Thanks for that Igor. Saw a few small accidents in the manufacturing plant and one big one. Took his hand to just above the wrist. Enough for a lifetime to never see that again.
We treated at the hospital a fair amount of industrial trauma injuries, horrific does not describe some of them. What ignorance, a moment of carelessness and stupidity can accomplish.
Back when I was training apprentices, the first lesson was that everything in the shop was trying to kill you and that it is a very short step between a barked knuckle and getting the nickname of stumpy. Even less distance between a close call and getting turned into a lathe-ka-bob. (just google lathe accident) Quick list of things I witnessed or heard about over 30 years in the trade:
Ruptured thumb (from crushing)
Hi-lo ran over foot (self explanatory)
Spiral slice around finger (lathe chip)
hand under a grinder wheel (surface grinder)
finger lost (boring mill)
crushed in press (no safety blocks)
impaled on end mill (boring mill)
internal injuries (tripped carrying material, got crushed)
crushed penis (don’t wear sweat pants)
sliced open end of thumb under the nail (safety deburring tool?!)
hand smashed (20,000 lb die set)
broken hand (freak accident with impact wrench)
Threaded a 5/8-11 nut onto finger at 20,000 rpm (apprentice games)
And this is only a partial list.
I was a grocery store butcher for 20+ years. I could tell you stories.
We had those stickers on all of our chippers.
Fuckin’ things are carnivorous, I’m tellin’ ya.
Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem about just how unthinking/uncaring Machinery really is.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46786/the-secret-of-the-machines
Note the last part…
Thanks for that Igor. Saw a few small accidents in the manufacturing plant and one big one. Took his hand to just above the wrist. Enough for a lifetime to never see that again.
We treated at the hospital a fair amount of industrial trauma injuries, horrific does not describe some of them. What ignorance, a moment of carelessness and stupidity can accomplish.
Back when I was training apprentices, the first lesson was that everything in the shop was trying to kill you and that it is a very short step between a barked knuckle and getting the nickname of stumpy. Even less distance between a close call and getting turned into a lathe-ka-bob. (just google lathe accident) Quick list of things I witnessed or heard about over 30 years in the trade:
Ruptured thumb (from crushing)
Hi-lo ran over foot (self explanatory)
Spiral slice around finger (lathe chip)
hand under a grinder wheel (surface grinder)
finger lost (boring mill)
crushed in press (no safety blocks)
impaled on end mill (boring mill)
internal injuries (tripped carrying material, got crushed)
crushed penis (don’t wear sweat pants)
sliced open end of thumb under the nail (safety deburring tool?!)
hand smashed (20,000 lb die set)
broken hand (freak accident with impact wrench)
Threaded a 5/8-11 nut onto finger at 20,000 rpm (apprentice games)
And this is only a partial list.
I was a grocery store butcher for 20+ years. I could tell you stories.