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    Default The Luckiest Unlucky Lathe Operator

    Had this video clip emailed to me and thought I'd share it. Just shows how quick something can happen.
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    Kryn
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    BobL is offline Member: Blue and white apron brigade
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    About two years ago I was helping a mate build a wood work bench using timber I had milled with a chain saw a few years before. The top of the bench was to be made from a single timber slab and as it was way too wide for my thicknesser the first thing to do was to remove the saw marks and flatten the tops and our tool of choice was a heavy 100mm Makita belt sander and some 40 grit belts.

    My make was not very experienced so I showed him what to do and left him at it to go to the hardware. When I got back he ws standing shirtless next to the sander on the bench and trying to extract the remains of his T-shirt out of it. Seems like he lent over the sander and (a bit like the bloke on the video) the sander had grabbed his T-shirt and torn it off his back.
    You'd think - just take your finger off the trigger? but the tendency in that situation is to keep gripping the sander tightly and try to hold the sander away from you.
    He was really lucky it was an old shirt that basically disintegrated and he only got a small scratch on his belly from the moving belt.

    The worst accident I heard of with a sander was a bloke sanding a large table top and his supervisor came into the workshop and whistled up smoko. The sanding operator had ear muffs on and and did not hear the whistle so the supervisor who was standing next to the sanders power socket turn off the power. After smoko the operator who remembered the supervisor had turned the power off came in and leant down to turn on the power. However said operator forgot he had left the power locked on the sander and just as his head came up level with the table top the sander had accelerated down the table top and struck the operator in forehead.

    The guy was knocked out and taken to hospital where he almost died from a bleed on the brain and serious brain damage. He never really recovered and spent the rest of his life in a wheel chair.

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