Always secure your stock to the table

And OSHA requires us to wear gloves around drill presses, milling machines, grinders, lathes etc.

 

At work we have a monthly hour long safety meeting. One month it was finger safety and we had a movie with fingers laying on the table and such. One mechanic learned the trade in China and was missing 3 fingers on one hand and 2 on the other. After the movie I said "Phil. you have had more experiance with this than any of us. Would you like to add anything?" Phil said "Any man who wok 10 year, and have 10 finger, fucking off."

 

I was cutting threads on a one inch cold roll bar stock in machinist school. When I finished, I reached up to wipe it off as it was coasting down and got 20 cuts per inch on my left hand. They weren't much more than skin deep but it taught me a lesson to think things through a little more carefully. I hid it from the teacher so he wouldn't blacklist me as a accident risk when it came time to hand out jobs. It was a hard lesson, but nothing like that finger! Ouch!!!

Sometimes things happen instantly.

 

Well now you can play the four string guitar................

 

Thanks for the tip

 

you should be in the movies.

Four Fingers Foreskin" maybe

That will go away before I get married.

Speedy recovery !

 

Blood is part of every job I do. That must hurt I hope you are right handed so you can still do things. Like some of the others here I have had a drill get away and beat me up pretty badly.At least 40 years ago I was drilling a hole in the frame of my 39 from the cab into the trans tunnel and it got away from me it just kept pounding my fingers until someone turned off ther power. Tomorrow I have to drill a hole in the same car in the cab and will be using the same 45 Year old Chraftsman drill, been thinking about it all day and will be very careful.

 

Yeah, each time I lose a huge chunk of a body part the first thing I do is stop to take some pictures of it too.

 

When I first read the title I thought It said:"Always secure your LIVESTOCK to the table."
I thought it would be better than putting the hind legs inside the boots.

 

OUCH!!!!!! That's why I use 2 clamps and a big bolt (incase the clamps fail) on my drill press.

 

That's a #1 no-no in most shops. One shop I know, the guy hired a couple of Indian guys (dot not feather...) and they were in the habit of wearing gloves for almost everything.

He did buy them better gloves (really marketed for wet-application machine shop work) that were not so likely to get sucked up into the machine tool. I think these blokes had a thing against getting their hands dirty.

Bob

 

Scary... I worked in one summer job shop back in 1974. They had a press shop where they punched out all sorts of thin sheet metal lighting fixtures. A couple of guys were missing all sorts of fingers.. and they drank, might be part of the explanation.

Bob

 

I have actually had the very tip end of both middle fingers cut or torn loose before. But just the very tip end. One a doctor sewed back on and the other a friends wife sewed back on (no money for the doctor and no insurance)

 

Why ruin good bourbon with Pepsi.

I ran my finger through the shiev on a 12 ton press once, when I climbed down from up ther it looked like a ping pong paddle. I was real happy when it began to swell.

 

Sorry to hear that, and thanks for the reminder.

 

my buddy put both thumbs in a press when he was 17, smooshed them off at the 1st knuckle, we call him thumbs now....

 

Anybody else watch the old reel to reel Case Safety videos in high school shop class? "Shake Hands With Danger" whenever I see something like this I can still hear the music and narrator! Even when I do it myself...."Shake hands with danger...Meet a guy who ought to know....I used to laugh at saftey...now they call me..... three fingered Joe" When my son is doing something dangerous and he gets caught he says "Sorry Dad I was shakin' hand with danger huh..." Gets me every time...I have a hard time keeping a straight face! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_gEVILWVUM

 

puketastic

 

Been there done that. Two times ( I'm a slow learner. )