Well There Is Blood All Over The Shop Floor
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Get well soon Dave! Yeah right it could have been worse. Live and learn that's what I say.
I've been playing with tools all my life and prior to 1996 I was always getting scrapes, cuts, knocks and bruises. In that year one second of inattention and complacency cost me my left index finger at the first knuckle. Ever since then I am much more aware of my hands and what's going on while I work. Rarely do I draw blood these days but it happens. The other day I was putting together a new gas grill and the screw driver slipped off the screw I was tightening and I stabbed my other hand.
So yes like Brad says: SAFETY, SAFETY, SAFETY! Wise words to live by.
I've been playing with tools all my life and prior to 1996 I was always getting scrapes, cuts, knocks and bruises. In that year one second of inattention and complacency cost me my left index finger at the first knuckle. Ever since then I am much more aware of my hands and what's going on while I work. Rarely do I draw blood these days but it happens. The other day I was putting together a new gas grill and the screw driver slipped off the screw I was tightening and I stabbed my other hand.
So yes like Brad says: SAFETY, SAFETY, SAFETY! Wise words to live by.
Get well soon.
I avoid all power tools if possible as I really don't want to get injured.
2 winters ago my son had his finger stepped on in the hockey locker room. The guy's skate cut from the top knuckle on his index finger down to the bone and under the nail out the end. It was like a flap of skin and nail left on his finger. Took him to the emergency room and those dumb asses just sent us home. We went to his Dr. the next day and she was in shock that they sent us home. She sent us upstairs to a plastic surgeon and it took him about 2 hours to put it back together. Had to stitch the meat around the bone to stay on then stitch down the skin/nail flap.
He was 11 at the time and was pretty hesitant to go back to hockey once it was healed up. I'm just waiting for someone to lose a toe as I see dumb asses all the time in the locker room walking around with skates on and no skate guards.
I avoid all power tools if possible as I really don't want to get injured.
2 winters ago my son had his finger stepped on in the hockey locker room. The guy's skate cut from the top knuckle on his index finger down to the bone and under the nail out the end. It was like a flap of skin and nail left on his finger. Took him to the emergency room and those dumb asses just sent us home. We went to his Dr. the next day and she was in shock that they sent us home. She sent us upstairs to a plastic surgeon and it took him about 2 hours to put it back together. Had to stitch the meat around the bone to stay on then stitch down the skin/nail flap.
He was 11 at the time and was pretty hesitant to go back to hockey once it was healed up. I'm just waiting for someone to lose a toe as I see dumb asses all the time in the locker room walking around with skates on and no skate guards.
Fast healing brother. It seems like the time when most accidents happen is when people get so comfortable with whatever they're doing and not following their normal procedures. I was thinking about this with people who ride motorcycles - like me. But they go out for a fast ride, dont gear up, go a little faster then they normally go, carve a corner a little more aggressively then normal and bam! It happens....
Sorry to hear about your injury. Painful area, you just can't stop bending your fingers.
I was a cabinet maker for 12 years and a rarity - I still have all of my digits. I've picked up more fingers for paramedics than I want to think about. My brother can't walk past my shop without bleeding.
I was a cabinet maker for 12 years and a rarity - I still have all of my digits. I've picked up more fingers for paramedics than I want to think about. My brother can't walk past my shop without bleeding.
Hurts a lot less today, I've got a super immune system and never get sick so I'm sure it will heal fast. And more importantly I can bend it far enough to hold my pipe and light at the same time.
Dave, you should have at least caught all the blood and then used it to stain a pipe, would have been pretty cool. lol
Hope you heal quick and are back to carving soon.
Hope you heal quick and are back to carving soon.
Ouch Dave I hope you have a speedy recovery bud that sounds awfully painful. Safety first bud wear those gloves next time.
Done it myself...those 36 grit wheels aren't very forgiving....I'd rethink working with gloves...a scrape is bad...but snagging a glove, ring or anything else on a sanding,buffing wheel, or lathe(especially a big one) can cost you a finger or hand...There is a tape I've seen in some of the pipe factory videos that the workers shaping on sanding wheels are using to protect areas of their fingers...Here's a link to something similar... http://www.cooltools.us/Vet-Wrap-Finger-Guard-p/pol-950.htm#ReviewHeader
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