This one time I intentionally went to PARF, but I digress....

The worst thing I have done in our current house is find out he hard way that one power outlet in the 2nd floor bathroom is on a different circuit as I was changing out the old brown ones for updated white outlets. That hurt like hell, my left arm was numb for a couple of days. It had that weird asleep feeling. Still nothing compared to a router and the junk...

Gawd, I hope not.

I googled osteomyelitis so I know what symptoms to look out for.

Thanks for the advise :)

I ran one of my fingers tips and nail through the front sprocket on my bike when I was around 8yrs old. Just checking the chain tension, then around she has to go. That's not totally true, the rear wheel could have come off, but there wasn't time for that, so it was sent through.

Since then, it's been the weed-eater throwing debris, hot shavings from grinders, and solvent to the eyes now and again. It'll probably blind me one day, but I'd probably be long gone if wearing safety glasses. They don't work for me.

tablesaw..still cant feel my thumb perfectly...i still feel the need to take off my gas cap with my left. weird.

some of you have seen this picture already.

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and me, trying to look all brave and tough..

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A little WARNING would be appreciated when posting pictures in this thread. Damn that looks painful.

sorry..i thru up my "hail mary"..i still cant turn on a saw. i am about to pay a man to install a door for me. i am THAT gunshy.

I was at Streets of Willow for A HPDE weekend, I was rotating tires on the Mustang.

Grabbed MY BUDDIES Floor jack by the handle Picked it up about 14-16" and you know that saftey screw that STOPS the handle from pulling out?

My buddy Gilles dosen't think that 2 ton floor jacks require them.

Off comes the jack onto my right big toe, smashing it bad enough to break the nail and for it to spew blood out the front. Alchol helped with the pain management for the night

I drove the next day syncro shifting and left foot braking.

I've broken both wrists, left elbow got wires and pins, my right ankle in three spots,Tailbone, 4 ribs and Crushed t-10 to half of it's heights scar on my nutsack from crashing into a bicycle stem. The Toe nearly made me pass out.

Where to start?

Worst thing:

Worked with wire cup brush, and snagged it against a piece of projecting metal. Wire bit flew through TINY gap between cheek and safety glasses and had to be removed from my eyeball with a pair of tweezers. Call me a wuss, but these days I work with a full face shield when I use one of those.

Stupid things:

Did gas welding and pulled VERY HOT rod away to inspect seam. Forgot to pull face away at the same time...

Finger nipped by router/electric planer/belt sander/drill/you name it.

First index of thumb crushed by jigsaw (don't ask how).

Do you remember the old steel timer boxes for swimming pool pump with a manual on/off lever in them. They (should) contain a cardboard cover to protect you from the 220 connections. Ours didn't...

Was literally a dripping wet 16 year old who wanted to turn the pump off (it was old and loud). I hit both poles while standing in my own puddle. It knocked me back about 15 feet, and my left arm hurt for at least a couple of days. A buddy told me later I was very lucky I had only hit it with one hand.

Guess I'll play, in chronological order skipping cuts, bruises, falls, sporting incidents (football/American football/swimming), things in eye, etc and going to the bottom three:

Mowing lawn, lawnmower blade jams. I do not turn off the motor cause hey, it is NOT spinning! Clear jamb, cut middle finger along the bone from tip to below the first knuckle. Mom was so upset I had to drive myself to e-room. She had to go cause I was a minor. Sewn up by a nice young med student, first year, his first time working on a human being. Actually I have almost no scar, he did a rather fine job. Mom went to him years later as a doctor and he still remembered the incident but did not know who the stupid kid was.

Ten years ago out building a new barn for our stallion. Temperatures hitting 110. I was working in the morning, wife was out of town. Our 70 year old neighbor says he was wondering why I was lying out in the yard by myself with the horses. He came over and got me in the house and started working fluids into me. I was out for hours, very lucky at that one! I still cannot handle the heat and I start sweating and the drop of anything.

And the worst was last year. Out about 1/4 mile from the house working on fence line. I slipped and slammed my head into a metal driver. I lost more than a pint of blood before I made it back to the house, everything was red including the steel toe boots. I had a cell phone and the ambulance was waiting for me when I got to the house. I did not ask for an ambulance but I'm not completely sure what I was doing... five stitches in my head. No x-ray as I had just been laid off and the company cancelled my insurance the instant they let me go. Dr and Wife (Dr.) both felt I had cracked my skull. You can still feel the change in texture in the bone on my skull. No insurance, no evident issues with swelling and eyesight OK. The observed me for many hours and would not let me sleep for quite some time. Still hurts just thinking about it.

