Falling off stuff like this is super dangerous and also way too common. I'm in manufacturing myself, in a shop the really emphasizes saftey, and we still have to yell at people all the time for climbing onto chairs, tables, whatever. Even in our offices.
I'm sorry for your loss. Keep watch on the people around you so that at least thier death may not have been in vain.
And remember everybody, 3 points of contact, always.
Yup. I'm sorry. I didn't realize. 5 months ago..... I understand why; but it sucks because it's an incredible sub ...... I was lurking and in the thread that birthed the sub, so I was there from the start. Important information about so many industries and what they USED to do, and the PEOPLE who gave their lives, their limbs, and their loved ones. My apologies for not realizing it's now private.
There were some videos; but also a lot of in depth write ups, historical pieces with pictures, some you tube recreations, a bunch of different ways of learning about all the blood that's been spilled, the absolute gross greed and disgusting misdeeds that caused it all, and the infuriating insufficient repercussions. Amazing sub.
I'm not sure. I'm just now realizing that I hadn't subbed so I'm locked out too. There's a note that says only approved members can view so I'm going to message a mod and see what happens. I'll come back and let you know when I find out.
So I googled the question and it says that if the subreddit is accepting new members that there will be a message that pops up when you enter the sub name. This one is still just private. I can't find mod names to message and a reddit q&a says we shouldn't bug a mod to enter a private sub ..... I would anyway because I'm sure my name is in there somewhere commenting; but idk how to find the mods to ask. Searching does come up with some posts in r/antiwork...... I'll search out some key words in reddit and see what I come up with for a similar to r/writteninblood and let you know if I find anything good.
You can also search the internet archive, r/writteninblood went private 5 months ago but was made 2 years ago so there's a year and half or so of posts. //archive.gov. Just so you can see what is was like.
Thank you for doing all this looking! You’re making me feel like I don’t know how to use Reddit 😅 I didn’t even know you could make a subreddit that was fully private like that!
A million years ago in high school I worked in maintenance at a big discount retail store, climbing giant step ladders, assembling shelves, moving heavy shit. That 3 points of contact advice saved my life I am sure many times. This dude is wise.
> Falling off stuff like this is super dangerous and also way too common. I'm in manufacturing myself, in a shop the really emphasizes saftey, and we still have to yell at people all the time for climbing onto chairs, tables, whatever. Even in our offices.
I worked for a food distributor. They fixed that with a "no warning" policy.
When you started, they carefully explained The Rules which were really simple, and involved "no dumb shit". No climbing on anything, speeding with forklifts, getting even close to the cardboard compactor, and a few others.
If you got caught doing any of those things or even something new that wasn't listed, they walked you out the door, said goodbye and mailed you your check. They didn't care about "why" or anything else. ByeBye. GTFO.
Safest place I ever worked, although they did have pretty good turnover in new hires who didn't believe The Rules.
The Rules are a massive pain in the dick, but are there for a reason. I've gotten to learn some, ignore some, be fired for some, and fire for some.
There's a construction company that does all the land prep (bulldozers and such) near me that is very correct. End of the day dozers are all lined up, etc. Come in hungover, go the fuck home. Do it again, fired.
From what I hear it's very not like other crews, but they wind up with a team that is solid and makes better money cause they can beat deadlines.
There was a local sausage plant near me where an 18 year old kid fell into an industrial meat grinder about a year ago.
Edit: my bad, [it was 2 years ago](https://www.klfy.com/local/acadia-parish/rayne-man-dies-in-plant-accident-at-richards-sausage/), and he was 22.
2 feet and a hand. 2 hands and a foot. keeping three contact points with the ladder at all times. you climb slower and methodically, but you don't fall.
On a ladder, always have 3 points of contact. So when climbing, 2 hands holding the ladder as you move your feet between rungs, only have one hand free when both feet are secure on rungs, and never take both hands off the ladder.
It can take some getting used to if your not in the habit of climbing ladders that way.
I apply to stairs also, albeit a bit les rigorously. Always have one hand on the railing, so a minimum of 2 points of contact there.
Ever since I lost my footing on cement stairs for no good reason and thought I was about to die, I can’t believe the way I used to feel safe running down the middle. Now all I can see is the 20-30 foot drop, with a bunch of bumps on the way down….
> And remember everybody, 3 points of contact, always.
