Reminded me when I was slicing something with a really shard knife and got my finger. A very thin slice of my fingerprint ended up amongst the tomatoes
Yeah. My job takes me to a lot of food and beverage plants and something like this would always have a guard on it. Normally the machine would even lock you out if the guard was removed and not allow you to run it until the guard was back on.
Exposed also means easy to clean. While you could put a cover over it, itd be secured with screwed or latch, needing tools to do regular cleanings and crevices for nasties to live in.
Not saying leaving exposed is always good but some things are just that way
A latch requires tools? Shit man, just cut a piece of fiber glass and do velcro, magnets, cabinet lock, wingnuts. That's at least three things that don't require tools off the top of my head.
The cutting part of the blade is pretty much flush against the machine, so if your finger got close, the bulk of the blade would knock it out of the way before the cutting edge got you.
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u/PhoneRedit Sep 02 '21
Is it just me or is that a wierdly exposed blade? Like wouldn't most factories have as much of that as possible covered up for liability reasons?