Ever been cornered?

Hello.

Ever been cornered?
Put in a situation that if you did not move very quickly you might be injured?

Arabhacks said:

Hello.

Ever been cornered?
Put in a situation that if you did not move very quickly you might be injured?

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With a woman or a machine?

tuney443 said:

With a woman or a machine?

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I hope a machine.If it was a woman I don't think you could move fast enough.

Was pouring concrete once. Standing there in the fresh cement, rubber boots, leaning on a rake. Guy says..Ya'll move too slow to be standing in concrete.

2stickbill said:

I hope a machine.If it was a woman I don't think you could move fast enough.

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Well,actually I was able to duck when my X lost it at the dinner table and threw her plate at me,[must have been my gentle humor again],but you're right,no man would be able to move fast enough for that other type scenario.

Was working close to an old Ford TLB, clearing out a disused railway siding, TLB made a cut, backed out, and started to maneuver out, next thing my back was against the wall of the cutting, and the TLB's bucket was right inf ront of me, had to duck very quickly. That was a very close call- I nearly lost my head. Thankfully, all i got out of that was a whole load of dirt down the back of my shirt.

Talking to a banksman near an NCK-Rapier Andes dragline, my back to the machine, when the banksman threw me down the embankment, just before the bucket hit the ground where we'd been standing. I had the operator by the collar and all he could say was "I was trying to get the mud out of the bucket". His nickname was "Banger". Wonder why?

Saw a truck bed break off of the truck. There was about a ton and a half of asphalt in the front of the bed and we were on a slight side slope. When the bed was all the way up and the paver bumped the truck the bed snapped the only two bolts that were left holding it to the frame and in a second the bed was on the ground. My brother was just about to walk past when the paver operator stopped him (just in case something unexpected might happen)!

My dad told me one from probably 30 years ago now, when he worked for my uncle. They had a truck body stick up with a full load of asphalt on it. One of the crew goes in and leans over the frame rails and looks up to see what's wrong. Of course they grabbed him and sadly had to explain why this was a bad idea. Not a minute later and the body comes slamming down with no resistance at all and bounces the truck everywhere. It would have cut him clean in two, well not that clean I guess.

He was probably the same guy that flipped the backhoe, by putting the front bucket all the way up with a load and turning as sharp as he could at a decent speed. He came running over saying how "it just happened, I didn't do anything". He was going so fast, that the dirt was spread out in a line from the bucket, not too hard to figure that one out.

I think he also left the trailer sitting on the pintle hook, but unlatched. My dad goes to load something and goes for a ride down the street backwards. He got the machine backed off before hitting anything, but only one rear brake grabbed and the front end swung over and destroyed the sidewalk forms they spent all morning building. This "helper" was the first one running over saying "I know I latched it".

With help like that, not a day goes by where you aren't cornered once or twice.

Twice. Both in the Army and on tanks. One while rear ground guide backing my tank into a tree line, when an inexperienced driver didn't follow the hand signals and almost pinned me to a tree, had to dive out of the way when I stepped back and hit the tree. Right after I took the dive he hit the same tree. Damaged the fender and his pride. The other on a tank range in Germany on the M1A1, 120mm gun tanks. They use combustible casings. On a hot gun we had a round stick half way in the chamber. Funny thing was my commander chewed me out for doing a crew evac and delaying the range for several hours. When the ordnance guys showed up with the Bn commander I was told we had done the right thing. They had 3 men from a 4 man crew killed on the same range several months before when a round ignited in the turret. That one was crew error. The aft cap system was not in place and the loader was "lap loading" to get faster reloads, plus the turret crew was not wearing all of thier NOMEX fire resistant clothing. All 3 big "NO NOs".

Most of the injuries I saw in the Army were cause by one of three things. Over confidence by the older guys, lack of respect for what the equipment could do by the younger guys and cutting corners. I was one of the investigates for the accidental death of a soldier. He crushed his head on the blade of a D8K. Instead of putting a truck tire in the cage to inflate it he turned the split side down on the shop floor and sat on the tire while inflating. When it blew he was thrown more than 30 feet head first into the blade.... While running a live pistol range I caught a SSG (Staff Sergeant, E6) playing quick draw in the waiting area and pointing it a people. Granted the pistol was unloaded but the example he set for the Pvts wasn't good and what he was doing could have resulted in disciplinary action. He was pissed because I corrected him in front of the Pvt's and he was embarrassed until I pointed out to him that I could have relieved him on the spot and charged him.

Safety is always an issue. In several units I served in I had the additional duty as unit safety NCO and accident reporting NCO ( also was NEO NCO, training NCO, unit fire marshal and drug and alcohol NCO). While on tanks that could be close to a full time job. My last job before retiring was very easy. The only thing I had to worry about was deadlines and the image of the 1st Infantry Div Ft Riley Ks....come to think of it that was pretty hard too....LOL!


