Yep, once while on a ladder burning some holes through an I-beam to bolt a cross beam in place before welding it solid. I didn't notice that my pant leg had pulled up over the top of my boot. A molten hot glob of steel just happened to find the open boot top. It went down and burned itself into my heel in the soft flesh just behind the ankle bone. I had to dig out a piece about the size of a green pea. I threw those boots away and never bought another pair of 6 inch pull on again. The steel toe didn't do much good for me.
Have you ever had hot slag burn down inside your boot?
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I guess over the years, I have had slag or buckshot just about every where at one time or another. The worst burn I ever got was when welding on a friends FEL with my low quarter shoes, I flipped out a hot rod, it hung in the holder and flipped back and landed on top of my shoe right below the ankle and proceeded to burn thru the sock and a good ways into my foot before I got it flipped out. It was red hot and about and inch long. I still carry a scar from that. Now I use either a coffee can or a magnetic tray and drop the hot rod directly into them with a little tap. I still wear my "street shoes" most of the time and have never had an issue with slag or buckshot getting into them. Since I use mostly 7018 rods, sparks aren't much of an issue and I usually have on a polyester shirt for small jobs and haven't gotten burned so far even with overhead welding. If I am doing a big job with lots of welding, I will get my heavy cotton shirt more for UV protection than sparks. Also a bandana around the neck like the cowboys in the movies keeps the blistering of the neck from the V in the shirt from happening.
ghenges
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My father, a wily ole bugger, at age 77, decided that burning off some old bolts up on a pole would be easier than wrenching them.
Long story made short, the ladder twisted, instead of falling 30 feet to the ground he clung awkwardly to the pole, all the while the torch literally burning a hole in his forearm. Thank goodness fast thinking grandson was there to get the ladder repositioned.
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Long story made short, the ladder twisted, instead of falling 30 feet to the ground he clung awkwardly to the pole, all the while the torch literally burning a hole in his forearm. Thank goodness fast thinking grandson was there to get the ladder repositioned.
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Shield Arc
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Years ago I was on a job with two brothers. They were up in a man basket working, some how one brother burned the other on the wrist with the torch. At lunch time we noticed the gauze around his wrist, had to hear the story. Next day at lunch time the other brother had gauze around his wrist. Someone asked what happened. He replied, "little pay back"!
tcreeley
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Years ago I used to do some blacksmithing ironwork. I was always burning holes in the top of my sneakers when I worked over the anvil. The worst was when my 3 tear old son was nearby watching and I swung around to reheat the piece of steel in the forge. I caught him across his forearm above his wrist on bare skin. Before he had time to react I had his arm in the bucket of water I kept by for cooling. He healed up fine and the water stopped it from getting too deep.
ChristianHF
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No welding slag/bb burns yet (don't have a welder yet but I plan on getting one soon) but as a machinist I have had my fair share of burns from hot metal chips. Once while running a 3 spindle 5 axis gantry (each spindle is 100hp) rough machining 50 foot long aluminum parts I had an errant aluminum chip land on my neck. Since we we roughing, the cut was very deep and aggressive and the chip was about the size of a quarter... had that blister for weeks. For the record 75% of the heat generated in metal cutting goes into the chip, those little buggers are hot! Another time while facing some tool steel on a bridgeport manual mill, again roughing, and had a near red hot chip hit me in the neck. Instead of bouncing off, it stuck for a second and dropped down my shirt collar, much like Shield Arc, it fell down the front of my shirt while I danced like an idiot in pain. The shirt was tucked in of course and it landed at the waist of my jeans (I was also wearing a belt) and thankfully stopped there and branded the **** out of me right where my pants ride. It was so hot it blistered me all the way down my chest as it fell leaving a trail that went from my neckline down to my waist. Good times?!
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AchingBack
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No wonder you are calling yourself burnieman - OUCH!
chin
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i caught my old jeans on fire 2 months ago. They literrally went ablaze and did not know they were on fire till i felt the heat
I did something similar once, in a moment of utter stupidity. I just needed to run a short bead, the only welding of that day. I pulled on my gloves, put on my helmet and proceeded to weld. Then, about the same time I heard a couple of co-workers hollering at me I noticed it was getting bright inside my helmet. I stopped welding and opened my helmet and found a "flash fire" occurring on my shirt. I had forgotten that I wore a flannel shirt that day. Luckily it just burned the fuzz off the outside before I ripped the buttons and got the shirt off.
