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Long ago in a previous life, I worked in a factory that made PVC products, including plastic house siding. One of my co-workers got his arm caught in a pinch roller while trying to start a siding line by himself. There was a kill switch on the pinch roller - six feet away and to his left, when his left arm was the one that was caught. Broke every bone in his arm, right up to his collarbone.

He screamed for help, but no one could hear him over the other noisy machinery. Welcome to the land of kill switches.




Yikes. That reminds me of The Machinist.




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