[cripplecreek]

Anderson was not wearing a hard hat, but had one in his truck at the time, according to the police report.

Didn't do him any favors in the truck.

When I worked in a sawmill I got into the habit of wearing my hardhat in a hurry. Moving around in the maze of steel I-beams meant smacking your head a lot.

[IMR 4350]

I worked in a shipyard building navy ships.

Had more than one hard hat get broke.

One I was running a chipping gun and someone came up behind me and hit me in the top of the head with a hammer.

Knocked me out.

It was a fiberglass hard hat and it left a spot about 2 inches you could push through with your fingers.

[Travis McGee]

Yep. Standing up in low headroom after working in a crouch for a while and forgetting...OUCH!

[RansomOttawa]

When I worked in a sawmill I got into the habit of wearing my hardhat in a hurry. Moving around in the maze of steel I-beams meant smacking your head a lot.

My first full-time summer job was as an engineering techician at a mine. I didn't like wearing a hard hat, but I did it. One day I was doing some work in one of the surface plants, turned a corner, and smacked my head so hard on a pipe, I was flat on my back before I knew what had happened.

Didn't hurt a bit, though. In fact, I couldn't get up for a couple minutes because I was laughing so hard. Never complained about hard hats again.