Safety

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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