About two months ago i was in a shop accident and lost the top of my left index finger and i was just wondering what kind of accidents some of you guys have been in.
Anyone ever been in a shop accident??
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Can you hear me knocking on WOOD? NOPE....seen some scary stuff though! Like oxy/acetylene valve on tank blowing off ......Yikes!
Got my left index finger smashed off to the first knuckle. 
A couple of years ago I got the ends of my right ring and index fingers crushed between a drill pipe and the pipe trailer on a methane drilling rig. Cut clear through the bone and about halfway through the flesh on the other side. If I hadn't had gloves on, they would have been taken clear off. I've had a TON of other accidents resulting in numerous broken bones, severe burns, and many stitches but this was the worst one at work.
What the heck!!!????
My left leg received no damage.
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LOL Mule.
I have crushed my hand in between the upright post of a drill press and the hunk of steel I was drilling, the steel was not clamped down to the table, bit dug in and there ya go. Took a long time to heal, but it's all good. Not enough bandwidth to list the other stuff, but that is the most recent encounter.
Shop work is dangerous and does require constant attention for anyone, even others around you. Be safe and enjoy the work you do. Bullfrog
I have crushed my hand in between the upright post of a drill press and the hunk of steel I was drilling, the steel was not clamped down to the table, bit dug in and there ya go. Took a long time to heal, but it's all good. Not enough bandwidth to list the other stuff, but that is the most recent encounter.
Shop work is dangerous and does require constant attention for anyone, even others around you. Be safe and enjoy the work you do. Bullfrog
Well it sounds like some gross accidents!!! i ground the top of mine off in a wheel grinder at school. it ground off the top so u could see the bone, i even ground some of trhe bone off. but they ended up having to do a skin graft. gross!!!!
Now thats funny !!
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stupidity dealt me a few stitches once, hit a suspension linkage from a KX250 with an impact and one of the pieces spun around and caught me on the wrist, left me with 2 internal and 4 external stitches, missed slicing a tendon that connects my left thumb by millimeters... that's the only one worth mentioning... the rest are silly little cut and scrapes that everyone gets once in a while...
Luckily I just sit at a desk now so nothing bad, the occasional paper cut, (man they hurt) and my eyes get real tired looking at the computer screen all day.
But my cabinet shop has had some real freak accidents the last two years. We had dust collect in a on/off switch on a shaper and bridged the connection. It turned on when an employee was adjusting the height. Shapers don't cut fingers clean like a table saw would. His first 3 fingers were ground up like hamburger. After a life flight ride he spent 8 hours in surgery. The doctors and nurses took pictures during surgery because they couldn't believe it. It was the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
The next is a long story how it happened so I'll skip that. The result was a piece of hickory (very hard wood) about 1/8"x1/8" and 3 foot long kicked back out of the table saw and went all the way through him. It went through his spleen, kidney, small intestine and one other organ, I think liver. We still have his X-Rays hanging up in the shop.
Needless to say my workers comp insurance has doubled in the last 2 years.
But my cabinet shop has had some real freak accidents the last two years. We had dust collect in a on/off switch on a shaper and bridged the connection. It turned on when an employee was adjusting the height. Shapers don't cut fingers clean like a table saw would. His first 3 fingers were ground up like hamburger. After a life flight ride he spent 8 hours in surgery. The doctors and nurses took pictures during surgery because they couldn't believe it. It was the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.
The next is a long story how it happened so I'll skip that. The result was a piece of hickory (very hard wood) about 1/8"x1/8" and 3 foot long kicked back out of the table saw and went all the way through him. It went through his spleen, kidney, small intestine and one other organ, I think liver. We still have his X-Rays hanging up in the shop.
Needless to say my workers comp insurance has doubled in the last 2 years.
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These happened to me:
Ones that happened to guys I was working with:
- Fell off the top of a ski lift terminal, got lucky didn't break any bones.
- Got hit in the head with a ski lift chair running at full speed, got knocked out.
- Had an extra heavy bullplug explode five feet away from me with 10,000 PSI on it.
- Had a 1/4" rod get launched from a BOP @ 7,500 psi not 4" from my head
- had a chain wrench explode and hit me in the chest
Ones that happened to guys I was working with:
- watched a guy go into convulsions after being knocked out from an H2S/ammonia combo, don't know how we saved his a$s but we did. SOB is lucky to still be alive. We were essentially watching him die and there was nothing we could do.
- watched a guy get his foot run over by a 2 ton forklift
- watched my dad fall 18 feet down into a concrete pit, break two ribs and his arm and still climb up the ladder to get out
- saw a guy blow up a grinder disk and get hit in the face with shrapnel
Worland?One time I farted... except it wasn't a fart....
Coveralls are hard to get off when you're in a hurry like that
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RMK7SledHead
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i loaded an ag plane with material and then watched the pilot take off with the control locks installed. He lived, and actually didn't break any bones...he was knocked completely cold, and the plane was destroyed. I watched my Dad get an '04 4-door Dmax airborne trying to get to the plane after the crash.
I was working on a truck with the boss drilling some holes in a grain tank to install a tarp, with a dull drill bit, drill slipped and went right into my finger with a 3/8 bit before i could get it stopped went clear to the bone. But hey atleast the boss was there to wrap it in paper towel and electrical tape.
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