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    Making a table for the wife lately and Saturday, I did what we are never supposed to do. No gloves on, I was pulling a 6' board through my table saw and I found the blade....

    My safety glasses had dust all over them and I just couldn't see the blade that well I guess. my wife was helping catch the boards and watched me do it too and she also said that she didn't think I was that close to it. Yes, I kept working and got all of them ready to join because I'm a man.

    Of course this is just one of many accidents. I once caught a metal chuck that came off my lathe with my freaking bear hand (just a reaction to save it from hitting my lathe bed)and had a steel splinter inside my palm for a few days before realizing why it kept hurting so bad. i got it out with a magnet.

    Mashed off the end of my left thumb between gears or a flywheel and starter on a log splitter when I was 17, and I've cut myself many times.

    So what are the coolest injuries yall have done? Must provide pics or it didn't happen!!!

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    Ran through a barbed-wire fence on a Honda Z50 at night when I was 13. Wire burned the heck out of my neck and had a few deep cuts from the barbs, but nothing vital hit. God must have had a plan for me to live. I don’t have any pictures from years ago; only scars.

    Oh, and about that scar you can see in the picture, they were afraid to numb it to stitch it so they stitched it without lidocaine; I can still remember how the “thread” felt as they pulled it through the holes they made with the needle. Afterwards, they gave me a tetanus shot and I didn’t even feel it.

    I rode that Z50 the next day back to the scene of the accident to see where I had gone wrong so I wouldn’t make the same mistake again. This day in age, because lawyers have ruined everything, I’m sure there would have been a lawsuit against the landowner for not having his dangerous barbed wire fence lit at light so trespassers, like me, could see it. 🙄

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    Had a 550cc dirt bike with left sided kick. Foot came off and it popped me in the back of the knee. Rode on to the store. Was walking around and noticed a blood trail in the store floor. Just as I thought hey someone is bleeding, I felt some blood run down my leg. Bought some chicken and rode back home. Wife looked and said you need stitches. Rode over to the hospital, And got a doc to stitch me up.
     
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    Not me but my good friend. I think 15 years old. Playing "Army" in the neighborhood. We were a team of 2 and would annihilate the other teams, mainly because we would hit and run. Ambush and run. On one of the runs, escaping through an alfalfa field pitch black at a full run, he caught a sprinkler head in the crotch and dropped, groaning. I hit the deck and crawled back to him thinking he'd been rocked or something. We used pellet rifles, wrist rockets, snares, trip wires and such and caused actual injuries. I can't see but I feel and smell blood. I drag him to his house and his mother, x-ray nurse, rushes him to the hospital where they finish removing his right testicle. "Lefty" got a ton of mileage from that injury all through high school. But he retired from the Army games.
     
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    I got shot by an EPA police officer during a cqb course. He over penetrated the room trying to show off and then attempted to shoot all the targets instead of only taking care of his section. His round hit my handguard right where my thumb was and blew a piece of my thumb off. The instructor booted him and then notified his boss.
     

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    Don't got no pics.

    I have done some stupid stuff.

    Back in the 90s, I was working on some new apartments and the framers used the .22 cal nail gun. The would leave good charges left on a plastic strip.

    So, in order to be an asshole and startle my co-workers, I would get one of those and place in on the floor and smack with 16 oz hammer.

    One time I did that, a piece of shrapnel ripped through the index finger tip of my left hand. So, I wrapped in toilet paper and electrical tape. Then, I finished my regular work day. (I have a high tolerance for pain.) Then, I went to a Primacare. $279 dollars and 4 stitches.

    The doctor had said, "Let me get this straight. You took a hammer to a live round of ammunition?"

    And so, the stitches worked great and I was able to play guitar, again.

    Another time a few years ago, I backed out my office door and forget I had stacked our traffic cones that we use to prevent others from using our parking spaces. I high-centered on my own taint and fell back to the ground. Our neighbor helped me up.

    Another time, setting up a service wire pull in the rain (parallel runs of 650 KCM from an Oncor transformer into the sets to switch gear for 5,000 amps on a school building, I dropped a jack stand on the plywood and it bounced up and mashed the middle finger tip on my left hand against a spool of wire. I kept working until lunch time. Then it was swelling up and my boss said I should get it looked at. I went to a Primacare and I had broken the bone in the finger tip. And they had to drill a hole in my fingernail and then press to drain the fluid. It hurt worse than it sounds.

    So, I had a splint but at least I could show the guys which finger I hurt.

