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Message #06899
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Chris" 123abc@chek.com
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 13:24:58 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Stupid mistake [NON BEAM we probably need to start a new gory stories newsgroup]
Zimmer means room in German....
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 20:55:24 -0500 John Leo Zimmer wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: cbrenizer
>
>| while helping the soon-to-be-ex-brother-in-law build his house. the
>| pneumatic nailer with a faulty safety on the tip, mis-fired, sending a 16
>| penny nail along the edge of the 2x4 i was holding. it pierced and pinned
>| the last three fingers on my right hand together.
>|
>
>I've had the distinct pleasure of dealing with a couple of these injuries,
>but my favorite nailer story is not one that I actually witnessed, thank
>Goodness.
>
>A fellow who built my deck for me (good carpenter) once mis-fired the nailer
>into his kneecap, nailing it to the tibia. All of a sudden couldn't
>straighten out his leg! :-(
>
>BTW, I would recommend against just yanking the nail out of a finger, you
>could pull out some tendon, nerve or bone with the nail, depending on its
>exact path on the way in.
>
>Great tool, pneumatic-nailer. But Nasty, too; NOT for amateurs, IMHO.
>
>jlz, MD
>
>
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6900 Tue, 19 Oct 1999 16:04:09 -0300 [alt-beam] Re: That safety stuff (was: Stupid mistake) alt-beam@egroups.com michael.hirtle@ns.sympatico.ca (Michael Hirtle) What u are saying is true for most people but not for me, every time i use
something that inflict injurey of discomfore( like super glue......) it ends up
hurting me.
i was glueing something for a bot and i was paying complete attention and i
glued my 2 fingers to the bot, i had to walke areund the rest of the day with
then stuck to gether with the bot
John A. deVries II wrote:
> 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
>
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