"...Oh, are steel
toed shoes safe?My husband wants
me to get some. I wonder why? I have been told if you get stepped on with steel
toes the steel will bend and amputate your toes. ..."
That rumor has been around for at least 40
years. It is often used by industrial workers who don't want to wear the
required steel toed shoes required by OSHA. OSHA doesn't buy that.
The required crush resistance of the steel toed shoes is much greater than the
strength of you toes. If something much heavier than a horse (say a
freight train) ran over and crushed a steel toe on a boot, your toes would have
been amputated anyway.
The other excuse is that steel toes are cold in the
winter. That one is true. You can purchase shoes/boots with OSHA
approved hard toes made from plastic now.
Ed
Ed & Wendy Hauser 2994 Mittower
Road Victor, MT 59875
