The Steel Toecap Amputation Horror Story! | MythBusters | Season 4 Episode 3 | Full Episode 

Same story as when we started uparmoring certain aircraft. People wanted to place the additional armor where the bullet holes were most common on returning aircraft, until someone pointed out that the aircraft that had been hit everywhere else were the ones that *weren't* returning

@@LavenderSystem69 survivors bias is a funny thing

That is a similar story to fitting extra armour to certain models of aircraft, With the B-17 they would come back absolutely cut to pieces and it was a clever engineer who mentioned the armour had to fitted where these planes that landed hadn't been torn up by flak and AA rounds, because the planes hit in those spots weren't getting home. My Grandmother who was in the WAAF at a training unit, she is 100 now and said that the B-17's that landed occasionally at her British OTU base where just so incredibly damaged, no other aircraft could take the damage of those things and make it home, the Americans would put a 24/7 guard on the plane until they pulled the wings and lorried it back to an American base. I think it was to protect the bombing computers they had, which didn't work in Europe anyway (Grandfather was in the Mosquitos Bomber Command DFC sq692 and told me the computers worked great above the deserts of America, but the hilly and overcast/foggy nights of Europe the computers couldn't cope so the Americans reverted to manual sight bombing like the British method, how my grandfather did it), but the yanks were even protecting the technology from the Allies.

​@@kingcosworth2643very interesting! this is kinda mentioned in the new tv series from apple tv+ Masters of the Air

Survivorship bias The bullets on the planes didn't blow up

Hey! I'm not your friend, buddy! 😅 (couldn't help it...)

@@DarkGodSeti I'm not your buddy, guy!

⁠@@mckrunchytoast2469 i‘m not your guy, pal!

@@erebostd I'm not your pal, brother!

Would you rather have your toes crushed or cut cleanly off? Was told that when starting to work at beam factory before.

You say that but if you just step back and look at the situation The weight misses your foot

​@@Alphoric "Not get hit" That's genius! Why has no one ever thought of that before? 🙄

yhea i worked in a machining shop and the amount of times steel toe boots have saved me from pain cant be counted on 10 sets of hands. the point of failure in those boots as long as they are good quality, will take a very high load, and at those loads you have no toes to save as they are mush without the steel toe. and with them you might be in inmense pain, but your toes can still be saved. at loads your toes still get crushed with steel toes you are lucky its only your toes and not possibly your life, had 4 kids in my school helping unload a manual laithe, laithe fell on the 4 and 3 lost their life and one lost his whole leg. those loads will smash your foot with steel toes.

​@@Alphoric How would your toe get cut off your toe if the blow was so glancing that your foot gets missed? If it isn't direct enough to crush your toes safety boots would get ejected.

@@burlyraccoon5029I use redwings. I work in a core engine processing facility. I’ve had a 800lb cummins roll over on my foot and not able to get it off until other coworkers helped. Never once felt a single pain. Made me a believer. When I saw the motor tiliting in a small space I had no where to go and I thought I was gonna loose my whole foot but nope

on top of that too. you can have internal bleeding from body armor as well..

medieval armor has that myth floating around. “a mace could crush your breastplate in and make it impossible to breathe,” a mace to the unprotected gut however you’re gonna no-sell like you’re Houdini.

​@@hambone950Guess what bullets do to your internals?

@@oscaranderson5719 prolly and even tho breastplate armor or body armor would you rather "walk" around and cant really breath vs being totally fkd? rather "risk" wearing the safety devices vs not.

@@oscaranderson5719 Yeah a mace to the gut is kind of a game over lol. Although I have to say that the myth is a bit more silly considering the fact that a one-handed steel flanged mace most likely won't crush a decent quality breastplate in enough to limit your breathing substantially, it could make a pretty big dent but that's about it. A polehammer could probably crush it in enough to limit breathing quite a bit, but at that point your problem isn't breathing but rather the fact that most of your ribcage will probably shatter and without the breastplate you'd probably have a decent hole and ruptured organs. Just my two cents of rambling about medieval stuff because I like it.

