Jewelry on the job

[Kalaehina]

Did anyone see that new motorcycle show on TNN, I think it's called Top Dead Center, I had to chuckle to myself when I saw one of the hosts do some work on a bike last week. Here he is wrenching, removing, installing parts and the whole time he's got on a couple rings and a loose bike chain looking bracelet. Yah, first thing I ever learned was anytime you work around any machinery, anything with moving parts (or in this case parts that could possible move and catch something) or sharp edges the pretty rings and crap gotta go! Unless you're kinda tired of having 10 fingers or just hate that pesky arm always in the way. Sorry just had to let that out. Thanks for listening guys... ... .

 

[BarryG]

Amen to that. That is just plain bad practice. Looking for trouble. I used to cut meat one time this guy was using a tenderizer wearing some cotton gloves without the safety guard no less, they got caught and it pulled his hand in. He no longer has fingers on that hand they were shredded. They had to take the whole machine with his hand still in it to the hospital as they couldn't get it out on site. When asked why he was wearing gloves doing that and not using the safety guard he said he always used it that way never been a problem before.

 

[klenger]

Having worked around aircraft which have almost unlimited amounts of 28 VDC power in lots of exposed areas, I gave up wearing any jewelry decades ago. Getting a metal ring or watchband across 28 VDC and ground can weld the metal to the wiring while the jewelry heats up red hot. For years I wore plastic Timex watches, but don't even wear one anymore. I just use my cell phone for time and never have to worry about setting it.

 

[loncray]

Back in my National Guard days, our armory had a shop for tools for our various vehicles. On the walls in the tool bay were safety posters of people's hands and fingers after having caught them in machinery while wearing watches or rings. I believe the technical term is 'degloving' and is pretty much one of the nastiest things I've ever seen done to the human body. Also, even further back in my Army days, I had a buddy plug a jumper cable into a 5-ton truck with his keys in his hands. The arc melted two keys and left a key-shaped burn on the palm of his hand.

 

[Peter Campbell]

A guy at work does an excellent impression of picking his nose to the second knucke from the end with his ring finger. Well not really the ring finger is not up his nose-- it stayed on the rack of a flatbed rack truck when he jumped down. A finger will get torn clean off from your own bodyweight moving down. I have seen the proof.

 

[Sled Puller]

Originally posted by Peter Campbell

A A finger will get torn clean off from your own bodyweight moving down. I have seen the proof.

Ask redram1 about that!!!



Use to party with a girl who we called The Nine Fingered *****.

Same thing happened to her.

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5 Operators on a job last year, I was the youngest at 34. All the old timers were missing fingers, feet, etc. They are all REAL safe now though!!

 

[HoleshotHolset]

"Use to party with a girl who we called The Nine Fingered *****."

Gene: Why am I not surprised? :-laf



I was watching that Southern Chopper build show last night... and that old dude with the beard that works for Milwaukee Iron tucked his long beard into his t-shirt so that it wouldn't get caught up in what he was working on... .



BTW, the bike they were building had stacks on it!



Matt

 

[Kalaehina]

Yup that's another reason, I even forgot that one about possibly melting your skin from superheated jewelry, geez that alone should be enough incentive to lose the pretty stuff for good!

 

[Larry Willard]

Yea I too learned the lesson about jumping off the flat bed, only good thing is it only pealed all the skin off as it slid up along with ripping the palm of my hand open enough to expose the bone. The teacher in ag class shorted a ring on a battery and burned it all the way around the finger. NO experience on other jewelry, but I almost got a string hanging on my sweatshirt caught in the auger on the snow blower recently,so watch them as well.

Larry

 

[QRTRHRS]

Originally posted by HoleshotHolset

Gene: Why am I not surprised? :-laf



I was watching that Southern Chopper build show last night... and that old dude with the beard that works for Milwaukee Iron tucked his long beard into his t-shirt so that it wouldn't get caught up in what he was working on... .



BTW, the bike they were building had stacks on it!



Matt

What did you think about that show? Definetely see the difference in attitudes between the southern guys and OCC.



Re: safety. Back in the 70's, there was this long haired dude that was always flaunting his hair by tossing it around. Mind you, this guy was a chick magnet but an ahole non the less. He was working some job and did not tie his hair up. Machine he was on about ripped half of it out of his head. Duhh.

 

[bmoeller]

Originally posted by Larry Willard

but I almost got a string hanging on my sweatshirt caught in the auger on the snow blower recently,so watch them as well.

Larry

Not to mention boot laces or other loose clothing around augers and power shafts.



