Someone Died at Our Machine Shop
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2021
- Crazy incident at the machine shop…
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In June this year in our place, one bloke who I worked with for 10 years, and who picked me up and brought me home after work, died from a massive heart attack while at his machine. He was 61, lived his whole life looking forward to his retirement in 2 years but never got to see it. RIP Ian, you were a great friend and the most amazing turner and engineer.
Do they know what caused it? We had a guy who died from a heart attack at 40 and some of us believe it was because of the covid vaccine he just got.
I'm so sorry for your loss :( Losing a mentor is like losing a family member.
Damn, thats awful 😕
@@SuperScopeRawks That would be extremely low on the list of the many other reasonable causes for people to experience an acute coronary syndrome.
@@texasermd1 To be fair many of the side effects people are having are heart related. Yes its speculation, but its not baseless.
Had a guy where I worked slipped on a wet floor in the bathroom and hit His head on a sink. He was gone instantly. We were All Shocked by what had happened. A Super Cool-Nice Guy Too..
Poor guy :( I'm sorry
He may have had an aneurysm first. I know someone whose mother had an aneurysm in the bathroom and hit her head, but she was dead before she hit the sink.
@Backlash1818 Mobile Gaming Channel I agree. Fast blink and ZZZ. Rip 🙏
@Backlash1818 Mobile Gaming Channel the opposite of that:
The last deadly accident at the paper mill I work at (electrical engineer) was 30 years ago. I am in my last semester of my bachelors degree and I have been working for the company for about 2 years but my work colleagues told me the whole story:
So anyway: it was 1992 and we have a huge pressure grinder to grind wood into thin strips for further processing. The machine is about 10 meters high and you can imagine it as 4 huge grind stones in a casing with hatches and a conveyor belt on top. These grind stones move in pairs towards each other and hot water is injected to create overpressure and prevent the wood from getting too hot while also softening it up. Every once in a while, they stop feeding wood into it, lower the water pressure, open the hatch to check the condition of the grind stones and possibly grinding out any uneven wear on the grindstone by hand.
He stumbled and fell in. They could hear him scream for a good 15 seconds and he made multiple rotations around the grindstone until the other grindstone moved close enough to, well, grind him down.
He got sinned around, Practical boiled and grinded to death.
Everything was full of blood. They showed me the images of the aftermath and its just... Sad
I sort of hope I die like that so I don't have to die in a hospital in emotional agony
You're a real one Titan. Thanks for the advice, we all need that reminder that our time is limited. We love you man
Thanks… Love you too🤙
I was in my mid 20s, 6 years in the trade when I worked in a big aerospace company in Southern California and was definitelyone of the youngest guys in the shop. Everyday I left as night shift came in, I had to walk by inspection to leave the shop. There was always one old man who seemed like the lone wolf. He had biker tattoos and long salt and pepper hair. He always minded his own until I came around. Nobody ever talked to him.. He always stared at me. Cuz I too have a lot of punk rock tattoos. One day I worked up the courage to say hi and make a friend. He liked me. We would tell eachother super vulgar jokes lol. Id always say hi and he'd say "howdy partner". I would always show him my new tattoos and he'd smile. Last conversation I said to take care and have a good day, he said "it'd be a good day when I'm dead". Next few days, a donation box was passed around and when I got a hold of it, it said "we will miss you. Our friend has passed away. I still think about you sometimes sir. You were the long lost elder mentor I loved to be around because we were the cool outcasts. So close to retirement. R.I.P. Jack. Miss ya homeboy
Brotha, you hit the nail on the head. I just realized how precious and short life is two day ago. I'm a materials tester for the department of transportation, and as I was out waiting to pick up a sample of hot mix from the highway we're working on there was an accident about 1000 feet from where the paving operation was at. I drive over to the scene, there's a mangled hunk of metal next to a jack knifed semi. I knew it was going to be bad. The semi driver took his last couple of breathes as another motorist and I were talking to him trying to keep him awake, the cab was so crushed it had pinned in there. The hunk of metal next to the semi was the remnant of a moving truck splint in three. The poor driver of that vehicle has no chance of surviving. In an instant I saw two people lose their lives. You never know what's going to happen from one minute to the next, enjoy and do the most with every single moment you have in life.
You need to speak to a therapist. 20 years ago I went through something similar and I wish I had. This can change you.
@@genuinedickies99 agreed. It can't hurt and it can help, a lot.
That's right
I was the lead first aid/cpr/aed person in a machine shop for twenty five years and thankfully the worst thing we ever had to face was an outside contractor getting hit in the head with a panel of a vertical tool storage cabinet and the typical lacerations that happen with sharp tooling and sharp parts! No deaths, praise the Lord!
About 8 years ago, there was this 57 year old guy who was Laos that I worked with. He had a heavy accent so I could barely ever understand him but he was really cool and always telling me stories from his home country. Usually he would run a acme screw machine and a small single lathe machine. One day he needed help breaking a large bolt on the lathe. He couldn't muster the strength to break it lose. He was having chest pain. Later in the week he decided to go the doctor to get checked out. He found out he had stage 4 cancer. He died 3 months later. Life sucks man
No, my friend; it's a precious gift. It's not always easy, but never throw it back in the face of the One who gave it. Never try to tell Him that His Gift is insufficient.
