Lathe rips shirt off operator - GIF

**Altair** · Nov 13, 2021, 12:54 PM

Lathe rips shirt off operator. No gore.

Previously:

Lathe safety/stupidity accident video
Lathe whipping accident - video and image
Brutal machine shop safety signs - photos

**WmRMeyers** · Nov 13, 2021, 01:27 PM

In the class I'm taking, one of the first videos they show has a guy working on a lathe a bit bigger than the one in this video, and the guy (not his shirt, his whole upper body) gets dragged into the lathe and wrapped around the workpiece. Killed him rather messily. Makes a bit of an impression on most of the students.

Bill

**mklotz** · Nov 13, 2021, 01:50 PM

A dramatic demonstration of why you should never mount a switch or a shelf for lathe accessories on the opposite side of the lathe. Yes, you're safe if the lathe isn't running but it takes only a momentary loss of concentration to reach for that cutting oil dispenser or tool post wrench when it is and then you're wound up in your work.

**TrickieDickie** · Nov 13, 2021, 05:32 PM

No loose clothing or gloves should be used around a spinning machinery

**Skun Knuckles** · Nov 13, 2021, 05:57 PM

His right foot is under the brake, which shuts the machine down instantly.

**gargoyle** · Nov 13, 2021, 07:26 PM

Does anybody else notice that he is wearing

FLIP FLOPS!!!!!!!?

**Frank S** · Nov 13, 2021, 08:46 PM

Originally Posted by gargoyle

Does anybody else notice that he is wearing

FLIP FLOPS!!!!!!!?

Yes and he is being a good little drone wearing his covid mask

**mdhatter3** · Nov 13, 2021, 09:16 PM

Anybody else notice the parts on the floor by the lathe? Easy to trip over. He steps on them. Luckily he didn’t fall.

**NortonDommi** · Nov 13, 2021, 09:20 PM

Originally Posted by TrickieDickie

No loose clothing or gloves should be used around a spinning machinery

About 30 years ago a bloke I used to work with who basically lived in overalls and safety toe gumboots,(was banned from drag-racing because he refused to NOT wear his gumboots), was working early one morning modifying some blower parts and got his sleeve caught. He said the lathe was only turning slowly but he got dragged in and wrapped around the chuck. He did manage to hit the stop button on the way and his wife found him about 04:00hrs.
Many, many years of rehabilitation and still physically not good. Very experienced machinist who had grown up in a workshop.

How many machinists wear overalls?

**Fluffle-Valve** · Nov 14, 2021, 12:53 AM

He was lucky in that he was wearing a shite T-Shirt. Anything with stronger material would of draged him straight in with more damage to the torso.

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