People - The Joaquin Marquez Story - A True Fighter
In this powerful episode of Around the Bead Podcast, host Joseph Pehanick sits down with Joaquin Marquez, who shares his harrowing personal story of a life-threatening accident while working as a tire technician. Joaquin, a former professional boxer, discusses how he transitioned from boxing to the tire industry and the lessons he learned through his accident. The episode highlights the importance of safety, teamwork, and proper training in tire service work, offering valuable insights for tire technicians, managers, and those in similar high-risk industries.
🔧 Topics Covered:
Introduction to Joaquin's Story - Joe introduces Joaquin and emphasizes the significance of his story for tire technicians, managers, and others in the industry.
Joaquin's Background - Joaquin shares his early life in boxing, the adversities he faced, and how he found success in the ring before taking a wrong turn that led to a prison sentence. He talks about turning his life around after prison and becoming a tire technician.
From Boxing to Tires - Joaquin discusses his transition into the tire industry and the moment he realized that he could build a career in it. He reflects on the growth opportunities he discovered within the industry.
The Tire Industry and Safety - Joaquin discusses the importance of having an open, humble attitude in the industry, always being open to learning, and staying safe by following the right procedures and asking questions.
Joaquin's Life-Changing Incident - Joaquin recounts the details of the accident that nearly cost him his life. He explains the unsafe work conditions that led to the loader accident, including improper lifting techniques and the lack of safety checks. His son’s quick thinking and actions helped save his life.
The Aftermath and Recovery - Joaquin shares the challenges he faced after the accident, including multiple hospital transfers and serious injuries such as broken ribs, a cracked sternum, and damaged lungs. He discusses how he overcame the physical and emotional pain and the gratitude he felt for surviving.
Safety and Teamwork - Joaquin emphasizes the importance of teamwork, clear communication, and safety measures in the tire industry. He highlights the responsibility of not only the technicians but also managers and teams to ensure safety protocols are followed.
Advice for Young Tire Technicians - Joaquin offers advice to his younger self and other new tire technicians, stressing the importance of safety, humility, and effective communication in the workplace.
Show Notes:
Episode: People - The Joaquin Marquez Story - A True Fighter
Host: Joseph and Joaquin Marquez
Runtime: 27.5 minutes
Summary: In this episode, Joaquin Marquez shares a personal and intense story about his transition from boxing to becoming a tire technician and the life-altering accident that nearly ended his life. Through a series of unfortunate events, Joaquin was crushed by a loader while performing tire service in the field. The episode highlights the importance of proper training, the need for teamwork, and the responsibility that all members of the industry must take to ensure safety. Joaquin’s experience serves as a powerful reminder that safety must always come first, and the impact of this mentality can save lives. He offers valuable advice to anyone starting in the tire industry, emphasizing the importance of asking questions and staying present in the moment.
What You'll Learn:
The Role of Humility and Continuous Learning in the Tire Industry - Learn how to maintain an open, trainable attitude while working in the tire industry, which can help keep you safe and allow you to grow in your career.
The Importance of Teamwork and Communication for Safety - Discover how a culture of safety, where all team members are trained and communicate effectively, can prevent accidents and ensure everyone goes home safely.
Key Insights on Tire Technician Safety from Joaquin’s Incident - Understand the key safety measures that were missed in Joaquin’s accident and how they could have prevented such a dangerous situation, including proper lifting techniques and checking in on job sites.
