ot-work place mis-haps

[frenchie]

it is a great job robbie there are very few places i can make this kind of money being a machinist only other places that pay more is south side machine shop, anheiser bush, and boeing, and very few others in missouri. One of coolest mishaps i seen with no one getting hurt is a molten metal furnace full of copper blowing metal out the top when wet scrap gets charged in furnace, looks like fourth of july except you have to get out of dodge quick.

 

[dphins]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11434799#post11434799 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chadfarmer
i shot a 1 1/2 inch staple through my thumb



didnt you do something to a plane last year

I don't think so, but we did have a guy taxi one into a fence. He damaged the wing tip on the day the plane was to deliver. Needless to say, he didn't get a raise that year.

 

[capncapo]

Not a workplace incident but.....

When I was MUCH younger I was welding up a set of custom headers for my car. Started on Friday night and worked through the night until about noon or so the next day. Somewhere around 10:00AM I had an itch on my head. For some reason I tried to scratch it with the hand that was holding the torch.

Only cost me a bit of hair for a while.

And....YES....they had cars back then.

 

[Nanook]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11435812#post11435812 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by capncapo


And....YES....they had cars back then.

Model T's just came out:lol:

 

[rams]

I like the sound of a 5 pound piece of ice falling off a 250 foot tower crashing onto the top of your work panel van. speaking of F150s you can drop a 1.5 inch box wrench through the hood and dent a valve cover from 175 feet. to this day I still don't know what a hard hat is for because you can still smack your head on angle iron 6 feet in the air and it still hurts while you bleed

 

[zt444a]

I pushed a tail stand into the trailing edge of a horizontal stab. on a DC-10. That cost about $5000. Luckily we did a really nice patch job on it, mostly some composite.

Another inch farther and we would have multiplied that by about 4x.

Howie

 

[dphins]

Airplane damage can add up quick. $5000 is a drop in the bucket.

 

[logiktest]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11441914#post11441914 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dphins
Airplane damage can add up quick. $5000 is a drop in the bucket.

Thats the truth... I'm still thinking about the orange clean on the fuselage of a strike fighter.

 

[Freed]

Scraped the quarter panel on my truck up against one of the yellow conrete poles next to an overhead door in the plant where I used to work. Quality wanted to use my truck cause it was fairly new and they were testing some new seats with the customer to try and troubleshoot a quality issue. Company paid for repairs luckily. I felt like a total Homer. DOHHH.

 

[dphins]

Yeah, I hate that feeling!

 

[ARLO]

I didn't cause these but we crashed 2 jets in the last six months. Bad enough to ground the F-15 fleet, cost about 60 Million.

 

[dphins]

Just a drop in the bucket!:mad2: