McDonald's workers detail burns, job hazards

kpvi / ap ^ | 3-16-2015

[Citizen Zed]

McDonald's workers in 19 cities filed complaints over burns from grease, a lack of protective equipment and other workplace hazards, according to labor organizers.

This is the latest move in a campaign to win pay of $15 an hour and unionization for fast-food workers by publicly pressuring McDonald's. The push began more than two years ago and is being spearheaded by the Service Employees International Union.

[bgill]

Don’t want to get burned by grease? Don’t hire on around hot grease. It’s not rocket science.

[MrB]

There’s that, but what I’m saying is that those who want good jobs should go into the installation, programming, and maintenance of these machines.

[mountn man]

That was good :)

[mountn man]

The ones who continue to get burned by grease at McDonalds, aren't bright enough for that.
Why do you think they're still at McDonalds?

[woodbutcher1963]

I worked as a landscaper, lawn mower, carpenter, etc. I never worked inside until college.
Try working outside with railroad ties in July when its 90 degrees. Try spreading topsoil without a tractor. Kids today do not know what physical labor means.

My worst accident was smashing my thumb between two railroad cross ties we were sorting through at the ConRail yard in Buffalo. I took off my glove and the nail was just hanging there, so I pulled it off the rest of the way. I remember having to sit down because I thought I was going to faint if I didn’t.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’m with you there. I spent two summers while in college working for a friend’s landscaping company. He had a maintenance contract with a big developer and we cut acres and acres and acres of grass. Got lots of exercise and made what was, for the time, pretty good money.

Also learned all about FICA matching and withholding taxes when he showed me how he did my payroll. Most people I dare say are STILL clueless on how THAT scam operates.

[Bigg Red]

Oh, if this report is from SEIU, the Purple People Beaters, we should all believe it is absolutely the truth.

[rhoda_penmark]

LOL you left out “polyester”.

[fireman15]

That is a good one! I am going to email it to my dad.

My brother actually did have one of his fingers reattached. He has 5 kids and he was supervising them while using his table saw... which it turns out is a bad idea. The doctor told him that reattaching it would be a long painful process. But he wanted to go through with it so they airlifted him to a specialist. The thing swelled up to twice its normal diameter and he couldn’t actually do anything with it for months.

My great uncle Ray actually lost his entire arm in a saw mill accident. He was trying to grab a piece of debris that was clogging up the works and got his arm caught in the feed rollers. It kind of started him on a downward spiral; he lost his wife and started drinking. He died before I was born after coming down with Polio while he was on a hunting trip.

[fireman15]

I took off my glove and the nail was just hanging there, so I pulled it off the rest of the way.

I have been there on that one. I had deformed fingernails for years. I still have visible scars on the tops of some of my fingers from accidents that happened 35 years ago.

[M Kehoe]

Msg to disgruntled McDonald’s employees: Work a summer roofing in FL, then talk to me.

Yes, I worked at Burger king.

5.56mm

[Riley]

I worked at a McD’s in the 70’s and yes, you could get burned if you were careless or stupid.

So did I, same time period, pretty much. Keep your paws off the grill and out of the fry vats. Don't drink the grill cleaner. Good to go.

[Vendome]

Chick-fil-A, yeah. Good Christian boys and girls and just the bestest disposition.

S what happens when yer focused on gratitude and stuff you gotta do today.

Not sure about Culver’s.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I’m still amazed Hot Dog on a Stick finds workers given their uniform.

[Tijeras_Slim]

And don’t remove the shakes too fast or you’ll have a brown line across your shirt.

[Riley]

And don’t remove the shakes too fast or you’ll have a brown line across your shirt.

♫♪♬♫ Oh please, don't let these shakes go on....

[Graybeard58]

I took off my glove and the nail was just hanging there, so I pulled it off the rest of the way. I remember having to sit down because I thought I was going to faint if I didn’t.

I got my finger mashed in an industrial accident, I was wearing gloves at the time, I gingerly removed the glove and that's when I got weak in the knees, there was my finger, hanging by a piece of skin.

It couldn't be sewed back on,. the tissue was too damaged by the smashing.

[Teotwawki]

I worked at McD’s in the late 70”s while in college. One of the guys slipped and sunk his hand into the deep fryer halfway up to his elbow. I was standing right next to him. Fortunately the big ice maker was only two steps away. As quick as he pulled his arm out, I grabbed his elbow with one hand, opened the ice bin door with the other and shoved his arm right into the ice. It all happened in fractions of seconds. Surprised us both that no damage was done.

[woodbutcher1963]

Sorry to hear that.
Mine grew back just fine.

The worst thing I ever did was nicking two fingers on my left hand in the table saw blade at home about ten years back. I was feeding a piece of wood over the dado blade, it caught and went flying out the garage onto the driveway. I just barely touched the blade. Still needed stiches, but I did not lose any fingers thank GOD.

[woodbutcher1963]

We would go to the Conrail main yard and sort through the 16’ long used cross ties they had pulled off the railroad. We would buy those for $10 each, cut them if half and sell them installed on jobs for $12-15 for an 8’. This was back in the early 80’s.