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i was told to run a remote overhead crane with only 3 wheels. it carried large coils of rolled up aluminum for Ladle Treatment. The aluminum would swing and cause the missing wheel area to bottom out,,,causing more swing and making it worse. This was moving over my coworkers heads. The foreman told me to keep doing it… i called the safety team and they came up and said “hell no” another foreman came up and ordered me to run it but have everyone clear the area…ok thats sorta safe i guess but killed production. The 2nd foreman later “reminded” me that i hadnt filled out the daily safety inspection.

Well, dont mind if i do. Red section “if anything is checked in this area do not operate” lets see…missing wheel, check. mechanical problems, check. The first foreman sees what im doing and says “the wheel is on order its just not here yet” “OK whats that got to do with this liability checklist i was told to fill out?” Back to checklist, ohhh look a write in section. “INOP crane ordered to be run by 3rd foreman” signed me “Smartass Steelworker” the 3rd foreman was the 2nd guy it was 3rd shift. What he didnt know was he didnt comeback to my area for the rest of the night and the checklist was picked up by the General Foreman in the morning when i got off.

i came in that night to a shitstorm. The safety team had lost its mind, that paper i filled out went directly to OSHA. That missing wheel showed up in record time and they had been down all day fixing it. I showed up and it had just been certified by the millwrights.

TL;DR foreman ordered me to run an unsafe crane then stupidly told me to fill out an OSHA inspection on it. so i did and said he made me do it.

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