[johnco]

one morning we were working on one of our spud barges changing cable that lifts the 2'x2' x 40' spud. my father lifted the spud up with the crane and I was to stick a 3" x 3' solid steel pin thru the hole to hold the spud up while we changed cables. I got about 2" or so of pin thru the hole when my father dropped the spud.this levered the pin up and slammed the 1/2" plate handle up in to my jaw which lifted me a couple feet off the ground and I landed slap out cold on the deck. woke up in a few seconds and finished the job but later noticed I started getting tunnel vision. field of vision shrank smaller and smaller until I could only see one letter on an entire magazine page.vision came back little by little until everything was good again. must have also cracked one of my teeth as it broke off later that night