I never thought it would be silent.
That silence is a different element of the fear.
Ricky Gorsuch got his arm caught in a Bridgeport once, right before Christmas shutdown.
He yelled, the foreman yelled instructions, some other guys shut their machines down and there was more yelling, then the sound of machines firing back up.
Me, it was just silence.
The metal is cold. No one mentions that either.
That cold is a shock, before the shock.
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