That's wa-aa-ay over our pay grade, a blasphemy most foul.
@@villagelightsmith4375 lmfao
@@villagelightsmith4375 whatever...
Maybe he said it in a weird way but he’s right, life is a gift, it’s death that sucks
When I was in metal shop in high school, I was making an aluminum head for a meat tenderizer on a Bridgeport knee mill, my friend was turning the handles out of brass on the lathe. It was a a bigger piece of brass than we needed but at the time it was not very expensive but when it was chucked up, the jaws protruded about 3/4" outside of the chuck. This was 1977 and I had never heard of CNC, not even sure if it was being developed then so we were all old school machining. At the time, long hair was the thing, (think Aerosmith, Zepplin etc.) my friend was no exception but he broke long hair rule number one. He didn't tie his hair back. While making the handles his hair caught up in the chuck, pulled his face into the chuck which basically removed his entire facial features and beat the hell out of his skull. The estop was hit in like what seemed like less than a second. He died the next day. I hadn't thought about it for years until I saw this today. You're absolutely right. Treat every day as if it could be your last. I just turned 60 and would love to retire and start working in the CNC industry for a few years, and laugh if you want but to me it would be fun! But I think I'll just stick with my small CNC lathe and mill in my little shop. This popped up in my recommendations and when I saw the tile, something told me I had to check this out. I'm glad I did.
In 1973 - 4 years before this incident - I interviewed for an engineering job designing CNC machine controls for General Electric Company. What, you don't have a GE machine control? Their mistake, they chose not to hire me.
Lathe is by far the most dangerous machine in a shop. Imo
@@3dee106 - How so? I’m genuinely curious
I will be using this story for our next safety talk, at WCCC/CMU Machining..
Thanks Heeder🙏
@@3dee106 The most dangerous tool in any shop is complacency. The moment you start to think that you don't have to worry about Machine X because Machine Y is so much more dangerous is just a few moments before Machine X is going to remind you how dangerous it really is.
6 years ago I was getting off work and I remember my coworker walking next to me to the parking lot and he said he was very tired that he was just gonna go home and get some rest and I just said have a good evening see you in the morning 15min later he was found on the side of the fwy he had a massive heart attack! Just like that he was gone. This life that God gives us is so precious, always give him thanks and praise.
Thank you for sharing your heartbreaking experience, I can’t imagine what you and your team at that point was feeling, death isn’t a joke and living through seeing a death first hand must change how you live yours.
Don’t listen to any of the bad comments Titan I’m glad that you was able to share this as most people can’t express how they feel
At least he didn't kill the man on the lathe. I've worked at shops that had shady owners that would screw over customers and employees alike.
it's a miracle we didn't lose someone over the years with this 48" lathe they had at the shop I started out in. it was nothing to have a 1500 lb mass being worked in that thing and inevitably once in a while it would suddenly lose grip on the chuck. even though there was a guard on the start button, someone would manage to trip it a the wrong time. it did happen at another shop, similar machine, guy was trying to put a little more squeeze on the chuck with it in gear, somehow it started and the big chuck key came around and that was all for him. people let their guard down running a 12 inch lathe and be just as dead. I spent 43 years in 2 shops and was lucky to never have a trip to the hospital because the old guys brought me along with the right attitude
I ran a 39”x255” lathe for a few years. Everything from 2”x200” parts to 15”x225” and yes, every day could be your last. I stood in front of a multi ton spinning stick of death all day. Even did a couple 20hr days…
@@kw2519 i hear ya, we did at least half of our jobs on big company breakdowns, you had to stay till it was fixed
I saw a guy on a bicycle get killed by a another guy joyriding and hit him when he lost control of a 911 turbo. It was a very bad day, one dead guy at my feet and the driver crying on his knees next to me. I was sitting in my car waiting for someone at the time and it happened in front of me. I was only 20. Now I'm 43 I chose to have an interesting and full life because of that day. Made plenty of mistakes but it's been a life worth living so far. I totally get your sentiments on this. A year after the accident I was riding my bike on the same road and saw his family planting a tree in his memory, I introduced myself and said that I was there when he died, I told them he passed peacefully (instantly) I think they appreciated that.
Did you do CPR?
@@gregorymalchuk272 He wasn't in a CPR condition.
Thank you Titan for sharing that story. Sometimes sharing a life event like this is needed by someone more than you would sometimes think. People get so caught up in what they are doing that they don't take the time to just step back and look at where life is going and how their family and friends are truly doing. Take care and love you channel and seeing all the stuff you guys all do here.
Well said, touche
Damn bro, when his gaze shifted past you thats when he passed away. Thats some trippy shit. Poor guy. Youre so right, life is precious, it could be our last day anytime.
2 days ago i buried one of my oldest friends, friends for over 20 years. 28 years old, in superb health and fitness. He passed out in a geothermal lagoon and drowned before he was spotted. He was quite literally the last person I'd expect to outlive in our age group. I don't reckon I'll ever see life the same again, but hopefully it'll be an encouragement to treasure every day.
