{"id":4427,"date":"2003-09-05T07:31:31","date_gmt":"2003-09-05T14:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4427"},"modified":"2003-09-05T07:31:31","modified_gmt":"2003-09-05T14:31:31","slug":"you_know_the_dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/05\/you_know_the_dr.html","title":{"rendered":"You know the drill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ouch.\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/drill-xray.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"168\" border=\"0\" class=\"right\" \/>Sure as shootin&#8217;, this is going to show up in one of our safety bulletins at the office &#8212; though I&#8217;m not sure what the safety lesson is supposed to be, besides the obvious &#8220;Don&#8217;t let this happen to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A construction worker, using a 1.5&#8243; auger drill, felt his ladder start to wobble.  He threw the drill aside, as trained, but still ended up falling on it, <a title=\"CNN.com - Construction worker survives drill through head - Sep. 3, 2003\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/US\/West\/09\/03\/drill.head.ap\/index.html\">driving the 15&#8243; bit through his eye &#8230; and through his skull<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\">&#8220;I ran my hands up the drill bit, up to my eye, and put my other hand in the back of my head and felt it coming through the back of my head,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And that&#8217;s where pretty much the shock set in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that would pretty much be it for me, too. <\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the bit pushed the brain aside, rather than punching through it.  Doctors basically unscrewed the thing.  Though the guy lost his eye, he seems to be fairly uninjured otherwise.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2003_09_01_archive.html#106260470120305463\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure as shootin&#8217;, this is going to show up in one of our safety bulletins at the office &#8212; though I&#8217;m not sure what the safety lesson is supposed to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132400,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/20\/drill-baby-drill-not.html","url_meta":{"origin":4427,"position":0},"title":"Drill, Baby, Drill &#8230; Not","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 20-Dec-16 3:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Obama will use a little-used provision in federal law to remove substantial Arctic and Atlantic coastal areas from oil exploration and drilling. 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