Safety First (Graphic Content)

[Bigragu]

Working construction you get to see all kinds of things like this. Whenever people are in a hurry, tired, distracted, etc, things can go really wrong really fast. In addition to safety protocols like not keeping ammo in the same room as the gun you're working on, and having multiple methods of checking to ensure that you're not loaded, I now check to make sure that I'm doing what I'm doing with my full wits. Im not watching tv, or talking to somebody, or doing work late at night or whatever.

I learned to do this after I shot a hole in the wall of my bedroom from 3 ft away.... No one was hurt, but my ears rang for a while...

Same here, as 35 years in the sheet metal trade I’ve seen fingers lost, fingers and hands run thru power rollers and crimpers. Even witnessed an iron workers calf torn off as a beam rolled on him and caught his lower leg.

Taught safety and osha for my trade to apprentices. Between pics like the OP shared along with all the YouTube vids, it NEVER gets old. I still feel truly bad for the injured. 


it was an accident, they happen. We can only do our best to minimize them. To the ones that shared pics, I hope you heal and recover the very best you possibly can!

 

[John "spysir" Blount]

The only reason I've left the safety on my airforce escape. Personally do not like safeties and the AF rig is the only airgun I have with one & auto reset at that, ugh. BUT it IS an anti-beartrap device and seems to dangerous to remove esp. should someone else ever use it.

Sorry for your loss , can pretty well feel the pain from here.



John

 

[cea1960]

I never had that severe of an injury, but I have so much scar tissue in my finger tips, I have a difficult time with touch screens recognizing them. They ache something bad in the winter. I sold all my wood working machinery after running finger through a dado blade. I'm tired of getting stitches and dealing with the "thumping" during the healing process.

I will share your pics with other shooters to remind them to always hold onto the barrel when loading.