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Welcome back to Around the Bead podcast. I am your host, Joseph Pehanick, and we have a very powerful story today, one that has been worth sharing for a long time. We have Joaqiun Marquez in the studio today to tell us about an incident that happened to him that every tire technician should hear, every
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manager should hear, everybody who cares about the folks that live and breathe this industry. You've heard it from me before and you'll continue to hear it from me that I believe that tire technicians and tire service is a low probability, high severity job. And what
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I mean by that is that we don't often hear the accidents, but when the accidents happen, they can be catastrophic. We welcome to the show. Are you ready to kick the tires with us? Yes, sir. I'm ready to kick some tires. Thank you for having me, Joe. So, uh, we'll we'll get
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into your story in the accident, but first, tell the audience, tell the viewers, how did you get into the tire industry? What were you doing before tires? What got you into it? Okay. Well, um I grew up in a small town called Madera out of the Central Valley and um
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you know growing up I got put in boxing at a young age. I got put in probably about eight years old where I started training and fighting and um you know throughout the years I started making for a name for myself as an amateur. Yeah. Um, I fought world champions like
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Andre Ward, Timothy Bradley, and um, I had an extensive amateur history of 79 fights, 74 wins, five losses, 44 knockouts. Um, and then, um, of course, as a child growing up with adversities, right, uh, broken homes, you know, um, I got influenced by the wrong people and I
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took a wrong turn in life where, um, I got involved with, you know, bad things, right? And so, uh, at age 18, I ended up in prison. And, um, from 18 to 32, I was in prison. While I was in there, I I didn't pick up no vocational trade. I really didn't take, uh, advantage of all
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the opportunities prison had to offer. So, uh, when I got out in 2016, um, I had the mindset of being a professional fighter. So, I got out and I tried professional boxing. Um, I had seven fights, seven wins, zero losses, four first round knockouts. Fought on ESPN. ESPN. Yes. Fought on ESPN. We're
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gonna have to get the editors put the clips up. ESPN 2. Friday Night Fights. I fought on there. When did you start fighting? I started fighting at 8 years old. Eight years old. Yes. And then um I continued on till I was about 15 before I took that wrong turn in life. Did you
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love fighting? Um you know what, to be honest with you, it was a great sport. Um, like I said earlier, I was growing up with adversity. So, I didn't find acceptance at home, you know, through um, you know, things that I did. Like I was never told, oh, oh, you did a great
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job. So, you know, uh, when I fought and and anytime I fought and I won, I always felt the praise through people saying, hey, you did a good job in the ring today. And that fueled those endorphins that made me want to continue to train and continue to want to be out there and
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excel in the sport of boxing. So, um, fighting is not something that I like to do. I was always nervous, but somehow it came out really good in the ring where I would come out on top, you know. Yeah. Uh, hard work and, um, discipline played a big factor and being able to be
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prepared for each and every fight that came across my way. So, and something obviously that has helped you throughout your life, that discipline to overcome adversity. What what uh made you leave boxing? So what made me leave boxing was is um I started at a young age. I didn't
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know anything else but boxing because that's what I was raised doing. But once um I was influenced by um you know other kids, some of my brothers, they were involved in um you know like to drink, smoke pot, hang out with girls and um and so that's when I got introduced to
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that lifestyle and it and something that I've never experienced before. So when I finally did experience it, I was like, man, this is something that's pretty cool. You know, you got girls who are into you and and it um you know, then on top of that, you had that getting high
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or drinking and things like that. Felt good at the time. I was still very young. I didn't know that that was wrong that I should have never been doing it. I kind of was just a follower at the time. Yeah. And uh being a follower got me in trouble. So, I learned today that,
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you know, I I set boundaries in my life and it's unhealthy to do those things. So, I don't want to glorify any of that. Yeah. And um yeah, I ended up in prison and uh while I was in there, I didn't take advantage of those opportunities prison had to offer to make me a better
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person, but I did have a lot of self-reflection and I was able to um to figure out what I wanted to do in life. So, that's why when I got out in 2016, I pursued my boxing career to turn pro. Yeah. And uh when that didn't work out because um the culture of boxing has a
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lot to do with um you know it's a lot to do with money and managers and you know there's a lot of controversy behind that that people don't see. All they see is these named fighters making a lot of money and they think that boxing is an easy sport but it's uh pretty difficult
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if you don't know what you're doing and and you don't have the self the right communication skills for yourself to be able to deal with things that come your way. So, um, anyways, uh, boxing didn't work out. Yeah. Um, and I didn't have anything to lean back on. Uh, so I
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reached out to one of my aunts who does own a tire shop. Yeah. And she gave me the opportunity to work for her. And so, um, you mentioned being a follower and it's hard for me to imagine that as you because you're you're a big tough dude and, uh, every time I've ever met you
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and known you, you've been a leader. Um, when you first told me your story, just a piece of it, it was in front of a a team of a bunch of technicians, and you were proud to talk about the story. I mean, a lot of people don't talk about accidents. Um, and you taught eight
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other guys what can really happen if they're not paying attention, if they don't have the right tools, if they don't have the right training. So, you you feel like a completely different guy that right here in front of me than what you're describing. Thank you. Yes. Um,
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so, uh, in the past, I would have never been able to speak up for myself because, um, you know, if you don't know, then you don't know, right? So, uh, being a follower, I didn't know what was right. But today, as a new person that I am, I'm I'm a family man. I'm a husband. I'm a father. Um, I learned
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what it was to love myself. I learned what it was to respect myself. And with knowing those things right there, it's easy for me to be able to talk about how weak I used to be to what it took me to be a real man today. So today, um, it's easier for me to be a leader because now
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I know what I want and I'm not going to ever let somebody else mislead me again because today I know right from wrong. I have kids who look up to me. I'm a role model. Um, like I said, I'm a husband. I'm a father. And so I want to be able to um have my kids not grow up with the
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adversities that I grew up with. So part of that is that being able to identify them and uh turn from it by doing the right thing today. An army of kids. An army of kids. Kids, seven of them, right? Seven kids that live with me. One of them just went to the military. So there's six under my house.
