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Re: Any Injuries Caused by Gloves?

>He got the tip of one of the fingers caught under a belt...tight fitting

> >gloves, too BTW...they rushed him to the ER and I had to tear the machine > >apart to recover the digits while the paramedics were standing by, in hopes > >of being able to reattach them...didn't work. Lost them. > > > >I used to wear gloves all the time, but I'm a little leary of doing that > >now...still wear them, just not as much. Mostly when handling raw/rough > >stock on the jointer or things like that. > > That's sad, no doubt. However, do you think the outcome would have been

different if he had been wearing tight-fitting FINGERLESS

gloves? Think about it. I'm not trying to be a smart-ass or be

condescending. Just trying to point out (IMO) that fingerless

gloves don't seem to be mentioned (or even considered) in any of those

much-quoted "safety practice" guidelines.

> Peter Teubel > Milford, MA >
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gloves...I've seen them and I use them for riding. When I'mwearing gloves for protection, I want to protect my fingers, too. And theonly time I have gloves on that I'm not protecting my whole hand, it's on amotorcycle and I'm wearing anti-vib gloves to protect from the numb palmthing, not cuts or scrapes. Oh and it does get cold here so I wear them forprotection from the cold.

In the case of the gentleman I worked with, yes, fingerless gloves would have meant that he'd have only lost one finger and likely no or minimal "collatoral damage".

I didn't take your post as smart-ass or condescending at all, rather you brought up some very good points...I tend to not think of fingerless gloves as gloves is all...my bad, as it were.

Mike

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The Davenports
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Though not glove/lathe injuries I thought I'd relate two serious hand injuries I have witnessed in the hope that someone one day may recognize a similar hazardous situation and hopefully take steps prevent them from re-ocurring. The latter as you'll see was a no brainer ie keep kids out of the workplace

My first like the previous authors also involved the wearing of a ring to work....A truck driver was throwing bundles of riven oak from a flatbead vehicle, each bundle was secured with wire, He threw a bundle and a piece of wire found its way between his ring and his finger, the weight of the bundle ripped him of the back of the truck. He tried to save himself but fell five feet and broke both wrists and his nose.

My second was a horrific incident that occured while building lifeboats for a major shipping company. One of the company directors visited the workshop and had brought his 6 yr old son with him, it was a Saturday morning with just a skeleton crew working. One machinist while working a 24" Jointer/thicknesser combination machine knocked over a stack of pieces he'd been planing he turned to pick them up and the 6 year old fascinated by the shiney appearence of the (unguarded) spinning cutters approached from behind and for some reason reached out to touch them.. Enough said !

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Rob Stearns

I think it was my initial concern for the safety aspect that prompted this series of postings. Since then, I have asked all my woodturning friends whether they would consider wearing any type of glove and so far the answers have all been negative. Maybe it's an American thing, but we Brits seem to prefer bare hands and 'feel'.

Charlie (Oxford Woodturning club. UK)

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Charlie Jones

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