About 30 minutes, I was cutting some wood when my hair got sucked into the saw’s motor, pulling my face into the piece and giving me a bloody nose. I couldn’t pull the saw out like then, so I carried the entire piece to my tool rack to cut the hair off with scissors.
Tie your hair up people.
Oof, thankfully it was mostly your ego that was bruised. At least you can laugh about it after the fact with that image of you carrying everything around stuck to your head.
While working at a machine shop we had a lady who came to work just like every other day. Didn’t put her hair up just like every other day. Worked on a usual customer’s job at the drill press just like any other day. But that one time is all it took for her to be literally scalped when her hair was caught on the drill press. The employer had new safety requirements for those with long hair after that day. Tie your hair up people, all it takes is that one time to happen…
We had some poor lady get scalped by a conveyor belt in my Amazon warehouse several years ago. It’s craaaazy shit. I could never set foot in an environment with a hazard like this without putting my hair up. I’d be terrified the entire time.
Without the description it took me a minute to figure out where the hair was. You don’t normally think of the fan portion of the motor as a pinch point, but if something can get in there it gets bad.
Oh i see it now. The lock of hair is at the left, in the angled vent lines.
Ryobis are a bit bad for this, eg: the one-handed blower has the intake on the left, meaning any right-handed person wearing a jacket is gonna get their flaps sucked.
I didn’t see that either until I read your comment!
Luckily you weren’t using a lathe.
Reminds me of a new story about 15-20 years ago.
Some girl with long hair had gotten her hair pulled into the axle of a gokart. It got such a good grip that it peeled her scalp back from underneath her helmet…
Tractor PTOs have scalped a lot of people and removed a bunch of limbs too.
And lives. When your clothes gets tangled. Also, some farmers doesn’t want to walk around or climb through the tractor and climbs/jumps over the PTO. This usually goes fine for a while, but once every blue moon it catches a pant leg and you’re one farmer less.
Manufacturing facilities often require people with long hair to wear it up to avoid it getting caught in the machinery (especially if there is an assembly line that doesn’t stop). We also sometimes require piercings to be taped down for the same reason. Glad youre mostly OK though.
I read the title and my mind immediately flashed to a video of a guy who got their coat caught in a lathe and then proceeded to be wrapped around it like a spool of wire.
I read the title and thought “okey, how bad can it be?” and then I saw the image and thought “okey, probably very bad”. Good thing it was only a bloody nose and a bad hair day.
This could be a Final Destination death scene. Need a larger blade though
Ryobi, can’t even cut hair
(jk I do understand the importance of securing hair, jewelry, and clothing)
oof, must have been scary.
Damn definitely worth telling this story, I would never given a second thought to having hair down by the fan. Thank you for sharing
I killed a Ryobi drill with my hair. Hair was tied up too. Somehow my ponytail was got stuck in the motor and just fried the thing. Hurt like hell.
With longer hair you really need a bun cause a ponytail can still be a hazard.
Jeez, I wear eye- and earpro when doing power tool stuff, but somehow never thought of this scenario… Thanks for the warning and glad nothing worse happened!
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Bassically instantly as far as I could tell. By the time I realized something had happened, the saw had already stopped (I think because I reflexivly released the trigger; although thete was a burning smell, so I might have killed the motor)
Please tell me someone got this on video.
I once got my hair wrapped up in a corded drill. I called a friend over who took it apart and got my hair out mostly intact
Thanks for sharing, I got a good laugh as long as you weren’t hurt of course. Let this serve as a cautionary tale.
