Ok one of the things I do here at my factory is saftey inspections. My office is always open and everyone knows they can come in and tell me about a problem and I'll drop what I'm doing to come out and figure out a way to fix it.

Around lunch I got paged by an operator out by one of the styrofoam plate presses. I put on my goggles and my hardhat and my gloves, walk out of the office and over to the press.

The operator shouts "WATCH OUT THE LIGHTBULB IS LOOSE OVERHEAD!"

I shout "WHAT?! I CAN'T HEAR YOU TURN OFF THE PRESS!"

She shouts "THE LIGHT BULB! IT'S GOING TO FALL OUT OF THE FIXTURE!"

I shout: "STILL CAN'T HEAR YOU!"

...at that exact moment the 10' long tubelight bulb falls 50 feet and lands right on my head. :blink:


Yeah.

Thank god I was wearing my hard-hat and safety glasses B)





Anyone else have any intresting close-call stories?

hahaha, thats great. Good thing you had your hear hat.

I got one.

Me and my boyfriend were driving up north for the weekend, to stay at our property, which we are building a cabin on, and we were in a huge hurry to get there before the sun went down, as our usual thing it to watch the sun set on the lake behind our place. Before we left I had had to go pee really bad, but I waited, cause I wanted to get there as fast as possible, as it was our anniversery night and I had a nice surprise planned for him in the evening. *candlelight dinner overlooking the lake. :) ) He had kept telling me that he wills top, so i could go at a gas station, but I kept saying no. Well, we kind got mad at each other over nagging the other, so he just kept on driving.

We were getting all green lights. You know when you get close to a light, and know its turning green, so you don't slow down?

Well, he kept on trucking, and we were really burning up the road to get the I-75 north, and neither of us were talking. I felt kinda bad, cause I was planning this nice evening for us, but here we were picking at each other, just because we were in a hurry. So I said I would go at a gas station if he stopped.

Well, there was ony gas station around, then there was a light, and then the ramps to get on I-75. The road is divided, meaning you have the hit a turn around to go back, and get back to the gas station, but I guess he didn't feel like it, and instead of going throguh the intersection and hittig the turnaround, he slammed on the brakes, and went into the gas station lot.

Well, even though the light had turned green for us already, two seconds after he swirved into the lot, a Semi when barreling through the intersection. I suppose he was hoping to make the light before it turned red for him, but he didn't. The bastard went right through a solid red light, and had we not stopped, or had he decided not to slam on the brakes, and accually not be lazy and take the turn around, lets jsut say... SPLAT!

The truck's road was a 45 mile an hour speed limit, ours was 50 m p/h. There would have been nothing left. We probubly sat in his truck for a good 30 minutes, just being in shock that we were almost mushed by a semi. From then on, I never yelled at him again for being lazy.

He also refuses to drive next to, or around a semi, he tries to avoid them. Seriously though, the truck wasn't even turned, so we accually saw the Semi go by through the windshield. there was like a few meter distance from the hood, to the Semi. Very scary.

I need to go get him posting on here again, he never does anymore. >.> maybe when he gets home he can tell his side of the story. lol

Yikes.

I hear stories all the time about semi accidents where the truck over a small car and pushes it along for miles before the drive notices or how cars/people/animals get trapped under the trailer and dragged for hours.

The dragging bit is impossible, as the rear axel for the rear tires is very fragile to abnormal pressure, as well the tires themselves give easy, thus why you see so many tire bits on the freeways. Any type of non-normal to driving pressure on the tires would rupture them. They are like that due to the possiblity of similar accidents. Mainly, they are busted easily due to overloading, but are often busted by running over animals, debrey, a sudden large thump, ect.

Also, the average stoping distance for a 10 speed is 300 meters. No wheres near a mile. Although, the stopping distance for a 22 speed, with dual trailers, both filled with rubble, and concrete, would have a stopping distance of 600 ormore meters, going at about 60 mp/h.

Most tractors are equipt with air brakes which are good, and also most trucks have decent sensors around the cab to detect anything funky.

I know this because Semi's are not only my hobby, but almost half every years career for me, driving for companies such as Schneider, and Swift.

