Posted by redtom on June 25, 2020 at 14:14:29 from (97.84.163.62):
WE had an incident at my work that was so shocking and could've been so bad that I feel I need to share. One of the owners arrived and backed his pickup up to our roll-off dumpster of trash. He had a toilet from home remodeling to pitch and backed up perpendicular to the roll-off. Me and two workers were in the shop doorway talking about 100ft away. He lifted the toilet from his truck bed to the dumpster and must've clunked the edge on his way in. All we heard was "clunk...and oh ****". I just figured he pinched a finger or something. We looked out and he was holding his hand up and it was bleeding. I just figured a bad cut. My coworker saw better and sprinted out with a few disposable shop towels. He screamed for more rags. I ran the box out and oh my God! Blood was pouring between the coworkers fingers as he added more and more towel as he was squeezing the guys wrist. It was obvious he cut an artery, blood had sprayed all over in the trash. I called an ambulance as they tried to stop the flow. They ended up putting a belt around his arm. The amount of loss was very scary and I feared he would bleed out before our eyes. A policeman happened to be next door at a neighboring business in the back yard and a coworker ran and got him. He had a velcro tourniquet. My point here is: Im 57 and I've seen a few things-not a lot, but a few. I watched old folks die, was there when my son broke his leg, twice, took my dad in when a chainsaw just knicked his chin (11 stitches). But I've never seen anything like this. I bet he bled a quart at least. I know what to do, we all do for the most part. I've seen countless safety films at my former job of 29 years in a plant. But, I dont think I could've reacted like that guy did with the direct pressure. My mind was just racing in a panic. I did handle the phone call well because I've made 3 or 4 911 calls for help. I'm just afraid that If it had been just him and me I would have failed the "test" and it would've been fatal. So, please take a second to review in your mind how something as simple as a cut could be fatal. In a way, I'm glad I was there it shocked me into thinking what I should've or could've done. He's ok, cut a nerve partially, 5 tendons and his artery.
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