Lessons from Some Accidents

Please take time to peruse the stories in the link at the end of this message; if you want you can click on the photos of a particular story to get the details.

What you find in many cases is people getting killed by equipment that they have worked with for 20 or more years.

It takes about two seconds of negligence, and you are dead.

Some of the stories are sad, involving children. Others are of old men, 80 years old with experience.

I implore you, every time you are working with equipment, before you put yourself in harms way, to stop and think for just a minute of how you might get injured, and take appropriate cautions to prevent it.

Let us share stories from time to time as we become aware of them.

Let us be eternally vigilant. Consider having safety meetings with members of your family, once a week or twice a month. Ask all to identify one thing at home or school or work that they think is a potential hazard. Make it a mindset.

A gal friend of mine works with a "skid steer". I emailed her 11 ways to die with a skid steer, from the link below. Maybe I saved her life, we will never know. I asked her if she can imagine a twelfth way..... I will bring up safety every time I see her.


http://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/face/Reports/pictorial.html
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