PSA: Never Wear A Ring Around Machinery
I always used to take my wedding band off before working around any kind of machinery if it's operating. I had an uncle that lost his ring finger because of his wedding band in the cotton mill. If you gotta do any kind of work around running machinery put your ring in your pocket. If you are afraid you'll lose it, put it in your dang billfold. If you are worried about your wife getting upset either 1) don't tell her, or 2) tell her to kiss your butt cause it's your finger not hers.
A friend of mines dad was a lineman for Duke Power. He was working on a line up on a wooden pole wearing his pole climbers one afternoon. Unbeknowngst to him his wedding band had worn a tiny pinhole in his insulated glove. When he grabbed the line the power went through his ring, up his arm and down his leg and came out through his left pole climber into the pole. According to the guys working with him it hit him so hard it broke his safety belt, knocked him about 10' away from the pole, and he hit the ground unconscious. His whole left side was burned and he almost lost his left hand. It was touch and go for a while before they finally decided NOT to amputate it.
He was lucky because had it gone through his chest instead of down his left side more than likely it would have blown his heart down to a dead stop. A dead stop is the worse kind of stop. 
Last edited by Mergie Master; 01-10-2012 at 03:39 AM.
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