Cut Off Wheel Accidents

Safety practices that must be followed to minimize accidents and maximize safety when using angle grinders and resin bonded wheels apply to the wheels the grinder and the operator.

Cut off wheel accidents.

Avoiding accidents begins with learning and following the basic do s and don ts for portable cut off wheels. Found everywhere from metal fabrication shops to homeowners garages these wheels are very safe when used correctly. Finding fragments of disc and the material being cut in the wound is pathognomic of angle grinder injuries. Always switch the machine off and allow the wheel to stop revolving.

Injuries occur for a number of reasons. Portable cut off wheels are among the most common bonded abrasive products in use. Employee using grinder is cut. Grind on the side of cutting off wheels.

Employee s thumb is partially amputated while working with a. Abrasive wheel cut off saw breaks and cuts employee s face. Therefore thorough debridement of contaminated wounds and excision of ragged edges is vital to optimal healing. Portable abrasive grinder safety pedestal bench.

Machine operature fractures arm when struck by grinder wheel. Just me trying to give some tips on safe grinder operation. Grind with a depressed centre grinding wheel at an angle below 30 to the workpiece. Firstly the wheel itself may kick back from the surface it is cutting.

These three videos describe the proper safe use of grinders commonly used in the construction industry. Apply excessive pressure onto the wheel so that the driving motor slows down. Allow the wheel to be trapped or pinched in the cut. Employee cuts his thumb with a grinding wheel.

Employee is hospitalized when struck by cut off wheel. Injured was using a stihl ts 400 cut off saw to cut up used cars and associated parts on the lot. The wheel the most common resin bonded wheels are type 27 depressed center for grinding and cutting and type 1 flat for cutting. Worker is killed while operating roll grinding.