Safety

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I go along with what you say Lynn.

Also, it's not morbid curiosity that makes me ask what kind of overalls can do that to a man? It's a desire to find out the circumstances of the accident so as hopefully there will be no repeats.

I tried to kick-start a discussion on Land Rover instability and suspect tyres for the same reason.

We've lost a couple of good people in preventable circumstances so far this year, one in a forklift accident and one in a rollover as well as almost losing a couple more, one down a mine shaft and now Bob who's future is still in doubt.

Cautionary tales do serve a purpose, perhaps we can start there. One I know of is to do with a fellow HMV enthusiast who was using a wire wheel to clean up a part and believed he'd finished. When he took his goggles off he noticed a spot he had missed. He didn't bother to put his goggles back on as it was only going to be a few seconds work. The result was a wire buried in his eyeball with just the end sticking out.

I will finish by simply saying. C'mon Bob, we need you.

David

[Lynn Eades]

David, you never know where things can come from. I know of a chap, a successful engineer now. He was trying to undo a bolt on his bike, when a piece of chrome pinged off, into his eye. For a few days his vision in that eye, hung in the balance.
I would never had seen a need to wear eye protection for that sort of a job.

[maple_leaf_eh]

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

David, you never know where things can come from. I know of a chap, a successful engineer now. He was trying to undo a bolt on his bike, when a piece of chrome pinged off, into his eye. For a few days his vision in that eye, hung in the balance.
I would never had seen a need to wear eye protection for that sort of a job.

For a long time I had a pair of glasses with a little but deep scratch on one lens. My then-12 or 15 month old nephew hit me in the face with the sharp end of a toy. It would have been a serious eye injury if I hadn't had on my glasses. Yes you are right, the risks come for everywhere.

[chris vickery]

Yes, sometimes incidents happen out of nowhere without any sort of warning and limited risk. I once got cut under my eye when I dropped something into a porcelained steel bathroom sink. A small piece of the porcelain came off like a grenade fragment. Lucky it was my face, not my eye.

[chris vickery]

Lynn and others;
The trend here in Canada now for most industrial sites is to wear FR/AF coveralls (fire retardant and/or arc flash)
This goes for anyone working on site, and is especially true for all workers in utilities (electrical, gas etc) as well as others in mining, petro chemical etc.
This is a broad brushed effort to help ensure all workers safety, it is not neccessarily trade specific. The truck drivers wear them, mechanics, crane operators, electricians- everyone. Cleanliness is important as well to keep the material free of greases, oils, chemicals etc.
Sure, a person may ask "why does a crane operator require them?"
You never know, as any added layer of personal protection is better than not.

[David DeWeese]

Hi,

A moment of letting your guard down without eye protection, and see what could happen?.........yes, that is my right eye now.

Hope for a speedy recovery for Bob.

Thanks, David

[Lynn Eades]

David You have paid a very high price. Thank you for posting. The lesson is invaluable.
An even greater respect for the quality of your work, from me, now.

[gordon]

Originally Posted by David DeWeese

Hi,

A moment of letting your guard down without eye protection, and see what could happen?.........yes, that is my right eye now.

Hope for a speedy recovery for Bob.

Thanks, David

Sorry to hear that David.

Best wishes for Bob, too.

[lynx42]

David, you could be my son Geoff.

Geoff was in the last year of his diesel mechanic apprenticeship when he lost his eye. He went back into the pit at the logging company he was working for after smoko and the foreman had been checking the spring shackles on a log trailer with a crowbar. The foreman left the crowbar standing upright against the pit wall and as we all know a crowbar will always fall down. Geoff was busy replacing something on the trailer and heard a sound so the turned towards the pit wall to see what it was. It was the bar sliding down the wall. Unfortunately for Geoff it hit something and the end which had been on the floor rocketed up and as he turned, it swiped the front off his right eye. The specialists tried to save the eye but with no cornea, lens or lens muscles they finally took it out last year. Geoff had put up with it for far too long waiting for technology to get to a stage where the good retina at the back of the eye could be used with a tiny camera or something.

He was 21 when it happened and he is now 33. It hasn't stopped him as he races cars and builds race engines as well as working on the big rigs.

I'll have a few more tales to tell when I have more time.

Regards Rick.

Originally Posted by David DeWeese

Hi,

A moment of letting your guard down without eye protection, and see what could happen?.........yes, that is my right eye now.

Hope for a speedy recovery for Bob.

Thanks, David