Lathe rips shirt off operator - GIF

[Altair]

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]

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]

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]

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

[NortonDommi]

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?

[Skun Knuckles]

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

[gargoyle]

Does anybody else notice that he is wearing

FLIP FLOPS!!!!!!!?

[Frank S]

Does anybody else notice that he is wearing

FLIP FLOPS!!!!!!!?

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

[IAMSatisfied]

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

Another surviving member of The Machinists Strip Club.

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.

[mklotz]

Another surviving member of The Machinists Strip Club.

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.