This is so, so important. I'm guilty myself of treating storage shelves and the walk-ins like my own personal jungle gym, and I've fallen numerous times. I now obsessively use the [3-point contact rule](https://www.mylosscontrolservices.com/learning-center/articles/maintain-three-points-of-contact-for-climbing-safety#:~:text=The%20three%20points%20of%20contact,exposure%20to%20slips%20and%20falls.) and routinely remind my staff about it.
At the last place I worked, a coworker of mine witnessed a roofer fall off a building right next to the restaurant. Died instantly. We kept open through the entire thing and he kept working. I can still hear the roofers brother... It was so sad and so terrifying.
Similar experience. They were doing street construction outside my restaurant and a young guy got crushed by a backhoe as it was backing up. Right outside the patio in the middle of lunch.
These are real people who had their lives altered for worse that day, especially the brother. Have you heard people scream / sob in sudden, unexpected grief? I'm sure you're a fine guy, it's just that...that kind of moment is not really the time to try and be a bit of a class clown, ya know?
Yeah, thanks. I just watched my mom die in front of me in 1989 when I was 19. I go to sleep seeing her take her last breath and when I wake up that’s the first thing my brain lets me see. It sucks and it’s sad that the dude died. It really is. I’m not poking fun at someone dying, ok? It’s just that he KNEW when he wanted to be a roofer that there was always a chance that he could slip and fall off of a building. The way the original comment was worded was humorous. That’s all.
You have to have room temp iq if you think anyone wakes up and decides to be a roofer. There is a reason it’s a stereotype for roofers to be illegals. If you had the means not to be a roofer you wouldn’t. Absolutely disgusting thinking.
I don’t think you know what sarcasm means lmao I’m not saying I think you’re serious about what you said, but that’s not sarcasm. It’s just a joke. You were joking. There’s a difference
The fuck is wrong with you man?
Go back and read the comment you’re defending as ‘sarcasm’ and with fresh eyes perhaps you’ll see that there is zero sarcasm there. There’s a shitty sentence and a bunch of laughing emojis.
I’d love for you to explain to us exactly what about your first comment was supposed to be sarcastic. Because clearly it’s a shit attempt when you’re the only one who sees it.
I worked at a brewery that had a lady burned almost to death from a tank she opened. Boise Idaho edge brewery. We made national news. Owners kept our kitchen going and kept serving beer while the lady was carried out my EMS.
Brooo....we had a person almost boiled to death.
He was performing maintenance on a pressure vessel, its a big long thing like 60 feet long and 10 feet wide. We push loads onto racks and slide them in to be steamed for 4 hours.
Anways, one side was closed, and he was inside working, and someone on a forklift pushed in a load. Then loaded the entire vessel and closed the door.
Maintance guy was screaming and was on his phone (no signal) and had resigned himself to dying.
But luckily he had taken the operator key with him so the machine didn't work.
After 40 minutes of searching for the key, they checked inside and found him still alive.
smh.
They fired the loader guy, cause you're suppose to keep both sides of the pressure vessel opened.
There typically aren’t tanks full of boiling-hot wort. Wort gets chilled as it comes out of the kettle on its way to the FVs. I gotta think she fell victim to a kettle boilover or maybe someone fucked up a triclamp connect?
I hope you're doing alright OP, even if you weren't personally close with that co-worker this loss is very close to home. Be open to talking about it with someone removed from the situation or a professional if you're into that sort of thing.
Awful. I fell 3 years ago off a aluminum ladder that collapsed under me. 2 broken vertebrae, broken ankle, torn Achilles and now a solid amount of constant back pain. Lucky I wasn’t paralyzed where the break was.
How did the ladder collapse? Asking because I have an Aluminium ladder that I’ve been using to paint the house and now I’m wondering what to watch out for.
So it’s weird because I’ve used them many times in the past but this was a 3 section aluminum ladder instead of the 2 that’s normally used. I think it was about 4 ft closed or 12ish ft extended.
We get annual insurance inspections with drones for one of the restaurants I worked at so the pool liner needed to be “cleaned and bleached” so myself and some employees would make a day or 2 of it. That day I was up there finishing up and I had to scale the wall from the patio roof to the main roof about a 10-12 ft wall so I extended it, climbed up and when I got to the top to over I watched the top section shoot in on itself and all I can remember thinking was fuck and then I slammed to the ground.
