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Damn... Glad you're OK.
The gun that always gets you is the unloaded one! Glad you came out of it OK.
Glad you're ok.
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You have my sympathy. I work around compressed natural gas for a living so the potential for great bodily injury or death is always there. We actually have an amine plant at one of the facilities I service. When it first went into service there were some coupler alignment issues on all of the pumps causing some seal failures. I hate that amine fluid. Nasty stuff.
Sounds like it could have been a lot worse. Glad you're OK.
Fortunately you re-learned some valuable lessons and walked away without being seriously hurt. Been there. I've been lucky more times than I care to remember.
Holy Crap!! Glad you're ok.
by the skin of your teeth. good to see you're still with us. I know you filled out an incident report.
Nothing will get your attention and put things into perspective like your 5 year old telling you: "Daddy, I am glad you came home from work today" after spending 10 hours in a hyperbaric chamber due to carbon monoxide poisioning.
As Josey Wales said: "Dying aint much of a living."
Glad you are ok and dont make the same mistake twice.
Had damn near the same experience, except with caustic soda. The Big Guy likes to remind us of how stupid we are. After you clean your shorts, kiss the kids, kiss the wife and buy a lottery ticket.
Close calls are awesome - allow for moments to take stock in your life.
Years ago, I was changing out the rear drive-shaft U-Joint on my '74 Bronco. I didn't chock the wheels, just put it into Park, and it was on a sloped driveway. As soon as the shaft dropped, the Bronco started rolling back. I somehow rolled out from under it as the front wheels caught the bottom of my pants-leg. I ran after it as it gained speed down the drive toward the neighbor's cars parked across the street. It stopped when it hit the fire hydrant at the end of the drive. Wife came home and found me sitting on the porch, chain smoking with a bottle of Scotch.
Glad you're OK - lesson you will never forget.
Glad your reflexes saved you! If there's one thing the Navy taught me, it was great respect for steam and high pressure fluids. I don't know if your company has a safety procedure or protocol, but the Navy's Equipment Tag Out system was written in blood. From what you described, a Navy Safety Center inspector would have had a heart attack - never rely on check valves for isolation, double isolation from high pressure fluids with a drain open between.
Glad to hear you're OK.