Dov Ferreira
Cited Discard-Band Sorter
He uses the box
On 2 September 2183 he performed seventy-one seconds of chest compressions on Rui Beltran, whose heart had stopped on the apron; the finding against his certificate still stands
Overview
Dov Ferreira sorts slag on the discard apron of the Slagline, in Richmond Industrial. His Grade 2 certificate lists fourteen permitted acts: conveyor clearance, casing handling, and twelve more. The back of the card says Real men do real work in the real world.
On 2 September 2183 Rui Beltran's heart stopped between the sorting sheds and the fence. The certified responder was two kilometres up the band. Dov knelt and did chest compressions for seventy-one seconds, until the responder arrived. Beltran lived, with two cracked ribs.
Compression is not one of the fourteen acts. Under Function Scope, the exceedance opened by itself. It still stands.
He was the one standing there. That is his whole account, and he has not improved it.
Appearance
Thirty-four, heavy through the forearms, careful with his back. Slag dust in the cuffs of a grey contracted jumpsuit. When he is waiting for a lift or a tally, he takes out the certificate, opens it at the fold, and reads down the fourteen lines. He knows them by heart. The card has been reprinted twice because he wore the lamination cloudy. Both reprints carry the same list, because a reprint is a copy and not a review.
Voice
Quiet, and narrower than people want. He does not say the rule is wrong. He has seen a foreman hand hot work to a nineteen-year-old who could not refuse, and the list stopped that.
"There's a box under the two grounds. I use the box."
The Appeal
He appeals every quarter. There are two grounds, and he has neither: the act happened, and his certificate does not name it. Under the grounds is a free-text box. He writes one sentence in it about Beltran. Every denial notes, accurately, that the sentence addresses neither ground.
Under the Corporate Compact, a grade is a housing tier, and a finding is what the application reads. His Grade 3 application has come back three times. Grade 3 would get his daughter Tessa off the band.
Two Credits
A year after the finding he began paying two credits a shift into the apron's pool for gap-work. The pool pays somebody with no certificate to do what needs doing, because a hand with no card has nothing for an audit to catch. He counts the credits out before the shift. After a shift, he says, you start doing arithmetic, and the arithmetic wins.
A kiosk clerk asked if he was buying insurance. He said yes. Asked against what, he took long enough that the clerk moved on.
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Around Him
Segunda saw it from forty metres and testified to Beltran's ribs, so the claim was paid. He asked her once whether she could write down that the man had lived. She said her ledger was for injuries, and offered to write it anyway. He said no, and thanked her.
Ironclad Industries is his employer, certifier, auditor, and appeal board. He can recite the four roles without heat. Tavo Reyna was punished over a scrapped machine; Dov, over a man the form has no column for. Ijeoma Sandoval holds a citation for something her badge allowed. Marek Stolarz has forty years without a finding, because he reads the list first.
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