13 Jan
2010
13 Jan
'10
9:45 a.m.
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:54:12 -0800 (PST)
Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus at yahoo.com> wrote:
Even moving something one-person-liftable can be
dangerous to your back.
I recently got a back brace for doing repeated lifting of heavy objects
Two weeks
ago I got a serve herniated vertebral disk when moving big
piles of old computer magazines. It caused partial paralysis of my
right leg. One day later I had some serious surgery. Fortunatelely the
paralysis got better, but I still don't have full control back. Most
likely the rest will take several months to heal. Full recreation is
likely, but still questionable. All of this at an age of only 36 years.
Once a friend got a big HP9000 H70 in a full height rack. When he
unloaded it, it started to roll away because the rack was on casters.
He didn't took this into account when planing unloading. The rack
sliped and nearly fell on him.
Once I got several nasty pyic inflammations on my hands through litle
scratches in the skin. This was caused by working on an old MicroVAX
filled with dust puppies. There must have been some nasty bacteria in
the dirt inside the MicroVAX.
Girls and boys: Be carefull with your body.
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/