i live in michigan, which is far from texas, but we're getting the brunt of its rain. this caused our truck bay to flood with sewer water, and some genius thought it would be a good idea to leave a stack of pallets there which got water logged and fell apart. backup boss and I had to clean it up at 3am, and boy did it stink like sh*t. i took one wrong step and my foot landed on a pallet board with a very long nail that went through my shoe and went directly between my big toe and second toe. i was shaken up, and still am. could have had an open puncture with contaminated water getting inside of it.
so please my kroger brothers and sisters, be careful around this crazy place. watch for awful pallet nails, as I got EXTREMELY lucky.
Sucks you had to do all that, at least you're alright. Yeah you gotta watch out for those sh*tty pallets. Splinter and Rusty Nail City. I nearly caught my hand/stepped on one of those dang nails plenty of times myself!
One guy that workd Utilities got a splinter from one and his hand got infected. Yikes.
i live in michigan, which is far from texas, but we're getting the brunt of its rain. this caused our truck bay to flood with sewer water, and some genius thought it would be a good idea to leave a stack of pallets there which got water logged and fell apart. backup boss and I had to clean it up at 3am, and boy did it stink like sh*t. i took one wrong step and my foot landed on a pallet board with a very long nail that went through my shoe and went directly between my big toe and second toe. i was shaken up, and still am. could have had an open puncture with contaminated water getting inside of it.
so please my kroger brothers and sisters, be careful around this crazy place. watch for awful pallet nails, as I got EXTREMELY lucky.
Oh man. I would have been shaken up as well if that had happened to me too. Hopefully you weren't more seriously hurt than you realized. But yea, between the warehouse stacking those pallets for ****. And then some peeps that don't know how to properly move them out of the way of others' safety. It is definitely a death trap.
That's exactly why if I find damaged pallets, I remove them from service and haul them with a jack to the compactor and have management look them over along with a n explanation of why I did so. If management don't like em, I take em apart, hammer the nails flat, and toss em in. Otherwise it gets dangerous if the ram is pushing the pallet into the crusher / dumpster and something breaks off n flies at the door. When anything deemed dangerous is thrown in, the door is locked until it's gone through a double cycle and more is thrown in.
File a complaint with the Kroger Ethics Board. Get your STAR Safety rep involved first. If they brush it off like it's nothing then file a complaint. Always try to solve issues at the store level first before going above their authority.
