re: When in life have you 'dodged a bullet'?

Working on a pipeline barge. Cables from the pulling unit ran along the deck of the barge, through these big rollers. One day, one of the rollers broke loose. Three of us were standing there, and the whole roller/cable tangle took out the middle guy and drug his arse down the deck. We thought he was seriously fricked up, but all he had was a couple of broken fingers and a shitload of bruises.