Be careful with the #11

Gruesome stories, but true.

As the OP, again I just want to remind everyone that if any or all of the above posts have the phrases "doctor", "hospital" or "ER" removed; that's the current reality.

"Don, about 7yrs ago i left a friend's place while he was running a tablesaw & went home. 1/2hr later i got a call from his wife in that he was on the way to the hospital lying down at home after cutting halfway thru the main joint of the finger next to the left thumb with that tablesaw. "

Just as an example, but you all get it.

Be safe my friends.

Bill

Don, about 7yrs ago i left a friend's place while he was running a tablesaw & went home. 1/2hr later i got a call from his wife in that he was on the way to the hospital after cutting halfway thru the main joint of the finger next to the left thumb with that tablesaw. went with her to the hospital where the doctor amputated 2/3 of his finger as the joint could not be saved. i was kinda of calling him "Stumpie" because of an industrial accident decades before took off the ends of the middle 3 fingers on his right hand so "Stumpie" is now appropiate. a friend of his cut off the 4 fingers & part of the thumb on his right hand when he tripped while walking towards his tablesaw that was on. 2 of the 4 fingers where saved & has had a number of surgeries on those 2 fingers to get some movement back.

Well, hobby related but not modeling per se:

Many years ago when I was a babe in arms, my dad was holding me at an Airshow in Denver at the old Lowry AFB probably about 1955. He heard a noise behind him and a free - flight model airplane hit him in the head as he turned. He never knew how, but managed to hand me to grandpa as he grabbed the plane, the prop dug under and around his eyeball. They took him to the infirmary where a flight surgeon removed it, then told him, "As an Air Corps flight surgeon during the war he had pulled lots of pilots out of an airplane, but this was the first time he'd pulled an airplane out of a pilot."

Couple years ago I was trying to crank start one of my Model A Fords whose battery was too low to crank the starter and it was looking like rain. The thing started on the second crank which startled me (they never start on the second crank) and I stood up too fast cutting my eyebrow on the headlight rim. My daughter came out and told me to get in the car we were going to the ER. I protested that I was going to get the car in the garage first, then I noticed my shirt was covered in blood and in was bleeding like a stuck pig. The ER doc kept asking me how I did it for his report.

On subject, I was kicking around building a little bit of benchwork for the layout that never progresses the other day. Then I looked at my chop saw, started thinking about how handy I am not at time goes by, and decided this probably isn't the best time to be using major power tools.

I started cleaning off my bench instead, and whilst organizing the x-actos, had the same thought as you.

Timely advice, indeed.

I've cut the tip of my finger off twice with blades.  Last weekend I did it again, this time with a ten inch power saw.  The two times with blades were not real emergencies- I just sliced the very tip skin off and a bandaid took care of it fine.  I guess in a sense it illustrates my skill with an X-acto knife :-)  I find my big problem is when I hold down a ruler on sheet stock to cut a straight edge.  I don't carefully enough check that the fingers holding down the ruler/scale are free and back enough from the edge.

The power saw took a little bigger chunk- part of the nail and nail quick too.  A couple of band aids and a litttle gauze stopped the bleeding, but the fingertip is still sore.  Yesterday was the first day I could touch-type!

snapdragonxxx

There has been plenty of swearing and trips to both the first aid cupboard and the hospital from my bench.

One time, the receptionist at A&E asked if it was my heart again (frequent customer). I shook my head and then held up my hand to which was superglued 3 feet of wooden planked hull of a 1/200 Hachette Partwork Bismarck.

a Doctor and Nurse took considerable time and care to remove it from me with little damage to both attachment and attachee and the completed build stands in a case in A&E as a thank you!

 

Sorry mate, but that the funiest  thing I have heard for a while. I hope that were able to save the hull....

There has been plenty of swearing and trips to both the first aid cupboard and the hospital from my bench.

One time, the receptionist at A&E asked if it was my heart again (frequent customer). I shook my head and then held up my hand to which was superglued 3 feet of wooden planked hull of a 1/200 Hachette Partwork Bismarck.

a Doctor and Nurse took considerable time and care to remove it from me with little damage to both attachment and attachee and the completed build stands in a case in A&E as a thank you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcqZNGt-jsw

I hate hearing this happened. It is so easy to do, been there. Makes me want to be all the more careful.

Great warning, Bill. But it's not just knife blades.

The worst hobby-related injury I ever sustained was while trying to coax the reluctant screw-top from one of the old Testors 'square bottle' enamels. A pair of Vise-grips tightened a little too tight...and a little bit too much 'oomph' in my wrenching motion...and the neck of that little glass bottle sheared right off, twisting to cut a nice wedge shaped divot out of my thumb knuckle, nearly down to the bone. It was one of those weird surreal moments of utter lucidity, staring at the pale-fish colored flesh where the wedge was missing for that slow-motion instant before the pain hit and the bleeding started.

And feeling really stupid.

The doc did a nice job stitching the bit back in...but I've had that little scar to continually remind me, in the 40 years since, that it's worth being just that extra bit patient -- and careful -- before the damage is done.

Same here.  Got a bottle of super glue close by! 

I heard Mach 2 is reciprocating saw territory

Timely reminder, though, I'm looking at that bottle of superglue if I need stitches....