lets hope it was a learning experience...These days, this will undoubtedly result in a lawsuit that the taxpayers will fund.
Yeah, the shop teacher is responsible for teaching the kids shop safety, but once they're taught, some of the responsibility has to transfer to the kids.
Back in the day girls weren’t in shop class
A ponytail or hair net would have prevented it.
I had a new hire get is hand all busted up because he wouldn’t listen when I told him “DO NOT WEAR CLOTH GLOVES!!!!!”. We had a wire brush in a drill press for buffing the inner diameter of a part. I even showed the kid that the brush would grab a cloth glove the way it wouldn’t grab leather or a bare hand.
Similar thing happened to my sister back in the 1970s.
She was working a drill press at a machine shop during her college summer break, and she fell asleep at her station.
She fell forward and the drill pulled out a 1.5” radius chunk of her hair (bloody, but no scalp/skin).
My brother taunted her mercilessly for months.
If this . . . teacher . . . wasn't present when this particular moron student had the accident, well, add him/her to the list of reasons why publik edukashun needs to be terminated - with extreme prejudice.
“Drill, baby, dri...........oops...wrong thread.
Sounds like Kayla Carrera is very lucky to only have a bald patch from the accident.
It could have been fatal.
Now, they are concerned about the dance. I know little girls can fix their hair to coverup about anything. (well almost)
Not long after, 9/11 and back in the blue uniform for me, so the haircut was appropriate.
These days, I still grow my pony-tail (donating it next spring to cancer victims, again), but I certainly put the damn thing up when operating rotating machines.
/johnny
One of the biggest hazards in munitions factories during WWII was workers getting scalped by the machinery. They solved the problem by requiring women on the line to wear turbans or hairnets. The shop teacher should have been aware of the risk and told the student to tie her hair back.
If this article was on one of my local rags, I would have asked why they even let girls operate such powerful equipment...just to distract the left-wingers from raising money for Obama.
She’s lucky she wasn’t killed.
In any case, I guess it's one for the lawyers...but don't put me on that jury, because I won't give a dime for pain and suffering, only for medical bills.
Any rotating machinery is very dangerous to lose clothing and hair. On farms this is one of the most common forms of injury/death. As the hair is caught on a rapidly rotating devise it rapidly pulls them in. If it is a PTO on a driveline it will wrap up an arm or a leg or pull the head in to the driveline and break the neck. If they are lucky they only get an avultion injury (like this girl). The devises need to be taken very seriously.
Back in our day girls were not in shop class and boys were not in the girl classes.The longhairs were made fun of and usually dropped the class.We were all smart enough to know that the equipment could seriously injure you and the shop teacher was the kind of man you didnt give any lip for fear of picking your own lip up off the floor.
Years ago while using a “Dremel” one of the art students got her hair caught. I heard her crying and saw the teacher flying, and they got her loose - obviously that long ago it had no safety.
She was bleeding and had some hair ripped out. No one made fun, and it could have been serious. But no one thought of suing anyone, either. We just were more careful with the Dremel. “How people used to reply with more common sense.”
In the past I’ve had kids show up to work light construction without their shoelaces tied.
Luckily, they all were glad to work for me, and just a few remnders and everyone showed up with tied shoes.
lets hope it was a learning experience...That happened to a girl I dated. When she was in shop class at the lathe, her pinned up ponytail came un-pinned and came right down on top of the turning wood.
It wrapped her hair around it and faster than you could blink, in one motion it pulled her head in, smashed it against the turning wood then ripped out a large portion of her scalp.
That was how she explained it all to me after I met her.
They must have done a good job putting her scalp back together, because I couldn’t tell except for one small thing near her hairline that looked like a smallpox defect.
Makes me shudder to think about it.
So, when the teacher wasn't looking, she coquettishly removed her goggles and then while Billy was watching, she seductively removed her hair net and shook her long locks, and then, Oh Shit!
She was so embarrassed until she got home and realized that her family had won the lawsuit lottery.
Oh yes, the old lathe. People lean in to get a closer look at their wood spinning. Once its caught your hair at ain’t gonna stop.