Lockout/Tagout is your friend.
That guy wins this week’s “Luckiest Man in the World” award, and he is my current front-runner for both the monthly, and yearly prizes.
The industrial sized barrel if you please, doc!
So he went through the pressure rolls. If the thing was running fully, he wouldnt be here to talk about it.
In Seney Mich years ago, a mans son went through one. He ended up in the chip van. I wont say what was left of him.
Ouch.
Arce has remained very positive about the incident, saying his co-workers’ training allowed him to receive care quickly, and he was even sharing jokes and smiling with friends and family at the hospital.
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Well. I’m glad he’s feeling so “chipper” about his experience.
(ba doom shish!)
He didn’t lose any limbs.......
Yeah, I know the feeling - it’s called an “Ohnosecond”, like when you click on your mouse button on a file deletion you didn’t want to do. It’s probably like that when you’re about to go through a wood chipper too. Or stronger.
What an amazingly resilient man! I complain when I have to go to the dentist.
measure twice, cut once or something like that.
I wish the victim the very best of luck for a full recovery but it’s hard to believe he won’t have some lasting and severe problems from such grievous injuries.
“However, someone was not aware that Arce was inside...”
Or were they?
Q. Why did the Washington man go through a wood shredder?
A. He wanted to feel chipper!
Lock Out/Tagout is over-enforced by management so people ignore it, eventually when they shouldn’t.
Ummmm.... hold on a second. Has this been approved by the Ezekiels of TyrannyCare? How old is the guy? How many more productive years might he have?
It sounds like he went through a mechanical debarker. These have knives which are set to skim off the outer layer of a log while leaving the core untouched. This is like a sphincter which expands in and out to accommodate the diameter of the log which is to have its bark removed. He was fortunate that the debarker wasn't set for a smaller-diameter log.
Some worker went into a low-oxygen environment for regular maintenance without proper equipment and he passed out. A coworker went in to rescue him with predictable results, then another went in. All three died. A friend of mine got their job since there were three openings. After the government investigations, he was required to telephone the president of the company back east to tell him he was going in the tank, day or night, and couldn’t go in until the prez knew. He normally worked night shift and woke the grumpy guy up several times a week.
Thank you for offering the only fit description of how I felt watching the State of the Union address.
Unbelievable story.
Goodness, what a horrible thing to endure! I often had nightmares as a child about being caught/pulled into various machines, and none could possibly be as terrifying as what this guy went through.
And I agree with many others - this company better take a long hard look at its lockout - tag out procedures.
Reminds me of the lens grinder who fell into his machine and made a specticle of himself.