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Worked in a brass mill 3 summers in college. The brass that came out of the furnace in coils would get cleaned by dipping/soaking it in acid then go to the guy's area. His job would be to place the end of a coil over a high roller and then feed it into a machine that out clamp down on it and stretch it out by making it longer and thinner (it would end up used as YKK brass zippers and start out in 3" brass rods). After he stretched it, it would go back in the furnace a couple more times and the process would be repeated. A coil came off tangled and he reached up to tug on it to untangle it and his hand got caught. The safety thing didn't work and he got pulled over the roller and his hand got pulled into the machine basically ripping his hand off.
OSHA was there the next day looking at every machine - as they would do periodically.
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