Work Emergency

I was working overtime this Saturday trying to get the balance of a seven million forecast out of the door. We only have two more days, Monday and Tuesday, to get the rest of the orders out. The night inspection crew were not really happy to be asked to work overtime. It pretty much rearranged your schedule and sleep patterns. This day was not that problematic, but because of the hot weather we were a little slow. We only have a few jobs available when night shift started, because the rest of the jobs were locked inside the storage room. An outside contractor's work crew was working inside the building cleaning the air ducts from the build up residue from coating the pins.

The shift was almost over and I had my area cleaned up when another inspector came to drop parts for the cetyl alcohol area. I was helping him unload the pans. When he finished I walked him to his electrical golf cart while talking about how slow it was that day. Suddenly I heard a big explosion and a second later I felt hot air rush out of the door. I was facing away from the big door when the explosion occured and I got the heat square on my back. I turned around and saw what looks like sparks flying inside the building. I also saw a few people inside running for the door. I told my friend to run to the opposite building.

I saw the new safety officer, who was supervising the work, ran outside and started to yell to call 911. I ran to the guard shack, but the guard was not there and the door was locked. I ran back to a safe distance. The rest of the people started to go home since they clocked out already. I called my lead lady and she told us to leave and go home. I kept telling her I needed to run inside our office to get my bag and my phone. I later realized that I had my missing phone in my hand, the one I was using to talk to her. My co-workers and I went home while the fire department was hosing down the inside of the building. What a day!