Fingers get colder, quicker but that’s about it. Full range of motion and strength.
I could see white when first pulled the hand out.
I did a quick flex of each finger immediately and they all moved.
Thought the white was bone, but the doc said that was tendons. If it were bone, the tendons were goners and I’d not been able to move the fingers.
Luckily I was in pretty good shape and well muscled at the time, or it might have ended much worse.
I was chatting with the customer, flipping the chute and operating the old school air lock at the same time. 15 years with a spotless safety record leads to complacency, was what I racked it up to. Stupidity on my part. Been running belt trucks, trailer mixers and most of the much larger fleet for a decade. Different truck almost every day. This was a little 3 axle grocery getter. Harmless little thing.
My failure went global company wide for safety briefs and pics for a year lol.
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