TIL....hydraulic injection injuries are gruesome!

[Meleager7]

thanks aVe !

https://youtu.be/A6MS1hgrtwc

[flyweightnate]

Man... guy I used to work with told us all the nitty gritty, followed by "So use a sheet of cardboard, not your hand, to check for leaks." I've never been more convinced.

It's like those stories of a guy losing his fingers to a steam leak, then showing you where with his other hand...

Fluid power is scary.

[Siress]

I hear the word 'injection' frequently in the medical field. Connotation is a minor bit of pain for something that'll heal you. Growing up in a family of trade/craftsmen, I don't think there was one positive connotation with the word... either junkies or fatal/near-fatal industrial accidents like this one. Liquid or gas, pressurized injection will bisect your life into before and after, if there is an after.

[moonweasel]

I remember part of a safety section of a course, basically about a human balloon, skin separating from the rest of the body.
No sir, I don't like it.

[RhoXi]

This is one of the few things that truely worry me in the industrial field. What a horrible way to go and you might not even see it until it bites you. I always give hydraulics their due respect becaue of that.

[Siress]

This is one of the few things that truely worry me in the industrial field. What a horrible way to go and you might not even see it until it bites you. I always give hydraulics their due respect becaue of that.

Aside for this one, I have a short list of things that haunt me: degloving. exposure to harmful radiation/chemicals, environmental chamber incidents, and more of a general one - testicular torsion. What else are you guys haunted by?

In the end, it's probably the B's that'll get me. And I'm strangely ok with that. (Butter, bacon, and brisket)

[RhoXi]

What else are you guys haunted by?

Confined spaces being flooded with an undectable gas is another good one. I've heard too many stories were the guy in the confined space suddenly colapses and his buddy will rush to the rescue only to meet the same fate. I know it would be extemely difficult for me not to run in to help but you just can't in that situation.

Heard you on the 3 B's. We're here for a good time not a long one!

[Bow]

We have all of these hazards at work. We have hydraulics, confined spaces, crush hazards, fall hazards, overhead hazards, chemicals, machine accidents..You name it we got it. They drill it into us with regular 5 year OSHA and the incompany one that's basically a copy and paste of the program. With that though everyone is really safety focused.

My worry when I still had to go into the pit nightly was that we'd have a nitrogen leak/burst. There are 20 SCBAs down there but I doubt I'd have time to really get one on if I didn't hear it go. There's also monitors down there that will flash and alarm as well. Still scary.

My teachers in college always warned me about not touching hydraulic lines. We spent a whole day looking at pictures of injection wounds and rotting hands. I'm good with that.