I've heard some stories of accidents, with things trailing, but the most common, and most scary, are the ones whre people rear-end the trailer, which has no effect to the cab unless there is enough force, and the front end of that car or truck would get stuck to the bottom bar on most trailers, a safty bar used to prevent a rear end collison from damaging the real axel, and people would be pulled for miles on the freeway.

Its hard for hat to happen now though, what with cell phones, and being able to honk ones horn. :)

I remember I was doing a run to Ann Arbor Michigan, from Chicago, and I was stopped at a red light, in the center lane of a four lane road. The lane to my right went through the light, the lane to the right of that, was a turning lane. Some dumb kid though he would blast past everyone when the light turned green, by bypassing everyone in the turning lane, and swirving over to the left before his lane ended.

Insteand if making it to the light even, someone to my right pulled in front of him to keep him from apssing everyone, and the kid swired, hit the guy that pulled out, and his car got lodged under my trailer. It took three hours before I could leave. the trailer, had no marks what so ever, the car..... Lets just say, its now a convertible, that kid suffered a broken neck, and needless to say, he will never be driving like an as again, or shall i say, he will never be driving again, period.

Just goes to show you shouldn't try to act cool and speed or drive stupid, there are plenty of semi's out there to keep you in check, one way or another.

Thats the only accident I was ever in during work, but there have been so many close calls on I-696, its not even funny.

Well there you go... learn somthing new every day.

Next time someone tells me one of those kind of stories I will sneak into thier house and eat thier smoke-detector.

hahaha, I wonder how that would taste? o.0

I had another close call once, but its not as notable. I almost choked to death on a peice of something that came off a pop machine at a restaraunt. It fell into my pop, and I drank it, and inhaled it when it got stuck. They had to take me to a hospital, put a huge clamp in my mouth, shuve a tube down my throat, and extract it.

The worst feeling in the world, is that tube sliding down into your lungs.

the reastaurnt's insurance paid my medical bills, but to keep me from suing, which I wouldn't have done anyways, as I understand mistakes happen, they gave me a $400 certificate for free meals. From now on I don't drink from a glass, I only use straws at restarunts, but I' glad it all happened, cause from eating there so often with the certificate, and taking my, not at the time boy friend with me, thats how we ended up getting close, and went from just friends, to a couple.

I'll never endure that tube again though. I'll take death first. I had a horribly sore throut for 2 weeks after.

I truely wish you would stop driving trucks, hun. I hate it when you're gone for days.

That semi that blew past us was going at least 50, I would assume. Most likely, I would have been killed, and you would have just been injured. You forget to take into account, you have a front, and side airbag, as well, you were wearing your seatbelt.

I'm not to fond on thinking of myself dying, if only as I don't feel leaving you alone is something I could ever accept.

Plecostomus, thats a funny story. Good thing you were wearing your hat, but then again, its policy, and a rule. How di that guy know the bulb was loose? Was it swining around a bit, before it finally fell?

I have a story of my own, Lycan, I don't know if I ever told you.

When I was young, my parents were filthy rich. They had everything from a 3 million dollar home, to a 62 ft Yatch. When I turned 13, they bought me a jetski for my birthday, which I had been wanting since I knew what a jetski was. I took i out immediately, trying to learn how to use it, and after a few months, had it nailed down, with enough skill to be confident at pulling its maximum speed.

My parents never really spend time with me, so whenever I went out, our maid watched me. She ws very old, and I suppose her age is what did her in, and while on the porch , in the middle of August, which is a rather hot month for us here in Michigan, she had a stroke.

I generally would stay out till she thretened to tell my parents I wasn't listening to her, but as she never called me in, I stayed out, even when some rain clouds began to down pour. I only enjoyed the rain, as it made the water rougher, thus there were more waves. For those of you who have never been on a jetski, the bigger the waves, the more fun it is.

Obviously, I wasn't experienced with waves, as everytime before they came, iwas called in. I bit off a bit more than I could chew, and the Jetski rolled over, knocking me under, in water that was only 2 feet deep. I ended up hitting my head on a rock. All i remember is seeing a seagull fly overhead, through the surface of the water, then I woke up in the hospital.

Apparently some guy on a fishboat saw me, and went to help. If he hadn't been there, I would the newest member to the Davey Jones Locker Society.