    On that job, a giant school and complex, I had assembled the switch gear and did all that work but I was also responsible for deliveries, since I was the only one there with a safety card for heavy machinery like fork lifts and the sky track. I unloaded 55' trailers of 2X4 lay-in lights in the rain.

    It was from that job where I had shed blood and sweat and placed the job above my own comfort that I was laid off. Mainly because the superintendent liked me the least. He had also borrowed my big wire cutters that would go up to 950 aluminum and "lost" them.
     
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    No pictures and no lasting damage, but about 5 years back I flipped my (sit-on) kayak while out bass fishing, on a creek off the main lake that snaked out into the woods. The ice had just gone out, air temp was in the mid high 30s. Dumped several rods, some tackle, and a very expensive pair of glasses in the drink.

    Managed to retrieve my paddle, get ahold of the 'yak, look around and assess the situation. Thought it was odd that I wasn't cold even though I'd been fully submerged, and was still in up to my chest. Took a couple quick dives to try to retrieve my gear before realizing I'm 100% retarded and it's not possible I'm not cold. Couldn't get the 'yak flipped over because I had stupidly put the anchor in the bow hatch and the water was too deep I couldn't touch bottom.

    Swam the 'yak to shore, got it flipped over, realized that oh fuck yes it actually was quite cold, and began the paddle back to the boat launch. The more I paddled the colder it got until I was screaming to keep from shivering. I could barely grip the paddle.

    Finally got to the launch, managed to drag the 'yak out but was so cold I could barely walk and couldn't stand up straight. Somehow I managed to put the kayak, all 90lbs of it, on top of the car and tighten the straps enough to say "fuck it". Stripped off all my clothes, jumped in the car, cranked the heat to max and began the drive home. When I got home I got got in the shower for probably almost 2 hours, gradually turning the heat up until I felt mostly normal.

    Then I put on some different clothes, went over to Dick's Sporting Goods and got the biggest treble hook I could find and some 1oz egg weights. I went back out to the lake with my one remaining rod and managed to retrieve all my rods and a couple tackle boxes.

    Many lessons were learned and I went home to drink a couple beers.
     
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    Well...lets see. Too many to list and don't take too many pics of my stupidity...for reasons!
    But, here's one...
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    Was riding a '11 Kawi KLR650 up in the Wisc. North Woods looking for a place to bow hunt, and was rubber neck'n on an overgrown snowmobile trail. Had a couple of big tree branches hiding in the tall grass, got my front wheel hung-up, couldn't get my right foot off my cleated pegs and yup, down I went with 450Lbs. of F'n bike on top of me. Yup, heard my Tibia and Fabia(??) snap. Real stupid mistake. 8 months later, I could walk again. Was back-boarded out of the woods for about half a mile, then transported on a "J.D. Gator" for another mile and a half to the ambulance. The rescue crew was very amused at how I got so far back in the area I was in. I did return to work after 8 weeks, since I hadn't retired as of yet, stayed locked up in a control area for the next 6 mo., or so. Since I worked Corrections at the time, my Administrator had a lot of compassion for me and allowed me to come back to work, because having really nothing to do at home, I wanted to work.
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    BuildingConceptsllc said:
    Making a table for the wife lately and Saturday, I did what we are never supposed to do. No gloves on, I was pulling a 6' board through my table saw and I found the blade....

    My safety glasses had dust all over them and I just couldn't see the blade that well I guess. my wife was helping catch the boards and watched me do it too and she also said that she didn't think I was that close to it. Yes, I kept working and got all of them ready to join because I'm a man.

    Of course this is just one of many accidents. I once caught a metal chuck that came off my lathe with my freaking bear hand (just a reaction to save it from hitting my lathe bed)and had a steel splinter inside my palm for a few days before realizing why it kept hurting so bad. i got it out with a magnet.

    Mashed off the end of my left thumb between gears or a flywheel and starter on a log splitter when I was 17, and I've cut myself many times.

    So what are the coolest injuries yall have done? Must provide pics or it didn't happen!!!

    table and finger for proof
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    That's not that bad. And the table looks nice.
    wvfarrier said:
    I got shot by an EPA police officer during a cqb course. He over penetrated the room trying to show off and then attempted to shoot all the targets instead of only taking care of his section. His round hit my handguard right where my thumb was and blew a piece of my thumb off. The instructor booted him and then notified his boss.
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    As bad as that was, I guess it could have been far worse. Damn.
    DarnYankeeUSMC said:
    I could feel my skull.

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    Put a broadhead about 4 or 5 inches in my thigh

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    Okay. We need the whole story here.
     
