iandouglas
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TAKEN FROM ANOTHER SITE LR4X4.
I thought I would share with you all details of an accident I had last weekend, with the benefit of hindsight and some professional advice.
I was cutting up the frame of an old 1/2 ton trailer just to re-use some of the metal and junk the rest. While cutting through the 2" angle iron parts of the frame, approximately corresponding to where an axle would be, with a 10" Bosch angle grinder, the blade suddenly caught, threw the grinder out of the slot, glanced off another part of the frame and into my right thigh , resulting in a 6" long, 1" deep gash, a fair bit of blood, a trip to Gloucester A&E (they were brilliant) and 6 pretty heft stitches. I am currently convalescing for a few days.
I work for a shipbuilder and am very safety conscious, so did an accident assessment along the lines of what we would do at work.
Conclusions:
1. The blade caught because the part of the frame I was cutting was, unknown to me, in tension, like a bow. So when I completed the cut, the angle straightened itself out, catching the blade. The force of rotation and torque of the grinder threw the whole thing out, glanced off another part of the frame and my leg was then in the way. There was no obvious sign that the angle was in tension. This was the primary cause of the accident.
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Someone else started a 4 1/2" angle grinder with damaged disc and NO guard purchased from a car boot.
shattered as soon as he started it up caused him and someone else injurys
.
SO BE CAREFUL OUT THERE
I thought I would share with you all details of an accident I had last weekend, with the benefit of hindsight and some professional advice.
I was cutting up the frame of an old 1/2 ton trailer just to re-use some of the metal and junk the rest. While cutting through the 2" angle iron parts of the frame, approximately corresponding to where an axle would be, with a 10" Bosch angle grinder, the blade suddenly caught, threw the grinder out of the slot, glanced off another part of the frame and into my right thigh , resulting in a 6" long, 1" deep gash, a fair bit of blood, a trip to Gloucester A&E (they were brilliant) and 6 pretty heft stitches. I am currently convalescing for a few days.
I work for a shipbuilder and am very safety conscious, so did an accident assessment along the lines of what we would do at work.
Conclusions:
1. The blade caught because the part of the frame I was cutting was, unknown to me, in tension, like a bow. So when I completed the cut, the angle straightened itself out, catching the blade. The force of rotation and torque of the grinder threw the whole thing out, glanced off another part of the frame and my leg was then in the way. There was no obvious sign that the angle was in tension. This was the primary cause of the accident.
.......................................................................................
Someone else started a 4 1/2" angle grinder with damaged disc and NO guard purchased from a car boot.
shattered as soon as he started it up caused him and someone else injurys
.
SO BE CAREFUL OUT THERE