I only found out he passed by your comment just now. Thank you & R.i.l to him

He was my favorite I didn’t know he died I’m sad now

him and Jessi

@@mcpudd1540 omg I just Google her. This has turned into a sad day

the whole Mythbuster crew will be immortalized by this show :)

Wait what? He died?! When did this happen! I practically grew up on Mythbusters! (Before Grant Torry and Kerri were even part of the show) but still… I remember the first episode when they became part of the show

@@ThisMeansMyPS3sOut Grant passed in July 2020 from a brain aneurysm. :/

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 fool

​@@whendarknessfalls6969wtf?

@@whendarknessfalls6969What is your problem?

Jessi too

Damn didn't even know Grand passed away😢

Didn't know Grant passed?

Just looked it up. He passed 4 years ago. First I've heard. May he RIP

The only problem is that steel toe keeps them crushed. I think I'd rather go with some synthetic polymer or something. Something that provides the strength but will bounce back once the weight is off. So something like a forklift running over your foot you actually might be better off without steel toe. I'm not anti-steel toe. Just saying there's probably a better material.

​@@shadowprince4482 it would be cool to use like an Oblek type material, only hard on impact.

@@nosaj2286 That's actually not a bad idea! Really anything that can shield an impact and then flex back or even break after a certain amount of force. The thought of something smashing my steel toe boot and then it staying that way as doctors hours later try to get my foot out sounds horrifying.

Actually not fully correct - there are special shoes that will literally chop off your toes to save your foot. I'm not sure what they are called but they are only used in rare circumstances

yeah the version of this myth I heard was that if something heavy enough hit your steely it was designed to cut your toes clean off because it is easier to reattach clean cut toes than it is to deal with a bunch of mangled toes.

That's toe-tally amazing

I recently toured a UPS air facility and the loaders explained that they don’t wear steel toed shoes because they can become jammed under the “Unit load device” or pallet which ride on a rail in the plane. This can lead to the person getting stuck for hours while rescuers attempt to free them from the situation with no circulation to their toes. Apparently they had an incident where this occurred and the guy lost his toes because they were severed for too long. Being that it was a first hand account I believe it’s not a myth when it comes to pinching hazards with rails but it would definitely be beneficial to have the steel toe if you are only at risk of dropping heavy stuff on your feet.

@@hunterhourany1612 here's the thing though, he wasn't keeping those toes regardless if he was there for that long

@@ABurntMuffin The main danger of the steel toe shoe in that situation is blood clots. When you are stuck for that long though there is a chance that a blood clot forms where the circulation it cut off. If that occurs it can cause a stroke or heart attack when you are freed from under the pallet and kill you. Loosing the toes is the least of your concerns in that situation because you might not even live long enough to need them.

​@@ABurntMuffinHe wouldn't have been trapped there if not for the boot, so yeah actually he would.

Yeah it's crazy isn't it in America a 60 min program is actually around 41-42 minutes. That's terrible I know they have to use advertising but that's obscene

@@Pr3stag3 I'm old, and I remember when Cable first started becoming popular. The biggest selling point that they were telling people why they should get Cable was "No Commercials". Just like a drug pusher. The first one is free.

Just makes me sad Grant is gone though :/ dude was a legend

​@@GermanSausagesAreTheWurstthat's why Tivo was so big in the 00s haha, being able to fast forward. Which became standard with DVR, then we ditched ads entirely with streaming. I haven't seen ads in like 10 years, adblock and RU-vid Vanced haha

Free Hulu? Cheap and ad free Netflix? They got us again. Guess i'm old too

*Quentin Tarantino wants to know your location*

steel cap boots don't exist

@@somdusazerate Toe caps are what you call the protective metal. steel cap boots = steel toe boots. Hope this helps

@@loadings3819 you probably think the moon is real too, right?

Its bait​@@loadings3819

I somehow read this as "as a masochist" at first 😅

@@michaeledmunds7056 😂

You’re right. Most of the people that avoid steel toes because of this myth aren’t smart enough to realize that last part, about how you’d be losing your toes anyway.

I remember seeing that and then immediately trying it at home as a kid in high school. Worked great!

@@ZigealFaust It says "a Japanese 'myth' takes off in bottle rocket blast off" it's in the closed captioning too

@@ZigealFaust thats not what it said lol

@@ZigealFaustthat’s not what it says at all.

@@ZigealFaust brain damaged

The alternative is your toes (or entire foot) being cheese grated off by pavement...

