Worker Killed After Being Caught in Machinery (Russian Lathe Accident)

gimlet · #61 ● 11-20-2020, 10:56 PM

Is that you,

Lee Meriwether, what a hottie and my favorite Catwoman. Here she is in 1966:

justjux2 · #62 ● 11-21-2020, 01:12 AM

Our science teacher was a vet. He was super shell shocked and turned around super quick for everything. He was very jittery. He taught us how to cook cocaine. I’m
Black. So. Yeah. Great education system America has. Teach the kids to cook crack then lock them up forever for it.

Originally Posted by gimlet ↗

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".

Rogan · #63 ● 11-21-2020, 02:00 AM

good stuff. I will never cease to be amazed at worker irresponsibility around machines. And even though, at near-50, the only takeaway from life for me has been, "you reap what you sow" I believe the price was too high in this case. I am sorry for this death.