My supervisor had a pretty serious Injury at work last week. I work in a Machine workshop... well I was locking my bike up in the car park and all I heard was a really high pitched screaming, so I went to investigate and saw a few people inside running down the factory, so I followed. Got to the machine shop, which is quite a distance from the car park and then I saw it. His glove had got caught in the roller gear on an edgebander while changing the edge tape, the roller gear took his arm in which pretty much wrapped around it... pretty graphic stuff. Four fingers, hand, wrist and lower arm broken, along with big gashes all over.. I saw them stretcher him into the ambulance and it was bent all over the show.. anyway the boss got us all in the canteen and told us he had his fingers straightened but his arm is worse than they thought and they will have to do surgery on his actual muscles, which if not successful, could mean amputation
We haven't heard anything since from the boss about him.... Also, this all happened at 6:30am, when we don't all start work till 7:00am so its lucky there was people who get there early to have a brew/fag etc.. really he shouldn't be in the workshop running machinery on his own, he also didn't turn off the safety guard while changing the edging tape, which stops the roller... so although horrible, its his own fault.
This is the machine btw, you change the tape round the back, it dragged him with that much force he actually snapped the guard he was suppose to lift when his body pressed against it..
Logged