[Hugh R]

We typically don't wear hard hats (in fact, shorts, T-Shirts are normal). Some power plants require hardhats, steel toed boots, etc. This one is mothballed, so no such requirements. This was a typical one, too many people, from too many departments doing too many things. I'd just gotten there and was sort of assessing what was going on. In five more minutes, I'd like to think that I would have had cleared the area below.

13 years ago on one of my first Tech Scouts with the TV show "Alias" I was in Chinatown in downtown LA we were at lunch at a local Chinese restaurant, and the restaurant owner's little kid dropped a wooden bowl from the mezzanine above and it hit me on the head and required a few stitches.

My job is generally safe, but I'm around people loading pyro all week long. I have a set of "Nomex" type shirt and pants, and I only wear 100% cotton socks and underwear when we are doing that stuff. For some explosions, we load gasoline into plastic bags (shudder).