welding cloths, when it is hot out Options

[obscurity]

I was just curious what people are welding in during the summer months. I am in Atlanta so it has been 95deg +/- in my garage which makes wearing long sleeves and long pants unbearable. Is everyone else just toughing it out or do you all have air conditioned garages? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[rick 918-S]

Some of you may know I'm an insurance adjuster. I have had a colorful work history but when I was 18 I went to welding school. I worked in fab shops and the ship yard. I can't stress how important welding safety is.

If you read this thread you will see my first story about my friends brother who lost a battle with skin cancer. It was a horrible fight involving several amputations before he ended up in a hospital and then the morgue.

Here's my latest experience. Fast forward to my current profession. I received an assignment to contact a young man that was injured in a school welding shop. Before I made the first contact call I wanted to speak with the assigning inside rep at the insurance company. I wanted to see if they had a incident report from the school. This is useful, it lets you know what the injured person said about how they were burned. Having had welding burns from sparks before and thinking this was no big deal I called the rep. The rep gets on the phone and say's, hey why don't you hold off on the call. He just heard the boy expired in the burn unit at a local hospital. It seems the boy had a flammable sweatshirt on and it caught fire. If you've ever seen a sweatshirt burn you know it turns into aa molten ball of plastic goo. From the little information I had it appears he paniced and ran out the door of the shop. No one could catch him to put him out.

Dead.