There was another time from my teen years where I overdosed, but thats a part of my past, i choose to keep in the past. teenagers will try anything once, as the motto goes, but I vote strongly against it, after having seen whats down those roads.

I hate thinking of my childhood, it makes me feel so old now.

I remember that restaraunt, Lycan. They had very good pasta. I remember when you were in the hospital too. I can still remember you screaming, "Get that ducking thing away from me. F*** YOU!". Remind me never to offer to a help a doctor, if they need assistance holding you down. :)

People at gas stations, expecially those who are not from Pennsylvania are STUPID.

There was this one guy who was pumping his gas and he walked away from the pump. His wife and kids were left inside the vehicle with the windows up.

Anyway, the dude comes into the store for a bag of chips or something so I polietly mention to him "Sir, you really shouldn't leave the pump unattended"

Instead of being like.. oh man, I'm so absent minded, sorry, He asked me quite snarkly "Is that the law?"

I looked at him funny for a few seconds and he walked back outside. I don't know how, but somebody up there must have been watching, cuz at the moment he walked out of the store his tank got full and gas started squirting out everywhere! Pump 4 is notorious for not automatically shutting off... XD I think his wife was oblivious, but he ran over quick and stopped the pump. Next thing he did was stormed inside demanding a refund of the gas he spilled on the ground. Luckily my boss was there and I went out with him with some kitty litter to start absorbing the spill. We told him the gas on the ground was his to buy, and I had to mention it again, "See sir, that is why you should stay with your vehicle at all times." And he said AGAIN "Is that the law though? Where does it say I'm supposed to stay here. This pump should automatically shut off" I was like "Listen you can't take that for granted, and besides its COMMON SENSE DUDE." He gave my boss (whos an Indian) a nasty look and then left. What nerve.

It IS the law here in Michigan. If you...

Drive talking on a cell phone
Drive without your seatbelt
Leave the pump
Smoke on any property that has a gas station
Swirve while eating or doing something else while driving
Have an offensive bumper sticker
Have a blood/alcohol level of 0.01
Have a carseat in the front seat with a child in it
Listen to your radio loud enough it is heard by drivers passing by

Michigan has very strict, adn well enforces laws. Some might say they are bull... BUT!

Do you want to get hit by some dumb blonde thats on her phone/ eating/ or had a drink?

Do you want to hear some dumb kids stupid rap, or other type of music you find distasteful, and useless?

Do you want to be in a gas station and the station becomes a fireball, from all the fuel soaked cement?

Do you want to see bumper stickers with women being *I am trying to be kewlzies by using edgy words in the wrong context* as a depiction?

Do you want to see on the news some toddler was killed by an airbag?

Do you want some moron to light their pump on fire because they tossed their hots on the ground by it?

Michigan has the worst roads, because our construction blows, but we have the best laws, and the best police to enforce them.

If you travel more than 3 miles over the speed limit, you will be pulled over and ticketed. There are no free passes. At least not anywheres around here for miles and miles.

They ought to just ban the blondes driving in general. Of the 6 people who've nearly killed me or at least totalled one of my cars since I got my first one in February, 4 were blonde females.

Music I have no right to say anything about, as I tend to blast mine (though my windows are usually up).

Stay by your car really shouldn't need to be a law. Anyone that god-damned stupid does not belong in the driver's seat of a vehicle.

Bumper stickers don't bother me, as I can simply choose to ignore them.

I'm pretty sure the child seat thing is a law here too, so I never really think about it. I just keep hearing the stories of kids in their car seats in the back who never even woke up.

I think the 'no smoking' is a law everywhere.

I'll place a bet that Pennsylvania roads are as bad or worst, but our cops are useless.

Speed limit? What's that? I usually do 15-20 over (when I have a car) and have NEVER been pulled over for speeding, and my brother is much worse.

Heh. Yeah, PA roads are probably the worst in the northeast... nobody knows why.

And as for cops, city cops suck... and the stateys always sit and wait for you in the same spots... (so its easy to just slow down in those areas).

There've been people smoking while pumping gas and I try to get on the intercom as fast as I can and tell them to cut it out. I love how some times they will try and hide behind the canopy supports and smoke keeping their pump in sight.

