"Gunner" wrote in message
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On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:36:12 -0700, Jane & David
wrote:

In article tPBEi.2171$Ot1.929@trnddc07,
"newman" wrote:

friend of mine was on tractor and his wife, who had long hair, was
behind
guiding post-hole digger. her hair got wrapped around mechanism and
partially tore out part of her scalp.


Whoa, that made my remaining hair stand up. Several years ago, I was
doing a long rip with a circular saw and noticed that a few long hairs
were bouncing off the blade. Only a few hairs had come untied and none
got caught by the blade, but it scared the **** out of me and so that
was the last day I ever had long hair (not that I could anyway lately).

PDX David


When I was running an alarm company..had a long haired installer
running a bell hanger bit straight up through the ceiling of a church,
from the top of a 12' ladder.

If course it was a dull bit and he started hugging the drill motor to
push up harder...

Hair got spun around the drill bit. Rather than calling for
help....he paniced and either jumped or fell off the top of the
ladder.

I got a call from his wife at the hospital telling me he was there
being treated and would I please gather up his tool?

Arriving at the church..Im greeted by a badly shocked pastor and
staff..all looking a bit green. I had to back out the drill bit and
unwind the hair and about 1/3 of his total scalp. I quickly put it on
ice and ran it down to the hospital, where they managed to reattach
it, about 45 minutes after the accident. Most..most of it managed to
reattach but not all of it and they later had to use maggots to
debride the dead tissue.

Wrapped up his head with a handful of maggots under gauze, chewing
away the dead tissues. He said it tickled.

Considering what a general klutz I am, guess I should be grateful that my
father was always such a hardass about jobsite safety when I was a kid. I
had long hair back then, and he insisted that I keep it tied up with a
bandanna when working with power tools, or doing any high work. Having
started his career in the days before cheap easily available antibiotics, he
also would not tolerate scrap boards with nail points sticking out of them.
(Puncture wounds on a construction site are common.) Always check rigging,
tie off scaffolds, no confined-space work without a spotter, yada yada yada.
The lessons stuck, and I still have both eyes and all ten fingers and toes.
I did have accidents, of course, but they were all relatively minor. I can
relate to the post upstream about safety glasses- tagged myself just above
the left eye with a crowbar once, doing some minor demo work, when a rotted
piece of plywood shredded instead of coming off. Scalp cuts sure do bleed-
soaked right through a winter coat, from a superficial gash. A butterfly
bandage and a quart of orange juice, and I was back at work a couple hours
later.

Now that I am on the wrong side of fifty, and don't heal up near as fast as
I did as a kid, I am even more careful. Plan every move, double check
everything, take a break or knock off for the day when I start getting tired
enough or ****ed off enough to start making stupid errors. The only
power-tool work I do these days is for myself, so deadline pressure isn't an
issue. As long as I can button things up enough so weather isn't a problem,
there is always tomorrow.

aem sends...

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