[AT] off topic some Angle Grinders

[Cecil Bearden]

I am relating this to maybe save some of  you the pain and trouble I am 
in right now.   I was cutting bolts out of the rusted floorboard of my 
93 IHC 4700  old OK dot truck..   Salt has eaten through the 
floorboard.   The bolts had to be cut out.  I was using a 4-1/2 in angle 
grinder, on my knees and holding myself u p with the right hand and 
using the grinder in my left.  My work gloves were in my other 
truck.....  When I switched off the grinder, I set it on the floorboard 
and the spinning blade hit the back side of the cab and jumped up about 
3 inches and cut across the big joint of my thumb on my right hand.   
the blade was one of those 0.045in cutting blades. I can see the tendon 
that moves the thumb moving in the cut.  It will be a few days before I 
can get back to work, and I am right handed.

I had safety glasses, but no gloves...    I was too busy to go get 
them..   Now with the bandage, i cannot really type, the way I make a 
living now, I write reports.   I have a bandage on the right hand like a 
boxing glove.   Don't make the same mistake I did, wear those gloves and 
safety glasses and shields.   The grinder had a shield, and was turned 
off.  If it had still been running, it would have been a lot worse.  It 
was just winding down...

End of rant!!

Cecil in OKla




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