[TheForge] Power hammer injury

Fri Jun 6 13:01:00 2003

Goodness Dan, not even close!

Having a power hammer get you would be pretty much indestinguishable from
what happened to Johnny Scitzger when he tried to snag a stuck blank out of
the punch press.

I was maybe 13 and working at the circle shear in Father's shop when I heard
the distinctive sound of a blank hanging in the punch press. I looked up
just in time to see Johnny make a grab for it instead of stepping back,
shutting the press down and letting it stop before freeing the blank. As he
grabbed for the blank, his foot was still hitting the treadle. The press
turned most of his left hand into a spray pattern on the wall behind it.
When they x-rayed it at the hospital they discovered it was a clean enough
amputation all they needed to do was stich the seam and prescribe pain
killers.

I doubt a power hammer would do as clean a job as the punch press did but I
doubt also it would be any less thorough.

Don't put any body parts in the business end of any operating tool but if
you must, a manually powered tool might, just MIGHT leave something for the
doctors to work with.

Yes. Yes and YES. Tongs, handles, mounted holders, Bunjie chords and duct
tape, anything, ANYTHING under the hammer rather than a body part.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Tull" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Power hammer injury

> So, that's not as bad ?
>
> Why not hold short tooling with tongs?
>
> dan tull
> georgia
> abba, afc, S.C. psba, obg,sofa

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Darrell"
>
> > NOT a power hammer, a treadle hammer.
> > Darrell
> >