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01-12-2014, 10:06 PM
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Smacked a Chef's Knife with Tip of My Finger
At my last job, where I was lead cook, I had a minor nail bed laceration. Long story short, with a lot of complaining omitted, a food order came in and someone left some boxes on my prep table. I stop cutting onions and put my knife down on the cutting board since this place didn't have any magnet strips. My hand slips on heavy box I'm trying to slide over and continues on to smack the knife which was blade side facing me. Tried to tell me I'd get no workers comp for it even! I wanted to laugh. Didn't make a single call or claim themselves and thought I'd go with it. I only missed 3 weeks of work but I got compensation for it and it medical bills! Kinda funny actually; I realized the insurance company I was dealing with was the same one I dealt with for a work related injury a couple years ago, and knew they were great. That injury was much worse, I'll have pics later.
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01-12-2014, 10:50 PM
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Re: Smacked a Chef's Knife with Tip of My Finger
Thanks! Ummm don't click on the pics just zoom in. They take me to weird links, I guess that wasn't a good image hosting site..
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01-14-2014, 04:17 AM
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Re: Smacked a Chef's Knife with Tip of My Finger
Workers comp? some places I worked at would have told you to go get stitches and get back to work.. Bandage and rubber gloves..  Was a nice one though...  Seen many of other people get ganked and shanked etc. , Worked about 11 years in food service.. Fortunately, never got to witness anyone get eaten by an anliker.. Seen a dishwasher 3 feet from me drop thick machined glass goblets from a hanger and tried to catch them in his arms while holding one..150 stitches later..  Tons of other stuff.. Restaurants are brutal... high volume, (Both quantity/speed and loudness..lol) moving fast to get shit done and where it needs to be.. fire, hot grease, boiling water, knives, knives and more knives, then mechanized knives like Anlikers, food processors, slicers, and other bladed food production gadgetry.. floors tend to get slippery, and then add in a few people that lack common sense in all.. Also, natural gas, and chemicals, so many things can go wrong just waiting to happen... If my arms weren't screwed up from all of it? I'd probably still be doing it..was fun for the most part. (It takes a special kind of person to work it.. have to be a little crazy to begin with...and by the time you leave it? probably batshit crazy by then.. )But yeh, one slip can lead to disaster in the setting.. As you've shown here. Sorry for the rant, Just that I can relate to this. Hope that's doing better. |
