I remember a long time ago I was required to watch a safety video in order to work in this particular machine shop/fabrication shop. The video was a true story about a guy who was using a hand held cut off tool, one of those high speed 90 degree 12 inch cut of wheel jobbers. He was cutting some steel pipe about waist height (no guard), the wheel got hung and kicked back. The wheel dug into the guys stomach area. It didn't kill him but the surgeons at the hospital said that the guy required 170 stitches (internal and external). They said that the worker would have problems for the rest of his life because the wheel cut into his intestines a bit and loaded the guy's internals with teeny tiny bits of metal and cut off wheel debris into his skin layers and into his intestinal walls. The surgeons had the guy in surgery for about 6 hours, not because the injury was that bad, it was because they spent the majority of their time looking for metal bits and cut off wheel bits. They said that if it had just been a large laceration/cut into his intestines it would have been a piece of cake (besides the possibility of infection). The surgeons said that the guy would be getting infections and inflammation for many years until his body absorbed every single piece of metal and cut off wheel pieces.
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