Depends on what gets dropped or rolled over your piggies. If it's heavy enough to cause the steel toe to cut your toes off then your foot is wrecked anyway.
They protect you from a whole range of things, most commonly accidents with power tools like grinders, power saws, chainsaws.
Then there's things which might crush your foot with mechanical force, forklifts....forklifts...uh. other machinery on site that looks suspiciously like a fork lift.
And that's before you even get into things "falling" on your foot. A month ago a quarter ton cement irrigation pipe fell onto my foot from two inches and simply rolled off. Had I not been wearing steel caps the pipe would have cut the end of my foot off.
Check the rating on your boots, if somthing weigning more or falling from higher landed on your foot you'd be jam m8 either way. I know a guy who had a scaf lifter roll over his foot and it drove his whole foot into the mud but he was totally unharmed, that vehicle was over the rating of the boot so on cement it would have crushed him, but because he had steel caps his boots were harder than the mud and the machine drove his foot into the ground as if it were a fence post.
Seen shit like c**ts getting nail gunned in the foot, hydraulic fissures at ground level... imagine a c**t stepping on a hydraulic line and it blasting a gorrilion psi jet of water into his foot. Shit cut through the rubber and peeled the leathet off the boot.
Yea nah wear your PPE and don't be a dickhead on site because you'll end up working with a dozen other dickheads
> stepping on a hydraulic line and it blasting a gorrilion psi jet of water into his foot.
This shit is really scary because you don't just get your foot lacerated, you also die because all of that shit and its air bubbles got forced into your blood and it'll make its way to your heart and you die in an hour
The metal protection has already saved me from nails by crushing them, also from a steel plate which slipped on the steel toe only tearing off the leather.
Also, do not be afraid of the extra weight because you will be a little more tired after 8 hours of work but your legs and buttocks will be more muscular. Rigid soles will prevent your feet from bending too much when walking in the rubble.
the instructor in my hazwoper class was a former marine pilot and safety officer. He said ground crew were required to wear steel toes about planes, but one guy got is foot run over by the rear landing gear on an F-18 when he was kicking out the tire stop. Weight crushed steel cap cutting off his toes, so he suggested, and it was approved, that ground crew in those situations wear non steel toes and the accident would have only broken his toes, which could heal, and not cut them off. So you need to understand your risks and choose the appropriate cap type, or non at all.
Someone always fricks up kicking chocks and done right the foot is not where the wheel rolls over it. No toecap would still have meant crushed toes because fighter landing gear have VERY high ground pressure for less rolling resistance with small tires. Toecaps are to keep towbars, tools, jacks etc off toes not stop very large weights.
Chocks are often used with heavy equipment, trucks etc so here's how to do it right:
If a chock end is too close to or inboard of the side of a tire you place the other/another chock end against it then kick the opposite end of the assisting chock to free the problem while holding the rope so you have control and can instantly carry the chocks aside.
Sling chocks by their ropes (I rope my civilian chocks and cribbing too for much nicer no-splinter handling) and don't grab them. We had one noob trap his fingertip with nail between tire and F-16 chock when chock-walking jets into our hangars for storm prep. We bagged the tip hours later when someone found it and send it to his AMU Support section. G.I.s be like that.
Anecdotal evidence from my own paramedic experience (esl so bear with me for certain terms):
>get call, factory accident >factory produces gears and stuff, with some of these being really large turbine gears n shit >dude had a 200kg piece fall on his foot >when we get there, toes are broken, but the steel cap actually prevented the foot from being crushed entirely >able to get the foot in one piece out of the shoe >overseer dude asks if he can take a picture of the shoe to show in trainings as an example for the importance of steel toes
>be working in the yard on a weekend wearing flip flops >drop drill >heh, no problem I'll catch it with my boot so it doesn't hit the concrete >FUCCCCCKKKKKKKKK
Has anyone used those various steel toe overshoe products. I like having wide toe box boots to avoid Chinese foot binding of normie shoes and wondered if those products worked.
I've used these and they fricking blow, heavy, the way they are shaped and attach to your shoes usually makes them fit unevenly and totally fricks up your gait, and every once in awhile one of them would slip off while I was taking a step and get launched in to orbit.
This looks unsafe and accident-prone as frick, unless you're some kind of assembly line worker, but at that point you can bolt those things to the line spot and have people just step in.
just follow the rules your employer has, if there are none I'd say it depends on your variety of work. I'll always wear a safety toe boot, I avoid metatarsal boots if I can
My toes are too wide for these things so every time I wear them the toe next to my pinky toe gets bruised up and the nail falls off. Steel toes are great for warehouse work and stuff but make sure they frickin fit
If something damages the steel toe in a way that it cuts your toes off, then your toes would have gotten fricked either way.
This
NEVER wear those "safety"boots
The metal tip WILL cut off your fingertips
if the toe is cut off there might be a chance the surgeon could reattach it
if your toe is mushed it is over, contusions damage tissue beyond repair
>hasn't seen terminator movies
Depends on what gets dropped or rolled over your piggies. If it's heavy enough to cause the steel toe to cut your toes off then your foot is wrecked anyway.
Steel caps aren't a meme m8.
They protect you from a whole range of things, most commonly accidents with power tools like grinders, power saws, chainsaws.
Then there's things which might crush your foot with mechanical force, forklifts....forklifts...uh. other machinery on site that looks suspiciously like a fork lift.
And that's before you even get into things "falling" on your foot. A month ago a quarter ton cement irrigation pipe fell onto my foot from two inches and simply rolled off. Had I not been wearing steel caps the pipe would have cut the end of my foot off.
