Gobo
Titanium
- Joined
- Jun 4, 2013
- Location
- Oregon, USA
We had an extremely close call on the shop floor the other day. An operator reached into a horizontal mill to measure a part and made the near fatal mistake of leaving the spindle running. He was wearing a light jacket and t-shirt. A one inch end mill got a hold of his jacket. By the time he had fought free , both his jacket and t-shirt had been ripped off of him, and were happily spinning away at 1500 rpm. The operator had decades of experience, and did what most of us have probably done ourselves, take a shortcut. Aside from being bruised and sore, he escaped without injury. It takes just a second to end up as a statistic.