Tool Safety

[GChief]

 

[leroy in ne]

Yup, sticky bar feeder on automatic turret lathe gave me a permanent stiff finger about 20 years ago and several painful weeks at the time.

 

[Keith True]

I have pain in my right trigger finger whenever I pull any kind of trigger.Impact guns,air chisels,sanders,grinders,scalers,all kinds of saws,etc.Permanent damage from over 50 years of doing it on a daily basis.The impact gun,and for some reason,a cutting torch hurts the worst.Grabbing the front brake on a motorcycle can be agony too.Zero pain as long as I don't ask it to do something in the shape of a trigger.

 

[DoubleO7]

That poster reminds me of my last job at a fabricator.
They had a pickup sized lathe, seldom used. And whoever was the lathe operator would leave the four jaw chuck key/wrench IN the socket for one jaw when not in use. Good sized, like four pounder, with two foot slide handle like a big tap wrench.
Told the shop foreman it should not be left like that.
He asked why.
I said wait until the OSHA inspector comes thru, He will let you know why.
It stayed in the rack then.

 

[Watthour]

I had a similar experience with feed rollers, except the bone in my finger actually stopped them. That was only 10 years ago when more options were available. It got straightened, pinned with wires, and then the therapy began. It's 99.99% functional now, and I tend to forget about it until something like this arises.

 

[urbancase]

I love to post that safety poster in our tooling dept, but in 5 mins someone would be in HR with a complaint.

 

[Watthour]

The world began its trip down the toilet when the "Personnel" department changed its moniker to "Human Resources" as it began the dive down the slippery slope. Personnel would have had no problem with that, while today the HR staff would be concerned about potentially offending "Neanderthal-Americans" if you distributed booklets featuring Primitive Pete.

We need to DOGE corporations even deeper than our hired help in the capital.

 

[oldsarge]

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[Mike(NEOhio)]

A guy I worked with, older and experienced lathe hand, polishing an ID with a strip of emery cloth and his finger. The cloth wrapped around and twisted off his index finger. It came off with about eight inches of tendon.

 

[urbancase]

Yea you need to be careful around rotating equipment, a remark was made about chuck wrench for lathe, years ago I bought spring loaded one so the could not be left in, a week later the tooling guys ground all the spring tips down. Also had a tooling guys ground about 25 years ago luck out as he had hair down half way on his back always had to tell him to keep it tied back, one day he didn’t and his hair started wrapping in a large drill press, luck had it a supervisor saw it and shut it down before it pulled him in and shut it down. Be careful!

 

[Dusty MI]

I landed a 4 year apprenticeship in the construction industry, and spent 1 day every 2 weeks at the local community collage.
At that time there was no safety or first-aid, training, everyone was on their own.
At the end of our first year, in stead of going to class at the community collage, we went to the Red Cross center and had first aid training.
A few years after becoming a juryman electrician, I did a little pushing and our local union sponsored a first aid class.
Now many years latter, first aid classes are required by the state.

Dusty

 

[Ray,IN]

I love to post that safety poster in our tooling dept, but in 5 mins someone would be in HR with a complaint.

Why??? It contains nothing offensive, but some peoples minds are focused on reproductive acts.

 

[bc]

I'm sure the machine shop on every ship had that poster on the wall.

 

[Harold Hubbard]

That poster reminds me of my last job at a fabricator.
They had a pickup sized lathe, seldom used. And whoever was the lathe operator would leave the four jaw chuck key/wrench IN the socket for one jaw when not in use. Good sized, like four pounder, with two foot slide handle like a big tap wrench.
Told the shop foreman it should not be left like that.
He asked why.
I said wait until the OSHA inspector comes thru, He will let you know why.
It stayed in the rack then.

I took an adult education machine shop course many years ago. The teacher said anyone caught leaving the key in the chuck would be spending an hour chucking and removing a shaft from the lathe, to include placing the key in proper storage place each time.

 

[stevieb49829]

Yea you need to be careful around rotating equipment, a remark was made about chuck wrench for lathe, years ago I bought spring loaded one so the could not be left in, a week later the tooling guys ground all the spring tips down. Also had a tooling guys ground about 25 years ago luck out as he had hair down half way on his back always had to tell him to keep it tied back, one day he didn’t and his hair started wrapping in a large drill press, luck had it a supervisor saw it and shut it down before it pulled him in and shut it down. Be careful!

My brother lost a softball-size chunk of his scalp to a drillpress. By the time the machine was shut down, it was so beat up they had to put a graft off his hip over his skull. steve

 

[bc]

Have a friend who lost his arm to the shoulder in an auger at a grain elevator.

 

[Dusty MI]

My brother lost a softball-size chunk of his scalp to a drillpress. By the time the machine was shut down, it was so beat up they had to put a graft off his hip over his skull. steve

I added a foot switch to my drill-press.

 

[Geo-TH,In]

They claim you have a million to one chance of cutting your finger off using a table saw.
I guess I cut a million and one pieces of wood. .

 

[MrMachinist]

The world began its trip down the toilet when the "Personnel" department changed its moniker to "Human Resources" as it began the dive down the slippery slope. Personnel would have had no problem with that, while today the HR staff would be concerned about potentially offending "Neanderthal-Americans" if you distributed booklets featuring Primitive Pete.

We need to DOGE corporations even deeper than our hired help in the capital.

Careful what you wish for.

 

[TerryfromSWIowa]

Does that count as cutting a finger off?