Safety Knights

I had a really close call a long time ago with my hair. It was up in a ponytail, but it had fallen over to my left front side when I was bent over screwing iso board into the roof. I git lucky as my journeyman happen to see my hair get really close to the drill bit and he pulled the power. I git a big butt chewing over it and ever since, I have my hair in a bun tucked into my hard hat. Plus, some of the environments I have been in, us terrible on hair.

In a machine shop we had a hard and fast rule, no hair below the ears over 1". Longer tied up or in a pony tail under the shirt!

I grew up in a foundry (first job out of college). Wearing a hard hat was never a big deal to me! At 6'4" saved my head of lots of bumps and bruises. I once tried to make out warehouse and maintenance employees wear hard hats while operating order pickers, scissors lifts, and reaching under racking with your head exposed to overhead racks. Gee-whiz! You would have thought I wanted everyone to have all their teeth pulled! I literally had a war on my hands! I retired as a site manager before Covid, but having people wear masks might have been as nuts!

Today I am bald, probably due to genetics (both my grandfathers an father were). However, my wife says it was due to the 20 years I wore a hard hat in the Foundry. I think it has more to do with raising three daughters! :)