When you think YOU've got problems.............

Mad Dog

My Big Brother Bart has a favorite deli he stops in every morning - no fail - before work. In the corner of the deli a butcher rents a spot. Good butcher - nice guy. We'll, yesterday, one of the butcher apprentices pulverized his arm up to his elbow in the meat grinder - GONE!!!! No reattaching that limb!!! Nassau County Medvac'd him to NCMC in a chopper - dropped right down in the middle of Covert Ave (Main Street)....22 years old, the kid. Life!!!!! Mad Dog

Ted_9

That's insanely horrible.

Constantin

That's horrible

It goes to show how one moment of inattention can change the rest of your life. I hope the kid will pull through OK. What a shame, what a waste.

I'm surprised that the grinder didn't have guards and other protection attached to it. It's one of those things that OSHA surely has thought of...no?

Weezbo

Poor ladd:(

so many misfortunes befall each of us in a life time It is hard to understand How all things work for the greater glory of God in such instances. it sure sounds Severe.

Paul Mitchell_2

Amen

joel_13

ummm

Well now i've got to go puke Yikes that's nasty. I've actually dreamed about getting sucked into the pipe threader.

Larry (from OSHA)

OSHA

has the regulations in place, but it is up to the employer to guard the equipment. Machines like meat grinders can be difficult but not impossible to guard.

Unfortunately, the kids are the ones who get hurt most often as they are not experienced or trained well enough. My heart goes out to this young man who's life has been so tragically changed in the blink of an eye.

As for pipe threaders, I have seen what can happen if the foot control is jammed in the on position with a piece of pipe or a block of wood. A loose piece of clothing can get wrapped around the pipe in no time and as you know, there is no stopping a pipe threader. You've heard the phrase "broke every bone in his body", well that is no exaggeration. No matter how late in the day, please don't take short cuts that compromise safety.

I'm sorry if I'm too preachy, but I'm in the middle of two amputation injury cases right now (punch presses) and this stuff just doesn't need to happen.

Stay safe,

Larry (from OSHA)

Darin Cook_3

Saw someone go for a roll once

When I was active duty Air Force in the plumbing shop. We had housing units that the sewers clogged constantly on. We had these Electric EEL sewer rooters. These things have external cables that you keep snapping on. Well during the winter one time at Loring AFB, Northern Maine, We were snaking out a house sewer through the cleanout at ground level and the lace on the pair of "Muckluks" caught in the cable and wrapped the lace and started to roll the person over. Even when you let off the pressure switch the cable still turns a few times. As if just snaking the sewer wasn't bad enough.






Darin

Mad Dog

The electric eel is the best snake

made...you can always get them back out. But they are dangerous. Took us (2 men) 5 minutes to unravel the cable from the other guys arms and fingers. He was using those brown cloth gloves. - he was very lucky. If you dont have the steel laced laether mitts, use no gloves at all - better off. Mad Dog

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Dale

directional drill

Contractor friend had a guy wearing winter carharts get caught up in a directional drill backream head, unfortunately he was the one with the walkie talkie communicating with the operator who was out of site. I think of the times I have watched the drill or reamer come out of or back into a catch hole. One slip and it can't be shut off quick enough.

Guy_5

Accidents

A young guy that I knew got himself caught up in the PTO of an oil truck. It was early in the morning, and no one was around to see or help him. We all tend to have some degree of unsafe practices that we have done(I'm just gonna.....), yet it takes one of these to wake us up to the fact that accidents are , in fact, just that. Age helps with that wisdom too. That's why I am losing my hair because of my kids.

Guy

DaveC

This thread reminds me...

My dad and I were eating breakfast at a diner a long time ago. The guy at the grill had casts on both hands, but somehow had figured a way to hold the spatula for flipping eggs. We asked what happened - he was a fireman who was carrying a hose bundle all wrapped up around his hands, and someone turned on the water, which pumped up the hose and crushed both hands. Can you imagine the horror and pain?

Matt Undy

Always get it out?

I had an electric eel with about 1 1/4" cable and a 3" root cutter get so wrapped up in the mass of roots in my Orangeburg that I couldn't get it out(After I had run an arrowhead cutter through). It just stuck in there solid. This of course was rented and on a Saturday afternoon. I spent the rest of the weekend diging up the joint without the benifit of a workign shower. I later found out from the guy that cleaned the rest of it out (who is also who the roto rooter guys and similar operations call to bail them out) that he could have run a small cable and cutter down there and have freed up the cable. I'll try to post a picture of the mass of roots he pulled out, it was quite similar to a 2X6 in size and stiffness. The machine I used had a clutch on it that stopped the cable at a certain amount of torque. Even a pipe wrench on the cable couldnt' convince it to turn. The cable was so heavy I definatley wouldnt' want to be around when enough torque was put on it to break it.

Matt

Matt Undy

Drills

I have nearly had an accident with a Bosch 1/2" 2 gear ratio drill/ hammer drill. The trigger lock is located such that when you are holding it in a somewhat left handed position such as when driling in certian locations and directions through studs behind a baseboard or through joists from above that your hand will push the lock in while holding the drill. This is a severe problem when you have the gearbox in the high torque position and a 7/8"X18" self feeding auger bit in it. I hae had a coule near misses with it where the bit fortunately did brak free of what it was bound in(becuase the initial recoil of the bind tends to slid your hand onto the lock button when you grip the drill tighter.)

One would think Bosch would have a recall to address the problem (but then again I probably din't send in the warranty card).

Matt

Dave Yates (PAH)

An old case

in southern York County. A mill race grist mill rig was being tended by a youth. He got caught in the leather belt and for most of the weekend - he was picked up and slammed into the flooring - repeatedly. Broke darn near every bone in his body till they discovered the body.

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