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[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 3 hours ago

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.

[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

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

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 26 minutes 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.

[-] Zannsolo@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago

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.

[-] populustree 11 points 2 hours ago

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

which isn't totally unfeasable

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 hours ago

Jesus. What a way to go

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