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Lathe rips shirt off operator. No gore.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...4907#post80809
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...2828#post97238
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...295#post161568
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
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.
No loose clothing or gloves should be used around a spinning machinery
His right foot is under the brake, which shuts the machine down instantly.
Does anybody else notice that he is wearing
FLIP FLOPS!!!!!!!?
Yes and he is being a good little drone wearing his covid maskQuote:
Originally Posted by gargoyle
Anybody else notice the parts on the floor by the lathe? Easy to trip over. He steps on them. Luckily he didn’t fall.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by TrickieDickie
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?
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.
Another surviving member of The Machinists Strip Club.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skun Knuckles
It seems a waist-high shut-off bar like they have on the entry deck of wood chippers would be much more appropriate here than that floor brake. As soon as his shirt caught, his torso was pulled toward the chuck, loading the foot that was under the brake, and he couldn't have lifted that foot to operate the brake on both accounts. You need systems in place that don't require your mind to operate perfectly.
Hear, hear! I've been trumpeting this same advice for a long time. I'm surprised that lathe manufacturers don't at least offer it as an accessory.Quote:
Originally Posted by IAMSatisfied
I would bet it has something to do with cost/profit marginsQuote:
Originally Posted by mklotz
Sure he was hollering quite soon, but it was nearly over before the dog and co-worker reacted, that's pretty fast.
All those points made are viable, in no particular order; clear floor, proper footwear, not reaching over rotating machinery, lightweight clothing, a laugh for the COVID mask (more proof administrative safety is secondary to personal safety), better primary shut-off mechanisms, minimally an E-stop.... Can even question the shop layout, who lines up lathes along a wall?
Most, if not all of those we have complete control of. Serious accidents don't get do overs.
Make sure the only shirt you loose to machinery is an unsatisfactory purchase.
Wouldn't be the first time, substitute E-stop with Pinto gas tanks......Quote:
Originally Posted by drivermark
Thanks toolmaker. You summed it up well. Stay safe and healthy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
Accepted, rather good if I do say so myself!Quote:
Originally Posted by mdhatter3
I've run machinery over 60 years, as employee and privately. A few insignificant injuries, worst maybe a counterbore sticking in a plate and it spun half a turn, after hitting me in gut. Sore but not even a bruise. The plate seemed (operative word if there ever was) heavy enough to remain in place.
Having been under so many types of safety program (another operative yet ineffective word); only that offered by Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe is sensible............... "Safety Third".
Pinto, lol I had a buddy that used to call them PinchloafsQuote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51