Worst Injury you have expierienced?

[Jim malone]

never mind

 

[mbscs4]

I did not heed the warnings and pulled my H.I. M43 out the sheath with my hand around the whole sheath. Bad idea. I also picked up my ka-bar khukri machete without knowing the top button wasn't closed. It slipped out and fell blade first on my left flip flopped foot. It didn't go all the way through, but 2 months later, I'm sure it went pretty well into the bone. I'm glad it wasn't the M43. I would be missing 2 toes for sure.

 

[dePaul]

I was making the hole bigger in a knife blank with my drill press.......This was last summer and everything looks normal again, but my finger tips are still sensitive to pressure and heat and cold.

I did a similar mistake. There was also a deep cut in the fleshy part of my index finger.

~Paul~

 

[richard thurman]

I tried to be nice and give a guy that I worked with that day a ride home. I didnt think nothing of it since we worked all day long together. he stabbed me 6 times with a mark 2 dagger at lease that is what the cops told me. 4 times in the back and 2 times in the front.

 

[irrelephant]

Late last year I had just put my freshly sharpened BK-14 on the workbench; I was wearing flip flops. I accidentally jostled the knife and knocked it off the workbench, I quickly moved my right foot because it was nearer, but the knife hit the foam floor pad handle first, then bounced two feet over and went point into the top of my left foot. got about an inch in, had some good momentum since the knife has wooden scales glued on. Severed one tendon and cut another. I've got about a half to a third as much mobility in my left big toe now, but it's as much as many people have without stabbing themselves. I'm sure many of you can sympathize with annoying numb areas. I make a habit of wearing steel toes any time I'm in the shed now.

 

[richard thurman]

but if you steel toes shoes get smash they have to cut off your toes.

 

[tomsch]

New reprofile on a Queen small barlow.....

And trying to close it after cutting a sandwich.... Not too bad but it kept bleeding all morning so out came the crazy glue!

 

[Magnaminous_G]

I was sixteen-years-old in Germany. My first morning there, this woman hands me a basket full of rolls and a razor-sharp knife and asks me to start cutting them open. You can see what happened in the pic. The funny thing is that I started shouting in English, and the woman only spoke German, so she's shouting back in German... The scar has gone down quite a bit in the seventeen years since that fateful morning, but it's still quite visible.

 

[Bigfatts]

Heh, I'll jump on this dead horse. A couple months ago I was sharpening a new-to-me Bark River STS-8 on a Lansky setup. Made a pass and felt my RH ring finger brush the blade. Thought nothing of it until I looked down and saw a piece of my finger on the blade. Cut a nice little divot out of my finger. The hole is just about filled in again now but the spot is still tender and hurts like hell if I bump it.

 

[irrelephant]

Anything that'd pinch the steel toe cap down would ruin my toes anyway- at least they'd be re-attachable and well preserved inside the boot!

edit: In proper boots I don't have a visible limp, either, so there's a bonus to the boots

 

[Swoop03]

Wow...this picture turns my stomach but I can't stop looking...
I only did a third of what you did. Aquired 10 stitches on my left ring finger. Now half the tip is numb the other is over sensative. I sliped making a draw cut towards me and my finger save me from getting stabbed by being careless. I never thought blood could squirt that far from a finger. 0_o There was blood on the far wall about 4 feet away from where it happened, looked like someones throat was slit in the room. Bad quality picture, it was an old cell phone.

Note to self, stop looking into these kind of threads. Sight of blood turns my stomach.

 

[Chris Pierce]

I've got nerve damage in one of my thumbs from an ex girl friend and a switch blade. It's really irritating because she cut sort of a flap and when I put it back it sort of grew back together but peels off every month or so and then grows back.
My right index finger also has 5 stitches in it and a little nerve damage.

Do botched surgeries count? They messed up pretty bad when they put my right hand driving finger back together and I almost had to have it cut off.

 

[Ukovat]

me and my brother and our friend Isaak were in the woods. And I had this machete and we were throwing into trees right. so it was in the tree and when we got closer, I threw my Gerber knife into the tree. I wanted to grab the machete first so I reached for it. My friend Isaak also wanted to grab the machete. But when he reached for it, he wasn't looking at the blade...he was turned around talking to my brother. Meanwhile I turned to look at my dog. We were both looking away from the blade, and instead of checking before pulling it out, My friend yanked it out of the tree. At first it didn't hurt...so i was ready to just ya know, whatever...then blood started coming, and coming, and coming. Lets make one thing strait. I sharpened this thing like a sword...it could shave paper...I am lucky I still have my finger nail and up on my middle finger...i have a really ugly scar on it....and the doctor who gave me the numbing medicine...Boy I wanted to punch him...the shot hurt worse than the cut...but I dont even want to describe that pain....

 

[Raylas]

Might as well hop in! The worst injury I ever got from a knife was from my Kershaw leek. Basically, I put it in my pocket and forgot to engage the speedsafe. When I reached into my pocket, the blade was partially open and bit me across the index and middle fingers between the nail and the knuckle. Stupid mistake that I've yet to repeat, and I still have the knife. Ya know what they say, once it bites you it's yours!

 

[sintro]

I was batonning with my Ka-Bar BK2 and I dont remember what happened, happened too fast. Sliced trough my left index , the bone and everything. The finger was hanging with a bit of skin. Ugly stuff... Never cut myself with my knives before that.

That's not really a cut, that's more of a chop! How's your finger now?

 

[polaris500]

A few years ago, I was batonning with a cold steel GI Tanto (only knife I had at the time) and a big, stupid mistake i made caused me to get 4 stitches on my left index finger. It cut down to the bone and i was lucky it didn't go through my finger.

Other than that, my worst injury was breaking my butt bone by falling out of a 40ft tree as a teenager. I couldn't sit for like 2 weeks at school, and the bone is still a little crooked

 

[philbro]

Heck, threads like this scare the heck out of me.
All of my knife injuries are from slip joints. Due to the stupid laws over here, that's all I can edc.
My worst was 11 stitches after a Spyderco UK Penknife closed on my fingers. I've had a near miss when my Rajah 2 somehow closed on my hand? I was wearing thick work gloves so I escaped injury, but I'm now very weary about any folding knife.
At work I now carry a crkt Minimalist, yes it's against the law, but if I ever have to explain myself to a judge, I'll just show him the scars & cite the health & safety regulations.

 

[upnorth]

What is the worst cut or injury you have ever experienced?

Going to bed after the warden had a meal heavily laden with garlic. You could send a rocket to Mars with those noxious fumes !

 

[Shotgun]

Dropped my ZT0560 and tried to catch it like a tard..

I'm stealing this pic because that's about the same injury I sustained. Only for me it was right on the nail. Cut looks the same only with 1/3 of my nail gone. I was making a fuzz stick with a larger piece of wood so I had to hold it funky. Well my Farmer was going good making fuzzies only I wasn't accounting for the fact that with each pass the knife was traveling lower and lower on the wood. The last pass took my nail right off clean as a whistle. It's a testimant to how awesome the blade geometry is on this knife because there was NO resistance and I didn't feel anything or start bleeding for several seconds after the cut. Here's the culprit.

 

[mcrow]

I almost cut my finger off when a sheet of glass fell on me, went all the way to the bone but didn't lose the finger. As far a knives go, nothing more than a few nicks and a couple pokes that made me spring a leak but nothing serious.