PSA: Stop Trying To Catapult a Hard Hat onto Your Head

For some reason, there are plenty of people out there willing to try their hand at the “hard hat challenge,” in which worker’s attempt to launch a hard hat onto their head by stomping on a shovel, a 2x4, or any other launching mechanism.  It all seems like fun and games until the wrong side of that hard hat ends up hitting you on top of the head, which seems to happen EVERY TIME.

I’ve come across tons of hard hat challenge videos and they all end up exactly the same way.  The worker thinks it’s a good idea, launches the hard hat in the air, he places himself under the helmet as it falls, he thinks it’s going to work, and then BAM! He’s got a knot on his head.  Of all the things that people would want to launch at themselves, you’d never think it would be the ultimate symbol of construction safety. But, as long as there are people on this Earth, stupid things will continue to happen. Hopefully they learned their lessons.

Here are exhibits A-E: