About 30 minutes, I was cutting some wood when my hair got sucked into the saw’s motor, pulling my face into the piece and giving me a bloody nose. I couldn’t pull the saw out like then, so I carried the entire piece to my tool rack to cut the hair off with scissors.
Tie your hair up people.
Damn definitely worth telling this story, I would never given a second thought to having hair down by the fan. Thank you for sharing
While working at a machine shop we had a lady who came to work just like every other day. Didn’t put her hair up just like every other day. Worked on a usual customer’s job at the drill press just like any other day. But that one time is all it took for her to be literally scalped when her hair was caught on the drill press. The employer had new safety requirements for those with long hair after that day. Tie your hair up people, all it takes is that one time to happen…
We had some poor lady get scalped by a conveyor belt in my Amazon warehouse several years ago. It’s craaaazy shit. I could never set foot in an environment with a hazard like this without putting my hair up. I’d be terrified the entire time.
Thanks for sharing, I got a good laugh as long as you weren’t hurt of course. Let this serve as a cautionary tale.
Manufacturing facilities often require people with long hair to wear it up to avoid it getting caught in the machinery (especially if there is an assembly line that doesn’t stop). We also sometimes require piercings to be taped down for the same reason. Glad youre mostly OK though.
I killed a Ryobi drill with my hair. Hair was tied up too. Somehow my ponytail was got stuck in the motor and just fried the thing. Hurt like hell.
With longer hair you really need a bun cause a ponytail can still be a hazard.
Free haircut!
