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…
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 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.
Luckily you weren’t using a lathe.
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.
