[rarestia]

I suppose that even if he had his hardhat on, it would have still hurt.

I've had a 4 ft. long 2x6 fall from the third story of a condo under construction right on to my hard hat while working as an electrician years ago. My hard hat cracked but never hit my head. Yeah it hurt, but it was more of a shock than painful.

That event is permanently burned into my memory, and I never get out of my vehicle on a construction site without my hard hat on. Period.

[Larry Lucido]

The only person ever who didn't need a hardhat.

[cripplecreek]

I had a hammer fall no more than 2 feet and nearly put me out.

I was working in a basement and set a hammer down in a floor joist that didn’t have a floor over it. I couldn’t find the hammer so I grabbed another from nearby and went back to work. A found the first hammer after about 3 swings of the second shook it loose.

[Lazamataz]

I value my hard hat so much I put a hard hat over it.

[shotgun]

I always wear my hard backwards. In tight areas the brim obstructs your vision and I was knocked out once when I turned and hit a tube steel pipe hanger . Couldn't see because of the brim. I was in my 2nd yr of apprenticeship as, a pipefitter but typically only the iron workers wore them backwards. After the self inflicted blow to the side of my head I quickly popped out the web gear and have worn it that every since. Wearing it backwards also prevented me from a serious injury while working on the Texaco refinery in Delaware. I was on the ground was tying things up so my partner could haul them up the scaffolding. He accidentally kicked off a quart size can of cutting oil from about 20 feet and it hit the reversed brim and deflected to the ground. Would have hit me me right on my neck bone at the base of the skull.

[shotgun]

I always wear my hard backwards. In tight areas the brim obstructs your vision and I was knocked out once when I turned and hit a tube steel pipe hanger . Couldn't see because of the brim. I was in my 2nd yr of apprenticeship as, a pipefitter but typically only the iron workers wore them backwards. After the self inflicted blow to the side of my head I quickly popped out the web gear and have worn it that every since. Wearing it backwards also prevented me from a serious injury while working on the Texaco refinery in Delaware. I was on the ground was tying things up so my partner could haul them up the scaffolding. He accidentally kicked off a quart size can of cutting oil from about 20 feet and it hit the reversed brim and deflected to the ground. Would have hit me me right on my neck bone at the base of the skull.