Thread: Garage Accident

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Sean just the thought of it makes me hurt. Take it easy and get well.

Get well soon, lucky you were, a friends brother had a grinder catch up in a loose shirt and cut through tendons in his wrist.

I worked in a small machine shop for a few years. Safety was never specified on any machine, they just wanter product as quick and cheap as possible. They would hire people with no experience to do the cutting and drilling. One lady was on a stomp shear (without the protector installed) They made thin cuts, too thin for the stop to be used, and wasted material by not being able to see over the guard. She was 20 feet away from me when she cut her index finger off at the 1st digit.

Another new guy was drilling a 4 inch channel section, 4 feet long, with a 2 1/2 hole saw, about 1 foot in. I first saw him holding the long end with his left hand crossed under his right hand pulling the chuck down. I showed him to move the long end against the drills upright to hold it in place, because when the bit catches it is gonna tear you open when it spins around. This wa a huge industrial drill press. I look over about 10 minutes later and hes back to his way, 2 minutes later I hear him yell, then a bang clang, (part hitting drill and floor) and he is lying on the floor with a mangled shirt. My first thought was this is gonna be bad. Lucky him, it just put a 7 inch deep bleeding scratch across his stomach, and ripped his shirt almost all the way off.

Another guy was drillind small parts with an air drill, hand held. He decided it would be faster if he did it on his lap and drilled an 1/8 hole a couple inches into his leg, (some people have to learn the hard way.

Sorry one more, I could go on all day with theese. . The same guy as the drill press guy, comes up to me during lunch and asked me if he could use my , as he puts it, clipper things, ends up he wanted my side cuts. Since we had to buy our own tools and this this guy could break a rubber mallet. He would not tell me what he was cutting during lunch, I would not give them to him until he told me what he was cutting. Well Einstein pulled his hand from behind his back and held it up, He had put a 12" Tyrap, some call them tie straps around his finger, and paniced when it would not come off, so he yanked it tighter and tighter. Needless to say his finger tip was now purple, I told him he was gonna kill himself in here if he did not start thinking before he did stuff. He did not come back to work from that day on.