Don't know if it was true of what I heard, but there was supposedly a girl with long hair that got it caught on a PTO shaft. Scalped her. :--)



My boss, when he was 19 or 20, was oilling a chain on a Harvestore bottom unloader. It has knives on it to help cut through silage. It grabbed his Carhartts and pulled him down. Chewed his calf up real bad on one leg. It is still very obvious when he wears shorts on a hot summer day. Got the muscle pretty bad. If he is walking around and didn't know about it, there isn't any limp or anything like that. Was VERY lucky.

 

[HoleshotHolset]

"Definetely see the difference in attitudes between the southern guys and OCC."

I'd much rather work for Milwaukee Iron... Paul Sr. at OCC needs to take a chill pill, man.



Matt

 

[fest3er]

The lab in Motorola where I worked some years back had a few DC backup systems. A couple stacks of batteries that would each supply 3200A of 24V for 20 minutes, and a few that would each supply 1600A of 48V for 20 minutes. You get a short across those stacks, and you *will* get many thousands of amps of current. I learned early on to be very careful around that whole power system. Some years before that, I'd seen the results of putting a slip wrench across two legs of 800A 3-phase. So metal stays well away from bus bars.

N

 

[Sled Puller]

I saw a calander once that was 12 months of farm accidents resulting in death.

Gruesome.

 

[Sled Puller]

Originally posted by bmoeller

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Don't know if it was true of what I heard, but there was supposedly a girl with long hair that got it caught on a PTO shaft. Scalped her. :--)

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TRUE, At least once.



http://www.dispatch.com/news/newsfea99/nov99/zimma28nws.html



Well, not a PTO shaft... "



"One second, I was looking up at green twine; the next, I was on my knees holding the back of what should've been my head. Instead, I was grasping onto bone. ''



The underside of a rotating shaft operating a part of the machine that kicked bales into a wagon caught her ponytail and ripped away hair and scalp, exposing a section of skull the size of a dinner plate. "

 

[cap-n-cray]

I no longer wear my wedding ring..... reached into a engine and it shorted out between the starter hot and ground. Heated up so fast I could not get the ring off before it burnt my finger. Had to tell my wife couldn't wear the ring any more.



I was MIG welding once and a hot bead ended up between my watch and skin. :{ Don't wear a watch any more either.



Cary

 

[Peter Campbell]

Not about loosing fingers- we had someone drill into a concrete conduit carrying power to a 350Hp electric motor. The cord on the power tool went up like a primer cord- the ground the nuetral and the power all got vaporized. Fortunately he was on a wood deck part of the scaffold- he did not get any injury but some fear. The pump kept humming along- not enough to trip the phase differential, much less the overcurrent.

 

[QRTRHRS]

Originally posted by fest3er

The lab in Motorola where I worked some years back had a few DC backup systems. A couple stacks of batteries that would each supply 3200A of 24V for 20 minutes, and a few that would each supply 1600A of 48V for 20 minutes. You get a short across those stacks, and you *will* get many thousands of amps of current. I learned early on to be very careful around that whole power system. Some years before that, I'd seen the results of putting a slip wrench across two legs of 800A 3-phase. So metal stays well away from bus bars.



N

Ever pass a flashlight near a heavy AC busbar? The equipment I worked on in the semi industry could draw upward of 2500 amps. I used to VISUALLY trouble shoot vibration problems which would take me into that area. The bars were shielded with plastic covers and of course we respected them. It was science 101 though when you moved the light towards the bars and got into the field.

 

[HEMI®Dart]

QRTRHRS,



What happens when you have a flashlight close to buss bars?



How is your Grandson doing?

 

[QRTRHRS]

Originally posted by HEMI®Dart

QRTRHRS,



What happens when you have a flashlight close to buss bars?



How is your Grandson doing?

Going back over a year here since the AC machines were shutdown before the newer DC ones we had prior to being sent to China so bear with me. Around 8-10" and under, the light would start vibrating like mother's little helper. The closer you went, the more intense the vibes. It kind of drove home the point that you were in a potentially hazardous area. But then that is the nature of the semi conductor industry.



Re: the grandson. Earlier this month, he had a bone marrow check that was very promising as have his weekly blood tests. This suggests that either the blood infusion worked even though he did not show an outward reaction or his immunity system is fighting the cancer. At this point, no cancer cells are showing up. I had not posted on this upbeat turn of events as the doctors keep telling Steve not to get his hopes up too high.



When he replapsed back in October, just making it to xmas did not look good. He was so weak, he could not make it over a 3" high step at home. Now he is able to play outside a bit. If you visit the site, the family makes mention how much they have appreciated the TDR family's support and many others. Steve's site updates were and still are a bit limited since the holiday period. I can only marvel on him keeping it together.

http://www.sevans.net/justin.htm