Worst cut you ever saw?

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Here's mine. My mother had a cousin in Fresno who had a turkey farm and also had other animals.
One night when we were staying with them, he went out to castrate pigs.
As a 7 year old, I hadda see EVERYTHING.
He was using a single edge razor blade and he SLIPPED.
That sucker went through his left thumb like butter. About a half inch wad of meat hanging off.

But the WORST part. He didn't............STOP.

Just swore and kept on cutting and bleeding and pig blood and uncle blood just runnin all over the place.

I've always been caucasian but that was when I found out what WHITE was. Also vertigo, nausea, and how fast I could run.

Can see it now just as vivid as when it happened.

Yowiiieeeeeee!!!


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that's pretty gross man! The worst "cut" I saw was when I witnessed an "A" train slicing and dicing a dude who jumped onto the tracks in front of it... no knives involved, but having seen the aftermath (I'll spare most of the grim details), I know that no knife, nor katana for that matter, could do what those train's wheels did to a human being. Cauterized the "wounds/bodyparts" quite well though.
 
Whenever someone asks this question it brings back some real feelings of guilt on my part. The worst cut I ever saw was when my son found my hiding place for my knives and somehow cut across the full width of his palm almost down to the bone. Boy did I feel about an inch tall will explaining what happened to the doctor that was stitching him up. That episode taught both of us a very good lesson.
 
In the early 90s, I used to work in a fab shop, and one of the guys had a grinder locked on, apparently using it with one hand, got in a corner, it kicked back, got away from him, and ran up his shirt toward his face (tore up his shirt on the way, and the pack of cigarettes in his pocket). He threw up his arm to protect his face, and the 7" grinding disc went into his forearm and cut him open lengthwise from his wrist to an inch or so shy of the crook of his elbow, as I recall.
Nice.
Somehow managed to avoid any major veins, and we got him wrapped up before taking him to the hospital. It actually didn't bleed nearly as much as I would have expected, but it was a big, ragged, vicious looking cut.
A fitter at that same shop had three fingers cut off from the blade on a break press, but that was long before I knew him.

A guy got his leg cut off at the other plant in our complex a week or two ago, but I didn't see it. He fell off a railroad car, and under the wheels.

I need a safer work environment:yawn:
 
The worst cut my friend who was 13yrs old got into a fight with one of the neighborhood boys .

He was cut on his left leg from the groin to his mid calf with a box cutter . It was clean through with force , he didn't know he was cut either when they was fighting.

I seen him after coming home from work, that was a wake up to what can really be done with a blade.


S/F, Ceya..Ceya Knife Designz
 
Way back in my high school days I saw two guys tie up with the big guy getting the upper hand when whoosh! He was cut from the top of his left groin to his right collar bone! Scared us all half to death! Family friend in the ER said it was really pretty bad, bone deep all along his chest and a couple of inches in abdomen. I leared a good lesson about "no such thing as fighting for fun" like some kids did. All I really saw at the time was blood all over him so that might not count.

I did cut my left thumb to the bone while being an idiot (17). Severed the tendon and made a nice backward J. Then the surgery left a 1 1/2 scar down my thumb to retrieve the tendon. Hurt like a mother and my thumb causes me trouble to this day! Live and learn I guess. :rolleyes:
 
My worst ones:

1. Chopping into my own knee with a 15" khukuri...oops! :footinmou :o

2. My sister chopping into her finger with a long razor while cutting clay. I got to save the day! :cool:

3. My mom slicing off a chunk of her pointer finger with a rotary cutter while cutting fabric. I've never seen her so paniced in her life! Again, I save the day! :D
 
Saw a young 'long hair' get his hair wrapped up in a drill press that was locked on, and it popped his scalp right off...'Whhuumpp' :eek:

Right off the top of his head, you could see the veins and milky white skull beneath....it was very weird looking...lol

The hospital got it sewn back on, but I'd imagine it's a pretty funky looking scar now that he's older...

Mel
 
My mom cut her hand on a sickle one time, right down to the bone. Blood sprayed out like a garden hose. My dad drove her to the hospital and the inside of the car looked like someone had been killed. Blood even on the windows.
 
The worst cut I've seen was the one I got on my right arm many years ago. Just out of the shower, I was leaning on the bathroom sink when the brackets broke and the sink crashed to the floor with me on top of it. It was so sudden that I was not aware that I had been cut until I saw blood everywhere . I discovered that my arm had been cut to the bone by the broken porcelain. It basically looked like a large, bloody hole (with icky looking yellow stuff inside), because the muscle tension pulled the wound open. I was rushed to the emergency room, where I got 50 stitches, half on the inside of the cut and half on the outside.

If the cut had been an inch longer, it would have severed an artery and I might have died. Luckily enough, however, I suffered no permanent damage, other than an impressive looking scar.
 
