course we have [[TheSimpsons Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]], which is periodically flooded with radioactive waste, occasionally has storage barrels smashing through support columns and causing floors to give way, is infested with rats, has cooling towers that are very badly crumbling, has no lead in its radiation shields, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and doesn't even have urinal cakes in its toilets.]] And that's not even counting the workers, who scream and panic whenever there's a problem with the reactor, who engage in everything from chess games to cockfights to "Nap Time", remove emergency procedure posters to make get-well-soon cards, and engage in log-rolling contests using waste drums. Homer Simpson is hardly the only lazy and incompetent employee at the plant-- if anything, he's a typical example.

* Planet Express from {{Futurama}}, where the only thing that keeps the main characters from dying like all the other crews is PlotArmor.

->To ensure that sufficient power remains for core testing protocols, all safety devices have been disabled. The Enrichment Center respects your right to have questions or concerns about this policy.

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* ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' Freddy Fazbear's Family Pizza. In the day, it's nominally safe; by midnight, however, the animatronics start moving around, and when they find the night watch, they'll forcefully stuff him in a Freddy suit which is full of metal beams and wires, and the man inside would end up as mincemeat. The only thing protecting him are two mechanical doors which drain the limited power he has, and when it runs out, they both open up for Freddy to finish him off in the dark. It seems miraculous that the place has remained open since 1987.
** Their successor, [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 Fazbear Fright]], isn't much better in this regard either; they ''deliberately'' built their workplace by using crappy ventilation ducts that regularly cause people to hallucinate from oxygen starvation. They also use cheap wires that have a high risk of becoming aflame and burning down the whole building. [[spoiler:Which, surprise surprise, it does in the "Nightmare" mode ending.]]

* [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} The Xavier Institute of Higher Learning]] was billed as a safe haven for mutants where they could learn how to develop and control their powers and bond with fellow mutants. Hazards include repeated invasion attempts by kill squads from alien empires, supervillain attacks, training simulators becoming sentient and murderous, anti-mutant hate group attacks, and occasionally the other students. The sad thing is that the Xavier Institute was ''still'' the safest place for mutants in the world. I say "was" because after one too many attacks the ComicBook/{{X-Men}} finally gave up and moved operations to San Francisco. When that didn't pan out either they created a new mutant "Utopia".

* CTU Los Angeles in ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]''. To date (and counting various tie-in works), the building has seen a terrorist bombing, an EMP attack, a nerve gas attack, an assault by Chinese mercenaries, three shootings of unarmed characters, two rampages by the same character in different seasons, a schizophrenic woman committing suicide, a murder disguised as suicide, multiple acts of non-lethal violence (torture, physical combat) between characters and multiple undercover informants working for the enemy. There's a reason why CTU Los Angeles was shut down - the producers of the show couldn't find any credible threat to throw against the division anymore. In total, more than 100 CTU employees died during the first six seasons of the series.

* ''TwinPeaks''.
* [[Series/DesperateHousewives Wisteria Lane]]. Murder, theft, arson, backstabbing... just another day in the neighborhood.

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Oddworld}} Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee]]'' has meatpacking and perperation plant Rupturefarms, which is full of mines, huge ceiling to floor un guarded/fenced meatsaws often within metres of working employees (see: Slaves), huge BottomlessPits, and guards ordered to shoot on sight. Oh, and ''grenade dispensers''. Somewhat justified because the owners intend to turn the employees into another kind of meat, so they obviously aren't concerned about their safety.

* And of course we have [[TheSimpsons Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]], which is periodically flooded with radioactive waste, occasionally has storage barrels smashing through support columns and causing floors to give way, is infested with rats, has cooling towers that are very badly crumbling, has no lead in its radiation shields, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and doesn't even have urinal cakes in its toilets.]] And that's not even counting the workers, who scream and panic whenever there's a problem with the reactor, who engage in everything from chess games to cockfights to "Nap Time", remove emergency procedure posters to make get-well-soon cards, and engage in log-rolling contests using waste drums. Homer Simpson is hardly the only lazy and incompetent employee at the plant-if anything, he's a typical example.

* ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'': If you aren't careful, you can be bludgeoned to death by multiplying dodgeballs. If you are careful, it'll probably be one of the countless defective MacGuffins stacked haphazardly in storage falling off a shelf by itself that spontaneously ruins everyone's day. At one point the main characters have a conversation about how every single previous Warehouse Agent either died, suffered a massive crippling injury, or went completely mental in the line of duty and what it was like doing their job knowing that track record.

* Early on, the docks of the Series/BabylonFive station were this, as many necessary pieces of equipment had been built with sub-standard parts and there's no money available to fix this. In the end the dock workers go on strike after an accident claims one of their own, a government negotiator invokes the Rush Act to have it broken by the station military, and [[RulesLawyer Sinclair]], after [[ReadTheFinePrint reading the text of the Rush Act]] and seeing he's authorized to use [[ExactWords any means necessary]], [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome reallocates money from the defence budget gives the dock workers everything they demand for on condition they get back at work]], which they do.

* Hogwarts in ''Literature/HarryPotter''. A castle which sits right next to a monster infested forest, and the school has moderate fatality rate on its students and staff. It gets even worse when the school is invaded by Death Eaters.

* The Duel Academia in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', its on an island miles away from the rest of civilization, and is sitting on top of the ruins which hold the spirits of 3 evil monster cards. That's not all, there's an abandoned dorm in which all of the students in it have mysteriously disappeared, and the school has made minimal attempts to cover it up. The whole island is a magnet for evil spirits to manifest themselves in card games in which peoples souls are on the line.