Been out of my shop for about three weeks now healing. Talk about strange injuries, while shopping at Lowe’s looking at some pool supplies in a rack, a Lowe’s employees operating a fork lift carrying a pallet of fence wire, came around the corner too fast and lost the pallet which skidded across the floor knocking me against the rack.
Long story short, after five hours in the emergency room, lacerations, multiple bruises but only one broken bone, the thumb, You don’t realize how much you use your thumb until you can’t. Must be the reverse of that old story about being all thumbs. In retrospect I was lucky that the pallet stopped about 12 inches short of the rack or I think it would have done serious injuries to these 68 year old legs. I think I will confine my shopping to Home Depot where they appear to practice more safety –they block off the aisles when loading and unloading.
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In any event, I was lucky to have finished off a crib for my two new grandchildren born just before the accident. A picture of the finished product is attached. For those interested in some details, it was from a Rockler plan and is convertible to a youth bed and a full-size bed. It is made of maple finished in satin polyurethane.
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