[FRC Blog] Weather and Safety, An Opening, and Award Deadlines

[George A.]

Originally Posted by DonRotolo

Ah, safety.

Just last week, a student was cutting a piece of 80/20 on a chop saw, holding it by hand. It got away from him, flew across the shop and whacked (hard!) a young lady. Right in the glasses.

The glasses did not shatter, but did get a nice scratch. The top edge of the glasses also hit the young lady in the forehead, leaving a small red 'dent'.

She was nowhere near the chop saw.

Had she not been wearing her glasses, she'd most certainly have lost an eye. Her glasses did exactly what they were supposed to, because she was wearing them.

True story.
Think about that.

Ironic how a smiliar but more gory situation happened to me my senior year.

I too was holding a piece of 80/20 on a chop saw by hand (instead of a clamp) the motor lurched and the piece came out of my hand and caught my other hand taking my pinky with it. There was a lot of blood and panic and thankfully I was able to get the finger reattached (if you're at the MAR circuit come find me and I'll show it to you)

Take the extra steps for safety people, I was lucky it was just my pinky, and not my hand or worse...