How many people have your knives sent to hospital?

I have only made the emergency room trip with a box knife years ago (OK, a couple times).

I have been lucky to get by with adhesive strips, super glue, & nu-skin for all my recent ones. Last time I missed my kydex sheath when sheathing my neck knife and stabbed myself in the finger, but usually it happens when I'm refinishing a knife blade. I've found the 3-M band-aid super glue right at the cut, topped with black rubberized super glue is a good wound mgmt system. :)
 
Not my knife but one I sharpened. My hunting buddy cut his hand across the web. Took off this shirt wrapped his hand then got the truck as we finished cleaning the deer.He helped drag them out ,three of them. Then we drove into town to get his hand looked at. You should have seen the look on the girls face when we walked in covered in blood. Priceless. Almost forgot 11 stitches.
 
Ankerson said:
Yeah, booze and big sharp knives don't mix. :D
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No they don't.

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The stiches come out tomorrow.
 
Well I went to the ER waiting room. Decided to fix it myself because I didn't want to wait. It didn't heal up to bad, but would have looked better with a couple of stitches.

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My wife always complains that i keep the kitchen knives to sharp. Never had to have stiches though. I have cut myself more times that i can remember. I told my son when he started carrying a knife that if you carry one long enough you WILL cut yourself, accept it and be prepared.
 
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I sent myself to the hospital once. I skinned the tip of my finger on a machete, using the dumbest sharpening technique ever. (thinking that moving my stone faster would make it sharper:rolleyes:)
I had not yet joined Bladeforums at the time of the incident.
 
From unintentional misuse, just myself with a leatherman.
 
That second right after I cut myself real good here's what goes through my head every time:
1) YOU IDIOT!
2) JESUS that stings like a m..........r!
3) Cool look at all the blood!

The first two I get. Number 3 I don't quite understand.
 
To the hospital?

Nada. Not even me.
 
I was in the Air Force for 26 years as an electronics Technician. Everytime I got a new guy in the shop I would issue them a brand new Leatherman of the best style made at the time.

I would sit the new guy down and give them a safety briefing. the knife is very sharp, yada, yada...

Damn near evrey guy I gave one to ended up cutting themselves within 20 minutes of having the tool in their possesion. At least 3 or 4 that I recall made a trip to the emergency room and ended up with stitches.

I guess the allure of the new knife was to much for them to handle, they just had to mess around until they got cut?
 
When I was about 13, we were playing a big game of what we called chase, kinda a hide and seek, tag type of game spread out over the small town I grew up in. I was bored and whittling a stick when I was found by my best friends little brother and 2 of his friends. They took to chasing me and eventually caught up. I stopped and turned around to give up and he ran right into me. 6 stitches on his wrist, and one nasty lickin' on me, from his Mom! Knives got taken away too. The rule was no running with scissors I always thought.
 
Just one. My roommate and I were trying to stab through a quarter with a Game Warden (why? just to see if we could... looking back, not the brightest of ideas). He took a really solid swing and his hand slid down when he stabbed the quarter/desk. Took 10 stitches and it was right on his palm... not a place you want to get cut.
 
none, not myself either. Though my knives have bitten quite a few people. my little Opinel #6 is making quick work out of friends and coworkers, it's bitten quite a few... People see a little wood handled knife, with patchy patina staining on the blade, and automatically assume it's dull... Even though they know I don't carry dull knives around, haha....
 
two knife blocks in the kitchen mine, and then everyone elses. sharp blades are not for dull minds.(not tellin which is mine)
 
My knives have never sent anyoneto the hospital other then myself. Even then only once. I made the mistake of trying to catch a kitchen knife I dropped right after sharpening. Its kind of funny how the world goes into supper slow motion when you do something you know is stupid. I knew from the moment my hand started moving to catch it that it was going to end badly, but could do nothing to stop the reflex movement. The knife didn't even slow down, I thought I had missed it and was thanking the powers that be that my reflexes had slowed down as I got older. Then the red tap started to flow, not drip. No pain from it just lots of blood, cut the pad of the little finger to the bone. Sharp knives leave no scars when dressed proper.
 
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