An 82-year-old man died in his home workshop in northeastern Lebanon County on Tuesday after a grinding wheel exploded, sending shards into his legs, state police at Jonestown said. Eugene Schamber ...

Eugene Schamber, 82, succumbed to his injuries he suffered from the shrapnel. On February 18 around 5:30 p.m., Schamber was working with a metal grinder in his home garage workshop in the first block ...

A worker needed to grind the OD of a part, so he set up a grinder borrowed from another company on the bed of the shop’s lathe. He’d borrowed the grinder before, frequently enough that his grinding ...

Imagine this scenario: A worker steps up to an abrasive wheel grinder and places a piece of metal against the wheel’s spinning surface. But because the machine was not adjusted correctly, the metal ...

A Jonestown man has died after his metal grinder exploded, sending shrapnel into his legs, state police reported Tuesday. 82-year-old Eugene Schamber died Tuesday evening, according to state police.

Several readers have commented about Machine Design’s inaugural Safety Files (“The case of the exploding grinder,” Feb. 5, p. 47). Specifically, a picture that accompanied the text pointed out one ...