We must realize that there are many occupations that are very dangerous, I believe Crab fishing is one of the highest in deaths and injury's, think about lumber jacks, any countless others that have a high rate of deaths and injury's, while it is admirable to wish we can make everything totally safe, it is just not possible to because not all workers work with safety one their mind and so many things that get them into trouble or killed, welding is no exception to this, using equipment that is not safe, or getting between the work and stinger by not paying attention it going to end with bad results, while from the side lines we can not determine what actually happened, one thing is for sure, the person doing the work did not follow the right safety methods to do the work in the most safe way by one simple thing we all can agree on:
The Result!!!
one thing that starts to come up short when we start trying to imply that doing work is safe is common sense. the more I work around new workers, I find less and less common sense, why? because these new workers in these trades think their world is so protected that they do not have to worry about safety as much as back in the old days.
We see this when home owners put to many loads on outlets, and they will even tell you "its protected" but when a breaker fails to trip and the home burns, they have no idea why because they thought in todays home this can not happen.