Slice of Advice for anybody in the Building and construction industry

[Bodzilla]

If you've had anything to do with this type of industry you would have heard of some of the storys, about people loosing eyes, hearing, fingers arms and well basically some really nasty injurys.

most of it is due to not wearing safety directions, like basica things such as hearing and eye protection.

two days at work i was with my foreman at a worksite doing some work on a cupboard, it was just slightly too big so we where planning it down with an electric planer.
When ever we do anything with any electric equipment i always wear protection, when none of my other workmates do.

He started plannign and got about half way through when the blade spinning at a couple thousand RPM's hit a staple in the wood we where planning.
A piece of the razor blade broke off and went spinning at crazy speeds and flew a couple of meters and hit me on the left side of my safety glasses.

took a second to figure out what had happened, then it hit me. If i had given into the pressure of my workmates and not worn safety glass's i would have lost my left eye.

These things happen so incredibly fast you wont even know it's happened until it's too late. So to anyone who has anything to do with these types of industry's dont be a idiot, grow some balls and wear gear. No matter how dorky you look or how silly you feel.

because that time you dont, is the time it'll happen to you.

Zilla
P.s. i was actually considering not wearing my glass's when we where planning, cause i didnt want to walk 2m's to my tool bag to pull them out. that decision alone saved my sight.

think about it.

[beele]

It's always a good thing to follow safety guidelines (helmet, glasses, ear buds, gloves,even bond your hair together if needed) In our school we've had someone who lost a really big patch of hair with the skin still to it, because he didn't bond his hair together when working on the drilling machine.

Think twice before you decide not to wear any protection.

[Bodzilla]

you know what my foreman did straight after the blade broke?

put a new blade in and started again with no glass's.
arrogance and stupidity has to be the biggest cause of injury's and death in my industry.

[beele]

you know what my foreman did straight after the blade broke?

put a new blade in and started again with no glass's.
arrogance and stupidity has to be the biggest cause of injury's and death in my industry.

It's unbelievable that someone with such authority neglects the safety regulations like that. And someone innocent will mostly be the victim of such actions. :(

[Bodzilla]

but it will never happen to them.
there invincible :downs:

[StankBacon]

thats crazy zilla, im glad you played it safe and avoided a serious injury. (read: used your brain)

just to reiterate how dangerous a work site can be, my buddy is in construction, and has broken a few bones already as well as gotten some pretty serious gashes that required quite a few stitches.

[Bodzilla]

"Because a good situation, can turn to a bad one, in the blink of a mutha fucking eye." - Oz

[nooBBooze]

you know what my foreman did straight after the blade broke?

put a new blade in and started again with no glass's.
arrogance and stupidity has to be the biggest cause of injury's and death in my industry.
oh and dont forget lazyness.

[поистине эпичес]

Safety is awesome. My friend learned that lesson the hard way. He's a mechanic, and he was putting an engine into a Camaro and wasn't paying attention and sliced his right index finger clean off and cut his middle finger in half. He pays attention now.

[Bodzilla]

sadly that is how 90% of trady's learn there trade.

but the thing is you cant afford fuck ups in this industry. Because fuckups means a missing index finger.

[rossmum]

My dad lost the tip joint of one of his fingers (can't remember offhand, so used to seeing it that it's like nothing to me) when he was 16... got it crushed in an oil drill somehow. He also managed to cut off the tip of another when I was a kid by reaching into the dishwasher and catching the sharp end of a steak knife, should've seen mum's face when we turned up at the doctor's (she was there for a checkup I think) with dad's finger an inch shorter all wrapped up in bloody rags... they managed to stitch it back on with no permanent damage though.

[Bodzilla]

my dayd has lost one pinky to a grinder adn her nearly lost his life to some fuckhead that broke and destryod the metal cuttin machine. Broke a massive chip out of it and didt tell anybody else.

dad turned on the machine and lost his pants to it. the disc broke up and went fling in all directions and destroyed his work clothes.
he was this close ]-[ to loseing the avbility to move his lege because of some other fuckface.

[Bodzilla]

Xawry booze controls and winz.

[nooBBooze]

My dad fucked around with a chainsaw once. I never quite understood how it actually happened but next thing i know i see blood dripping from his left eye and I freaked out because i though he cut out his eyeball. it turned out he missed his eye by mere centimetres (the right way to measure lenghts).
he fucks up like that pretty often and he always gets away with his life that lucky bastard. AND he stays atheist nonetheless wich is :awsome:

[Bodzilla]

mm's is the right way to measure :eng101:
Cm's if for dress makers :P

[thehoodedsmack]

mm's is the right way to measure :eng101:

I propose a new standard. Doc Brown, would you elaborate?

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q100/popwar1108/uncledoc.jpg

My one friend was working with a circular saw once, and a slight bump sent his whole hand through the spinning blade. He severed all fingers, save for the thumb, on his left hand. Fortunately, they were able to attach them all back together without any incident. Still, it's weird to see this perfectly straight scar go from one end of his hand to the other.

[n00b1n8R]

mm's is the right way to measure :eng101:
Cm's if for dress makers :P
QFT. :awesome:

[klange]

I measure things in twips...

Always wear [eye] protection.

[Pooky]

Zilla what are you doing there, you should be a model D:

[Bodzilla]

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