Henry

This is to stir the coffee after it finishes roasting while a fan beneath the tray pulls air through it to cool the coffee as quickly as possible.

When I started the job, I wore a Chaco brand strap style bracelet that is common in the outdoor community.

My boss saw it and warned me that I should probably not wear it to work because a coffee roaster, I believe in either Colorado or California, had gotten her arm ripped off by the stirrer.

She was wearing the same style bracelet while she was roasting when it got hooked on the steering arm.

And she proceeded to get pulled around the tray and up against the body of the roaster where the stirrer was able to break, then remove her arm from about the mid forearm down.

From what I understand, she lived and they were able to reattach her arm with very little long term problems.

Wow.

According to legend, she had a tattoo on her forearm that they were able to piece back together with only a small scar running through the middle.

That's fucking cool, right?

Yeah, those coffee roasters are big, dude.

Nothing dangly.

Yeah.

Here's another one.

Well, I was in the Navy.

We were briefed on the dangers of rotating machinery.

Machines do not care if there is squishy human bits in the way.

It is if it is strong enough to overcome the friction of human bones and sinew being in the way, it will.

I remember very distinctly a story and picture video they shared of a young woman who got a job at a shop that used lathes and other big equipment to make things out of metal.

The operator on duty had sent her to go start a machine, and when she took longer than expected to come back, he went to investigate.

He found what was left of her wrapped around a large metal rod about a foot in diameter, recognized only by the scraps of fabric that made up her clothes.