08-27-2007, 02:09 PM
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Everybody Stretch!
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Pa. USA
Posts: 11,637
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Originally Posted by scotzoidman
A few years back, there was an incident here that spelled out all too clearly the price of letting blasters get sloppy...apparently construction equipment hit a primer cord that was being laid, & the charge went off prematurely...result was traffic stalled in one of the busiest areas of town (which I normally had to drive thru to work), while they scraped one worker's remains off the side of a semi with a spatula...
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Yeah...see? That's the kinda stuff Mr. Lixy goes to safety meetings to review. Learning from others mistakes is a big part of precautionary measures. And as I said before, the mister appreciates his own over-cautious ways because it keeps him grounded (no pun intended) and not full of himself.
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