[TheForge] Working alone

[Demon Buddha]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:00:58 -0500, Catherine Jo Morgan <cjmorgan@hemc.net> 
wrote:

> Agree that woodworking shops are more dangerous than ours. A woodworker
> friend lost concentration for a second and ran her knuckle into the
> bandsaw blade. That WAS a trip to the emergency room plus plastic
> surgeon. Luckily we had the two workshops on an intercom so she could
> call me for help right away.

	In college I worked at an architectural cabinet shop in Long Island City
	where we made obscenely expensive cabinetry for the rich.  Everyone drank
	beer all day, except me.  Not a lot, but at least three or four cans of 
bud
	in an 8 hour work day.  One day, one of the guys decided he would forego
	the beer.  He was cutting veneer on the table saw when he ran his right
	index finger right into the blade, up the dead center of the finger to
	the second knuckle.  The cut was so thin (something like 0.015") and the
	solid carbide blade so perfectly sharp that they did nothing to the
	finger except clean it and tape it together.  No stitches, no surgery,
	no nothing.  He did require some rather painful physical therapy to keep
	the knuckles from fusing solid during healing.  It was amazing, actually.
	He was damned lucky it was an expensive veneer blade and not the 1/4" 
carbide
	dado cutter.  Nevertheless it was a bloody mess on the saw.