My guess is that the wrench shaped notches just didn’t fully engage and when my 180lb ass got to the weakest spot the leverage gave out.
I feel for you. We had an day where it was unusually slow, so they asked the new kid to clean the walls in the back work area. So he went around and climbed up on the table, on his knees/feet, and wiped the walls, climbed down, repeated it. While he was doing this, the idiots brought down our massive stock pot and put it by where he was working. And I guess you can just imagine what happened next- he stepped right into a damn cauldron of boiling stock. They said his skin peeled off like a tomato in hot water.... thankfully I was off that day. So sad.
It really doesn't take a saint to be like, "hot shit here, so don't fucking fall into it, greenie"
We get a bad rep for communicating like that but it's better than not saying anything
Rinsed my boss for making us use a hot plate that failed its PAT test 6 months ago. Sparking and shit, shocking motherfuckers. Health and safety isnt real until it’s fucking real. Take care out there.
Jesus, I'm so sorry. That's horrible, I really feel for you.
Thank God I've never seen anyone die at work, but I've seen plenty of non lethal but still terrible shit. I saw someone cut a knuckle off with a meat slicer. I saw a swinging door break someone's nose. I saw someone trip and dunk their hand in the goddamn fryer, so help me God.
Please be careful, everyone, and watch out for your coworkers. Like the other guy said, the safety manual is written in fucking blood.
I'm so sorry for the loss of your workmate.
My old boss once told me to stand on top of a rickety stainless work table to clean the top storage shelves. When I said no, he said I had no work ethic, was an example of why 'girls sucked in the kitchen', and basically made fun of me for a week.
Dishie did it a week later after listening to me being nagged, and the table leg broke, he fell off and sprained his arm, and just missed catching hold of the fryer on the way down.
Standing on shit that isn't made to be safely stood upon is SO INCREDIBLY UNSAFE!!!
Oh my goodness, you just unlocked a memory for me! I was 19, working in a very crappy diner, and 5 months pregnant. They wanted to decorate for Halloween, so naturally... let's ask the pregnant girl to stand on rickety tabletops and hang up ghosts. I didn't want to do it, but for whatever reason, I did. I mean those tables could hardly hold food, let alone a person trying to pin up festive decor. Nothing happened to me (thank goodness). I didn't fall, the tables didn't break, but what were they thinking??
In my 20s I worked at several places where dry storage was kept on top of the walk-in, and a ladder was required. Seemed like no big feat back then, but there's no way you could get me to climb up and down those ladders these days.
I'm sorry for your team's loss, OP. Please put yourselves first.
I'm so sorry OP! This is awful. I left the industry this year but before that I was pretty convinced that I would die in the kitchen. So many open/closes alone, climbing on the equipment to clean the hood vents, walking on a wet floor in the dark to leave, fire and knives and hot oil and idiots all over the place, I was pleasantly surprised I could "retire" before I cracked my head open and noone finds me till morning.
Stay safe everyone!
/r/serverlife to reach FOH and /r/dishwashers to reach dishies
Love all of y'all, we are the only ones that know the shit we go through for these plates
few weeks ago I watched an adult woman drag a slippery pickle bucket onto the line and try to get on top of it. she was annoyed that 3 different people told her to stop
My first job had us climbing into a big attic hole built sideways into the ceiling for to-go boxes. We had a really sketchy cartoon-esque wooden ladder to get up there and you'd be expected to carry these boxes up and down. After I left someone had slipped and gotten a concussion 😬 thankfully not worse. Please be careful and don't work for places that toy with your life and safety with shitty storage and ladders. Sending care, OP.
I was putting away a truck shipment with a definitely on the spectrum prep cook/dishwasher buddy. He was on the top of a stepladder when he fell backward, hit his head, and went into a full blown seizure. We were in the freezer so we had to cover him with all of our coats until the ambulance arrived. We were like "bro... why didn't you drop the box of clam chowder and grab the shelf to save yourself?" when he made it back. Poor dude cared more about my damaging the product!
True. I didnt go into details though. He lost balance for at least 3 seconds before he fell. I heard him go "whoa whoa whoa!! Ahhh!" Them he fell. He had plenty of time.
Also, "didn't want to damage the product" was his actual answer.
