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I had a neighbour friend who was not a mortician but embalmed his own wife. (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Not "Russian lathe incident"? Sounds like it might potentially be identical if it's not that one.

[โ€“] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 hours ago

Nah, I'm in the US. And, honestly (this is painful to recall) it wasn't an arm stretched around the lathe chuck. It was mostly red mist that left some organs around. This was on a large machine that had a 30 foot long bed, and around 90 HP to drive it. The guy was trying to turn down a cam shaft for a ship at about 100 rpm. The forces involved are insane. He kind of... disappeared.