I was probably about 12-13 years old, doing tire work at my dads service station.
Had a passenger car wheel clamped onto the manual tire changer that I had just put a rotten old tire on that the customer had brought it to be mounted.
Standing there airing it up and it let go!
Thank God it was clamped to the changer so the wheel didn't go flying, and it blew on the opposite side from where I was standing, so I wasn't neutered!
But it blew down and toward the floor and corner. The floor was covered with all kinds of dirt and debris, old wheel weights, oil absorb, nuts and bolts...
All that came blowing back at me, miraculously none hit me in the eyes but dirt, but I was covered in whelps and bloody scratches. I guess nothing penetrated deep enough to cause problems, I didn't go to the Dr, but right up there as one of the scariest things that ever happened to me!
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