PSA- Wedding ring safety

[Hal]

I had a couple of ring/wristwatch incidents when I was young, that cured me of ever wearing either one. I caught the ring on the door handle of my sister’s trailer, jumping down, before her steps were added. That was just painful. I still have a scar on the inside of my wrist, where the watchband caught on my arm full of books, as I was falling down some ice covered stairs. The watch twisted around and gouged me pretty good. Neither of these were workplace accidents, but they got my attention.

One of my father’s employees partially crushed his wedding ring between some logs. Coworker pounded it straight enough to remove it.

Father lost his wedding ring while dressing out a deer. My mother said that after the initial upset, she was glad he didn’t replace it, too much risk with the kind of work he did.

 

[zimman]

My golf buddy lost his finger with the wedding ring when he rested it on the Neg side of a boat battery while working on the positive side with a wrench. Burned it to the bone, got infected and lost the finger. Gold handicap went down 11 strokes.
Be advised.
Zim

 

[CV428]

[Gross story warning]

My father degloved a finger in the early 90's while hanging a large bird feeder about 16' up on a tree in front of our picture window. The ladder slipped, he grabbed the tree, nail caught the wedding ring... Took the skin off like Arnold's "arm reveal" scene in Terminator 2.

Around 2011, a good friend of mine was working on a NOS system in his race car, had a line failure which struck his ring and took two entire fingers off from the ring up. I was not present so I don't know the specifics of exactly how this happened but the pictures were gruesome. He would have been injured without the ring, but it sounded like the ring became the projectile and took fingers with it.

In 2015, I was working with a few coworkers on an industrial retrofit project. One of the 3rd party contractors did a really stupid move, manually actuating an air over oil press assembly while were physically working on it (this was after LOTO operations and the system was powered, we were making cycle adjustments- the contractor bypassed safety devices by manually bumping the valve). My colleague's hand was moderately crushed (lots of punctures and lacerations from the die strike, but thankfully not struck on the die parting line or it would have been Looney-Tunes flat), but the real damage was the ring crimping down onto his finger. I was almost struck too but reacted quicker than my colleague. The contractor didn't get punched, but we definitely screamed at him and he got fired for idiocy. The hand and finger was saved but there was a lot of blood and I had to take him to the ER. This incident is also why I keep a med kit in my vehicles, with soaker bandages.

When I got married, I made sure I could remove my ring when working on anything mechanical. These days I have a silicone ring just in case.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Having gone thru a few (from no-name Amazon cheapies all the way up), my current option is GrooveLife. They supposedly have a lifetime warranty (I have not had to use it yet, but someone else said they were very easy to work with for a different product of theirs). I have two different ones, which both appear to be wood-grained. Fairly realistic from 18"+ away, right up close you can see the plastic-ness of the image. Decent price as well.

I have a GrooveLife band, Zeus black band. First ring I ordered was too big, no problem with exchange

I've had to warranty it at least once, maybe twice...fill out form online and upload a picture. That easy.





EDIT: wasn't sure but apparently not of being able to see the "Zeus" in the ring itself.

 

[Mezz2006]

I had GrooveLife, had them warrantied twice. Warranty request was simple, but was told the last time they won't warranty it again. I haven't tried for the third time yet. I did buy some Egnaro ones off Amazon that seem identical and came as a 4 pack for half the price of the Groove.

 

[MarlynOC]

Had ring catch on a piling as boat was leaving the dock. Choice-stay on boat or hang on the nail. Lot of blood and pain. That was in 1963. Still have pain in the finger and swelling at knuckle

 

[NUTTSGT]

I had GrooveLife, had them warrantied twice. Warranty request was simple, but was told the last time they won't warranty it again. I haven't tried for the third time yet. I did buy some Egnaro ones off Amazon that seem identical and came as a 4 pack for half the price of the Groove.

Interesting to know. Do those Egnaro has a plastic liner to keep them from flipping/rolling ?

 

[no704]

Wife and I just set up our IPhones emergency health and contact info. She is a T1 diabetic and usually wears a medic alert bracelet. Thanks for the heads up about this feature. If nothing else maybe it might help recover a lost phone.

 

[rooster59]

These have been good

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLH8ZKGD?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[KentheMailman]

Last year, while loading cattle into a stock trailer, my wife backed the trailer into the open gate, pinning me to the gate post on my ring. I couldn’t remove my trapped hand, cattle were backing out of the trailer, bucking and kicking towards my body and face. When she pulled away, my ring had crushed into my finger, but I was free of the large animals. The Emergency Room used a ring cutter attachment on a tool to remove the ring. Silicone ever since.