Foam Board at Merillat

This one took place at work (Merillat). Most of the time I was going around in shipping as far as I know, although it seems that there were a few times I was over in the rough mill for something.

I was walking down the aisle in shipping that's over by the door that goes out to the rest of the plant. I was heading towards the back of shipping, and I was either looking for something, going to get a trash can, or taking one back. I don't remember which it was, but I know that I passed someone that was in the cross-over aisle that was on my right. I think it was Ima (the shipping supervisor).

Then I was over in the area that's just out from dock 2 on its way over to the door going out to the rest of the plant. The aisles came out extra far, and I looked down on the bottom of one that was facing towards the truck docks, and there were a bunch of books there. When I saw them I remembered that they had always been there, and I was at the art section. So I went down a looked at the books, which were on a shelf that came straight out into the middle of the aisle. There were some really big books or pieces of plywood that were on the left side of the smaller art books holding them in.

Then I went out to the rest of the plant because the horn blew, and we had 3 minutes till the end of the shift. As I was walking down past Shawn (a short guy that I sit with at lunch), he asked me if I could get him a piece of that foam board. I said okay, and I kept going over to the rough mill to wash off my hands. As I was heading over there past the hog area, Kevin (Tara's boyfriend) was there cleaning up or something, and I tried to throw something (like a screw or a gum wrapper) into the trash box under the stairs, but I missed, so I just picked it back up since it bounced back over in front of me and went on back to the sink. I threw the thing in the trash and then I washed my hands.

Afterwards I was getting ready to get a drink, and Steve (another coworker) came up with about 5 boards and was going to chop them there at the paper towel dispenser. I hurried up and got my drink of water since the fountain was right under the paper towels, and then got out of the way.

Then I was back over in front of shipping, just getting ready to go in, and I had that piece of Foam-core that Shawn wanted. It was a big 4x8 foot sheet, and about a half an inch thick. I had it out to my right side and it was blowing around in the "breeze" that I was making by walking. Then it kept rippling and curling up and folding up. I got out to the door that I go out at night, and I was looking for Shawn, but he had already gone out. Evidently the second horn had blown and I didn't hear it.

So I went on out and saw him coming around the end of the parking lot in his truck. There were LOTS of cars parked down there, and I remember that Brian (a guy I went to church with and was a grade below me) was in his car next to me. He had 3 other guys with him, and one of them was Evan (from the farm down the road from where I lived). So Brian was talking to me about something about having his door open and going along and hitting children with it and saying "oh, I'm sorry!" and then closing the door.

As I was getting into my car, I saw Evan there in the back seat and so I gave him the now rolled up foam board and he was happy with it. Then I think I got on in my car and Brian drove off, and then I did, too.