I personally don't need safety boots for a working environment, but I
heard say that the usual metal cap in (cheap?)safety boots can have a
disadvantage. When, say, a forklift drives over your foot while you are
not wearing a shoe with a metal cap embedded in it, your footbones will
be broken, but it can and will likely heal. If you do have a metal cap
in your shoe, the metal will stop the weight from crushing your foot,
but it will cut through your shoe into the ground beneath it and simply
sever your toes from your foot in the process.
I wonder whether this old tale still stands true with modern safety boots?
Warren
Eh? That's a bit far fetched, I would expect that anything that would
push the cap separate from the boot and into the ground, especially on
harder surfaces (i.e. concrete) would leave an unprotected foot with
powdered bones in a gooey mess ... The rubber sole alone would pull
the boot into the ground with the metal toe, and the shell around the
toe of the foot, if that's where the weight is concentrated, would
protect the toes themselves from being as easily crushed.
Any means of making the cap in a protective boot damage the foot is
almost certainly far beyond the safety ratings the boot is meant to
withstand, either being far above the expected "yield strength" (after
factor of safety is accounted for), or else it is such a rare/random
event that cannot feasably be protected against, but not wearing the
boot removes safety from the events it *does* protect against.
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Joshua M. Murphy
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