But, unlike a sand blaster, the pain-filled shock of those spear-tipped spicules was only momentary; each wasp-like sting carried with it its own ice-cold anesthetic, and all surface sensation was quickly lost.

These jobs can include coal miners, sand blasters, and ship workers.

The county also uses high-pressure water sprays and sand blasters to remove graffiti and sometimes has to erect scaffolding to reach sections of bridges where the writers work.

The pulleys would have to be muffled with packed grease to insure silence, and no painter, sand blaster, or steam sprayer would risk a slip just for quiet.

Workmen used a sand blaster from a hydraulic platform.

A sodablaster differs from a sand blaster in that the sodablaster is a direct pressure system, not gravity-fed.

The robot will roam nuclear-weapons facilities, scouring concrete surfaces with a gadget like a sand blaster which shoots out a pressurised stream of dry-ice pellets.

These include laser ablation systems and air abrasion devices (essentially miniature sand blasters) or dental treatments with ozone.

It tore at their hair and bodies, the spray felt as abrasive to their skin as if it came from a sand blaster.

Coal miners, ship workers and sand blasters among others are at higher risk.