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Congratulations. Thank you. So coming back to tires for a minute here. Uh we've heard this story before as I think it's common. And I think our audience is going to relate to that. You know somebody, you have a family member, you start as a tire tech, they throw you on
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the pad, throw you in front of some tires. Um, what was the moment that you felt like, hey, this is the industry that I want to be in. This is something that I want to pursue. We call it BDE, big dog energy. Uh, what was that moment for you? Okay, so when I was working for
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my aunt, um, I got taught to do a lot of tires at that time. I was um was pretty blind to uh how much how much tires, you know, um or like I was just pretty blind to like uh how how much you can grow in the tire industry. Yep. And so um I thought I knew everything there. I
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was there for about three or four years and then um uh I transferred over to another job in the Central Valley where um I gained a little bit more experience. I kind of dealt with the same tires, tractors on down. And then um when I applied for uh for East Bay Tires, I talked to the manager over
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there and he asked me, "What kind of tires do you know how to do?" And um I told him I could do everything. I've done everything. You know, I I've heard that once or twice. Yeah. So then he starts naming tires off and and I didn't know what he was talking about. Yeah.
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And I said, "Man, you know what? Tires are more than what I thought they were." And so, uh, me wanting to provide for my family, um, I already knew all the basics from the tractors on down, I figured that there's more for me to grow in. And I think that was my big dog
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energy is where, um, where I realized that I could actually make a living off of this. I could uh, pursue a career in doing tires. And I believe that um I'm with East Bay Tires now and I believe that this is the right company for me to grow into where I want to be because they do a variety of tires.
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I I couldn't agree more. There's so much depth that you don't realize when you start out. Uh we talked about it uh this morning. We don't know what we don't know as kids. Um and we're constantly learning. If we have that mindset, that'll also keep us safe, right? We have some of the most experienced
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tire trainers on the planet in this room and they're still learning. They haven't seen every every wheel. They haven't seen every tire. They haven't seen every terrain. It changes every single job. Yes, sir. And you know, that's that's something to keep in mind is that you're
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never going to know everything. You have to have an open mind because even till this day I have I have some years of experience doing tires with you guys and uh every job site I go to is different. It's a different opportunity to learn something new. So it's important that we
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have a an attitude of humility. When we when we approach a job we have to look at it. You can never get comfortable because anything can happen out there. Humility. I love that. Humility. Yes sir. So, uh, we really came here to talk about the a or the the incident. I think
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that's something that I want to go through in great detail. Tell us about that day. What was the job? What was the call? What time of day it was? What truck did you have? What equipment? Okay, so that day, I can't remember exactly what day of the week it was, but
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it was at the end of the day, the end of my shift. It was about 4:00 in the evening. And um I had a 4500 Stellar small boom truck. Yeah. And um my boss said, "Hey, the derry called and I need you to go do four new tires on a 425 uh K." Is it 42? A John Deere John Deere
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loader. Yes. Maybe a 524. Yeah. 524. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. 524 John Deere loader. And so I said, "Okay." And I said, "Well, since it's in the the end of the day, can you send somebody to help me?" and he said, "Sure." So, he sent sent my son out there to help me. Hang on. For for our viewers and
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listeners, your you and your son were working at the same tire company at the same time, correct? Yeah. Okay. Yes. So, um yes, we've been we were working at the same tire company at the same time. And um my son went out with me to go help me and um we drive to the job site.
