Horrific Construction Association PSA - Eye Shrapnel 1985

Finally! I've been looking for this nightmarish PSA for years and it finally turned up on an old tape... This is the one that scarred a generation, and to this day makes me uneasy around nails being hammered. Sure I'm not the only one!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Horrific
• Construction
• Association
• PSA
• Eye
• Shrapnel
• 1985

[TNTITAN]

I would love to know why these were just ads on during the day? I mean I could understand if this was part of a "safety training" in the constuction workplace. But these were ads that were shown at any time on ontario Tv stations? Was there an assumtion that if you lived in Ontario you were going into the construction industry at some point in your life?

[Retrontario]

@TNTITAN Because they were classed as PSAs, I imagine they were shown generously whenever there was a hole in the commercial schedule. They certainly aired during the afterschool zone in the early 80s, which is why so many of us remember them!

[TNTITAN]

The lesson of these PSAs was very clear. Don't go into the constuction industry ever.

[KevinIanBryan]

YOU DA MAN!!! I've been looking FOREVER for this PSA!  Forget Friday the 13th - THIS scared me more than anything else as a child bar NONE!

By the time this PSA was done with me, I thought it was a 50/50 chance I would be blinded on a construction site from nail shrapnel. Either that or drown in quicksand. Gotta love the early 80's. :)

[rustmidas]

Jesus, he got the short end of the stick, working on some BS project in an abandoned house...he was probably gonna get fired anyway!

[indyfan22k]

Ontario > better than all other Canuck provencial parcels !

you crazy Canucks !!

[SnowbirdFlock]

When closeups of women's eyes are shown, it's to inflate women's egos. When closeups of men's eyes are shown, it's to make men feel bad or scared

[RetroCalgary]

This is why "protection glasses" are now mandatory on construction sites.

[orchidtender]

@Retrontario They also ran in Italian during certain time-slots (usually on CFMT-47 and on CFTO on weekend mornings) because so many construction labourers in Ontario at the time were first-gen immigrants from Italy.

[RetroCaptain]

Good day

WELL,...I CAN say that this PSA was etched in my memory!

I asked my Dad (back then) why did the chisel break? (he was in I.B.E.W) "He let the head "mushroom". You must grind the head to prevent it." It does break".

I have worked with chisels often for 20 some odd yrs now.....I ALWAYS grind the heads,..& when I borrow a customers "mushroom head chisel" I grind it back....

& yes always wear safety glasses, cause the new or ground down old tools can shatter as well!!

[guycab]

This scared the living he'll out of me as a child.

[Rebelrider24601]

Wow! This is now gonna give me flashbacks. Why in the hell did they air this during the day time back then? I vividly remember these PSA's playing during commercial breaks for The Smurfs for god's sake! Over 25 years later and I still see that metal fragment flying towards me every time I use a chisel.

[TNTITAN]

@Retrontario I not familiar with Canadian Broadcast rules of the 80's, but wouldn't there be enough "don't smoke" "don't do drugs" and of course "I can put my arm back arm and you can't" ads already. How many PSA did one have to schedule in a 30/60 minute block anyway?