Agreed. I know of a story of someone working with a drill was also wearing a tie*... needless to say the tie accidentally got caught around the drill and the guy was very nearly strangled to death...
* He had attended in interview earlier in the day and didn't go home before returning to work. Regards, Andrew Burton [email protected] www.aliensrcooluk.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "drlegendre ." <[email protected]> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 11:51 PM Subject: Re: A tale of woe, including carelessness, stupidity and laziness.... > Whether low-impedance voltage sources are present, or not, you should > +never+ wear any kind of hand / wrist jewelry when working with moving > parts. Ditto for neck chains and long hair, that isn't securely tied back. > > Seems like First Grade instruction for the tech, but accidents still > happen.. every day. > > Remember that most injuries associated with electric shock are secondary - > that is, the real damage often occurs when the individual recoils from the > shock, jamming their hands into even worse places in the equipment - like > rotating assemblies. And then there's the innocent guy behind you, who gets > knocked into his equipment, when you jump back. > > > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Eric Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Jay Jaeger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 8/22/2015 4:11 PM, Eric Smith wrote: > > >> In my mostly misspent youth, I once had the opportunity to visit a > > >> facility where a now obscure supercomputer was developed. The product > > >> manager was showing me around. .... > > > > > > That wasn't Astronautics' ZS, by any chance? > > > > No. I omitted the names to protect the innocent. And the guilty. > >
