Bad accident at work....again

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I worked at an aluminum wire processing plant years ago. We had lots of things that could snatch limbs off, crush and just kill the HECK out of you. Watched one guy get his arm ripped off by a piece of equipment called a motoblock. It is a BIG vertical spool that draws wire into coils while pulling it through a sizing die. Example: 1" wire going into a die that's probably 5" in diameter, 3" thick. 1" ROUND on the input side but 5/8 HEX on the other side. You can imagine the force that's required to do that. We kept tellin the guy over and over he was standing too close to the wire. A coil got wrapped around his arm "at speed" and that's all it took. It snatched him right up and into the spool. The only thing that saved his life is what stopped him and ripped his arm off. A guard right before the spool to keep people from being dragged in. I got the guy off and wrapped what was left of his arm up and tried to control the bleeding. One of the other guys got his arm out and packed it in a cooler. They reattached it, but it didn't take and they had to remove it permanently. There are some people who are too stupid to have jobs like that. They'll ruin it for everybody else. It's called common sense.
 
I hope everything gets straightened out and everyone can go back to a safe work environment. Perhaps a few days shut down, with fines/ lawsuits will open the owners eyes and it will benefit all in the future. I realize it's a little scary right now not knowing the outcome, but try to think positive. Good luck.
 
There are three Chicago branches, I work in the Bolingbrook warehouse, the second largest in the company... 550,000 square feet... We are the main hub on this side outside of Michigan where our main warehouse is and where it all started...

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i use to haul rolls of plastic to that plant in boilingbrook ill outta eden nc for loperexx plastics!! mabe's trucking gets 3 to 5 loads of it a week for years!
 
I'm going to restrain myself from making poor taste hand jokes.
I think I can handle that long enough to post.
Crap. I did I say that?
Anyway, it sounds like a management problem all around.
Temp workers. Outsourced positions. Probably making low wages verses you.
It's been my experience you get don't always get what you pay for but you usually pay for what you get.


That guy had the balls to run for state senator last election, after he got out of prison, he did not even get enough votes to be on the primary ballot. He is hated in WV.
 
That guy had the balls to run for state senator last election, after he got out of prison, he did not even get enough votes to be on the primary ballot. He is hated in WV.

He was quite the topic of discussion throughout the mining industry for quite some time. I know that our supervisors had a little slogan drilled into their heads "Kill a miner. Go to jail." I spent many hours building guards for my plant which was OSHA inspected and for the rockheads which had MSHA to deal with also. No matter how thorough your guard is it's all about "incidental contact" and that won't stop some knothead that puts a body part somewhere it does not belong on purpose. Some guards even create their own hazards, added pinch points and reducing safe passage ways for example. 99% of safety is in your own head. Quite frankly, many of the "expert" inspectors didn't have a clue about what they were inspecting. I actually had a rockhead use bolt cutters to cut my lockout off and start the mechanism I was repairing without looking to see why it was locked out.
 
The only thing worse than loosing a job is losing one.
More often than not, it is the idiot or the lazy person that is not paying attention to the surroundings as opposed to the machinery itself being the danger.
Safety is a state of mind, not a harness, a guard or a shield.
An unsafe person will get hurt quicker even with safety equipment in place compared to a skilled person that is sure and confident.
Loose clothing can lead to a person losing their life. Think about that.
 
Dart Freak75 - don't cost you anything to see what's out there. You might find better pay at a place that is serious about safety! Better to look now when you are at the top of your game than trying to find a new job after a machine takes your hand. Best of luck to you!!!
 
Dart Freak75 - don't cost you anything to see what's out there. You might find better pay at a place that is serious about safety! Better to look now when you are at the top of your game than trying to find a new job after a machine takes your hand. Best of luck to you!!!
That's actually great advice. I am not worried about my safety for the fact that I am aware of my surroundings and I follow the rules however I dont like working for a company that doesn't care more about their employees.
I know there is nothing in this area but I am thinking outside the box. And considering relocating out side of Va. There is nothing keeping me here besides my job anyway.
 
