I didn't wath the complete video. Once he was pulled in, I stopped it. I thought at first it was going to be his hand by using the sandpaper to clean up the surface. A coworker and a close friend was using 1" wide ribbon cloth to clean up a piece of stock. He was holding the paper with one hand, which was fine, but he decided to "tighten" the ribbon cloth just a little tighter and in doing that, he moved his thumb in closer and bent his hand up to tighten the ribbon cloth. When he did, it wrapped his thumb around the stock, or started to. Luckily he could hit the big red panic button. It broke his thumb and turned it solid black, but was salvageable.
When I was a setup man and Group leader at my old job, back in '79/'80, a lot of the older machinist still wore ties, which in earlier years was proper attire for a machinist or toolmaker. One evening (I was on 2nd shift) one of the older guys was running a threader, which was basically just like the video showed, only running less rpm's. He had a tie on, plus he also was wearing a shop apron. He leaned over and the threader caught his apron, which in turn also caught his tie. I saw him go down into the machine as did another machinist who was able to get to the button in time, but still not soon enough. By the time either of us had witnessed it, the tie was around his neck and pulled tight. It didn't kill him, but it was enough time that the tie had cut off oxygen to the brain. We got him cut out of the threader, the squad had arrived, and started giving him oxygen and off to the hospital. In that short amount of time that the tie was choking him, it deprived him of oxygen long enough that mentally he was never right again. He had to retire on disability. He ended up with sporadic motor skills, and also had what would be equal to how some Alzheimer patients act with decreased memory.
Back then, there were lax rules as far as jewelry, loose clothing, and so on. A ot of people complain about OSHA and the rules set forth by them, but there has been a lot of good that comes out of it. Sadly enough though, it's always at the cost of a tragic accident.
I watched the video. It was similar to one that was posted here a few years ago when a student basically got his arm caught and was pitched over the lathe. Those were kids. Maybe these were the same kids and they didn't get any smarter. I'm sure EVERYONE saw that coming.
I liked it when the 3rd guy came in. He was wearing camo so he may have been there all along but we just didn't see him. And then the 4th guy appears. He's only wearing an undershirt which makes me wonder if guy #3 just freed him from an adjacent lathe. 