Re: Fire in the Hole!!! [OT] by Dan Michaels .

Alan wrote: >>! I'm just lucky that that thing flew over there instead of >>into my eye! > >A colleague of mine was even luckier than this. A brand new piece of equipment >arrived, but failed to work on power up. He had the lid off it, and with the >power still on was bending over it looking at the circuit board. A teardrop >tantalum decided just at that moment to give up the unequal struggle and flew >past his ear!!! He was extremely lucky it was not his eye!!! > Since this is gory story day.... A technician friend of mine was needing a pressure gauges [oy, yoy] - wearing his regular glasses. He plugged a gauge into an air hose to test it, turned the handle, and blam! Explosion straight up into his face. Luckily I was 3 feet away at the time. Hands went up to his face, and blood started pouring out thru his fingers. I got him to remove his hands so I could appraise the damage. Luckily for him, it was only a large shard of glass sticking out of his upper lip. Plus a *very deep* gouge on one of his eyeglass lenses. Other people came running down the hall because the explosion was so loud. End of story.