Had a friend die in a geothermal pond too think he had a seizure in the pond and drowned
@@aarsoul9860 My friend was doing that thing where you go from a cold tub to a hot tub. Then he just passed out .
Im sorry for your loss homie, losing one of the boys at such a young age must be incredibly hard. Hang in there bud
@@HinrikS young healthy person die of heart desease? must be the jab
@@cicciograziani6697 MUST be? Could be, potentially, but what do You base Your statement on? Besides You wanting it to be.
My dad was a machinist and one thing I notice about him is that he never accidentally hit his head or trip over something. Being a machinist makes you self aware of your surroundings.
He probably had the heart attack as he was reversing, causing him to slam into the machine. I very similar thing happened to a friend, he reversed out of his garage down a mountain with his foot lodged on the gas from a heart attack.
Sounds more like a brain aneurysm or stroke. He would have been in sever pain having heart attack.
You're a good motivator...This is stuff I need to hear and understand, now more than ever before. You've got a new sub. Thank you, Titan.
Titan, I stumbled across your channel, I'm not in your industry at all, but appreciate the precision, complexity, dedication it takes to be good at what you do. That you've taken those skills and grown your own business. The philosopy, the business stories, it all applies to most any business, so that added another layer to my interest. Now this story comes along, and yet another layer to you emerges, and I just had to say it's remarkable that not only are you on your journey, but you're bringing us along. Sad to hear about this accident, but the impact it has on lives going forward is there to be learned and applied. Thanks for that!
Not a machinist or even operator (though my father worked in aerospace CNC for many years) but I discovered a new fondness for all this. Thank you for quality content.
In 2018, I was deep in a depression, in between jobs and had turmoil among my circle of friends. Took to a walk around the neighborhood to clear my head and as I was going to open my back door after returning home, I hear the most intense sound of a car crash. I kid you not, I remember reaching for the handle and hearing the sound of what I imagine dropping a dumpster from a tall building would sound like. I run out to the intersection to see a small Nissan had been launched into the corner property where it laid on the passenger side with the trunk resting on the porch. The vehicle that ran the red light had diverted into the large old tree that protected the home, deflecting the 4 runner from parking in the master bedroom.
Bewildered describes how I felt. But what fucked me up was the dui driver laying on the lawn, twisted like a pretzel. I talked to him briefly as he choked on his last breaths. Dispatch asked me to perform CPR and I said that it’s too late. Expectedly, they said it’s not too late if he is still breathing but I calmly told her that she was not seeing what I was seeing. Shifting attention to the other driver, I checked her pulse and nothing. She likely passed on impact or shortly after. Dispatch asked me to get the door open but the handle popped off like a cheap toy when I tried. First responders arrived and I exited.
I leave out many, many details to this story that I believe to be very personal but one thing I will share was in the brief time I was there, I felt it to last an eternity. It played out like a movie. Never felt so certain about the existence of higher powers before that night.
A couple weeks later, a friend took his own life after deciding his struggle was over.
Cherish those around you and as many waking moments as you can. Those individuals never made it home so I make it a point to be thankful when i get home
Glad it wasn't one of your machines that did the deed.
One evening back in 2006, I was giving my friends son and his girlfriend a ride to her house. I think they were both 15 at the time. They asked if I would stop at the store at the corner of her street, so I did. Just as they were coming out the store, some guy comes around the corner shooting. The guy being shot at runs around my truck. It all happened in about 3 seconds. When it was over, the intended target was on the ground 3 feet away from my truck. There was a bullet hole going straight through my truck, so it was probably a good thing I dove down as low as I could get. And the worst of it was that my friend's girlfriend was shot in the back. The most difficult thing I had to come to terms with was choosing to help my friends girlfriend rather than the other person whom I did not know, and then listening to him take his last breaths. I couldn't be in two places at once, and I think anyone would choose to help someone they know over a complete stranger, but for a while I felt guilt over deciding who got to live and who didn't. The cops said he was shot through the heart and there was nothing I could have done anyway, but I didn't know that at the time so I still felt guilty. We did the best we could to slow the girl's bleeding and keep her calm. She survived, but was paralyzed from the middle of her back down. I know exactly what you mean when you say it changes you. You do the best you can, and regardless of the outcome, you have to realize that nothing is your fault. The sad fact is that not everyone can be saved.
Your story brings me to tears
I hope the police got the shooter.
Curious, did they ever catch the shooter?
Worked at an alloy wheel plant on the machine cnc line, one time at smoke time I moved past a big step in cnc with its door closed and heard muffled cries, interested I moved to the control and saw the machine had not started up, I override the cycle and opened the door. Inside was a dude called Sen. Sen was seconds from being a grease spot and he was beyond scared. I could never work out how he did it, we had double safety start buttons 2 m from the door and all kinds of safety procedures, limit switches you name it.
