{"id":141,"date":"2008-04-16T04:00:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=141"},"modified":"2008-04-16T04:00:32","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T10:00:32","slug":"pressure-washer-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"Pressure Washer Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned yesterday that I stuck my hand into the stream from the pressure washer. Yea, I was dumb.<\/p>\n<p>I had dirt on my hands from gardening and noticed that it was coming off on the mini-blinds as we were cleaning them. I thought that if I stuck my hand in the mist area at the edge I&#8217;d be alright. . . thats not how it worked out. It was all pretty instinctual, I wasn&#8217;t really thinking.<\/p>\n<p>It only took about 2 seconds. When it first hit my hand it stung a little. Then it didn&#8217;t hurt at all. Ten minutes in it was burning. Now it only really hurts when I wash my hands.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, take a look.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the pressure washer does to the cement:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04.16_pressure1.png\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04.16_pressure2.png\" \/><br \/>\nThis is what it does to flesh:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04.16_pressure3.png\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04.16_pressure4.png\" \/><br \/>\nThere are all kinds of warnings about not aiming it at people or animals. I wonder why. If that happened to the skin on my hand in just a couple of seconds imagine the damage it could do if used maliciously. That thing is a regular weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful. Don&#8217;t be dumb like me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned yesterday that I stuck my hand into the stream from the pressure washer. Yea, I was dumb. I had dirt on my hands from gardening and noticed that it was coming off on the mini-blinds as we were cleaning them. I thought that if I stuck my hand in the mist area at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-dave","category-tina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}