Knife injuries

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I was just wondering if anyone has had injuries from knives. Mabey say what you were doing and how severe the injury was. I have had my personal experience with knife pain. I was throwing my cs true flight when it ricochet and stabbed my leg. It hurt for a few days, had to get a couple of stitches but nothing to bad.
 
My mom has an orange tree in her backyard and I picked one, I cut it in my hand along with a small chunk off of the corner of my thumb (from the edge of the cuticle and out).

Another time I was learning to flip a balisong and gripped it before the bite handle came all the way down. Luckily I didn't grip it hard enough to do any damage, only a small red line across 3 fingers.

There's other threads on this subject, some with bloody pictures, you should look them up.
 
One time, I dropped a kershaw camp 10 and stupidly tried to catch it. I still have a little bit of discomfort where I cut it a year ago, it was deep.
 
I stabbed my thumb with a freshly sharpened buck 110 while trying to cut the zip tie off of the buck 112 I was putting back together. I used the zip tie to depress the lock bar so I could fit the blade back in. When I cut the tie, the knife went right on into my thumb. Luckily, the bone stopped it from going any deeper :) I found dyche cutters to be much safer.
I also closed my tenacious on my thumb tip about a day after watching a review video on YouTube where the guy did the same thing.
They say the best learning tool is experience. Who knew?
 
If you mess around with knives enough you will at some point cut yourself fairly badly. Last April I received in the mail a new old stock knife I purchased. It was a tanto blade linerlock. When I opened the knife 1st thing I noticed is that it was extremely razor sharp. But the blade would not lock in place so I oiled up the pivot and linerlock a bit and worked the blade but still would not lock up. I pressed the blade against a wooden block and it locked. I again worked the blade a bit and held the blade in my left hand with the blade pointing into my palm and pressed down on the handle with my right hand. Ok you all can see where this ends up going. The blade slipped between my fingers while I was pushing down with my right hand and hit about half inch below my left index finger and made a 1.5" cut down to the bone with the middle tip of the tanto blade. I immediatly held the cut closed in my palm and went back into the house and sat down and told my wife I just cut my hand and may need stitches. I waited a minute or two and slowly opened my hand and it filled up my hand with blood very quickly. Held it closed for about 15 minutes with a cloth and again opened my hand which again filled up with blood right away. That is when I told my wife that she better take me in for stitches. Long story made short when the urgent care tech looked at my hand and cleaned it I noticed the blood pooled in my hand in spurts with my heartbeat. I cut an artery. He numbed me up closed the artery and stitched up the cut and it healed up fine in a couple of weeks.

Mess with knives long enough and it is bound to happen.
 
After slicing my left index finger to the bone with a 1" wood chisel in my early twenties, I have handled sharp tools with great caution and suffered no further major wounds. Somehow I was blessed to learn enough from that experience to prevent recurrences of it. I was using the chisel in a dumb way, was bound to happen. Luckily no nerve damage.
 
This happened last night with my freshly sharpened 710-1. Moved my finger too close to the blade and felt a small tug. Didn't think anything of it, then noticed "something" on the blade.



I then noticed the dripping of fluid onto my hand and floor. This was taken this morning. Keyboards have definitely been more fun...

 
Generally speaking, I'm extremely, overly careful with my knives. I've only cut myself three times. The first couple were with a Bradley Kimura 8 butterfly knife. I was used to Manila style butterfly knives, and the Kimura was a Batangas style. Needless to say, I zoned out while flipping and my muscle memory defaulted to grabbing the latch handle, which ended up being the bite handle on the new knife. Those were really only skin deep though.

The most recent cut was the day I got my Paramilitary 2; I decided to oil the blade as I usually do, dragging an oil-soaked kimwipe parallel to the edge. The Para2 came so incredibly sharp that it somehow bit through the wipe and into my thumb, and I didn't even notice until I realized I was dripping blood all over my jeans 5 minutes later. Even so, it was only slightly into muscle tissue of my thumb.

I think I've done pretty well given that I've been playing with knives for several hours a day since my freshman year of college though.
 
Yesterday I found a SAK outlet store at a mall my wife frequents. Bought a SAK Day Packer. Safely opened the packaging with the knife I was already carrying. Opened the Day Packer to admire the blade. Noted it was scalpel sharp. Closed it for the first time and clipped my finger. Even got a nice bright red blood spatter on the yellow handle:thumbup: Typing sucked today.

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2 years ago got my Becker Bk2 in the mail. I was soooo psyched that I hit the trail immediatly. Was getting some wood, try chopping a piece, cut my left index finger right where the knukles starts. Almost lost it, it was hanging by a piece of skin and muscle. Heres a picture of the scar:
 
Sorry for the bad pic, but you can still see it. My mom cut herself with my Esee 3 once. She was helping me skin my 8 point buck while I was removing the insides. It was like -20 celsius outside. Here's a pic:

 
When I was a child I witnessed a buddy injure himself. I was building a plastic model kit when my friend thought he could demonstrate the correct way to use my exacto. He cut his middle finger to the bone while demonstrating his technique. He must have severed a decent blood vessel because his finger was squirting a stream of blood like a cheap old water gun decorating my ceiling. He wrapped his hand in a towel and applied pressure on the way to the ER. He suffered nerve damage to the finger and it is now practically paralyzed. I have to admit I have also cut myself on a few occasions while ignoring common sense and being careless. Safety first.
 
Swamp Rat M9 bit me. It's was a lot deeper than it looks because the pic was taken after a couple of days of healing. My thumb now hangs loose and sort of looks like a gorilla paw. I must have cut some connective tendon or something. At least I have a cool scar now. I was cutting a thin piece of lattice lengthwise. I decided to hammer it from top to bottom and used my left hand to hold the wood. Well the knife was sharper than I realized and it went through like nothing and into the hand holding it.
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Spend enough time in the Busse forum and you will see some nasty ones. Here is one posted recently
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1150957-ASHBM-killed-my-pinky-finger/page3
 
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I did this last night just reaching in my pocket to pull out my Spyderco Southard. The tip is so close to the end when closed, that my thumb got stuck. Haven't ever had that happen with any other knife. It's not bad, but it pissed me off pretty bad.
 
I haven't had any injuries quite as bad as some of the ones posted above :eek: . My worst was probably when I was a little kid around 10 or 12 years old. I was out in my grandparents yard in Switzerland with my swiss army knife (of course!) and somehow it closed on my index finger, cut pretty deep. Didn't quite hit the bone but it was close. I can't see the scar anymore but it was visible for many years. Ever since I've been a lot more careful around non-locking folders.

-mike
 
Some guy tried to stab me in the neck one time, by the grace of God, I saw it coming and somehow put my hand up to block it and he cut me between the pinky and ring finger down to the knuckle. I've cut several different fingers deep, one of them to the bone, while working with various knives over the years.


Does that include biting as well? I bit my tongue almost clean off when I was a kid. I had a guy bite a chunk of skin completely off near my bicep. I had a guy stab me in the leg with a mechanical pencil.
 
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