[TheForge] Re: Kids and Wheelchairs

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

Saint Phlip wrote:
> But, I _HAD_ considered the joys of hot steel in your lap, and my
> solution is a hide I have that I have been intending to turn into an
> apron anyway. I figure wheelchair folks have enough difficulties that
> dealing with burns under their clothing doesn't need to be added to
> them. And, obviously, part of my job is to watch them as carefully as
> I do the kids, or any other newbie in a forge.
A unique issue to consider is depending on why someone is in a 
wheelchair, they may or may not be able to feel hot steel in their lap, 
or just a hot piece of slag.  Even minor burns can be problematic. I 
have worked with wheelchair bound before in my shop (not blacksmithing 
as of yet) and have to birddog that to make sure they didn't get hurt.

Charles