    #18
    Metal splinter that I jammed in my finger. Felt great. Honestly, I didn't know it was in me at first. I had picked up a shepherds hook plant hanger that had fallen over in the yard that I had just ran over with the lawnmower. It was bent all to crap and had a few scars on it and like an idiot I made the mistake of sliding it through my hand.

    I felt a pretty good pinch and noticed a hole in my finger, but to my surprise, not much blood. Upon further investigation I realizes I had something stuck in my finger. When I got a hold of it with dome needle nose pliers it just kept coming out. It almost went all the way through. You could feel it on the other side just under the skin.

    I've wounded myself pretty good over the years. This was just the most recent.

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    XP1K said:
    Okay. We need the whole story here.
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    HVAC equipment is made out of stamped steel with lots of sharp edges and corners. I slipped on some water and my scalp was the first contact in the fall.

    The broadhead.
    My hunting partner and I were walking into the woods. I guess when I switched my bow to the other hand an arrow fell out of the quiver and I walked into it. I felt the resistance and thought it was just a branch or something and pushed into it thinking it would give way. When it didn't I looked down and saw the good news. I dropped my pack and cut off a strap for a tourniquet. I told my buddy that he was going to have to tighten it until the bleeding stops if it's a pumper when I pull it out. Luckily it wasn't.
    The worst was when the EMT went digging around in it looking for the broadhead. I asked WTF he was doing and he said looking for the broadhead. Hey dumbass, I don't want you to leave a finger in my leg. It's already out.
     
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    Not me but my older brother, he's 2 years older than me , he's a walking accident, when we were 6 and 4 back in 1960 he backed up to a gas heater and caught his pj,s on fire, burned him bad ,missed a year of school so from 3rd grade on we were in the same grade , later as a 16 year old he tboned a car on our Honda CL 125 , crushed his ankle and broke his foot in 5 places, then as an adult he shot himself in the palm of the hand unloading a 25 cal auto , then as a older adult he caught himself on fire agin lighting a brush pile with gasoline, he's had 2 heart attacks and almost died during the covid shit, was incubated for three weeks ,the man is just unlucky as shit.
     
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    DarnYankeeUSMC said:
    HVAC equipment is made out of stamped steel with lots of sharp edges and corners. I slipped on some water and my scalp was the first contact in the fall.

    The broadhead.
    My hunting partner and I were walking into the woods. I guess when I switched my bow to the other hand an arrow fell out of the quiver and I walked into it. I felt the resistance and thought it was just a branch or something and pushed into it thinking it would give way. When it didn't I looked down and saw the good news. I dropped my pack and cut off a strap for a tourniquet. I told my buddy that he was going to have to tighten it until the bleeding stops if it's a pumper when I pull it out. Luckily it wasn't.
    The worst was when the EMT went digging around in it looking for the broadhead. I asked WTF he was doing and he said looking for the broadhead. Hey dumbass, I don't want you to leave a finger in my leg. It's already out.
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    Ouch. X2.
     
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    Some years ago, I sharpened one of our chef's knifes. I then commenced to making guacamole.

    You know that part when they say to 'ride the blade around the pit, then twist the two halves apart, then 'chop' the knife into the pit to grab it, then twist that pit out of the second half of the avocado?

    Yeah, I did that. Well, I started that way, but that 'chop' part, went right through the pit, through the avocado, and into my hand. "Fuck-Off" finger, ring finger, and pinkie-finger, all got stitches.

    And no, I have never sliced through an avocado pit before, in my life. And I've made a guacamole or two over the decades.
     
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    DarnYankeeUSMC said:
    Dumbass at work cut off a few fingers and I was the only responsible person there to deal with it.

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    yeah, I have seen this trick before. glad I didn't do that, but having hit a table saw blade before, I call myself being pretty careful..... guess not....

    you get used to it and then one time you make a mistake and boom. glad I never cut a digit off
     
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    they used to sell them to put on any table saw but they don't do that and you have to buy their saw to get it now. This is a pretty big saw table and a 220 saw and the fence for making furniture is a big deal so, not sure about the saw stop, though it would obviously have one very important feature
    davethedog said:
    Took me one small table saw incident to buy a sawstop. Can’t recommend it highly enough.
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    camotoe said:
    Are you going to stain the table blood red????
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    probably gonna ne a pretty natural finish though I may stain or tint slightly. I was careful not to bleed on it. cleaned it up, wrapped it up , and finished working for the day. in the pic you can see where I had it wrapped up since I took that pic after I finished up and not right after it happened.


