Lurid Work Stories"I know a railwayman of 40-odd years' service," says Juan Quar, "and he tells me a new gruesome yarn each time we meet. Last week's was of checking the time on the wristwatch of a severed arm he'd just collected after a track fatality."
Tell us the horrible stories you tease the new hires with, or that you've been told.
NB By definition, these are probably all made up. Roll with it
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chthonic, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:33)
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the following pic is a blade that is used in a paper guillotine similar to the type I use at work...www.cknife.com/blade_images/guillotine-blades.jpg
it's stupidly sharp and heavy. it's used to cut big piles of paper in to smaller piles. I was informed many years back when I started using the machine to be very careful as 'some bloke once was changing a blade and was just aligning the back blocks, he did this by entering both arms into the machine to check the balance. he hadn't tightened the blade very well and down it came right through both his arms.' They have since become very safe to use. This is believable in that the blades really are THAT sharp, but I never got told if his arms were reattached or not...
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Ya What Skiddlyboop, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 15:20,
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"They have since become very safe to use."Probably replaced his hands with boxing gloves.
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monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 16:24,
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skullfunkerry In case of implosion do not look into implosion, Wed 11 Sep 2013, 9:59,
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I used to work with a guy...whose brother worked in a paper mill of some sort. Stupidly he put his arms into the machine, managing to bypass the safety screens, and his arms were neatly severed through the forearm. His first reaction was to try to pick them up...
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there's a mill just down the road from where i work, well, there used to bethey're knocking it down to build houses, but years ago a fella was in one of the big machines, cleaning it, and someone didn't realise he was in and turned it on. It was a big mangled mess apparently...
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Ya What Skiddlyboop, Wed 11 Sep 2013, 8:52,
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See alsowww.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Man-loses-hands-in-freak-accident-20100812
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Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Tue 10 Sep 2013, 18:50,
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The word 'guillotine' is a tip really - suggests sharpness, cuttingness, y'know, sliceyness.(, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 22:47, closed)
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