Cut myself because I am a big dummy!

nedsurf · Feb 16, 2021

I got some bad cuts here and there from blades, hand saws and such. Thankfully never got cut from a power tool. I'm on much higher safety awareness when using those. Some cuts needed stitches but none were arterial or left me without a section of an appendage.

One trip to the ER was from when I was putting a flywheel back on a truck engine and it slipped before putting the fasteners on. It was a sudden slip without time to react and it's weight pulled my hand down with it and onto the mating surface with a sharp machined 90 degree edge. It gave me my deepest and biggest avulsion injury. Still not arterial and just a few stitches.

TheBert · Feb 16, 2021

Baldheaded said:
I did get 9 stitches in my wrist once from a knife. Not a fun day at the emergency room!

During a full moon day my dad was out fishing in the bay. Small 18 ft bow rider. After he took the fish off the hook he went to put it in the cooler up front. the boat rolled and pitched a bit and the blue fish's mouth landed on his wrist. Nice bite marks and lots of blood from those nasty sharp teeth. He rinsed it off with good quality bay water and we wrapped it up with some gauze and tape and kept fishing. After we got home and cleaned the fish we kept he went over to Ft. Belvior to get his wrist looked at. The doctors wanted to do a psych eval on him until one of the doctors was curious, looked at his wrist, listened to his story and they had a nice chat about fishing and blue fish teeth. He was then bandaged up and sent home soon after.

babalou · Feb 16, 2021

Ouch

Sorry it hurts to look.

ToolAA · Feb 16, 2021

babalou said:
Sorry it hurts to look.

Lol.

the funny thing is that I’ve known people for years who have never noticed it until years later. However if you see a guy who is just missing the tip of a finger say just the last 1/2” it’s almost immediately noticed.

Baldheaded · Feb 16, 2021

TheBert said:
During a full moon day my dad was out fishing in the bay. Small 18 ft bow rider. After he took the fish off the hook he went to put it in the cooler up front. the boat rolled and pitched a bit and the blue fish's mouth landed on his wrist. Nice bite marks and lots of blood from those nasty sharp teeth. He rinsed it off with good quality bay water and we wrapped it up with some gauze and tape and kept fishing. After we got home and cleaned the fish we kept he went over to Ft. Belvior to get his wrist looked at. The doctors wanted to do a psych eval on him until one of the doctors was curious, looked at his wrist, listened to his story and they had a nice chat about fishing and blue fish teeth. He was then bandaged up and sent home soon after.

I've been an avid fisherman for many years and thank god I don't have a story like that one. Lots of others that fall into the "I'm a big dummy category". LOL. You know the type. I forgot to put the plug in type.

slsc98 · Feb 16, 2021

Baldheaded said:
...Any of you guys ever do something like that that you can tell the story now and laugh about it??

Why, it’s the little cuts that keep day to day life interesting!

I was working on an 1100, pretty much thought I had the disconnector winding up trapped between the backside of the interceptor latch and receiver wall figured out, test fired it and #%+@#!!! it did it AGAIN. So, I’m working on getting the locked up action apart and thought to myself, “I should have something holding the bolt back cuz when this lets loose .. WHAM! The guns owner was beside me and swears he heard it when I pulled the extractor literally out from stabbed deep inside my finger ...

Right about the time ^that^ fvck up was healing I’m using a box cuter with a new blade in it like a short sword to slice up some cardboard for getting firebox tinder started and sliced right through not just the end of my thumb (and you cannot see it in the photo) but cut my thumbnail practically clean in half. Gets better. I get that bleeding stopped and then go back to the floor Jack I was putting new seals in and, without thinking stick the fresh cut right into hydraulic fluid. Fvcking OWWWWWWWEEEEEEE! Better than an espresso for waking you up, I’m tellin ya!

Since then I’ve stupidly or absent-mindedly stuck that cut into gasoline, denatured alcohol, Ed’s Red, and a steel bristle on a wire brush that was in the back of a dark too chest drawer I was digging through (hell, the cut’s still fresh, every time it starts to heal I stick it in something else caustic)!

At least once a month either I say to myself or else someone else comments, “No shit, there was really a time they gave you fvcking real boolits?!”

I could go on for hours .... :sad20:

outrider58 · Feb 17, 2021

Baldheaded said:
Yes I am a big dummy sometimes. I was at home in my office tinkering with some stuff and started cutting some small plastic with my very sharp spyderco man bug (zap-189 steel). The cutting was a bit challenging so I was doing it in an odd way. The first couple of cuts went ok but I was telling myself in my head that the way I was cutting was stupid and not to keep doing it that way. Well I did it again and lets just say it didn't end well! I didn't listen to my smarter self and my dummy self paid the price.

