On 4/15/2011 9:45 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've never worn any jewelry and if I wear a watch, it's plastic with a
plastic band like a divers watch. My oldest brother got his Twist-O-Flex
watch band between the positive battery lead and ground on a tractor, he
got branded when it lit up. :-)

TDD