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On 10/19/09 1:00 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:07:53 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:09:26 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:53:50 -0700, wrote:

I actually meant that putting the screwdriver under a running belt
would
scare the **** out of me, until I'd done it and seen the screw driver
wouldn't get thrown at me like a knife.

Yeah. Since I put away the timing light and dwell meter I don't get
my hands near a running engine. Checking trans fluid and sometimes
touching around with a steth probe is about it.
Even then I check my sleeves first.

I haven't seen a sleeve do it, but I did see a rag get snatched out of
a guys hand on a high speed lathe, come back around and debrided the
back of his hand.

The guys who worked on check sorters used to say "if you get your tie
caught in there they will have a hard time getting your socks out"

Even the laser printers that were slow by comparison still moved paper
at 32 inches a second.
The check sorters were more like 250 inches a second.

At a bulk mail center in New Jersey, the managers decided a sorting
machine was not running fast enough, so they removed some safety devices.
A worker was drawn into the machine and crushed.

At another bulk center, management was proudly demonstrating new safety
devices on driverless robot carts. The carts had sensitive bumpers that
would "stop the cart immediately" upon impact, and, if that failed, there
was an overhead safety rope that if yanked, would stop the cart.

Yup. The manager demonstrating the robocart to the media got in front of
it and let it hit him. It did not stop. It knocked him to the concrete
floor and then ran over him. Lying there on the floor, he couldn't reach
the overhead cable.

Sounds like the union people were too stupid to ask for the safety
interlocks to work.

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