Worst Injury from your knife?

moonwilson said:
It cut the string all right, and then came straight up and stabbed me right in the head.............
and the knife stuck there.
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Hahahahahahahaha, that's incredible!
Must have been unnerving when it happened, but man is that the best one I've heard in ages!!!


As for me, I've got a couple good ones, but nothing exciting. Stab scar in my left knee (lucky I didn't pop some cartilage), and a nice one on the top of my left thumb from a silly carving mistake.
Then there are the ones that didn't scar, too numerous to count.
Seems most of my cuts have resulted from behavior that I knew was stupid at the time, and just sat & watched it happen.... :rolleyes:
 
Last month i opened up my left index finger at the middle knuckle and can no longer fully bend it. I patched myself up, didn't bother getting stitches or anything. I seen the doctor after a while and he says i may need to see a hand specialist/surgeon about it. It may or may not be too late. It's been a month...which is a long time, but doc says it takes 4 to 6 to fully heal this, so they may still be able to attempt to fix it.

What did i cut myself with?

Plain ol' X-acto knife like the one pictured by Fooj.
 
My worst mishap was similar to moonwilsons. I was in the barracks with my buddy and I was having trouble getting some phone cord untangled from my computer; so I decided to cut it. When I did I cut toward myself and the knife came at my face and sliced my nose WIDE open on the left side, less than an inch from my eye. My buddy of course died laughing calling me a dumb@$$ while I was laughing thinking the same thing. I've got a nice scar on the side of my nose that reminds me to cut AWAY from myself.
 
Mine was last fall. I was helping my wife cut down the tall dead flowers in our flower garden. I was gathering up the stalks with my large Buck Diamondback in hand and the blade tagged the top part of my thumb between hand and first joint. It looked like a simple small cut til I flexed my thumb a bit:eek: Took out 70% of one tendon, 90% of another plus cut an artery. 12 stitches of which only 4 for closing the cut. Rest were for putting my tendons back together. This was my right hand, no less. Good thing I'm reasonably ambidextrous. I was in a splint for almost a month and a month of physio at twice a week. It's amazing how much you depend on that thumb:)

- gord
 
Worst I ever had was when I was 3 years old. I was cutting an apple in half with a steak knife. Well, the serrations caused the knife to deviate to the side and into my middle finger. I have a "V" shaped scar on my finger to this day. Well, I saw one of my sons cutting an apple with a steak knife a couple of months ago. I practically flipped out, because I instantly had visions of him doing the same thing. I showed him how to do it properly, with a paring knife, and all was well.

When I was about 12 I was cutting a notch into a piece of wood on my thigh. :rolleyes:
Well the knife slipped off the wood and I cut my thigh. The cut was about an inch long, but not very deep. Did leave a scar though.

Those are the two worst I've had. Never had to get sutures or go to the ER.
 
Actually, in more than 50 years, never a serious cut.

However, I firmly believe that eventually anyone living with an inherently dangerous item; knife, gun, motorcycle (fill in your choice) will one day experience a major setback. Therefore, I live under a cloud.

But, hey.
 
I have another story that involves an axe, rather than a knife. It involved a blade, so I guess it still counts. I was working with my grandfather on his farm clearing some really thick brush around one of his ponds. He was driving his tractor through some pretty rough terrain, going up a steep hill and driving through thick brush. I was riding in the back in an open trailer. So was a big chopping axe. My granddad had the big tractor (an International Harvester Super H) doing its best impression of an ATV and he hit a huge bump fast. I flew out the back of the trailer, with the axe right behind me. I hit the ground hard, and where did the axe land? That's right, square between my eyes. It took a big chunk of meat and bone out of the bridge of my nose. I have no idea why I was not killed. I still have a nice scar there, but it's right where my glasses sit. You can't tell the bone is missing unless you touch my nose, because the skin stretches over the spot. But my glasses never slide down my face, because they have a nice ledge to sit on.

Another story involving an accidental chopping of my person. I was at summer camp splitting kindling with a hatchet, and I missed the piece of wood I was trying to split and chopped the back of my hand instead. Hard. I hacked partway through a couple bones but luckily didn't sever anything, and I had the pleasure of a deep West Virginia emergency room visit. It was exactly like that Saturday Night Live sketch "Appalachian Emergency Room" I still have a huge scar all across the back of my hand.
 
I have never cut myself badly with a knife(just a few scratches). It is very easy to avoid, but if you have someone who does not know how to use a knife that is different story. I was in the kitchen during Thanksgiving helping to mash the mashed potatoes when all of a sudden I fell something on my arm. I look at my arm to see a rather large gash. What happenned was my Grandmother had bumped into my dad who was sharpening a knife to cut the turkeyand he had cut my forearm about 1/4 inch deep and about 3 inches long. Suprisingly it did not hurt that much. I did not get stitches I just used bandaids to hold the skin together and it has heeled up nicely but their is still a scar, that was about 5 years ago.
 
Working as a graphic designer I was hurrying to get a job out and as I was trimming excess film from the edges with my T-Square and Xacto knife I cut the tip off one of my fingers-:eek: It's been close to 15 years and the side of that finger is still kinda flat.

Another time I 'lost' my Xacto knife, I looked and looked for about 30 minutes, when I finally gave up and sat down in my chair I 'found' it apparently right where I'd left it:jerkit:

When I was about 10 I split the end of one of my fingers to the bone with a razor blade cutting pieces of a plastic model apart- :eek: I was too scared to tell my parents and just wrapped it up really tight with band- aids- luckily it healed alright
 
moonwilson said:
My worst self-inflicted knife wound was when I was young and really, really stupid. I used to carry a little Cold Steel knife on my keychain and decided it would be a good idea to use it to cut off a broken string from my guitar. I stuck the blade under the string and pulled it hard towards myself. It cut the string all right, and then came straight up and stabbed me right in the head, in the temple, less than an inch from my eye. I let go of the knife in suprise, and the knife stuck there. It didn't really hurt, I just sort of sat there, reflecting on my monumental stupidity. When I pulled it out, boy did it spurt. For a long time. I have a nice scar there still today.