Offensive bumper stickers? Meh. I find George Bush bumper stickers offensive, wanna arrest those people? XD 'Offensive' is something you can't legislate effectively, its oppinion.

The music thing makes sense, the driver might not be able to hear signs or horns, but I know the law states that wearing head phones over both ears is illegal. Cell phones aren't outlawed yet in PA, but they are in NY and NJ, we see people with headsets all the time.

However, theres alot of things that cops can't ticket you for right off the bat. Seatbelts are a law, but if you aren't speeding, or going through a stop sign/light, having a bad turn signal or otherwise breaking the law, they can't stop you. Same goes for hanging stuff off your rear view mirror. Those things are usually compounded on top of the worse things.

Heres one that sucks for you travelers... If you're in PA, don't even think of stopping on the road, walking down the bank and taking a leak... they'll get you for that.

Here's an interesting law... Only the State Police are allowed to use radar or lasers to calculate the speed of a moving car. City cops MUST use vascar.

Where is it you are from? All cop cars in our entire county are equipt with radar, which is on 24/7. We have everything from Ford Explorers, to Dodge Chargers/Magnums, and as well Pontiac Firebirds, as the regular police vehicals.

Being Lycan is friends with damn near the entire cities squad, she got to see first hand the autos, and the fancy gizmos they use. Michigan State cops have hand help radar, the cops have it built in to the dashes.

An offensive bumper stick means nothing to me, as if it offends me, I get out a remove it. I have quite literally broken off over 300 Jesus fish plates from cars. I'm not one to deface someones property, but if they are that utterly naive, then they mean nothing to me.

I'm acually impressed, I saw a Darwin evolution fish today on the way to a store. its not often you see an educated person in this town, with there being churches every block in any given direction.

I still see the Bush stickers for the support of the election. I just want to light their car on fire sometimes. Its on thing to support who you vote for when the elcetion is taking place, but more than a year later.... After enough time to confirm the idiocy that is Bush, its an imbarassment.

If I worked at a ags station, which thankfully I don't, I would give damn sure a big amount of my mind if someone wasn't paying attention to their pump. Yeah, they are stupid and deserve the have the tank overflow, but the nozzle is metal is it not? It if were to spill gas on the ground, or perhaps the ground is already saturated with enough for many a spill. One single spark from the nozzle falling, would end every life within a decent distance of that pump, including your own.

Do act your manager the time it takes for those tanks above each pump to take effect, as well, saturate the area. then note how long it takes for gasoline to egnite, and spread fire. You might just be more worrisome when someone is careless in your presence. :)

I am so utterly tired, yet here I am on this forum, now I see how Lycan can claim it addictive.

...dangit, the word censor gets that word and it's actually IN the right context for once. Sorry about that, man :p.

Offensive bumper stickers would be hard to regulate indeed...obscene would be tricky too, but might be a bit easier.

And what's wrong with the Jesus fish? It's not like it's "omg convert or burn in hell!!"...

What word?

I have far too many grammatical and spelling errors in my previous post. I appologize for such as I'm rather tired at the moment. Do forgive me, as I'm just to tired to fix any of it.

I hate the Jesus Fish logos for the same reason the average persons hates a depiction of a teenager masturbating. It annoys me, and I would much rather not have to see it at all. If I had a satanic design on my car, my neighbors would deface it, so I simply treat their symbols in the same manner of taste.

Not attemptng to pick a fight with those members here who beleive in such..... stuff. Its just a random, perosnal example.

Pennsylvania. They've been trying to get the law passed but I guess politicians don't want to pay more tickets. XD The cops in my area for the most part are non-confrontational (with the exception of the retired state cops living around here who think its their duty to make everyone miserable) so they get you when you aren't around... PARKING TICKETS.. DIE!!!

Every state cop drives a Ford Crown Victoria (so do most of the cab drivers) wheter its marked or not, but you can always tell an unmarked car because it never has hub caps. XD The city cops have some Crown Vics, but they have alot of Chevy Impalas.

Concrete doesn't get saturated with gas. It evaporates too fast. Besides, its usually coated with thick oils, mud, or anti freeze. I'm always more worried about the vapors that are given off from your tank door when fueling. Just for kicks, dump some gas on a brick or cinder block and leave it sit for a while, then try to set it ablaze.