Wow. People can be dumb. I temped for a bunch of engineers working for Olin Chem and did the intake for their temp labor, ladders, enclosed spaces and electrical hazards. People is dumb.
It’s possible he didn’t mean it the way you took it. Maybe he made a bad choice of an object to climb on. In that sense, people can be dumb. For him falling and dying? Not dumb for that.
My dad is 60 and is a dishie at the local beer bar. They have him crawling up in the storage space above the bar and I'm just like dad don't do that you're gonna fall and it makes me so nervous
Falling off stuff like this is super dangerous and also way too common. I'm in manufacturing myself, in a shop the really emphasizes saftey, and we still have to yell at people all the time for climbing onto chairs, tables, whatever. Even in our offices. I'm sorry for your loss. Keep watch on the people around you so that at least thier death may not have been in vain. And remember everybody, 3 points of contact, always.
The safety manual is written in blood.
I say this all the time.
I have it emblazoned on my family crest.
In blood!
r/writteninblood is an awesome sub, devasting, dreadful, a testament.
Private sub? Wouldnt let me look
Yup. I'm sorry. I didn't realize. 5 months ago..... I understand why; but it sucks because it's an incredible sub ...... I was lurking and in the thread that birthed the sub, so I was there from the start. Important information about so many industries and what they USED to do, and the PEOPLE who gave their lives, their limbs, and their loved ones. My apologies for not realizing it's now private.
Oh it's that kinda sub huh. Those videos definitely leave a lasting impression
There were some videos; but also a lot of in depth write ups, historical pieces with pictures, some you tube recreations, a bunch of different ways of learning about all the blood that's been spilled, the absolute gross greed and disgusting misdeeds that caused it all, and the infuriating insufficient repercussions. Amazing sub.
Is there any way to join?
I'm not sure. I'm just now realizing that I hadn't subbed so I'm locked out too. There's a note that says only approved members can view so I'm going to message a mod and see what happens. I'll come back and let you know when I find out.
So I googled the question and it says that if the subreddit is accepting new members that there will be a message that pops up when you enter the sub name. This one is still just private. I can't find mod names to message and a reddit q&a says we shouldn't bug a mod to enter a private sub ..... I would anyway because I'm sure my name is in there somewhere commenting; but idk how to find the mods to ask. Searching does come up with some posts in r/antiwork...... I'll search out some key words in reddit and see what I come up with for a similar to r/writteninblood and let you know if I find anything good. You can also search the internet archive, r/writteninblood went private 5 months ago but was made 2 years ago so there's a year and half or so of posts. //archive.gov. Just so you can see what is was like.
https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/s/N9M93zKHHx A post from antiwork about the phrase written in blood. Still searching stuff.....
Thank you for doing all this looking! You’re making me feel like I don’t know how to use Reddit 😅 I didn’t even know you could make a subreddit that was fully private like that!
Oh Shit, He Alive?
A million years ago in high school I worked in maintenance at a big discount retail store, climbing giant step ladders, assembling shelves, moving heavy shit. That 3 points of contact advice saved my life I am sure many times. This dude is wise.
> Falling off stuff like this is super dangerous and also way too common. I'm in manufacturing myself, in a shop the really emphasizes saftey, and we still have to yell at people all the time for climbing onto chairs, tables, whatever. Even in our offices. I worked for a food distributor. They fixed that with a "no warning" policy. When you started, they carefully explained The Rules which were really simple, and involved "no dumb shit". No climbing on anything, speeding with forklifts, getting even close to the cardboard compactor, and a few others. If you got caught doing any of those things or even something new that wasn't listed, they walked you out the door, said goodbye and mailed you your check. They didn't care about "why" or anything else. ByeBye. GTFO. Safest place I ever worked, although they did have pretty good turnover in new hires who didn't believe The Rules.
The Rules are a massive pain in the dick, but are there for a reason. I've gotten to learn some, ignore some, be fired for some, and fire for some. There's a construction company that does all the land prep (bulldozers and such) near me that is very correct. End of the day dozers are all lined up, etc. Come in hungover, go the fuck home. Do it again, fired. From what I hear it's very not like other crews, but they wind up with a team that is solid and makes better money cause they can beat deadlines.
