I got in a fight with a power drill

[Omega]

...and lost.

I was drilling out this bit of aluminium, figured my hair wouldn't get caught in it (I have long hair, so). A few moments later, there was a distinct pain on the side of my head and I couldn't see the drill.

It took two guys to unravel and cut (just a little bit) of my hair off so the drill could go free.

There's a nice patch of hair missing right above my right ear.

And my ear's been nicked.

And I've got two cuts on my left arm.



The moral of the story:

When working with rotating tools, always pull your hair back.

I am so ****ing glad it was a hand-held power drill and not the big lathe we have. If it was the lathe... I'd probably be in the hospital and not sitting here typing this.

No pics. I think you all get the idea anyways. :down:

[FuzzyPlushroom]

I keep mine tied back almost all the time, as it's a fair way down my back. That way I can throw it out of the way as one giant ponytail, rather than having loose strands get caught in the Dremel/jigsaw/drill.

[LiTHiUM0XiD3]

no pics? no fair!!! lolz well good to hear ya still alive and kickin.

[Omega]

I just got a good look at it via my digicam

it's not actually that bad, so here's a pic of the patch of hair that's been pulled out by the drill:

http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/7749/pa250031nw3.jpg

and what my hair would look like normally (though this pic is actually taken after that first one, but the point is you can't notice if my hair isn't moved out of the way):

http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/8669/pa250032jl5.jpg

[Twigsoffury]

oh damn dude.


damn.


daaammmyyumm

first I went :O


now im sorta lol'n off and on.

lol that drill just kicked your ass.

ahh priceless.

[Omega]

oh damn dude.


damn.


daaammmyyumm

first I went :O


now im sorta lol'n off and on.

lol that drill just kicked your ass.

ahh priceless.

The best part is there's a webcam that takes a picture every three minutes in our shop.

Tomorrow I'm gonna see if it got my drill-own on record. It probably either got the drill on my head or people getting it off. Either way, still funny.


Hey man, I can laugh at it, so.

I realized drilling something without my hair pulled back was pretty feckin' dumb right about the time the drill disappeared from my vision and I felt a hard yank on my head.

[KiLLERMAN21]

Oh man, thats not funy at all.

Well, it is, but the point is that you could have come out of it ALOT worse than what you did, so consider yourself lucky.

[Omega]

Oh man, thats not funy at all.

Well, it is, but the pointi is that you could have come out of it ALOT worse than what you did, so consider yourself lucky.

Oh, I know I'm lucky.

No wounds worth mentioning? After having my hair sucked into a spinning drill bit? Pretty goddamned lucky.

[Bopher]

Wow. Saw the title and had a flash back to Jr. High. We had a girl in our shop class do that not more then 5 minutes after the teacher gave the safety lesson. She got it worse though, after a few minutes her and the drill had to go to the nurses office.

[blueonblack]

Glad you're all right. Sadly, I've fought several different power tools over the years and they *always* win. My table saw won before I even knew the fight was on. :)

[Twigsoffury]

oh yea you ought to see how many close calls old majorbud has had. and a couple accidents to.

He got his hand sucked into a cutter stack. those are used to cut the frames out for aluminum windows.

picture a whole bunch of thick saw blades of various sizes all spinning on a shaft and theres two on either side. Guess he wasn't paying attention and it got his glove or something and sucked it in. Mangled one of his fingers all to hell could see most of the bone. but he still got it.


Other week some one got a aluminum stock extruder shot through there hip after the machine jammed and shot the stock back out at a speed fast enough to go in one side come out the other miss is dangle bits and go into the other leg.

He had to scoot over so they could fit the stock back into the machine to pull it out of him.

So yeah so F***in around in any sort of industrial situation is asking to get caught slippin.

[Eclecticos]

That is unfortunate. I know a man that lost a nut in a drywall mud mixing accident. He was wearing cutoff jeans with strings hanging got caught in the mixer and it took one of the boys down and out. The moral of this story is it could have been alot worse, the hair will grow back.

[msmrx57]

I work on cars as a hobby and used to have long hair. Now picture being under a car on a creeper and your hair gets caught in the wheels. Every little move tangled it in worse and didn't have enough room to get off the thing while it was under the car. That sucked. Buy the time I got it out ended up losing like 6" off the ponytail.:no:

[Twigsoffury]

I work on cars as a hobby and used to have long hair. Now picture being under a car on a creeper and your hair gets caught in the wheels. Every little move tangled it in worse and didn't have enough room to get off the thing while it was under the car. That sucked. Buy the time I got it out ended up losing like 6" off the ponytail.:no:

lol

[XcOM]

i had an incident with my hair and some very DoubleD ovens where i worked, it was a case of my friends had to pull me off or i would have cooked myself, i cut my hair and kept it short until i left, grew it long again, then cut it when where i was working (Till yesterday) had doubleD ovens, so i cut my hair again, now im thinking of growing it again when i get a job, got to look presentable.

edit--

thats the closest picture i can find to the ovens we used, if i can get a decent picture of our ovens on my phone i will, i think i got one, ours have a turntable inside, which is what my hair got cought on, oh, and my hairnet melted from the heat which is how my hair got free.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2283/2072235761_0724cab2ab.jpg?v=0

[Twigsoffury]

http://www.futuraind.com/images/safety%20STD%20Exam..jpg

[KiLLERMAN21]

My old manufacturing tech teacher at school used to show a picture to the older students of a guy that had been using a machine (no idea what) and had his wedding ring on, long story short his ring got caught in the machine and ripped the skin, muscles, and tendons right up his finger to his fingernail. Finished up with a bone and a few tendons for a finger and had the rest in a messy pile around his nail. Not good.

[nevermind1534]

Part of my dad's wedding ring melted (the one time that he forgot to take it off) when he was connecting battery terminals, using a wrench to tighten the bolts on it (yes, bolts, the battery didn't have wing nuts on it). He had 3rd degree burns on his finger from that, but he was lucky and it healed up pretty well.