Whats the worst thing you've done to yourself when working at home

[UconnTim97]

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...

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by Tobra

you are EXTREMELY likely to get osteomyelitis

Gawd, I hope not.

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

Thanks for the advise

[mattdavis11]

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.

[vash]

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.



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

[KevinP73]

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

[vash]

Originally Posted by s_morrison57

, pic's if you got em

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.

[Jim Bremner]

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.

[Willem Fick]

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).

[daepp]

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.

[Groesbeck Hurricane]

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.

[johnco]

[QUOTE=DAEpperson;5457461]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...Q UOTE]

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

[924slover]

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.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by KevinP73

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

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.

[Christien]

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.

[BRPORSCHE]

I did do this....



But I wasn't working.

[Oh Haha]

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

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.

[Taz's Master]

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.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by Taz's Master

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

[Shaun @ Tru6]

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:

[Chas White]

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.