[Jewelry making - Article 01375] - Re: [Orchid] Shop injuries

[ARGOODELL]

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    Ok, I had to add one of my best injury stories. While working at my
    first jewelry mfg. job I moved up quite rapidly. Within two and a
    half years they offered to teach me setting. I was being taught in a
    class by the top model maker with three new employees. we were about
    a week into learning when the accident occurred. We had new
    flexshafts and I was under my setting it up. the foot pedal rheostat
    was acting up so I had directly plugged the motor cord into the
    socket. Upon hearing it take off I stood up from under the bench.
    Unfortunately I had removed the handpiece from the shaft also. As
    you can probably guess, the spinning end caught on my cowlick and
    began to wind back towards my neck. it stopped within a second, but
    what a second. It really didn't hurt, but the look of shock from the
    other students and the teacher leaping from his bench did worry me.
    Needless to say, instant half a mohawk, two inches wide and bare as
    the proverbial bottom. Luckily it did grow back fine after a few
    months, though its seems a bit curlier on that side. 

Andy Goodell
Alison Gem Corp.


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