Question for the members in oklahoma.

[deepwater]

Do you ever notice the guys complaining the most about wearing safety gear are the ones with that "funny" eye, 8-1/2 fingers, 1/2 a thumb and limp quite a bit?

 

I've been hit by lots of stuff but rarely from work that I'm doing.

      
I've been lucky as most of my experience has been from watching others do things that make me say..'I told you so!' 
my one bad injury was caused by my safety gear. glove caught on a burr in a wire sling. drug my thumb into a tight spot and took the tip off. only lost 4 hours of work though!

[tombogan03884]

Do you ever notice the guys complaining the most about wearing safety gear are the ones with that "funny" eye, 8-1/2 fingers, 1/2 a thumb and limp quite a bit?

 

I've been hit by lots of stuff but rarely from work that I'm doing.

As a matter of fact, YES ! 
I used to work with a guy who's fingers on both hands were all the same length, Part slipped off the back stop on a press brake.   

[fightingquaker13]

Never take advice from the guy called "flipper". On the other hand, maybe pay extra attention to his advice.
FQ13

[tombogan03884]

Never take advice from the guy called "flipper". On the other hand, maybe pay extra attention to his advice.
FQ13

When I knew him he was anal about "minimum die clearance" (the practice of leaving only enough gap between the tooling to slide the part in and out )
I listened, I can also still count to 10 with my shoes on.  

[tombogan03884]

One of my co- workers was making a facing cut on the lathe last night when the long stringy chip caught his hand, another guy who saw him just after thought he had dumped his bottle of red Dy-Kem.
He left for the hospital at 11pm, was not back yet when I left at 2.

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[TAB]

Deep cuts on the hands can be very very bad, they almost always require surgery.

THe guy my wife is training under is supose to be one of the best hand guys in the nation.  He is a real prick.

[tombogan03884]

He worked tonight, Slice on the heel of his hand and another around his pinkie 14 stitches.
He was reaching for his coffee well clear of the part, gob of chips on the back side of the machine caught the jaws, flipped over the top and smacked him. Lathes and presses are f*cking DANGEROUS.

[TAB]

He worked tonight, Slice on the heel of his hand and another around his pinkie 14 stitches.
He was reaching for his coffee well clear of the part, gob of chips on the back side of the machine caught the jaws, flipped over the top and smacked him. Lathes and presses are f*cking DANGEROUS.

if you do a search, last year there was some pics floating around the net of a guy that got cuaght in  lathe, no bs there was just his legs left.

It was not pretty, but it showes how dangerouse these things can be.

[jaybet]

A local, long-time welder here was killed at his lathe.

[tombogan03884]

if you do a search, last year there was some pics floating around the net of a guy that got cuaght in  lathe, no bs there was just his legs left.

It was not pretty, but it showes how dangerouse these things can be.

A local, long-time welder here was killed at his lathe.

You can do everything right and still get killed.