[TheForge] Fatal acccident

[Bruce .]

Jerry,

I don't want to dwell on this excessively, but do you happen to know what
kind of buffer was involved?  I'm envisioning it was your typical
cloth-wheel buffing pad mounted on some powerful pedestal grinder.  I'm
asking so as to be able to "file it away" in my mental safety archives.

I frequently warn folks at our weekly open forge meets about the danger of
wire wheels.  Marshall retired a powerful pedestal grinder with wire wheel
in favor of a much smaller after a friend got his hand pulled through the
wire wheel and had to be rushed to the hospital.  So THAT hazard I was
aware of.  I need to understand how a buffing wheel can kick a blade into
someone's heart.  I do NOT want to see this happen in person!


Bruce
NJ

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 3:31 AM, jerry Frost <akfrosty at mtaonline.net> wrote:

> I only just got the news but 10/24/2014 one of our guys, Gordon Sayward
> Dempsey, Father of 6, blacksmith, bladesmith, good friend and original club
> member died suddenly.
>
> He buffing a blade in his winter shop in Utah. The blade pierced his heart.
>
> I've known Gordon for quite a few years and worked with him in different
> member's shops, a very careful man. A buffer still got him, just like the
> tree almost punched my ticket.
>
> Nobody knows how long we have on Earth, live every moment like it's your
> last.
>
> Jerry Frost
>
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