Warning Lathe safety

[baboon]

If you have a weak stomach or are currently eating you might want to hold off watching this.

 

[Orbie]

WTF

 

[TipBledsoe]

Well we don't have to worry about him doing that again

 

[Texasjack]

The sad part is that I've been around so many companies with stupid management that when I see a video like this I think "Oh, crap! We're gonna have hours of meetings to discuss this and at least 20 new procedures and checklists that don't have anything to do with the actual accident."

 

[candcallen]

I learned in high school about table saw safety when a girl got a kick back in the gut fell forward and put her hand on the blade.

Folks right there just learned.

 

[Moonpie]

Ooops.

 

[gll]

Same for tractor PTOs...

 

[candcallen]

If you have a weak stomach or are currently eating you might want to hold off watching this.

Or if you like smoothies or strawberry milkshakes or didnt like the woodchipper scene from fargo.

At least he only felt it a couple seconds.

 

[Hoji]

Looks like it grabbed a glove. It is why even osha says don’t wear gloves on rotating equipment

 

[candcallen]

If I was teaching I would show that video right after Hi my name is chris and I'm your instructor and right before pull your head out and decide if this is the career for you.


They would have showed that in wood or machine shop in high school back in the day. Now everyone would get triggerd and fire t hff e teacher even though they saved a life.

 

[Lonesome Dove]

Well hell when I saw the blood splatter I stopped. I'm thinking he went pretty quick. No pun.

 

[Sasquatch]

Yeah I've seen that one before. One moment of stupidity or inattention and BAM, you're done.

My grand dad growing up had a hobby business - custom furniture and wooden trinkets - everything from tiny little music boxes, to built-in book cases, china hutches, tables, etc.

My aunt would occasionally come help (tom boy type) and one day she was working alone in the shop and didn't have her hair pulled back and tucked into her shirt, using the lathe to turn a table leg. I heard her scream from inside the house - mind you the shop was its own brick building. I ran out (I was like, 11 or 12 at the time) and she came out screaming she was dying - turns out her hair fell forward, the high speed wood grabbed it and yanked a 2" diameter hank of hair right out of her scalp and left her quite the bald spot. She got lucky.

 

[candcallen]

Well hell when I saw the blood splatter I stopped. I'm thinking he went pretty quick. No pun.

Hell of a ride for half a second.

 

[vmax]

Looks like it grabbed a glove. It is why even osha says don’t wear gloves on rotating equipment

Speaking of OHSA ..I bet he wasn't vaccinated

 

[benenglish]

Where I was born, there was a paper mill. It seems like a couple of times a year, someone died.

My aunt worked there and described the mechanism to me years later. There was a walkway next to a sort of giant roller/shredder machine. All day long, material would be chewed up and moved along in that mechanism to turn it into pulp. Sometimes wads of cellulose would form and wouldn't feed along. Those clogs could grow and eventually stop or wreck the machine so the workers minding the machine were pressured to get small clogs resolved as quickly as possible. The right way to do that was to use a tool that was basically just a wooden broom handle. If the tool got snagged by the machinery, the worker could simply release it; it would get chewed up and recycled. However, they were under serious pressure to work quickly even though using the tool was clumsy and slow. Often, the clog in the line was right in front of them, a couple of feet away. As is human nature, folks got complacent. They'd reach out, grab the clog, pull it out, and then drop it back in for further processing.

They routinely got away with that. Most people could do it 100 times or even for years. Eventually, though, the sawtooth-like rollers would snag a finger, pulling in a hand, an arm, and everything else. The body would be chopped into a lumpy liquid in seconds.

It was such a common accident that they didn't even stop production to investigate. The end result was merely a quantity of pulp that would have to be washed more thoroughly than normal.

Things were different 60-70 years ago.

 

[candcallen]

It's like in any job weather working a machine or a prison or police officer tow truck driver, you follow the rules policy and procedures every minute of every day every incident and every job. You may get away with screwing off of flaunting safety rules or not doing a check and just logging you did it for years or decades but the one time it matters it will bite you in your ass. If your lucky you learn a lesson get in trouble or even fired if not someone loses a body part or gets killed.

Safety is usually boring. Not being safe is an E ticket ride to the front of the line to judgement.

 

[bbbass]

Where I was born, there was a paper mill. It seems like a couple of times a year, someone died.

My aunt worked there and described the mechanism to me years later. There was a walkway next to a sort of giant roller/shredder machine. All day long, material would be chewed up and moved along in that mechanism to turn it into pulp. Sometimes wads of cellulose would form and wouldn't feed along. Those clogs could grow and eventually stop or wreck the machine so the workers minding the machine were pressured to get small clogs resolved as quickly as possible. The right way to do that was to use a tool that was basically just a wooden broom handle. If the tool got snagged by the machinery, the worker could simply release it; it would get chewed up and recycled. However, they were under serious pressure to work quickly even though using the tool was clumsy and slow. Often, the clog in the line was right in front of them, a couple of feet away. As is human nature, folks got complacent. They'd reach out, grab the clog, pull it out, and then drop it back in for further processing.

They routinely got away with that. Most people could do it 100 times or even for years. Eventually, though, the sawtooth-like rollers would snag a finger, pulling in a hand, an arm, and everything else. The body would be chopped into a lumpy liquid in seconds.

It was such a common accident that they didn't even stop production to investigate. The end result was merely a quantity of pulp that would have to be washed more thoroughly than normal.

Things were different 60-70 years ago.

Just a normal day at one of the lumber mills that are almost non-existent any more.

Here's the sign:

"__0___ days since a fatal accident"



Hey, who remembers the guy they found in the Brew 102 beer vat... what a way to go!!

 

[Younggun]

Looks like it grabbed a glove. It is why even osha says don’t wear gloves on rotating equipment

When I picked up a small lathe I talked to a guy that runs a machine shop for tips. “No gloves” was the first thing he said. He repeated it 5 or 6 times during our conversation.


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[orbitup]

The Air Force helped me remember to remove my wedding ring while working by having a poster with a picture like this that I saw every day during training. I kept my ring on my keychain for years.

 

[Renegade]

That is a lot of pink mist.

I saw another lathe accident, no video but hi-res shots of what was left.

Right up there with Nikki Catsouras in the gruesome dept.