ROTFL! Yeah that part about metal splinter in the eyes is not fun at all. I've had to go to the ER twice in the middle of the night because I could not close my eye with out that horrible burning feeling. The first time I was not wearing safety glasses. The second time I was and still managed to lodge one in my eye. Now I wear goggles at work no mater what metal work I am doing. I get made fun of but I havent had a piece of metal in my eye yet.

 

Okay I gave myself a second set of eyebrows once. All it took was a piece of aluminum, two vise grips and a saw. I was rough cutting a 1/2" thick aluminum into a 4"x8". But the portable bandsaw wouldn't cut down 6", but it did cut 5.5". Okay its only aluminum. I can fatigue it and break that last little bit. So I put the plate in the vise and grabbed it with two vise grips. I yanked one direction then the other. Well it came free after three pulls. The two vise grips came down upon my forehead with a crashing blow. I had two long cuts on my forehead just above my eyebrows from the release lever on the vise grips. It gave me a splitting head ache and blurry vision. My girlfriend at the time call me some interesting names and she was right.

Andrew

 

Well here's one for today's tool injury... I was using the onboard brake lathe to resurface the rear rotors on a Chevy truck with posi tracs in the rear when I turned on the machine without tightening height adjustment knob. Well the dang thing starts to turn the whole late and I'm trying desperately to keep it from spinning to turn the switch off. I wound up having to unplug the whole thing messing up the calibrations, but I suffered a deep gash on my right pinky to my wrist from the lathe blade, bruised elbows and thumbs, and deep embarassment when a fairly attractive girl had seen all of this happening through the shop window (my bay is next to the office). Now I have to pay for a new wire since it stripped itself while going for a spin.

 

hhmmm how about cutting a box up and accidentally plunging the knife blade completely into ones own palm? did that at age 7....LOL

hmmm thinking the 110v dewalt drill wont have more tq than my 18v dewalt cordless and attempting to dechuck a frozen chuck....You should have seen the blisters all in and on my palm! The blisters all broke the next day as I was using the air riveter, soaking the entire work area with about 15mL of serum.

tons of busted knuckles...

and im ALWAYS burning myself whenever I cut steel or grind it. Sometimes I wont have any fingerprints on any of my fingers due to this.

And hey what about slipping on the boat ramp at 6 am in the morning and having the trailer jack harpoon you in the chest under the left arm as you came crashing down? Yeah that happened. and when I didnt cough up and blood, I said "Screw it I came to fish, so by God Im gonna FISH!" The fishing that day was the best ive ever experienced up at ana maria. I later discovered that I broke one rib and separted another from my sternum. Made shooting my shotgun sooooooooooo much fun! LOL

 

I always loved when my dad and I would work on anything he would bust a knuckle or cut his finger he'd always say "Ah I didn't need that knuckle/fanger no ways." He he I've caught myself saying that at work a few times. How about always cutting your knucles or fingers when working near or around the radiator fins? That sucks or just stupid small stuff when your elbow catches on something not even sharp and yet you stil manage to get cut! Stupid things...

 

I can't stop laughing after reading this. One of the funniest things I've ever read cause I can just imagine all of these things happening.

 

Why is it always the very last step where we get whacked, cut, smacked or hurt????



The other day, I had the garage door down a bit to block the sun. Well, I got into a hurry and starting taking scrap around back and walked right into the bottom of the garage door. The top of my head hit the bottom of the door. :cry:

It knocked me down a bit, jarred my whole neck and back, and I'm still feeling the pain two days later. Tomorrow I'm going to see a chiropractic dude.

 

:pat: never done any thing that before.
about 12 yrs old builing a go-kart, needed the axle ground just-a-teeny-weeny-bit. dads bench top grinder was handy, fire it up, apply axle, axle ripped from hand leaving a huge gash below thumb on my palm. only 12 stiches to close, interesting shaped scar remains. BTW the go-kart was fun once the wheels fit.

 

So now I have to update my biggest dumb move....

Yesterday at work we are breaking out a concrete header so we can start a new pave. I operate a conrete paver. At the end of a days ppaivng we have about 3 feet of waste we have to break out and remove before we can start a new pave that ties in with the old.

Wel in doing so, we are about done taking out the header and have to bust some up with a 10# sledge hammer. Well it is hot and humid out, 90 with 90% humidity, so each of us are taking our turns.

My turn comes up and I grab the maul and swing back for a nice overHEAD swing to break a 8" thick piece. As the maul comes up, I go down.

It seems I connected with the top of my head, resulting in a nice blow that draws blood, and sends me home with a concussion. Never lost consiousness, but talk about ringing your own bell

 

"ringing your own bell" now I am just rolling Ha ha! Well you definitely will have the headache for at least 3 days from that one I bet. BTW I was not making fun of you or anything, I thought it was funny the way you said the last sentece.

