That shift on a sulfur recovery unit last August nearly broke me

We were patching a crack in a 24 inch drum at a refinery near Baton Rouge, and the heat index hit 113 that day. By hour 10 my gloves were soaked through and I couldn't feel my fingers any more. Anybody else have a job that just pushed too far?

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hugotaylor3d ago

You got any tricks for keeping your hands from locking up in that heat? I started soaking my gloves in cold water before the shift and swapping them out every couple hours. Saved me from some nasty heat rash too.

theajohnson2d ago

Pro tip: soak your socks too, helps with the boot stank lol

patricia325h ago

Started soaking my hard hat liner in ice water between rounds on a compressor deck one summer. Problem was the ice melted in like ten minutes and then I had a wet soggy mess dripping down my neck for the rest of the shift. Ended up buying one of those neck bandanas with the cooling crystals in it, worked better but man did it look dorky. My foreman called me "the swamp monster" for two weeks straight. Still better than the heat stroke I saw hit a guy on the amine unit last year.