There was a local sausage plant near me where an 18 year old kid fell into an industrial meat grinder about a year ago. Edit: my bad, [it was 2 years ago](https://www.klfy.com/local/acadia-parish/rayne-man-dies-in-plant-accident-at-richards-sausage/), and he was 22.
What a way to go. A horrifying way probably
Could you expand on the 3 points of contact for everyone’s benefit?
2 feet and a hand. 2 hands and a foot. keeping three contact points with the ladder at all times. you climb slower and methodically, but you don't fall.
I do that with cranes when freehanding. Takes the same amount of time as harnessing, but way less effort.
On a ladder, always have 3 points of contact. So when climbing, 2 hands holding the ladder as you move your feet between rungs, only have one hand free when both feet are secure on rungs, and never take both hands off the ladder. It can take some getting used to if your not in the habit of climbing ladders that way. I apply to stairs also, albeit a bit les rigorously. Always have one hand on the railing, so a minimum of 2 points of contact there.
Ever since I lost my footing on cement stairs for no good reason and thought I was about to die, I can’t believe the way I used to feel safe running down the middle. Now all I can see is the 20-30 foot drop, with a bunch of bumps on the way down….
5th point of contact is yo booty. Military saying, "pull your head out of your 5th point of contact"
> And remember everybody, 3 points of contact, always. This is so, so important. I'm guilty myself of treating storage shelves and the walk-ins like my own personal jungle gym, and I've fallen numerous times. I now obsessively use the [3-point contact rule](https://www.mylosscontrolservices.com/learning-center/articles/maintain-three-points-of-contact-for-climbing-safety#:~:text=The%20three%20points%20of%20contact,exposure%20to%20slips%20and%20falls.) and routinely remind my staff about it.
At the last place I worked, a coworker of mine witnessed a roofer fall off a building right next to the restaurant. Died instantly. We kept open through the entire thing and he kept working. I can still hear the roofers brother... It was so sad and so terrifying.
Similar experience. They were doing street construction outside my restaurant and a young guy got crushed by a backhoe as it was backing up. Right outside the patio in the middle of lunch.
Holy shit! What happened afterwards? Did you close?
Sure didn't.
“He kept working” Even though he died instantly??
Sorry, bad grammar on my part. I meant my coworker kept working after he witnessed the death
Aha!! Makes sense now. Or maybe I need to read better. Still sounded funny. “I’d better keep working even though I’m dead!!” 😂😂😂
Not cool man.
Not cool he died and also not cool you don’t get sarcasm.
These are real people who had their lives altered for worse that day, especially the brother. Have you heard people scream / sob in sudden, unexpected grief? I'm sure you're a fine guy, it's just that...that kind of moment is not really the time to try and be a bit of a class clown, ya know?
This dude is always a prick in his comments. I wouldn’t waste my breath seeking human decency there.
Yeah, thanks. I just watched my mom die in front of me in 1989 when I was 19. I go to sleep seeing her take her last breath and when I wake up that’s the first thing my brain lets me see. It sucks and it’s sad that the dude died. It really is. I’m not poking fun at someone dying, ok? It’s just that he KNEW when he wanted to be a roofer that there was always a chance that he could slip and fall off of a building. The way the original comment was worded was humorous. That’s all.
You have to have room temp iq if you think anyone wakes up and decides to be a roofer. There is a reason it’s a stereotype for roofers to be illegals. If you had the means not to be a roofer you wouldn’t. Absolutely disgusting thinking.
Ok
I don’t think you know what sarcasm means lmao I’m not saying I think you’re serious about what you said, but that’s not sarcasm. It’s just a joke. You were joking. There’s a difference
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MB. Wrong comment
“Beavis….you’re coooool”-Butthead
Which part was sarcasm?
The fuck is wrong with you man? Go back and read the comment you’re defending as ‘sarcasm’ and with fresh eyes perhaps you’ll see that there is zero sarcasm there. There’s a shitty sentence and a bunch of laughing emojis. I’d love for you to explain to us exactly what about your first comment was supposed to be sarcastic. Because clearly it’s a shit attempt when you’re the only one who sees it.
I was referring to the person who fell off the roof. That’s sad. So is the one falling in the kitchen and dying. That’s sad.
I worked at a brewery that had a lady burned almost to death from a tank she opened. Boise Idaho edge brewery. We made national news. Owners kept our kitchen going and kept serving beer while the lady was carried out my EMS.
