OT-The red stuff

[Nickoli]

I like to think I'm somewhat safety concious and to work smarter not harder. It sometimes never fails when using a razor blade, touch a sharp piece of cut off steel, using a grinding wheel at high speeds to find out you ended up slicing or cutting your finger open. Well last night while working on a project the bandsaw blade won and my thumb started dripping the red stuff. At first you think man what an idiot, then it bleeds, then the sharp pain sets in and your drop everything to take care of it, and now you have to deal with tender pain for the next week. Man I hate it when a power tool wins. :(

[Pangea]

You typing one handed? I'd probably type just as good that way myself.
Heck if you aint bleeding, you aint working hard enough! :D

[crehberg]

Yep, getting cut is just part of it. The other part of it is using vulgar language to make it feel better!!!!!!!!! ;) ;)

[MXtras]

- - not to mention that the poor, innocent part you are working on usually suffers a violent excursion on it's way deep under the bench on the other side of the shop!

:D

Scott

[BadDog]

I've cut myself so many times, half the time I don't even know it. My wife says, "what happened this time?" and I say, "What?"... Then notice the blood dripping from what I thought was a minor oops. And bruises I don't know where they came from...

But by far the worst in recent history was a slip while working with a 4.5" angle grinder with 1/4" stone. Left a groove 1/4" wide and a bit under 1/4" deep in my index finger between the 1st and 2nd knuckle. Talk about HURT! But no blood to speek of, it sorta cauterized the cut.

[IRON TO ART]

But by far the worst in recent history was a slip while working with a 4.5" angle grinder with 1/4" stone. Left a groove 1/4" wide and a bit under 1/4" deep in my index finger between the 1st and 2nd knuckle. Talk about HURT! But no blood to speek of, it sorta cauterized the cut.[/QUOTE]

Sounds familiar. I was using a cutoff wheel in my die grinder. Wasn't holding it in a smart way. Wheel hooked up real good and ran down my hand right next to my thumb. I just stood there looking at the nice fresh tissue wondering when it was gonna start pumping.

[bleeright]

I went to the doctor for a physical.when I took my shirt off I heard an O MY GOD.I said what was that for,his response was you have the scars of an 80 year old manual laborer.I said not bad for never needing any stiches.He said to come in for any cuts that don't need stiching from now on.I have not been cut since.well nothing that a little super glue would' not fix.

[enlpck]

I went to the doctor for a physical.when I took my shirt off I heard an O MY GOD.I said what was that for,his response was you have the scars of an 80 year old manual laborer.I said not bad for never needing any stiches.He said to come in for any cuts that don't need stiching from now on.I have not been cut since.well nothing that a little super glue would' not fix.

I used to date a woman that thought scars are sexy. Only woman that ever said I was sexy. I wonder what ever happened to her?

Worst I'v had in recent years was a brake beam from a locomotive catching my finger between it nd the rail. The pain wasn't so bad... Th emergency room wasn;t so bad. The surgeon describing why a crush is SOOOO Much better than a deep cut... that was bad. ('Imaging a water baloon and you drop a brick on it'....) almost two years, and iv'e got a little feeling back in the finger. Still stiff.

[pagoda]

24 years as a cabinet maker and i did this last month... the first "good" cut i have had. i have no feeling and does not move worth a ****.
7 hp sliding table saw with a 12" blade and scoring blade makes for one fine meat slicer. got to see bones, tendons and all sorts of other cool stuff. :(

[miestro_jerry]

I used to sharpen and repair commercial size paper cutter blades. One slipped and hit the web between my thumb and index finger. 9 stitches, maybe ten. Safety first, safety last, safety all the time!

Jerry

[precisionworks]

Just before Christmas, while welding some gifts, I caught the first joint of the left middle finger against the Burr King belt edge. Not a great location & deep enough for a stitch or two.

