Worst Injury from your knife?

Mackenzie4856 said:
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.
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Current goes the way of the least resistance, which probably was from one wire and a few millimeters through your knife to the other wire.

-Connor
 
Worst knife injury happened when I was washing dishes of all things (Which is sad since, I handled them frequently, and even had experience with martial sword arts, so I was quite proud of my no scrapes track record.) Scalloped potatoes that had sat for a week, hard as rock, go to scrub as hard as i can, and I just feel this punch at my pinky, take it out of the water to endulge myself in a mock Quentin Tarantino setting, with blood everywhere, first thing I did was sigh and wrap a paper towel around it, cept when i tried to grab a wad of paper from the rack my pinky burned with pain, and wouldn't bend to grip it, and when forced it closed it would fling back straight, so i investigated and found a 5" long cutting knife under a pile of potatoes in the corner of the pan. I initially decided to go to sleep and say to hell with it, but decided to call a friend of mine, it went as so.

"Hey dude"

"sup?"

"Hey i just f*cked up my pinky, cut it, and now i can't bend it or control it, and i can see squishy stuff..."

"...."

"Yea should I go to the hospital?"

"Yes you f*cking idiot"

"Okay"

-click-

then I called two more people before deciding to drive down to my local ER and get patched up. They told me straight up while i was in the bed after treatment, that i'd "Never have the use of my pinky again, its flexor tendon was severed"

Despair, Immediately.

Then she pules this number "oh by the way there is a hand surgeon across the street he said he'll do the fixin, do you want to go?"

"yes, i want to see the fix it man, are you insane"

So i had the reconstructive plastic surgery, and with the splints from physical therapy i could straighten and bend it. Sadly i can't do fun knife spins or many of my sword arts, press it against anything, pull, not to mention flipping pencils in my hand, or even write without discomfort. My insurance ran out and i lost all of the splints, thus causing it to revert, and now i can only grip, and its stuck in this hook like position, very depressing. I got insurance back but just haven't gotten around to getting more splints.

I still grumble everytime I do the dishes, and we haven't had scalloped potatoes since.
 
Drinking a little Wild Turkey and playing with my Microtech UDT --looking back, a bad combination. I was opening and closing the knife one handed, I closed the knife on my right middle finger. This nearly cut the tip off. OUCH!

I still don't have 100% feeling in the finger.
 
When I turned 14 my father bought me my (then) dream knife, an 8" bladed Bells pattern Bowie. Mother, of course, threw a fit, but I kept and treasured the thing. It took a few years, but I suppose it was bound to happen eventually.

I was 18 and attending Agricultural College. I was using the knife to cut loose brambles, briars and the like (so much more effective than the blunt billhooks we had been given for the task) whilst clearing some ground about a mile from the college buildings. The day was cold, about 2 below zero C, and there was about 4" of snow on the ground. I slipped and fell forwards. Eager not to fall on the knife, embedding it in my chest, yet still keen not to let go of the knife and possibly lose it in the snow I stuck my right hand as far out from my body as I could. I then put my left hand out to break my fall... Oops!

The edge of the knife entered my left index finger on the side halfway between the bottom and the knuckle. It stopped half way through the joint at the base of the finger having cut a "green-stick" fracture into the bone and severed God knows what inside in the process. The college first aider didn't like the look of it and I was sent to the local A+E dept. They cleaned and dressed it but had to send me on to another hospital for further treatment.
A 6 hour operation (micro-surgery) later, they had saved the finger for me. I had cut the main tendons, the blood supply, the nerves, and halfway through the bone.

The surgeon came to see me in bed the next day and wanted to know what I had done it with. When I told him, he could hardly believe that anyone carried a knife sharp enough to make such a clean wound!?

12 stitches and the loss of feeling along the outside edge of the finger was a small price to pay for such a stupid mistake. Since then, if I fall whilst holding a knife it very quickly ends up loose on the floor a good way away from me I can assure you !
 
9 stitches to my left index finger while playing with my brand new sebenza, i was so impressed by the frame lock so i decided to do some lock testing, so i opened the knife very slowly and the lock bar barely touched the tang of the blade, then i was banging the blade and the lock failed for obvious reasons but it took a tremendous force to make it fail, i didn't feel the cut until i saw blood coming out, lots and lots of blood.
So i got some napkins and wrap my finger then sealed it with scotch tape. I went to my sis place i said to her i cut my finger. Then she took me to the hospital. luckily i didn't cut my tendon or any nerves. The nurse at the ER was laughing because of the scotch tape and napkins. the finger still have feeling as i'm typing right now. I'm surprised how fast it healed because i thought it would take longer, but after 5 days my finger is fully recovered. I considered myself lucky.
 
Was flipping my Gerber Guardian up and catching it. Fumbled one time and it fell and stuck in my bare foot. No Wild Turkey involved...
 