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First thing we find is of course the equipment. Yeah. We moved it onto a a hard surface and um you know at this like a concrete pad. Yes. Concrete pad. There's uh we made sure the surroundings were clear and and um we we moved the loader to where we were going to work on
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it where we can park the truck on both sides of the loader to be able to get to it comfortably. Yeah. And um the first thing we did was um What time of year was it? Uh it was the summer. Summer. Summer. Summer in the central valley at a dairy is a uh a different flavor. Yes.
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Yeah. Yeah. It's not fun with all the flies around. Yeah. For for for those in the audience that don't know, it can be 110 115 in the central valley during the summer. Uh that's a a sticky place. Yes. Dry heat. Yeah. Uh the smell of the dairy sticking to your clothes. Yep.
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Everything plays a role. U you just want to get the job done and get out of there. Yeah. So, um yeah, we we park the loader. We lift the bucket up to lift the two front wheels up. Uh we take our tools down. Um at the time I didn't know what I know today, so I'm just going to
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tell you what I knew back then. Yeah. We lift the loader up with the bucket. We did the right front wheel. Knocked that out with no problem. And then I put the bucket back down. So the wheels were on the ground. We moved to the back right rear tire. You let the air out of both
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front tires at the same time? Yes. Yeah. Yes. So, I left the air out of both front tires and then I I put the bucket down. Then I moved to the right rear tire. So, you got to keep in mind that the right front is inflated, the left front is deflated. Yep. And then uh I set my bottle jack
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underneath the pumpkin. I didn't know the proper lifting points at the time. And then when I set the bottle jack, I had um a stack block. For you guys, for those who don't know, a stack block is uh maybe 12 by 12 inch uh block about six inches high where you can set your
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bottle jack on top of that way. It gives you a little bit more height like a like a railroad tie. Yes. Yeah. And so um I let the air out of the right rear tire. Mhm. As I was about to uh start lifting the loader, the air is coming. You haven't you haven't jacked You've got a
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bottle jack underneath the pumpkin. That's it. You've thrown in some railroad ties underneath the axle. Then you're starting to air it out and you're still underneath it. Yes. So the at this point the only thing I have underneath the the loader is the stack block with
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the bottle jack. Yeah. And then I'm under there and I'm on my side because I'm tired and I felt like maybe I could rest while I lift it, you know? Yeah. So I was on my side and as I went to lift it, the air's coming out. I noticed that there's a screw on top of the bottle
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jack and as it touches the loader, it starts to slowly spin and it moves from the original place that I put it. Yeah. And the stack block that I had was already worn out. So I noticed the bottle jack slant just a little and right when I told my son, I said, "Hey, pass me the jack stand." It gave out.
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The bottle jack flew out. The loader crushed me. And when it crushed me, it crushed me where my shoulders were trying to touch each other and it pinned me underneath the loader. And then at that time, my son was able to get the Well, think quick, you know, he got the bottle jack, he slid it under
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the loader and he started to lift it just enough to help me out from underneath the loader. And uh once I got out, he's lifting the biojack where you're at or he's lifting it from that front left axle. Uh, I believe it had to have been from in front of the loader tire. You're you're basically blacked
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out at this time. Yes. Um, I feel all the pressure going up to my head. I I'm not thinking about anything other than it's just a blind. It's just a blank mind at that time. Yeah. And um once he lifted the loader off just enough to help me out, I was able to uh slide out from underneath the loader.
