I once ran a boxing machine that took filled juice bottles and put them in cases/cardboard boxes and glued them shut and stacked em on a pallet.

We would often have a wrench in the door switch to have the door open in case the machine fucked up the cardboard grabbing process from the stack of card board for box forming.

Well after I got shifted to the PET blow molder that formed the bottles.

Well one day the boxing machine was acting up, so they asked me to come over to have a look at it.

When I got there, there were three people's with their heads through the access doors and one personnel at the control panel.

Of course without saying anything idiot at the panel started it up and I barely had time to pull the wrench off the door sensor to interrupt the machine. One of the girls almost caught some machine to the face.

Anyone whoever has run a lathe has probably had to hit the stop button when the cutter fails. I had a chip breaker fail once while I was taking a deep cut when the chip turned into a pretty good wire that finally got wrapped around the chuck. I went for the breaker as going for the emergency stop would have been hazardous. but when the metal wire chip wrapped the chuck the stop button was clear and used. The machine even bucked on the floor. It was pretty scary.

Besides that, I have seen many times where people would had been injured if the emergency stop button wasn't mounted in the handle of a powered hand truck.

One time while feeding a branch chipping machine a limb shifted hard and pinned a coworkers jacket sleeve to the side of the feeder chute, and slowly began pulling him in. He hit the emergency stop with his free hand and was able to get loose.

Yep. I worked at a place that had a lot of day labor and it was mostly niggers, and these idiots would get high in the bathroom before a 12 hour shift and on their lunch break.

They couldn't even put boxes together properly, but the people doing the staffing for day labor were niggers too, and gave the consistent work to the niggers rather than a competent white man. Because niggers are far more racist than Whites.

I think it was the long banner cutter (industrial print shop) and some stoned retarded nigger flung something up on it while it was operational. It's fuzzy because this happened like a decade ago.

Yes, but I would hold my hand on it the first run of a new part. Occasionally you get a piece come loose from a fixture and start rattling and that’s a good time to smash the button. A CNc tool snap is a good time too.

one time on a flight to london it worked.