Any of you guys ever do something like that that you can tell the story now and laugh about it??

Millions of times. 45 years in the flooring trade, the razor knife is our primary tool. Lot's of stitches. Cost of doing business.

Sampson · Feb 17, 2021

slsc98 said:
Why, it’s the little cuts that keep day to day life interesting!

I was working on an 1100, pretty much thought I had the disconnector winding up trapped between the backside of the interceptor latch and receiver wall figured out, test fired it and #%+@#!!! it did it AGAIN. So, I’m working on getting the locked up action apart and thought to myself, “I should have something holding the bolt back cuz when this lets loose .. WHAM! The guns owner was beside me and swears he heard it when I pulled the extractor literally out from stabbed deep inside my finger ...

Did that one time on a hunting trip down around Cambridge. Learned my lesson

ToBeFree · Feb 17, 2021

No stitches - it's not a real cut!

Put a glass tube through my hand working in a lab back in the day.
Tube had a perfect cross section of my hand, like a core sample.

willtill · Feb 17, 2021

Stabbed myself in the inner thigh once, gutting a deer. Luckily it didn't go deep.

GuitarmanNick · Feb 17, 2021

I was cutting a piece of flexible metal conduit without proper support trying to get it done in a hurry. Well, the hacksaw I was using jumped out of the cut on the forward stroke and cut my left index finger to the bone. Needless to say, I did not get it done in a hurry and spent the next 6 hours in an E.R. waiting to get it stitched. I became frustrated and approached the lady at the admitting desk and asked her to just grab me some sutures and a pair of scissors and I would take care of it myself. A few minutes later, she took me back to a hand specialist they had called in because he had to repair a tendon. He was laughing as he told me that I was not going to be able to repair the tendon and needed surgery.

Admittedly, I am glad he worked on it because that finger still works better than most of the others.

Mack C-85 · Feb 17, 2021

Similar to Nick....my partner and I were drilling a hole in an electrical box cover. No vice available, so I was holding it across the corner of a metal railing. Cover locked up on drill bit, and spun, slicing the back of my thumb. ER Doc just sewed it up, and referred me to Hand Doc for follow up. ER Doc's report said tendon was damaged, so I was sent to surgery. Turns out, only the outer sheath of the tendon was cut, so no repair. But, I spent the first half of goose season with my hand in a cast, with my thumb extended out, and I couldn't shoot.

BTW - There were two workmates and a vice in our shop when I returned from the ER.

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Baldheaded · Feb 17, 2021

Somehow reading all these posts has been like therapy for me. I feel the pain in your stories. Have had some laughs. And now for some reason I don't quite feel like such a "Big Dummy". Even though I really am!! lol

cww · Feb 17, 2021

Jr HS shop class - using the band saw and felt a tough at my sleeve and saw my forearm sleeve got torn on something, oh well kept cutting, kid came up behind me and said I was bleeding all over the place, shi!, someone had the blade guard on backwards, never felt it touch skin, took 18 stitches to close it up
2 - electric only lake, putting boat on the trailer I leaned over the front to attach the pull hook on front and my leg pressed the trolling motor control and my hand was under the prop, 3 slices and bled like a stuck pig, several stitches and 5 hr wait

DanGuy48 · Feb 17, 2021

I have an unusual one, seemingly very minor but it haunted me for years. I still vividly remember it. I worked in life science research labs for a fair bit of time doing transmission electron microscopy (TEM) among other things. The tools used for handling TEM specimen grids are very fine, with literally needle sharp tips.

Someone wanted to look at SSPE (Subacute Sclerosing PanEncephalitis) virus. I had been handling the sample on a TEM grid with a pair of above mentioned TEM tweezers. They were in my right hand. In my left hand was a small stoppered bottle vial what turned out to have a tight fitting stopper.

I used my right hand fingers, while holding the tweezers, to remove the stopper. You know how when you’re trying to be careful and something suddenly gives, you tend to over correct the other way to keep from spilling things? Well, the stopper suddenly popped loose and in trying to not jar the vial too much I over corrected, bringing the vial back in the direction of the tweezers which then impaled my left hand thumb through the glove. I looked at the bit of blood underneath the glove and felt like every bit of blood drained out of my face. I turned and looked at the guy who brought me the sample and from his look, I must have been pale as a ghost. I asked him if this was deactivated virus and he immediately said yes. But then he got very quiet and I could see him mentally going back through everything he had done. Then he gave me kind of a less convincing, “it’s OK.” I worried about that literally for years but now, at 73, I figure it will be something else. Even a slow virus would have shown up by now I think. I beat myself up for months after that though.