You can also dip a lit match in gas and put it out without igniting the gas. :P

But really you have no right to touch someone else's property and change it, just because you don't like it. I'd be so sad if someone ripped my fox stickers off my truck :( I'm no supporter of any religion but symbols and stuff don't bother me. However, when those evangelic dudes sit on street corners with a loud speaker I have a tendancy to crank the tunes up or put the windows up. A few times I've wanted to pull over and mention to them that religion is at the heart of almost every major war/conflict..

My dad has a Crown Vic...

Defacing other people's property like that is just plain rude and nasty, regardless of the excuse. They're not sticking fish on your car, leave 'em alone.

Damaging somthing that belongs to another person no matter what your logic or reason is... it's wrong and I do not tolerate it.

Good example:

I have a worker who has a medical problem and cannot drive a car. So said worker bikes to work, does 20 miles a day. He has never missed a day because of the weather and I have no issues with him or his work output.

Last summer he transfered to another part of the company to a position that paid more money. Shortly thereafter he reported that someone cut all the cables on his bike and slashed the tires.

It happened a second time.

Then a third.

Mind you it was costing him almost $400 a week because no sooner would he repair his bike the next day someone would do it again.


Eventually we caught the person who was doing the damage, it turned out to be his supervisor! The logic behind these attacks? The supervisor belived that anyone who didn't own a car was a homosexual tree-hugging hippy freak and said supervisor was trying to force the worker to quit by wrecking his bike.

In other words the supervisor didn't know why this person didn't drive, and assumed that this person represented a group that he hated so in his mind it was ok to attack this person.

Long story short, that supervisor was fired, and I pressed charges against him.

So... what I'm getting at here is destruction another persons stuff because you don't like them, don't like the group they represent, or because somthing annoys you is wrong, and in some cases will result in prison time and/or a lawsuit being filed.

If somthing annoys you, ignore it. :)

Close call story: At one point in time, I hung my winged Zoids on the ceiling because I ran out of space and it takes 6-10 business days for that shelf to come. Anyway, They were all hung pretty close to each other. One day, the cheap $1.00 tape gave way and my sinker (who's not really winged but I don't care) fell. I was typing away at my computer when I heard something crash. I looked on the floor for a Zoid and didn't find anything, but when I looked up, I saw Gravity Ptera "holding" onto sinker. It was really cute.
So, the moral of the story is: don't hate on Bio Zoids, they may save your life at some point.

Lucky. O_o

My Sinker got THWACKED off the shelf by a malfunctioning Marsume Liger blade-thingy.

Wow, what a bunch of bullcrap. Glad the supervisor got caught. Thats moronic logic. Shane might rip off little jesus fishes, but he doesn't do anything to harm the car, or effect the person. They more than likely think it just fell off, rather than someone pulled it off.

That supervison thing amazes me. Wjats wrong with being gay, anyways? Or a supporter to a healthier eviroment? Its 2006, and still religion, gay hatred, ignornace, and stupidity claim the majority of people, ater all, there has to be a high rate of morons in the US for Bush to be re-elected.

People like that are just why the death penalty should be ment for not just rapists and murderers. Its on thing to hate something, quite another to try and hurt it.

I'm as anti-christian as one can come, but I don't got burning down churches. The worst thing I do is when I see them protesting movies, or things, I go there with a big sign that says "Support gay marriage", and they generally go away. They claim they want peace, but they stir it up with thier disapprovals.

I could never bring myself to harm someone, although, that supervisor deserves more than a pink slip.

I guess this is why I get along better with animals. they have no bias, they don't care if we are fat or skinny, ugly or hot, smart or dumb. They love us, and exist with us in whatever harmony they can manage without dying out, even then, they exsist with us peacefuly till they all die out. Alot of people keep telling me its because they lack a coniousness, I say bull.

I have a rose breasted cockatoo, and she talks to me. If she wants a cheezit she says cheez it cheez it and I get her one. When she wants fresh water she says water, and when she wants to be petted she waves her foot over her head and says pet.

She even asks for a bath, which is a alge bowl of warm water.

When my dog has to go outside, she comes to me, barks, and leads me to the door.

