Stupid, Stupid, Stupid!

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Jeeze, I was trimming a set of step bars that I had sprayed with pickup truck bedliner at work and I stabbed the back of my hand with a fixed blade knife.:doh:

Just like this one.
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Had to go and get three stitches.


What a way to start the work week. :(


I have not had stitches for 13 years.:doubt:
 

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Not with this one I'm afraid, I could not get it to stay closed.

Usually a band-aid will fix all of my cuts but this one was a job well done. :doh:
 
when i was in tx i was working for Nokia as a temp.... one of the guys i worked with was cutting open plastic packages with a kind of hooked utility knife and he cut the wrong way and went about 2" into his leg.... dude was on crack or some kind of drug.... it didnt really affect him that much.....the cut was about 4 or 5" long and about 2" deep....
 
I'm glad it wasn't worse. I put the pointy end of a pry bar through my lower lip at werk once, bled like a stuck hog. I was adjusting the cross slides on an ancient B&S screw machine and the damn bar BROKE where it was holding pressure on the spring-loaded cam!

The worst part was the bantering I endured from my fellow employees...:doh:
 
ROFL! I hate when that happens. :D I use crazy glue. works well. Course, I did glue my hand to my leg once keeping the cut closed. :D
 
I feel your pain, man!

My third day on the job at Year One--June 6th, 1996--I was using a utility knife to cut open a heavy spiral-cardboard tube about 5' long with some Chevelle rocker mouldings in it. I had my right hand atop the tube and was cutting at about the midpoint when the glue holding the spiral let go. Right hand came down right into the path of the brand-new knife blade, which went in right to the hilt. It destroyed quite a bit of muscle and severed nerves, even though it only required six stiches. The bleeding was insane, but all the clinic did was stuff everything back inside and stitch it up. I had no use of my right thumb for over a year, but somehow the nerves re-routed themselves and full use eventually came back. I still have a wicked scar, and the severed nerves occasionally misfire, causing very weird, unnatural spiral twitches in my thumb muscles... they move in ways normal thumb muscles can't. I can't stop 'em, they'll just stop eventually. Great for freaking people out, though... I think Stretchy's seen it happen.
 
I'm doing better today, living on Advil mind you. :doh:

Work today was a bitch but oh well what can yah do.


Can't really use my thumb to much to grip or fiddle with things because of where the cut is and definitely NO lifting.

But I'll live. :)


You guys don't need a pic do yah? :D
 
MoparMatt said:
I'm glad it wasn't worse. I put the pointy end of a pry bar through my lower lip at werk once, bled like a stuck hog. I was adjusting the cross slides on an ancient B&S screw machine and the damn bar BROKE where it was holding pressure on the spring-loaded cam!

The worst part was the bantering I endured from my fellow employees...:doh:
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Dippy I figgered you'd have pics up before we had to ask......:nopics:


I did screw machines but I fubarred a foot slipping in oil all day and quit before I had a chance to really screw myself up. :bravo: I did get bit a few times catching samples, nothing a rag for a few minutes didn't fix.
 
Ummm, there's no dirt and grime mashed in around there. How do you expect to get it all infected and oozey being all clean like that?
 
when i was a little kid, one of the neighbor kids pulled a piece of tape measure out of my hand.... it sliced my middle finger on my right hand right down to the bone.... it was something like 13 stitches.... great scar to show off though.....
 
BootHead said:
I did screw machines but I fubarred a foot slipping in oil all day and quit before I had a chance to really screw myself up. :bravo: I did get bit a few times catching samples, nothing a rag for a few minutes didn't fix.
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Those old B&S' are bastards. I was in charge of five, all but one being 1940's vintage. They prolly turned out parts for B-17s when new, LOL! The one I had my incident with wouldn't stay in time for chit, due to a badly worn drive cam. There wasn't a lobe on it that I didn't have to put a bead o' weld on. It werked, though. The same machine drove a 3/8" drill into my forearm when the turret indexed out of time (same cam as above) during a tooling setup (I.E; OFF)... Friggin' JUNK!

I'm glad you'll pull through Dippy :)
 
A few months ago at work I sliced my thumb wide open, to the bone with a box knife. I had to go to the hospital and yeah it was a workmans comp claim. The next day instead of my boss asking how my thumb was like a normal person, she jumped my shit because supposedly my hospital bill came out of the store budget, and now she had to increase sales dramatically to make up for the financial loss....after about 5 minutes of her ripping into me, I just looked her dead in the face and with an attitude said, "Oh, by the way, my thumb is fine! Thanks for asking!" and walked away. She tried to write me up for it but I refused to sign it. Haven't heard anything about it since! Then again my boss is, as they say in Wayne's World...a Psycho-hose-beast!
 
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