A tale of woe, including carelessness, stupidity and laziness....

[drlegendre .]

Whether low-impedance voltage sources are present, or not, you should
+never+ wear any kind of hand / wrist jewelry when working with moving
parts. Ditto for neck chains and long hair, that isn't securely tied back.

Seems like First Grade instruction for the tech, but accidents still
happen.. every day.

Remember that most injuries associated with electric shock are secondary -
that is, the real damage often occurs when the individual recoils from the
shock, jamming their hands into even worse places in the equipment - like
rotating assemblies. And then there's the innocent guy behind you, who gets
knocked into his equipment, when you jump back.



On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Eric Smith <spacewar at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Jay Jaeger <cube1 at charter.net> wrote:
> > On 8/22/2015 4:11 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> >> In my mostly misspent youth, I once had the opportunity to visit a
> >> facility where a now obscure supercomputer was developed. The product
> >> manager was showing me around.   ....
> >
> > That wasn't Astronautics' ZS, by any chance?
>
> No. I omitted the names to protect the innocent. And the guilty.
>