Henry

They wound up breaking out what I think was a circular saw to cut me out of the machine while I begged them not to because I didn't want to be fired.

I did not get fired.

Good on your boss.

He might have been difficult.

They wound up breaking out what I think was a circular saw, right?

The whole operation took 45 minutes.

I wound up having a wound so deep they couldn't stitch it shut.

I had to pack the wound twice a day with wet gauze and then bandage the whole arm until it healed.

That is gross when you have to stick the gauze into the wound.

You start to really understand how much we are just meat.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Good news, I am more or less completely unscathed.

My arm is fine, except for a sweet scar.

I have no permanent damage.

I got so lucky.

The day before my accident, a man in the international district of my city lost his arm in a similar incident at a fortune cookie factory.

No, no!

I wish I was making this up.

I got a free coffee out of the situation, approximately $30 in missed wages, plus a blurb in the local paper.

My boss got a hefty fine from OSHA, and I was never allowed to make noodles again.