A friendly reminder to respect your Angle Grinder

[6PTsocket]

I was grinding with a full face shield and when I took it off the plastic had shatter marks right in front of my eyes. It was too close to see it with the shield on and I never heard the impact. That reminded me to always wear full eye protection.


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[bigcreek]

I love wire wheels! they are really excited to grab your tucked in shirt, get wrapped up and stop on the nice flesh of the stomach

haha no kidding!! Ruined more than 1 good shirt/apron with the big wire wheels

 

[bigcreek]

Ya screw that! Im not partial to being impaled by failing wheel parts, I use a full face shield 99% and safety glasses 1% of the time and I grind a lot. I got hit in the jewels by a grinding wheel that blew up and it was not cool. 18 years ago when I was 18 years old I was cutting pipe with a 14" chop saw and to this day I don't remember how it happened but somehow that wheel cut right into my upper thigh. Again I don't remember how the heck that could of happened but Ive got a pretty sweet scar to remind me.

 

[Bighead38]

Angle grinders will remind you when your getting to comfortable. I was cutting something one day and thought hmm that felt kind weird.

Impressive how clean and straight that is.

Yep...respect the grinder or this could happen

I just feel bad. Sure proper Ppe would have most likely prevented that or at least minimized the damage but no one deserves that.

 

[C_F]

Damn! Poor *******.

 

[CNGsaves]

Dayuuuum . . . . that's going to leave a mark.

 

[Murphy4570]

For angle grinders/cutting wheels, certain PPE is required. Leather gloves, guard on the tool, secondary handle on the tool, use BOTH hands on the tool, and wear goggles or a face shield. Ear plugs are a good idea too.

I don't screw around with angle grinders or cutoff wheels. **** goes from A-OK to Hospital visit time in a New York minute!

 

[jpmd]

Know the feeling..held mine between my arm and body and when I plugged it in the paddle switch worked like it is supposed to..nice 3" scar on my forearm

 

[upndown]

Holy ****, was gonna cut and grind some metal today, think I'll go fishing instead! That could easily have been life ending.

 

[Crusarius]

he still has his safety glasses on