Not gun related, but worst accident I was right next to(the high rise building I was on was next to a brand new Sheraton high rise hotel being erected, where the accident occurred) this jobsite where two knuckle heads were playing grab butt on the 22nd floor, next to the man lift elevator, at quitting time. While waiting for the elevator to get to their floor, They were both playfully(stupidly) pushing on each other, and the journeyman pushed on his apprentice into the manlift door, but the elevator was on another floor. That plastic door is meant to swing inward onto the floor the elevator pulls up to. But this time it swung outward(these plastic doors are used from job to job, and was probably all old and beat up) and the apprentice fell out onto open air. The journeyman went to grab him and he, too, fell off the floor into space.
The apprentice slammed against steel bracing four floors down, that holds the erected elevator assembly and shot back into the floor that was four floors down. He pretty much bounced off of steel, and later on died from internal injuries.
The journeyman? He went down, all 22 floors, right onto the streets of downtown Sacramento, and was DRT, and flat as flat could be.
That accident was the “talk of the town” for a looonnnggg time. Very unfortunate, but it goes to show, life is just a second away from being lost at all times, and yes, fffnn around on a job site, there is no place for. All it takes is one bad move, from not following procedures, not being on guard, taking shortcuts, and just being plain stupid. Bringing this all towards our little hobby of pcp guns and high pressure air, all it takes is one bad move. Just to give you an idea of the catastrophe that energy from pressurized air can do, a pipe fitter from one of our local shops was unbolting an end cap, a cap that they cap on pipe anytime the job calls for all piping to be checked for leaks by pressurizing with air. The story I heard was 60 or 70 psi, and this steel pipe was like 6” round schedule 80. The worker was told all air had been bled out. Well, it wasn’t, and that cap shot off and hit him in the face. That plate is like 1/4” thick steel. DRT, instantly.
Can you imagine what 4500 psi will do?