VorpelSword
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My heavy industry experience spanned 1974 through the mid 1980s. In that time I worked for the Davey Tree Company as a climber and foreman, then in the oil industry on rigs as a mud man. We were aware of the hazards of working near rotating equipment. But back then our precautions amounted to not wearing a woolen scarf in the Michigan winter or a head rag in the Texas sumer.
The safety mn got most of us to wear gloves doing tree work. At one point, my wedding ring was cut off my finger in an emergency room due to a near crushing injury when loading logs. The gloves didn't help.
Working in the oilfield, we all did wear steel toed boots. Offshore, we had to be clean shaven to accommodate the face mask of a Scott Air Pack.
Doing oil industry lab work, there was always safety goggles around my neck if not on my face. . . .and vinyl gloves because we worked with HCl and HF.
Later on in life, I worked in a hospital setting. We scrupulously observed the "universal precautions" for "blood born diseases" and the wor related regulations covering radioactive isotopes.
The safety mn got most of us to wear gloves doing tree work. At one point, my wedding ring was cut off my finger in an emergency room due to a near crushing injury when loading logs. The gloves didn't help.
Working in the oilfield, we all did wear steel toed boots. Offshore, we had to be clean shaven to accommodate the face mask of a Scott Air Pack.
Doing oil industry lab work, there was always safety goggles around my neck if not on my face. . . .and vinyl gloves because we worked with HCl and HF.
Later on in life, I worked in a hospital setting. We scrupulously observed the "universal precautions" for "blood born diseases" and the wor related regulations covering radioactive isotopes.
