[TheForge] Fw: [shopbuilttools] New OSHA Regs and alarming report #2

Larry Brown lp.brown at verizon.net
Thu Apr 2 05:11:17 EDT 2009 


Where there is no shame! Counseling for anvil abuse?
L B

At 11:17 PM 4/1/2009 -0700, you wrote:
>He must have been so ashamed that he went into the financial industry!
>
>Keziah's Forge wrote:
> > Update:
> >
> > The real emabarrassment occurred hours later when  Richard Postman was
> > called in to identify and counsel the anvil victim.  Charges against PR of
> > anvil  abuse, carnal nowledge of a minor anvil and crimes against
> > blacksmithing were lodged on the basis of Postman's testimony that the 
> anvil
> > in question was a 55 pound Russian immigrant identified only as "ASO" and
> > that the orifice in question was actually the pritchel hole.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
> > To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:06 PM
> > Subject: Re: [TheForge] Fw: [shopbuilttools] New OSHA Regs and alarming
> > report #2
> >
> >
> >> You may not like this any better reis:
> >>
> >> Waylan Journal Report
> >>
> >> Late Wednesday afternoon, after a hard  day in his unheated  hillside
> >> blacksmithing shop ( and not a few beers); Blacksmith PR closed down his
> >> forge and shut the doors as usual. That's when the trouble began.
> >> Hot and tired from his labors, PR had another couple of beers to cool
> >> down and soon found the only warm thing around was his beloved anvil.
> >> He apparently felt lonely and a bit amorous there in the dusk and
> >> "realized that i had been looking at that warm damn hardy hole for years
> >> and it was at just the right height".
> >>  A short time later, an attractive young lady knocked on the door and
> >> pressed her breasts against the glass attempting to peer in.
> >> When the smith attempted to withdraw from the anvil, it was already too
> >> late.
> >> When paramedics arrived 1/2 hour later, they were unable to lift the
> >> anvil and the smith onto the regulation guerny and a second ambulance
> >> crew had to be called.
> >> After some humiliating hours in the hospital, attended to by elder nurse
> >> Hornbuckle and 23 reporters, the anvil had cooled sufficiently that,
> >> with the help of cold, soapy water the smith was freed.
> >> PR only statement was that he regretted not using Anviline Hardy Hole
> >> Grease..as advertised by Tom Wilson.
> >>
> >> ries wrote:
> >>> methinks this is more web invented paranoia.
> >>> A quick search of the OSHA website reveals NO SUCH DIVISION.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Apr 1, 2009, at 4:03 PM, rsmuck wrote:
> >>>
> >>> This is awful, we should revolt!!!!
> >>> Rowland Smuck/Schmuck of Roseburg, OR 97470
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 
> <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=6926185/grpspId=1705063020/msgId>>> 
> =8251/stime=1238563519/nc1=1/nc2=2/nc3=3>
> >>>
> >>> NEW OSHA REGULATIONS TO HAVE LONG-TERM IMPACT
> >>> New OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) today
> >>> announced new
> >>> regulations aimed directly at the home and hobby workshop.
> >>>
> >>> WASHINGTON (AP)
> >>>
> >>> Phyllis Sharp, Director of the newly-formed Home Safety Compliance
> >>> Division,
> >>> today announced new OSHA regulations in response to successful
> >>> lobbying by
> >>> watchdog groups and the American Home and Hobby Machinery Manufacturers
> >>> Association. The regulations, aimed directly at home workshops,
> >>> hobbyists
> >>> and "shade-tree mechanics", are in response to an apparently exponential
> >>> growth of safety issues surrounding the sale of commercial machinery
> >>> to the
> >>> private sector, resale of used machinery, and restoration of used and
> >>> occasional vintage machinery by private individuals.
> >>>
> >>> According to Sharp, "These things are dangerous, and we are finding
> >>> out that
> >>> commercial and industrial manufacturers and service facilities, not to
> >>> mention our own government, are selling these machines to private
> >>> persons
> >>> without due regard for essential safety features that we require of all
> >>> workplaces". Ms. Sharp was also quoted as saying that "there is no
> >>> reason
> >>> why a home workshop should not be subject to the same guaranteed level
> >>> of
> >>> safety compliance that our government provides to the public workplace."
> >>> According to Sharp, fines and registration fees will be used to
> >>> substantially reduce the anticipated cost of the regional offices and
> >>> inspection teams.
> >>>
> >>> In a brief press conference to present these proposed regulations, Mr.
> >>> Morris Pschatt, Esq, general counsel for the Central States division of
> >>> OSHA, stated that OSHA will create offices in each state for the
> >>> purpose of
> >>> inspection, tagging and tracking machinery sales. Sellers of all
> >>> commercial-grade machinery will be required to transport machinery for
> >>> sale
> >>> to an OSHA field office prior to sale, where the machine will be
> >>> inspected
> >>> for the appropriate safety guards, decals and instruction manuals. Any
> >>> machine found not to meet the standards will be tagged for scrap and the
> >>> machine seller will be compensated at a standard rate per pound,
> >>> according
> >>> to Pschatt. When asked by one reporter about private sales, Mr. Pschatt
> >>> responded that the OSHA Residential Teams inspectors would be tracking
> >>> eBay,
> >>> craigslist and classified sales in order to provide "comprehensive
> >>> safety
> >>> coverage".
> >>>
> >>> In addition, Pschatt remarked, OSHA Residential Teams field inspectors
> >>> will
> >>> be periodically making spot inspections to home and hobby workshops to
> >>> ensure safety compliance, similar to existing commercial and industrial
> >>> compliance regulations. All home-shop machinery will be required to be
> >>> tagged and registered with OSHA, and any machine not having the proper
> >>> guards in place, decals visible and legible, and instructions readily
> >>> available will be tagged and confiscated. Furthermore, personal safety
> >>> gear,
> >>> including eyewear, hearing protection and head gear will be required
> >>> of all
> >>> home and hobby workers.
> >>>
> >>> The AHHMMA is represented in Washington by domestic and overseas
> >>> manufacturers and importers of woodworking, metalworking and automotive
> >>> equipment.
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