Rick

I was on a pipeline crew once and had gone to help pull trench boxes off of a manhole so they could be moved to the next one. The manholes were over 20' deep, and they had ramps down most of the way, to get the mixer trucks close enough to pour the bases.
The operator had went down the ramp to get close enough, and I climbed up the 12' high box and set the 4 way hooks on each corner, then got back. The operator lifted, but ran out of boom and stick before the box cleared the top of the manhole. He then curled the bucket out to get more hight. When he did, two legs of the 4-way slid over the side of the bucket. At this time, he was at full reach, and the hoe was on a down angled ramp, with the rear of the track about 3' up in the air. I realized I was not fasr enough out of the way if things went wrong. Just as I had that thought and started climbing the side of the ditch, two legs of the 4-way slid over the side of the bucket, and when they snapped tight, both of them broke and the box started to fall toward me. I was climbing as fast as I could, but the only thing that saved me was the operator swinging the other way when he seen the cables break. The falling box knocked the cone off of the manhole, and the hoe nearly tipped. The box fell on the other side from where I was thanks to fast action by the operator, or I would have been smashed.

That was a fast lesson on staying well back from any suspended load, as well as checking the reach BEFORE making a pick.

I have only gotten myself cornered a few times. I watch out for others enough that no one has ever gotten me in a bind.

I have worked around some people that should have Crash Dummy tattooed on their forehead.

Impact said:

Was pouring concrete once. Standing there in the fresh cement, rubber boots, leaning on a rake. Guy says..Ya'll move too slow to be standing in concrete.

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we had a guy working in our sand pit h was at the bottom of the bank with the trackkhoe ( you can probly see were this is going) well it just so happened that my dad the only exsperiensed operator in a pit told his buissness partnr to stop poking at the bank because there is not where to run to. ( and an hour before that my dad buisness partner tried to climb the bank and knock the hard clay down and he got the s$%t scared out of him andhe left. so the other guy gets on the hoe and thins that he could just sit at the bottom and poke the clay and let it fall. well i was on our d6 and he was poking away and a giant chunk of clay came tumbling down the hill and hit the cab of the trackhoe and smashed all the glass in luckly theoperator was ok and just shooken up. Im no where near as exsperience as the operator or my dad but iam smart enought to not poke at the clay from the bottom of the bank. and when iam working around the bank either on a loader or dozer my eyes are always up. thats the only tight spot ive ever really seen.

A few times Ive been cornered by an idiot. One time working for Huffman construction I was working on a WA250 IT loader. One of the center pins was backing out as the retainer clip was broken. I had gotten the bolts out and rethreaded and I gettin the pin back in. I had a jack under the center and was using the bucket and jack to realign the bore. My normal helper was sick and I needed the loader so they stuck me with an older guy. I really didnt like working with him as he was one to do what he wanted. I had the loader steered all the way over to the right and I was on the left side getting te pin in. I asked the helper to bump it a little to the left. He took off steering it all the way left . My jack dolly got in the way and almost hung me. The dummy kept turning and not looking at the spotter.

I The same company I was under a D 66E Komatsu loader re placing the belly pan. I had it shut off and shut the master switch with a sign do not run. THey dont have a lock out on it. I was under the machine and running the bolts in with an impact wrench. My service truck was beside the machine with my air hoses run through the sde of the machine. I see this laborer thats wanting to be an operator come up the the machine I was trying to get his attention and I had started comming out of the back of the machine. He started it and started backwards. I was worming my big butt out He was just easing back when the inch air hose from my compressor got pinched into from the top roller ad started flopping around the stopped right then. WHen I got out from under the machine I was some kind of hot. I tried to get a hold of him with my sharp shooter. THe super fired him on the spot. He went intop the office and talked his was into getting a key from the key box.



I was running a 222 Manitowoc on a job and had been setting still for the crew to fasten a form down. We had the bolsters o nthe track frames that had safety tape all the was around the crawlers. I was sitting at and angle to my tracks when this laborer came walking up under the tape as I started easing over to the right a bit. I had my door open that day and heard my spotter holler at me over the radio. THe laborer has gotten nearly to my tool boxes to get out a rag box. I nearly pinched him.

Well I know of one who was standing with his feet under the RGN when the boss lowered it to the ground and on top of this idiots feet.I don't think it was reported to the main Company.I never did let mine down with some body standing close.It was funny in a way because he was one of the big set of lips on the job.This company are a DBA that is had at least two bad accidents that was never reported to main contractor.

I have worked on radio towers about 18 years, a lot of these type of story's have bad endings. How ever many years ago while putting up a 40' tower on a 10,0000' mountain.I was at 20' and my partner was at 40' when air to air lighting hit the gin pole on top.It came out of no where and rattled our cages. In Florida we watch thunder storms dance around us all day long.I have to many of these,I will quite here.

I've got a different kind of cornered story.
I was about 17, working in a fertilizer plant, "throwing bags" mostly. There was a huge mixing bin about 2 floors above the bagger machine. When ever we changed product, the bin had to be swept out. We used a knotted rope to climb in and out of the bin through a hatch in the top of it. I'd say about 20 ft down. It was my turn.
I was up there alone, inside the bin sweeping. Some yahoo in the control room started the converer belt to fill the bin. I heard it start, felt the product raining down on me, next thing I knew I was standing on top of the bin watching it fill......with the broom still in my hand. I have no memory of climbing the rope with the broom.

Running a milling machine on an elevated super (7-8% slope) with a single piston for conveyor left/right swing.....meaning if you loose control of the conveyor and it gets swung in the direction of the pitch/sloped rd curve....it will flip the machine over.

Being out there with a latino who does not understand was a challenge, thankfully through hand signals and gestures I got him to attach a chain to the conveyor so it wouldn't fall any farther the wrong way. But while holding the conveyor in position and trying to convey the message to him on the ground....I wasn't by any means calm