I heard it about motorcycle boots as well. You don't have to crash for a truck to go over your foot in traffic, which apparently would drive your toe cap into the tarmac and slice off your toes. A steel cap would probably be enough to protect you if it's "only" a car.

This happened to my cousin while on his motorcycle back in 2016. Woman didnt see him in and ran him over and tried to drive off but people saw the incident and stopped her from driving off. His head and feet went under the tires but the doctor said his helmet and steel toe boots protected his head and toes. He was unconscious for 1 week, woke up and stayed hospitalized for another week and fully recovered.

It's not the steel toe that's a problem, it's the laces getting caught. It's not really a problem if you tie your boots properly and wear decent fitting pants over them

@@manofthehour91 shaft drive so all good there! It did worry my a little on my last bike but it wasn't really close enough to the chain.

Banijay, the right holder to Mythbusters, is uploading the whole series in original 1080p quality... Even the very first episodes are available in 1080. That was not easy to find a few years back

@@xl000 where are the first episodes available? Season 4 is currently the earliest on this channel

As well as junkyard wars... I think that was the name

​@@codyr7050junkyard wars needs a reboot. Just don't make it PC and add a bunch of token characters with stupid back stories.

An irresponsible party trick my coworker does is to have someone run over his foot while wearing his steel toes.

​@@pipebombpete.6861 Calculated risk and it's on him if he calculated poorly.

wait... 10 tons? I'm pretty sure that's waaaay too heavy for even a steel-braced shoe to stop, surely. was this during some form of work? if so, was there an incident report filed?

@@_NekOztaking badly calculated risks as an adult is usually what we refer to as irresponsible

No offense but your foot would have been more than likely fine without them as well because of distributed weight and the amount of time under it. People have their feet run over all the time with minimal damage and the size wouldn't much matter.

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Seconded! I've been bingeing mythbusters so much on youtube, and going to share with my daughters as soon as they are old enough.

Third! This is awesome! Been missing this!

I know right. And the fact that this video was uploaded 2 days ago and it already had over 300K views is incredible considering this episode came out almost 20 years ago. Maybe it’s introducing some newer fans to the Mythbusters that may have not grown up on it like and other people my age have.

And they’re the UK versions which are much better!

It's about misuse of the word...... certain jobs don't allow steel caps because it complicates the situation,some require steel caps to a certain rating. It's more about what it takes to get to the foot through squished steel without doing more damage and the constant pressure until it's removed from the steel.

​@@jacobishii6121 You got crystal clear regulations for safety at the job. You can say "United States of Europe" is nonsense, but for safety it is GREAT that everybody who should have protective shoes actually GETS these shoes. And in most factories you need them.

What about carbon/composite toe shoes?

I work with a kid and he refuses to wear steel toes on the job (even with the threat of termination) He says, and I quote, "they don't make me look good".

That's basically what they come away with; yes, the steel toes can hurt your foot. But in every case, you're better off with them than without them.

that pfp scaring me bro

without accepting(trusting) christ as saviour, no peace :/

@Wulfrik671 ye , why ?

@@MG-hg1sqbecause you're spouting godly propaganda when everyone will die eventually regardless of whether i get on my knees on a sunday or not

@@pilotflux8005 its not about religion, goign to church or to stop you sin. The law(commandments, shut our motuh(we all do it everyday) - we are in lost state, doesnt matter, how hard u tried. The good news (gospel) is about, that the innocent son of god(jesus christ(gods son came form hevaen as man, born throught virgin)) gave himself a random for all, that he took the punishment of the wolrd unt ohimsel,f that we never have to face the wrath fo god for our sins(lie..) so the good news is, which you believe simply to receive forgivness is :: christ died for our(world) sins, was buried and rose bodly again o nthe 3rd day god was in christ, reconling(removing emtiy of sin complet) the world unto himself, NOT IMPUTHING their sins. THe question is simply, would you believe it(saved then,eternal life, justfied(just as if u never sinned) the moment, u put you faith in christ finished work to get u to heaven) or rejecting it by unbelieve(staying lost) it is not of works, also not to maintain it, it is also a free gift, you can come as you are, there is no requirment, which you need to fuillfill, to receive it the moment u believe it.( as be willing to change you life), the bible is clear, faith along is sufficent, you believe on him(christ) who justfies the ungodly(you), the moment u accepted it by faith, are you eternal saved

Just saw that part and had to rewind it😂 I love it when they sneak things like this!