Lucca1 · Feb 17, 2021

Back in my early 20's, I was rushing to finish painting my kitchen as a surprise for my wife when she got home from work. Instead of running to Home Depot to get a smaller paint roller, I decided to cut a standard sized one in half using a brand new Wusthof bread knife. The roller remained unscathed but the knife slipped and cut my finger to the bone.

Needless to say, the sight of me standing there covered in blood overshadowed my freshly painted kitchen. Lesson learned. :facepalm:

randomuser · Feb 17, 2021

Lucca1 said:
Back in my early 20's, I was rushing to finish painting my kitchen as a surprise for my wife when she got home from work. Instead of running to Home Depot to get a smaller paint roller, I decided to cut a standard sized one in half using a brand new Wusthof bread knife. The roller remained unscathed but the knife slipped and cut my finger to the bone.

Needless to say, the sight of me standing there covered in blood overshadowed my freshly painted kitchen. Lesson learned.

Ha! I too have cut down a roller!

I got a new knife one year. It was a Christmas present from my wife, literally just got it. Using my new gift to cut a ziptie on one of my kids new toys. Stabbed myself in the finger, just a little blood, not to much. Mora garberg carbon. I love that scandi grind! Great sharp knife.

I watch A Christmas Story every year. I made sure to hide the blood from my wife and not let her know I cut myself with my new Christmas present or I would have gotten a few red rider jokes I'm sure. It happens.

soco · Feb 17, 2021

End of a job (HVAC controls guys always go last) and I had to drill a hole in a metal stud to feed a stat wire through. Just me and the GC (everyone else was done), junior guy finishing up the last punchlist items at the end of a big job.

Well I was drilling with a regular bit and not a step drill into essentially sheet metal because I was 20 and stupid. Predictably the bit caught and my 20v badass drill twisted 90 degrees and slammed my hand into the corner of a square 1900 box. Since it was a pyramid shaped puncture it was impossible for it to knit (think bayonnet wound). The GC went white as a sheet as I bled all over, I'm sure he was thinking he would get fired. It being a Friday afternoon, I didn't want to stop so I told him to get me electrical tape and a paper towel and if he didn't tell anyone, I wouldn't.

It wasn't too deep and it healed on its own, but its now part of my collection of scars. And its definitely not the last one I got by not stopping to get the correct tool because I was in a rush.

Edit:
I just saw DanGuy's post and I love it. That's fantastic, cheers on not getting the plague!

gizzard · Feb 17, 2021

held a branch still for father-in-law runnung small chainsaw. cut across knuckles on fingers and just below knuckles on the hand. you could see all the inner workings, not much blood. put the claw of a hammer through web of my hand, evemtually minor surgery was needed to remove scar tissue. Using a bow saw as a child, cut my leg,20 years later had to have a granulitis removed that formed in the scar tissue.

ToolAA · Feb 17, 2021

DanGuy48 said:
I have an unusual one, seemingly very minor but it haunted me for years. I still vividly remember it. I worked in life science research labs for a fair bit of time doing transmission electron microscopy (TEM) among other things. The tools used for handling TEM specimen grids are very fine, with literally needle sharp tips.

Someone wanted to look at SSPE (Subacute Sclerosing PanEncephalitis) virus. I had been handling the sample on a TEM grid with a pair of above mentioned TEM tweezers. They were in my right hand. In my left hand was a small stoppered bottle vial what turned out to have a tight fitting stopper.

I used my right hand fingers, while holding the tweezers, to remove the stopper. You know how when you’re trying to be careful and something suddenly gives, you tend to over correct the other way to keep from spilling things? Well, the stopper suddenly popped loose and in trying to not jar the vial too much I over corrected, bringing the vial back in the direction of the tweezers which then impaled my left hand thumb through the glove. I looked at the bit of blood underneath the glove and felt like every bit of blood drained out of my face. I turned and looked at the guy who brought me the sample and from his look, I must have been pale as a ghost. I asked him if this was deactivated virus and he immediately said yes. But then he got very quiet and I could see him mentally going back through everything he had done. Then he gave me kind of a less convincing, “it’s OK.” I worried about that literally for years but now, at 73, I figure it will be something else. Even a slow virus would have shown up by now I think. I beat myself up for months after that though.

Wow that seems actually quite terrifying in a way. Was there some sort of protocol for possible infection like that? What virus were you analyzing at the time?

Cut myself because I am a big dummy!

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