Well I said I would be back so here you go :}
I have injured myself on more than one occasion sometimes my fault IE failure to pay attention other times equipment failure. Since I was old enough to know what a Phillips Screwdriver was and read socket / O.E B.E wrench sizes ( Not that I knew what they meant at the time) lol I have worked helping or doing all kinds of jobs around home, cars, regular employment etc .
The funniest one of me not paying attention was sitting in the ice pan of a Roach Coach ( I Worked Building Them From Frame Up water,12v,propane) Mainly metal work any how sitting in the pan drilling in the mounting holes for lights I was not paying attention to how close I was to the vertical raw edge of the upper part of the pan. I grabbed my air hose to pull some more to me without looking to my surprise my hand stopped coming forward. Well I turned and looked tada I had pulled the hose and while moving my hand forward drove the middle finger knuckle of the left hand right in to the raw knife sharp edge of the upper pan. Cut about half way into it needless to say much blood and had to go get 20 stitches. Some inside for a cut in the tendon dissolvable and some outside. It was lots of fun when I came back and my foreman was like well how is the finger…. Yep you guessed it I showed it to him in the normal manner :}
Now the best one not my fault well at least in my opinion was while working on my table saw. I had the blade guard in place the miter gauge with backer board and hold down on. I was cutting 45’s on the wide side of a bunch of 2” x 4”’s . I had run through and cut them to length so it was just nip off the 45. I had gone through about 15 of them so far so everything was working well…. I put another on the saw clamped it and pushed through the cut off piece got caught between the blade guard and anti kick back pawl hooks. Just as I reached over to shut the saw down it caught kicked out flew back toward the miter gauge hit the backer board which popped it up into my mouth split the lip and down the chin about an inch or so through and through. With much cussing and grabbing a rag I drove myself to the Base ER the TSgt in there looked at it said nah don’t need a plastic surgeon it will give you a character scar. Mind you I played ice hockey in school and had a lot of fun as a child do you honestly think I needed more scars lol Anyhow , he grabbed a needle to numb it up says this will pinch a little ********!!! It ******* hurt he shoots it up in about 6 places. He gets done he is like “ Well I bet that hurt less than the 2x4 , I was said nope Sgt the 2x4 only hit me ONCE!!” And yes I can get my GF to take a picture of the scar if you like LOL.
The scariest one just recently happened a few months ago “I THINK it was equipment failure IE Carbide Tipped Saw Blade”. Cross cutting some red oak strips I had purchased new to make some bed supports for my RV. I did not check them with a magnet or magnetometer for metal as the material was new from Lowes. I trimmed one down to size the second one as I pushed into the blade a very loud bang along with some smaller pings quick hammered the shut off, my left index finger was bleeding pretty good from several places grabbed a rag staunched it and tried to figure out what happened. There was nothing on the table to hit the blade, the guard was still in place and tight I flipped it up and was shocked to see the blade somewhat bent and missing numerous teeth along with gouges in my kerf plate. I checked the finger a bit holey but not cut like it had contacted the blade. I looked at the wood nothing metal in it nor even an indication in the wood that there had been. The wood had some gouges and small chunks missing from it but that was it. Fast forward after checking the motor , spindle for run out and such everything looked fine put a burnt up plywood blade on no kerf plate. Worked fine no weird vibe or wobble evident. Cleaned up the kerf plate and installed it and rechecked without power and with power no wobble or vibe etc. Clamped a piece of soft dry pine to the miter and tried it saw cut normally ( Well Albeit The Burnt Blade Made it slow) . My best guess looking at the blade and how far it would have had to travel to contact the right side of the kerf plate is a carbide tooth weld let go and walked the blade over to it. Oh and as far as the pings heard yeah when cleaning up after checking the saw out I found several carbide tips 12 feet from the front of the saw the pings were them hitting the metal cabinets there.
Hmm What is Missing from this picture
After the strike
Some of the Teeth Never Found them All
Cleaned Up Kerf Plate
There you go I have had many others but most were just opps me not paying attention or using a hand tool in an incorrect manner ……. LOL
Cypher
Lesson 1: Do not slap the area!!!! Lesson 2: Do not tell your wife your crotch is on fire, she will say she is tired tonight.
. I danced around for a minute, closed the stove up and headed up to the bedroom. Turned the lights on, backed up to the mirror and saw the damage. Blisters and red flesh. I took my shower, cleaned it out as hard as I could, and bandaged it. Then I headed to work, for my first day of a promotion to an office job!! I did the one cheek sneak for 3-4 days until it felt better. 