Had a guy called flipper briefly on the line , this guy reversed the cast wheel in the chuck , BOOM I ran up and emergency stopped it, BOOM the cnc opposite blows up, BOOM goes another, all 3 massive cncs on his line op were toast. Flipper went back to the heat treat line pretty quick.
Hits hard, mom just passed last month. Definitely a pivotal point in my life 🙏 #gottaworkforthisguy
Sorry for your loss
I'm so sorry for your loss. I'm praying for you. If. If I can offer a verse for you. Roman's 8 35-39. And if its okay... please read 1st john king james Bible.
sorry for your loss, im preparing for that day.. :(
Really good job conveying how crazy it was and how you had no idea what was happening. I kept expecting it to have been a machine accident somehow, but just a heart attack...
My Vietnam vet Dad just died from a massive heart attack, in the cab of his F350, right in front of his wife of 50yrs, my Mom, at a dealership in Hollister, Calif....they climbed in, he started the Powerstroke, grabbed his seatbelt, turned to my Mom and said "Somethin's wrong babe", his head fell back, and his hand clenched down on the seatbelt latch in a death grip...it was 108 degrees on Aug 9th, the firefighters worked on him for over 30mins, on the ground, this Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient died right there, while my Mom watched....she's still not the same, and I moved in to their home at my brothers urging, cuz my Mom's taking it so hard....RIP Sgt. Fontaine, I love you Dad....I may have only been an E4, but he treated me as an equal as soon as I enlisted after 9/11....Hooah 👊🏻🇺🇸😔
There are no words that can express losing a family member. The same thing happened to my father. Me i never served our great country, but if have a soft spot for those who have. Thank you both. i know you never wrote this for recognition but for memory. To keep his spirit alive. I hope you do this often for him, because that’s how we honor those we’ve lost. i’m sorry for this great loss. We must share story and memories of the people we’ve lost. and remember It’s ok to keep one of those great memories just for ourselves. Thank you.
Sorry to hear about your father. Rip Sgt. Fontaine...Thank you.
My grandfather (also a Vietnam vet) went almost the same way. He had gotten into his truck to go visit my father, my aunt went in to grab something for the road, and when she got back to the vehicle he was gone.
My son, wife and I live on an island and are trying to grow a machine shop. 30+ years in the trade have seen my share of accidents in aerospace shops. Bless those who have lost their limbs and lives in this trade. Please mindful that what we do can be dangerous and work safely and take every precaution in working safely! BOOM!!
15 years ago when I was working road side assistance I was finishing off a job at 315am I was pulling in the final traffic cone and light a truck swerved I have no idea why, but on the other side side of the truck was a motorcycle rider on he’s way home was run over by 10 tires on the drivers side of the truck ran over this man I ran 120-130 meters to this man and he was still alive when I got to him the truck driver took about 400-500m past him as he was running back the he was on the phone to the ambulance while I was kneeling holding the blokes hand he kept repeating tell my brother I’ll be late and he’s voice keep getting weaker by the second there was so much blood coming from every part of him and I watched and heard this man’s last words and breath it has affected me so much that I take every second as a gift. Your story has made me remember every little detail of that night and how it has changed me.
Crazy story. Life is PRECIOUS! Thanks for all the knowledge and great videos.
You never get over a death I watched my farther die on his birth day at 53 years old it is still with me as if it happened yesterday..God Bless you.
Im sorry for you loss. May god be with you and your love ones❤️
I've been working at my job and location for over eight years. In that time I have known more people personally, by association, or random people who have died of natural causes (both at work and elsewhere), suicides, and a couple of murders.
Tomorrow is not promised to anyone.
I lost my father in 2020 and my very close "stepfater" in 2021. I struggled so much to see anything positive I can take form their deaths until I watched this video. Now I'm thinking the one positive thing about death is that is forces us to take stock, see our own lives from a different perspective. Not caught up in our own problems, not annoyed about something insignificant but appreciating being alive and able to experience life together with our loved ones. Great video mate :)
We are mortals, anger is bad for your health. A good story you handled the situation very well. A bit heartfelt and touches everyone. Thanks for sharing, the best.
I was a stationary engineer at a power plant near St. Louis in the mid-nineties. I was walking on the burner floor and saw the biggest blue light I'd ever seen. Made a big spot in my vision. I ran towards it and a contractor electrician was standing there brushing off the front if his pants. And just fell over. He had dropped a tool and leaned in to pick it up and his temple touched a 440 v buss bar. He had a perfect hex burned on his temple and bottom of one boot was completely blown off. I can make myself remember that smell of burned flesh and ozone. The guys jumped in and started cpr but it was too late. It changed everyone that day. We all paid a little more attention to everything after that.
Yep, thatll blow your heary apart and roast you from the inside out...
We had a fellow pass away from a heart attack. We found him slumped our the forklift steering wheel in our storage yard.
We keep a photograph in our office in memory.
Appreciate all you have to offer Titan.
Wise words bro.
You and your videos are fantastic.
Keep up the great work. 👍🏽
We love Brother Titan, you got strong spirit. God will bless you, I pray for you men. Kader from Algeria.
