[houeto]

I wouldn’t tell, except that she had to go home and not return until the next day. If she showed up today (she was going to work) I would not sign her time sheet.

My hat is off to you sir.

[thackney]

There was no way I could tell her to come to work while she was in that daze. I offered to leave the plant and come to her and drive her home but she wouldn’t give me enough info to find her.

The next day she did thank me.

We tried to find time for folks to take off after that, but it was hard.

It was an emergency rebuild of a Methanol Plant after a major explosion. Engineering/Design/Construction 24/7 for about six months.

The plant had several major explosions in the past. The control room was in the middle of the plant. We went out ~10’ and built 18” thick heavily re-enforced blast walls with 10’ thick bases to prevent them from overturning.

A vessel ~60’ tall x 12’ diameter and 1.5” wall thickness had mostly gone to mostly shrapnel shredding many items in the plant. Some pieces landed 1,500’ away and a few traveled through occupied buildings without any real injury.

It was hard to constantly look at the damage and see the massive protections we were putting in place and not start thinking harder about safety.