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Lkdelta

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What's in your tool box drawers for first aid? Can be from "lessons hard learned" or stuff just to be safe....

I've got sharp pointed tweezers for those slivers (metal or wood) and a box of 1" band-aids
 
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nuclearlemon

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not in the tool box, but in the garage i have papertowels and various kinds of tape. do you need more?
 
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Always loved Roger Welsch's list:

* Hernia trusses - You'll want to stock assorted sizes for every part of your body, including eyeball hernias from that new Sports Illustrated swimsuit calendar.

* Ice pack - Don't skimp on this one. A 50-pound potato sack should be just about right.

* Tetanus-booster syringes - 1 gross

* Full-body gauze pads

* Sanitized hospital-grade duct tape

* Bulk antiseptic system - 60 gallons with electric pump should get you started.

* Oxygen tanks - The tank from your gas welding outfit will do, but be sure you have the hoses straight and you are sucking on the oxygen hose, not the acetylene outlet. Especially if you smoke.

* Bulk burn ointment - One 30-gallon tub is a minimum, but you may want to add another for backup if you do any welding.

* Stretcher/gurney - If your shop is located more than 30 feet from your house, you may want to have a motorized version.

* Crutches - Make sure you have an assortment of sizes and grades.

* Surgical-grade Vise-Grip pliers - These are for removing splinters from various body parts as well as plucking sand, wood, bolts, or pistons from your eye.

* One sterile come-along - This is for the stuff stuck in you that the Vise-Grips won't pull out.

* Eye rinse - 60 gallons or a fire hydrant will work nicely.

* 2x4s for splints - Several hundred board feet should do.

* Large mirror - This allows you to see personal damage where you sat on that newly welded side rail. Note: While I do recommend a mirror, I strongly urge you not to include a magnifying glass in your medical kit. If you're in my league, all personal damage will be big enough to see, and you won't want to see it any closer.

* Paint brushes - Use these to apply ointments and disinfectant. For those larger wounds, a paint roller may work better.

* Jack Daniels Green Label - Deadens pain from external wounds and lifts the internal spirit.

* Cell phone - Predial it to 911.

* ****** - Order it in the bulk container size with handy wall dispenser. This item may strike you as a peculiar feature for a medical list, but if you watch the T.V. commercials for this particular medication, you'll see that it apparently makes old people dance and sing, which is always a desirable condition in which to both enter and leave the shop, wounded or not.
 
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reinhardt

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every worksite at work is required to have a stocked first aid kit on hand, company policy. working in ship repair, i keep a pair of tweezers in my coat pocket for those pesky metal slivers. at home the wife keeps a well stocked first aid kit. my coat hangs in the garage w/ the tweezers in the pocket.

ben
 
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In my shop there are a couple of specific items I keep along with my pretty standard first aid kit.
One is Neosporin antibiotic with PAIN RELIEVER
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This stuff is the best. If you get a burn like from touching a piece of steel too soon after welding not only does this provide antibiotic but it takes the pain away very fast.

Bandaids with antibiotic build in
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This way I know the small cut has a better chance agains infection.

A bottle of eye wash.
That about covers it for me.
 
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hllon4whls

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DanCo said:
Small first aid kit, tweezers, burn cream, eye wash(I wear safety glasses but just in case)crazy glue, gaffers tape. An those duct tape band-aids I used to buy in Wally World.
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I never thought about having eye wash at home, but thats probably what you'll need the most. Everything else people are likely to have or you can make due with Paper towels and tape.
 
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Jack Olsen

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I've got a standard first aid kit. But (like others here) I added tweezers and some little eye wash bottles.

It looks too deliberate by half, but the thinking in making it so visible is that it's easy for other people to find it.

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We have a large wall mount first-aid cabinet at the shop.
At home I have a mid size kits, one in the garage and another in the house.
 
