[KC]

Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan, Russia – November 2020. A 65-year-old worker died at the KAMAZ PJSC factory when he got caught in a spinning lathe machine. The incident was investigated by the Investigative Committee for the Republic of Tatarstan. This incident is commonly called the Russian Lathe Accident online.

[rhubarb_king]

Would you just check out the pink mist on THAT!

[William May]

Metal lathes- they turn deceptively slowly, so they look harmless, but that one is probably 20 hp, and when it's geared down, you can't stop it. He managed to fight it to a draw for a few seconds. I wondered how long he was going to last. Once it grabbed him, he probably couldn't let go to hit the kill switch, so he was pretty much dead as soon as he stopped it. When his arm and back strength wound down, that was the end.
Woodworking tools will cut you, but metalworking tools will grind you up and spit you out.

[zeb247]

Wow. That's a great find. Best workplace accident I've ever seen.

[gimlet]

Jesus' shit! I nominate for most incredible rotating machinery death video ever on Documenting Reality. Un-fucking-believable. I thought it would be a boring video when he got stuck, then he started spinning, throwing parts and disintegrating in spectacular fashion like one of the airborne turbos from a top fuel dragster.

Instant tartar sauce, bottle him up!

[ritthead]

shame that the camera recorded in 240p

[KansasKid]

That was fucking intense, there was nothing left of him intact after that shit

[Nargacugapp]

Holy fuck his insides went flying everywhere

[gimlet]

Don't screw around in shop class!

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[gimlet]

Originally Posted by William May ↗

Metal lathes- they turn deceptively slowly, so they look harmless, but that one is probably 20 hp, and when it's geared down, you can't stop it. He managed to fight it to a draw for a few seconds. I wondered how long he was going to last. Once it grabbed him, he probably couldn't let go to hit the kill switch, so he was pretty much dead as soon as he stopped it. When his arm and back strength wound down, that was the end.
Woodworking tools will cut you, but metalworking tools will grind you up and spit you out.

Better a quick death on a lathe than a long, slow death working all day on a manufacturing shop floor. I didn't laugh when I saw this, I worked in a similar place summers while I was in university, fucking Hades on Earth that job was.

Inm eighth grade, our salty shop teacher would take an old shirt and bring a a drill press slowly down to touch it. It would grab in an instant and spin like this video. He would say something like, "that's why you don't wear loose clothes around machinery" This teacher was burned all over, he had half an ear left. A plane carrying napalm had crashed near him and splashed him in the Korean War. Come to think of it, our public schools hired these old war horses. Our high school geography teacher had half a hand blown off by a German sniper in WW2. He would tell stirring tales about throwing grenades behind him to keep the Krauts "honest back there".