lets hope it was a learning experience...
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.
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Any rotating machinery is very dangerous to lose clothing and hair. On farms this is one of the most common forms of injury/death. As the hair is caught on a rapidly rotating devise it rapidly pulls them in. If it is a PTO on a driveline it will wrap up an arm or a leg or pull the head in to the driveline and break the neck. If they are lucky they only get an avultion injury (like this girl). The devises need to be taken very seriously.
Back in our day girls were not in shop class and boys were not in the girl classes.The longhairs were made fun of and usually dropped the class.We were all smart enough to know that the equipment could seriously injure you and the shop teacher was the kind of man you didnt give any lip for fear of picking your own lip up off the floor.
Years ago while using a “Dremel” one of the art students got her hair caught. I heard her crying and saw the teacher flying, and they got her loose - obviously that long ago it had no safety.
She was bleeding and had some hair ripped out. No one made fun, and it could have been serious. But no one thought of suing anyone, either. We just were more careful with the Dremel. “How people used to reply with more common sense.”
I ran a plant in Alabama back in the 80s. We had line boring machines with many drill bits to bore a line of holes for shelves. One day a well endowed woman leaned over the spinning bits and they grabbed her t-shirt. Fortunately it was a cheap t-shirt and it ripped off of her body.
She ran from the plant screaming, “Don’t look at my titties.”
Of course every man in the plant did just that.
Damn, I was in my office doing paperwork.
I learned that day to spend more time on the shop floor.
In the past I’ve had kids show up to work light construction without their shoelaces tied.
Luckily, they all were glad to work for me, and just a few remnders and everyone showed up with tied shoes.
“Boys did shop, girls did home ec”
LOL. Did you ever sew through your finger? We had at least one girl who did in my class, but she didn’t make a big deal because it was her OWN fault it happened.
I did take a look at the pictures. This girl had major damage - she seems to have lost over half her hair, all on the back of her head. There SHOULD be an investigation, actually.
Back in the day, there were long haired boys in shop class who were smart enough to pull their hair back and tuck it under their collars.
lets hope it was a learning experience...
Ouch! I hope it grows back.
I learned to sew, iron, etc in the military.
Just checked my post I originally said I learned to sex EEK.
I loved doing woodwork and metal work, we made coffee tables , fruit bowls, baseballs bats etc.
My dad and I were digging postholes and he always wore overalls. As I turned the power up (turning the driveshaft faster) his clothing got caught in the rotating shaft. Luckily I was watching and got on the clutch just in time as it pulled him to the driveline. If it had been another second his privates would have been wrapped around the driveshaft. We had to cut his cloths off of him. Rotating machinery is very dangerous. Charlie Danies (of The Devil Came Down to Georgia) was digging some postholes and got wrapped up in the auger. It broke his arm in several places. It could well have killed him. He said the guys working with him had to unwrap his macccerated arm from its being wrapped around the auger.
That happened to a girl I dated. When she was in shop class at the lathe, her pinned up ponytail came un-pinned and came right down on top of the turning wood.
It wrapped her hair around it and faster than you could blink, in one motion it pulled her head in, smashed it against the turning wood then ripped out a large portion of her scalp.
That was how she explained it all to me after I met her.
They must have done a good job putting her scalp back together, because I couldn’t tell except for one small thing near her hairline that looked like a smallpox defect.
Makes me shudder to think about it.
Most guys who were in military aviation back in the Seventies are likely familiar with “The Man From LOX”, a safety film on handling of liquid oxygen (LOX)
It was hokey, and they tried to make it amusing (I thought to catch your attention span) but later came to believe that they did it as a lighthearted contrast to the hideous ending, to make it more powerful.
The video shows a young gorky guy driving a LOX tractor around, and people are trying to sidetrack and distract him. (This is from memory) I remember they have his buddies trying to get him to leave the tractor to go party with them, his parents try to get him to come home, and his girlfriend tries to seduce him, but he grinds on saying something like “Well, that would be fun, but I have to make sure I take care of this LOX” as he drives onward towards his goal.
As the lighthearted, silly teaching film ends, without any warning, the camera skips to a video, looking down a guy lying on his back in a hospital bed.
He is alive, his breathing fighting with or against a respirator through a tracheotomy in his neck. His skin is charred black. his eyes are open, staring at the camera with white eyes rimmed by blood red borders.
Even someone with no medical training who views this video of guy immediately knows that his death is imminent within minutes, if not seconds.
I have no idea how long they show that segment. I cannot recall as I write this, whether it was for five seconds or less, or for a full minute But what I recall with absolute clarity was the fare and eyes of nearly every guy in that room watching: Eyes wide and mouth open.
Someone later told me they heard the guy had been working somewhere down in Texas or Florida, and it had been a hot, uncomfortable day, so to cool off, he put the venting nozzle from a LOX trailer down his coveralls to let it cool him off.
He then proceeded to walk away and light a cigarette, becoming engulfed in flames as he did so. I don’t know if that is true, but it seems plausible.
And nobody I knew ever messed around with LOX, so the film must have worked brilliantly.
My mom was the same way, and her attitude was that if you were old enough to read a recipe you were old enough to cook. Started with the fun stuff (cookies, cakes and brownies when I was six years old) and by the time I was eight I could prepare my own meals unsupervised.
So, when the teacher wasn't looking, she coquettishly removed her goggles and then while Billy was watching, she seductively removed her hair net and shook her long locks, and then, Oh Shit!
She was so embarrassed until she got home and realized that her family had won the lawsuit lottery.
Oh yes, the old lathe. People lean in to get a closer look at their wood spinning. Once its caught your hair at ain’t gonna stop.
I told my son’s I didn’t want to have them have to get married to keep from starving to death.....now they are in their 40-50’s and they say they had to learn how to cook, I was so bad at it.....can we all say KARMA LOL
That’s not funny.
(Actually, yes it is.)
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