I worked at an aluminum wire processing plant years ago. We had lots of things that could snatch limbs off, crush and just kill the HECK out of you. Watched one guy get his arm ripped off by a piece of equipment called a motoblock. It is a BIG vertical spool that draws wire into coils while pulling it through a sizing die. Example: 1" wire going into a die that's probably 5" in diameter, 3" thick. 1" ROUND on the input side but 5/8 HEX on the other side. You can imagine the force that's required to do that. We kept tellin the guy over and over he was standing too close to the wire. A coil got wrapped around his arm "at speed" and that's all it took. It snatched him right up and into the spool. The only thing that saved his life is what stopped him and ripped his arm off. A guard right before the spool to keep people from being dragged in. I got the guy off and wrapped what was left of his arm up and tried to control the bleeding. One of the other guys got his arm out and packed it in a cooler. They reattached it, but it didn't take and they had to remove it permanently. There are some people who are too stupid to have jobs like that. They'll ruin it for everybody else. It's called common sense.
Wow that is horrible.
I watched a guy get his fingers smashed off a couple years ago. He was lowering a set of rolls down off the machine the rolls are on hydraulic arms. The trolly that he was lowering them on was pushed in to far and not centered under the arms. When he lowered it down and unchucked the arms they slide outward. His and was on the trolly and when it unchucked it mashed his had between the arms and the trolly. I had no idea his hand was there but I saw him with the trolly to far and was like what the hell are you doing back the trolly out but it was to late the look on his face I knew something was wrong but I didn't realize how bad it was until I saw him pick up his fingers.
 
Wow that is horrible.
I watched a guy get his fingers smashed off a couple years ago. He was lowering a set of rolls down off the machine the rolls are on hydraulic arms. The trolly that he was lowering them on was pushed in to far and not centered under the arms. When he lowered it down and unchucked the arms they slide outward. His and was on the trolly and when it unchucked it mashed his had between the arms and the trolly. I had no idea his hand was there but I saw him with the trolly to far and was like what the hell are you doing back the trolly out but it was to late the look on his face I knew something was wrong but I didn't realize how bad it was until I saw him pick up his fingers.

I'll share a little somethin that happened to ME when I was a kid just startin out. We were finishin up some kinda work on about a 76 or 77 Ford Ranchero. You know how LONG those hoods are. If you don't google it. Anyway, "SOMEHOW" my dumbass ended up with my left hand stuck over the top of the driver's fender right at the back corner of the hood. Yup. You see what's comin. The other guy I was workin with yup.......closed the hood. With my hand in the back corner where the hood, fender and door all come together. I just stood there and said, "Hay Billy, How bout opening the hood real quick?" because I couldn't QUITE reach the hood release inside. He says "oh **** Rob! and ran around and opened the hood, but I had to wait till he ran BACK around to the front and opened it all the way because it was still stuck. Amazingly, it didn't break anything, but my hand was black and blue for a couple of weeks. Lemmie tell you son, that hurt like ALMIGHTY! TO this day, I WILL NOT put my hand over the fender on a vehicle while the hood is open.
 
I'll share a little somethin that happened to ME when I was a kid just startin out. We were finishin up some kinda work on about a 76 or 77 Ford Ranchero. You know how LONG those hoods are. If you don't google it. Anyway, "SOMEHOW" my dumbass ended up with my left hand stuck over the top of the driver's fender right at the back corner of the hood. Yup. You see what's comin. The other guy I was workin with yup.......closed the hood. With my hand in the back corner where the hood, fender and door all come together. I just stood there and said, "Hay Billy, How bout opening the hood real quick?" because I couldn't QUITE reach the hood release inside. He says "oh **** Rob! and ran around and opened the hood, but I had to wait till he ran BACK around to the front and opened it all the way because it was still stuck. Amazingly, it didn't break anything, but my hand was black and blue for a couple of weeks. Lemmie tell you son, that hurt like ALMIGHTY! TO this day, I WILL NOT put my hand over the fender on a vehicle while the hood is open.
Oh wow! Ouch! Son of a @%#^#! I had a similar experience except I was drunk as a dog and didnt feel it till the next day Haha. We was in town everyone use to hang out in the parking lots and chill on Friday and Saturday nights. Anyway I was sitting on the tailgate with my buddy drinking I was smashed already but had a long neck in my hand and someone yells...COPS!!! Well naturally everyone throws their beers away well me and my buddy jumped off the tailgate and he threw his into the trees and I went to throw mine but I dropped it In the bed of the truck when I jumped out. Well I reached back in to grab my bottle the exact same time he slammed the tailgate closed. It smashed my hands front the 2nd knuckle back to my wrist. Omg that thing was sore the next day lol
 
