Man, that's brutal. I've had the same thing happen with a forgotten soft jaw in the chuck, threw off everything for a whole shift. Best advice I got early on was to make a quick checklist before you start, including a visual sweep of the table and spindle area. Also, get in the habit of touching off against a known part before you trust any tool offset from the previous guy. It hurts now but you'll never overlook it again.

Zip ties do the heavy lifting. Nice trick.

Man, I had a coworker who got towed twice before he realized the city app has a live map that shows exactly where the street sweepers are that day. He was fuming about the poles being wrong, but the online thing saved him after that. You might have saved me from making the same mistake, so thanks for posting this.