"Simultaneous release is one of our hugest problems..."

"pause" is for when a guy says something that could be interpreted as gay. What she said is a "that's what she said" or a "nice"😊

8:11 Adam is a two-hander as well.

@@johnjason1472 pause

When I was a kid I had a mustang run my foot over. Somehow it didn't break. The tire kind of conformed around my foot it felt like. It grabbed my foot and then let go.

Agree

@@borntoclimb7116 or, you two guys can watch it again, on youtube!

My grandfather wishes he could go back in time too. For different reasons though....

This episode is from even further back according to Wikipedia… 2005 season. Very close to 20 years ago

There's so many reasons I'd like to go back to 2007.

once had a pallet jack drop 2 feet directly onto my foot. Had a big bruise on the top of my foot where it wasn't covered by the steel, but probably would have been a hell of a lot worse if I wasn't wearing steel toes.

Jeez, so lucky! I guess safety shoes really are a good idea. I had a friend in middle school whose dad was missing half a toe because of a similar accident.

@@nom_chompsky Vegetable gardens are better, anyway. 😈

​@@stephaniedesmond8329 im starting to come around to the "till the land, then just throw a ton bunch of different grains and beans around in no particular order"

@@highviewbarbell Right? It feeds the local wildlife and it feeds you! Not to mention saving on effort.

@@stephaniedesmond8329 Vegetable gardens help you live a long and healthy life.

This is not the official channel. And is BBC as they let that copyright expire. They renewed the us ones

I don't think this is right...the ones they showed on BBC2 were reruns that were shortened to 30mins. The ones we got originally in the UK were the 50min episodes, but they had an English guy doing the commentary and were on Sky-TV rather than BBC (also maybe Channel4)

Previous comments are missing the point that these are 50 minute episodes when US tv shows broadcast in the US are 40 minutes long. Love the longer versions.

they reckon wrong. as is usual in Oz.

So first they crush the toes and then they cut off the toes 😂

If he didn’t have them the foot likely wouldve been sliced right off

The myth is that the world was ever not weird and messed up friend.

@@Gibson343088 its all a matter of degrees -- not black and white or absolutes. And its WAY more messed up now than when Mythbusters was on. Clearly. Anyone who thinks it isnt, their opinion would mean nothing to me. It would be like them saying the sky is yellow on a clear blue day.

@@Gibson343088 I don't need you or anyone else to try and tell me "the world was never not weird or messed up". I'm speaking from my own experience and the memories I have from years ago. Who are you to invalidate someone's memories or tell somebody their experiences didn't happen?

​@@olbricky6824 Experience is not absolute. Your personal knowledge isn't global truth. The world has slays been messed up, you were just asleep. Assassinations and Holocausts don't happen in a picturesque perfect world.

And my son still loved me

When I started work, I was an apprentice mechanic. A couple of years in, one of the newer guys managed to let a four poster lift, with a car on it, down onto his foot. He had steel toecaps, but the lift caught it in such a way that it rocked backwards and broke all his toes. I remember they had to wrap his foot in a plastic seat cover to get him to hospital. So yes, that can definitely happen.

Yeah, in the shipyards we were told that steel toes weren't used because they'd be useless anyway.

​@@Pagliacci_Rexprobably didn't want to pay for the boots.😂

​@@Pagliacci_RexTo be fair maybe they have a point. Idk how well even steel toe would help with that much weight that quick. Although to be fair one can't deny people's desire to be cheapskates.

Ive heard that line of reasoning vs composite toes

And it would have been so much worse without the steel.

Put some maple syrup on that bad boy

⁠@@CommentFromnah dude that’s a crepe

Bro I was pulling a produce pallet and did the same thing. We were all going in a line when there was a sudden stop. I was but a wee lad I threw my weight into it but to no avail, the weight of the potatoes and bananas was unbearable. It went right up onto my foot stayed for like half a second then rolled off. My shoe was immediately full of blood. Lost many toenails and my big toe has never Been the same but luckily I kept all of them XD pro tip just swing the handle into a hard turn as far as it will go the wheels will turn sideways and act like a brake, just move because the sudden stop will sometimes topple the load and crush you to death if your under it.

