[Otaku]

Resurrecting this thread with my own stupidity.

I was drilling some aluminium angle pieces for a quick mockup of our field. Had a hand-held dewalt power drill. My hair wasn't pulled back. Suddenly the power drill disappeared from my vision and the side of my head really, really hurt. Guess what happened?

To make things worse, I figured "put the drill in reverse and back it out slowly and there should be no issues". Finger twitches and the drill ends up jerking and hitting me in the head... again.

Took about 10 minutes for two of my teammates to get as much of my hair untangled as they could and cut the rest.

I ended up with two small open wounds on my left wrist (presumably where I had scraped against the vice) and a decently sized bald patch on the side of my head. The drill just ripped the hair clean out.


Previously mentioned drill-hair is now in a bag in our shop with one of my quotes ("If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is") written on it and it's hanging on the wall.

It was a good thing I had my safety glasses on -- upon further inspection, the drill bit nicked the lens right in front of my eye.

I had my hair pulled back constantly for the next few weeks and didn't go back into the shop for more than 5 or 10 minutes after that this year. Yes, it was THAT scary.

The moral of the story is (other than 'I am an idiot', anyways) make sure your hair is pulled back. always.