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I'd swear my $3 tennis shoes were smoking one time after grabbing both legs of a 240 plug accidently.

Blinded myself while doing some welding on my jeep in highschool. When i worked construction (winter) i was removing the tarp from the roof and i stepped on it and went for a ride off of a 2 story roof, I ended up doing this twice that day.

That's why you read some threads from the bottom up. ;) Thanks to you I whizzed right by that one. Gotta love a fast scroller.

Most of mine seem pretty tame.

Tightening battery cables one night in the 944, just using a regular wrench, and turned a bit too far, connecting the positive terminal to the edge of the quarter panel - never seen so many sparks, and never heard a 4-letter word yelled so loudly!

Jacking up the car one day, and I guess the little swivel wheels on the front of the floor jack were facing just the right way, and the car starting rolling away on me as I was putting the jack stands in place - fell down off the jack. Luckily I wasn't underneath it!

Doing some wood carving several years ago with a small hand chisel, and it slipped, went into the ball of my hand below my left thumb, probably a good cm deep - that hurt like a motherf*#ker! Debated ER, decided against.

Installing baseboard one day with an air-powered nail gun, I shot myself several times in the fingers with the nails. First one really seemed to hurt, then I just kind of got used to it. Actually pierced a one finger, just a tiny bit, near the edge.

I did do this....

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But I wasn't working.

Ok, I'll play too.

Cut my finger with a hacksaw working on my race car back in the day. I think I got 3 stitches. ooooooo:rolleyes:

I constantly scrape knuckles, forearms, shins and other extremities so I won't count those.

A few years ago I was replacing the u-joints on a vehicle, knocking the yoke out with a hammer and socket when I hit my thumb. I was wearing gloves so I figured the pain would subside shorty and continued to try and work. no,uh-uh

Blood was dripping from my glove now so I removed it and saw that I had split the skin on the right side on the nail just like i had used a knife. I was by myself so I headed to the house door located in the garage. I fainted as I got to it. The pain was intense but I bandaged it up and finished the job and THEN called my wife who was at the cabin 120 miles away. It healed up nicely without having to see a doc.

At my old office, the garage door wouldn't close, by hand or remote, so I was working on it with the help of a couple of my employees. One of the cables had come loose so I tried pulling on it when WHAM!!!!! the SOB broke and the torsion spring wound it up, right across my ring and middle finger. It hurt like he!! and was bleeding profusely. I laid down for a few minutes and then assessed the damage. It nearly took my 2 finger tips off. Once again, I bandaged it up and continued the repair.

My ring finger nail is still split but otherwise it healed up nicely. The human body is pretty cool.

Nobody liked my pictures last time. Lets just say that table saws are dangerous and the body can't repair all the damage you can inflict on it.

The sausage never gets back in the casing...pic me, I dare you:)

Cutting wood for my parents, chainsaw kicked back, wasn't sure what happened, glasses off, put my glove up to my face, came back full of blood. went inside and told my mom I needed a band-aid. 16 stitches later in my left cheek I was fine.


Cutting apart an 81 SC with a sawzall, lost my footing in the carnage, slipped down, ripped my forearm open 2 inches, as neatly as if with a scalpel, on a piece of the car. Went right down to the fascia, little globs of blood and a few specs of fat lying on the bright white sheath.


at work, broke my toe:

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Reading these, I have to keep reminding myself that the fact that other people are screw-ups doesn't mean that I'm not a screw-up.
Anyway, just pivoted a little to watch a tree fall, had already taken my finger off the throttle, but the chainsaw still had enough momentum to go right to the bone in my knee. Twenty-five stitches.

My math is base 9 now and I type slower. I'm due for another X-Ray in August, those pics are always cooler, and include the entire history, maybe I'll post them. If you're really curious search for vash's old tablesaw injury thread, I'm on page 3. June 4, 2009 was a bad day, but even though it takes an effort, I still use my saws.

Can't straighten my right pinkie anymore, I was hooking up an air reel and I thought my brother had it, and he thought I did, its a nice big industrial one and it came off the roof rafter and fell about 6 feet onto my pinkie. I'm lucky it didn't cut it off.

Had a new pair of glasses on once, I don't usually wear glasses just walking around. I noticed that one of the machine screws on this cable on my garage door was 1/2 in and 1/2 out, it turns out its the cable to the torsion springs! I touched the screw with a wrench (door closed) and it sounded like a gunshot when it went loose. Immediately my vision in my right eye goes to nothing. I thought for sure I'd blown my eyeball out! It turns out I cracked badly, the right lens of my new glasses. I was fine. The force knocked me on my butt.