In one way or another, we are all tragedies in the end. Show your loved ones how much you care everyday, everynight, every chance you have.
a coworker died of his depression always seemed happy and we joked around at work, never new he was sad, think of him from time to time wish i could have helped him, his poor kids very young, he was only 30. working night shift probably didnt help. enjoy life, if the job is getting you depressed move on to another job get help. great video.
What a beautiful talk.only tough times when a person doesn't give in to resentment but rather to wisdom can create a talk like that
I ran a Bridgeport mill for 20 years and have done some crazy jobs. I also ran a mazak vtc30 , but the 4th axis and whatever the swinging and turning axis stuff is blowing my mind and after 20 years in the trade I think that's saying something how far we have come.
Had a guy on the lathe across from me get his arm ripped off. Other arm was dangling. An employee, who had happened to be a combat medic, took care of him until paramedics arrived.
He was getting blue. Would have died if she had not stepped in. Had some newer employees quit. Had psychologists at the shop for a week. Crazy stuff happens. Be safe. Tolerate perfection.
I think that would screw me up worse than seeing someone killed. I hope I never find out for certain.
Damn. As a man who has been through both traumatic sides of life, fighting for my own life and helping others fighting for their's...I feel for you. I can hear the pain in your voice. It's good to get it out and talk about it. Therapy is not a bad thing.
10/10 for a story. The way you tell it is so real.
I've seen some messed up stuff in my time as well, and damn if it doesn't hit you harder when it's at work. everyone expects to go home at the end of the day and it's tragic when someone doesn't.
It's good that you share things of life with us Titan. Keep it up buddy. :)
Back in the 80s worked at a pipe manufacturing company, multi billion dollar company, the mill was shut down, then someone started it and the guy was standing where the goes between the rollers, pipe went through his stomach, they got his family in to say goodbye, as soon as they jogged the pipe back he died.
I worked at the same bus depot for 33 years and saw a lot of guys die off. A lot eat crap food from the cafeteria and smoked back then and all but one of the dozen or so morbidly obese blokes died either from a heart attack or cancer. Others died from other causes including my dad who died from motor neurone disease. It sure helped bring reality into close focus and made me determined to retire early, which I did.
You are totally right profesor, thanks for your advise .
I am not a machinist but I really enjoy watching what you do and how you do it. I'm personally more of a titan of the apparel decorating industry. Screen printing and such. I also just want to say thank you for that message at the end. You are 100% right. We only have one life, we might as well use it to our full potential.
Sad history but, you Titan show us all we can have this kind of situation at any day. Since tomorrow Monday I will request medical test to all my employees and help to those need it.
Thanks for sharing this hard moment for you.
I stumbled across this channel and i am an aspiring machinist. Thank you for sharing these stories
Love you man. I have no doubt with your influence and inspiration, that you have in turn saved many lives. I know when I have been in the darkness your videos always seemed to pump me back up to make it through another day. I can't say where I'd be without your influence, but I can say that I am grateful that you helped turn my life into productivity. Booom
Our shop's founder would come in every morning and yell, "WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" like Ric Flair, almost giving me a heart attack when I was in my 20's. He fell over dead on the golf course after he retired.
Heart blockage.
Any day can be our last.
You are right, if we breathing, we blessed bro. Thank you!
I had a similar experience of being in a supply store when a chap had a heart attack and ran off the road. I attempted CPR for about 15 min till ambulance arrived. Man never survived but I tried. He had an unsurvibable heart attack I learned later. I remember feeling so useless at the time. Was right on xmas eve. It is a huge wake up call.
titan, I just stumbles across your page. I'm not a machinist but I love your voice and stories. Keep it up man!
Had a similar experience when I was a 13 year old kid. I had actually blocked out this memory for at least 10 years and then one day was reminded of it. I was at a party with friends, this was late afternoon probably around 6pm in the summer so its still day time. We're on the side of this house trying to get 2 guys to settle some beef and just fight each other. Reminder we are all like 13-14 years old so this was the best way to settle things in our dumb minds. This truck pulls into the driveway across the street and hits a pole that is holding up a car port thing. We ignore it and assume the guy is drunk and go back to the fight. After maybe 3 minutes the girl I was standing next to says "I think they need help" and is pointing at the car. I look over and their is an old lady standing outside her door waving for us. I look at the truck (it was a small truck like a 90s ranger or something) and its still running. I then realize something bad has happened and start sprinting for the truck. I yell back for a few friends to come with me and when I get to the truck a very large guy is hunched over the steering wheel. The door is unlocked and I shake the guy and he doesn't wake up so I push him up from the wheel and he is blue in the face and covered in spit or something. I shove the truck into park and we pull this guy out. He is probably 400 pounds. We drag him out and get him in the driveway and kinda panic asking if anyone knows CPR. No one did... Eventually a firetuck shows up and starts doing CPR. Eventually an ambulance gets there and they load him onto a gurny and drive away without the lights on. We all knew what that meant. The reason I think I suppressed this memory is because no one even attempted CPR. What makes it worse is not even a month before this they had tried teaching us CPR at school in gym class. The group of friends I was with used gym to skip school and go smoke weed so we never learned it. What makes me a little mad is there were lots of other people there that were in my gym class and didn't skip. Why they didn't step up I am not certain but I think I know. This was the early 2000s. Back when we called everything we didn't like "gay" and were just homophobic douche bags all around. I am betting those that learned CPR thought they would have been made fun of for "kissing a dude." I can't say for sure that's why but its my best guess. Another bad part is there was 1 kid in our class that was eager to learn CPR and really did pay attention. He showed up as the ambulance left. Its probably best I suppressed that memory until I was in my 20s. I dont remember much after that. I know the person who was having the party started crying and asked if everyone could leave. I think we all went back to a different friends house and got high and probably drank as well. Yes we were shitty kids that drank and smoked at 13 and 14.
