A tool safety reminder for all

[fightingquaker13]

I think everything that can be said has been said, except ...

Wait for it ...

Did you get Mrs. Tab to play Dr when you got home

I think he prefers the naughty nurse, though that might require latex.
FQ13

[CJS3]

Hope it heals well TAB, sorry for your injury

A reminder that many accidents happen at home, when we have our guard down. 

Here's a reminder of how easy it is.   I wasn't  hurt, but shook up a bit when I had a ladder collapse under me while I was coming down.   Just a reminder to inspect the equipment, and to be safe out there.

That happened to me in a new home I was working in. The builder came in squawkin about how I had to pay him for a new attic access ladder or he would back-charge the company I worked for. I told him if he didn't pay in full, I'd sue his dumb ass for using sub standard materials and than I'd come after what personal property I could get. He paid my company, but stiffed his other subs when he went out of business a short time later. That house never did get finished.

[MAUSERMAN]

Good to see your Okay, it reminds me of the time the blade on my edger came flying off. The nut broke off and the blade went flying across the street missing a parked car.

[MikeBjerum]

TAB, sorry for your injury, and I hope you heal well with not lasting damage.  That is a bad area with tendons, muscle and nerves on our ever popular opposable thumb.  Ron White does a bit on this, and let me just leave it at you not wanting to be in Sluggo's situation 

On the line of Alf and the ladder. The most ignored safety item is ladder weights.  Being a "person of substance" I can't stand these ladder makers that sell ladders with a 175# rating!  At my last job we had an attic access with a ladder like Alf showed.  It was rated for 200#.  Great, except I weigh a fair bit more than that.  Then you through in the fact that it was at the max height limit, so when you stepped off it it would bob up a little.  Then when you started climbing down it would bind with the last section, the one Alf broke, slightly bent ... until I would reach it, and it would snap hard into position.  I spent nine and a half years waiting to take a nose dive on concrete.

[TAB]

I think he prefers the naughty nurse, though that might require latex.
FQ13

The nurse thing has never been a turn on for me, now maid...

  She wanted to sow me up, I would not let her, A good cleaning and some dermabond(AKA super glue, but for medical use) and I'm good to go.

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[Pathfinder]

Sorry for the injury TAB, glad you have live-in (medical) help.

Since we're "sharing" . . . .

I managed to knife myself twice with an X-acto knife years back, both times within a half inch of each other in the back web of the left hand near where TAB got his. These were deep stab wounds, not peeling back or long cuts. Still have the scars.

I was drilling a hole in one of my fence posts to hang a gate for my corral when I leaned over to check the hole. I didn't realize the druill was still running (with a 12" bit - it was a big post) and the tail of my shirt caught (unbuttoned, untucked, unsmart) on the bit. Damn drill walked right up and slammed me in the chest - left a bruise that covered just about every color of the rainbow before it was done. My favorite was a sickly green/yellow. No cracked ribs, though it felt like it had done that much.

[jnevis]

I build models in the spare seconds I get and the day before flying out to LA recently I implanted three drill bits in my finger.  I was reaching across the box of bits to get something off the bench, overextended and lost ballance and put hand across the box when coming down.  Luckily they are all #80 bits (0.0135in, yes, they are THAT small) and only one actually broke off in my thumb.  Pulled out the XActo and cut a 1/8in piece out and bandaged it up.

I don't consider a solder job complete unless I've burned myself at least twice.  Doesn't matter if its wire, circuit boards, or pipe, I always seem to get to close or rub against the tips.  XActos can do a number too.

[tombogan03884]

JNevis, What do you build ?
For me it's planes and armored vehicles. 

[m25operator]

Glad your ok TAB, nothing like finding obstructions, that you thought you had covered, and BAM, was using a long 3/8" extension to do some rear shocks, and got it a little to close to my hair, wound it up around the extension real good. Know a female mechanic, that got her hair caught in a spinning drive shaft and it truly scalped her, she is now a tool dealer.

[Timothy]

Know a female mechanic, that got her hair caught in a spinning drive shaft and it truly scalped her, she is now a tool dealer.

I had a buddy of mine do that back in HS.  Using a 1/2" drive drill under his van and it grabbed his hair (the seventies, we all had pony tails then) and scalped a 6" wide track above his ear....all the way to the top of his head.