Just a reminder to keep your mind on what you are doing. Especially when working around your dangerous equipment, and/or your 4x4.

I have been working on a large Centrifuge for the last week or so. We are doing a complete overhaul from stem to stern. I was pulling a 5/8" SHCS out of the belt driven pully, when the bolt broke loose I lost my balance and I fell over backwards. On the way to the floor (about 4 feet down) my fall was arrested by the corner of a large peice of channel iron.... Right on the Tail bone:mad: Good thing it had been radiused a little or I might have ended up with a second A hole :eek:

yup,gotta stay on your toes. glad you are ok. a week ago monday my hand and a slippery 700r4 got into it,the 700r won. was using a tranny jack and needed a little more angle so i loosened the strap a little to tilt it a little and wham stuffed my hand into the floor.:eek: . punctured my hand near the index finger with one of the tabs on the pan. dumbest thing i've ever done,was tired from wrenchin all day came home and did myself in :rolleyes: .

I never said I was ok.... :flipoff2: My ass hurts like hell :D oh well. If that didnt break my fall, I could have been seriously injured. I would have fallen right on my head/neck. At nearly 300 lbs, it would have been a hard landing. Especially onto the steel grating.

now you are starting to sound like lance oh my butt:D :D .

in my book if you can still walk you're "okay":D .

are you hurt? or are you injured?:flipoff2:

Im not butt injured :flipoff2: I cant remember hitting the floor... But I do remember not being able to talk for about 60 seconds after I picked myself up off the floor.

I here ya...

I bent down to pick something up from under my rig and the sun was setting behind the garage.... as I went down to grab it I smacked my left cheek bone on the bumper and today I have a nice bump and bruise to go with it!

Gotta watch out for those moving bumpers
:mad:

Heh

Originally posted by bgreen
Just a reminder to keep your mind on what you are doing. Especially when working around your dangerous equipment, and/or your 4x4.

I have been working on a large Centrifuge for the last week or so. We are doing a complete overhaul from stem to stern. I was pulling a 5/8" SHCS out of the belt driven pully, when the bolt broke loose I lost my balance and I fell over backwards. On the way to the floor (about 4 feet down) my fall was arrested by the corner of a large peice of channel iron.... Right on the Tail bone:mad: Good thing it had been radiused a little or I might have ended up with a second A hole :eek:

Yea, that sh!t HURTS. I permently f'd up my tail bone when I was like 12?? I was in Jr High. Jumped in the backseat of the car, and didn't look where I was going to land. Landed right on a metal cup or sumthin of the sort. I actually felt my tail bone shift! :eek: Do this day, I still can't do a sit up on a flat surface!! :rolleyes: