I would love to say I did it by jamming my foot up someone's @ss but actually it ws a stupid move on my part.

I've been telling the mechanics to replace a guard all week on one of our lines. And to add a stabilizer bar to keep the feeder machine from moving.
Everyday we just kept kicking it back in place and complaining.
Today I kicked it and it kicked back. Pants got caught on a spinning shaft and my foot was told by a five horse motor to penetrate the concrete floor.

A task for which it was not designed.

Now, we have had this language issue for years where to only word everybody needs to undertand is STOP! "Parada La machina" is just Tooooo Looooooooonnnnnng.
With my fingers just 3 inches from the Emergency Stop switch, my screams of STOP, STOP, STOP!?! went unanswered for at least twenty nano seconds. Seemed like twenty minutes.

BUT EVERYONE WAS RACING TO HIT THE STOP BUTTON, ANY STOP BUTTON. BECAUSE WITHIN LESS THAN A SECOND, ALL EIGHT LINES IN THE PLANT WERE ON EMERGENCY STOP!

Either the torque overload design worked or the stop switch system worked. All my parts are accounted for and still, amazingly, connected. Trust me I can tell. In fact I can precisely tell exactly where all my body parts are located. They are all sending me screaming E-mails.

OKAY, so that part of my plan works. Now, we just have to cut me out of the machinery.

End result, right foot is crushed, ankle is bent, knee is really p!ssed off. And everyone, who works for me, knows my freckles go all the way to my crouch. Pants Are Ruined.

The good news; My clutch foot is fine. I hated those pants anyway. They made my butt look fat.


roadster with a stick

 

OUch, sorry to hear that Franc. How bad was the damage to your foot? I hope you recover quickly.

 

WOW .sorry to hear this Franc ,I hope it didn't mess up your foot to the point of no return , I am the Safety Coordinator for my plant and these situations make my A** draw up everytime I hear of one..
hope you recover soon and are back on your feet...... Good luck to you..

Howard.

 

Franc, I'm sorry to hear this but I'm glad you're alright. At least you can keep a good demeanor through it. Get better and quick, we only have a few months till CAA!

Take care

 

Thanks for the concerns and kind words.

I used to have your job. Making this an embarrassment.
I also designed the guard system, making it doubly embarrassing

The swelling has gone down enough, I now have five toes again. We put my knee back in place with some torsion, hyperextension. That felt great.

I think all will be well but I'm gonna milk it. You know how us lazy fat cat business types are.


roadster with a sore stick

 

your post count is going up because you're making multiple threads in the same subforum for the same issue

Hope you feel better soon.

 

I was trying to think of something really sharp to say but in the end all I could think of was glad it wasn't me. Keep us posted on the all the colors your foot turns before it returns to it's normal hue. If they put a cast on your foot that will also make your butt look fat (not that I care).

 

Hijole, that hurts. Wishing you a fast recovery.

 

You think that your foot hurts?

That's just a taste of what yer gonna get if I don't win the raffle Crossfire!!!

Speedy recovery my friend!

 

Bad timing Franc. Obamacare hasn't kicked into action yet.

Here's to a fast recovery buddy.

 

It just a BOO BOO !!!!!!!!!! go back work and Suck up !!!

 

You are a lucky man even if you are a bit bent out of shape, it could have been worse, a lot worse.
I hope you get back in shape soon, and if you never are the same man again, possibly that could be a good thing.
PS
I did not need to know about the freckles. Did you mention in a post a while back about machines having no feelings? if so you did not have to prove it.

 

Ditto what Dan said ... Glad you're Ok Franc !!!

 

Even in pain and suffering a traumatic injury you still find a way to describe the details in such a way that it is fun to read.

Don't forget that pain meds work even better with alcohol

Hope your back on two good feet for CAA in June.

Take care my friend, Gary

 

working in the Work Comp industry, I'm awfully glad to know you are ok enough to write about it. Hope you get better really soon! So sorry to hear about it.

If it was one of the typical factory employees we see, he'd be out a minimum of 6 months, looking for permanent partial disability, can't work his regular job so applies for retraining benefits as a commercial pilot-which the state then grants, and by 2015 you see him in a rehab center for painkiller abuse.

 

Might be caused by the pain meds ....I've fixed this

 

Everytime I'd go to fix my spellin', which is often, it came back as a double post yesterday. Today, I edit a post and it drops the edit a few hours later.

I could blame it on the pain killers but those just started after my duel with a Packaging machine.

roadster with a sore stick

 

[quote=onehundred80]You are a lucky man even if you are a bit bent out of shape, it could have been worse, a lot worse.
I hope you get back in shape soon, and if you never are the same man again, possibly that could be a good thing.
PS
I did not need to know about the freckles. Did you mention in a post a while back about machines having no feelings? if so you did not have to prove it.[/quote]

Funny man you.

Just moments ago the boss (that'd be Crumpy) asked me about a bill from the electronics house. We are in the process of making all our machines ground fault safe no matter how employees connct them up.

Given that I made the torque limiter additions to prevent injury from a stupid dumb employee action like my own this morning, I guess I should prepare for receiving a shock soon.

Just call me "Franc the Test Dummy." A step up from being just a plain, unremarkable dummy.

Everyone's life should have purpose, right?

roadster with a stick

 

Pants are a safety hazard. Going without them would be distracting. What will you do?

 

Franc,

You are one lucky man!
Machines have a habit of removing body parts from people.
Glad too hear it did not.


OK! enough of the drivel,

Get up and walk it off!
You CICCI