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

[Taz's Master]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

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

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.

[Hugh R]

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.

[GothingNC]

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 again

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

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

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.

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

Wow, Hugh.

[A930Rocket]

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...

[p911dad]

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!

[Evans, Marv]

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.

[Evans, Marv]

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.

[Mr.Puff]

More!

[Supergas]

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

[Henry Schmidt]

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.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Henry Schmidt

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.

[fastfredracing]

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.

[daepp]

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

[GH85Carrera]

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.