Death in the workplace

I saw a woman right after her legs had been chopped off at the knees by a forklift truck, and its not like they were nicely sliced off, they were ripped off in a very messy way. Her tendons and muscles were just hanging out of stumps and her legs were 10 feet away. That was pretty nasty meep. As time went on it just seemed less and less real, and after a week or so it almost seemed in my head like it hadnt happened. It turned out to be her fault too, she was talking on her phone in a designated Forklift area. The guy on the forks was pretty messed up by it though, he quit and i never saw him again.

But Im sure seeing someone get shot and killed is pretty nasty. Have lots of drinks and im sure in time you'll get it out of your head.

Um, so why did the dude shoot your friend? Thats some nutty meep.

I witnessed a co-worker get crushed by a 6' file cabinet. It busted him up good, and he pissed his pants when his head caved in on the floor - I didn't think it was funny at the time. He survived.
I also saw a friend of mine dislocate his thigh out of his hip when he fell against a wall after slipping on a wet tile floor. All I heard was a slap as he fell in a sitting position, and saw his leg running up the wall behind him, so his calf was pinned between the wall and his back. He was old and walked with a cane, so his meep was brittle. Poor, poor Al.

Yeah, we had an unofficial wake after the funeral with just a few of the people who knew him best. We got nice and tanked and ended up going for new tats then went back to the graveyard and showed them to him. That seemed to help with the bad feelings. Now if I can just stop seeing it.

I'm not sure why he shot him... They were cousins and always kinda bickering and fighting with each other at work. We just always figured they'd eventually duke it out and be done with it, but this happened instead.

Holy meep. That's fuked up.

I was in my old gym once when I heard a loud slap sound. Walking around the end of the row of lockers, I saw an old dude on the floor, snoring. I guess he was coming out of the shower and his feet were wet and he slipped and rocked the meep out of his skull on the floor.

The part that creeped me out the most was seeing a dude with a towel on come slinking out of the back area, eying the sleeping guy, alert and skeptical-looking like a cat hearing a threatening noise. I think he must have already known, but I didn't find out until 20 minutes later that he was dead when he hit, and the snoring was some kind of autonomic death reflex.

Not gruesome or spectacular or anything, but it's the first experience that comes to mind when the topic is dead guys.

Yeah there's just no telling what got it started. Shooter was off his meds, so who knows what was bouncing around his skull.

someone posted on here about someone sitting/falling on glass shelves, cutting the femoral arteries. for some reason that sticks with me. no stories of my own, fortunately.

found it

Apparently I could use a new death story to carry around with me, or at least find other bits in my current one to be preoccupied with.

Tell ya what Vas if you need it there's plenty from this one I'd be glad to get off my hands. This dude took one in the arm, three in the back, and two in the head, right in front of me. That's not something that's going to go away anytime soon.

is your company providing someone you can talk to about this? if not, maybe you should ask?

I think so. We had a company meeting yesterday and the boss said if we needed to talk to somebody about it we would make a way. The only problem is in the mental health coverage from our insurance. It's a $1500 deductible to get it started and after that they only pay 50 percent. Fuk UHC insurance. The police have said there would be couselors available for us to talk to at some point, but I haven't heard of any of them being around yet. And get this--they said that the only ones eligible to talk to them are the ones that were in the room to see it happen. Seems kinda jacked up to me. If you walk into a room two seconds after something like that you're going to be just as affected by it. I mean, I saw it, along with about four others, but the people here who didn't actually see it happen are just as messed up about it. It wasn't like you couldn't hear what happened even if you weren't in the room. This whole thing just might end up shutting down our company. The shooter was one owner's son and the victim was the other owner's son.

^ Take a few days off and start looking for a new job. 1) Maybe not being in the place where the guy died will help you out. 2) Yeah, what you said seems likely.

i worked with a guy for 5 years. same thing we hung out at lunch everyday and many times we would hit the bar together down in miami where he lived. well one day he just didnt come to work and as it turned out his ex-wife killed him. stabbed 26 times while sleeping! wtf! ive since named my 2nd son after him so that ill never forget my friend. i hope you will be able to move on and just understand that things happen. well any-who have a good one and always think about your buddy!

jeffrico