Posted on 12/08/2020 2:52:38 PM PST by nickcarraway
A man died after getting caught inside a car wash in Irving around 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 4.
The 39-year-old victim worked at the Wash Masters Car Wash off I-635 and MacArthur Boulevard.
First responders arrived and quickly began life-saving measures.
The victim, later identified as Luis Enrique Acosta Madrano of Garland, was then rushed to Parkland Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
“It seems to just be an unfortunate accident to where the male was working around the machine and it appeared that somehow he ended up getting trapped in the equipment there while trying to get a car through the wash,” said Irving Police Officer Robert Reeves.
Authorities are still investigating exactly how this happened.
Somebody’s gonna get sued.
Yikes, I’ve been to that one a couple of times, it’s a couple of miles from my house.
I am a great admirer of Admiral Chester Nimitz, and he made his bones in the early Submarine Service (other people didn’t want the job because they didn’t think it had a future.
He got in on the ground floor of diesel engines (subs had been using gasoline engines, very bad in a closed metal tube underwater) and became one of the defacto experts in the world on diesel power at an early stage.
He was constantly called on to give tours of submarines with diesel engines, which he could work on as handily as any Machinists Mate.
He was giving a tour one day, and pointed at a particular piece of equipment while he was wearing heavy work gloves, and didn’t realize that it added an inch or two to the end of his “finger”, so when he pointed...the machinery grabbed the tip of the glove and sucked his hand in.
Fortunately, his Annapolis class ring bound up the machinery and it stopped, but he lost two fingers in the process.
That machinery can grab even the best of the most unwary...
Was he dating the governor’s daughter too?
I know three people personally that have died of tractor rollovers.
Dominion has entered into the Car Wash Machinery business.
That’s terrible 😢 My husband rolled his tractor this spring but was able to jump off as it was starting to tilt. Scary!
Still is.
You have things that will fold, spindle and mutilate you with ease and you are often working around them thinking about other things.
You often work alone which means no one to help you or call for help.
Only works if you buckle in. Most don’t. I don’t usually.
It is a roll bar or cab.
The absolute worst has to be the farm workers who drive tractors into manure pits and drown.
Or maybe getting caught in a grain silo and sinking toward the operating augur.
Both thoughts give me the creeps.
The silage chopper my dad had had to be sharpened while running. The blades were spinning out in the open.
None of his tractors had cabs or rollover bars.
I remember long, wide belts (12 inches wide) running from the side of the tractor to the pulley on the implement. It was all out in the open. Not sure what happened if the belt broke.
Current machinery has more shields and cabs.
Small farmers, who are the guys that tend to have the accidents can not afford the fancy shmancy equipment.
Out of all the small farmers around me there are maybe three that have cabs on their tractors.
But yes it is much better then the stuff from the thirties and forties.
I recall a news story from ~15-20 years ago of a farmer on a tractor in Texas who ran across a huge fire ant mound.
He was later found dead of many thousands of bites.
Maybe he should have stayed out of the apparatus that is the USofA. There, the problem would have never happened.
But he chose poorly.
SS1
A quick fist read of the title had me thinking the CUSTOMER inside the car was killed, not a worker.
My job involves a bunch of augers, plows, grain silos and other machinery.
A couple of years before I got hired, a guy got cut in half from his shoulder to his hip.
Well, more like ripped in half.
Having now been there for over 20 years, I tell the new hires, “Take your time. Don’t rush. You’re here for twelve hours a day. If you can’t finish your job, tell the next crew. But, you’ll be alive and unhurt to do so.”
I cringe when I watch some of those videos on FB showing workers in 3rd world countries, (china, india, thailand, bangledesh etc), no gaurds, working in sandals or barefoot, no gloves or eye protection etc, no wonder they make items so cheap.
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