Back in the 1980's, while I was serving on a US nuclear submarine, I learned that on of the enlisted men had received severe burns while repairing one of the very large dishwashers on board. His job was to fix the machine which was not spraying the INCREDIBLY HOT water onto the dishes for some reason. After examining it and not being able to find the problem, he got the brilliant idea to go inside the washer while it was turned on. He soon found that one of the valves had been closed in a recent, unrelated repair, and, forgetting that the machine was turned on, opened the valve. I don't think it is necessary to explain what happened next. He did survive but with sever burns to his entire body, blindness, the amputation of some toes (I don't remember how many), and in honor of Darwin, his testicles which had received a full blast frm one of the sprayers.

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James said:
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As a former naval officer myself, I am quite familiar with PMS procedures, and the dishwasher should have been tagged out if another repair was in progress (This happened on my ship when someone failed to tag out a PPI and a sailor did the 60-cycle shuffle...he survived pretty much intact). All that notwithstanding, WHY did he enter the dishwasher while it was on? Sort of deciding to raise your head during a live firing exercise just to see if the bullets are real! If he lost his yarbles, that's worthy of consideration! Thanks!

Candi said:
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