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David G

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One of my new engineers had a sort of "work related accident today", he was putting on safety glasses, his hard hat started slipping, he jerked and poked himself in the eye with the glasses. Our policy is to get checked out whenever anything happens.

Wonder how this will be reported on our OSHA logs.
 
Probably will involve a safety policy revision to wear eye protection while putting on safety glasses. Or you will have to change over to goggles with straps, till the strap breaks and hits someone in the eye....
 
I do not know what the "chuckle" will cost me when done, but I did shake my head and say "what".
 
Friend of mine was doing safety documentation of all materials at his worksite.....came across a container of hand cleaner that instructed the user to wear gloves when using the product.
 
Yeah that safety stuff is dangerous. Knew a gal that somehow had a fire extinguisher fall off the wall and onto her foot. Another time while traveling in the back of a C-130 a portable emergency light fell from above and landed on a guy's head giving him a gash and lump.
 
We have fire extinguishers at work but we are not allowed to use them. Had a guy carrying a 21' stick of 2" pipe and triped so we now have to have an observer when we thread pipe.
 
I worked for a company that took all the flammable.Sprays and cleaners off of our trucks. Gave us the new safety insurance approved sprays and cleaners. During the meeting to give us the new stuff. One guy read the warning on the can. DO NOT USE NEAR SPARK OR FLAME. Kinda killed the meeting.
 
Seems fitting.
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"Triped", like gutted? I've never heard that expression before. It's hard to even imagine. "This guy was carrying a 21' length of 2" pipe, and he tripped and triped himself." I won't sleep well tonight thinking of that.

Actually, I know it was just a typo. A good one, though.

Stan
 
I tripped over a '' safety rope '' once , smashed my knee and gave myself a really bad black eye .
I know of a secretary [ female ] that required stitches for a work related cut to an index finger , she was collating OHSA [ occupational Health and Safety ] forms at the time :?
 
I work in a large plant that has its own ambulance and fire dept and a fully staffed medical facility. The medical building used to be staffed around the clock but now only on days. So off hours any medical injury MUST be reported and treated by our EMT's with our ambulance. So, you guessed it, the ambulance was dispatched to treat a paper cut! Oh, and we will get reprimanded if caught with a Band-Aid supply!
 
I walked out the back door at work last winter when it was still dark. My right foot hit a mouse/rat bait box that was metal and bolted the the pavement next to the building. This caused me to trip and when I tried to catch my balance my left knee hit the end of the highway guard rail we have in our lot. Talk about hurt, I had to sit down for 10 minutes.
 
Was talking to old mechanic in his shop. He's semi-retired, shop always a mess. Phone rings (he doesn't do cell phone or internet) so he starts for the land line. Trips over something, now he's going down, grabs for something to steady himself, instead he knocks heavy metal thingamajig off the auto lift, it clocks him on back of the head as he hits the ground. Some blood, nothing serious. I stayed around to help fix him up. If he had any OSHA oversight they'd close him down.
 
Had a Power Engineer receive an injury on his Scrotum by a Black Widow Spider, after dawning Fire retardant clothing. As the area of concern started to swell and deform, we applied COLD packs. As the trip to the hospital was only 30>45 minutes we were not aware of the grave severity of the situation. Yes the gentleman survived, however, the area had to be lanced to prevent strangulation of his reproductive organs!

Bob...
 
Actually, I had to fill out OSHA forms twice and both times I wrote "Not coming to work would have prevented this". You know, I never heard anything about it. After the second 'accident', we took all injuries to the Emergency room which was a couple miles away and paid for the visit from the company account. Much less than turning into company insurance.
 

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