Things That Make You Chuckle

Even boring tasks in heavy industry and logistics are potentially fatal. Guys get maimed or killed all the time just trying to fix machinery.

At my one job we had a guy kill himself at one of our plants because he picked up an unbalanced load with a crane, it swung and crushed him against the wall… done. He had a beer that day with lunch at a local bar, like he had every day for the past 40 years. The widow sued saying it wasn’t in the handbook that you couldn’t return to work with a legal measure of alcohol in your blood, and that policy contributed to her husband’s death. The company settled rather than go through the 2 year lawsuit.

So yeah, it happens.

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