Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Florida teen's hair ripped out by machine in wood shop class
Fox News ^ | Sept. 15, 2012 | FoxNews

Posted on 09/15/2012 4:29:54 PM PDT by Washi

A Florida school district is investigating whether a teacher violated safety procedures after a student's hair was ripped out by a wood shop machine, MyFoxOrlando.com reported.

Deltona High School senior Kayla Carrera, 17, was in wood shop class when her long brown hair got stuck in a drill press machine.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: hair; lawsuit; school; shop
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-44 next last
Back in my day (geez, I'm old) this would have led to a kid being made fun of for a couple of months.

These days, this will undoubtedly result in a lawsuit that the taxpayers will fund.

Yeah, the shop teacher is responsible for teaching the kids shop safety, but once they're taught, some of the responsibility has to transfer to the kids.

1 posted on 09/15/2012 4:29:58 PM PDT by Washi
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Washi

Back in the day girls weren’t in shop class


2 posted on 09/15/2012 4:34:24 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Washi

A ponytail or hair net would have prevented it.

I had a new hire get is hand all busted up because he wouldn’t listen when I told him “DO NOT WEAR CLOTH GLOVES!!!!!”. We had a wire brush in a drill press for buffing the inner diameter of a part. I even showed the kid that the brush would grab a cloth glove the way it wouldn’t grab leather or a bare hand.


3 posted on 09/15/2012 4:39:24 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Washi

Similar thing happened to my sister back in the 1970s.
She was working a drill press at a machine shop during her college summer break, and she fell asleep at her station.

She fell forward and the drill pulled out a 1.5” radius chunk of her hair (bloody, but no scalp/skin).

My brother taunted her mercilessly for months.


4 posted on 09/15/2012 4:41:50 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Washi
Since when isn't long hair restraint NOT a part of basic industrial training? I've got manuals and industrial materials that preach loose hair/clothing as a safety hazard almost one hundred years old. Only a moron, teacher or student, would approach a machine like a drill press with loose hair or clothes.

If this . . . teacher . . . wasn't present when this particular moron student had the accident, well, add him/her to the list of reasons why publik edukashun needs to be terminated - with extreme prejudice.

5 posted on 09/15/2012 4:42:33 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (I'm for Churchill in 1940!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Washi

“Drill, baby, dri...........oops...wrong thread.


6 posted on 09/15/2012 4:47:13 PM PDT by jmax (Full mag inserted, round in chamber, hammer is back...safety is OFF.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Vaquero

LOL Just about to say the same and it was in the 80’s

Boys did metal work and wood work and motor vehicle mechanics, i.e. all we did was work on cars .

Girls did home economics.

Now we have dopes saying boys are girls and girls are boys, or even boy is a girl but likes boy or a boy is a girl but likes girls.

Why not just stay on what worked instead of this weird bizarre, perverted crap?
Now we have cross dressers and homosexuals serving and being allowed to check the saem sex out of what they are liking , sicko’s


7 posted on 09/15/2012 4:47:25 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: cripplecreek

I think shop classes need a safety video of some unfortunate person getting chopped to bits to clarify any doubt about following safety procedures.

On www.darwinawards.com, there are loads of these unfortunate cases.

I read about some unfortunate kid, whose job was to chop up ice blocks for fishing boats. He had been told explicitly to not touch the remnant that would be left at the end of the day, as for it was only a few pennies worth.

At the end of one shift, the remnant ice block got the better of him and he ever-so-carefully attempted to nudge the remnant through. Unfortunately, the ice chipper grabbed him and it cost the boat owner $30,000 to clean the boat.


8 posted on 09/15/2012 4:51:14 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Washi

Sounds like Kayla Carrera is very lucky to only have a bald patch from the accident.

It could have been fatal.

Now, they are concerned about the dance. I know little girls can fix their hair to coverup about anything. (well almost)


9 posted on 09/15/2012 4:51:30 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Washi
2nd time my pony-tail got caught in a metal lathe (I yanked back, and sacrificed, knowing what a 4 jaw chuck could do) I trimmed mine down to a nice 1/4 inch buzz cut.

Not long after, 9/11 and back in the blue uniform for me, so the haircut was appropriate.

These days, I still grow my pony-tail (donating it next spring to cancer victims, again), but I certainly put the damn thing up when operating rotating machines.

/johnny

10 posted on 09/15/2012 4:52:42 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jonty30

There is no common sense today anyway.

At that same shop after the kid had his unfortunate episode of pilot error one of the old timers said to me. “Your generation were dumb greenhorns when you walked in the door but you weren’t stupid like the kids today.”


11 posted on 09/15/2012 4:55:10 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Washi

One of the biggest hazards in munitions factories during WWII was workers getting scalped by the machinery. They solved the problem by requiring women on the line to wear turbans or hairnets. The shop teacher should have been aware of the risk and told the student to tie her hair back.


12 posted on 09/15/2012 4:59:29 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (True North- Strong Leader, Strong Dollar, Strong and Free!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Washi
Male or female makes no difference. When working around moving machinery, secure your hair and your clothes. Wear your goggles/safety glasses and hearing protectors. Watch what you are doing, not the machine. If you've been smoking dope or drinking alcohol; do something else, somewhere else. If someone violates your space without announcing themselves, elbow them in the gut. OK, I made that last one up. Machines are like terrorists; anything less than 100% is failure.
13 posted on 09/15/2012 5:02:34 PM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jonty30
I think shop classes need a safety video of some unfortunate person getting chopped to bits to clarify any doubt about following safety procedures.

In my shop class the teacher screened the film Don't Push Your Luck. It was pretty gruesome- perhaps today's school officials are worried that it might traumatize the little darlings.

14 posted on 09/15/2012 5:04:39 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (True North- Strong Leader, Strong Dollar, Strong and Free!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Washi

If this article was on one of my local rags, I would have asked why they even let girls operate such powerful equipment...just to distract the left-wingers from raising money for Obama.


15 posted on 09/15/2012 5:08:33 PM PDT by BobL (You can live each day only once. You can waste a few, but don't waste too many.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: manc; Washi

In my junior high back in the mid-1970s they boys did shop and girls did home ec by default but we were given the option of doing the other and a few did so. IMNSHO both classes should be taught to everyone; cooking a decent meal, doing the laundry and performing basic repairs around the house are all valuable skills that most of today’s young adults are sorely lacking.


16 posted on 09/15/2012 5:09:36 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (True North- Strong Leader, Strong Dollar, Strong and Free!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Washi

She’s lucky she wasn’t killed.


17 posted on 09/15/2012 5:11:18 PM PDT by mojito
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Comment #18 Removed by Moderator

To: cripplecreek

It’s not something unexpected. Kids today are taught that they will always get a second chance in life, through never failing anything and video games that keep giving them second chances.


19 posted on 09/15/2012 5:17:43 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Washi
Was it her hair, or her scalp? Two very different things...if her hair got ripped out, it'll grow back. If her scalp got torn off, that's surgery.

In any case, I guess it's one for the lawyers...but don't put me on that jury, because I won't give a dime for pain and suffering, only for medical bills.

20 posted on 09/15/2012 5:19:45 PM PDT by Mamzelle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-44 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson