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I had a neighbour friend who was not a mortician but embalmed his own wife. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

I witnessed a fatal lathe accident. The kind that would have easily been featured in rotten.com back in the day. They shut the whole shop down and noone worked for a month. It was awful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

Not "Russian lathe incident"? Sounds like it might potentially be identical if it's not that one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 24 minutes ago

Nah, I'm in the US. And, honestly (this is painful to recall) it wasn't an arm stretched around the lathe chuck. It was mostly red mist that left some organs around. This was on a large machine that had a 30 foot long bed, and around 90 HP to drive it. The guy was trying to turn down a cam shaft for a ship at about 100 rpm. The forces involved are insane. He kind of... disappeared.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I've never worked with a lathe, but PTOs on the farm were terrifying. I was taught to be afraid, and I was.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Basically the same ideas for safety, but those PTOs tend to have way more horsepower behind them. I don't care how cold you might be, loose clothing is bad.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yikes, remember kids no loose items near the violently spinning things.

I used to be a plumber and spent a lot of time running a pipe threader all I ever thought about while using it was if I mess up this thing will force my body through a 5 in gap.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

if i mess up, this thing will force my body through a 5 in. gap.

which isn't totally unfeasable

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Jesus. What a way to go

[–] [email protected] 1 points 58 minutes ago* (last edited 57 minutes ago)

like a hotdog in a shop vac, crummy way to go really