Worst Injury you have expierienced?

Well just got done sharpening the kitchen knife.....

Hour after it happened.
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Two days later.
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It's mostly healed up now though....sigh
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.....yup
 
Worst knife related accident was with my Benchmade mini grip. I was running through the parking lot to my car cause it was raining and suddenly, something started stinging in my right hand. As I looked down, I realized that my Mini Grip(which used to have terrible detent) was wide open and it gutted my jeans pocket. When I ran, I moved my thumb right through the tip of the knife leaving a wound about three fourths of a inch deep. Didn't notice it for about thirty seconds, but boy, it was bleeding like there was no tomorrow. Wouldn't stop bleeding when applied pressure so I just used some quick clot in the trunk and got home to have the wife stitch me up. Worst accident ever was back in around ninth grade when I did track. Hurdles to be specific. On a track, there are usually those heavy rock blocks that are supposedly to act like guard rails or something. Anyways, during comp day it was my turn for the hurdles event and I screwed up on the third hurdle and collapsed right into that block of rock. It shattered my fibula in two places. Now, I'm scared to death of jumping over things.
 
When I was little I took my dad's fixed blade out of the sheath the wrong way. My index finger was on the blade side and I managed to chop it open pretty good, just a few stitches.
 
Nothing knife related to speak of but, as a glass cutter for many years, and a machinist for many more, I honestly can't count the number of stitches I've had.
Some pretty bad ones in this thread though.
 
I thought I posted to this already but I guess not.

My worst was from a pruning bow saw. I was young and cutting some branches from a sapling. I was cutting with the sapling standing upright instead of laying down (first mistake) and my hand underneath the branch (second mistake). Once through the branch, it kept cutting clean through my thumb. It split my thumb in half right through the nail all the way down to the nail bed. It was a nasty, jagged cut and bled so bad, I had a river of blood running off of my elbow. This one hurt as bad as anything I ever did to damage myself.

My second worst was not from a knife, but it was a sharp edge. When I was a kid, my parents had an old Ford sedan. We were packing up to leave after a trip and I was outside playing around the trunk. I ran my hand around the inside of the weather seal and somehow got my left index finger between the seal and the metal lip. Well, the lip wasn't rolled, it was sharp - very sharp. I sliced the end of that finger almost clean off. It bled like crazy and I got taken to a doc in the box. He should have put a stitch or two in it but since he didn't, it sort of bunched up and now I have this little bump of scar tissue under the surface. I CONSTANTLY "finger" it, sort of like when you get a burn on the top of your mouth and you can't stop messing with it.

My wife just recently stabbed herself in the palm of her hand while trying to cut something or other in the kitchen. She had to get several stiches and it bled really bad.

My dad has the worst though. He basically raised himself and when he was young (like 5 or 6), he was reaching up on the counter for some food or something and accidentally grabbed a large cleaver. It fell and cut him in the arm very badly. It left a scar which wraps around his entire forearm and all these years later it's very visible.
 
Today I had my CS voyager in my back pocket with my wallet. My wife and I were at a store and I was putting my wallet back in my pocket. Somehow the knife opened up just a little, stabbing into my thumb. It was so sharp that I barely felt it. I looked down to see blood dripping on the floor. Needless to say the clerk freaked out along with my wife. I think it went to the bone and will be pretty sore tomorrow!
 
Bad businesss, that. I crushed a vertebrae when I voluntarily jumped out of a perfectly good plane (c-130). Funny thing is, it probably saved my life.
 
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Guy at work wanted to know how well my bk11 sheath held. So I shook the knife and it musta popped out when I went up and I dragged my finger across it on the way down. Didnt feel it at first, gonna see what the doc says. It was deep I saw what I thought was either fatty tissue or bone so here I wait at the hospital
 
Thanks, it doesnt hurt unless it gets cold. But I wont be saying that after the doc plays with it
 
Para 2 bit me while working on a boat, cut both tendons in my pinky clean thru, had surgery to repair them
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left with a hooked pinky, need surgery again
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I have been very fortunate when it comes to injuries, worst knife related injury I had I accidentally pushed the serrations on my ZT 350 into my thumb pad.....I wasn't being safe and knew it, and paid the price.

Of all my the worst is either running into a horizontal red iron beam when I was young running as fast as my legs could carry me....my forehead was right at the height of the beam

The one that hurt the most that was at all recently, I broke my pinky after I ran into someone...still hurst like 3 or 4 months later
 
When I was 15 I stabbed myself in the leg with an Ontario marine combat knife. Full blow case of mall ninja.
 
Dylan07 said:
Guy at work wanted to know how well my bk11 sheath held. So I shook the knife and it musta popped out when I went up and I dragged my finger across it on the way down. Didnt feel it at first, gonna see what the doc says. It was deep I saw what I thought was either fatty tissue or bone so here I wait at the hospital
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nice i did that same thing on my thumb whittling last summer, doc's used the words "partial amputation", was getting dark, i wasn't paying attention and popped the blade over a knot and right down the side of my thumb, the blade hit my nail bed before popping the end of my thumb, it was really too wide and deep to do anything with so i just left it, after it didn;t stop bleeding for a week finally went tot eh doc and they packed the wound with some pziefr gelfoam, plugged it right up and healed like magic...that stuff is amazing... that was my worst knife accident...seriously though you guys need to get some quick clot guaze and gel foam for this stuff...

beyond that, fractured my neck, ruptured 3 discs in my back from playing ice hockey, (among 100's of other injuries), i also have a completely rebuilt knee from a motor cycle(dirt) accident i got into , shin bone pushed up through my knee and fractured my femur and put me in a wheel chair for 3 months while they did 6 surgeries on it, by the time i was healed to move it my leg went into atrophy and i basically has to learn how to walk again, crazy machines moving it for 22 hours a day with little electrodes shocking me so i could train my brain to use those muscles again...crazy crazy experience.. i've decided to only par take in slow speed sports from now on out, hiking and climbing are more than enough! haha
 
I was sharpening my Henckel 10 inch chef's or French knife on one of those cheap ass hand held knive sharpeners. I was pulling down pretty hard on the knife to get a good edge when the sharpener turned over and the the knife came down on my thumb. The blade opened up my thumb pretty good and to my embarrasment the incident was witnessed by several kitchen staffers. I viewed the injury determining that it was pretty bad, and like SDS grapped a bunch of paper towels and applied pressure. I jokingly said to the staff " it's a good thing that bone was there" or I may have lost my thumb. I was cut from the fingernail down past side of the knuckle. After several bunches of paper towels I applied tape and continued on with the day. I was very lucky it was a clean slice healed up nicely.
 
At work i was holding a piece of PVC and there was tap on it so i tied to cut the tap in half so i can just peel it off, well slipped off the pvc and knife went right in to my index finger giving me a cut about an itch long to the bone, well i wrapped it tight, finished the day and then went home cleaned it out again and put 2 butterfly stitches on it and its just a scar now
 
My most recent one was a few days ago. I was cutting some boxes in half and using my thigh as a cutting board(stupid, I know). The first couple of boxes where cut with no problem but the last box made my knife get stuck so I pushed a little harder to help the knife along. Well, the knife sliced right through the box, through my jeans and made a 4" long gash in my thigh.
 
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