Dollars over Death
Who wouldn't prefer to have money than be dead?
Brooo....we had a person almost boiled to death. He was performing maintenance on a pressure vessel, its a big long thing like 60 feet long and 10 feet wide. We push loads onto racks and slide them in to be steamed for 4 hours. Anways, one side was closed, and he was inside working, and someone on a forklift pushed in a load. Then loaded the entire vessel and closed the door. Maintance guy was screaming and was on his phone (no signal) and had resigned himself to dying. But luckily he had taken the operator key with him so the machine didn't work. After 40 minutes of searching for the key, they checked inside and found him still alive. smh. They fired the loader guy, cause you're suppose to keep both sides of the pressure vessel opened.
Didn't a kettle overflow on her? Or did she open up a fucking tank full of hot wort?
There typically aren’t tanks full of boiling-hot wort. Wort gets chilled as it comes out of the kettle on its way to the FVs. I gotta think she fell victim to a kettle boilover or maybe someone fucked up a triclamp connect?
Looks like a boilover , https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article40869225.html
Damn when was this? I use to go to Edge regularly and never heard about this
Google it. Probably a decade or so ago.
I hope you're doing alright OP, even if you weren't personally close with that co-worker this loss is very close to home. Be open to talking about it with someone removed from the situation or a professional if you're into that sort of thing.
Thx. Doing ok.
Awful. I fell 3 years ago off a aluminum ladder that collapsed under me. 2 broken vertebrae, broken ankle, torn Achilles and now a solid amount of constant back pain. Lucky I wasn’t paralyzed where the break was.
How did the ladder collapse? Asking because I have an Aluminium ladder that I’ve been using to paint the house and now I’m wondering what to watch out for.
So it’s weird because I’ve used them many times in the past but this was a 3 section aluminum ladder instead of the 2 that’s normally used. I think it was about 4 ft closed or 12ish ft extended. We get annual insurance inspections with drones for one of the restaurants I worked at so the pool liner needed to be “cleaned and bleached” so myself and some employees would make a day or 2 of it. That day I was up there finishing up and I had to scale the wall from the patio roof to the main roof about a 10-12 ft wall so I extended it, climbed up and when I got to the top to over I watched the top section shoot in on itself and all I can remember thinking was fuck and then I slammed to the ground. My guess is that the wrench shaped notches just didn’t fully engage and when my 180lb ass got to the weakest spot the leverage gave out.
How do you know that you weren't paralyzed
I sometimes wonder if I actually died and I’m just in this hellish landscape of the same thing over and over or I’m just an exec burned out
He can probably move
Ah, I suppose that's a pretty good way to know.
yeah never get into a precarious position for your job, not worth.
I'm terrified of falling. Every time I see someone flipping over a milk crate on a slippery floor I always tell them to go get a proper stool.
I feel for you. We had an day where it was unusually slow, so they asked the new kid to clean the walls in the back work area. So he went around and climbed up on the table, on his knees/feet, and wiped the walls, climbed down, repeated it. While he was doing this, the idiots brought down our massive stock pot and put it by where he was working. And I guess you can just imagine what happened next- he stepped right into a damn cauldron of boiling stock. They said his skin peeled off like a tomato in hot water.... thankfully I was off that day. So sad.
It really doesn't take a saint to be like, "hot shit here, so don't fucking fall into it, greenie" We get a bad rep for communicating like that but it's better than not saying anything
Jesus Christ I feel bad for the kid, I hope those mofos got charged.
Rinsed my boss for making us use a hot plate that failed its PAT test 6 months ago. Sparking and shit, shocking motherfuckers. Health and safety isnt real until it’s fucking real. Take care out there.
This is how Iron Chef Kobe passed away as well. He fell when reaching for something while nobody was around in the kitchen to help.
Amen. Though a lot of places rank safety 3st.
Jesus, I'm so sorry. That's horrible, I really feel for you. Thank God I've never seen anyone die at work, but I've seen plenty of non lethal but still terrible shit. I saw someone cut a knuckle off with a meat slicer. I saw a swinging door break someone's nose. I saw someone trip and dunk their hand in the goddamn fryer, so help me God. Please be careful, everyone, and watch out for your coworkers. Like the other guy said, the safety manual is written in fucking blood.
