Shop mishap

Bigfattyt said:
My cousin just posted some fantasticlly gory photos. He got his thumb stuck in a hand held belt sander with 40 grit belt.

They had to go to the hospital with his thumb still bound up in it, and had to take the sander apart to get his thumb out.

thumbnail gone. Took the whole top of the thumb down to the bone.
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YEEEOOOOWWWWCHH!!!!

That's gonna leave a mark...
 
knife to a gunfight said:
This used to be a big problem for my wife.... she liked to bang on the garage door like the house is on fire, and it can be quite startling. When I'm running a machine that could easily maim and disfigure, or cripple me for life, and all of the sudden I hear a loud and rapid BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG on a metal garage door, my brain's first response is usually "ok, something's about the explode off of this machine.... oh wait, it's just my wife giving me heart failure".

You definitely get that fight or flight adrenaline rush, and it's not a great thing to have with fingers less than an inch away from a belt or blade.

Incidentally, I sometime get the same response when my air compressor kicks on out of nowhere. hahah Maybe I'm wound a little too tight.

At any rate, my wife knows to text my phone if she needs me, or to call if I don't respond within a couple of minutes.
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You need an "On Air" light in reverse.
If she needs you, she flips a switch that turns on a bright light in your shop.
Fingers stay on your hand, where they belong :-)

When I had my shop, I used to have a strobe light connected to the phone so I could "hear" it ringing over the tools and the loud music.
Nothing worse than being engrossed in something dangerous, and having that tap on your shoulder...
 
robgmn said:
You need an "On Air" light in reverse.
If she needs you, she flips a switch that turns on a bright light in your shop.
Fingers stay on your hand, where they belong :-)

When I had my shop, I used to have a strobe light connected to the phone so I could "hear" it ringing over the tools and the loud music.
Nothing worse than being engrossed in something dangerous, and having that tap on your shoulder...
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Not a bad idea.
 
I had that same issue with my parents yelling at me to do something or telling me dinner is ready while I'm on the grinder. I should be too young to have heart attacks, but I swear I had one when my dad yelled to me that dinner was ready when I was on the grinder. When I asked them never to do that again and to wait until I finished... They didn't take me seriously. Not a fun experience.
 
I had a light in the shop at my last house. It was a surplus rotating red "emergency" light. It was wired to the house, and if my wife wanted me to come in she turned it on. It immediately alerted me, but never startled me.

I have plans for a similar light system in the new shop that will turn on a red light if Judy needs me to come to the house, and a blue light when someone enters the clean shop door.
In the clean shop room ( the entrance from outside), just outside the hot shop door there will be a second green/blue/red stack light that will change color depending on what I am doing. It will turn green when I turn on the hot shop lights - indicating I am working in the hot shop. It will turn blue when I am running the exhaust vent - indicating that I am working with some type of equipment and may not be able to her them. It will turn red when I have the dust-vac system on - indicating that I am forging/grinding/welding. The blue light in the hot shop should have already alerted me that someone came in, so I can stop welding or forging for their protection. I bought the light stack NIB surplus for $15.
 
I had my bandsaw in my driveway and was ripping up some wood when my wife pulled into the driveway. I looked up and gave a wave and went back to cutting. She pulled up and then thought it would be funny to give a good long blast of the horn. I was pretty angry and let her know. Of course she was mad at me for getting mad at her. BUT she is much more careful about startling me around machinery now.
 
I'm not a maker but would like to emphasise the importance of squirt eye flush bottles.

Fingers after cutting chillies, insects, metal shavings, acids and strippers have an unholy affinity to human eyes.
Safety glasses only work for what comes flying from the front unless you go for the fully enclosed ones and we all know how sweaty they are and how they fog up.
Also good with little humans in the house. Who knows what they spray into each others faces the next time.

You can buy the solution or just use water which you replace regularly. If you want to be fancy add a bit of salt. As long as there isn't an open wound in the eye it doesn't need to be super sterile and if there's something fresh poking in there I wouldn't wash it anyways.

Stay safe.
 
What are you guys storing your eye wash bottle in to keep it free of dust? I can't imagine grabbing a dust covered eye wash bottle to squirt my eye with it. Even opening a dust free storage cabinet is most likely going to stir up dust. I guess you could have one in your clean room if you have a clean room.
 
LCoop said:
What are you guys storing your eye wash bottle in to keep it free of dust? I can't imagine grabbing a dust covered eye wash bottle to squirt my eye with it. Even opening a dust free storage cabinet is most likely going to stir up dust. I guess you could have one in your clean room if you have a clean room.
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They have a lid which is easy to pull off. Even blind :-D
Under the lid it's all clean.
Mine is hanging on the wall next to the door. Easy to find.
 
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