Might have been different then, but now it's said that you don't necessarily need to do mouth-to-mouth, chest compressions alone can usually keep somebody alive due to gasping or vacuum effect sucking in air automatically. Some medical associations actually discourage it because keeping the chest compressions going without a break is more important. Hard to say whether it would have even helped anyway, his airways might have been blocked. I hope you're doing well and that you'll never have to deal with such a situation again!
If he was blue in the face he was already dead so if you were a doctor you wouldn't have even able to help him. After events like this we always think should have done more to save a person's life. Sometimes we just can't. And you can't beat yourself up about it. I've been involved with both senerios, one, there was nothing we could do to save the person and another where the other person that was with me did CPR and brought the guy back. He had no pulse (I was checking for pulse) was not breathing and his pupils were fixed and dilated. He is still alive today. It does change you, how can it not.
I'm guessing you've taken a class since then, but as someone who was present when my boyfriend had a heart attack (and survived): please know that by the time you got to him and got him out of the vehicle knowing CPR almost certainly wouldn't have made a difference.
CPR is a last resort and it almost always fails, especially out of the hospital. When it does "succeed", most people don't make it out of the hospital.
It is worth trying if someone isn't breathing and has no pulse. (Because you're going to break ribs doing it right.)
I feel like tv gives too many people the impression that they have control of the results if they do it right. (Also, the lack of honesty encourages bad end of life planning.)
You weren't shitty kids, just kids.
When I was at college there was always a fair amount of larking about in the machine shop so our lecturer organised a trip to a commercial shop so we could see what it was like. They had huge machines at this place and there were large castings and billets of material being moved around and worked on. He told us that if anything goes wrong working on jobs like this there is a high probability of serious injury of even death to the operator so all safety procedures must become automatic so you don't even need to think about them. To reinforce this he got some of the guys who worked there to talk to us about some horrific accidents they had seen. This made us appreciate all the safety drill he was always going on about and is something all kids should be shown when they start working with machines. There was no messing about in the machine shop after that.
you are an EXCELLENT story teller!! What a stunning story!!!
What a positive message, love to see this kind of stuff.
Thank you for sharing this story
R.I.P. To the Gentleman May his family have blessings to pull through. Sounds like he was a good guy. Everyday is a blessing be the best you can be. Rise together.
Heard stories about a machine we used to have. Open spindle cold forming machine with a passthrough between two of the die sets. Guy with a ponytail tried to step under the workpiece and got caught. It was over quick for him but the machine kept running until someone finally got to the e-stop. Machine was out of the shop after that and those parts were outplant from then on
My Dad's company had an employee, went home to his Mums house to help her change a lightbulb, after he finished, massive Heart Attack and he was no more.
He was in his 40s, and at his funeral, lots of people from NZ in the industry attended (was a very niche industry where virtually everyone knew each other).
Man thanks for that, it's hard to stay focused some days. Keep doin you!
Great stuff, Titan....Thank you
Awesome story, I agree, live is so precious.
It's heartbreaking seeing things like this unfold and being powerless to do anything about it. We had a guy working on the wing of an aircraft, and he had his fall harness on, and as he was attaching the wing access port, somehow, his harness failed, and he fell and broke his neck. We are doing what we can to help his family. God rest his soul
I couldn't imagine how it must've really felt being in that moment when the guy was looking back at you, the last person he would see. We had a guy from work pass 4 days ago after staying home with Covid. He wasn't too far from retiring after being on Dale Sr's pit crew for years. His viewing is today. Good vid Titan
so sorry for your loss, that is so sad.....
@@ypaulbrown Thank you
Many years ago we had an older guy who was also very close to retirement. He had never called in, ever, and was laughing/joking with everyone that he would probably coke in by habit after he retired. One week before he was due to retire, he didn't come in on Monday. He lived right across the road so two guys went to check on him. He was sitting in his recliner, TV on, work boots on, with a burnt out cigarette in his hand. He had a massive heart attack in his chair.
sorry for loss, but was he vaccinated ? I'm tired of seeing people drop from heart attacks due to blood clots from the vax it's sickening .........
@@GigaVids they are dieing from heart issues after getting Covid, my brother in laws father died 4 months after kicking covid due to related issues caused by covid.....