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I got up and at that time I realized I wasn't breathing. And so I started trying to gasp for air and um somehow one of my lungs opened up and I was able to take a small breath and which was very painful because of the broken ribs and the cracked sternum that I had and
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the damaged esophagus which I later found out that I had. Uh it was very painful at that time. Believe it or not, the Madera hospital was closed down. We didn't have a hospital there. So So let let's slow down. So you're you're there. You can barely breathe. You've got
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cracked sternum, cracked ribs. Uh your your boy is is calm at this point. He's he's just watched his dad get crushed underneath a loader. Yes. Um is he freaking out? Is he Yeah. You know what? When I noticed it, he was he was he um he conducted himself very well. Um like
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if almost like he was a natural at this for some reason. He he was asking me if I was okay and then he started putting away some of the tools that that were going to be in the way if we took off like the hoses. Um we kind of left most of the tools but close a tailgate, put
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that back up. Um he made a phone call to my boss and uh he had let my boss know what was going on and then at that to at that point him and my boss were able to um to communicate. Did you I I'm thinking of something here. I don't mean to interrupt. Did you check in with
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somebody when you got to that dairy? No. So, at at a at a mine site, you check in. Um, but in in a in dairy, it's pretty rare, right? You have huge pieces of property. Um, it's often, hey, go find this equipment on farm number four. Correct. Right. And you have to go drive
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around and you have to find it. So, nobody knows you're out there on site. If I would have went by myself, I would have probably died. And that's because nobody knew I was on the dairy. I don't know if even even probable. I think almost certainly. Yes. Nobody would have
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known you're out there. That that would have slowly crushed your sternum all the way all the way through. Yes. Yeah, you're right. So, I would have died that day. The So, you you've you guys basically Hey, we got to get to the hospital. You guys take one truck. You leave one truck there. Yes, we went
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together. in the same truck. We got in the truck. He was able to communicate with our boss um where the meeting point was. Here's another thing is uh we got in the truck to leave and the truck died out. And then um so the batter is dead. The So uh before this there was a sensor
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going on in the truck that wouldn't allow the truck to start. And so I talked to the boss about it. They uh fixed it and uh but they didn't test drive it after they fixed it. So, um, yeah, when we tried to leave, the truck died out on us and then we started. It went in limp mode. That's what it was.
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It went in limp mode. 5 miles an hour. Yeah. We had to turn the truck off, open the door, open do something. And then we got back in the truck and we took off again and it died out again. It went on limp mode again. And so, uh, my boss ended up meeting me, um, like on the
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nearest exit to the freeway because the truck kept going on limp mode. And so anyways, we communicated and finally uh we switched trucks and we got to the hospitals and from the Merced Hospital they were able to transfer me to Modesto because Merced didn't have the tools
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they needed to um to check what was wrong with me. Modesto had the tools but they didn't have the doctors. So then from there they transferred me to um Sacramento I believe it was another hospital. Same day. Yes. All in the same day. Um, and then uh they transferred me
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to the hospital in in Sacramento where they were able to have the doctors and the and the X-ray machines to see exactly what was going on and that's where I ended up staying. How long were you in the hospital? Uh, possibly about two weeks. I was in there about two weeks. Um, so what happens when the
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loader crushed me is there's a there's a low part on the loader in the back that's lower than the rest of the part of the bottom of the loader. And when it crushed me, it's similar to stepping on a water balloon. All the pressure goes to the front. So in my situation, all
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the pressure went to my head. And um when I was in the hospital, I didn't even have a neck. It was just my head was just bloated, full of air and blood that had went from that was trapped from the the air that was in my lungs got pushed up. And so there was a lot of air
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in my blood. And um yeah, so I didn't have a neck. My face was swollen. And um I had to wait for a lot of that to go down. Um they had to put tubes in my ribs to be able to drain some of the air from the blood. And um yeah, and after about two weeks, I got cleared to leave
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the hospital. Broken sternum. Crack. Yes. Cracked sternum. Ate broken ribs. Um damaged esophagus. How did you feel when you got out? Um I was I was in pain, you know. I was grateful for still being alive. So, at that point, I was just I was looking at the positives
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rather than the negative negatives. And uh I just felt really blessed to be able to live and be able to tell this story so that I could probably help other people out who like to get their job and get things done quick. There there there's so much to digest there. I uh I'm going to leave that to
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the comments on on this video. every everything from knowing where the the hospital is to checking in with somebody on site to daily vehicle inspections. Um I mean the the luck along the way and also foresight on your part. Hey, it's the end of the day. You know, maybe I don't feel comfortable doing a loader job. Can you send somebody else with me? Um that's that was the biggest decision you made that day from what I see. Yes. So when we sit here and look back, it was it was a good thing that I did ask to send somebody with me because
