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Cookie used to work in a lab using some seriously stout centrifuges (like thousand pounders). It took several minutes for them to wind down when switched off. A coworker lifted the lid and peered into one as it was slowing. A wisp of her hair was caught, and exactly half of her hair was instantly ripped from her scalp. Skin and scalp remained intact, but one half of her head was literally bald.

Had things been going slower, any number of events could have transpired like: scalp or face ripped from her head, broken neck, face pulled into spinning glass tubes, etc. Cookie, who had hair down to her butt at the time, kept it up in Princess Leia buns thereafter. Machinery can bite, and at times bite really fast.

On the slow side, a local kid once had a portion of his jacket caught in a wheel line mover. In that case, he had a slow motion view of his arm being severed at the shoulder by the chain and mover gear. Picked up the arm and rode a 4-wheeler to HQ for help.

It is always interesting to watch silverware express its emotions.

That's what I'm puzzled about, the common sense of not wearing jewelry or loose clothes notwithstanding.
Is the OP talking about diamond rings, perchance ?

GTC

Not a T&D but I do make my living on a lathe and mill. No rings, gloves, cuffs, etc.

As to rings damaging guns I personally like it when any tool picks up honest patina from use. Can't see a ring hurting the steel but it could certainly scratch a stock. Meh. Who cares.

There's a company called QALO marketing medical grade silicon rings for outdoor pursuits and they would likely work around machinery as well. They're supposed to stretch and/or break before they damage your finger. Haven't tried one myself, but it sounds interesting.

QALO wedding bands

You can even get one in camo.

Don't be so hard on 99. He's just misconstrued his Pa's infamous Cawk Ring story.

Yes, but can you get one in pumpkin spice?

this news just in, some people look both ways before crossing the street

Had a friend in IT that worked at Caterpillar for many years. He told us that IT and mgmt guys had to wear ties, but it was also mandatory that the ties had been cut behind the neck and then sewn back together with only 2 threads allowed. That way if the idiot IT or management folks got their ties into the machinery it wouldn't kill 'em.

Struck me as pure stupidity...

Dang, such foolishness.

I made myself a ring in shop and about a month later it got snagged in the drill press on a bit shaving.
ZANG.
Close effing call that was, kind of bloody, and a life lesson about power tools.
And don't even THINK of asking me to wear a ring on a pendant chain around my neck! Another really bad idea.

Years ago there used to be a safety poster from the Naval Safety Center that showed a guys hand after he had all the flesh torn from his ring finger after it got caught on something. No skin, no muscle, no flesh or tendons...just bones.

Gold rings will scratch D2 all to pieces. They tear up carbide even worse.

I'll remember that,

....might make up a 24 karat scraper for putting that final edge on reamers and drill bits.

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For sure!

Saw a guy smash his ring, in a machine shop. We unsmasked it enough to get off. There is a story around about finding a man strangled by his tie in a lathe. Woodward Governor used to require BOW ties for machinists. When I was about 4 I remember getting my knit sleeve in an old wood lathe I wasn't supposed to be messing with; took a long time to get unwound.

I can't wear my ring now as my fingers have arthritis and age. But I am still married without it. Been in machine shops and around construction all my life. No sense in ruining a good ring anyway. I don't think they can make a ring soft enough that I would want to wear it, even a paper ring would cut before it broke.

I took machine shop at a vocational high school, a long time ago, and one of the first things we were told was not to wear rings in the shop.
It has been a standard practice forever.

NO PLEASE DONT!

Yep effective. After seeing that before I starting putting flight gear on my wedding ring went on my dogtag chain.

I wore my ring on a neck chain as well, no ring now so no chain.

Reminded me of a man I knew jumping into a dumpster to compact it a bit. He went in too far and too fast and his ring caught and tore his finger off.

A buddy carved a wooden finger for him from a broom handle while he was at the Hospital.

Glad they were good friends and nobody was hurt when he received his new wooden finger.

30+ years ago but I still wince thinking about that day.

Mine is in the same box it came in , put there right after the wedding mass and before the reception, same as my dad's. Both of us apprenticed Toolmakers. Now I run the apprenticeship program and they are not allowed anything on their arms or hands.