When I became a father for the first time I realized how delicate life is. I had to find a way to justify every life; even the shortest of lives. The day my son was born was the day I learned that I love someone more than myself. Someone that was more vulnerable than I am. I was not sure how to handle the overwhelming fear as a parent. As a machinist/soldier/logger/carpenter/and other professions I have had I knew there was nothing of value I could teach my son that did not require him taking risks. This scared me. However, the old testament story of Abraham and Isaac help me overcome this. I did a deep dive on this story. I just felt like there was more to it than I remembered. It is often taught as a lesson as to how dedicated someone is to God via a "test". However, the old Greek word for test has a deeper meaning. It also meant "to prove". I believe God was proving to Abraham that death, even of his own child, is not his responsibility but, God's responsibility. The role of the earthly father is to focus on making the life of the child as meaningful as possible regardless of how long they survive this world. This comforted me. I knew deep down that no matter how fixated a was on my child's survival, I would fail. But, as a mentor for my children to live a meaningful life I could succeed! I am so blessed with my family and profession. Do what is meaningful in life because, it is the only one you get. Being a machinist/business owner/helper, no matter what profession do it to succeed.
That's an interesting look at the story. For me I knew it to mean not putting anything or anyone before God, God always comes first. But as an adult I learned that it was an image of the sacrifice that God's Son Jesus Christ would fulfill. We do not sacrifice our own children, God sacrificed His for us.
I have one video, a gospel presentation, that explains how you can be certain you will go to heaven, it's real easy. I would say more, but it's hard these days because of the censorship.
Always watch your video to learn more about CNC. CNC Machinist sir here! Salute! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
U are what brought me to machining now I run parts and love it thank u titan
Love you brother. We are all connected. Always have and always will be connected. People need to recognize this and stop playing graba$$ all of the time. We are all precious. Sending everyone much love and gratitude 🙏🏻
Used to work with an amazing man named Teddy, started working at the company I was at 30 years before I was born, worked there from the day he got out of highschool, 45 years, the last few years running a jig bore and jig grinder with his hands shaking from Parkinsons. Passed away 2 weeks from the day he was supposed to retire. This trade is not the best for our health, long hours, toxic materials, coolant/smoke etc... just love your family's and take as much time as you need to be home when you need it God bless Teddy and God bless you all reading this. Thanks for the Story Titan.
The amount of force a CNC machine produces is staggering and still blows my mind to this day.
Thank you for sharing. This is a very real thing that helps me, have compassion for others and the struggles that go on, and the trials others face.
I work as a Metal and Sheet Metal Assembler for Private customers. We have 10 Teams of 2, everyone got their own Workbus and all. 1 of our Coworkers, more like friend always works with small Cranes and stuff. He had a beautiful Wife, a 2 Year old Daughter and another Daughter coming up. 1 of the Cranes just tipped over for an unknown reason, he fell down from the Standing bay, landed on his Head and was instantly dead. Next morning his second daughter was born. He couldve already been on leave but decided to work another Week and then leave to for his Wife and the newborn Daughter. Especially he was 1 of the guys that knew everything about those Machines and that still happend. Just 34 Years old. Miss that guy, his name was Kerschi.
Very intense story. Sharing it with all my colleagues.
My greatuncle was a manual machiniste back in the days in the GDR (eastern germany). A coworker once forgot to remove the chuck key from the lathe and when he started the lathe the key was launched and hit my greatuncle in the chest, he broke 3 rips and punctured a lung. Luckily he survived but ever since I started my apprenticeship he keeps telling me and even when I first started my apprenticeship the first thing he told me, no matter what you're doing, if you aren't touching the key, take it out and put it down.
the best is when the key is on a dinky little chain on a drill press and it gets turned on the that key turns into a chain of pain whipping who ever is at the press till it flys away seen it happen a few times
reading these comments omg.. i must tell you guys this.. 25% dies before retirement. i had this conversation a few weeks ago with some 60+ers of my work.. they tolt me live now... we all had dreams for after we retire we do this and that .. but no, no energy left, feeling every bone after work. feeling every year more tired. and we dont speak about it to younger people. but after 55 you become one of the club of people with problems. 1 tolt me he had chronic back pain, other had cancer, other had liver problems, one had kidney problems.. whatever age you are reading this.. realize you need to live it.. be careful with your body, dont be lazy, build something up when your young. dont expect you feel the same. you do get older.. go to the docter in time. and if you get the change to stop earlier.. do it
please comment on this.. i want to hear your opinions on this
Amen brother and thanks for the inspiration.
Wow incredible story. Thank you for sharing that.
Sad Story and you're absolutely right no one knows when the "big timer" shows "0:00:00"! A German adage tells: "Live every day as it's your last day!" ✌
Live every day...
@@your_utube thanks!
Is that why the Germans never work? Because I certainly would not go to work on my last day
@@markman63 😂🤣😂 yeah exactly, that is the reason why nothing is going on over here!😂😂😂 Just joking, the most of us are busy, but of course there's a specific "community" (and even not a small one) which don't wanna work, but "parasites" are existing everywhere!😉
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...and yeah, you're right working at the last day of life isn't a good option, but I also wanna see my bros. Accordingly I also have to say "hello" at work!😂🤣😂
We had one store manager when i worked gas stations who was working an overnight to cover for an employee who called in sick. He had a heart attack in the middle of the night and noone found him till like 5am. Was a good guy with a big heart and family.
