Back in the 1980s the Construction Safety Board of Ontario ran a series of ads showing construction workers getting injured and probably killed in various nasty ways. It was the father of last year’s ad where the cook drops a pot of boiling something or other on her face. Oh the screaming!
These commercials scared the shit out of me as a child. This is the worst one available online:
The one that really scarred me for life featured a guy hammering away on a chisel or something and a piece of metal flies off the chisel and travels towards his eye — in slow motion from the worker’s personal POV — and blinds him all to an other-worldly synth stinger. Goggles people, goggles!
Anyone else remember that? I’d love to see that again to relive the nightmares.
Update: OMGZ I found them all! Check out Eye Protection on this page.
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We Ontarians do have a weird sense of propriety, don’t we? Still, I wouldn’t want to hang out with the guy who dreamed up the details of these PSAs.
This was the one that scared the crap out of me as a kid. Forget the arm stuff - the robot itself was freaky.
I had forgotten all about that spiraling slow-mo metal shard! Having had a tiny shard of metal in my eye for real, I can recommend against it firsthand. Yay five needles in the eyeball!
Oh, ” © Astar “, you wacky robot.