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I'm not clear how the cart saved you? How did the box fall, what objects were where, what was your relative position? I'm just trying to recreate what happene
by MegaButts 7y ago
I'm not clear how the cart saved you? How did the box fall, what objects were where, what was your relative position? I'm just trying to recreate what happened in my head and not getting there.
- hinkley 7y agoIf part of the box remained on the cart, then there's an air gap, and that might put you into broken or bruised bone territory instead of crushing damage.
- MegaButts 7y agoSo someone dropped a 600 pound box so close to a worker the only thing that saved him is the vertical air gap provided by the cart? I thought he meant the box fell an inch next to his foot, not above it.
- hinkley 7y agoPlausible, but then the bit about the cart is superfluous information. Might as well say, "Someone dropped a box an inch from my foot." I don't know the story-telling skills of GGP so your guess is as good as mine.
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoThe box got unloaded off the cart outside my cube. It got left standing on edge, which is not how one should leave 600 pounds of steel. (This was a kit, not an assembled desk, so "on edge" was maybe eight inches wide.) When it fell, the cardboard box caught the cart, but none of the steel inside did. The steel then proceeded to slowly rip the box. The net result was that this 600 pounds got slowly put on my foot, rather than slamming onto it. That was the difference between minutes of pain and months of rehab. (And, yeah, it falling may or may not have been my fault...)
- mjevans 7y agoSetting off a not-clearly-marked death-trap outside of what should be a safe space is not something I'd classify as "your fault"... at least not with the provided data.