Share your accidents and close-calls so others can learn from them?

I laughed when I read that one...

A few years ago I was getting into my truck, a good climb up. Winter,
lot's of ice, and my legs shot out from under me, and went under the
truck, and down I went, seemingly head first.

My head hit the ice, and I *heard* the most incredible 'boing' sound
ever. I never knew the skull was resonate until that day, but you saw
stars--I heard bells ringing.

Funny thing was that I didn't even get a headache, but it sure scared
the living daylights out of me--I figured I'd fractured my skull. <bg>
I'm now much more careful about getting in and out of the truck too.

Posted by Craig M on August 11, 2007, 6:57 am

While helping rebuild a porch, using a palm nailer, my dad pulled a good
one, I had been using it a bit so I kinda had it figured out, BTW the palm
nailer is a great little tool in tight spaces, and uses common nails, told
my dad how to use it, told him to place the nail into the snout of the
nailer and then press the nail where you want to nail it and push in on the
nailer, guess age is catching up with his hearing, or he condensed it to
push the nail into the nailer, anyway, next thing I hear, the palm nailer
went off, I turn back, he is looking at it like, "what happend" he pushed
the nail into the barrel a bit too hard and it fired the nail out of it,
good thing he was pointing it away from him at the time, we never found that
nail, got the porch done with no more runaway nails.

> I wanted to urge people to use protective eye gear with my quick story of

> near-miss. Then I figured that what I really wanted was to read of

other's

> mishaps and close-calls to know what is dangerous. Maybe this thread dies

> with 1 post, I hope not. Perhaps it's been done 100 times or more?

Posted by on August 11, 2007, 10:45 pm

On Aug 9, 1:57 pm, "Thomas G. Marshall"

> I wanted to urge people to use protective eye gear with my quick story of a

> near-miss. Then I figured that what I really wanted was to read of other's

> mishaps and close-calls to know what is dangerous. Maybe this thread dies

> with 1 post, I hope not. Perhaps it's been done 100 times or more?

> Mine: I was using a Dremel Tool (high speed rotary) for sharpening my lawn

> mower blade. I was wearing the safety goggles, but it was hot out and I was

> sweating into them. When I was done I checked the balance of the blade and

> thought I could use a smidgeon off the very end of the blade to make it

> balance perfectly.

> The goggles were at the other end of the room. I figured it was a sec or

> two of grinding. I got possitioned over the blade too close with no eye

> protection. I *knew* the spin direction would throw the shards downward,

> I've been doing it for nearly 20 minutes. But I figured that I might as

> well get used to a no-exceptions rule, so I walked across the room, cleaned

> them out, wiped my face with a towel, and put them on, all the while cursing

> myself for being so safe.

> I had lost track of the position of the dremel tool and the side of the

> blade I was using. It actually was spinning up toward me in that position I

> would have used. Shards of metal struck my eye goggles, and peppered much

> of my face, at a very high rate of speed.

I was using a can of spray paint and didn't point it in the right
direction...you can guess the rest.

THis was when was about 20. I've used eye protection when painting
ever since.

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Posted by Thomas G. Marshall on August 13, 2007, 9:42 am

> On Aug 9, 1:57 pm, "Thomas G. Marshall"

>> I wanted to urge people to use protective eye gear with my quick story of

>> a

>> near-miss. Then I figured that what I really wanted was to read of

>> other's

>> mishaps and close-calls to know what is dangerous. Maybe this thread

>> dies

>> with 1 post, I hope not. Perhaps it's been done 100 times or more?

>> Mine: I was using a Dremel Tool (high speed rotary) for sharpening my

>> lawn

>> mower blade. I was wearing the safety goggles, but it was hot out and I

>> was

>> sweating into them. When I was done I checked the balance of the blade

>> and

>> thought I could use a smidgeon off the very end of the blade to make it

>> balance perfectly.

>> The goggles were at the other end of the room. I figured it was a sec or

>> two of grinding. I got possitioned over the blade too close with no eye

>> protection. I *knew* the spin direction would throw the shards downward,

>> I've been doing it for nearly 20 minutes. But I figured that I might as

>> well get used to a no-exceptions rule, so I walked across the room,

>> cleaned

>> them out, wiped my face with a towel, and put them on, all the while

>> cursing

>> myself for being so safe.

>> I had lost track of the position of the dremel tool and the side of the

>> blade I was using. It actually was spinning up toward me in that

>> position I

>> would have used. Shards of metal struck my eye goggles, and peppered

>> much

>> of my face, at a very high rate of speed.

> I was using a can of spray paint and didn't point it in the right

> direction...you can guess the rest.

> THis was when was about 20. I've used eye protection when painting

> ever since.

THIS is a safety thing I'm HORRIBLE at following. What could paint possibly
do to me? Thanks for telling me.

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