At plastics factories they have these things called "grinders" that... grind up plastic parts. Large parts like Facias for cars require large grinders.
So apparently, as the story goes, some guys were tossing parts into a large grinder and they got kind of jammed up at the top, so one of the guys decided press on the jam pile with his foot... And slipped.
Also, and this was a verifiable accident, a Tool and Die guy was repairing a mold that makes plastic coat hangers. If you google what an injection press looks like you can see he had to get between the platens of what I would guess would have been a 500-1500 ton press. For whatever reason, the press cycled while he was between the mold halves. Now, both of these things could have been prevented with just a TINY bit of caution. For the press, simply disconnecting the main power and using appropriate lockout procedures would have kept this man alive. But I guess the world was in dire need of more plastic coat hangers... at 1000 lbs, I'm guess that guy was about 1/2" thick when they found him.
So apparently, as the story goes, some guys were tossing parts into a large grinder and they got kind of jammed up at the top, so one of the guys decided press on the jam pile with his foot... And slipped.
Also, and this was a verifiable accident, a Tool and Die guy was repairing a mold that makes plastic coat hangers. If you google what an injection press looks like you can see he had to get between the platens of what I would guess would have been a 500-1500 ton press. For whatever reason, the press cycled while he was between the mold halves. Now, both of these things could have been prevented with just a TINY bit of caution. For the press, simply disconnecting the main power and using appropriate lockout procedures would have kept this man alive. But I guess the world was in dire need of more plastic coat hangers... at 1000 lbs, I'm guess that guy was about 1/2" thick when they found him.