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    BuildingConceptsllc said:
    they used to sell them to put on any table saw but they don't do that and you have to buy their saw to get it now. This is a pretty big saw table and a 220 saw and the fence for making furniture is a big deal so, not sure about the saw stop, though it would obviously have one very important feature
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    You may be thinking of something else, sawstops mechanism has always been integral. They’ve got a bunch of different options, I’ve got a 3ph at the shop but a 120v contractor that I take onsite for smaller work.
     
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    I was welding for my ODA with a janky ass African bush sourced welding machine. No gloves, and the plastic handguard slipped exposing the metal of the handle. I went to move the work and sent 90 amps through my chest from hand to hand.

    I didn't need coffee for a few days after that.
     
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    davethedog said:
    You may be thinking of something else, sawstops mechanism has always been integral. They’ve got a bunch of different options, I’ve got a 3ph at the shop but a 120v contractor that I take onsite for smaller work.
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    I'm pretty sure initially it was something you could put on your saw or there was another similar device but it wasn't long before that disappeared and they only offered their own stuff. I guess it could be that a other guy copied it or somwthing though and thata why it dissappeared....but that doesn't matter.

    so how accurate is their fence system on the big saws?
     
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    I do not have a picture but about 20 years ago I was making some horseshoes in my shoeing room and had a freshly shaped shoe sitting on my anvil. One of my buddies went to reach for something in the other side (I disremember what) and as a reflex put his hand down on the anvil as he leaned over. The entire palm of his hand laid flat down on a shoe that had, about a minute before, come out of a 2000 degree forge. It burned itself about half an inch into his hand. He never made a sound, just passed flat out onto the ground. He did not wake up until the ER folks got him out of my truck. It was gruesome and required several surgeries before he could use the hand
     
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    MK20 said:
    I was welding for my ODA with a janky ass African bush sourced welding machine. No gloves, and the plastic handguard slipped exposing the metal of the handle. I went to move the work and sent 90 amps through my chest from hand to hand.

    I didn't need coffee for a few days after that.
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    One of the hardest times I've been hit by electricity I was hi freq tig welding aluminum on my boat. In shorts and flip flops. I know, I know. I did have long sleeves and appropriate gloves for the task. Mid July or August on the Texas gulf coast, soaking wet sweating. Had my knee on the bottom of the boat so I was making a good ground. Everything was all good until I made the mistake of pulling out on my wire before I got off the pedal. My left arm shot straight out like somebody tried to jerk it out of socket and I collapsed in the bottom of the boat. I was sore for about a day after that. Hi freq A/C is no joke. I was probably only running 130-150 amps.

    Another time, not me, but a guy I was working with, we were arc gouging with a 500amp Miller diesel machine jacked wide open. Heat of the summer again, buddy was gouging and I was handing him rods. He's in a full leather jacket because he's in a jacked up spot getting burned up and he's drenched with sweat. And apparently grounded quite well. He stuck his hand out for another rod and when he put it in the stinger he got the jolt of a lifetime. He went rigid for a second and then just wilted. I thought he was in trouble, but he came around and we went and took a good break after that.
     
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    davethedog said:
    Took me one small table saw incident to buy a sawstop. Can’t recommend it highly enough.
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    Sawstop is a cool invention for sure, but it won’t help you when the teeth delaminate from the blade. Happened to my dad once cutting composite honeycomb to make a bulkhead. About 4-5 teeth came off and worked their way up his arm like bullets. Last one stopped in his upper bicep. Was fun pulling them out
     
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    roostercogburn98 said:
    Sawstop is a cool invention for sure, but it won’t help you when the teeth delaminate from the blade. Happened to my dad once cutting composite honeycomb to make a bulkhead. About 4-5 teeth came off and worked their way up his arm like bullets. Last one stopped in his upper bicep. Was fun pulling them out
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    Ouch. I've been dinged by a few of them coming off of skilsaw blades cutting tin before. Thankfully I was in long sleeves and wearing a faceshield. Nothing under the Hide.
     
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    hollowoutadime said:
    My friend's dumbass kid put a round through his hand/finger while racking the slide on his .40


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    My 18y/o step-son, who's been shooting since he was 7, did the same thing field stripping a pistol. Bought the wife and kids pistols for Christmas. Sad thing is when we opened the gifts we had a family session of how to field strip, etc., with warnings that the pistols will fire without the magazine, so always visually and tactiley inspect the chamber. That Christmas day was spent in the ER. Hammer-Heads will be Hammer-Heads. Thank the Lord, he had no permanent damage to his hand.
     
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