If you have your sleeve caught in a machine.
Wouldn't it be wise to at least try and remove your arm from said sleeve?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpUWrl3-mc8
Thought the same when I saw it
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Watching it now and came on IMDB just to post the same damn thing. He had more than enough time to take his shirt off.
shareYou wouldn't be able to. Try putting on a dress shirt with buttons on the sleeve, tighten it as much as possible then try pulling your arm through. Then try to imagine bent over in an awkward position with your arm being stuck in a bunch of machinery that you probably can't even see it. I doubt it would've been that simple.
shareExactly. Not to mention fighting the urge to panic the whole time.
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If the shirt is caught so tightly, couldn't you just pull hard the other way and tear the sleeve to escape?
Easy to judge if you're not in the situation, but there seemed to be no attempt by Miller to move the opposite way.
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Well, he's just an actor. The scene called for him to be stuck so I'm sure the actor could have wiggled himself out of it but that's not what he was directed to do.
shareAlso, they are trained to use the E-Stop as the first solution for situations like that. In a well maintained shop, hitting that button will solve most situations like this.
I disagree with everyone else saying that the scene was unrealistic. They only had a few seconds to react,their first solution failed, and they ran out of time while trying to pull him free. Like you said, ripping his shirt can be difficult, and I defintely wouldnt consider it the fool-proof solution that everyone thinks it is.
Yeah right! If my arm was heading toward that, you better believe the shirt would be taken off or ripped off if in fact it was dress-shirt like which wouldn't make a hill of beans difference in my mind. Yes it would be off, or I'd rip the sleeve off, or someone else would rip the sleeve/arm right out of the machine with the time given. Should have been LO/TO anyways, especially in a union shop.
shareyeah I would have torn myself free of the shirt. like everybody else commenting in the thread, that was the first reaction I had.
shareI've spent a lot of time in machine shops. The accident scene was totally unrealistic.
In real life, if you are going to do ANY kind of work on a machine tool, you go around back, throw the main power breaker to OFF, and you put a PADLOCK on it so that nobody can turn it back to ON. And you keep the key to the padlock on your person. Then you go do the work. You only unlock the main power breaker when you are done.
That said, I still loved the movie, despite that major departure from reality. Something like this could probably happen in some third-world country or renegade shop where standard rules aren't followed. But not in any mainstream shop.
Yep, LO/TO like I said. Locked out, Tag out
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