hey guys,
i do more reading on here than responding, i just wonted to tell everyone to be careful in their proffesion.I have been welding since high school and up to 2007 that is when i became a CWI. just yesterday (2-4-09 ) i was inspecting some beams that were from China, one of the beams was setting on a fork left and was setting on a wing plate, im not sure how it happend but the wing plate slipped and the beam fell and my finger just happen to be in the way.Now im left handed with just 3 fingers, it completely smashed my index finger off, what a terrible sight and if not for my good freinds i would off passed out. Well the ambulance came and off to the hospital we go and they finish taken it on off and left me a little nub.I respect a lot of folks on here and just wonted to say Please be careful in all that you do
strat
That sucks, strat man. Are you still going to be able to play the guitar?
mojo sent...
Thanks ZCat, man i sure as h656 hope so, im left handed so you know i chord right handed, but i love to finger pick ,well, use to love to finger pick maybe i can get use to pincking with just three
again thanks ZCat
Well, you know Django did pretty well fretting with just TWO fingers, but that is just a shame for your fingerpicking hand. I cut the tendons in the two middle fingers on my right hand many years ago and my fingerpicking never did recover. You might just have to learn how to flatpick like Tony Rice, now.
Sorry to hear about Your finger.
Sorry to hear about your finger i had the same thing happen to me on a job in corpus christi but it was my fault i was setting a beam on the ground and instead of getting a 4x4 to set it on i used a 2x4 standing on edge and well it rolled and the beam sat down on my foot didnt loose anything but walk around on the ground in the print shack bootless on 1 foot for a month.
That's terrible. Sorry to hear about your your finger.
Sorry to hear about your accident. When I broke out an old timer gave me the best advice when connecting or handling iron; don't put your fingers where you wouldn't put your manhood. Even with that advice I have still had a few close calls and black finger nails. Hope you get to feeling better.
JohnJohn
Strat,
Sorry to hear about this.
jrw159
I too am sorry to hear about your finger. I thank you for sharing that as a graphic reminder of just how dangerous routine things can be to us.
Years ago, I helped prepare a welder for a trip in the ambulance. He was helping to pick a load, they let it back down to re-position the slings and he didn't know the 8 ton unit was momentarily hung up on a 3 x 3 x 1/4 clip angle. Steel toes didn't help in that case. I'll never forget what it looked like as I was applying squeezing the pressure point when the paramedicss took the boot off.
The simple or routine things are often the most dangerous - simply because we might not have thought about it
One shop I worked at, an accident involving 500lbs of Angle Iron occured on the other shift. A guy was cutting out a section of concrete, and a forklift operator carrying full lengths of angle about 10-12' off the ground stopped behind him. When he stopped, the angle iron shifted and fell off the forks, knocking him damn near unconscious and stripping one of his arms of it's flesh.
I was glad I wasn't there to see that one. We came in on afternoon shift and the place was dead quiet. Turns out the other shift had a meeting with a counselor about the incident there-after.
Be safe.
I agree structural steel is very dangerous. When I worked as a welding inspector in a D1.1 structural shop, I was injured twice in one year. Both times I hit my head on sharp angle iron, and had to go to the hospital for stiches. One of them left a small scar on my forehead. The company was aftaid I would sue. Apparently there are set payouts for scars. I could have claimed $2 or $3K but did not want to make waves. In the end, the company criticized me for being "careless". The shear cut edges of the steel were razor sharp, and my hardhat did not protect my forehead.
Man that stinks, hope you can heal up quickly. Thanks for the reminder, we can never take safety too seriously. I believe any of us who have been in structural steel any length of time have had accidents or seen accidents that are serious or quality of life altering.
These "quality of life" altering events make me think of that video that Kip posted a link to awhile back...
http://www.harsco.com/about/video/safety/index.html
It was a fine video. Most of the safety videos that I have seen have been low-budget and cheesy. This was a pretty good one. The one question that I have is how, if she was killed, did she narrate it. :-)
By jwright650 
Date 03-06-2009 16:05
Edited 03-06-2009 16:09
Sorry to hear about your fingers. Thanks for the real life reminder !
Thanks everyone for your concerns, it means alot to me noing the quality of people that are on this forum, every one please be careful for it is no fun being without
again thanks,
strat
Sorry to hear about that. Good reminder for all of us. We can't be TOO safe or reminded TOO often.
Praying for a good recovery.
(Don't want to sound glib, but) Please, Have a Great Day, Brent