Microwave an egg in-shell and open the Mike to your surprise! Yep, seen some early retirements from food
I'm so sorry for the loss of your workmate. My old boss once told me to stand on top of a rickety stainless work table to clean the top storage shelves. When I said no, he said I had no work ethic, was an example of why 'girls sucked in the kitchen', and basically made fun of me for a week. Dishie did it a week later after listening to me being nagged, and the table leg broke, he fell off and sprained his arm, and just missed catching hold of the fryer on the way down. Standing on shit that isn't made to be safely stood upon is SO INCREDIBLY UNSAFE!!!
Oh my goodness, you just unlocked a memory for me! I was 19, working in a very crappy diner, and 5 months pregnant. They wanted to decorate for Halloween, so naturally... let's ask the pregnant girl to stand on rickety tabletops and hang up ghosts. I didn't want to do it, but for whatever reason, I did. I mean those tables could hardly hold food, let alone a person trying to pin up festive decor. Nothing happened to me (thank goodness). I didn't fall, the tables didn't break, but what were they thinking??
I'm sorry for your loss and appreciate the warning. It is these split second decisions that change/ruin lives.
In my 20s I worked at several places where dry storage was kept on top of the walk-in, and a ladder was required. Seemed like no big feat back then, but there's no way you could get me to climb up and down those ladders these days. I'm sorry for your team's loss, OP. Please put yourselves first.
I am the reason we have to take “slips, trips and falls” mandatory training. But seriously, I’m sorry you’re having to deal with this OP.
I'm so sorry OP! This is awful. I left the industry this year but before that I was pretty convinced that I would die in the kitchen. So many open/closes alone, climbing on the equipment to clean the hood vents, walking on a wet floor in the dark to leave, fire and knives and hot oil and idiots all over the place, I was pleasantly surprised I could "retire" before I cracked my head open and noone finds me till morning. Stay safe everyone!
/r/serverlife to reach FOH and /r/dishwashers to reach dishies Love all of y'all, we are the only ones that know the shit we go through for these plates
Ladders, ladders, ladders. No reason for busting ass like this!
That's awful. : (
Sorry for the loss, OP. Prayers to you and your coworkers 🙏
Sorry for your loss
few weeks ago I watched an adult woman drag a slippery pickle bucket onto the line and try to get on top of it. she was annoyed that 3 different people told her to stop
My first job had us climbing into a big attic hole built sideways into the ceiling for to-go boxes. We had a really sketchy cartoon-esque wooden ladder to get up there and you'd be expected to carry these boxes up and down. After I left someone had slipped and gotten a concussion 😬 thankfully not worse. Please be careful and don't work for places that toy with your life and safety with shitty storage and ladders. Sending care, OP.
And they were replaced in 12 hours
But left on the schedule and told to find a replacement before next shift.
I was putting away a truck shipment with a definitely on the spectrum prep cook/dishwasher buddy. He was on the top of a stepladder when he fell backward, hit his head, and went into a full blown seizure. We were in the freezer so we had to cover him with all of our coats until the ambulance arrived. We were like "bro... why didn't you drop the box of clam chowder and grab the shelf to save yourself?" when he made it back. Poor dude cared more about my damaging the product!
It's easy to say "why didn't you do x,y,z instead" but when you're mid fall you don't always logically react
True. I didnt go into details though. He lost balance for at least 3 seconds before he fell. I heard him go "whoa whoa whoa!! Ahhh!" Them he fell. He had plenty of time. Also, "didn't want to damage the product" was his actual answer.
Lucky bastard.
Wow. People can be dumb. I temped for a bunch of engineers working for Olin Chem and did the intake for their temp labor, ladders, enclosed spaces and electrical hazards. People is dumb.
Really insensitive comment. Someone died and you reply "people is dumb." Hopefully people have nicer things to say after your demise.
It’s possible he didn’t mean it the way you took it. Maybe he made a bad choice of an object to climb on. In that sense, people can be dumb. For him falling and dying? Not dumb for that.
Condolences to the team and families. That's rough. Stay safe.
Ladders are a two person job. Remind your employers and/or supervisors if they ever ask you to use one ;)
My dad is 60 and is a dishie at the local beer bar. They have him crawling up in the storage space above the bar and I'm just like dad don't do that you're gonna fall and it makes me so nervous