Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #06872
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "John A. deVries II" zozzles@lanl.gov
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 15:50:38 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: That safety stuff (was: Stupid mistake)
At 02:24 PM 10/18/99 , Ian Bernstein wrote:
>On thing I learned while working at Los Alamos Labs was that every time
>you have some kind of accident you have submit what it was you were doing
>and what you did to cause the accident.
...
>We also had to do a very boring 3 hour General
>Employment Training which was mostly safety and then a 2 hour VERY VERY
>VERY boring electrical safety thing (a bunch of people fell asleep).
On the other hand, as a result of a worker driving a jackhammer through a
20Kv line (I don't think he is dead but I don't think he's ever come out of
the coma) and a student sticking his hand into the high-voltage electronics
of an industrial microwave oven (fortunately not much damage) and some
folks not being told what they were heating which ended up trashing an
entire room when the stuff exploded the Lab shut down for something like a
week -- even worse than the recent 3 day all-you-can-eat computer security
total immersion exercise they gave us because of the Chinese spy stuff.
Perhaps the very problem is boredom or its close cousin inattention. For
all of you folks who have injured themselves, can you remember what frame
of mind you were in just before the damage occurred? I'll bet that it was
very generally a complacent lack of concern -- after all, these ghastly
stories we are reading are relatively infrequent; nearly all of the time
nothing nasty happens. I reckon it is just part of being human to assume
that things will just be normal.
At this point I won't go into any detail about the time I grabbed for the
soldering iron I dropped or fan I didn't know was there that I stuck my
finger into or the time my dad dropped an X-ACTO knife right into his thigh
or...
Just the same, try to be safe no matter how dull it is, ok?
Z
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John A. deVries II
zozzles@lanl.gov
6873 Monday, October 18, 1999 4:02 PM Re: Stupid mistake beam@sgiblab.sgi.com Dorsey2001@aol.com
>ok I gotta say mine....
>I have a soldering iron clamped onto my workbench (cause I ain't gotta
>holder) anyways I have it at about a 45 degree angle and had it good and
hot
>with some melted plastic (man thats some stinky sh!t) Well I wasn't paying
>atttention and when I turned sent it right into my elbow. OUCH!! at lest it
>didn't bleed cause there was a layer of melted plastic under my skin to
stop
>the bleeding...Easy clean up at lest! But trying to pick out plastic under
>your skin is a painful way to spend an afternoon.
>Later,
>Matt
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