Construction worker's protection

Usage examples of hardhat.

I chanted it aloud as I filled both stoves with wood, pulled on a second shirt and pair of pants, added a sweater, zipped up the Snowmobile boots, put on the scarf and jacket and gloves and cap and stomped into the back hall like a space-suited astronaut entering the airlock, or a hardhat diver going into the decompression chamber.

Suddenly feeling much stranger I stopped an old hardhat in his rompers of municipal blue.

I jes' jumped ovuh an' grabbed me thet ol' spear whut thet bastard had jest done pullted outen ol' Harry, an' I jerkted it an' he hung awnta it and I pulled him raht awfen his boss an' his hardhat come awf when he hit the groun' an' he let go thet ol' spear too.

They began by donning hardhats and safety boots, and riding down the mining elevator at Inco’s Creighton Mine.

The hardhats had built-in lamps, and hearing-protection cups that could be swung over the ears if needed.

On the way in, Mary, Louise, and Reuben had grabbed hardhats and mining coats from the racks in the changing area.

Instead of divers' hoods, they strapped construction workers' hardhats to their heads with dual-sealed miners' lamps on the front.

There was a row of hooks running below the sign, but there were no hardhats hung from them.

The hardhats were scattered on the floor, below the dangling feet of the people who had been hung from the hooks, hung like roasts in a butcher’s walk-in freezer.

For an answer to that, we can look to Hubert Humphrey -- from one of the nine speeches he made during his four-and-a-half hour campaign for Democratic candidate George McGovern in the waning weeks of last November's presidential showdown -- Humphrey was talking to a crowd of hardhats in S.

Everyone mills around before the cavern's maw, carrying their hardhats in their hands, as no one wants to be the first to put his on and look stupid.

People passed like extras in a Hollywood movie - a workman with a long plank of wood, two women in smart business suits, a guy with a hardhat and a clipboard, a deliveryman cradling a large pot plant.