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Post by Cranky on Mar 6, 2008 22:06:56 GMT -5
We had some problems with one of the machines so I decided to move it out for repairs. So far so good.
I tell one of my guys to get a pallet with a fork lift and lift me up to the wiring about 20 feet off the ground. So far so good.
I disassemble the wiring and step back.....to the edge of the pallet........bad idea! As I put my weight on the edge of the pallet, it SWINGS around like a pendulum and hits me square on the forehead.....and I mean HIT. The pallet was made out of 3/4 pine and it actually cracked from the force it hit me with.
But wait...there is more fun.
I still have to travel 15 feet to the ground. STRAIGHT DOWN I go, I land on my feet, bounce off the wall and guess where the pallet ends up? On my head.
Increadable, after getting smashed on the forehead AND falling down 15 feet AND having a pallet fall on my head, I land up with two band aids on my forehead, a bump on top of my head that didn't even bleed, a sprained ankle, a sore back and a scrapped shin.
Instead of landing up in the hospital with crippling injuries, I'm b!tching about a hockey game. Either I'm a terminator robot and I don't know it or it was one effen lucky day for me!
Anywho.....
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Post by PTH on Mar 6, 2008 23:49:43 GMT -5
I vote for the Terminator option, myself.
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Post by seventeen on Mar 7, 2008 0:07:30 GMT -5
Yeah, but what does the pallet look like, huh?
Sorry, old joke. Hope your injuries heal quickly. I trust your fingers are ok, so you can still manager a PC.
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Post by Cranky on Mar 7, 2008 0:35:51 GMT -5
Yeah, but what does the pallet look like, huh? Sorry, old joke. Hope your injuries heal quickly. I trust your fingers are ok, so you can still manager a PC. One of my guys wsie cracked about the boss breaking pallets with his face.  For about an hour my entire body felt numb and I could barely stand up. It may be that the smack I got from the pallet on top of my head caused general numbness and dulled the pain of the sprain. Mehh...I'm not going to try to find out. Once is enough. And yes, I can still mangle post or two.  |
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Post by cigarviper on Mar 7, 2008 0:45:45 GMT -5
Are the new Bell Centre ghosts paying you a little visit for being so hard on the boys?
Happy to hear you escape relatively unscathed. Now go buy a lottery ticket. I get half.
I was not so lucky when I went for a header off my roof onto my deck to break my arm, separate my shoulder and sustain a concussion. Luckily my head just missed our old toilet awaiting removal or it could have been extremely ugly.
Oh yeah, this is about you. Get well soon you tough SOB.
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Post by cigarviper on Mar 7, 2008 0:47:07 GMT -5
...and why were you not tethered with a safety harness? tsk, tsk.
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Post by Cranky on Mar 7, 2008 1:07:41 GMT -5
Are the new Bell Centre ghosts paying you a little visit for being so hard on the boys? Happy to hear you escape relatively unscathed. Now go buy a lottery ticket. I get half. I was not so lucky when I went for a header off my roof onto my deck to break my arm, separate my shoulder and sustain a concussion. Luckily my head just missed our old toilet awaiting removal or it could have been extremely ugly. Oh yeah, this is about you. Get well soon you tough SOB. How far did you fall? If you fell off a two story and on your side, the YOU are lucky too. The impact from that kind of height can snap a neck very easily. And yes, I have all kinds of equipment. Two safety cages, safety harnesses and huge lift trucks. The problem is that I occasionally suffer from bouts of stupidity. |
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Post by cigarviper on Mar 7, 2008 1:47:32 GMT -5
Are the new Bell Centre ghosts paying you a little visit for being so hard on the boys? Happy to hear you escape relatively unscathed. Now go buy a lottery ticket. I get half. I was not so lucky when I went for a header off my roof onto my deck to break my arm, separate my shoulder and sustain a concussion. Luckily my head just missed our old toilet awaiting removal or it could have been extremely ugly. Oh yeah, this is about you. Get well soon you tough SOB. How far did you fall? If you fell off a two story and on your side, the YOU are lucky too. The impact from that kind of height can snap a neck very easily. And yes, I have all kinds of equipment. Two safety cages, safety harnesses and huge lift trucks. The problem is that I occasionally suffer from bouts of stupidity. I was stepping off my ladder onto the roof of my bungalow, or ranch, with tools in hand to cut a hole for a new vent for the bathroom fan. First and only time I've ever fallen off a ladder, and I've been up a few. It was as if someone just kicked the ladder out from under me as I had one foot on the roof and one on the ladder. Fell backward and landed on top of the ladder. My head and shoulders travelled about 15-16 feet. Felt like a Komisarek hit. I've since heard of many people falling in the same manner from lower heights that suffered much worse than I did. You're lucky that wasn't a hardwood pallet. You may not be here today to talk about it. For Chrissakes, be careful at work, numbscull. |
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Post by franko on Mar 7, 2008 6:56:07 GMT -5
Waiting to see you on the next "health and safety" commercial, HA.
