Bad Day at Black Rock...err Kennett
Sep. 14th, 2011 07:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltdThings were actually fine in Black Rock.
But in Kennett, we had the Load from Hell, almost 200 pieces, plus hundreds of unmanifested ones.
Then as I was getting down, I fell. As in Fell OFF the Lift gate. That's about 4' off the ground for non-drivers.
265lbs of Angel. 4' off the ground. Asphalt.
Yeah.
I have a badly twisted ankle, a strained neck, where I did manage to let go of a handrail before I dislocated my shoulder, and I took a chunk of skin off the point of my elbow. I left a puddle of blood somewhere about the same diameter as a soda can on the asphalt.
I went to the doc-in-the-box when I got home. Xray, clean and bandage. I'll be all right. Nothing broken, just a lot of bruising.
I've been terrified of falling off the liftgates since I started this job. Now I know how it feels and I'm even more afraid of it. William said I screamed all the way down.
But in Kennett, we had the Load from Hell, almost 200 pieces, plus hundreds of unmanifested ones.
Then as I was getting down, I fell. As in Fell OFF the Lift gate. That's about 4' off the ground for non-drivers.
265lbs of Angel. 4' off the ground. Asphalt.
Yeah.
I have a badly twisted ankle, a strained neck, where I did manage to let go of a handrail before I dislocated my shoulder, and I took a chunk of skin off the point of my elbow. I left a puddle of blood somewhere about the same diameter as a soda can on the asphalt.
I went to the doc-in-the-box when I got home. Xray, clean and bandage. I'll be all right. Nothing broken, just a lot of bruising.
I've been terrified of falling off the liftgates since I started this job. Now I know how it feels and I'm even more afraid of it. William said I screamed all the way down.
