[Talisker]

Talk about a bad day at the office...

[Molon Labbie]

Just...damn.

That’s almost as bad as people getting their head caught in box crusher.

[yuleeyahoo]

Hold mah beer!

[Flick Lives]

His leg then got wrapped around a twisting auger in the mixer, and it took rescuers at least two hours to free the man from the mixer.
Rescuers said the worker was in a lot of pain and remained conscious throughout the entire ordeal.
The worker was taken to a hospital in unknown condition.

"Doc, how is he?"

"I'm not gonna lie to you. It's bad."

[MisterArtery]

this is a pet peeve of mine. It was a concrete mixer using cement, water and aggregate. We don’t walk on cement sidewalks. Concrete, concrete, concrete.

[Pollster1]

He’s the only man alive who knows how Jimmy Hoffa felt.

[Karliner]

Rachel Corrie wasn’t so lucky. Oops that was a bulldozer, nevermind.

[Bullish]

I hate it when that happens...

[mrsmith]

Chubby Checker sez...

[Churchillspirit]

Lots of very clever humor on this thread....

Pray for the survival of the victim.

[roadcat]

... the unidentified worker, who was on the bags, somehow slipped and fell into the mixer.

It's that "somehow" that'll get you every time. Why can't they just report it straight, that he slipped and fell into the mixer. Inquiring minds want to know the "somehow" bit, was he pushed?

[Gamecock]

Is there any hard evidence of what happened?

[Zeneta]

Many many years ago, like 1979, I worked construction pouring concrete footers and setting forms for concrete walls.

Some of the hardest nastiest work anybody could do. The footers were easy. Humping the 4X8 aluminum forms in and out of the site was another story.

Setting the forms wasn’t an exact science and from time to time they weren’t quite centered on the footers. S*it happens.

And as the concrete went in and the pressure built you would get a blow out. A massive amount of concrete flowing out and out of control and it needed to be stopped. Someone would yell “Blowout” and I watched guys literally dive into the blowout trying to use their body to stop the flow. Then someone would yell “Bucket Brigade”. Dozens of five gallon buckets were collected and thrown into the blowout as 2 or three guys would scoop up the concrete and lift those buckets to more guys that were balancing themselves on top of this 8 foot high wall and would pass them along to a safe place back in the wall.

Some or I should say most of the guys I worked with were completely nuts. We had a job to do and did whatever it took to get the job done.

Worked hard and partied hard.

Everyday after work I was covered head to toe in concrete and used motor oil.

I loved Lava Soap.

[meatloaf]

Twist? All these years I thought they rotated.

[Revel]

That’s OK. Just pull him on out of there and in just a few hours he will be “Cured”.

[MinuteGal]

"The unidentified worker, who was on the bags, slipped and fell into the mixer."

Sound more like he was in the bag, not on one.

Leni

[Axenolith]

That sucks, but did it affect the slump?