It Just Happens TOO Fast!

[rake60]

I got a phone call from an guy I worked with years ago at another shop.
A mutual friend lost his index finger and thumb off his right hand this morning.
Seems he was polishing a fit on a shaft with his left hand and his right hand got
too close to the steady rest.

We all get cut.
I clipped 1/4" off the end of a finger one night. I knew it had been hit, but it
didn't really hurt. Then I noticed something sticking to the ways of the machine.
By the time I figured out what it was i was getting a little dizzy.

On another event a light stringer whipped out and wrapped around a finger.
I am a curious type of person that likes to know just how things work, but
seeing a totally exposed knuckle joint isn't really something I care to ever see
again.

There is never time to react.
Safety has to be PREPLANNED!

Rick

 

[Bogstandard]

Very good life examples Rick, it just proves it is very difficult to preplan accidents, and it can happen to anyone, anytime.

I have always said to myself, that if anything nasty ever starts to happen on my machinery, where I can't get to the stop button, I will just do a runner, and pick up the pieces later. Luckily it has never happened to me, except for being chased around by a chuck that came off. The chuck, and the job that was in it was trashed.

To me, the price of a new lathe, miller or tooling is nothing, compared to having a part of it embedded in your body.

John