[TheForge] Fatal acccident

[peter fels & phoebe palmer]

#1, He is Dead.
Buffing wheels and wire brushes can entangle a workpiece,
whip them 180 degrees or more around the wheel,
and launch them at high velocity into your head or body.
I've seen it happen half a dozen times personally!

On 11/17/2014 2:37 PM, Bruce . wrote:
> The force might be there, but the direction is a puzzler.  I find it hard
> to envision a direct path between buffer and heart.  Maybe if the buffer
> had no guard at all and he were using the top of a wheel rotating toward
> him.  And if the person is bent over a little, bringing the heart lower,
> the protection afforded by the ribs would be somewhat increased.
>
> Bruce
> NJ
>
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 4:11 PM, peter fels & phoebe palmer <
> artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
>
>> With a big buffer and a sharpened blade, it could well go right through
>> some ribs.
>> All the kinetic energy of the rotating motor armature, etc, plus the power
>> output of the motor,
>>   can be transmitted nicely to the snagged workpiece.
>> This sort of tool can easily be as dangerous as a power hammer!
>>
>> Steel is a strong , recalcitrant material...We are mere ephemeral flesh
>> and bone.
>>
>>
>> On 11/17/2014 12:23 PM, Bruce . wrote:
>>
>>> I was wondering about that.  A blade would have to be traveling upwards to
>>> pass between the ribs and into the heart.
>>>
>>> I could understand how a femoral artery could be severed by a thrown
>>> blade,
>>> but the heart was a puzzler.
>>>
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