woodworker88 wrote:

I think the key to analyzing industrial accidents is trying to
determine what could have been done to prevent the situation from
occurring. In this case, a chuck guard would have protected him from
that danger that the spinning chuck posed. Other than careful
warnings about excessive clothing and proximity to the workpiece, I
doubt that much could have prevented the actual initial grabbing of
the clothes.

It sucks to end ones life as a warning to others.

Sleeves, long hair, or gloves around rotating elements is a formula for
disaster. My manager was giving me crap for not using a speaker mic plugged
into my walkie talkie. I told him there is no frigging way I'm wearing
something that can fall into moving machinery. When he gave me static, I
told him to call in osha for an opinion. That shut him up.

Wes