On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:49:47 -0600, Rob Fraser FraserRacing wrote:

The dude never liked me but after seeing this, he may have just
saved my life. Flashback to that day. But if your gonna go, might as well
be doing what you like...

I'm not sure that being beaten to death around a rotating axle is
anyone's idea of "doing what they like". I was first on scene as an EMT
to a farmer who had got himself caught in his tractor's PTO shaft. Only
thing I could "do for him" was to pull the killswitch on the tractor,
and wait for the coroner to take over the scene. About the same as the
lathe accident in question, more or less, at least in end result. Only
good thing about the scene, I guess, is that I didn't need to notify the
family that he couldn't be helped.

That sucked. A lot. Roll up your sleeves, guys.