Jamacian doc at the nearby Emergency Room want to close it with steri-strips. I suggested he speak with Bob Marley before driving to the next hospital, thirty minutes away. Nice doc, good with a needle & thread, five stitches. Hardly know it ever happened :D

[Hotfoot]

Back before I got into welding I did chainsaw carving/sculptures. I was holding a piece with one hand and working it with a Beaver Blade in a 4 " hand grinder when I neatly "nipped" the end of my glove and my finger along with it.
A Beaver Blade is a steel disc with a band of chainsaw around it. Cuts wood and fingers equally great!
I did meet the tall, blond Emergency Room nurse that I lived with for the next 3 1/2 years, so all was not lost!! :p

[Horsemen]

Every day I get cut. These new cars are sharpened by Gillette. Stick your hand into the door pull out a buddy stump. Last year cut the pointing finger (on a valve body) severed tendons had surgery, back to work the next day. I keep the super glue in the top drawer. :D

[hankj]

This midget scar is all that's left from my attempt to remove my left thumb with the woodcutting bandsaw. Classic "don't be workin' if you been drinkin'" deal. We were smoking salmon that day, and I needed afew more hunks of oak for the fire. Set down the brewski, and fired up the bandsaw. Running some rough-cut logs through it, and pushin' pretty good (dry oak be HARD!) to get through it, and mty bud yells "Need a beer?" I looked up just as the band came through the stick.........

Hank

[Fishy Jim]

I had a piece of 1.5x.5" cast channel decide I needed a 5" red scar on my stomach when it caught on the inner edge of the casting as I was making a spacer. Busted a brand new 7/16" bit in the drill press too (that pissed me off).

I shaved it up and tried to stick it shut with bandage tape - that didn't work. So I took some gauze and wrapped my torso with an ace bandage and got back to work.

I've notched my knuckles a few times with various abrasive tools, but the slice in the stomach was the only significant mark.

[Mike W]

You guys must have a dark cloud overhead. :D The worst cut I ever got was when I was about 10 and pulled a hunting knife out of it's holder which required two stitches on my hand. :rolleyes:

[Fishy Jim]

One good gash in 25 years of working with sharp tools is pretty good if ya ask me.

My welding instructor only had 3 full length fingers left. :D

[Meach]

I was mowing the lawn a few years back and the grass was wet, pulled the bag off and reached in to pull out the bunched up grass pluggin the chute........spent the next 5 minutes running around the yard screaming for my wife, my 6 year old was chasing me crying and my wife arrives to a scene out of Saturday night live! Guess I should have not been in such a hurry and should have shut off the mower? :eek:
The cut on my finger didnt scare me although it hurt just a bit, what scared the heck out of me was the thought of having it stitched up! Been cut up a few times, my wife says you need a few stitches, I tell her "Right" then she patches me up. I cant believe the stupid things we do in the name of time, how long would it take to shut off and re start a mower?.........How stupid

SAFETY FIRST ALWAYS!

[gfunkatoa]

1-13-06. Hadn't been at work 15 minutes. Cutting wheel on 18v grinder. Cutting tacks off of bolt head. Didn't clamp it down. Wheel caught some traction. Blood splattered across floor and back of shirt. First word out of my mouth (after @#$%$#&*(%$$) was "STITCHES"!!! 30 minutes in Emergency room. 5 stitches. Funny as **** doctor: "Don't know why you need stitches, all bleeding stops eventually". Moral of the story: Grinders come with guards for a reason.

[Fishy Jim]

You weren't running the guard?

Got any pics? :D

[MadMax]

Nothing to bad from workin' with the hands. Minor scratches, burns, and what not. I have seen some pretty nasty stuff though. One time me and 2 friends were working on something, and had to use a drill press. My one friend went to tighten the chuck, and the other went to plug in the extension cord for the press..Someone thought it would be funny to leave the drill press on, and unplug it. Well, my friend had the chuck key jam into his thumb hard enough to break it.

Other careless accidents like kids not watching their fingers on the 55 ton iron worker...Thats pretty nasty. Also had a friend get his finger caught in the grinder. That was too bad though.

But me being into dirtbikes, I've had my fair share of scratches. This one started as just a slide out on the minibike which left a little brushburn, which got ripped open when the front end of the 125 washed out. Washing it with peroxide is half the fun :) Nothing compared to the 8 year old brother with his 7 stiches after his friend tryed racing him on the dirtbikes..He's a tough little kid. My bet was the pegs sliced into him. It was split about cm wide, at at leasy cm deep..Didnt even cry, with that and a concussion. I would been crying like a baby, haha.

-Max

[Fishy Jim]

When that channel let go from my grip, I was actually thinking "I should really be doing this in the vise." The next instant I had a slit in my gut and the thing twirling around for a few spins before the bit broke. Spilled my pop too. That pissed me off. lol I don't really care about the scar or getting cut. It's the other stuff that happens at the same time that annoy me. :D

[jarto017]

[QUOTE=hankj]This midget scar is all that's left from my attempt to remove my left thumb with the woodcutting bandsaw. Classic "don't be workin' if you been drinkin'" deal. We were smoking salmon that day, and I needed afew more hunks of oak for the fire. Set down the brewski, and fired up the bandsaw. Running some rough-cut logs through it, and pushin' pretty good (dry oak be HARD!) to get through it, and mty bud yells "Need a beer?" I looked up just as the band came through the stick.........