 

There is rarely a time when I don't have some sort of wound. Sunday resulted in a good little gash in my hand while trimming my big tree.
If you can get away working on the 3.slo without an injury or knucke buster, you are my hero.
Life is a full contact sport

 

Well here goes: Setting up graphite electrical outlet boxes: smashed my thumb w/hammer and a piece of graphite that shattered off the box sliced my ring finger,
Was wrenching on my 82 sa yota, using the best craftsmen 3/8" drive made, which might I add is still a POS, the internals stripped out and I subsquently stoved my thumb by running it bluntly into the 22R's engine block, while welding a patch in my frame I thought I could quickly hold the patch piece I had just cut and tack weld it real quick, nope now I have no fingerprints on one hand, hmmm.. temporarily blinded myself using the torch...all I saw for 10 minutes was a big white spot everywhere I looked, smashed my head replacing an electrical fuel pump on my friends van.....
this was all within the last 4 days....and I'm not really a clumsy type of person, I think it's because of lack of sleep.

 

man, don't waste your money on lotto tickets! you aint gonna win!

 

Installed an OME lift on my 4th Gen this past weekend. In doing so, I needed to alleviate some of the pressure on the lower control arm so I could slip the bolt out of the factory strut and remove it. Since I needed some leverage, I decided to use a crowbar, place it across the top of the upper control arm and in between the springs. prying down alleviated the tension perfectly ! That was, until I was removing the bolt and the crowbar slipped out from between the springs. Having my hands full at the time, I decided to catch the flying crowbar with my forehead, which also worked perfectly...

After my best impersonation of an indian rain dance, I found a nice, bloody, welt above my right eye.

I also found out how much it costs to install an OME lift on a 4th Gen ! 2 knuckles, a finger, and a forehead...

Steve

 

Was cleaning up my shackle hanger today, used a 2.5" wire wheel on the corded drill. Got one side done, started dicking around. Next thing I knew the chunk of metal was red, and my toe was burning. I sliced my toe open without knowing it. (I was retarded and put my bare foot microns away fromt he brush)

I then figured out that if I locked hte drill's trigger, and stuck it over the edge of the stairs, and stood on the drill, while holding the part with my hand, it'd work better. I have a hole in my boot now.

 

It seems like you have all of the luck and fun here gangus.

 

I was watching another student work on a table saw in DesignFab today. He was cutting 1/4" off the end of a board to square it up. Well, that 1/4" piece got stuck int he saw, and instead of using a push stick, or turning the saw off, he just stuck his hand int here. Nicked his finger, blood all over the place.

We have no table saw for 2 weeks per order of the superintendent of schools now.

 

Before we got married, I would often see my wife-to-be at work. Well one night, I drove over to her workplace to pick her up. As I walked up to open a gate, something poked me right in the eye. I tried opening my hurt eye, but I couldn't see anything. I had walked right into the gate latch, which happened to be positioned just at my eye level (I'm about 5' 11" tall). Luckily, my eye ball moved to one side and the latch only went into the eye socket. Blood was everywhere, which was why I couldn't see out of the eye. Luckily for me, I still have a complete set of eyes. Needless to say, I didn't act like a cry baby, which seemed to impress my wife-to-be. Maybe that's why she married me...

Troy

 

my wife yells at me, calls me names, and tells me to sell the truck everytime I get hurt. The funny thing is the last couple times I have gotten hurt have been when I was making her a new bed. Funny how memory, thoughts, or blame from wives are selective

 

just have to resurrect this thread if for no other reason than it's *so* funny. (helps too that gangus is beating himself up....)

my additions:

1. i had just hit a sprinkler head with the lawnmower, so i took off the blade and resharpened it until it would cut paper. put it back on, tightened everything down, left the mower switched off so it wouldn't really get spinning, and then yanked the starter cord to determine if the blade wasn't going to fly off. reached underneath to lift up the mower to inspect... WHACK. i felt it all the way up my arm but no pain in my fingertip that was now laid open.

2. i had just plumbed a toilet in our house and was going to wipe dust off the tank a bit. no paper towels or a brush around, so i did it by hand. turns out there were numerous tooth-like glaze shards all along the back of the tank lid. that got me eight slit-open fingers all at once.

3. i was getting ready to tile another bathroom by removing vinyl flooring. i thought i had sliced away all the excess caulk that used to abut the vanity. i needed to grip it better to pull the vinyl out, so i got some TP wet, and firmly wiped the cat fur and dust away, and zzzick! slit four fingers open on dried caulk. i couldn't use a fork or spoon without pain for a couple weeks.

4. i was using a 24" torque wrench to take off the 24mm fill plug from my rear diff, because the shorter ratchet handle just couldn't do it. the plug finally let loose, and my hand rocketed into the side of the axle and crushed the vein on top of my hand. that was lovely-looking for a few days.

5. i got a dent in my forehead from walking into a low doorway in a storage closet i was making. i had just hung the folding door track and didn't duck enough, and hit the new track straight-on. i staggered around for a bit and had to just sit down.

6. i needed to bore a small hole in steel and thought it wouldn't hurt to leave the drill press on a higher speed for something this quick. yah right. the turnings became long like hair, whizzed around and slashed up my fingers before i could even reach for the power button.

7. not really tool-related but pretty funny. i had a wrist rocket as a kid, and one time pulled back to the side for some reason. when i let loose, the rock hit the frame and ricochetted back into my forehead. that was brilliant.

there's more but i already feel like i belong in a roadrunner cartoon...