21 Sarcastic Zen Sayings to carry you thru Life

[Bernardo de La Paz]

47. Yes, I never worked in a steel plant, but you prove my point.

There are also many kinds of steel plants, including steel foundries, steel mills, open hearth facilities, specialty steel plants and metal fabrication facilities. Not all plants are identical to the one you worked in.

As a programmer with an imagination always looking for bugs and causes of bugs and actively working to nip problems before they occur, years of experience shows that there are many ways for things to go wrong. Just because a hard hat won't protect you in the case of being directly under a ten ton block does not mean they are useless.

I did not miss the point about 10 tons falling directly on a person. I referred to it explicitly. You are the one missing points.

The lifts in many plants may be traveling 30 feet above, but they do get hooked up lower before they are raised. They can break under high tension as they start rising. You can get clocked on the side of the head by a fork lift.

Metal being poured nearby can bounce and fly a distance.

Rolling and milling machinery can break down and send parts and metal flying.

Whether it is chains or cables, same point.

When a cable or chain breaks, it can whip off to the side when there is side tension on it, as there would be with two or more points of lift on a heavy item. Even if a single hoist point breaks, broken chain links can go flying. High tension means high energy breakages.

Workers do need to get up high at times to fix things, attach things to the ceiling even if it is only lighting or power or heating & ventilation.

Stacked / shelved items can fall over or topple while being stacked or unstacked.

A worker can be bent over fixing something at knee level and a worker can drop a tool on them they were using at chest level. Yes, much can be avoided by good working practices, but no workplace or work force is perfect.

Just because you worked without hard hats for years doesn't make it wise. As the falling man passed the tenth floor he was asked "Are you ok?" He said "Everything's fine so far."