Probably goes without saying how important it is to protect ones head.
I used to and some P.M.'s and superintendents in the construction industry probably still do, getting people in the trades to wear a hardhat. Sometimes safety equipment may not always work as good as it should, can be restrictive and work against you but it's a high priority when people or things are going on above you. On building jobs we always install shedding at the temporary entrances, and around the perimeter to protect people on sidewalks from falling objects, one time as the shed was going up at an entrance, right after I stopped a masonry crew to reiterate hard hat policy and no tolerance of deviation from same, a load of bricks fell several stories, right after I walked out of the building, about 9 of them. Seems the tool used for that failed or something, was not intentional the guys were not malicious, if they were I'd have terminated the contract with the subcontractor. It would have hurt a lot more without the hardhat, though sometimes that won't save you, just reduce the injury if it's from any significant height.
I know a person an RN who had a Bilco cellar door come down on her head as she was coming up the stairs, wind did it, was a freak thing, the results were very serious from the compression injury to the vertebrae and she has problems for life because of it, surgeries, brain damage, though you would never know it and a lot of down time due to pain, and medication, she still works full time and should not be. With a kid to raise, hard not to work no matter how much grief and or discomfort it causes you. To think of this person and know how many are nursing off the system that are full capable of working. Compression type injury can cause a lot of damage.
I've been lucky, one time while running an old F-850 tandem dump on a site, this was the 61 to late 60's style Ford cab, I smacked the top of my head while getting out of the truck, just right, next thing I remember was waking up and looking up at the truck, small detroit was still idling away, thing is I have no recollection of falling into the weeds. Must be the top of your head is a good place to hit to knock you out, only time that has ever happened to me. I did sleep an excessive amount after that and did not feel well, probably a concussion injury, finished out the day though, younger days when you know invincible LOL !
Another time while locking up the gate on my site the cyclone fence gate panel somehow flipped out of the hinge and smacked me under the side of my hardhat just above or at the ear, felt like someone hit me with a tire iron, it dropped to one knee, but I shook it off, little harder, think I'd have been laid out on the sidewalk. That one really hurt and shows you even with a hardhat on, nothing is perfect when it comes to safety, I'd have never thought of this, that gate was repaired immediately.
Last one, a few years ago, caught a crack in the ice while skating backwards on the pond, pick up game for fun, straight back and smacked my head, rung the bell but good, thankfully nothing came of that, boy it seems just a tad in a different spot makes all the difference, well no more pond ice skating backward without the helmet on !
It's a good reminder to protect that thing suspended inside your skull, amazing how the shockwave makes it bang against the opposite side and cause serious damage sometimes.
I went to a funeral of a friend who with a few other riders and passengers smacked into stopped traffic they never saw, while on motorcycles, Belt Parkway, Brooklyn NY, theres a dip or blind spot by Knapp Street, never had a chance, several fatalities, 2 that I knew of. His head was so swollen up, was an open casket, looked nothing like him. They all had helmets on too.
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