Huge joke... I have a small residential construction business. The amount of money I pay for wsib, working at heights training certificates is astronomical. 31 years with no accidents and still lumped together with all the "meatheads" out there. COMMON SENSE for employees and bosses (management) goes a very long way towards zero accidents. I tell my employees over and over that I want them going home to their families every night. I catch you doing something stupid...it will be your last day of work.

The trouble is that common sense is not common any more...
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In the incident today they were doing a start up so there was no material on the rolls and from what I understand he was cleaning the rolls with a rag! When cleaning you are supposed to wipe from the non pinch point side of the roll.
Back in 1985ish we had 2 Langston flexographic printers in the shop. On Saturdays once a month or so were maintenance and cleaning days. And one chap used rags on the 14 inch feed rollers as they were running. Scared me just watching.
 
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Back in 1985ish we had 2 Langston flexographic printers in the shop. On Saturdays once a month or so were maintenance and cleaning days. And one chap used rags on the 14 inch feel rollers as they were running. Scared me just watching.
Yea that is an accident waiting to happen. That is somewhat similar to what happened to guy number 1 at my work I found out!!
He was cleaning the auger knife with a rag and the rag got stuck in the auger pulling him into the knife! Ouch I couldnt imagine!
 
On youtube is a guy getting pulled through a web press. Unreal that people ignore safety. And yes, before you ask, it was in China. Without them Youtube would have much fewer work related deaths to show
 
Yea that is an accident waiting to happen. That is somewhat similar to what happened to guy number 1 at my work I found out!!
He was cleaning the auger knife with a rag and the rag got stuck in the auger pulling him into the knife! Ouch I couldnt imagine!

My old man lost the tip of a finger while loading a new cable on the winch spool on a 60T crane. Cable has to be guided on the first time to get the wraps right. One little stray wire grabbed his glove and into the spool it went. Of course after the fact they told him to use a rag instead of gloves. "Just let the rag loose if it get's hung up". "Thanks for the heads up butthead. Little too late for that".
 
On youtube is a guy getting pulled through a web press. Unreal that people ignore safety. And yes, before you ask, it was in China. Without them Youtube would have much fewer work related deaths to show
I dont like watching stuff like that. I seen a few by accident but I'm not a fan of them .
 
My old man lost the tip of a finger while loading a new cable on the winch spool on a 60T crane. Cable has to be guided on the first time to get the wraps right. One little stray wire grabbed his glove and into the spool it went. Of course after the fact they told him to use a rag instead of gloves. "Just let the rag loose if it get's hung up". "Thanks for the heads up butthead. Little too late for that".
Those stray wires can do some real damage too. I had one go into my hand about 3 inches before I ever felt it! Its quick and painful as hell. Luckily it didnt break off i was able to just pull off it. Had it broke I'm sure it would have had to been surgically removed
 
Those stray wires can do some real damage too. I had one go into my hand about 3 inches before I ever felt it! Its quick and painful as hell. Luckily it didnt break off i was able to just pull off it. Had it broke I'm sure it would have had to been surgically removed

If there was a loose wire on a sling, it would find it's way to my hand almost every time :BangHead:. I could have the load rigged and be 10' away from it and they would still find a way to poke a hole in me :rofl:
 
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