Share your accidents and close-calls so others can learn from them?

When I was a noob, I was using a fence mounted stop block to cut equal
length parts. A properly sized stop ends well before the blade starts.
Unfortunately, my stop was too long, extending to the area between the
fence and blade.

A cutoff got trapped between the blade and fence, and was launched like
a pitching machine. I got hit in the lower gut hard enough to
initially believe I would soon die. Luckily, the wood had hit my thumb
first. I broke my thumb, but the emergency room folks thought it took
some of the energy away from my abdominal impact.

I've been hit by frozen pucks, hockey sticks, linebackers, the ground
and curbing during serious bicycle crashes, I've stuck my hand into
large scale r/c propellers and had one serious auto accident. This
injury hurt worse than any of that.

A second thought and review of the procedure before the first cut would
have prevented the accident.

Let's be safe...

Posted by B A R R Y on August 10, 2007, 7:17 am

Thomas G. Marshall wrote:

> I wanted to urge people to use protective eye gear with my quick story of a

> near-miss.

A quick point about eye wear.

Obviously, eye protection helps protect our eyes from direct damage.

A less mentioned benefit is that even nuisance dust can cause an eye to
blink, blur or heavily tear. Even though light dust irritation is
usually recoverable and only a nuisance, the thought of having my eyes
closed while my hands are near spinning blades and bits, or my bicycle
is traveling at decent speeds gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Posted by Dave Gordon on August 10, 2007, 1:51 pm

> Thomas G. Marshall wrote:

>> I wanted to urge people to use protective eye gear with my quick story of a

near-miss.

> A quick point about eye wear.

> Obviously, eye protection helps protect our eyes from direct damage.

> A less mentioned benefit is that even nuisance dust can cause an eye to blink,

blur or heavily tear.

> Even though light dust irritation is usually recoverable and only a nuisance,

the thought of having

> my eyes closed while my hands are near spinning blades and bits, or my bicycle

is traveling at

> decent speeds gives me the heebie-jeebies.

I find the glasses steam up after a few minutes, especially wearing a mask
filter too. One of those
whole-face guards that the Normster uses on the lathe is much better. Can't
afford a sealing version
with the filter and motorised fan though.

Posted by Doug Miller on August 10, 2007, 2:08 pm

>Thomas G. Marshall wrote:

>> I wanted to urge people to use protective eye gear with my quick story of a

>> near-miss.

>A quick point about eye wear.

>Obviously, eye protection helps protect our eyes from direct damage.

>A less mentioned benefit is that even nuisance dust can cause an eye to

>blink, blur or heavily tear. Even though light dust irritation is

>usually recoverable and only a nuisance, the thought of having my eyes

>closed while my hands are near spinning blades and bits, or my bicycle

>is traveling at decent speeds gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Another less-mentioned -- and less-appreciated -- point is that there are
other parts of your face besides your eyes that should be protected. I don't
believe I'd much enjoy catching chunk of wood in the teeth, or the nose.
Hence, I always wear a full-face shield when operating power tools -- and some
hand tools, too, like hammers.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

Posted by Wayne Whitney on August 10, 2007, 2:19 pm

> Hence, I always wear a full-face shield when operating power tools

> -- and some hand tools, too, like hammers.

How do you find that to work for you? I've found my face shield is
easily scratched (polycarbonate) and gets dusty very easily. So using
it is rather a nuisance, is there any way to reduce that?

Thanks, Wayne

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