I was pulling two carts of folding chairs at work and tried to turn a corner. One of the carts went right over the back of my foot. The heel was cut to the bone all accross. I forget how many stiches it was. Missed my achilles tendon by less than a millimeter.
 
2 years back, I had just received a new Dozier Pro Guide's Knife.
In my excitement to show it to a friend of mine in the neighborhood, I grasped the Kydex sheath in my right hand and drew the knife out with my left. Realize that this was a totally unused blade of Dozier's legendary D2.
Well, I didn't realize that the web between my right forefinger and thumb overlapped the open top portion of the sheath. I drew the knife out with a quick tug and Voila!
I sliced right through the web to the bone.
Very clean cut and almost no blood.
Turns out I sliced the main nerve that runs up the index finger (still have a slightly numb buzzy feeling in the finger) and several muscles.
Luckily I was very close to home so I picked up the knife and was somehow able to resheath it, and ran home in a panic, my left hand holding a death-grip on the right to keep the wound closed. When I got there I screamed in my best little girl's voice for my wife to get me to the ER.
I was such a baby in the ER. Didn't want to take my left hand off of my right hand cuz it was the only thing holding it together. They finally convinced me to open up and then shot lidocaine directly into the wound. TALK ABOUT PAIN! Then the Doc took some medeival torture device spreader thingy with serrated jaws, shoved it into the wound, and then turned the thumb screw to spread it all apart. Thank god the lidocaine had started to take effect.
Turns out I had microsurgery the next week to reattach the nerve ends and suture up the muscles.
Gotta say it healed up wonderfully with full strength and mobility.
Just still have the tingly feeling in the forefinger.
When I think back to the cut, it still makes me a little queasy and needless to say, I'm now very careful when I pull knives out of sheaths.
Lenny
 
When I was five or six, I had a cold... middle of the night. When you can't reach the tissue box, theres a potential for pain. Climbed onto a stool, promptly slid down on the inside of my calf, got cut from just below my knee down to my a three or so inches from the ankle. But being short at the time, it really wasnt that long! :D
 
When I was a kid my sister hit my open hand with a very sharp hand sickle, by accident. It almost severed my thumb and trigger finger. Our old family doc insisted on amputation, but I refused to let him. He was mad as hell, what the hell would a kid know? So he just sewed everything back together as best he could and told me I would be back in a few days for him to amputate. I still have them! I worked in a hog kill packing house for 8 years, saw more cuts and members cut off than I want to remember. One of the most memorable was when a foreman was harrassing a gal. She just turned around on the line and slashed him across the body. He screamed like a woman and bled like a hog, but he lived. We had two people killed there, not the safest place to work. Almost everyone of us made a few trips to the hospital ER.
 
Razor cuts on the wrists. In one case the woman had done a pretty nasty series of cuts and was still hacking away. Pinned her to the fence and worked the hand into the open. The officer used his baton to knock the box knife from her hand. Somewhere in the melee, we hear a can open. I take my attention back and there she is, with her head pinned to the fence by my elbow, chugging a coors light with her gory left hand.
 
Once, while working the third shift in South Carolina, I was called down to the morgue to X-ray a corpse. This is'nt really uncommon, we have to go down there about once every couple of months. Usually it's so that the doctor can find out where bullets are in the body (they can travel an amazing distance from the entry hole).

Well, this time the doctor asked for a Technologist with a strong stomach. This usually means the deceased is an infant or burn victim or someone they got out of the lake. Me and the other two Techs on duty actually rolled dice to determine who would go down there--I lost.
So down to the morgue I went.
In the morgue was the doctor and his assistant, and several police officers who were taking pictures of the deceased. On the table was a male with no hands and no head (I guess whoever killed him did'nt want anyone to identify him). The worst part was when we set the body up to put the film cassette behind his torso. Holding the body upright and then lowering it on to the cassette positioned my head right next to his open neck.
I got my films and then got out as quickly as I could. I did'nt get sick but it was hard to get that image out of my head.

I guess that's the worse cut I've ever seen.
Allen.
 
on me: When I was in in 5th grade, I was trying to shove a butter knife through an apple, and when it finally broke the core, it came out the other side pretty fast... and straight through my left middle finger. took that thing down the bone, 8 stitches later, it's still numb to this day(I'm 21 now).

on someone else: my friend tripped while we were walking along the creek and took a busted beer bottle in the face, one shard stuck all the way through his cheek. he has a really cool scar now.
 
I was about 8 years old, I was holding a door shut by pushing on a glass window while my friend was pushing on the frame trying to get out of the house. He got out of the house when my left arm went through the window. Sliced from the wrist to almost my elbow. I get questions about the scar because people think I tried to kill myself.
 
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