And that is why I wear gloves at work 99% of the time. I've had quite a few close calls with safety wire and cotter pins; both will rip you open in a heartbeat.If anyone can find a working link to a 2002 Approach article called "Stuck on a Shock Absorber" you'll see a closeup of me flipping off the camera and the reason why I wear gloves preflight to postflight. Basically, I got fishooked right through my middle fingertip by a piece of braided safety wire while preflighting a Phrog. Didn't really hurt until the corpsman yanked it out with a pair of needle nose pliers.