It's going to be a wonderful day...

Ooh, yeah, looks like he may have gotten some tendons?

Oosh. What happened?

Fuck dude!!!

Only a flesh wound..

Delicious

I mean... ouch

@Deleted User he did, the doc told him to do nothing because there isn't much left to sew up.
From what I understand he was loading a 40ft ladder on his truck this morning and slipped and the ladder smashed his finger into the stop on his ladder rack.
He said it never hurt until after he left the hospital, so you know it was bad.

Poor guy wasn't at work yet so workers comp said they aren't going to cover it.

That's fucked. Hopefully he has some secondary insurance

He does. It's bullshit workers comp won't cover it. He's the second guy I know personally who got hurt loading things for the job at their home that they won't cover.

I swear those kikes at those comp companies aim to not give out money

My girlfriend messed her wrist up at work recently and they wouldn't give her a dime. Had the doctor's notes and everything documented and they claimed she didn't.

She was quitting there anyways and it happened on her last week so she didn't fight it.

Yeah they're a joke. Hope your girl's ok. Wrist damage could be potentially bad, like as far as long term problems.

At least he's alive. I've seen people die at work

Everything from arcs, people falling, and scissor lifts falling over

I was up in a basket on a fork lift and the driver drove me into a steel beam once, luckily I was wearing a helmet

Still gave me whiplash though

Damn

One time i had a scissor lift tip and i grabbed a fire protection water pipe and literally kept it from tilting over. I had to wait on some guys to help

I was about 20' in the air

Word, I was at Toyota Princeton, IN one afternoon and one of the vendors was walking the conveyor where the seats come down to thr line, they were looking up and walking and someone didn't close the hatch where the seats go down and dude fell on to two something like 3foot spikes. Died right there. Hands down the absolutely worst thing I've ever seen in person.

@Lebens that sucks. @Thomas Morrow I was driving a man lift at full speed around a house and hit a bump it was like a slingshot, threw me in the air, I had my harness on that day, lucky haha

Construction sites and factories are hazardous

@RevStench i refuse to move a scissor lift horizontally unless its fully lowered first, after that fire pipe save the company at the time i was working for when i wagecucked made it a rule that scissor lifts were not allowed to drive while lifted at all

Idgaf if it takes longer im going home to my kids after work

Haha for sure. I'm the same way these days. I don't take extra risks unless there is no other option. I don't even get on scaffolding without a harness anymore either

If i sell a contract that requires scaffolding i charge so much i just pay someone to climb it. I don't mess with that

Hahaha I don't get that option. I get to comfortable when I'm up high. You think 60ft+ up in the air walking on a 10in walkboard, you wouldn't let your guard down, but I do.

Hahaha I used to clean out machines for a living, one day while cleaning the Banbury machine (machine that makes rubber used for tubes) this guy turned on the machine and the gate slammed shut and nearly took my arm with it

He said he "didn't see my tag"

He didnt see your tag? Wtf? Did he see his teeth come out?

Oh fuck that. Did you not have to lock out?

Lock out tag out!!

Always!

And only you have the damn key

I had my tag on it but I couldn't put my lock on because it would have cut power to machines that were still running. Arkansas factories for ya...

That shit doesn't fly in an auto plant

I quit that job because they ran me into the ground under absurdly unsafe conditions for next to no pay

The turnover rate for that job is ridiculous

I love shop talk, all my friends are soft bitches, so I don't get to trade stories like this often. I know I'm lame. Haha