[TheForge] lucky safety story

[Jerry Frost]

Safety gear is a good thing though we all have lapses. Glad you didn't get 
bit harder.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.


From: "S. Pohlman" <ajarrod at voyager.net>



> Just thought I would pass this on. I am presently sporting a new deep 
> scratch in my glasses. I have been working with power tools for at least 
> 20 years and always considered myself  a safe worker.  I was using a side 
> grinder with a cutoff wheel on some brass. Well just about the time I was 
> thinking I should have a face shield  that bugger exploded on me. Damn 
> glad I do need my glasses ( plastic lenses but small frames.) . The main 
> chunk hit my lense and has left an annoying scratch right in the middle to 
> remind me. the rest luckily hit without cutting me but did bruise my lip.
>  So if you have been doing something for years with out the right safety 
> gear, think again.  never too old to learn and better not to learn the 
> hard way.
>
> Stu
>