I’ve been kicking this can down the road for years, but I finally got a job that involves cutting so much melamine board there’s no way I’m doing it with a circular saw.
I watched multiple safety videos before even opening the package, and now I’m just sitting here staring at it wondering whether I should fire it up and cut off a finger or two. I’m fucking terrified of this thing.
Don’t be terrified. Just think before every cut, how the wood will move and where you put your fingers. Get used to not stand behind the saw, you will soon do it automatically. And never do “just a quick cut before I’m done for today”. Those are the most dangerous ones.
That follows to a last task before the end of the day. I saw my friend die at the workplace on a last task. Fucking horrible shit. We were supposed to be gone already.
Damn, I am really sorry to hear that. It is always the “I just wanted to do a quick cut”
He was standing backwards on it ladder only like 5 feet up in a basement, and fell and his legs got caught in the rungs and he hit his head on the concrete, blood was coming out of his ears and he was doing that agonal breathing.
911 accused me of Faking it and wouldn’t even send out an ambulance right away, I never made a complaint because it wouldn’t have mattered I decidedafter I talked to a mutual friend of ours but I am still pretty salty about it.