http://jpaerospace.com/blog/?p=114 Our Journey to Space Sun, 11 Dec 2022 19:44:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://jpaerospace.com/blog/?p=114#comment-8329 Robert A Vollrath Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:21:21 +0000 http://jpaerospace.com/blog/2008/02/01/lets-be-careful-out-there/#comment-8329 Years ago I worked at a science museum and saw a terrible shop accident. No one is safer than me in a shop after seeing a man router the flesh of his thumb. Be careful. Years ago I worked at a science museum and saw a terrible shop accident.
No one is safer than me in a shop after seeing a man router the flesh of his thumb. Be careful.

]]> http://jpaerospace.com/blog/?p=114#comment-104 Kirk Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:53:33 +0000 http://jpaerospace.com/blog/2008/02/01/lets-be-careful-out-there/#comment-104 Yikes, lucky guy. I worked at a lab where we ran various gases through 2- or 3-ft long 2-in OD glass tubes. One time our lab director was inspecting it after a test shutdown, and it blew up -- through glass shrapnel through his face (and knocked out some fluorescent lights 15 feet above the table). In the post-accident photos, among the blood and glass, you can see his safety goggles sitting where he left them on the table before inspecting the tube. Not such a fortunate accident for him, since he lost the sight in one of his eyes... Yikes, lucky guy. I worked at a lab where we ran various gases through 2- or 3-ft long 2-in OD glass tubes. One time our lab director was inspecting it after a test shutdown, and it blew up — through glass shrapnel through his face (and knocked out some fluorescent lights 15 feet above the table). In the post-accident photos, among the blood and glass, you can see his safety goggles sitting where he left them on the table before inspecting the tube. Not such a fortunate accident for him, since he lost the sight in one of his eyes…

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