Easy on the painkillers today.
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Post by BadCompany on Mar 7, 2008 10:19:52 GMT -5
I once "almost" fell through a train bridge, which almost certainly would have resulted in death... I was carrying about 80lbs of equipment, walking between the rails on the wooden slats when one of them snapped under my foot. Yes, something like that does inspire a lot of confidence in our train bridges. Anywhoo, right leg went through, but the left one stayed on a more solid slat, so instead of plummeting about 80 feet to a shallow river below, I "merely" smacked my chin with buckling left leg, then smacked my head on some of the equipment on my back, and then my face on the rail beside me.
Yes, it hurt.
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Post by CrocRob on Mar 7, 2008 10:24:36 GMT -5
We had some problems with one of the machines so I decided to move it out for repairs. So far so good. I tell one of my guys to get a pallet with a fork lift and lift me up to the wiring about 20 feet off the ground. So far so good. I disassemble the wiring and step back.....to the edge of the pallet........bad idea! As I put my weight on the edge of the pallet, it SWINGS around like a pendulum and hits me square on the forehead.....and I mean HIT. The pallet was made out of 3/4 pine and it actually cracked from the force it hit me with. But wait...there is more fun. I still have to travel 15 feet to the ground. STRAIGHT DOWN I go, I land on my feet, bounce off the wall and guess where the pallet ends up? On my head. Increadable, after getting smashed on the forehead AND falling down 15 feet AND having a pallet fall on my head, I land up with two band aids on my forehead, a bump on top of my head that didn't even bleed, a sprained ankle, a sore back and a scrapped shin. Instead of landing up in the hospital with crippling injuries, I'm b!tching about a hockey game. Either I'm a terminator robot and I don't know it or it was one effen lucky day for me! Anywho..... So given this injury.. I think this gives you free license to make any number of arguments that make no sense for several weeks. It could be good practice before senility sets in later in life. Hope you're alright.. I myself have been harbouring a "sprained" wrist the last week from a soccer game.. and it wasn't getting any better. Turns out "sprain" is actually "broken in two places". Oops. |
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Post by Cranky on Mar 7, 2008 10:33:08 GMT -5
So given this injury.. I think this gives you free license to make any number of arguments that make no sense for several weeks. It could be good practice before senility sets in later in life. Obviously you are a newbie 'cause I haven't made sense for years....  |
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Post by Cranky on Mar 7, 2008 10:36:27 GMT -5
Waiting to see you on the next "health and safety" commercial, HA. Easy on the painkillers today. Pain killers? This is SPAAAARTA........ Although I'm taking three day weekend and intent to torture YOU guys. Hey, I got to spread the pain around! LOL! |
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Post by Cranky on Mar 7, 2008 10:41:42 GMT -5
I once "almost" fell through a train bridge, which almost certainly would have resulted in death... I was carrying about 80lbs of equipment, walking between the rails on the wooden slats when one of them snapped under my foot. Yes, something like that does inspire a lot of confidence in our train bridges. Anywhoo, right leg went through, but the left one stayed on a more solid slat, so instead of plummeting about 80 feet to a shallow river below, I "merely" smacked my chin with buckling left leg, then smacked my head on some of the equipment on my back, and then my face on the rail beside me. Yes, it hurt. Oh sure blame it on the tie. (sic!) Why do we look back and laugh at close calls? It's not we wouild lose a ten dollar bet... *sigh* |
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Post by jkr on Mar 7, 2008 11:55:21 GMT -5
I was not so lucky when I went for a header off my roof onto my deck to break my arm, separate my shoulder and sustain a concussion. Luckily my head just missed our old toilet awaiting removal or it could have been extremely ugly. Would that have been the first time your head was in a toilet?  |
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Post by jkr on Mar 7, 2008 11:56:24 GMT -5
I say Gainey signs that pallet. Put a sweater on it & it can be the enforcer we've all been looking for.
