In this real-life man vs machine scenario, Soda City Training instructor, Mike Noreck addresses situations involving small entrapments, such as small appliances and meat grinders, emphasizing the risk to fingers and hands, advising on allowing individuals control over their pain management with water intake, and suggesting the possibility of EMS intervention for pain relief during disassembly or disentanglement.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION:

You’re going to find yourself in situations where you will have some small entrapments.

Children putting their fingers and hands in places they don’t belong and getting trapped.

A lot of home DIYers trying to fix things…YouTube university, trying to figure out how to do things. They forget to pull to power or do lockout tagout situation.

Fingers and hands are always going to be some of the biggest things that get through. Lot of vasculatures, a lot of nerves. So, it’s going to be a lot of pain associated.

Give them the ability to take water with a hole in it and let them be in control of their own pain management.

Instructor Tip

Give them the ability to take water with a hole in it and let them be in control of their own pain management.

At some point between the pain and just standing up, they may pass out. If it’s feasible, just have them sit in the chair, have EMS come in and hit them up with something real quick as you are doing the disassembly, as you are doing the disentanglement, so that it kind of takes that pain away.

Find the weakest point and the thinnest material that we can cut through. One thing that we don’t want to do is we never really want to reverse just cause we are causing more damage by going in reverse.

So we want to expose right?

All thats holding it in is one screw. You pull that one screw, it’s going to slide right out.

If their fingers are going to be wrapped around the auger, don’ t try to unravel or pull away, let the surgical team do that.

We just want to free, and get them out of that position.