From: utzoo!decvax!duke!bcw
Newsgroups: net.general
Title: Re: Computational injuries
Article-I.D.: duke.2609
Posted: Sat Oct  9 21:11:59 1982
Received: Thu Oct 14 23:39:41 1982
References: burdvax.218

From:	Bruce C. Wright @ Duke University
Re:	Computer injuries

About 5 or 6 years ago, I got cut fairly deeply from a terminal I was
carrying - the terminal casing was a heavy wire mesh without protecting
the cut edges and it slipped in my hands.  It wasn't too serious but it
could certainly have been prevented by a better-designed terminal.

Our Field Service engineer for some of the PDP-11's around here got
cut deeply enough to require stitches while working on the equipment -
I think the scenario was not unlike the one described by Herb Jellinek.

I'm sure that there are quite a few injuries on computer equipment, but
the worst injury in the lab I work in was caused by a common, ordinary
desk.  Some people were trying to move the desk and the top came unstuck
from the rest of the desk, and in the ensuing melee one person nearly
had a finger cut off.  Probably our experience is not unusual - computers
may have hazardous areas but they are probably not exceptionally dangerous
compared to any of a number of other common objects.

			Bruce C. Wright @ Duke University