This ine went through leather gloves and into the thumb. I kept re wrapping it everyday for a week. I didn’t think it would ever seal up as well. Me I was scoring the plastic inserts for aluminum caps. As we were given the wrong size for the rebar we were told to use. Yeah it didn’t work. I tried and the whole time i said this is not going to work well and probably cut myself and I did. Now I am just mad i messed up a good pair of farm work gloves. I had just purchased 😂.
All you need to do is put on the glove, then wrap the glove wound with duct tape. Then put on the other glove and apply duct tape in the same location. If anyone says anything, tell them you have found this is the best way you have found to get longer wear from your gloves.
I might have some under the front seat now that looks exactly like that. When I first started with this company like my 2nd week. I had to drive 70 miles to a job site to meet a crew to help. And to get familiar with the project. Anyway i had not completed the osha training nor the on site specific. I did have a hard hat but just in my truck a pair of old leather riding gloves i used on farm. Worked that job 3 weeks so the main crew chief could take vacation etc. then the safety police caught me coming from the local porta john and asked where my gloves were some cutting and impact proof gloves. He said the official ansi type wording etc. I reached into my pocket grabbed my globes and pit them on he said thats what you have. I said yes sir. He laughed and said I am sorry but you need to leave the site. I was like what is wrong he said they would not save me from sharp objects or impact. I said i string barb wire with these and have hit my thumb a million times fencing. He said This is no farm. He was nice but he was a stickler for all the safety requirements on site. I said i had no idea about that other stuff he believed me and sent me down the road where i bought a pair that actually were compliant. I did go through his safety class and he remembered me. We chatted and he asked all about my safety apparel for farm. I ate lunch on my tailgate showing him my chaps and all and gloves. He was a true safety guy he knew everything about things. And he loved his job. . He sent me stuff I should have on farm. Links to different items. I added it up and nope farm doesn’t pay that well LOL.
I worked as a Safety "Engineer" on a few jobs. With us, it was the employer's responsibility to provide the proper PPE. I almost always had an extra pair of gloves, safety glasses, vest, etc. in my truck or UTV. Some of the jobs were at night so I also carried a double handful of AA batteries for their headlights. Very seldom did I get any grief for "correcting" the workers about safety. I made it clear up front that I was there to help THEM keep themselves safe.
Oh i hope i did not imply i was upset with the safety guy. He was nice the whole time. I was not in compliance but i had no idea what all was either. When we see each other still we laugh. I bought the wife a stihl electric chainsaw last year and some good globes and chaps. He told me the best type to order for her. And let me tell you that little chainsaw is a beast. I told her I needed one for the farm its so good. Yeah the employer should have probably me what i needed in the beginning but it was a last minute issue for me to even be on site that long. We were slammed. I was computing stuff on the fly in the field and it was the only way to keep up with the contractor. They were flying and no one was prepared so sending in a young chief or iman as a chief was not going to work at the time. As fast as i could stake one leyer they was bringing in different material for me to compute the next layer. Some of that acope and contract no one read. 😂
Absolutely no offense taken. My first heavy civil job (an oil refinery) I was an instrument man. I have never been able to run an instrument while wearing glasses. I just can't get my eye close enough to the lens. The Safety Man on the job came to a compromise with me. I took my safety glasses off while behind the instrument, but put them back on as soon as I wasn't using the gun.
I have been on two jobsites when fatalities occurred. One not preventable (at least by the contractor), the worker had a fatal heart attack while eating lunch. One completely preventable. A union operator, who absolutely should have known better, set a gasoline powered pump down in a pipe that was used as an inverted siphon. After a while it quit pumping and he went in to see why. Carbon monoxide killed him and put two others, who went in after him, in the hospital.
1. The idea of this Altoids tin First Aid Kit is something that a surveyor could everyday carry in the vest. Naturally there should be a much more substantial kit back in the truck. Every Boy Scout knows of the triangular, or cravat, bandage. The red or blue bandana that is commonly otherwise carried is basically the same thing. If you know how to properly fold and roll it.
2. PPE requirements and company safety inspections are usually driven either by OSHA rules, and the fear of the fines that come from a failed OSHA inspection, or from the terms of WC insurance policies.
3. I written here before of how I believe that employers should strongly consider supplying things like boots and jackets to their field staff. I feel even more that PPE like hard hats, eye and ear protection, gloves, and vests is an employer responsibility. If an employee gets injured on the job and the employer is not supplying them, and making sure that they are being used where and when appropriate, the WC insurer and OSHA is going to make things hard. As in hard to continue in business. Most, if not all, of my employers have supplied PPE when asked to. Few, if any, have run after me to put it in my hands.
I have been lucky up until recent years. Back when I was running an Instrument as an I man no hard hay nor safety glasses or gloves. But like you said as soon as I stepped away they all went on. Now i need glasses to read so that means when looking at the data collector and the safety goggles that go over them are no fun at all. I guess i would get prescriptions Safety glasses if i were in the field a lot. But I can’t justify the extra cost now. Also I can’t see to walk with the readers on. I busted my rump on a slope not long ago walking with the readers and goggles sun blinding me and just stepped funny. Thank goodness i was just helping a crew chief understand the site plans. He had a good laugh at me. i laughed as well.
Reader Safety glasses are a thing. They have them at my local HD.