Damn, that hurt ! (not for squeemish)

[ihredo4]

Dad had a co-worker who got caught in a boring machine. The guy was wearing camo pants and the auger caught his pant leg and pulled him in. Lets just say a scalpel couldn't have made as clean a cut as it cut his scrotum slam off and yanked the skin off his pecker head. In the process it took the one nut off and the other was dangling near his ankle. The dangler and skin was saved but the lost nut was "lost." He did go on to procreate with a healthy settlement check.

 

[camarotoolman]

I have a bud who was using a very sharp wood carving knife when it rolled off the table and stuck him right in his tallywacker, his wife though it was funny but didn't!

 

[Toolfool]

How did we get from my fingers to tallywackers ?!?

 

[KEH]

I was working with my router table today and thought of this post. I was extra careful. Thanks for posting.

KEH

 

[Toolfool]

I guess that is the lesson here ... BE CAREFUL !! I've been in this business 27 years and sometimes I get too comfortable with the tools. It only takes a split second mistake.

 

[Twiggss]

I guess I'm not the only one where the "bandaid" is more less to keep you from bleeding on the customers item, rather than stopping the bleeding.



Few weeks ago I cut myself at work and went to go grab a band-air. boss sees me and asks if I got a "boo boo" I just said I didn't want to bleed on the parts, he said "ahh it will wash off"

 

[pist0lpete]

I guess that is the lesson here ... BE CAREFUL !! I've been in this business 27 years and sometimes I get too comfortable with the tools. It only takes a split second mistake.

I second that! Two days ago a 30-year cabinetmaker at my shop slipped a finger into the jointer blades... Only lost a little flesh but it was a nasty cut. He passed out right after we got to the ER... Back at work the next day, tough old SOB.

I know alot of us work alone so be careful out there fellas! And keep your phone in your pocket when you're under that car!!

 

[santagary]

I fell out of my kubota 6040 recently when I caught my foot in the ladder and bounced twice hitting my head and left hip...I felt like an old fool.

 

[burleymike]

Latest dumb thing I did: Threw a concrete block into a pile of sand. I did not see the tomato cage partially buried in the sand. Block hits top of tomato cage bottom flips up and hits me 1/4" above my eyeball. Next thing I saw was blood in my eye. Luckily it healed up fine.

 

[stroker-c10]

Here's a real peach for you guys. This happened to a guy I know. Started working at a local metal shop and ended up getting his hand caught in the rollers of a machine. If I remember correctly, this was back in August and he is still having issues (ie, bleeding from bone poking through, pain in cold weather, etc.)

 

[NUTTSGT]

I've never really got myself hurt too bad. Worst one was trying to open a damn plastic package (the ones with the 1/2" of glue on either side) with a util knife. Slipped and practically threw the end of it into my big toe (right side). Straight to the bone, but I'm pretty sure the tendons were alright and whatnot, so I put some electrical tape on it and went to school the next day. (This was a few years back).

I heard on the radio a few years back that more people make trips to the hospital while trying to open those packages then go to the hospital after getting hit by a car.

 

[theoldwizard1]

I guess that is the lesson here ... BE CAREFUL !! I've been in this business 27 years and sometimes I get too comfortable with the tools. It only takes a split second mistake.

After WW-II my Dad got a job in a lumber yard. In those days, they milled all their own trim, including all of the parts to assemble double hung windows which were built at the yard.

After working there for awhile and proving he could work a table saw and a radial arm saw, they wanted to teach him how to setup and run the molding cutter. After a day or two, he realized all of the "old timers" had less than 10 fingers (9½, 6¾).

We went into sales.

 

[theoldwizard1]

I fell out of my kubota 6040 recently when I caught my foot in the ladder and bounced twice hitting my head and left hip...I felt like an old fool.

Buddy was out in "the back 40" and wanted to trim some tree branches. He lost his footing while standing on the tractor seat. Luckily it was a hand saw. He hit the ground hard and broke 2 ribs. It took him awhile before he could haul himself up onto the tractor and ride back to the barn.

"Old fool" were his exact words !

 

[mmb617]

One of our customers has a cabinet shop and I noticed a long time ago that it doesn't look like he has a finger without part of it missing on either hand. I knew he was a Vietnam vet so I thought maybe something had happened to his hands in the war.

One day I stopped in and he had a new bandage on his hand. When I asked about it he said he'd run a finger through the router and cut the end off. He then held up his mangled hands and said "When you're in this business as long as I've been, you're bound to lose a finger now and then." He didn't act like it was a big deal.

 

[truckin23]

I worked in a deli when I was 15 and and took off a small section of my thumb on a meat slicer and it landed in a customers pastrami order then he ran outside and hurled. It didn't actually hurt it was so fast and with a surgical steel blade good thing I wasn't slicing it real thick .I'm just glad it wasn't my middle finger I need that it's a very important body part for my profession as a truck driver.

 

[ct71rr]

Here's a few crappy cell phone pics of my finger. Cut it with my table saw back in February, on Super Bowl Sunday no less. The first pic is right after I did it and the second is about two weeks later after the bandage was removed. Looks much better now.

 

[NUTTSGT]

How did we get from my fingers to tallywackers ?!?

When counting and going from ten to eleven.

 

[Hawk]

A little black pepper will stop the bleeding.

 

[Toolfool]

Damn, ct71rr, that looks like it hurt. I'm still healing, and extremely sensitive from my wound (OP). Still wearing a protective device over the end of my finger. And wouldn't you know, work started to pick up right after the accident. No down time to heal.

 

[ct71rr]

Toolfool, it didn't hurt that much when I did it. But after, especially at night, for the first few days it throbbed like an SOB!! Thankfully I was prescribed percocets for pain. I also took plenty of Advil.