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But I started taking off my wedding ring and leaving it in the cup-holder of the truck when I am working in the orchard.
Image posted here in case Mrs ERJ asks about it if I forget to put it back on.
On the plus side today, it was 49F with a 12mph wind out of the west. It was warm enough for me to strip down to a single Tee-shirt and jeans as I worked. Pretty nice for December in Michigan.
I don't wear rings. They're dangerous, working in Surgery showed me that pretty damn quick.
ReplyDeleteThe thread where I stole the image talked about silicone-rubber rings and tats.
DeleteReferred to as de-gloved in the chart.
ReplyDeleteMachinists often have to show a similar photo to their mother-in-law to explain why they don't wear their wedding ring.
ReplyDeleteI got a tat. Working in power panels and around rotating equipment, back when I actually worked, made me a bit leery of metal on my hand.
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I was in Coast Guard aviation, one day a guy gave us a safety talk deglove accidents, his ring finger was gone past the midpoint.
ReplyDeleteAnyway the day after that talk I was on a helo on the hanger deck, I was standing in the helo, at the door talking with someone and I noticed I was tapping my wedding ring against small hook on the hoist.. a perfect place to hold on to the ring if I jumped out of the door.
Oh wow... I picked up a clip that I put on my key ring and that clip held my wedding ring when I was at work after that. I always have my keys so I wasn't going to forget the ring at work..
Nasty nasty nasty...
Ditto for any loose clothing when working around power takeoff or chainsaws and the like... De-gloving of larger body parts makes for a really bad day..
ReplyDeleteYep, I knew a guy who got his coat tangled up in a PTO shaft, lucky for him a fellow worker was there and shut it off. He made a few revolutions around it and got banged up really bad but survived.
DeleteWorked around 440 volt equipment and had my hand in breaker boxes on a regular basis. When I got married my new wife ask why I never wore any metal. Showed her pictures of hands of people who did. She never asked again.
ReplyDelete110v hurts.
Delete440v kills.
220v hurts worse
DeleteDegloving injuries are among the nastier hand injuries we see in an ER. Sometimes the finger gets completely stripped leaving little tissue resulting in amputation.
ReplyDeleteYeouch.
ReplyDeleteOh Gosh, that looks awful. Shudder.
ReplyDeleteI jumped off the back of a truck with a steel rack on the back. I held onto the rack as I exited and for just a split second I hung by my wedding band. A small piece of gold was torn off the ring and I had a sprain type injury. Could have been worse but it was a lesson for me. That picture makes my skin crawl.
ReplyDeleteSimilar to how Neal Armstrong lost the tip off his left ring finger (he had it sewn back on).
DeleteSoak it in cider, will heal up in no time.
ReplyDeleteI haven't heard that since I was an apprentice with mangled fingers......
DeleteIt can go either way. My father-in-law ( years ago) worked on buildings...up multiple stories. Slipped a little one day...grabbed for a hold...hands slipping. He quickly got a new handhold but for a split second or two he couldnt get a grip. No serious injuries to hand and didnt fall. Still his wedding ring probably saved his life. If his ring hadnt caught he would have fallen for sure.
ReplyDeleteIn my 50 year work life, I knew two guys who lost their finger like this. After the first one I saw when I was a young man, the ring came off and never went back on.
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