i was poking around a running engine, forget the details at this point

next think i heard was ..trrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

that was the tips of a few fingers just barely making contact with the spinning steel fan blades...


a mechanic told me his story of ending up in a jam while turning drums on a lathe,

ended up in a jam where he had to make the right next call, or would have a least lost a few fingers

as i recall, he couldn't move the one hand (that was jammed up somehow), and had to coolly reach over to kill the power to the spinning drum/lathe