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most of the time I I wanted to be known as the person who could get the job done. He doesn't need help, right? Of course, we all have that mach machismo or Yeah. You know, we want to we don't need help. We want to be the dog. Yeah. We want to be the top dog, you know. And
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um I realized that it's okay to ask for help. um you know with East Bay Tires, you guys have did all the proper training and you guys have trained me a lot to be able to um to know what to do and things as far as arriving at a job site and checking in. I never knew to do
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that before. I was never taught that. Um I was just always told, hey, hey, we got this equipment down. We need you to go out there and fix it. And so my mindset was, hey, I'm a serviceman. I'm going to go out there and get the job done for the company. Yeah. And so, um, yeah, now
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I now I'm very happy that I'm in a position where I'm with a company who cares about me, cares about my safety, and, uh, cares about me making it home to my family. To to to get on a preach a little bit to everybody out there that's listening. It there's a lot of pressure
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on trained technicians, but it's incumbent on everybody. It's incumbent on the on the manager to be trained and want to know what those risks are at that job site. the supervisor, the rest of the team to keep out for one another and the owners. It it's it's literally
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everybody across the board has to be bought in. It's not just one person's responsibility. Yes, you're you're right about that. It takes for a company to work as a team. And uh when I say that is um just like you just said, it takes for everybody to be trained on the same
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thing so that we're all on the same page. Because a lot of times um our boss who's sending us out to do the job doesn't really know exactly what's going on with the tire. Yeah. So they have to understand that as a time as a trained tire technician, you know, of course we want to make the
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sales, of course we want to get the job done, but safety comes first. And when I say it takes a team, what I mean by that is when I get to the job as a tire technician, if I realize that that tire is uh cut on the sidewall and it has exposed wire, if the flange or the lock
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ring is damaged in any way and has a crack and I cannot I can't work on it because it's dangerous not only to me but to whoever may be operating that that equipment as well. And I make that phone call to my boss and I say, "Hey, this isn't it's not uh good for me. It's
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not safe for me to work on. Yeah. You know, and at that point, we have to make a decision that he's going to take my word for it and uh we could come together as a team to communicate it with the customer and say, "Hey, you know what? I know you wanted it repaired, but it's not repairable." You
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know, problem solving. Problem. Yes. We don't know what we're walking into. Let's work on it together. Yes. And so, uh, we all need to be trained together so that way everybody knows what kind of things can happen out there and so that we can make the healthiest decision
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possible for not only us but the customers as well. Yeah. 100%. If we don't if we don't repair that that vehicle, right, that tire right, we're leaving the operator at risk. Yes. Correct. So, Joaquin, I I want to finish with this. Uh, you have a tremendous story and thank you for coming on. Thank
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you. What would you tell what would you tell your younger self who's starting work at your aunt's uh store in the Central Valley that's just getting started in tires? What would you tell him? You know what? Um I would tell my younger self that um you know, you always it's not about how fast you get
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things done. It's about um you know, going to work um with a humble attitude, with an open mind, with a trainable mind where you're able to be trained. Uh don't be afraid to ask questions. Um, if you see something that's wrong or or if you can't do something by yourself, don't be afraid to speak up
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and ask. You know, uh, communication is very important between the employee and the boss. Um, that way they know how you feel. And, um, I would just say, "Hey, you know what? When you go to work, have a clear mind. Be in the moment. Don't be distracted by cell phones, by things
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going on at home, uh, maybe kids events that you're going to be late to. go to work and focus on on the job at hand and um take your time and get things done right. Of course, we want to do it in a timely fashion, but safety safety always comes first. I I love that. Stay in the
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present. Yes. Stay in the moment. Stay in the present. Makes a big difference. We thank you. Let's leave our viewers with that and air this one up. Thank you for having me. [Music] Around the bead podcast, tire talk for trucking, mining, agriculture, and more. Your home for fleet solutions.
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As Joaquin's story unfolds, it’s a stark reminder of how quickly things can go wrong in the tire industry, but also how vital it is to be prepared, stay focused, and always prioritize safety. His experience speaks volumes about the importance of teamwork, communication, and humility on the job. Whether you're a tire technician, manager, or part of the team, it's essential to remember that safety is a shared responsibility. Joaquin's advice to stay in the moment, ask questions, and never be afraid to speak up resonates deeply for those in any high-risk industry. It’s not about how quickly you finish the job—it’s about doing it right.
Thank you for listening to this powerful story. Let’s continue learning and supporting one another to ensure safety on every job site.