Ooh nasty

[Tony]

My dad had to go to A&E today after cutting steel bar with a grinder - apparently a brief slip and a sting like a nettle, opened up the ball of his thumb and you could see the tendon moving under the goo.  Hospital say he was lucky not to cut the tendon so a good washing to get the muck out and stitches and should be OK.  Just from a grinder.  Nasty.

[kamaangir]

Hope it gets sorted, I cringe at the stuff my dad does, yeah he makes me cringe hahaha!

Insulation tape? thats for nancies, I just twist the live conductors together and leave them apart while I test another bit of the circuit! Can't be arsed wiring up a plug? Just find another appliance with one and twist your bare conductors around the plug and insert into socket!

When "We " are doing electrical stuff round his house, he spends all his time doing that stuff and I just go quietly and terminal block all his connections or at least put insulation tape on them till we finish testing stuff. Watching him wire up a light fitting while standing on a rickety ladder when its too dark and he can't see to well without his glasses is "funny" well not if he falls on me any way.

[Jmg]

he sounds like an even dafter version of me. the only thing of those I haven't done at some point is miss out the tape.
No point wiring a plug to something until you're sure it works.

As for the grinder ouch, given myself a few nasty ones over the years but nothing like that. Seen an apprentice stick one halfway into his knee when it jumped, they scare me a bit now, well more than electricity does anyway.

[therecklessengineer]

It's standard practice when using a grinder in the seafaring industry that you should always cut on the side so that if it kicks, it kicks away from you.

There was an incident a few weeks ago when an able seaman ignored this with a 9" grinder. Damned nearly cut his testicles off.

[greasemonkey]

Nasty old job. Hope he heals up well.
Trouble is with an angle grinder cut is that it removes what it touches, rather than just splitting the skin.