I try to live my life by a rule. That rule is Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Life is a funny thing in most cases, you live it generally never thinking that it could possibly end. You make plans far off in the future, and some of us even dream of never dying and living forever. I am guilty like everyone on earth by one time or another, just like everyone else fancying myself invincible and I have more reasons than most not to be that way. One of the things that I have always been asked throughout my life is about the scar that I have right underneath my right eye. It is December 18 2004 it is only 13 days away from my 6th birthday, it had snowed the night before and we didn’t have school the next day so I did what any five
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This happened while I was at work and to set it up the filter machine we have has always acted up and never really worked properly but it would overheat and the only way to fix this was to take the top plate off of the motor box and let it cool. But a month before the incident I had to take out the sheet metal screws that held the lid to the box but that process destroyed the screw holes for the lid so it could not be resecured. So one month later I am filtering the fryers its 7:45, I can be more specific on this incident because I had to right a workplace incident report on it. I had just finished the third and last fryer and was headed back to the pit which is basically a pit with a drain that we clean all the heavy equipment in. Now I am leaning on the lid to push the filter machine forward, and the lid slipped and as it slipped I fell forward into the machine and my arm was sliced wide open in two places one by my elbow by the edge of the box and then my lower arm was burned by the motor and my wrist was slit by the other edge of the filter box. This caused me to start bleeding profusely and one of the managers, Heather Birdsong came over to hurt because if I remember correctly when I had done this the first thing was curse as loudly and as repeatedly as I could “SHIT”. My manager proceeded to get the medical kit and wrap my arm in gauze and then she immediately sent me home so my mother could decide whether or not I needed to go to hospital. This is the third time than I faced death in my opinion and lived because any deeper and I could have severed an artery or if I had fell forward slightly further I could have potentially fell into the filter machines vat of 350 degree oil and basically fried my face
This happened while I was at work and to set it up the filter machine we have has always acted up and never really worked properly but it would overheat and the only way to fix this was to take the top plate off of the motor box and let it cool. But a month before the incident I had to take out the sheet metal screws that held the lid to the box but that process destroyed the screw holes for the lid so it could not be resecured. So one month later I am filtering the fryers its 7:45, I can be more specific on this incident because I had to right a workplace incident report on it. I had just finished the third and last fryer and was headed back to the pit which is basically a pit with a drain that we clean all the heavy equipment in. Now I am leaning on the lid to push the filter machine forward, and the lid slipped and as it slipped I fell forward into the machine and my arm was sliced wide open in two places one by my elbow by the edge of the box and then my lower arm was burned by the motor and my wrist was slit by the other edge of the filter box. This caused me to start bleeding profusely and one of the managers, Heather Birdsong came over to hurt because if I remember correctly when I had done this the first thing was curse as loudly and as repeatedly as I could “SHIT”. My manager proceeded to get the medical kit and wrap my arm in gauze and then she immediately sent me home so my mother could decide whether or not I needed to go to hospital. This is the third time than I faced death in my opinion and lived because any deeper and I could have severed an artery or if I had fell forward slightly further I could have potentially fell into the filter machines vat of 350 degree oil and basically fried my face