SC - Hard as little rocks

[RichSCA@aol.com]

    He had live steam burns over almost all of his upper body, which was
compounded by the fact that he was also covered in superheated navy beans,
the lid (or a piece of it - we're not sure) smashed his face and the front
of his skull when it flew up (he was leaning over it when he set it in the
sink), his back was broken when he was thrown backwards against a steel
rack, and his face was basically cooked to the bone in a couple of seconds.
Not to mention just the concussive trauma of being 8" from it when it went
off.
    Had he survived, which was very unlikely, he would not have appreciated
it at all. In his case, death was a merciful thing, which is what I meant.
This was pretty much one of those exceptional cases.
    Actually, he was a nice enough guy and certainly didn't deserve what
happened to him but there are times when death is considerable preferable to
the alternative. Several other workers were burned, too, I might add, but
nowhere as severely as this fellow. Moral: steam is a dangerous thing, treat
it with respect!

    Sieggy.


> Now this - regardless of the personality of the worker in question - I did
> find offensive.  A person's death (except in exceptional cases) is not a
> thing for which to thank God.
>
> Gwynydd
>
> >     Just remember that a pressure cooker is also a steam bomb. I worked
at
> a
> > BBQ place that did beans in a 20 gallon pressure cooker, and one day, a
> > mexican worker decided that the relief valve wasn't fast enough, so he
set
> > it in a sink of cold water. The resulting explosion killed him (thank
god,
> > and I'm not kidding), and took out the back third of the prep area.
> Pressure
> > cookers are great, just remember the key word is 'pressure!'.
> >
> >     Sieggy