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Wed, October 7th, 2009, 06:37 PM
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Reminds me of some close calls I've almost had. I use a paper towel and hold the ends when I do that, that way if it catches the paper towel either rips in half or slips out of my hand. Its stuff like this where I dont like working in the engine compartment on trucks either. I'll go from exhaust pipes up because I've been bit by half the engine components. lol
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Thu, October 8th, 2009, 02:42 AM
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Sadly, one of the guys at the shop I worked at did the exact same thing! Holding a shop rag on the chain while spraying WD-40. The rag caught and sucked his fingers up in the sprocket. To add insult to injury, about halfway around the sprocket, the engine stalled locking his fingers in the 3:00 position on the sprocket. Being that it was his left hand, he couldn't reach the clutch and with pressure on the chain he couldn't get it into neutral.
After we fished him out, the middle and ring finger of his left hand both got pierced through the fingernails by the teeth, while his pointer finger got the tip nibbled but luckily was in between two teeth and wasn't injured quite as badly. Pinky was unscathed. He got lucky because he hadn't tightened the chain yet so the pressure didn't completely shear the tips off. Lost both fingernails and had stitches for a while, but otherwise recovered just fine. Sometime you just don't think that far ahead and nature reminds you the hard way to be a little more careful. I can't imagine what it took for him to post that knowing full well that the idiots would come out of the woodwork, but hopefully someone will learn from his mistakes and I commend him for taking the time to share that. Oh... and did I mention OUCH! 
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Thu, October 8th, 2009, 06:31 PM
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I was working in a shop where a guy had long hair in a pony tail. He was underneath a Peterbuilt and when the fan clutch kicked in, it sucked his hair up and basically scalped him. My hair hasn't been longer than an inch since then.
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