Washington Man Survives Going Through Wood Chipper

CBS-Seattle local ^ | January 30, 2014 | Benjamine Fearnow

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The power of positive thinking and some pain pills.

[ruiner]

Lockout/Tagout is your friend.

[beelzepug]

Failure to do that, or remove a tag that wasn’t yours, was a firing offense where I used to work. I wonder if their insurance covers stupidity?

[WayneS]

That guy wins this week’s “Luckiest Man in the World” award, and he is my current front-runner for both the monthly, and yearly prizes.

[beelzepug]

I guess it will. I should have read the whole thing.

[Moonman62]

[Blood of Tyrants]

I’ll bet that if they didn’t have a LOTO procedure in place before, they do now.

[thackney]

Lockout/Tagout is your friend.

BTTT

[dfwgator]

IBATFP

[TigersEye]

...and some pain pills.

The industrial sized barrel if you please, doc!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

That’s the first thing that crossed my mind. :[

Frank Arce faired much better.

[thackney]

It does not have to be formal and complicated, just some common sense.

In this set-up, it could be as easy as a key/plug on switch. Take that with you if you enter the shredding machine.

[crz]

So he went through the pressure rolls. If the thing was running fully, he wouldnt be here to talk about it.

In Seney Mich years ago, a mans son went through one. He ended up in the chip van. I wont say what was left of him.

[Milton Miteybad]

Ouch.

[cripplecreek]

I worked in a sawmill. I saw a wood chipper that could eat 20 foot logs 18 inches in diameter in 2 or 3 seconds.

It took almost 2 hours for it to stop spinning after cutting the power.

[csvset]

Lockout/Tagout is your friend.

You would think that he'd have made sure of that. Perhaps next time.

[thackney]

I admit learning he survived his injuries thinking “that isn’t a very good chipper...”

[Responsibility2nd]

Arce has remained very positive about the incident, saying his co-workers’ training allowed him to receive care quickly, and he was even sharing jokes and smiling with friends and family at the hospital.

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Well. I’m glad he’s feeling so “chipper” about his experience.

(ba doom shish!)

[DainBramage]

He didn’t lose any limbs.......

[Billthedrill]

Yeah, I know the feeling - it’s called an “Ohnosecond”, like when you click on your mouse button on a file deletion you didn’t want to do. It’s probably like that when you’re about to go through a wood chipper too. Or stronger.