You do that and they'd have you arrested for stealing factory property. Then you'd be executed by the government within a week... or sacrificed at some dragon festival or something.
It's like they went out of their way to design the press to cause the maximum potential harm to the operators. Wouldn't it be just as easy to make the thing so those 8 guys could all stand around it instead of having to sit directly in it? Is this some strange form of population control?