Long sleeves, long hair, jewelry, all will get you sooner or later. 

Edited September 8, 20196 yr by Gene Howe

Have seen this before but did not look that close. Now just why didn't they cut the shirt off?

Thanks, Gene, for reminding us of the power of these machines and we need to keep safety in the forefront of all our procedures.  Wow.  I really feel sorry for this guy, but his coworkers went into recovery action well organized and in a timely fashion.  He may have lost an arm, but he will be fine otherwise.  

Pucker Factor Number  0000.

Wow!

Yikes! 

Another reminder. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/nyregion/yale-student-dies-in-machine-shop-accident.html

I’m sitting here yelling at the guy to roll up his sleeves! Then at the end I’m yelling “loosen the dang chuck!” I’d hate to see the condition of his arm. I made the baggy clothes mistake once. Just once. A string from a hood on a hooded sweatshirt got caught on my lathe a few years ago. Sucked the string right out of the hood and scared some common sense into me. Videos like this should remind us all how important shop saftey is and easy it can be to get too comfortable. Makes me want build a spring pole lathe

Thanks for posting Gene. 

Edited September 8, 20196 yr by Adam Welker

Saw it before.  Still scary!!!

Well, I don't use a lathe but, I've pulled some really stupid stunts with other tools. Most of them resulted in just needing to change my shorts but, a couple have required hospital trips. I'm not a poster boy for OSHA, nor do I practice accepted shop safety techniques at all times. But some things like loose stuff hanging around spinny things just stick with me. 

The two times I needed to be sewn back together woke me up, though. I've got half a thumb compliments of the jointer and a forefinger, on the same hand, that doesn't work right because I got in a hurry at the TS. 

Now, nothing is taken for granted and every operation gets thought through before the machine gets switched on. Your greatest safety device is between your ears.

3 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

Your greatest safety device is between your ears.

I have had a few stuck on stupid moments.  

Gene - thanks for this reminder.  I've done some really stupid tings in my 30+ years of ww'ing.  It really only takes a micro-second of not paying attention.  I've been lucky.

21 hours ago, Woodbutcherbynight said:

I have had a few stuck on stupid moments.  

...... Who am I kidding!...

I had seen this video before and as an old machinist have seen a couple of folks get shirts caught and pulled into the work piece. One was a sleeve and one was a shirt tail. No major damage to either after they were cut free. Also back in the 70's when long hair was popular one of the guys ended up with a 3" bald and skinned place on the side of his head. These were like 40 and 60 hp metal lathes.   

I think any one that works with a lathe has a story to tell.

my story....

I have one of Grizzly's bigger 5hp metal lathes.

It takes a 16" 4 jaw chuck that I don't like to handle.

Sometimes I like to cheat. I mount a 6" 4 jaw chuck inside

my large 3 jaw chuck to save time. When you put something

heavy in a 3 jaw chuck the 3 jaw will tighten up on only 2 jaws

if you don't watch what your doing. That's what happened to me.

It's not fun to have a 6" chuck bouncing around the same room that

you are in... No one got hurt....

27 minutes ago, Kevin Beitz said:

I think any one that works with a lathe has a story to tell.

my story....

I have one of Grizzly's bigger 5hp metal lathes.

It takes a 16" 4 jaw chuck that I don't like to handle.

Sometimes I like to cheat. I mount a 6" 4 jaw chuck inside

my large 3 jaw chuck to save time. When you put something

heavy in a 3 jaw chuck the 3 jaw will tighten up on only 2 jaws

if you don't watch what your doing. That's what happened to me.

It's not fun to have a 6" chuck bouncing around the same room that

you are in... No one got hurt....

Wow!!

Sounds like some fancy foot work was going on.  Glad you had a safe ending.

It first just fell to the floor spinning like crazy.... sparks flying it spun

it's way across the floor to my floor drill press. Then one of the jaws 

caught on the base of the press and I'm not sure what happened next

because I left the noisy room... Bang... Crash... BANG...

Nothing that I could find got damaged. Not even the chuck...