[TheForge] Tim Ryan

[peter fels]

I'm always a little amazed at the number of intact fingers i see at the conferences.
Boredom, fatigue, rush and being pissed off seem to characterize my accidents.

On Jul 3, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Andrew Vida wrote:

> 
> 
> On 7/3/2011 6:03 AM, dann at wctatel.net wrote:
> 
>> Working long hours, working fatigued  with power equipment has its own
>> hazards.   I think that many  of us know first hand how something, can
>> quickly ... go horribly wrong.
> 
> An old gf's father got his hand mangled up in a lathe just this way. 
> Tired from over work and in a split second...
> 
> One day at his shop, his nephew and I were on our respective lathes. 
> Costin was wearing a denim apron.  The 16" chuck somehow managed to 
> take hold of it just as I was looking at him in conversation.  It turned 
> the apron into a halter top in perhaps less than 1/100th of a second. 
> He was utterly paralyzed and I had to shut the lathe down, all the while 
> with a great sense of the willies.  Had that apron not torn so perfectly 
> across the chest, cleanly as if by newly sharpened shears, my young 
> friend would have been instantly and mortally consumed by that large, 
> strong, and hopelessly brainless machine.
> 
> I have had things go wrong on the lathe, mill, grinder, wire wheel, etc. 
>  Around '98, just before Christmas, I was alone in Marshall's shop and 
> the wire wheel got me.  Long spiral cut to the bone on the right index 
> finger, 270* and about 1.5 inches long - cut the artery.  It happened so 
> fast there was no perception of the event - it seemed instantaneous. 
> Went to the ER and got myself stitched up.  To this day I feel the scar 
> every time I move my finger.
> 
> Be careful, it goes way bad so very suddenly.
> 
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