Should Zip Ties (Cable Ties) Have a Warning Label?

[Zyik]

I'm all for the "don't be stupid" label. Should work out well.

As was said on the picture thread about this, 973 has experience with Zip-ties and emergency room visits.
- A student decided to tie a zip tie around his hand. It was tight enough to be hard to get off, but not tight enough to cut of circulation. However, to get it off the student got out his pocket knife... and cut down on the zip tie. Yes, this means he sliced his hand right open. I do believe stitches were involved after the mad rush to the emergency room.

[Molten]

Look at it this way. We have to put it on coffee, ladders, food, and countless other things. Why not put them on zip ties? Just a little print saves the company from law suits. That way the idiots of the world don't do something stupid and then turn a profit off of their own ignorance.

[Jay H 237]

Originally Posted by Zyik

- A student decided to tie a zip tie around his hand. It was tight enough to be hard to get off, but not tight enough to cut of circulation. However, to get it off the student got out his pocket knife... and cut down on the zip tie. Yes, this means he sliced his hand right open. I do believe stitches were involved after the mad rush to the emergency room.

You can slice yourself right open with zip ties too. Sometimes when you cut them and you leave a little tab or tail of the tie sticking out of the lock it can be a razor.

We use zip ties everyday in work with our robots and the IGUS energy chains. I've gotten sliced pretty good on several occasions. Some people have needed stitches, I've been lucky and only needed butterflys so far.

I use a small 4" pair of snips when cutting them as they can get real close. This way if I brush up against one or have to reach down inside one on our injection molding robots at work my hand and arm won't look like they were attacked by cats!