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Post by HabSolute on Mar 7, 2008 12:05:44 GMT -5
I see that "Health and Safety" must be a priority in your company  The Boss ? Jacked up on a forklift 20 feet in the air ? On a pallet and without a safety belt ?.... Ouch... they could make a "Safety Board" commercial with that..... You could easily be writing to us from heaven.... (or would it be hell ?) I bet you won't do that again.....or any of the guys that saw you fall..... Glad that you are OK |
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Post by Cranky on Mar 7, 2008 12:24:30 GMT -5
I was not so lucky when I went for a header off my roof onto my deck to break my arm, separate my shoulder and sustain a concussion. Luckily my head just missed our old toilet awaiting removal or it could have been extremely ugly. Would that have been the first time your head was in a toilet? LOL! I laughed at that one and of course, that crinkled my forehead and it HURT DAMMIT! Now I know why Neanderthals had huge eye ridges. |
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Post by cigarviper on Mar 7, 2008 13:28:13 GMT -5
I was not so lucky when I went for a header off my roof onto my deck to break my arm, separate my shoulder and sustain a concussion. Luckily my head just missed our old toilet awaiting removal or it could have been extremely ugly. Would that have been the first time your head was in a toilet? Nor the last.  |
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Post by cigarviper on Mar 7, 2008 13:28:52 GMT -5
So given this injury.. I think this gives you free license to make any number of arguments that make no sense for several weeks. It could be good practice before senility sets in later in life. Obviously you are a newbie 'cause I haven't made sense for years.... Beat me to it.  |
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Post by Skilly on Mar 7, 2008 20:19:36 GMT -5
I hope you are feeling better , but I dont understand how the pallet swung up. Aren't pallets built with slats for the fork-lift "prongs". So if you were on the either edge of the pallet, the forklift stop the pallet from swinging. The only way I see this happening is if you weren't on a pallet at all, but on a piece of flat wood.... which is soooo unsafe. Like you need to be told that now.. When I hear pallet, I think of the pallets in warehouses ... made of 2x4, raised off the ground, 2x4 cross bracing with 1x3 slats going tranversely... they are actually made for forklift to hook their prongs into.... |
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Post by Habs_fan_in_LA on Mar 7, 2008 22:39:10 GMT -5
Good thing you dropped the pallet when you did.
It's two minutes for playing with a broken pallet.
Glad to hear all is well.
I can't really say, "keep up the good work!"
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Post by Cranky on Mar 8, 2008 1:42:09 GMT -5
I hope you are feeling better , but I dont understand how the pallet swung up. Aren't pallets built with slats for the fork-lift "prongs". So if you were on the either edge of the pallet, the forklift stop the pallet from swinging. The only way I see this happening is if you weren't on a pallet at all, but on a piece of flat wood.... which is soooo unsafe. Like you need to be told that now.. When I hear pallet, I think of the pallets in warehouses ... made of 2x4, raised off the ground, 2x4 cross bracing with 1x3 slats going tranversely... they are actually made for forklift to hook their prongs into.... It's a 3 foot by 5 foot pallet made with 3/4 inch by 8 inch top boards and three 3 inch by 5 inch runners underneath. It doesn't have bottom slats because it's easier for woman to slide the pump trucks in and out and we made them from pine so they will be light enough to be handled by woman. For all intents and purposes, it is a wide piece of flat wood. Actually, I wouldn't of had the accident if it was a normal pallet. Our normal pallets are 42 or 48 inches wide and at most, they extend about 5 inches past the forks plus they do have bottom slats. These ones extend a foot past the forks and because it's relatively light, it rotated really fast. When I felt the pallet "moving" from under me, I lunged across to grab a fork, but the damn pallet rotated, cutting off my access to the fork and smacking me square on the forehead. The "closing" velocity of my head lunging forward and the board rotating must of been really up there because it cracked the board. Had it been hardwood, it would of cracked my eyebrow ridge or worse, knocked me out and I would be typing this from cousin Beelzebub's keyboard. Anywho..... Fell free to experiment how quickly a 25 pound pallet can rotate when you cantilever a 250 pound weight 1 foot from the end and report back. Bring bandages. LOL! |
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Post by NWTHabsFan on Mar 8, 2008 2:59:36 GMT -5
Wear a visor!! Wear a JOFA helmet!!
