Skin Cancer

[Boomer gone soft]

I hate the "C" word.:mad:

I am glad you are getting it taken care of, and that it hasn't matastasized. Further good luck to you....and Lood.

I had a little cancer scare with my eye recently I talked about in the safety forum....

[loodvig]

I worked outside most of my life. Been lucky in that area. Keep on top of it! I think posting this stuff might make somebody get them selves checked out.

[BigClive]

On my visit to Australia I noticed they give their workwear a sun protection factor rating. I thought all fabric would block the sun, but some materials do pass UV. Fortunately they tend to be the synthetic materials that are avoided in electrical work.

Here in Scotland we don't get sunburn. We get frostbite instead. :rolleyes:

[wtdoor67]

Used to wear them some still they got so sticky about it. Funny, at PSO the first FR stuff they issued was short sleeves. Later they woke up and issued long sleeves and banned short sleeves. Brilliant.

I remember once I was temporary foreman as the regular one was on vac. We had to borrow a guy from Casper to make up a 3 man crew. He was kindofa goofball. He showed up in blue jean cutoffs that he intended to change from once we were on the job. We came to the job and he got out his tools. We were miles from anywhere and he said. You mind if I climb in these shorts? I said. I don't give a damn. He climbed to the top of the pole, safetied off and looked down and said. Damn, I wish I had a picture of this. Course no one had a camera. Funny guy. Good thing Old Lineman wasn't around, he'd still be running and stuttering probably. CPR probably.

[thrasher]

Our company still gives the linemen the choice of short or long sleeves. The logic is that if your close enough for an arc burn then you are close enough to be in gloves and sleeves. BTW outside the substation fence our fault current is only about 4.5KA and all of our major circuits have highspeed vacuumn reclosers. The combination means that for distribution line work we only need an ATPV of 5. For some of you other guys, especially in city networks your probably dealing with 3 to 5 times the fault current. There are advantedges to working at a rural Cooperative.

[wtdoor67]

Wuz you there the day, we burned down the REA?

Iffin you wuz as quick as old Swampgas you wouldn't need all that bullet proofing sissy stuff.

Old boy I worked with once said they were stringing over an REC line. He had climbed the REC pole and was sliding on some guts. Said an REC hand came driving up and said. Who authorized you to climb that pole? He replied. Well if you don't want your sh-t burned down I can take em off.

[Boomer gone soft]

Our company still gives the linemen the choice of short or long sleeves. The logic is that if your close enough for an arc burn then you are close enough to be in gloves and sleeves. BTW outside the substation fence our fault current is only about 4.5KA and all of our major circuits have highspeed vacuumn reclosers. The combination means that for distribution line work we only need an ATPV of 5. For some of you other guys, especially in city networks your probably dealing with 3 to 5 times the fault current. There are advantedges to working at a rural Cooperative.

What about secondary arc flashes? There are no sleeves in use then.

[MI-Lineman]

Just so you know, that can be genetic and already at my mere 37 years I've had some cut off but of course we young-ens have it easy!:rolleyes:

[duckhunter]

I had skin cancer 14 years ago, I'm sure my light-skinned Scotch-Irish lineage had nothing to do with it, ha! I got 3 bad sunburns as a kid on the cherry farm. Plus I've had some frostbite on my cheeks. Any skin trauma can lead to skin cancer. Smoking is also a cause. I wear sunscreen religiously ever since. I usually wear a cowboy hat if I'll be in the yard or fishing for a long period of time. I don't wear the cowboy hat running, too much wind resisitance. lol

[LostArt]

My father had some frozen and cut off the side of his face when he was in his 50's. 'Course he died of heart disease at age 53.

Glad you guys are on top of this. I have a good friend and co-worker that is going to have surgery on Monday. She has breast cancer.

[Squizzy]

Skin cancer is bad over here and I keep hearing that Australia is the Skin Cancer Capital of the world , weather or not that is true I am not sure but I know guys in their 20's that have had them burnt/cut off. Not to mention the number of people that sadly die from skin cancer here. Most clothing here has a SPF rating ( Sun Protection Factor from memory) shirts are generally 50+ and sunscreen is generally 30+ if its not 30+ we don't use it. All our shcools here have a "No hat no play" policy for kids in the playground to keep them from getting fried as a couple of "good" sun burns as a kid can lead to skin cancer early on in life...

[loodvig]

Got a friend, light skined, freckles, red hair. He's had pieces of his nose and ears cut off. He says he keeps gettin better lookin each time they cut!
All kidding a side, get yer self checked out!