Worst that happened at one of the machine shops i worked at was a machinist grabbed a shell mill while it was still turning in the milling machine. It cut his finger off.
I'm an EMT, I think you should know that you couldn't have saved him. Don't ever look back and put any blame on yourself or ask if you could have done something better. Even with the best CPR in the world, it wouldn't have done any good. It's impossible to bring someone back from cardiac arrest from hemorrhagic shock with CPR (bleeding).
Working in a landscape/masonry yard when I was 19. Truck comes turning around the corner and I tuck myself up against my Volvo front-end-loader. The trailer of the 18 wheeler came inches from absolutely smooshing me into a pancake against my machine. After moments like that you're just like damn my life could've just ENDED; messed up. Really changed my mindset around heavy equipment. You seriously have to always take a look around and literally ask yourself, 'what around me can kill me right now'.
Three years ago the dude who ran one of our wench trucks had a heart attack at a job site. The emt guys (there’s always some safety dudes on drilling sites) did all they could but he was brain dead so they let him go at the hospital. I just couldn’t understand how easy everyone just got back to work almost instantly like nothing happened.
My dad was working in a steel mill on the gantry cranes. One of the lds he worked with called him down and said he’d crack on and finish moving the coils whilst my dad made food for the shift. As soon as the crane started moving it slipped off the rails, fell 40ft. The cab was under the rails and was about 6” thick when my dad got there. He still brings it up occasionally when he’s had a beer.
That was a really powerful story and I'm sure it was truly life altering. I used to work for GE and I used to make those airfoils you had going in the beginning of the video. Everyday before work we would have a safety meeting and had to watch videos of accidents that have happened from the past, every day for 1 hr. It got repetitive and some of the videos were sort of comical. After a while you realize why they pay you for watching those videos everyday. These graphic videos they are showing you are meant for your protection and always be aware of safety and wear the proper PPE for the job at hand. I found myself doing these things when I'm off duty because I watched a video about this or that and know what could happen in that situation. It really rubs off on you after a while. That building I worked in was 1/4 mi long and 1/8 mile deep and packed to the rafters with manufacturing equipment (sharp stuff everywhere you turn) and really easy to get hurt. Anyhoo, your story made me think of that and how quick you can get hurt or die working with huge equipment and how important it is for all people that work there to be mindful of safety all the time. I still wear ear plugs when I go to a concert or any loud noise and safety glasses when mowing the lawn ect. It has become a lifestyle. I enjoy your videos. Be safe and thanks for sharing your story.
Peace out.
I worked at a Machine shop with an old CNC lathe with a disabled safety door switch. It was procedure to monitor parts with the door open since the glass was scratched to hell and the coolant made it unseeable. No incidents ever happens but I think I’ve got some mild PTSD from being worried about it for months, thinking I might get grabbed by the shavings which were very stringy and serrated. That and they showed me some gruesome lathe accident pictures that I can’t get out of my head! Don’t work there anymore but still think about it a lot.
first job i had out of welding school was in this hell hole of a shop no vents to suck out the welding fumes and alot of the machines didnt have emergancy stops. or where hard wired on all the time. i had been there all of 9 days when a guy was working on a carlton drill press (very very large raidial arm drill) this thing was massive. any way one of the guys goes to drill some plate steel and this is a very large hole in some 3in thick steel no big deal there are some clamps to bolt it to the table or you can do what ever and leave it on the fork lift and clamp it to the forks he does none of that and this big ass chunk of steel starts to walk so he hits the E stop and nothing happens he goes to shut the machine down and has he turns to hit the breaker the bit grabs the part and it comes off the forks and falls on him breaking his spine. he will never walk again and i left that shop the same day once the emts and stuff had gone i packed my tools up loaded them in my truck and left didnt even collect my check i had them mail it to me
That decision to leave likely saved your life. It's insane that a shop would have working conditions like that.
Thanks for sharing your story.
All of us are only one breath away from meeting our Maker.
Great message Sir, God Bless you.
Wow man that's insane. I'm glad to hear you were right on it man, even knew to do CPR.
Ran a night freight crew as a supervisor.. I can tell you stories that still gives me the willies …. Weight in motion is our biggest enemy with almost every accident..
About a year ago, we hired two “apprentices” (two urban guys that had no experience or motivation to do anything). They would do basic shit like sweep, hang smaller parts on the powder coat line, that kind of thing.
One day after lunch, one of the guys drops like he was hit by a sniper, smashing his head on the ground. 3 combat tours, I’ve seen enough bodies to know this dude had the death rattle and cold we ton skin already. They called 911, gave him two shots of narcan, and the guy got up like nothing happened. Sent him on the ambulance to the hospital. I went with the owner to check his locker, looked out the window, and saw his car door open. Went to go shut it, I found his buddy passed out, choked on his own puke. Finished my smoke, called the cops back, but he was already gone.