I smoked allot of funny stuff in my day, but never been drunk enough to pack a salmon in the ole water bong.
I just walked into work a sunday night only to find everyone else had called in. I started swinging some steel racks, when the first one rolled over and caught my finger. After a few choice words, a guilt trip from my supervisor, I taped it up between 2 forks and went back to work. Twelve hours later the big shots come in and tell me I have to go to the hospital, when all I really want to do is go home and go to bed. I spent the next 7 hours in the emergency room with a broken finger. Now I've broken each finger at least twice, and never spent anywhere near that long to reset it. Turns out it was dislocated in 2 spots but also twisted, so the docs were having a real hard time resetting it. So after about a dozen attempts to reset it, half without any drugs, I go down to the x ray for my final set of prints (I swear I was glowing that night) I walk into X ray and finally caught a break, a smoking hot X ray tech in her little blue scrubs. Mind you I had been up for 36 hours straight so I wasn't bringing my A game. I'm all positioned sitting at the table, x ray machine 4 inches in front of me, she goes to put the lead apron on my lap and says "I don't want to fry your onions." I was wearing jogging pants so the apron started sliding off, she reacts and reaches to go grab it, and punches me square in the junk. I instinctively hunch forward and knock myself out against the x ray machine. So here I am 20 hours after walking into work, lying on the floor with a broken dislocated finger, mild concussion and sore jumblees, tomorrows gotta be better.

[BadDog]

You guys must have a dark cloud overhead. :D The worst cut I ever got was when I was about 10 and pulled a hunting knife out of it's holder which required two stitches on my hand. :rolleyes:
Well, I was just talking about work related stuff. To say "worst" I would have to go with left leg cut off at the knee along with other assorted injuries totaling some 100+ stitches and another 70+ staples (don't recall the exact numbers) along with steel pins, screws, artificial knee to re-attach lower leg, and other miscellaneous bits-n-pieces. Such is the legacy of my racing days, but I can testify that cracking up at 135 hurts even with a full cage, and still does some 20 years later…

[Brad54]

24 years as a cabinet maker and i did this last month... the first "good" cut i have had. i have no feeling and does not move worth a ****.
7 hp sliding table saw with a 12" blade and scoring blade makes for one fine meat slicer. got to see bones, tendons and all sorts of other cool stuff. :(


My neighbor's "best friend" did something similar while making a very nice jewelery box for my neighbor's wife on her birthday. Yes, that situation is EXACTLY like it might sound.

Dumb best friend had the compound miter saw blade gaurd zip-tied in the "open" position. Dumb best friend also had the shop vac wired into the miter saw's trigger, so the saw had to be running for the shop vac to be running. He was cleaning up after making her birthday present, and got the vac hose too close to the spinning blade. The blade grabbed the hose and pulled it forward at something approaching the speed of light.

What's the difference between a chimp and my neighbor's back-stabbing dumb-*** "best" friend? The chimp has two opposable thumbs.

As said earlier...safety first, last and always!

-Brad

[yardman1]

Well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Were should I start,I own a landscaping business so the red stuff always flows with me, Last week I was using my gas power hedge trimmers wide open and I released the trottle to grap a stick that was in the bushes, and my hand slipped and my finger went into the blades..That sucks, my first reaction was to drop the trimmers cause I thought that I had cut my finger completey off, nope just cut it like a son of a b#$%. No stitches, just a sore finger and cut into finger nail..

I don't were long pant's during the summer when using a weedeater so my legs are always bleeding, sometimes in the winter I will dig small rocks out of my legs that have heeled over. That is always a special treat.

A few weeks ago I was hooking a friend of mine goose neck trailer up and forgot that the jack stands were spring loaded, well the ole thumb got caught in between the stand and the trailer. alot of blood then also.

So, including of this story is everything else has one, and no points for me.. :(

[yardman1]

Oh yeah I forgot to add one, it was the worst one, It happened about 30yrs ago. I was carrying one of the old glass quart coke bottles inside when I was 3 for my mom and it bumped the side of the counter and exploded, the thick glass from the bottle cut my leg wide open. I only needed 84 stitches and two staples. I just thought I would add that one in. :mad:

[DF5152]

This midget scar is all that's left from my attempt to remove my left thumb with the woodcutting bandsaw. Classic "don't be workin' if you been drinkin'" deal. We were smoking salmon that day, and I needed afew more hunks of oak for the fire. Set down the brewski, and fired up the bandsaw. Running some rough-cut logs through it, and pushin' pretty good (dry oak be HARD!) to get through it, and mty bud yells "Need a beer?" I looked up just as the band came through the stick.........