If youd worn regular shoes, you'd probably just not have a foot tbh 😅

Very German comment A+

It’s over played here as well. I own a safety boot store and I’ve only heard this myth back in the 70s; nowadays most people know the benefits far far far outweigh this risk. If it can destroy the safety tor your toes were goners anyhow

@@Just.A.T-RexA few years ago, I worked at a German Amazon warehouse. To counter theft - we had to exit through a metal detector. Therefore, we weren't issued shoes with real steel toes - but ones made from a plastic material. Good enough for most stuff you can drop on your feet - with one major exception. To keep our forklifts and pallet carriers going, their batteries had to be changed. As they were of the old lead/acid type -they were heavy as hell. I guess 200kg/400lbs - if not more. To change them they had to be pushed on rollers to slide out into the charging fixture. It was hard to get them going - and to stop them. If you didn't pay enough attention it was possible to slide them out the wrong end - and tip them over. Guess what happened one day. A co-worker had his feet crushed as that flimsy safety toe collapsed under the weight of that heavy battery. Interestingly - nothing was changed about it afterwards. The logical solution would have been some heavy one-size-fits-all over-boots to wear only for battery change which are kept permanently at the forklift garage. Why they didn't buy some is beyond me.

@@Just.A.T-RexFor working safety, we have a proprietery system here in Germany. It's a mandatory safety insurance called Berufsgenossenschaft. You have to have one to run a business of any kind legally. It's a kind of insurance. You can work without any safety whatsoever - but then this insurance will be so stupendously expensive it won't be worth running the business in the first place. To make it affordable you have to work along their guidelines. If a serious accident happens they send their investigators. Did it happen because their rules have been violated - they make you pay - literally. If you issue your workers with safety shoes - it's mandatory for them to wear them. If they don't - that's a reason to get fired - in the extreme case. Generally speaking - it's a good system - albeit it has it's drawbacks, too. For bigger companies - it works well. For small businesses - it can be tough in the beginning as it obviously costs money from day 1.

Def a two hander😏

Imagine what his toes would’ve looked like without it😂😂

@@Just.A.T-Rex probably like a candy cane and not bitten off.

Yes, I am sure the employee would have simply walked away if they were wearing sneakers or loafers.

@@jasonfullerton7763 no one cares why you think tho jackass.

Did they get reattached?

I think it’s because a soda bottle holds carbonated soda and this has to withstand pressure while a water cooler tank just holds water.

@@MyNameIsNotPa The bigger something is the more force it has to contain (as there is more surface area for the pressure to exert it's effect), which means you need thicker walls to reach same pressures without a failure. A smaller container will always be able to contain more pressure if it's made of the same material and has the same wall thickness than the bigger container.

"I'd smash it" was my first thought when she said that.

Hah, I didn't even read your username and went to go check the timestamp out and thought, "Huh, I bet they're a fan of US Water Rockets." How right I was. I just didn't expect how right I'd be from that guess until I went past your comment again.

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I wouldn't say that's the same thing, if anything it would be I don't wear seatbelt because I think it will crush my ribs.

@@sacr3 I'd rather deal with a few broken ribs than my skull on the windshield.

@lemons1559 well of course, lol, that's not the point of my comment, the point is that his analogy doesn't work.

@@sacr3 Fair enuf

I'm guessing you recovered, if so how long did it take for the foot to heal?

@@bronyfanhelluvafan6728 , yeah it was a few year ago now, couldn't wear a shoe for a few weeks but all in all I reckon about 12 weeks, it still aches now when it's cold. Funny thing is a few days before that I got hit in the head with a bucket on a 360 digger and knocked down a hill 🤦‍♂️ just had a headache from that one 🤣

@@nubie1100 Well it's good to know your foots ok. Though I hope you didn't get a concussion from your head injury?

@@bronyfanhelluvafan6728 no I was fine. It hit me in the side of the head with a hard hat on, the hard hat didn't do much like because if you get hit on the side it's just as good as a bucket on your head. I was on the disposal team for foot and mouth so I was more worried about the mud and blood when i was falling down the hill 🤣

And at the end, complaining about simultaneous release...