Bad accident at work....again

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You would think after taking all those controlled substances and losing all that sleep to engineer that machine, lose one more night sleep and all those tailings under there would be gathered up conveyored off to a bin for disposal/recycling :lol: Just one more toke to complete the process :lol:
 
You would think after taking all those controlled substances and losing all that sleep to engineer that machine, lose one more night sleep and all those tailings under there would be gathered up conveyored off to a bin for disposal/recycling :lol: Just one more toke to complete the process :lol:
Ours had a cyclone that you just pushed it to. Yeah a mini conveyor is just so avant garde.
 
I had a 4 month break in service from the Army in late 91 to early 92.
I signed out on terminal leave on a Tuesday night, started a new job that Thursday. The morning I showed up there were people asking me questions about what I did before, I told them I was Army, they said I'd be better off going back.
My job was to place bearings into plastic injection mold. The mold shuts and encases the bearings. In the meantime I had to cut the excess plastic off the new parts. The process took about 90 seconds and produced 10 parts. There were way to many times when I didn't have all 10 bearings loaded and rarely ever got more that a couple parts cleaned of excess.
By the end of the shift I had decided that would be how I would lose a hand or if I'm lucky just a finger. I never went back.
I worked at a couple other places after that. By the middle of January I was standing in a Army Recruiting Office again and by February I was back in.
I decided that being in a tier one combat unit was safer than working in a US factory. Turns out I was mostly right.
 
I had a 4 month break in service from the Army in late 91 to early 92.
I signed out on terminal leave on a Tuesday night, started a new job that Thursday. The morning I showed up there were people asking me questions about what I did before, I told them I was Army, they said I'd be better off going back.
My job was to place bearings into plastic injection mold. The mold shuts and encases the bearings. In the meantime I had to cut the excess plastic off the new parts. The process took about 90 seconds and produced 10 parts. There were way to many times when I didn't have all 10 bearings loaded and rarely ever got more that a couple parts cleaned of excess.
By the end of the shift I had decided that would be how I would lose a hand or if I'm lucky just a finger. I never went back.
I worked at a couple other places after that. By the middle of January I was standing in a Army Recruiting Office again and by February I was back in.
I decided that being in a tier one combat unit was safer than working in a US factory. Turns out I was mostly right.

Thanks for your Service.
 
We found an arm on the iron ore conveyer going out on the ship loader never found the rest of him figured to get there he would have to have gone through 2 jaw crushers & the train unloader station fell in 100 mile mile away.
Another fellow decided to kick a rock out from under the 10,000 ton conveyer takes 20 minutes to stop grabbed his leg pulled him up to the furry bits kept turning cant fix stupid.
 
1980, SRF Guam, USS Richland AFDM-8 a Floating Dry Dock that mostly docked SSN's & SSBN's We had an SSBN in dock & allot of things were being done to the boat all at the same time.... One of those tasks was a repair to the snorkel, it was raised and tagged out...(later investigation revealed a missing tag that had become dislodged & was on the floor) A member of the tiger team was working with his upper torso fully inside the snorkel when someone flipped the level to lower the snorkel.... He got mostly out but his right arm nearly up to the shoulder was sheared off, I'll never forget the scream.... I was about forty feet away & the second person to his side.... I wound up recovering his arm & packing it in ice.... He was evacuated to Hawaii where they unsuccessfully attempted to reattach his arm.... Rough deal...

I've worked around printing presses & high speed labelling for years... Ya gotta be aware of pinch points...
As was said earlier work from the back side of the pinch so it rejects rather then collects your body parts...
 
1980, SRF Guam, USS Richland AFDM-8 a Floating Dry Dock that mostly docked SSN's & SSBN's We had an SSBN in dock & allot of things were being done to the boat all at the same time.... One of those tasks was a repair to the snorkel, it was raised and tagged out...(later investigation revealed a missing tag that had become dislodged & was on the floor) A member of the tiger team was working with his upper torso fully inside the snorkel when someone flipped the level to lower the snorkel.... He got mostly out but his right arm nearly up to the shoulder was sheared off, I'll never forget the scream.... I was about forty feet away & the second person to his side.... I wound up recovering his arm & packing it in ice.... He was evacuated to Hawaii where they unsuccessfully attempted to reattach his arm.... Rough deal...

I've worked around printing presses & high speed labelling for years... Ya gotta be aware of pinch points...
As was said earlier work from the back side of the pinch so it rejects rather then collects your body parts...

Pinch point. I am in the Printing Industry and it is full of them in processing. I try to remind new employees that the machines on our floor have no emotion and are more than happy to be your best friend or worst enemy. The new generation seems to have a gap in their lives as to how powerful machines can be in general though they do respond to conversations about it so that's encouraging.