Hank
hey i got a matching scar back just about a 1/4 inch form that. i tried hacksawing my thumb off. that was the last time i sawed something without using a vise...

[Amos F.]

My list would be too long to list on here but some of them are really dumb luck as well as simple stupidity. I will give you the last two stitch episodes though.
I tripped over a shovel along the wall where we hang shovels,rakes,levels,sledges,axes,etc in our storage area beside workshop. Had been tripping over same shovel for most of the winter, this was in April. I picked up a hammer and a nail and proceeded to add a nail to the wall for the shovel. On the second swing of the hammer a spare cultivater shank on the bond plank came down to knock my hat off. Thinking that it had cut my new hat(first day I wore it) I pulled my hat off and found a big stain. Didn't cut the hat, 8 stitches later I hung up the shovel.
Ripping the last board for my in laws pool fence with the skill saw was waiting for the blade to stop and reached behind the saw to hold the board to cut the last foot and my little finger stopping the blade. Four stitches later finished ripping the board and nailed it up.

[Royal Fe]

If it don't draw blood, it's not a worthy project..

[vicegrip]

tack welding a stainless frame together...gun overhead (big frame)

had just removed gloves for a while...a healthy size miny-ball landed on my wedding band

I severly circum-burned the finger there and again at the knuckle :eek:

now pulling even harder it comes off and I see thumb and fingertip singed as well

the inside of the ring is rippled , where it was near molten for that tiny point in time.

does anything conduct heat better than gold? :o

[Pumpkinhead]

....snip........
does anything conduct heat better than gold? :o

yeah, silver

[scapegoat]

The year was 1987 and I was about seven years old. I was helping my uncle unload some sand for our sand box we had and the truck was a 1970 chevy 3/4 ton pickup. We got it all uloaded and we are just standing at the rear of the truck. He was wanting to shut the tailgate and he says "Watch your fingers!" and guess what? I wasnt watching my fingers and I had my thumb in there! You have to visualize a 1970 chev pickup tailgate. You had to slam this thing very hard to get it shut. I have never seen this much blood in my life and then I lost conciousness. My thumb was completely severed. I was in the house and my thumb was in the gate! I guess when he slammed it I went into shock and flipped out and started to try to pull my thumb and finger out, (it just got the tip of my index finger). I gate just about got my whole thumb off but with me pulling on it, it came completely off. My parents got me and my thumb together and hauled *** to the hospital. The blood looked like it was coming out of a sprinkler! The good news is that I have my thumb back with a big *** scare and it looses its feeling when it gets really cold. I wonder how that was for my parents? Having to retreve your sons thumb out of a tailgate so you can bring it to the hospital with him! That is my worste injury to date!

[realitycheck]

I just walked into work a sunday night only to find everyone else had called in. I started swinging some steel racks, when the first one rolled over and caught my finger. After a few choice words, a guilt trip from my supervisor, I taped it up between 2 forks and went back to work. Twelve hours later the big shots come in and tell me I have to go to the hospital, when all I really want to do is go home and go to bed. I spent the next 7 hours in the emergency room with a broken finger. Now I've broken each finger at least twice, and never spent anywhere near that long to reset it. Turns out it was dislocated in 2 spots but also twisted, so the docs were having a real hard time resetting it. So after about a dozen attempts to reset it, half without any drugs, I go down to the x ray for my final set of prints (I swear I was glowing that night) I walk into X ray and finally caught a break, a smoking hot X ray tech in her little blue scrubs. Mind you I had been up for 36 hours straight so I wasn't bringing my A game. I'm all positioned sitting at the table, x ray machine 4 inches in front of me, she goes to put the lead apron on my lap and says "I don't want to fry your onions." I was wearing jogging pants so the apron started sliding off, she reacts and reaches to go grab it, and punches me square in the junk. I instinctively hunch forward and knock myself out against the x ray machine. So here I am 20 hours after walking into work, lying on the floor with a broken dislocated finger, mild concussion and sore jumblees, tomorrows gotta be better.


Thanks for that, LOL, I actually laughed out loud in class. hehehehe