Lathe accident. WARNING!!!!

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rheester

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whenever i get close to a lathe, this is always in the back of my head (pun intended).

machines are unforgiving. PLEASE BE CAREFUL!

once again. WARNING!!!!! this is NSFW (not suitable for work) or in front of small children, those who have just eaten a large meal, those operating machinery right now, those driving, anyone who gets queazy after a papercut.

don't say i didn't warn you.

http://imgur.com/a/pnmC0
 
Yep

Yeppers, can't say that you didn't warn me. I wonder if I can get my money back for that burrito? Even the Cuesmith can cause enough damage to put your fingers out of commission for a while. As gruesome as it is, people should be reminded of this periodically.
 
I will take a guess of why this happened if it is real.

Probably happened in the winter time when the outside temperature was cold and there was no heat inside the shop.

Since it was so cold inside the shop, the operator needed to wear two shirts and a sweater to feel comfortable to work.

Of course the sweater got caught and pulled him in.
 
poolguy4u said:
I will take a guess of why this happened if it is real.

Probably happened in the winter time when the outside temperature was cold and there was no heat inside the shop.

Since it was so cold inside the shop, the operator needed to wear two shirts and a sweater to feel comfortable to work.

Of course the sweater got caught and pulled him in.
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Good guess.

I saw several accidents when I was a machinist.

Guy with long hair didn't have it tied up because 'he was only running a drill press'. Got caught on the old greasy spindle and scalped him.

Another guy on a boring mill. Interrupted cut on a pull-down cam. Was taking a file to knock off the burrs as it came around. No problem, except he had the sleeves down on his long sleeved shirt, it got snagged and dragged him into the cutter. Lost arm above elbow but he was lucky. Pretty gross , one of my bosses puked.

Another guy didn't secure a large (forget the name but they were exhaust tubes for missiles on a ship, part of the Navy's VSL). one toppled over, crushed another guys legs. Both amputated and a couple months before he was to retire.

A guy was changing the wheel on a heavy duty bench grinder. Instead of winding the nut by hand to tighten it he turned it on to speed it up. Not a horrible idea EXCEPT he had gloves on. The nut tightened the tips of the gloves to the wheel and ripped off 2 fingers and his thumb.

About the worst for me was a chip in the eye. I was deburring some bronze pieces on a belt sander. I wear glasses so I generally don't wear safety glasses. Well a chip bounced off my cheek, then off the inside of my glasses and into my eye. The sucky part was its was bronze so no using a magnet to get it out. I went to Wilmers and they had to buff it out. Really freaky hearing that high speed grinder coming at your pupil then hearing it bog down on your eyeball.

Oh did have another. Cleaning up the back chip pan of my CNC. Someone clowning around threw someone and it was just enough to make me flinch. My hand hit a brand new end mill in the carousel. Big gouge in my finger. The cut didn't hurt horribly but when the Doc stuck a needle in that open wound to numb it before stitching, the only thing touching the gurney was the back of my head and the heels of my feet.

Pay Attention!
Its easy to take some this stuff for granted. I have to constantly remind myself and watch where my body/face/hands/arms/etc.. are going and where they'll be if something breaks, jumps, I slip, etc..
 
I've seen those pictures posted all over the Internet, on just about every forum having anything to do with tools and/or machinery. Every time I see them I think, "Now there's a guy who just let himself get too wrapped up in his work".

TW
 
I know this ain't right, I don't wish anything like this on any living being, BUT.... I love gross and gory stuff, those pics are actually cool as hell.
 
Worst I ever had happen around me was, at a large corporation I was working at, a machinist was milling something, and the mill or drill bit or whatever had a little burr on the very end of it. He went to just wipe it off as it was spinning with his finger, and it caught the nerve in his pinky finger and pulled that nerve all the way out from his elbow down. He immediately passed out. Freaky as hell to think that a nerve got yanked out from elbow to pinky THROUGH the pinky.

Jim Notestine
 
I use to be a safety coordinator at a sawmill so I've seen some nasty stuff. Admittingly most of it was in training and in films, we didn't have any real bad accidents while I was safety coordinator.

Worst I saw was a 6X6 12' long fall about two stories and land on a guys arm, literally smashing all the bones from his shoulder down into a thousand pieces. I had to take him to the ER. The X-rays were cool as hell, looked like a shattered windshield in his arm. He was a temp worker working our sorter machine and the boards got crossed up at the bottom and he was down trying to untangle them when another board dropped down.
 
Piratejethro said:
Worst I ever had happen around me was, at a large corporation I was working at, a machinist was milling something, and the mill or drill bit or whatever had a little burr on the very end of it. He went to just wipe it off as it was spinning with his finger, and it caught the nerve in his pinky finger and pulled that nerve all the way out from his elbow down. He immediately passed out. Freaky as hell to think that a nerve got yanked out from elbow to pinky THROUGH the pinky.

Jim Notestine
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Nerves of steel???
 
The more casual people become when using any machine tool, the higher are the chances of something going horribly wrong.
 
2 friends, 3 doctors and a nun all stamped "do not sell this man a lathe" on my forehead. The nun had a notary put a stamp over hers so I gues it is now a federal offence.
 
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