Check the rating on your boots, if somthing weigning more or falling from higher landed on your foot you'd be jam m8 either way. I know a guy who had a scaf lifter roll over his foot and it drove his whole foot into the mud but he was totally unharmed, that vehicle was over the rating of the boot so on cement it would have crushed him, but because he had steel caps his boots were harder than the mud and the machine drove his foot into the ground as if it were a fence post.
Seen shit like c**ts getting nail gunned in the foot, hydraulic fissures at ground level... imagine a c**t stepping on a hydraulic line and it blasting a gorrilion psi jet of water into his foot. Shit cut through the rubber and peeled the leathet off the boot.
Yea nah wear your PPE and don't be a dickhead on site because you'll end up working with a dozen other dickheads
> stepping on a hydraulic line and it blasting a gorrilion psi jet of water into his foot.
This shit is really scary because you don't just get your foot lacerated, you also die because all of that shit and its air bubbles got forced into your blood and it'll make its way to your heart and you die in an hour
But I work in an office doing coding. Why does my boss make me wear steel caps?
>vending machine falls onto foot because you were trying to get your doritos unstuck
If you break a cable and touch it with exposed steel toe then the cable will weld itself to the steel frying your those.
I’m not even sure if it’s true but it’s the reason why we can only wear Kevlar toes on the job
Exposed steel toe usually gets you kicked out of most construction sites.
The metal protection has already saved me from nails by crushing them, also from a steel plate which slipped on the steel toe only tearing off the leather.
Also, do not be afraid of the extra weight because you will be a little more tired after 8 hours of work but your legs and buttocks will be more muscular. Rigid soles will prevent your feet from bending too much when walking in the rubble.
the instructor in my hazwoper class was a former marine pilot and safety officer. He said ground crew were required to wear steel toes about planes, but one guy got is foot run over by the rear landing gear on an F-18 when he was kicking out the tire stop. Weight crushed steel cap cutting off his toes, so he suggested, and it was approved, that ground crew in those situations wear non steel toes and the accident would have only broken his toes, which could heal, and not cut them off. So you need to understand your risks and choose the appropriate cap type, or non at all.
Someone always fricks up kicking chocks and done right the foot is not where the wheel rolls over it. No toecap would still have meant crushed toes because fighter landing gear have VERY high ground pressure for less rolling resistance with small tires. Toecaps are to keep towbars, tools, jacks etc off toes not stop very large weights.
Chocks are often used with heavy equipment, trucks etc so here's how to do it right:
If a chock end is too close to or inboard of the side of a tire you place the other/another chock end against it then kick the opposite end of the assisting chock to free the problem while holding the rope so you have control and can instantly carry the chocks aside.
Sling chocks by their ropes (I rope my civilian chocks and cribbing too for much nicer no-splinter handling) and don't grab them. We had one noob trap his fingertip with nail between tire and F-16 chock when chock-walking jets into our hangars for storm prep. We bagged the tip hours later when someone found it and send it to his AMU Support section. G.I.s be like that.
Florsheim Hercules ftw.
They also come in extra wide. Roomy. Might require an extra insert to lift the foot into the proper spot, in the summer, or, in the winter, two socks.
I normally wear 11 for all the standard width or even regular 'wide' shoes, but because the Florsheims are EE, 10.5 is perfect.
No one has mentioned the metatarsal guard. That's what hits the boot, like a pipe, then rolls off past the toe guard.
Would like to know where to get them resoled. Have had mine for several years. Leather is great. Just rubbed in some mink oil every so often.
if the weight was enough to crush a good steel plate (not cheap chinese plastic plates) your toes were done for either way.
Anecdotal evidence from my own paramedic experience (esl so bear with me for certain terms):
>get call, factory accident
>factory produces gears and stuff, with some of these being really large turbine gears n shit
>dude had a 200kg piece fall on his foot
>when we get there, toes are broken, but the steel cap actually prevented the foot from being crushed entirely
>able to get the foot in one piece out of the shoe
>overseer dude asks if he can take a picture of the shoe to show in trainings as an example for the importance of steel toes
OSHA only requires coverage of 3 toes. So you won’t lose all of em per se.
Dunno
They're good for kicking stuff
It really hurts when you forget you arent wearing them and kick something so they probably help
>be working in the yard on a weekend wearing flip flops
>drop drill
>heh, no problem I'll catch it with my boot so it doesn't hit the concrete
>FUCCCCCKKKKKKKKK
my sides
Has anyone used those various steel toe overshoe products. I like having wide toe box boots to avoid Chinese foot binding of normie shoes and wondered if those products worked.
I've used these and they fricking blow, heavy, the way they are shaped and attach to your shoes usually makes them fit unevenly and totally fricks up your gait, and every once in awhile one of them would slip off while I was taking a step and get launched in to orbit.
This looks unsafe and accident-prone as frick, unless you're some kind of assembly line worker, but at that point you can bolt those things to the line spot and have people just step in.
Yeah, it's really just a stopgap for visitors and new hires that don't have proper shoes yet, they are miserable to wear
wear em moron. wear your safety goggles
wear your safety gear
BUT BUT BUT i'm a special sno- shut up and wear it.
just follow the rules your employer has, if there are none I'd say it depends on your variety of work. I'll always wear a safety toe boot, I avoid metatarsal boots if I can
My toes are too wide for these things so every time I wear them the toe next to my pinky toe gets bruised up and the nail falls off. Steel toes are great for warehouse work and stuff but make sure they frickin fit
Try keen
I have a wide foot and it's the only boots I wear. Allen Edmonds for casual wear because they're about the only folks that make wide shoes.
How many people trip and fall to their deaths because they have footwear several pounds heavier than it would otherwise be?
How fricking inept do you have to be to fail at walking
>several pounds heavier
We are talking about steel toe boots, not plain steel boots.
Look into composite toe boots too if your job sites allow them.
They're nearly as good as steel toe and much lighter.