It is a messy job. We have switched to air knives in some situations. The
cost of an air knife was so crazy I made my own for 10% of what you can buy
them for.
From: Adam Moffett
Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2020 10:35 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT PPE
vacuum excavation sounds like a real party
On 12/24/2020 9:43 AM, Chris Fabien wrote:
For vac ex crew you might look into some of the goggles that dirt bike racers
and the like use with plastic tear-offs to clear the mud. When I have run the
vac to be honest I found safety glasses too annoying to use because they got
dirty in about 10 seconds and once you're covered in mud there's nothing to
wipe them clean with.
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 3:07 PM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote:
We provide our employees an orange vest and hard hat. We tell them they
need steel toed boots.
We don’t provide safety glasses.
Had a new guy work 7 hours and quit a couple of weeks ago. Today he calls
and claims an eye injury from mud during potholing. Threatening legal action,
called my wife a F...... C...
(He did not report the injury to anyone at the time. We are starting
workers compensation process just in case. Not sure he even went to the
doctor).
I called him and we had an interesting conversation. He was on speaker
phone, Jenny was standing here, I recorded it. Was an asshole but I convinced
him to do the right thing. He apologized.
Pretty sure he did not want what was going to come next if he did not
apologize.
Do y’all provide safety glasses? I think we will start now. Potholing
does spray mud. And they are cheap.
I was fixin’ to go to jail a half hour ago. Fun day...
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