20 or so y/o I was under the DB4, with jack stands, and my 4 y/o daughter came out to the garage, and while I'm under the car, she squeezed the floor jack release. Like I said, I had jack stands.

When I was about 12 the TV set dial was broken so we used a pair of pliers to change the channel.

So, one day after I am still wet after a shower I go to use the pliers I and end up flying back-wards across the room and my left arm is numb for a few minutes.

Dumb move was I tried it againhttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/vuur.gif

Another incident was I was turning the brake rotor (not paying attention) and my thumb wedged into the caliper. I passed out for a bit after see the top of my thumb missing. I never tried that again:D

To be frank, that scenario, sans stands, is the ultimate game changer. My knee healed.

Wow, Hugh.

When I was about 10 or so, we had a sitter who mentioned how hot one of the lamp light bulbs was. Well, I can fix that. Went and got a glass of water and poured it on the bulb. After the explosion and I calmed down, I realized it wasn't a good idea...

Of all the dumb things I've done and gotten away with, this is the dumbest: About 20 years ago I was rewiring a room I was converting from a laundry to an office. After "confirming" the breaker to the line(220 v) to the dryer was in the off position, I proceeded to use my Weiss shears to cut the line. I was blown off the old wood dresser I was standing on and couldn't see for several minutes from the intensity of the flash. The shears were destroyed along with my burned glove. My brother the electrician said I likely pulled the full potential of 440v from the street and was lucky to be alive. The "off" breaker actually exploded out of the circuit breaker panel and little pieces were all over. I discovered I had actually switched off the breaker for the range, not the dryer!

Guess I'll play. I've been pretty lucky/careful over the years, but things happen. I was cutting a small piece of 2x4 a couple of years ago with my battery powered circulat saw. I needed a small piece cut at an odd angle. To this day, I still don't know how it happened, but as the saw went through the wood there was a loud "bing" and my left hand recoiled back. I had somehow cut my middle finger & it was a mangled mess just behind the last joint on the bottom. I was curious if I had cut the tendon, so I was happy that I could still flex the end of my finger. I had a 19 year old kid helping me, and all he coud do was say, "Oh my God!" Over and over again. I finally said, "Willl you shut up? I'm the one who got cut, not you." We went down to bandage it with duct tape with a bit of paper towel under, and covered with another small piece of tape to keep the paper from sticking to the wound. I drove an hour to Kaiser. Still don't have much feeling in the end of the finger, and a piece of nerve still sticks out of the side which gives me an electric shock when touched.
I won't tell about the time I cut my knee cap a quarter inch into the bone with a big kitchen knife.

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Oh, at Kaiser when the guy was cleaning it out with saline solution, I commented I was lucky I hadn't cut the tendon. He told me to look into the wound. We could see the tendon with a couple of little nicks in the sheath covering.

More! http://www.smileyvault.com/albums/fo...lt-popcorn.gif

I had a 4.3 short block sitting on the waterpump side upright with the flexplate on. I picke d it up by the flexplate and the block spun and caught my right hand little finger between the flexplate and the block cutting the tip of my little finger off 1/2 down the nail. OUCHHHH.That was the lattest

I was cleaning a carb and stuck my thumb with an stainless probe.
No big deal until 3 hours later when I was blowing the carb off with high pressure air. I hit my thumb with the air nozzle and turned my thumb into a Polish sausage.
I immediately grabbed a piece of wire to prevent the air from traveling up my wrist and into my arm.
Shortly after wrapping the wire around my thumb I passed out.
After a few minutes I was revived by the laughter of my co workers.
The air had only gotten under my skin and then simply leak back out through the little whole.
Scary but not much danger or possibility for permanent damage.

I've done that on a picked zit high up my arm. I could run the air up and down my arm under the skin. Apparently it's not the worst you could do, but a shot of broad spectrum antibiotics is in order.

I think I was 16 or 17, I was putting a clutch into a dodge colt in my parents driveway. 1st front wheel drive vehicle I had ever worked on, I had limited tools and experience. It was fighting me, and I was getting pissed. I took a little hissy fit, and grabbed a baseball bat. In my infinate wisdom, instead of smashing the window out of the car, or denting the fender, I decided to take a whack at one of the tires that were off the car. The bat ricocheted and came right back to the side of my head. My mom found me passed out in the driveway with blood running out of the side of my ear. I was o.k, but had a bad headache, and ringing in my ears for a day or so.

Folks, I think we have a winner. A video of that would sure be sweet!

I am happy to say I have nothing to add to this thread. I have had many busted knuckles, scrapes and cuts, but nothing unusual. Probably the worst injury was having gas run down my arm into my arm pit. That stings but a shower was all it took to cure the pain.