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Originally Posted by unionylibertad
anybody have any stories of people getting hurt while machining?
any flying chuck keys blinding people, fingers sucked into mills and grinders, etc etc?
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Circa 1978 shop class. I was using a table router. I was using the fence the wrong way reaching over the fence holding the piece against the fence. In the last 1/4 of the groove was making was a knot. It grabbed the knot, spun the piece of wood around, taking my thumb into bit. The board shot off of the table hitting a kid in the temple, immediately knocking him out. I ran, turned off the emergency power. Checking on the dude, someone said hey r3P0 your hand is bleeding. 3 inside stitches 9 more to close it up. The dude that got hit received a free concussion from the event and a goose egg the size of golfball!
But wait there is another story from same highschool ( who has an team so I will not mention where I went to HS). We had an upper level gas welding shop. A kid was playing on the lift that takes the tanks up to that level while it was going up. No Chain connected, he slips and to catch himself he pulls a full O2 bottle off the lift from the second story with no protective cover over vavle. When it hit the concrete the "rocket" was born, the tank moved a workbench about 3 feet, ricochets off that through the garage door and screamed across the field hitting the elementary school about 100 yards way. Need less to say, I think OSHA came into the HS and we all got to watch the safety videos again. ( Old timers know the videos I'm talking about)
Always intense!
r3P0