That’s because there’s no amputation risk in white collar jobs.
There’s the risk of sinking the business by doing dumb things, but that takes a while, and many execs have made a career out of hopping from company to company, collecting giant paychecks and not sticking around long enough to have to deal with the consequences of their idiocy.
> That’s because there’s no amputation risk in white collar jobs.
In most white-collar jobs. My first white-collar job involved (among other things) probing live 270VDC circuits, overseeing tests in liquid-nitrogren-cooled chambers, and working in close proximity to live radiating antennas. Sure, I spent most of my time at my desk, but that was still ample opportunity for serious, permanent injury.
There's little amputation risk. But I nearly got my foot crushed by a 600 pound steel desk (in a box, left where it could fall) right outside my cube. Thank God the cart that had been used to move it saved me, literally by an inch.
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.
The 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...)
Setting 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.
If 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.
So 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.
There’s the risk of sinking the business by doing dumb things, but that takes a while, and many execs have made a career out of hopping from company to company, collecting giant paychecks and not sticking around long enough to have to deal with the consequences of their idiocy.