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Gory but True

Postby Rod » 27 Jan 2015, 18:45

A friend of my elder Granddaughter works for a Garden Machinery Spares Dept.
A customer came in clutching a carrier bag -"you recently sharpened this Chainsaw chain but it's just cut off my father's arm, would you please swap it for one without any blood on it?"

Ugh!!

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Re: Gory but True

Postby kirkpoore1 » 27 Jan 2015, 19:12

Eww.

I once corresponded with a woman down in Oklahoma who's grandfather had recently died. She was looking for information and a home on a large four-sided planer-matcher that he had left. I told her it was probably built between 1910 and 1920. She said he had been using it since the 1930's. Her statement about the planer and her grandfather was "...about 65 years ago he was pulled through the gears and when he lived to the next day they figured they better do something".

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Re: Gory but True

Postby RogerS » 27 Jan 2015, 19:20

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Re: Gory but True

Postby TrimTheKing » 28 Jan 2015, 14:39

Ouch!
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Re: Gory but True

Postby Woodbloke » 28 Jan 2015, 15:28

I heard a tale of a bloke using a Dominion cross-cut tablesaur (with a slider) and he was repeatedly cutting of identical lumps of stuff 24/7. One day he had a 'lapse' and forgot to put the wood in place and cut off his arm instead - Rob
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Re: Gory but True

Postby RogerS » 04 Feb 2015, 17:31

And two more.

http://press.hse.gov.uk/2015/furniture- ... /02-feb-15

http://press.hse.gov.uk/2015/joinery-fi ... /02-feb-15

I mean who in their right mind shoves his arm up inside a running machine full of nasty sharp spinning parts :o ?
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Re: Gory but True

Postby kirkpoore1 » 04 Feb 2015, 23:26

RogerS wrote:And two more.
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I mean who in their right mind shoves his arm up inside a running machine full of nasty sharp spinning parts :o ?


Somebody in a hurry. Or rather, a stupid somebody in a hurry. I mean, I don't think I can blame the company here. Maybe the manager, especially if he was one of the other guys there, but the biggest guy to blame was the one that got hurt.

As for not putting the guard back on the overarm router, well, that's the company & manager, and only a little bit the worker.

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