Originally Posted by
Neil Miller
Many years ago I was the manager of a light engineering workshop - it had a powder coater, an overhead conveyor belt, a degreasing tank and a radiant oven - we degreased metal parts, put them through the powder coating machine and the conveyor took them through the long oven to bake the powder paint on.
The oven had a large motor duct about 7 feet off the floor, and it run alongside the powder coater leaving a narrow aisle between the two.
One morning the degreasing tank had sprung a leak - thankfully the oven wasn't turned on. The liquid run under the powder coater and pooled up on the floor against the oven. I wasn't going to tread in it in case it came through my shoes, so I took a running jump to leap over it and get to the degreasing tank - except that I forgot about the motor duct and smacked right into it with the top of my head, knocking me out for a moment.
Of course I landed in the puddle of solvent. Should have walked through it in the first place... I was really glad that I had got in early and no-one saw what had happened!
Regards,
Neil