Fresh injury pics! (Since we all know that without pics, it didn't happen...)

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deker

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I wish I could say I was being dumb, but this one was just an accident...Angle grinding stone threw a hunk off of the edge into my right hand and bought me 5 stitches....Home from the hospital by way of the liquor store, and now it's time for a relaxed evening :)

Before needlework:

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After some fancy knot tying:

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This is the tradeoff for refusing to wear gloves around things that spin fast...at least I had my safety glasses on! :D

-d
 
Yup, that puckers the old sphincter to look at. Nice.


... by way of the liquor store, classic...
 
What were the stitches for? :confused: Couple of bandaids and I'd be back to work.

I recomend you wear some leather work gloves in the future. Please tell me you were at least wearing eye protection. :cool:
 
Glad you're ok, deker.

Thompsonblades, he said he did have his safety glasses on. And I'm not a fan of gloves and power equipment myself, though I will often wear gloves when using the angle grinder.

--nathan
 
No doubt it hurts but doesn't look like it needed stitches. Could be wrong though, it could be to the bone.

I have a scar in the shape of an oval the width of a quarter and about 3/8" thick on my left thum knuckle closest to my palm from an angle grinder incident. Was grinding down some welds on a piece of steel and the grinder got away from me and ZIP, before I could react it had ground the flesh into a ball at one end and down nearly to the bone...I could see white LOL. I was in a small state of shock for a second while thinking..."man, this is gonna frickin' hurt later!" I put a couple bandaids on it, then my gloves and went back to work hahaha.
 
One I didn't think really needed stitches, but since it was so close to the knuckle the nurse was concerned about it opening up. The index finger had a pretty good flap torn up though and I can see where it needed a couple. Seeing as I do computer work at my day job, proper function of the 'ol digits is essential and so I take no chances. My hands are worth far more to me as a computer geek then as a knifemaker....

Not to mention, what good is it to pay for insurance unless you use it every now and again? :D

-d
 
deker said:
One I didn't think really needed stitches, but since it was so close to the knuckle the nurse was concerned about it opening up. The index finger had a pretty good flap torn up though and I can see where it needed a couple. Seeing as I do computer work at my day job, proper function of the 'ol digits is essential and so I take no chances. My hands are worth far more to me as a computer geek then as a knifemaker....

Not to mention, what good is it to pay for insurance unless you use it every now and again? :D

-d
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deker said:
This is the tradeoff for refusing to wear gloves around things that spin fast...at least I had my safety glasses on! :D

-d
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Uh, huh.:confused: Now, why is it you "refuse to wear gloves"?
 
thompsonblades said:
Uh, huh.:confused: Now, why is it you "refuse to wear gloves"?
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Around things that spin? Do I need to answer that? You wear gloves at a drill press? Belt grinder? Now, I may have to reconsider the angle grinder as a special case since there isn't a lot to grab you on a stone, but I prefer a few stitches to violent removal of all or some of a digit....

-d
 
deker said:
Around things that spin? Do I need to answer that? You wear gloves at a drill press? Belt grinder? Now, I may have to reconsider the angle grinder as a special case since there isn't a lot to grab you on a stone, but I prefer a few stitches to violent removal of all or some of a digit....

-d
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yup :thumbup:
 
deker said:
Around things that spin? Do I need to answer that? You wear gloves at a drill press? Belt grinder? Now, I may have to reconsider the angle grinder as a special case since there isn't a lot to grab you on a stone, but I prefer a few stitches to violent removal of all or some of a digit....

-d
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I don't know what you are thinking about, but I wear FULL LEATHER gloves. I have never seen, or even heard, of a leather glove getting caught. In fact, my fingers have been saved several times because I was wearing them. I nearly took my thumb off on a table saw once, but the heavy leather gloves I was wearing turned what could have been a trip to the emergency room to reatatch my thumb, into a minor cut I fixed with a band aid. Try wearing deer- or sheep-skin gloves if you want to maintain some feel since the leather is thin enough to feel through.

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And yes, I do wear gloves around a drill press and grinders. But not fabric gloves. I admit, those can get caught.
 
The shots that they numb the area up with usually hurt worse than the actual accident. Glad you kept all your digits attached. I had a disc come apart on me a few weeks ago while grinding a billet also.
 
Burton said:
The shots that they numb the area up with usually hurt worse than the actual accident. Glad you kept all your digits attached. I had a disc come apart on me a few weeks ago while grinding a billet also.
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You're not kidding! Lidocaine burns like hell...I at least managed to get into the ER before the endorphines wore off and it started to hurt....At the moment I'm enjoying an icy adult beverage to help aid in my pain management :D

-d
 
I have to agree with not wearing gloves around spinning things.
We just had a person at work running a drill press with "big heavy gloves" on and somehow they got their hand a little to close to the drill bit and it grabbed, sending them on the ground and tearing the skin off the back of the hand.


But on the other hand most angle grinder and other high speed tool have some sort of a guard to protect the hands. I know my angle grinder does!
 
Most angle grinders do have a guard that attaches, but it can also grab glove material in between the guard and the stone/disk. Those "degloved" pics always give me goosebumps to see.
 
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