My other dog even figured out how to pen cans, by picking up our big decorative rock from arizona, and let it land on the can to bust it open, and get at thefood inside. He really likes spagettios. hehe

Even my turtle is smart enough, he recognises me, and swims to me, but he avoids my friend Mike at all costs, as one time he picked it up and dropped it. It also chases the dogs in his tank, from what I can tell, he is trying to bite them as they go by, so perhaps he is jealous of them, since I play with them more?

i dunno. Way off-topic.

One time I was reading "Dragonology" to my goldfish and she actually sat and listened (as opposed to swimming frantically like a crazy fish). I guess she likes dragons too. Now if only she did that more often... *looks at bite marks on finger*

I've had nothing but problems finding good supervisors and managers. We go through them at the rate of about 200 a year. Not kidding. Most "leaders" only understand A) how to cut costs B) if you cut costs far enough you can make a profit without producing a product and C) it's always the workers fault.

I know what goes on out on the production floor, Brian and I built those machines we used to run them ourselves heck we STARTED as factory workers.

So don't hand me a report that says everything is 100% perfect because I know you are lying. Don't tell me that there are no safety issues because that means you aren't looking.

And don't EVER blame the production workers. Blame the machine. Blame the mold/die. Blame the material. Blame the program.

After all that if there is still a problem then we'll try a different operator.

^ Wish I lived by you, I would be a good supervisor in that case, if only I had the knowledge I feel that would be needed to be a respectable, and resoursful supervisor. Meh, its one thing to want something, quite another to qualify for it.

My boyfriends company, of which I still technically own half, is always firing people, but thats because those whom are supposed to be working, are instead on the internet, doing things they shouldn't. He had to eprsonally fire a guy once for downloading, because the system we run on is monitored by another buisiness, and if an employee is caught downloading, or doing anything illegal, the who company could be fined.

When I was going to the office every day, I remember there was an issue with the vending guy. Apparently the vending machines were lossing food, but the money was always short. A few weeks later we installed a camera in the lounges and one in the kitchen. When me and Shane took turns reviewing the cameras each day, we realised one of the employees had a key. Apparently, he had worked doing vending before, or a friend did, and he obtained a key, which are usually universal, and he was openning the machines at night, taking what he wanted.

He was also stealing money.

Hard to find people who are honest, hard working, and hospitable these days.

All a supervisor need to know how to do is log numbers into a computer and make sure people are assigned to production tasks.

I'm not asking you to select people based on whether or not they are your friends, I'm not asking you to choose people based on age, and I don't care if that person has a motercycle or served in Vietnam either. I give you a group of people, people I hired and trained and I expect you to assign them to production tasks without a lot of BS bellyaching or politickng.

Same with managment. I tell people up front, we need to cut costs but do not cut the labor budgets. This includes saftey. This includes the training budget. And the tool budget. And leave the entertainment budget alone! Oh and we don't use temp-workers. Never have never will. I don't care how many times you submit these ideas to me the answer is always no.

Currently I'm building a robo-manager out of Geno-Breaker bits and Buick parts. Maybe that'll work better than those foolish humans I've been hiring.

HAHAHAHAHA!

*Employee walks into the office of supervisor. He sits in chair in front of giant desk. Supervisor walks it.

"What seems to be the trouble, lad?" an enormous Geno Breaker Buick says, spewing smoke from its dual tail pipes.

Employee looks at supervisor and says. "We are thirsty,its hot down there, and we think we should be given breaks to get water, or something."

"Thirsty?" the zoid-car thing responds, then ponders.

"ok boy, I'll see what I can do" The thing says, and the employee goes back downstairs.

Next day, the man goes to work and enters his working station to find the temperature is no longer 114 degrees, but 30 degrees. He walked to the supervisors office.

He enters and approaches the supervisor.

"What happened? I said it was too hot, but I didn't mean make it freezing, now its too cold." the man says slightly annoyed.

"hot, cold. You humans are too needy." the giant zoid-car thing shouts.

:P

Geno Buick is reading the reports and notes that one of the employees has been stealing styrofoam plates again. This has cost the company nine dollars and twenty one cents.

Geno Buick opens the office window, opens his tail-vents and vomits a CPC blast at the offending worker.

For the next week everyone on that production line worked just a litte bit harder and faster than normal.


:D

hahahahahaha