Today's safety lesson

kaiser715

kaiser715

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Ok, kids, today's lesson is on drill presses and safety glasses....

I broke a 9/16 bit in the drill press today. Actually, it shattered into at least 5 pieces. One stayed in the chuck, another (the biggest) stayed in the part, a small sliver (about 1" long and maybe 1/8" wide tapering to a sharp point) stabbed thru my sweatshirt and t-shirt on my chest (enough to prick, but not penetrate the skin), one ricocheted off my glasses, and the last piece I heard "ching" off the back wall, 24' away. Lesson one, safety glasses are a good thing.

Basically (lesson two) I was using the wrong tool for the job. Working with 1" thick plates, one set of matching holes in 2 plates back-to-back didn't quite line up. I probably should have used a reamer or just redrilled one of the holes oversized, but instead I ran the twist drill back thru (200RPM) and it bound up and shattered.

Don't think you are the one that can get by without the right safety gear and precautions!

Class dismissed.
 
Dang! That sucks bad.
 
Congrats on being smart enough to wear glasses.
I'm religious about the safety glasses, but keep learning my lesson about gloves.
Take them off "for a second" and next thing I know, it's neosporin and a bandage.
:(

Oh well, maybe one of these years I'll be smart enough to keep wearing gloves.

Glad you didn't hurt yourself.
 
hscrugby said:
...keep learning my lesson about gloves....Oh well, maybe one of these years I'll be smart enough to keep wearing gloves...
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Stay tuned for lesson three from our guest lecturer, hscrugby, who will tell us about gloves and rotating machinery. :)
 
hscrugby said:
Congrats on being smart enough to wear glasses.
I'm religious about the safety glasses, but keep learning my lesson about gloves.
Take them off "for a second" and next thing I know, it's neosporin and a bandage.
:(

Oh well, maybe one of these years I'll be smart enough to keep wearing gloves.

Glad you didn't hurt yourself.
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Gloves are a double edge sword, yes, they can keep you from getting your hands cut, but just as easily the fragment that was going to cut you can now grab the glove(s) and pull your hand and body into the machine.

and a HELL of a lot quicker than you will ever realize !!!

You can pull back a nub before you notice it hurts
 
ya... b/c of what I do for a living, I'm super-paranoid about metal fragments and eye damage. Always wear glasses now, even just putting parts on/off the truck etc. I got some nice Riley X wrap-around sunglasses w/ padding so they practically seal against your face; they came w/ some clear lenses that swap in just for wearing around the garage.
And when it comes to the grinder, it's the big HF plastic face shield (while stil lwearing the glasses).

BTW, I have several pairs of those glasses (kind of an odd story), will sell them cheap (See, I'm promoting eye safety)
 
OSHA rules, you are not to wear gloves while grinding. I believe this goes for the bench or the disk grinder. Not my favorite rule. I've had a bare thumb sucked into a grinder, took the corner of my thumb off! I was being stupid and using bad practices, though. I feel like gloves will do a better job of warning you should you get too close to the wheel. I don't know, with or without gloves, grinder safety is a lose-lose situation. It's gonna hurt!

Next week, can you do a lesson on earplugs? :D

Dave, I'd like to try those on.
 
catfishblues said:
OSHA rules, you are not to wear gloves while grinding. I believe this goes for the bench or the disk grinder. Not my favorite rule. I've had a bare thumb sucked into a grinder, took the corner of my thumb off! I was being stupid and using bad practices, though. I feel like gloves will do a better job of warning you should you get too close to the wheel. I don't know, with or without gloves, grinder safety is a lose-lose situation. It's gonna hurt!
Next week, can you do a lesson on earplugs? :D
Dave, I'd like to try those on.
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No gloves, while hot metal shavings are flying everywhere? That's lunacy. I *always* wear gloves using a grinder. Especially if I've put a cutting wheel on it, using to chop off something.
Now, that's a hand-held disc grinder. Kind of hard to get your hands sucked into it when you have to use them to hold it, lol.
I guess I can see how it's more of a problem w/ a bench-mount deal and you are pushing the metal part into the wheel by hand.
 
yeah when refering to a bench grinder, I was told by a few machinist not to wear gloves, because that will let you know when the piece is getting too hot and needs to be cooled so that you dont change the properties of the metal.... that goes for sanding aluminum as well
 
I watched A kid loose half of his finger!

I was standing Near A kid in welding school, He had gloves on at the bench grinder. Wheel was 10"diam. 2" wide. all of the sudden he yanked his arm back, & flung his glove off. He was shaking his hand like he had burned it. When he stopped to look at it, half of his pointer finger on his right hand was gone. Unfortunate, but preventable. If you really think about it, it could have been much worse. Hand held angle grinders are one thing, no gloves on bench grinders though. Related to 1st post, ever seen the American chopper show where the kid gets his glove caught in the drill press? Lots of blood, & A trip to the ER. Also had A personal Incident happen to me once. While using A 7" angle grinder, some red hot sparks flew at me. They sprayed back in my face. One hot one went over the top of my safety glasses, & stuck in my left eye. I couln't find anything in my eye, that night. The next morning I had A rust ring, around the steel sliver. Had my boss drive me to Will's eye hospital, in Philly. The doctor used A small device, that looked like A hockey stick, about 1/2mm to scrape the thing out of my eye. Then he said, if I had come in the day it happened, we would be finished. Of course I'm not that lucky. He had to use A mini ball bur to polish the rust ring off of my eye. That was the hardest thing, I have ever had to sit through in my life! Now I use A full face shield, & safety glasses, when I use an angle grinder.:poop:
 
gloves are a bad idea on drill presses, milling machines, and band saws. I've seen too many people get hurt because of the gloves, more than got hurt from not wearing them...

OSHA doesn't specifically state (1910 and 1926) that you are not allowed to use gloves while operating this equipment.

OSHA does say that gloves and PPE shall be used to protect extremeties from abrasion, burns, etc. While grinding, an OSHA officer will require you to wear gloves based off of this requirement. Other activities, it is questionable because you are required to wear gloves to protect against cuts and scrapes, etc. For mills and drill presses, etc., there are supposed to be guards to prevent you from getting your hands in the tooling, as required by OSHA, so there is no standard requiring you to or not wear gloves while operating these pieces of equipment.
 
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