Work safety is for suckers
As some folks know I work for Coca-cola as a night loader. The job is long and boring for the most part, but tonight was rather interesting and painful!
#1 This has really happens about once a week but I thought I should mention it because it was my first indication it was gonna be a fun night.
While wheeling around an electric pallet jack the POS' controls jammed and it ran over my leg. Cut a nice gash in my leg and roughed up my brand new boots but really wasen't that bad, bit bloody is all. (Tried to sell some of the blood to my co-workers to sell on ebay for when I become a rockstar but none were interested for some reason)
#2 While I was loading bay trucks(those coke trucks with rolling doors on either side of it) with a forklift, my manager who was on the phone walked directly in the path of the forks while I was turning. I literally missed a 200,000$ year-off-work injury to the back of his foot by less than an inch.
But the funnest of all was #3 I was busy loading one of the bay trucks I talked about earlier. I was loading the bay on the passenger side above the wheel well with the stereo blaring directly behind me. I noticed the pallet started moving way to the left, and before I knew it the forklift was falling over! Turns out one of my genius co-workers decided to pull the truck forward without bothering to check if anyone was loading anything. The first thing they tell you in forklift safety is do not try to exit the forklift in the event of it falling over. Yeah fuck that, I jumped out of that thing and ran just as I got sprayed by a pallet full of beer and soda crashing on the ground. The guy jumped out the the truck to see a river of carbonated goodness seeping down the splinters of a destroyed pallet being covered by an enormous forklift. I was about 20 feet away with my heart racing as I thanked the goddess that I wasen't wearing my seatbelt, well probably wouldn't of been too hurt but I would of reeked of beer and coke more than I do now.
So why do we do after this catastrophy? Call the boss? Report the accident? Fuck no, clean it all up and pretend nothing happened. Using one of the trucks we hauled the forklift back up. The banged up forklift already looked like it had been to hell and back so you couldn't even notice the new scrapes we put on the side of it. The bay truck picked up a couple new gashes from where the forks popped off and scraped down the side, but again it looks like shit anyway. And the floor we just sprayed with the hose into the drain like we normally do when we spill shit, tho generally its maybe 4 or 5 cans of soda, not like 9000. Best part of the whole ordeal is I got to take home some of the "evidence" so I have a fridge full of slightly deformed beer and soda now.
#1 This has really happens about once a week but I thought I should mention it because it was my first indication it was gonna be a fun night.
While wheeling around an electric pallet jack the POS' controls jammed and it ran over my leg. Cut a nice gash in my leg and roughed up my brand new boots but really wasen't that bad, bit bloody is all. (Tried to sell some of the blood to my co-workers to sell on ebay for when I become a rockstar but none were interested for some reason)
#2 While I was loading bay trucks(those coke trucks with rolling doors on either side of it) with a forklift, my manager who was on the phone walked directly in the path of the forks while I was turning. I literally missed a 200,000$ year-off-work injury to the back of his foot by less than an inch.
But the funnest of all was #3 I was busy loading one of the bay trucks I talked about earlier. I was loading the bay on the passenger side above the wheel well with the stereo blaring directly behind me. I noticed the pallet started moving way to the left, and before I knew it the forklift was falling over! Turns out one of my genius co-workers decided to pull the truck forward without bothering to check if anyone was loading anything. The first thing they tell you in forklift safety is do not try to exit the forklift in the event of it falling over. Yeah fuck that, I jumped out of that thing and ran just as I got sprayed by a pallet full of beer and soda crashing on the ground. The guy jumped out the the truck to see a river of carbonated goodness seeping down the splinters of a destroyed pallet being covered by an enormous forklift. I was about 20 feet away with my heart racing as I thanked the goddess that I wasen't wearing my seatbelt, well probably wouldn't of been too hurt but I would of reeked of beer and coke more than I do now.
So why do we do after this catastrophy? Call the boss? Report the accident? Fuck no, clean it all up and pretend nothing happened. Using one of the trucks we hauled the forklift back up. The banged up forklift already looked like it had been to hell and back so you couldn't even notice the new scrapes we put on the side of it. The bay truck picked up a couple new gashes from where the forks popped off and scraped down the side, but again it looks like shit anyway. And the floor we just sprayed with the hose into the drain like we normally do when we spill shit, tho generally its maybe 4 or 5 cans of soda, not like 9000. Best part of the whole ordeal is I got to take home some of the "evidence" so I have a fridge full of slightly deformed beer and soda now.