SC - Hard as little rocks

[Elaine Koogler]

Yeah, that's a lot of why I have resisted getting one.  I'm quite frankly a
little scared of them.

Kiri

Siegfried Heydrich wrote:

>     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
>
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