(10-12-2016, 09:17 PM)TomG Wrote: I've seen that happen as well Stan.
Glove and machinery accidents seldom have a happy ending. You wouldn't believe how many people condemn me for not wearing gloves in my drill sharpening video on YouTube. I just send them to the Department of Labor website and tell them to do a keyword search for gloves. You'll get close to 500 hits, so be prepared to spend some time.
Fatality and Catastrophe Investigation Summaries
Tom
Thanks for the backup Tom. When I went to the US Navy's Machinery Repairman School (machinist) there was a 4X8 ft plywood sign painted white with big red letters hanging in the shop.
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they were the first letters for Safety, Accuracy, Speed. That was the priority. Wearing gloves around any rotating, reciprocating, sliding, oscillating, etc machinery would get you reamed out and quite possibly kicked out of the school and sent to the fleet as a fireman recruit to be used in the nastiest, filthiest, physically demanding job available such as cleaning out the bilges in the engine and/or boiler rooms.
In reality being a MR in the Navy was one of the best engineering/mechanical related positions you could get. BT (Boiler Tech), MM (Machinist Mate) (mechanic) Hull Tech and many others were back breaking filthy slots. Just ask anyone who has been a BT and cleaned out the fire side of a tube type boiler. Makes a coal miner look like a desk job.