This became something of a famous incident amongst my friends (I was at a party and really, really drunk when it happened) I still take crap for it now, something like 15 years later.
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Proof once again of the existence of Guardian Angels from Above !
 
Not to me, but to my wife.

I keep all of our kitchen knives "scalpel sharp". My wife is peeling potatos or something and in her bare feet. She drops the knife which unbelievably lands blade-up on the floor. In the interim, she has jumped to avoid the falling knife only to come down full force with her large toe on the edge of the blade. It totally butterflied her toe, front to back.

At the ER, the Doc was commenting on what an unbelievably sharp surgical cut it was. We then, as only "manly-men" will do, got into a lengthy discussion on the merits of different sharpening methods.

That's when the wife let fly "Is anyone gonna sew this thing back together?" As predicted, the cut healed perfectly and she was very fortunate that it really only cut the "meat"; no bone or tendon damage.

She now wears shoes and I STILL keep all blades "scalpel sharp".
 
Worst cut I had was a couple of years back I was testing a sword I had just bought on some cardboard. I was holding the cardboard with my left hand and the sword with my right and when I swung down to cut the board I missed and hit my index finger cutting all the way to the bone. The scar's still visible today. And by the way I wasn't drunk.
 
I work in a knife shop and a few months ago I got to train a new employee who knew next to nothing about knives. I was explaining to him that the reason I hated the Cold Steel Recon 1 is because it has no guard in front of the blade to keep your hand from moving onto the blade. When I went to put it back in the case I looked away and the tip hit the side followed by the knife sliding into my hand. It was the clip point with 1/2 serrations and my index went right on the serrations. I hit everything but the tendon including some blood vessels that squirted blood all over the walls (some stains are still there). The first thing I said was "See, just like that."
 
My WORST, as far as knives and sutures goes, would probably be when I was four, we lived overseas and my mom had just gone to the neighbor's house to borrow some flour for a rhubarb pie that we were making.....anyhow I saw the paring knife lying next to the big pile of rhubarb, and I thought "well, I guess I'll just help her out." Next thing I know my hand is GUSHING blood from my ring and pinkie fingers (left hand). Good thing one of the teens in the hostel was there and he wrapped my hand in a washcloth until my mom got back and she took me to our neighbors' (the ones who she had just left) and he drove us to the clinic for me to get stitches.....they used an adult-sized needle, for lack of a mini-sizer. I had almost cut through those fingertips. I still have a scar from that, but it's barely visible.
Second worst, with a knife would be a tie between the cut across my middle-finger knuckle and my puncture wound in my hand.......
But otherwise just anywhere from tiny nicks to large cuts, no big gashes or arterial bleeding:)
PMZ
 
Worst cut well here it goes. I rarelly get cut but this one is interesting. I had just instructed about 6 of my subcontractors in the proper safe use of a knife so as not to cut yourself. About an hour later I was trying to cut a stuborn zip tie with a S&W SWAT tanto folder (POS). Well i decided to cut toward myself just the way I had instructed not to do and well I am sure you can guess what happened. The blade cut the zip tie then the continual momentum forced the blade into the top of the web between my thumb and index finger. The blade put a 3/4" slice in the top of my hand and a 1/8" slice out the bottom. Boy that was one hell of a pulsing guyser of blood (about a foot into the air). Me being the the hard headed guy with an I am as tough as they come mentality decided not to get stiched up (as Arnold would say its just a flesh wound). O yeah I was sober and ther was no tendon or nerve damage whatsoever. Well 3 weeks later it was healed and now 4 yrs late I still have a scar thats over a half an inch long and almost a quarter inch thick on the top of my hand. I will have it there the rest of my life to remind me "Never cut towards yourself".
 
At the tender age of 45, I was trying some fast moves with my Spyderco Native. Suddenly, my left hand got in the way. After about an hour of trying to stop the bleeding myself, I finally admitted to my wife that I needed to go to the ER. No loss of function, but I have a scar from 3 more stiches.

The only permanent injury is to my ego. Fortunately, I got a few tips from the ER doc and have learned about ways to fix up some of my subsequent injuries.

I'm 52 now and still a moron, so I don't wave knives around. I actually read the little inserts that come with my knives about knife safety. :)

Live, learn and survive.

Dean
 
Worst actual injury, I was around 12, using the can opener on an SAK to tear apart a tin can for reasons yet undiscovered. It slipped, I tore my hand open across the palm starting at the corner of my pointer finger and ending at my wrist. Don't know how I handled it myself or hid it from my folks.

Worst Potential for injury was last year during finals week of my sophomore year of college. I decided to cut the wire off a floor lamp with my CS blue ti-lite. Decided to do this when it was plugged in. About a foot long arc of electricity, blew two sockets in the room, and left some copper in the blade. Didn't feel a thing, no idea why I wasn’t electrocuted.
 
The December before last, I was trying to separate a couple of tuna steaks that were frozen together. I decided to use a Spyderco Military to split them apart. I wedged it in, and was about to pop them apart, when the knife went completely through, and hit my pinky. My finger immediately went numb, and I thought I had lopped the tip off. It turns out I just made a nice clean cut perpendicular to the last joint that was almost to the bone. A few stitches later and I was good to go.

It took me several months to regain full use of my pinky again. Even now, if I hit it just right it will go completely numb.
 
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