Near-death experiences or injuries during build season?

[ChristopherSD]

Almost fell out of my chair in the CAD room once.

[EricH]

I took a hit to the head from a robot arm section that got loose at a regional.

I happened to be wearing a hard hat, so nothing bad happened to me. (And that section was PVC.)

[Whippet]

I almost had a pile of heavy C++ code fall on me once. Fortunately, I got out of the way in time.

[JamesCH95]

Originally Posted by Karibou

^Agreed. I once sent a chuck key flying from the lathe to the back wall of the machine room because of that, and boy did tired-Kara get a shock out of that one.

Not an event that involved our team directly, but (rumor has it) a shop where we worked for a few years had an employee die when a chuck key got left in one of the high-power lathes.

One of my friends also had a lathe chuck come loose, again on one of the high-powered lathes at the same shop. The part guard kept the 50lb chuck from running him over. A post-mortem by the shop's lead tech found that the chuck was faulty.

[dellagd]

I almost had a pile of heavy C++ code fall on me once. Fortunately, I got out of the way in time.

Almost fell out of my chair in the CAD room once.

Ah, the dangers of being a programmer.


My friends laptop is a piece of *$#%, despite the fact that is has an i7 even though it is 1.5 years old. It is electrically unsound, so if we touch him while he uses the trackpad, he will be shocked.

I'm sure it hurts, as the sound was quite audible, but wow was that a hilarious day.

[PAR_WIG1350]

Once our primary mentor was using a belt sander to deburr a decently sized aluminum bracket. It got loose and flew >10 feet and missed his son's head by inches. If I remember correctly, the only reason it didn't hit him is because he had just bent down to look at something in/on the robot.

Originally Posted by dellagd

My friends laptop is a piece of *$#%, despite the fact that is has an i7 even though it is 1.5 years old. It is electrically unsound, so if we touch him while he uses the trackpad, he will be shocked.

I'm sure it hurts, as the sound was quite audible, but wow was that a hilarious day.

Sounds like he spilled something (probably hot) on it or otherwise damaged it. I would look into touchscreen screen protectors. either that or something has come loose internally.

Originally Posted by JamesCH95

One of my friends also had a lathe chuck come loose, again on one of the high-powered lathes at the same shop. The part guard kept the 50lb chuck from running him over. A post-mortem by the shop's lead tech found that the chuck was faulty.

How fast was that going at the time? I can imagine it made quite a noise when it crashed.

[farmersvilleRob]

Originally Posted by ChristopherSD

Almost fell out of my chair in the CAD room once.

Us poor CAD teams RIP...