OHS by gosh.
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Post by clear observer on Mar 8, 2008 12:50:55 GMT -5
We had some problems with one of the machines so I decided to move it out for repairs. So far so good. I tell one of my guys to get a pallet with a fork lift and lift me up to the wiring about 20 feet off the ground. So far so good. I disassemble the wiring and step back.....to the edge of the pallet........bad idea! As I put my weight on the edge of the pallet, it SWINGS around like a pendulum and hits me square on the forehead.....and I mean HIT. The pallet was made out of 3/4 pine and it actually cracked from the force it hit me with. But wait...there is more fun. I still have to travel 15 feet to the ground. STRAIGHT DOWN I go, I land on my feet, bounce off the wall and guess where the pallet ends up? On my head. Increadable, after getting smashed on the forehead AND falling down 15 feet AND having a pallet fall on my head, I land up with two band aids on my forehead, a bump on top of my head that didn't even bleed, a sprained ankle, a sore back and a scrapped shin. Instead of landing up in the hospital with crippling injuries, I'm b!tching about a hockey game. Either I'm a terminator robot and I don't know it or it was one effen lucky day for me! Anywho..... I was in the "pit" at a BlackJack table at the time of this incident. Casino surveillance will confirm this. |
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Post by Skilly on Mar 8, 2008 19:36:37 GMT -5
I hope you are feeling better , but I dont understand how the pallet swung up. Aren't pallets built with slats for the fork-lift "prongs". So if you were on the either edge of the pallet, the forklift stop the pallet from swinging. The only way I see this happening is if you weren't on a pallet at all, but on a piece of flat wood.... which is soooo unsafe. Like you need to be told that now.. When I hear pallet, I think of the pallets in warehouses ... made of 2x4, raised off the ground, 2x4 cross bracing with 1x3 slats going tranversely... they are actually made for forklift to hook their prongs into.... It's a 3 foot by 5 foot pallet made with 3/4 inch by 8 inch top boards and three 3 inch by 5 inch runners underneath. It doesn't have bottom slats because it's easier for woman to slide the pump trucks in and out and we made them from pine so they will be light enough to be handled by woman. For all intents and purposes, it is a wide piece of flat wood. Actually, I wouldn't of had the accident if it was a normal pallet. Our normal pallets are 42 or 48 inches wide and at most, they extend about 5 inches past the forks plus they do have bottom slats. These ones extend a foot past the forks and because it's relatively light, it rotated really fast. When I felt the pallet "moving" from under me, I lunged across to grab a fork, but the damn pallet rotated, cutting off my access to the fork and smacking me square on the forehead. The "closing" velocity of my head lunging forward and the board rotating must of been really up there because it cracked the board. Had it been hardwood, it would of cracked my eyebrow ridge or worse, knocked me out and I would be typing this from cousin Beelzebub's keyboard. Anywho..... Fell free to experiment how quickly a 25 pound pallet can rotate when you cantilever a 250 pound weight 1 foot from the end and report back. Bring bandages. LOL! Now I understand .... the perverbial "stepping on the rake" ... CLUNK!! Enough to knock the cranky right out of ya!!! (Hope you are feeling better, bud,....) |
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