PLEASE be safe when working on your cars!

[Jeremy D. Ledford]

PLEASE, PLEASE think and be safe while working on your cars! I know winter is the time for us to get alot things fixed and or repaired on our cars. The reason I'm bringing this up is this afternoon a family freind of ours died this afternoon in the Chattanooga area while working on a Jeep as it fell off of the jack today onto him. So do all of us a favor and PLEASE, PLEASE be safe if your doing your own work on your classic car or daily drivers!

 

[Steve Lichtman]

Always a good reminder, thanks Jeremy.

Many of us, of course, know the story of PCS member John Keel, who died while working on one of his hearses when he was overcome by CO in his garage. It's easy to overlook "simple" safety precautions, which can have tragic results.

 

[John ED Renstrom]

never do anything in a hurry. is always the best advice I can give anyone. you always get into trouble when you push things.

 

[Bruce Oliphant]

I'm sorry for your loss Jeremy. Thanks for sharing that reminder with us.

In 2004 I was alone and bleeding to death, literally. I had to crawl to the phone. The fast response by my crews and a quick LifeFlight trip to a Level 1 saved my rearend. From then on I carry my cell phone in my pocket, especially when working around the house, and just hope that I can get to it and use it if I ever needed to.

 

[Michael Mykulak]

A freind of mine had finished doing a brake job on his daughters car and he was directing her back out of the garage when she turned the wheel and crushed his knee between the bumper and the door frame of the overhead garage door. I asked him what he was doing that he failed to have the foresight that allowed him to be in that precarious location. He answered that she was supposed to back straight out. He started recovering well then got infected. He knew something was up when the wound started to smell bad. He is finally doing well. My motto "SAFETY FIRST" it is actually written in sharpie marker across the knuckles of all my work gloves. And I have to look at it. As typically that is the only part of my work gloves that is usually intact when I wear out the rest of the glove.