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06-25-2011, 08:59 PM
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#1 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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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. 
i'll post some pics of our robot later...
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06-25-2011, 09:00 PM
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Glad to hear you're still kicking.
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06-25-2011, 10:07 PM
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#3 | | I STILL don't get it
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holy shit..sounds crazy.. careful mann
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06-25-2011, 10:49 PM
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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!
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06-25-2011, 11:15 PM
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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?
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06-26-2011, 01:46 AM
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shit man one of the worse feelings in the world is falling
glad your alive bro
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06-26-2011, 02:12 AM
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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.
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06-26-2011, 02:20 AM
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06-26-2011, 02:37 AM
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Gracias con tus manos! Posted via RS Mobile | |
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06-26-2011, 07:08 AM
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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.
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06-26-2011, 07:16 AM
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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.
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06-26-2011, 08:16 AM
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I can't imagine what that initial drop might feel like... Glad to hear you're alright Posted via RS Mobile | |
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06-26-2011, 09:07 AM
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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.
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06-26-2011, 09:13 AM
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^^ 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.
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06-26-2011, 09:27 AM
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06-26-2011, 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by MoBettah 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
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06-26-2011, 12:05 PM
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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.
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06-26-2011, 02:05 PM
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Originally Posted by fliptuner 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?
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06-26-2011, 03:13 PM
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06-26-2011, 09:26 PM
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damn sounds scary, glad you're okay though
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06-26-2011, 09:41 PM
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good to hear you're ok.
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