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Couper

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Hey Fella's,

I have a friend who has owned a body shop for 35 or so years and got very badly hurt using a cut-off wheel on the 4" grinder. Apparently the wheel was running at a far greater RPM than the rating. I believe 18,000 veresus the 13,000 on the disc so he tells me. The disc shattered while cutting the tubing on a set of headers while on the bench. He said he was very close in to the material. As you will see he was using a face shield but a cheap one from HF. The fractured disc cut his nose longways and you will see the piece of disc that was lodged in his sinus cavity. Pictures are not easy to look at but my aim is to make an impression on you guys as it did with me. Please be careful guys
 

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Tough to look at for sure. Good point made that luckily missed his eyes. My closest call was using a table saw. Had a shield and shop apron on and a piece of carbide broke off the blase hitting me in the chest. Apron was a godsend. Huge welt on my chest. Quality blade too. Never know. Jim
 
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I was using a 3" cutoff wheel once that self destructed. When the wheel came apart, part of it hit my face. I got an instant headache, and my safety glass went flying, but no blood. When I found my safety glasses, they were split in 1/2 right at the bridge over my nose! The chunk of wheel struck the bridge of the safety glasses hard enough to break them, but didn't cause any more injury then a headache and a bruised bridge on my nose. That one caused me some time reflecting what could have been.
 
gene49 said:
I was using a 3" cutoff wheel once that self destructed. When the wheel came apart, part of it hit my face. I got an instant headache, and my safety glass went flying, but no blood. When I found my safety glasses, they were split in 1/2 right at the bridge over my nose! The chunk of wheel struck the bridge of the safety glasses hard enough to break them, but didn't cause any more injury then a headache and a bruised bridge on my nose. That one caused me some time reflecting what could have been.
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Close one pal.... hope you are doing well. All good here.
 
I gotta admit I'm not as safety oriented as I should be, but I have my own set of beliefs in most operations I perform. I don't wear gloves period! I'd rather my hide take a hit and let go than to be caught up in a glove and snatched into a machine that can do you in; ie a sawmill, table saw, drill presses and such. I use 5" cutting discs on a 4 1/2" grinder and once in a while I'll part with a piece of skin across a knuckle, my bad! I did have a cutting disc explode on me one time that took a path across the top of my wrist. If it went across the bottom instead of the top I would have had some serious blood loss. In the process of putting two stitches in it to close the gap I failed to get the nerve that I damaged down into the cut far enough. This caused a small bump along the scar which is that nerve just under the skin where it crosses a tendon. To this day all I have to do is touch that bump and it feels like a small electrical impulse travels to the tip of my index finger as a reminder. I don't get my face near or in line with any cutting process, but skin and digits are there for the torture...
 
When that 3" cut off wheel self destructed, my face was at about a 45 degree angle from the line of normal fire. The tool even had the guard in place. I assumed the piece that claimed my safety glasses must have caught part of the guard when it came apart the deflected it towards my face. I will never know for sure, it happened too fast and I was not recording the event so I could put it in slow motion to really see. Most of my welding shop work time was me there alone. I paid pretty close attention to where sparks went, and where stuff would normally go if things went wrong. If I went down, there would be no one there to call for help.

That said, you can't cover all of the possibilities. The work has to get done.
 

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