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Originally Posted by 360beast
I used to work with two people who lost their thumbs, one was cleaning the pulleys on a Bentley turbo thing from about 2001. They don't have a cambelt so you can run the engine with no belts and as the main pulley spins he was holding sandpaper on it and slipped, he lost his thumb and half a finger.
Another guy somehow got his thumb inside a spring compressor and took the end of his thumb off when the spring popped in to position.
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I have to be similarly careful with my current Gandalf beard. Fortunately having done "shop" class in school uniform means it's second nature to tuck it in my collar. Metalwork teacher took great pleasure in showing up pictures of de-gloved fingers and torn scalps.
PSA: it's also handy to tuck your beard away when fettling derailleurs, if only because it's a pain getting beard hair out of jockey wheels.