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PAToyota said:
Always loved Roger Welsch's list:

* Hernia trusses - You'll want to stock assorted sizes for every part of your body, including eyeball hernias from that new Sports Illustrated swimsuit calendar.

* Ice pack - Don't skimp on this one. A 50-pound potato sack should be just about right.

* Tetanus-booster syringes - 1 gross

* Full-body gauze pads

* Sanitized hospital-grade duct tape

* Bulk antiseptic system - 60 gallons with electric pump should get you started.

* Oxygen tanks - The tank from your gas welding outfit will do, but be sure you have the hoses straight and you are sucking on the oxygen hose, not the acetylene outlet. Especially if you smoke.

* Bulk burn ointment - One 30-gallon tub is a minimum, but you may want to add another for backup if you do any welding.

* Stretcher/gurney - If your shop is located more than 30 feet from your house, you may want to have a motorized version.

* Crutches - Make sure you have an assortment of sizes and grades.

* Surgical-grade Vise-Grip pliers - These are for removing splinters from various body parts as well as plucking sand, wood, bolts, or pistons from your eye.

* One sterile come-along - This is for the stuff stuck in you that the Vise-Grips won't pull out.

* Eye rinse - 60 gallons or a fire hydrant will work nicely.

* 2x4s for splints - Several hundred board feet should do.

* Large mirror - This allows you to see personal damage where you sat on that newly welded side rail. Note: While I do recommend a mirror, I strongly urge you not to include a magnifying glass in your medical kit. If you're in my league, all personal damage will be big enough to see, and you won't want to see it any closer.

* Paint brushes - Use these to apply ointments and disinfectant. For those larger wounds, a paint roller may work better.

* Jack Daniels Green Label - Deadens pain from external wounds and lifts the internal spirit.

* Cell phone - Predial it to 911.

* ****** - Order it in the bulk container size with handy wall dispenser. This item may strike you as a peculiar feature for a medical list, but if you watch the T.V. commercials for this particular medication, you'll see that it apparently makes old people dance and sing, which is always a desirable condition in which to both enter and leave the shop, wounded or not.
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Gotta love Roger Welsch......great sense of humor.
 
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In addition to a basic first aid kit I added a bottle of "blood stop powder". If you have a large gash dump this powder on and will clot and stop bleeding right away. (Basically the same stuff as Quik Clot in military) but much more readily available and cheaper. Its available at any farm supply store and is used for castrating calves and dehorning bulls. YMMV.
 
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I picked up one of those "office" first aid kits. You know, the one with a selection of about everything in it. I've only used alcohol wipes, saline, antiseptic, and band-aids, though.
 
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Needle nose, tweezers, duct or masking tape, box of blue shop rags. WD-40 is great for cleaning cuts.
 
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I never used the Quick Clot, but after my last ER visit I have added an assortment of "O" rings to my kit. On my last visit the gash on my finger was actually kinda wide and was bleeding so bad they had a hard time stopping it. They tried several things and nothing really worked - the cauterizing was interesting - smelled alot, but it too didn't work. Finally a doc shows up and sticks what looks like a "O" ring on my finger - this stops the bleeding enough to actually be able to see enough to put the second set of stitches in correctly ;-) I thought it was a pretty slick idea. A year later I hit a finger with a 4" grinder - similar situation -but not as bad, but again so much blood I couldn't see what was going on - until I remembered the "O" ring trick - so I tried it - viola - worked perfectly. BTW - NO - you don't leave it on!!!!:shocking:



5lima30 said:
In addition to a basic first aid kit I added a bottle of "blood stop powder". If you have a large gash dump this powder on and will clot and stop bleeding right away. (Basically the same stuff as Quik Clot in military) but much more readily available and cheaper. Its available at any farm supply store and is used for castrating calves and dehorning bulls. YMMV.
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Surprised no has mentioned magnifying glass or jewelers loupe. How else can you be sure you found all of that metal sliver? Also hydrogine peroxide to eat the bad stuff around the wound.
 
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