[TheForge] Re: Comfortable shoes

Sun Oct 19 23:28:01 2003

Back in the late 60's when we lived in the Pittsburgh area my wife (a nurse)
took care of a man that had a multi-ton steel ingot set on his foot.  Steel
toed shoes, on concrete.  Ingot pushed the steel toe through the sole of the
shoe down to the concrete.  Damage to the foot yes, not fun, but he did NOT
loose his toes.  These shoes did not have metatarsals, and the ingot only
caught the toe.  Still they made a big difference -- it was only one foot.
Made me believe in safety shoes in the plant.  In general I don't wear them
in my one man shop unless I am moving very heavy items
I don't like metatarsals -- I think they are  high risk if you have to move
around on equipment, ladders etc. because you can catch you foot and trip.
Before I retired metatarsals were becoming standard required foot wear in
many of the plants I worked in and I followed the rules.

Dave Smucker
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Lane" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: Comfortable shoes

>
> >Of course, if you work in a place where they require steel toed boots, no
> >way will they work. I keep a pair of steel toed red wings in the shop,
but I
> >only put em on when I absolutely have to.
>          They do work, but to a point.  If you drop a bar of stock on your
> foot it will save the toes.  If you drop a heavy I beam on your foot you
> will most likely loose the toes.  If you drop a cold rolling machine on
> your foot it doesn't matter much anyway.
>          Metatarsal protectors help improve the situation quite a bit.
>
> Scott
>
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