Re: Let's face it, who amongst us hasn't lost a tie to the...
"These days that'd be a 7-figure h&s fine"
Deffo. Thankfully nearly 3 decades ago and they don't do that work now.
If you think that was bad we used to load the coils onto the de-coiler using the single blade of the forklift. You had to be quite skillful to pick them up off the floor and then about 800Kg (the coils were around 5 feet in diameter - like a big polo mint) was swinging back and forth while you tried to gently ease it onto the hub of the decoiler.
One day a colleague was doing this and dropped it off the end of the FL blade right next to me. Imagine someone dropping a car next to you from a height of 4 feet and you get the idea. Missed shearing my leg off by inches.
I miss working there, solid days graft and always exciting :)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
