M2 "accident"

[Lifer]

Sometimes, ya just have to ask "why was this necessary?"
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"Stupid is as stupid does." (Forrest Gump)

[k8icu]

You should post a warning on that...... yuck!

[Lifer]

Thanks. I edited the post to include a warning. Sorry if you were offended.

[m-37Bruce]

WOW!! Some scary stuff, fer sure.

[afvet6670]

Mild compared to some of the stuff we saw during and after Vietnam... one thing I hated the most was installing WP igniters for napham; the safest was working/loading nukes...

[HingsingM37]

That is something else. My guess is he had it in his fist and probably was striking with the primer end?

[Lifer]

You got that right, Carl. Remember some of those safety training films we got to see back then? I don't know about other branches of the armed forces, but the AF is no longer allowed to show "graphic illustration" in its safety films.

[afvet6670]

Yep, I remember one showing the results of someone removing an anti-withdraw fuze from a 750 on the flight line at I think Da Nang; and the ones they showed at Lowry while I was going through weapons school was meant to weed out the weak at heart, not to make you have that warm fuzzy feeling about being a weapons troop (AFSC 462xx)...

[cuz]

Some flight line safety flicks form the 60's that would be nice to see on U tube or such are:

Bien Hoa airfield 1965 disaster. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teHsjwXTrcU
Forrestal 1967 flight deck disaster http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chuiyXQKw3I

[M42Dodge]

In my line of work, I have seen people cut in half, broken into three or five parts and splattered into a unrecognizable heaps, it never really bothers me. But when I see minor hand injuries it simply skeeves me out and makes my skin crawl. Wierd.

This one takes the cake.

Photos like this get the point across about what we can do to ourselves if we are not careful. I can see why they would use it in a safety notice...

TJM

[M37UK]

In my line of work, I have seen people cut in half, broken into three or five parts and splattered into a unrecognizable heaps, it never really bothers me. But when I see minor hand injuries it simply skeeves me out and makes my skin crawl. Wierd.

This one takes the cake.

Photos like this get the point across about what we can do to ourselves if we are not careful. I can see why they would use it in a safety notice...

TJM

What line of work are you in TJM ????

[M42Dodge]

Railroad...

TJM

[MikeOneSix]

In my line of work, I have seen people cut in half, broken into three or five parts and splattered into a unrecognizable heaps, it never really bothers me. But when I see minor hand injuries it simply skeeves me out and makes my skin crawl. Wierd.

What line of work are you in TJM ????

I wanted to say "clown at children's parties"( ) but railroad would make a lot of sence. the rail roads in the 19th century were outside of the military, the biggest purchasers of prostetic limbs.
Matt

[M42Dodge]

An interesting historical note is that the Pennsylvania Railroad killed almost 10,000 people in ten years of operation from 1900 to 1910. The advent of lawyers sueing for wrongful death finally made the railroad industry consider ways to discourage tresspassers. Most people killed were typical town people using the tracks as short cuts. Suicides were next numerous followed by "drunks" and finally hobos being the least number of the killed.

My employer averages about 10-15 fatalities a year not including vehicle/train collisions...

TJ