when i did agency work i did a spell at a factory that made pizza trays & chip cartons out of polystyrene...
they made the polystyrene onsite, on massive rolls about 2m wide & 2-4mm thick depending what product...
all the waste polystyrene was collected and dissolved in solvent & reblown in the 'remelt' plant, and turned back into new stuff.
but when it comes out the blower it looks more like nobbly chunks of expanding foam,bubbles out the extruder like lava, then goes through a series of rollers and trimmers to press it down to the required thickness...
you know what's coming don't you...........
every now and then the rollers would get jammed, and the way to free it was isolate the machine, put chains up around the work area, work permits etc, then hack away at the tough foam with a wrecking bar until it's free.
one guy, only been there a week or so... saw the machine stopped, assumed it was isolated and went in with the bar...
machine started and pulled him in, arm first, shoulder, head - he went down to about 8mm
dead obviously.
seen loads of bad accidents at work - saw one guy hop out of his builder's van, got a alloy cat ladder off the roofrack, then leaned it on a 11,000v busrail that ran along the roofline, burst into flames.
i was eating me butties at the time.
another guy had been restoring a mg roadster in his lunchbreaks and had been spraying it with lacquer, then went to a glass moulding machine that had jammed, tapped the jam with a hammer to break the set glass and whoooooof up in flames, so hot we couldnt get near him. dead again.
(not same bloke obviously)
had to fish a mates fingers out of a machine, still in half his glove... then he came back months later and the same day he lost half his foot!
biking is safer than working lol!