I was working as a butchers helper when I was about 18 or 19 and one night a friend came to visit (boss was gone, first night I got to close by myself) As I was visiting with my buddy, I sat there, on the counter, legs spread with the apron pulled taught across my lap, lower legs hanging over the side of the counter, I was dropping the big ol' knife by the handle straight down through the apron between my legs because it made some sort of cool noise as it cut through the material, I had done it about ten times and on the last turn it hit kinda crooked and made a sharp left turn into my inner thigh, oops! It didn't hurt but she was stuck! 20 something stitches.
 
I used to slice my fingers a lot when I installed carpet as a teenager. Those replaceable carpet blades were SHARP.
My worst injury came when I was camping. I tried sharpening a little 1 1/2" buck folder with a handheld stone while squatting next to the fire. I lost my balance and stuck the blade into my thigh. I was 13, I think. Its a good thing I couldn't sharpen it well, or it would have been a slice instead of a puncture.
I heard stories of a former coworker who was playing with his Kershaw and sliced his finger to the bone.

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When I was 14 me and my friends where throwing some knifes at a tree when I got the great idea to try and shoot a knife at the tree with my sling shot I held onto the handle with the blade faceing the tree pulled back and let go..... the knife sumersaulted into my forearm where it hit the bone bounced of and kept going didn't even come close to the tree but left a very deep wound in my arm it was about and inch long and to the bone but I went to the bathroom got some butterfly band-aids qausse and medical tape and patched myself up. I still can't feel anything where the scar is and it's big smooth and shiney so I don't do it again
 
3 pages and NO pictures!!!!WTH...This is my minor finger scrap, but at least it is documented. While digging in my knife drawer I came into contact with an unsheathed edge...I am retarded...did I mention that:D

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Gravelface said:
3 pages and NO pictures!!!!WTH...This is my minor finger scrap, but at least it is documented. While digging in my knife drawer I came into contact with an unsheathed edge...I am retarded...did I mention that:D

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Great picture, but I don't think you want to see my hairy inner thigh for documentation. LOL
 
All the cuts I've ever gotten have been on my thumbs.

I was once holding a piece of wood trying to carve my name into it, and I turned it so my left thumb was RIGHT under the blade. Being dumb, I started cutting downward with ALOT of force. The knife was moving slowly because of the downward pressure and I just thought I'd move my thumb when it got close.

Of course, no beans. Lost pressure, knife blade slipped down FAST...cut my left thumb right down the middle to the knuckle portion. Still have a scar, but only on my knuckle.
 
Me and my brother had just returned from a knife show. I was looking at my new prize ( A beautiful randall fighter ) and then I dropped it. I made the mistake of trying to catch it so it whouldn't cut my brothers couch and it cut the dickens out of my index finger :eek:, and ended up burying its self in my brothers couch anyway.:o :(
 
8 stitches across from the top of my wrist into the meat of the thumb. Very deep and naty, bled like a geiser! Trying to pry open a wood box with a very sharp custom knife. The lid popped up and the knife with such force slammed right into the opposite hand. It was morning, just woke up and I was a complete idiot for prying with a knife. Never done it again. Never will.
 
Outside a few accidental "flesh wounds", the worst for me was with a large cold steel twistmaster. I had just bought it and had used it to clean/dress some fish and washed it off in the sink. The lock was in the disengaged position, and not thinking I held it up and shook it good to get the excess water from inside the frame. The blade snapped fully open and rebounded closed- right across my thumbnail and thumb. It really did not hit very hard, but that blade was very sharp and it cut through my thumbnail and into my thumb about 3/4 of the way up- it took quite a while just to get the bleeding stopped, the cut was razor blade clean. Took quite a while to heal, and the location of the cut reminded me continually of two things:
1) your thumb gets used a lot!
2) think about what you're doing, preferably before you do it!
 
One of the worst (& most stupid) injuries I had was from a high carbon viking spear. Our cat had decided to pee on my suitcase & I was a wee bit upset! He then ran under our King size bed right under the center where I couldn't get at him to rub his nose in it. I honestly didn't want to hurt him, I just wanted to chase him out from under the bed, so I grabbed my full size spear with the sharp point toward me (remember, I wasn't trying to hurt kitty) & the blunt end toward him but I forgot that the point was now facing me! I was jabbing the blunt end toward the cat & all of a sudden a sickening realization dawned on me that I had speared my leg just above the knee & it went in about 2 inches. Had to get my wife to get me to the ER for stiches.
 
several years ago a army buddy and i was playing around with a cheap bull whip when he almost cracked me with it and i told him you almost got me with it that time, if you hit me with that whip im going to stick this buck 110 up your ass, well he did, and i did, as he was trying make it out the door.he bled like a stuck hog ,i felt kind of bad about it, but hey, we were drunk and any thing can happen while drinking, i still laugh about it when it comes to mind
 
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