[TheForge] Re: Comfortable shoes

Scott Lane [email protected]
Mon Oct 20 02:10:01 2003


>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.

         I didn't like them either.  Had to kneel down a lot and they 
really press on the top of the feet when you try to balance with the 
toes.  Oh well.