There’s a serious common sense deficit in America.
I once had a kid mangle his fingers when he did exactly what I specifically told him not to do and even showed him why (Not to mention the printed warning right in his line of sight)
The job was a simple matter of buffing the inner diameter of solenoid coils with a wire brush on a drill press. I told him to do it barehanded or wear a leather glove because the brush would catch the cloth glove and tear him up. I even showed the kid what happens with a cloth glove.
10 minutes later he was on his way to the hospital. One of the old timers said that when I hired in I was dumb like any new hire but the kids today are mostly dangerously stupid.
Yep.
Oddly the number one way to insure that no one wants to hire you is be an engineer over age 55.
Apparently that is one soft skill utterly repugnant to companies.
They get to hold their guts in on the way to the doctor.
I had one idiot, first day on the job, dropped a joint of 2 3/8” tubing on his hand thinking he was going to bruise it and get put on light duty where he could collect a paycheck without working.
Didn't go exactly as planned. Broke his ring finger on his left hand. Not half ass either. It was laying to the side.
That was about 8 or 9 in the morning.
We stopped for lunch at about 1. That's when I took him to the doctor.
Last person ever intentionally hurt themselves on my crew.