Creative Director Chris Cortilet was admitted yesterday to Methodist Hospital after loosing his fingers in a vise grip. Chris and his team were out scouting possible imagery to illustrate a story they were doing on safety, when all of a sudden Chris was being tortured by a vise grip. “I didn’t even see it coming,” said Chris, “One minute I’m walking through the plant looking for a story to tell and the next minute I’m in the throws of a life struggle with a vise grip. It just wouldn’t let go, and I could hear the bones breaking and blood was everywhere. Eventually someone released the grip and I fell to the ground. The next thing I know I’m in the hospital. They brought the fingers back to the hospital, but there wasn’t anything that they could do at that point. They put them in a jar for me and I have them in my room.”

After Chris was removed from the facility around 2 pm OSHA sent a team in to examine the scene and to access the vise grip. It’s likely that they will have a report by the end of the week. One of the experts on the scene said, “We can’t understand what happened, vises just don’t do these things. We’ve never seen anything like it. It’s likely that we won’t have a complete picture until we finish the interviews with witnesses, clean up the scene and have a forensics expert review the fingers. At this time everything is a mess.”