But past the younger inexperienced crowd I see the older, aged, and experienced group not realizing that your life changed through aging and to adjust for it. I figured it out for myself and now am extremely cautious around equipment though I am now on the Admin side of manufacturing.....

Stay safe and strong everyone,
JW
 
There is a Caterpillar foundry a couple miles from my house where, they cast all the engine blocks. A few weeks ago a guy fell in one of the crucible full of molten iron. The guy was a fairly new employee from what I have heard. Another guy in the same plant fell to his death back in December. He was a maintenance worker working on something. Down the road from that is a steel and wire mill unrelated to Caterpillar, a dude fell in a acid tank, he lived but, I bet he wished he wouldn't of. He is covered in burns and ingested some also, last I heard he is still in the ICU and, that was back in February. Be safe out there.
 
I remember taking the work glove off my right hand and saying to myself "Come on fingers. Be there. Be there". The ride to the ER with my boss in his company truck was the worst part of the ordeal. 12 miles of 2 lane road, complete with farm tractors, material hauling trucks, and unskilled farm worker drivers. "The bleeding has stopped. I'll make it OK. You can slow down." :lol: ER doctor saying "I can't believe they're still attached and no broken bones."
 
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I underwrite Workers Comp for the marine industry. The things I've seen over the years have given me great pause and made me truly respect machinery.

I had a Delta-P fatality about 10 years ago and that one bothered me a bit. Diver was scraping barnacles near an intake tube at a power plant. The diameter of the tube was only 10" wide and had a grate over it. Diver got too close. The pressure differential sucked his entire body though the grate with only 2" slats. Probably one of the worst ways to die. I didn't Scuba for the rest of the season after that.
 
I have worked in manufacturing for most of my adult life and, there are plenty of things in the shop that will hurt or possibly kill someone not paying attention. I myself have gotten stitches a few times, metal in my eye..etc, most of it preventable by just doing the right thing instead of trying to shortcut something. I work mostly in the office now but, still have projects that require me to be in the shop some and, it's funny how when you get older your mind shifts and really takes the safer option..
 
There is a Caterpillar foundry a couple miles from my house where, they cast all the engine blocks. A few weeks ago a guy fell in one of the crucible full of molten iron. The guy was a fairly new employee from what I have heard. Another guy in the same plant fell to his death back in December. He was a maintenance worker working on something. Down the road from that is a steel and wire mill unrelated to Caterpillar, a dude fell in a acid tank, he lived but, I bet he wished he wouldn't of. He is covered in burns and ingested some also, last I heard he is still in the ICU and, that was back in February. Be safe out there.
Illinois Caterpillar worker killed in foundry accident (nypost.com)
 
I saw a guy go through a woodchipper about 20 years ago.
It was pretty gruesome.
I also watched a guy saw his leg off above the knee with a chainsaw.
 
I saw a guy go through a woodchipper about 20 years ago.
It was pretty gruesome.
I also watched a guy saw his leg off above the knee with a chainsaw.
God I`d hate to witness something like that.
Early 90`s I worked for a industrial welding/mechanical contractor.
Most the time we were either in a rolled roofing/shingle plant and a large roll paper mill.
Went in the paper mill one morning and was told a guy went through the rewinder rolls at the end of the line. Can`t imagine what that looked like...
 
Dad worked a GM Buick division in 53. Workers would take the safety guards off the machine because it slow them down. 200 ton press making the roofs, air over hydrolic, had to have two hands on switch plus foot on one too. The hand switch was deactivated, worker saw a string in the press (It will make an imprint) leaned over with half his body in the press to get string and his foot hit the switch. Upper body 1/16 thick then. Maintenance came and scraped what was left, threw a bucket of soapy water in there and the press was running 10 minutes later. One of many stories he saw or heard about back then before OSHA.
 
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.
Damn....
 
Dad worked a GM Buick division in 53. Workers would take the safety guards off the machine because it slow them down. 200 ton press making the roofs, air over hydrolic, had to have two hands on switch plus foot on one too. The hand switch was deactivated, worker saw a string in the press (It will make an imprint) leaned over with half his body in the press to get string and his foot hit the switch. Upper body 1/16 thick then. Maintenance came and scraped what was left, threw a bucket of soapy water in there and the press was running 10 minutes later. One of many stories he saw or heard about back then before OSHA.
Holy cow...
 
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.

I worked 22 years in coal mining. AT Massey was notorious for being anti union and un safe. Cecil said it right… KISS MY ***.
 
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