[AT] off topic some Angle Grinders

[Stephen Offiler]

Oh man, that's tough to read.  I've set down a spinning angle grinder one
or three times myself and I can picture the scene very easily.  I've been
fortunate to escape injury.  I am a big, big fan of PPE.  Long ago I
developed a pretty decent habit of wearing steel-toe shoes (then titanium,
and now carbon-fiber), safety glasses, and gloves.  Gotta be careful on the
gloves however.  If they can snag and pull you into something spinning, it
can be worse than no gloves at all.

SO


On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 2:42 AM, Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:

> 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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