I almost got fired for saving the life of an Exxon engineer.
I grabbed him by the back of his neck and threw him out of the way before he was crushed by a forklift load of 9 5/8” casing.
The forklift operator had dumped the load on the rack and it was rolling too fast for the Exxon engineer so he got in front of the load and was going to stop it before it hit the other pipe on the rack.
Had I not pulled him out of the way he would have been crushed to the point he would have been pretty much cut in half.
The thanks I got, he tried to get me fired for putting my hands on an Exxon engineer.
When his boss got in my face about putting my hands on an Exxon employee I let him know I’d be more than happy to let him get crushed.
Exxon pulled their engineers out of the pipe yard.
I am now retired but at one time I was an Exxon engineer, although more of a desk jockey.
Do not think I would have made the case to get you fired, but to make a case for preventing a safety incident that could have been fatal.
And I am not stupid enough to believe I could stop 9 5/8” rolling toward me either.
When I was on a roustabout crew early on for my training, I found out there were lots of adjectives associated with engineers handed out by the crew, too. The incident you cited was likely one reason for those superlatives.