pro tip for engineers etc.

utajoker

utajoker

utajoker

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if your working on any machinery make sure to turn off the power first.

our guy found out the hard way and is now missing a finger.

retrieving a finger wasn't part of my job description.
 
I know someone who had there hand ripped off the motorised door in the mini factory in Oxford while servicing it
 
I worked at the two biggest engineering factories in Stoke (Michelin & Creda) and stories like this were weekly because Health & Safety in the 70's/80s was non existent.

The worst thing that happened to me was I turned up by my vertical lathe which made the metal moulds that the rubber was poured into to make tyres.
The rules were that if you left a machine on your shift everything had to be securely tightened down on the chuck.
I turned it on to make sure the 4 big metal blocks were central and woke up in hospital.
I still shudder now because if I was standing 1/2" to the left I'd be dead but one of these blocks came off and hit me on the shoulder and took my left ear off :eek:

The worst one I saw was a bloke who worked behind me and his sleeve got caught in a normal lathe and pulled his head forward into the revolving chuck and I got covered in blood and bits of skull.
He never returned to work and had to have his skull and face rebuilt.
 
Will have to watch I dont lose a leg working at my desk, will warn all the other engineers at my company working at desks as well.
 
anyone who has to be warned about isolating machinery to work on it, probably shouldn't e working on it in the first place!
 
reminds me of when i was fixing my dremel and prodded my thumb nice and squarely onto the 240V mains terminals that connected to the armature :(
 
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