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Supafly 06-25-2011 08:59 PM

Safety First....no fucking joke.
 
So today, I thank my lucky stars and my good judgment of wearing my safety harness. I was 50ft up in a racking system checking a collegues weld when a lower flatbar that I was standing on sheared.....I fell 16ft in an arc, and slammed into the racking chest first, smashing my chin, chest, knees and shins. My arms are fucked up, but Im still alive. No worse feeling then seeing the flights move when its suppose to be a solid frame; thats when you realize you're moving, not the frame.....

So just a word of advice for all you industry workers....safety first....nobody wants to tell your parents how you became mango pudding.

Didn't feel shit during and after the fall....but I feel it now, 8hrs later....and I got the Grouse Grind Challenge tomorrow.

Tomorrows another day, and im still breathing.:fuckyea:

i'll post some pics of our robot later...

/rant.

Culverin 06-25-2011 09:00 PM

Glad to hear you're still kicking.

Evolutionian 06-25-2011 10:07 PM

holy shit..sounds crazy.. careful mann

J____ 06-25-2011 10:49 PM

aside from you falling and still being alive due to good safety precautions, this noob has no idea what you said haha.

Glad you're ok though, safety first!

SpuGen 06-25-2011 11:15 PM

Flat bar isn't supposed to shear like that.
I'd get the frame checked out before anything else happens. Sounds like the racking was poorly designed.

I've seen it bend, but never shear. How thick was the flat bar? I'm guessing 1/8th?

tonyvu 06-26-2011 01:46 AM

shit man one of the worse feelings in the world is falling

glad your alive bro

Alatar 06-26-2011 02:12 AM

Always wear safety glasses too. Brother's work, one of the HD mechanics was hammering on something under a truck and had a shard of metal fly off the piece he was hammering on. Split one of his eyeballs right open.

It's not worth it to forego safety. Even if it's just something as simple as making sure your harness is on, or putting those safety glasses on properly.

Glad to hear you're not too worse for wear, all things considered. Falling 16 feet is still a fair distance, especially when you don't know what you're going to swing into/hit.

careboy 06-26-2011 02:20 AM

Glad you're ok though, safety first!
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ajax 06-26-2011 02:37 AM

Gracias con tus manos!
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Gridlock 06-26-2011 07:08 AM

I gave the safety speech to my employee when he first started. The usual drill-don't do anything stupid-sacrifice product over safety if you have to, be careful on ladders. All that stuff.

He tells me after that he's heard from bosses before about safety, but my speech was the first time that he felt it came from someone that actually meant it.

That kind of scared me.

I used to work for a warehouse that had an abysmal safety record. The head office released a poster for all the facilities as a bar graph of incidents over the previous year. Huge multi-national company, so there were lots. Started really small at the top and the bar graph went bigger down the poster. We were all the way down at the bottom, and there was a star next to our name.

The notes for ours was we maxed out the graph, so ours didn't reflect the true number of incidents because to accurately show ours would mean on the poster the first couple facilities wouldn't even show up.

That is scary for any kid coming in to work at a warehouse.

Berzerker 06-26-2011 07:16 AM

Did you harness have a fall arrester on it? Did it work? I've worn a harness for a long long time and never (touch wood) had to see it in action. Glad your ok that must have been scary as shit.

Berz out.

jtanner_ 06-26-2011 08:16 AM

I can't imagine what that initial drop might feel like... Glad to hear you're alright
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MoBettah 06-26-2011 09:07 AM

Note to those of you who wear fall harnesses. If you suffer a fall and end up suspended for a while (20mins +), DO NOT immediately take off the harness when you have been recovered.

What ends up happening while your hanging is the toxins in your blood pool around where the harness is tight and restricting your blood flow. If you remove it right away, and the toxins suddenly flood your critical organs you can suffer severe complications or even death.

Berzerker 06-26-2011 09:13 AM

^^ Yea I even had the safety foot holders on the harness. You put your feet in them to alleviate the pressure of the harness on the legs and help blood flow.

Berz out.

Ulic Qel-Droma 06-26-2011 09:27 AM

thought this was gonna be a thread on condoms and fucking girls. fuck.

Chicken Balls 06-26-2011 10:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MoBettah (Post 7490635)
Note to those of you who wear fall harnesses. If you suffer a fall and end up suspended for a while (20mins +), DO NOT immediately take off the harness when you have been recovered.

What ends up happening while your hanging is the toxins in your blood pool around where the harness is tight and restricting your blood flow. If you remove it right away, and the toxins suddenly flood your critical organs you can suffer severe complications or even death.

bad info.. who told you this?

You would be dead in 15min already from suspension trama...and toxins in the blood?!? It's called orthostatic incompetence

fliptuner 06-26-2011 12:05 PM

I'm afraid of heights and can't swim and what's next weeks project? Stripping a chipper barge on the river, yay!!!

Glad you're okay and thanks for the reminder. Not that I'd be caught in a manlift, 40' in the air, running a cutting torch without a proper harness, eyewear and other safety gear.

sdubfid 06-26-2011 02:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fliptuner (Post 7490731)
I'm afraid of heights and can't swim and what's next weeks project? Stripping a chipper barge on the river, yay!!!

Glad you're okay and thanks for the reminder. Not that I'd be caught in a manlift, 40' in the air, running a cutting torch without a proper harness, eyewear and other safety gear.

What are your thoughts in being in a manlift over water? I used to work at vancouver shipyards and whenever the manlift was over the I didn't clip my harness in. But I did wear a lifejacket. My opinion is if the manlift somehow went off the dock or rolled off I didn't want to be attached to it. I'd rather land in the water and float than be dragged down.

I've found that my union jobs were way more safety oriented than non-union. Anyone else have this experience?

Vansterdam 06-26-2011 03:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ulic Qel-Droma (Post 7490642)
thought this was gonna be a thread on condoms and fucking girls. fuck.

this.

JSALES 06-26-2011 09:26 PM

damn sounds scary, glad you're okay though

The7even 06-26-2011 09:41 PM

good to hear you're ok.


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