This is Tiffany the girl that just moved into your apartment
And this is Diana she's a construction worker
And if you're wondering what they are doing here
In this episode I'm going to try to warp your perception
On hardhats what they do why they are so important
and why you should always wear one when you need one
I'm going to be running these girls through a few different scenarios
that you would encounter on let's say an unsafe construction site to say the least
and here's a hard hats I'm going to be using
this is a $3 hard hat
a $6 hard hat
and a $12 hard hat
and just out of curiosity they seem to be just slightly different like the material
I'm going to take just a regular old hammer and just give each one a whack
so we can see if there's any difference in the flex of the material
As we can see all of the hard hats are about the same
So the hard hats I'm going to use for these tests are
The $3 hard hat, the $12 hard hat
And one more hard hat that is my absolute favorite
The see-through transparent hard hat
This is cool if you haven't seen this before it's fully transparent
you can see right into the hard hat and see the whole suspension system at work
And yeah these are the hard hats I'm going to use
Now here's the situation
Tiffany has wandered into construction site looking for directions
and this is a dangerous situation because
there are bricklayers working over head
That are very irresponsible
And they are about to drop a whole bunch of bricks
Down below from about 20 or 30 feet up
And since construction workers are such nice guys
As soon as Tiffany got into that construction site
They gave her this hard hat right here
And this is going to be interesting
Because as you can see she's kind of striking a pose
Like a strut
I guess this makes sense because if you're walking through a construction site
And something drops from overhead
you're not really standing like this waiting for it
You're probably walking and talking and just doing your thing
Just like she is looking good let's do this drop and see what happens
Going to be interesting
Did you see that she took that like a boss
She's even right here striking her pose like what
Four bricks that was nothing
I'm just going to do one more drop with her with the bricks
but this time I'm going to use the see-through hard hat
So that we can see how the suspension system of the hard hat is working
And yeah should be fun
All right we're all set here goes the three bricks
Right on Tiffany's head with the see-through hard hat
It broke her neck oh no that's terrible
That was a pretty hard hit
And that just goes to show you
Just because you're wearing a hard hat doesn't mean you're not going to get injured
I'm assuming she would still be alive
But that's definitely a trip to the hospital
I'm calling this a broken neck
And I'm pretty sure this is because of the shape
Because she's striking a pose she kind of has her neck forward
But like I said this is a realistic situation
Because if you get hit in the head with bricks
you're probably not going to be in the ideal position to get hit
You going to be walking along doing your thing
On to the next experiment
Tiffany's in the ambulance she's on her way to the hospital
So now we're on to Diana
She's an legitimate construction worker
But she got the job because she knew somebody
So she really doesn't follow rules well
And she doesn't have that much experience
But she does have a hard hat
and she strolled into an area of the construction site
Which is basically the no-go zone
There's a building that's falling apart
And there's some big old two-by-fours
That are actually two by fours timbers
That are going to fall on her and I hope she's going to be okay
But in the name of science God bless you let's get it done
All right I got all the boards up there on the lift
And I think I had a change of heart
originally I wanted to keep the yellow hard hat on her
But I'm just going to go straight into the see-through hard hat
Because as we saw with the other mannequin Tiffany
Her neck broke so who knows what's going to happen in the first drop.
I put that durag in there for her maybe she's hot she's sweaty.
But it's also keeping her hard hat a little tighter
And these are genuine legit 2in by 4in by 10 or 12 ft long so it's quite a bit of weight
Again this doesn't mean she's going to walk away unharmed
It's kind of like in a motorcycle accident your body is damaged
But your brain is still intact something like that
But let's see what happens this time
And yeah this is going to be the timbers good luck
All right here goes one timber
Watch out Diana oh no
Diana got hit "is Diana hurt?"
I don't know we're going to find out right now
"She did!"
Okay so that was pretty cool
it didn't drop directly on her head
but I realized another function of the hard hat here
And that is a kind of deflected the board
And pushed it back away from her
Very interesting I never thought about
That aspect of Hard hat safety
So I'm going to try to drop it one more time directly on her head
But this is definitely a good example of another safety feature of a hard hat
All right let's get this reset get Diana back on the job
No workers comp for you Maddie can I have the arm please
Okay there we go arms on she's ready to go
Let's get a hard hat can you throw me her hard hat please
Throw it yeah let's do it
Oh no watch out Diana
Well that was interesting for sure did you see that
I wood broke over her head
All right that worked out pretty well
That was an almost perfect drop dead center right on the hard hat
To the point that it broke the wood right in half
I mean this is a legit 2 by 4 some pretty strong wood
And that was a great example as to what the hard hat does
That was a perfect example actually
Because you can even see how the hard hat converted
The high-frequency high impact Force into a lower frequency shock
Her neck absorbed some of the impact
We can see exactly how the hard hat protected her
And this is a great example
I just have one more test I want to do
Why take the pneumatic hammer
And show how the suspension system of the Hard hat works
Let's do it
I'm not sure if this is a occupational hazard or not but here you go
In the high-speed footage with that hammer
You can clearly see how the hard hat is absorbing that shock
Especially how the suspension system works that was kind of interesting
so that's about it for my set of experiments here
With Diana and Tiffany
She's back there recovering
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Children are pretty uninhibited
And transparent about what they have to say
And the four-year-old helper today has said
That mannequins don't feel pain so this isn't a fair test
So she wants to hit me in the head with a stick
Like this or something bigger
Hit me hit me hit me
oh that actually made my ears ring a little bit
Yeah I really didn't hurt but you want to hit me with a bigger stick
Yeah
Here goes our 4 year old is this than hitting me in the head with A stick
Okay a big stick
Step over here you have to hit me a little bit harder right there
Okay hit me harder you got it
Go...ok
That wasn't too bad
She was still hitting me as I was getting up but
the hard hat definitely works I really didn't feel much of anything
I know she didn't hit me that hard but that was kind of fun