On 4/15/2011 10:45 PM, Vic Smith wrote:
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:18:00 -0500,
wrote:

A review of best practices by Popular Mechanics magazine, inspired by the
death of a Yale student whose hair was caught in the chuck of a metal lathe.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/home...lick=pm_latest

I guess she should have been wearing a hair net. . .


That's a good article, and they mention jewelry, including rings.
I'll never forget what I saw in the safety class for new employees at
IH many years ago.
I was already real careful about sleeves and loose clothes from doing
car engine work.
At the IH safety class they showed 2 pictures I remember well.
A wedding banded finger with about 2 feet of tendons hanging from it.
It was on a drill press chuck. The ring fit right in a groove of the
chuck. Violated the "touching moving machinery" rule but it was the
ring that got the finger.
Second picture the finger looked like the first one.
Except it was about 8 feet off the ground on the back of a T-25 dozer,
stuck on some kind of groove up there.
Salesman had jumped down, but left the finger behind.
I put my wedding band in a drawer.

--Vic

I grew up in construction, and my father beat those dangers into me and
all the rest of the workers. I've driven a desk for a couple decades
now, but I still can't bring myself to wear any jewelry or anything tied
around my neck. And when I pointed out the danger, they even switched
the standard-issue badge lanyards to the break-away style with the
velcro at the back of the neck. (I just clip mine to the front of my shirt)

--
aem sends...