Cut Off Wheel Accidents

Grind with a depressed centre grinding wheel at an angle below 30 to the workpiece.

Cut off wheel accidents.

Employee using grinder is cut. Machine operature fractures arm when struck by grinder wheel. Avoiding accidents begins with learning and following the basic do s and don ts for portable cut off wheels. Therefore thorough debridement of contaminated wounds and excision of ragged edges is vital to optimal healing.

These three videos describe the proper safe use of grinders commonly used in the construction industry. The wheel the most common resin bonded wheels are type 27 depressed center for grinding and cutting and type 1 flat for cutting. Always switch the machine off and allow the wheel to stop revolving. Employee s finger is partially amputated while operating gri.

Injuries occur for a number of reasons. Portable cut off wheels are among the most common bonded abrasive products in use. Allow the wheel to be trapped or pinched in the cut. However accidents have occurred because of misuse and abuse of these wheels.

Just me trying to give some tips on safe grinder operation. Portable abrasive grinder safety pedestal bench. Found everywhere from metal fabrication shops to homeowners garages these wheels are very safe when used correctly. Employee cuts his thumb with a grinding wheel.

Abrasive wheel cut off saw breaks and cuts employee s face. Worker is killed while operating roll grinding. Employee s thumb is partially amputated while working with a. Finding fragments of disc and the material being cut in the wound is pathognomic of angle grinder injuries.

Grind on the side of cutting off wheels. Firstly the wheel itself may kick back from the surface it is cutting. Injured was using a stihl ts 400 cut off saw to cut up used cars and associated parts on the lot. Per the only witness owner victim placed the saw on the ground while it was running and stumbled and fell on the saw causing him to sustain a massive laceration to the back of his left knee and upper calf area.