We should all reach out to our elected officials to get them to pass legislation immediately!  Who needs them anyway?

 

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"Falling Tape Measure Kills Man at Jersey City Construction Site"  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/04/nyregion/falling-tape-measure-kills-man-at-jersey-city-construction-site.html?_r=0

 

“A tape measure is like a gun at a construction site,” Mr. González said. “Like a police officer, you don’t pull it out unless you’re going to use it.”

 

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This is the reason why I ALWAYS wear my safety gear when on a site.

I have been cut by those.... THEY MUST GO NOW!

It's actually pretty sad. Could have been anyone. Always wear your hats, people.

If it saves one life.........

This is not a toy. Keep your children away from them.

Ever ask to borrow someone's tape measure on a job and find out all the measurements are wrong cause the tape was in 10ths and not 8ths.  Who makes this crap.  Tape measure in 10ths. BS.  Ban them all!  Lets go back to the old wooden folding rules!

About a year ago I was insulating my 113 year old house, which required cutting holes in the plaster walls.  I was using a Roto-Zip type tool to do so when the bit broke with the following results....

 

 

 

I work as an Occupational Safety Consultant and I often conduct training on the use of safety equipment.  I keep these glasses with me all the time to show people what can happen, even off the job.

 

WEAR YOUR SAFETY GEAR ALL THE TIME!!!!

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Oh that could have been really, really bad!

I could have become the newest member of Destiny's Child...the new "Left Eye".

I've never seen a rotozip bit that pointed and with no cutting spirals or diamond(etc) abrasive....was it so worn that all the cutting spiral was gone?..and if so as an osha consultant should you not have kept a better eye on the condition of your tools.equipment?  ...just busting your stones...that would definitely been a bad day without your ppe

Yep...cutting 3" holes in 100+ year old plaster will do that...I had cut 2 and 1/2 holes with that bit. After that I switched to a carbide abrasive hole saw

I could have become the newest member of Destiny's Child...the new "Left Eye".

That was TLC.

Oh. Yeah.

When I was working for an HVAC company we did the Roxbury DPW building. the job was great because it was prevailing wage but I hated it at first because I had to wear a hardhat. while working on a residential job at the same time as the Roxbury job a drunkin carpenter dropped his framing hammer from the second floor and it hit me right in the head while in the basement and knocked me clean out I dropped like a sack of potatoes. I never complained about the hard hat after that LOL