Who Was Wounded By Multi-Tool?

[Rico-2]

How was someone accidentally wounded by a multi-tool? For example, did the pointed blade fell in his foot? Or did someone accidentally stab himself in the face or eye? Or did you pinch your finger?

Maybe there was an accident caused by a multi-tool with a child, or disabled or elderly person? Etc. So we're not talking violence in this topic, but accidents.

And wich measures do you take, to prevent these accidents? Like using safety gloves. Or learning from prior accidents.

[anditsgone]

While cutting rope i slipped out with the knife and cut in my thumb with the skeletool. Also pinched my hand once while using the pliers on the skeletool. Other than that i have had very minor accidents with my mt's.

[Grant Lamontagne]

I required two stitches in the end of one of my fingers once after the blade on a PST II folded while I was trying to drill a hole in something.  Admittedly the blade isn't designed for drilling, but I'm sure we have all done something similar.

Def

[Australia]

When I was a teenager I was mucking around with a Gerber MT in the car and I don't know how but stabbed myself on the wrist . Still got the scar .

Nothing but extra careful with sharp tools now

[Edward Scissorhands]

It was my first year with my first SAK, the Woodsman. I was helping renovate a warehouse, up on a scaffold working on a fluorescent light fixture. There was a very small, very tight flathead screw, so I pulled out the Woodsman's can opener and went at it with the tip. I must have leaned at a bad angle, because the opener folded back full force across my left thumbnail, cutting through it nearly in half vertically. 

That was almost thirty years ago, and to this day if I look closely at the nail I can see the faint scar.

[WoodsDuck]

One time I snapped the blade closed on my Deluxe Tinker tinker while some hand meat was slightly in its path. The blade didn't even pause, it just zipped right through. Those slim Vic blades slice like crazy.

This one isn't related to a MT, but one time whilst opening giant bags of cappuccino mix to fill a commercial machine at my old job, I slipped and the serrated portion of my knife (Kershaw Black Gulch II) took a sizable chunk out of my fingertip. I lost quite a bit of blood, and the scar remains very visible after ~14 years.

[sLaughterMed]

Stabbed myself in the thumb with my Rebar's small driver last week. It bled for a surprising 2 days.

[jerseydevil]

Besides blood blisters from a Mr. Pinchy, SAK's have bitten me more times than I can count.

[gregpost]

 I got cut on my finger with the very first Victorinox SAK I had, can't remember the model. The large knife snapped onto my finger as I was closing it. Never made that mistake again.


 I've also poked myself with awls and pinched myself with pliers but nothing major.

[rdub934]

I used my Wave to carve my son's first pine box derby car (he was too young to do it himself) and I allowed my non-knife hand to get in front of the cutting edge. Inevitably, the blade introduced itself to my finger. Lesson learned? Nope! I have cut myself each year since (save this year - I was out of town for derby time) but I have used a wood carving kit instead of a MT

[Rico-2]

When I was a teenager I was mucking around with a Gerber MT in the car and I don't know how but stabbed myself on the wrist . Still got the scar .

Nothing but extra careful with sharp tools now

You could have killed yourself in a moment, if you had hit an artery in your wrist.

While using a multi-tool, one should wear stab-free safety gloves, that are long enough to cover the wrists IMO.

[SteveC]

When I was a teenager I was mucking around with a Gerber MT in the car and I don't know how but stabbed myself on the wrist . Still got the scar .

Nothing but extra careful with sharp tools now

You could have killed yourself in a moment, if you had hit an artery in your wrist.

While using a multi-tool, one should wear stab-free safety gloves, that are long enough to cover the wrists IMO.

 

[jerseydevil]

When I was a teenager I was mucking around with a Gerber MT in the car and I don't know how but stabbed myself on the wrist . Still got the scar .

Nothing but extra careful with sharp tools now

You could have killed yourself in a moment, if you had hit an artery in your wrist.

While using a multi-tool, one should wear stab-free safety gloves, that are long enough to cover the wrists IMO.

 

[Grant Lamontagne]

When I was a teenager I was mucking around with a Gerber MT in the car and I don't know how but stabbed myself on the wrist . Still got the scar .

Nothing but extra careful with sharp tools now

You could have killed yourself in a moment, if you had hit an artery in your wrist.

While using a multi-tool, one should wear stab-free safety gloves, that are long enough to cover the wrists IMO.

The thing about multitools is that they are a convenient solution.  They are not an ideal tool but they are more than functional enough to make a trip to the tool box unnecessary.

If you have to start carrying safety equipment like gloves they become less convenient.   Since convenience is the whole point of them, this is a serious problem.

Def

[zoidberg]

When I was a teenager I was mucking around with a Gerber MT in the car and I don't know how but stabbed myself on the wrist . Still got the scar .

Nothing but extra careful with sharp tools now

You could have killed yourself in a moment, if you had hit an artery in your wrist.

While using a multi-tool, one should wear stab-free safety gloves, that are long enough to cover the wrists IMO.

 

LOL, this just went next level funny.

[Rico-2]

When I was a teenager I was mucking around with a Gerber MT in the car and I don't know how but stabbed myself on the wrist . Still got the scar .

Nothing but extra careful with sharp tools now

You could have killed yourself in a moment, if you had hit an artery in your wrist.

While using a multi-tool, one should wear stab-free safety gloves, that are long enough to cover the wrists IMO.

The thing about multitools is that they are a convenient solution.  They are not an ideal tool but they are more than functional enough to make a trip to the tool box unnecessary.

If you have to start carrying safety equipment like gloves they become less convenient.   Since convenience is the whole point of them, this is a serious problem.

Def

You won't carry safety gloves in a business suit. But rubber safety gloves easily fit in a winter-coat-pocket or utility-vest, and they can be carried in a small EDC-bag or get-home-bag. They are quite handy in many situations, like repairs, accidents, first aid, cleaning, unexpected freezing, etc. Many police officers carry safety-gloves all the time.

[SteveC]

Don't forget to wear sturdy shoes, safety glasses and ear plugs  as well as safety gloves when using a multi-tools and perhaps knee and elbow pads as well.

Helmet is optional though advisable if using multi tool in over head situation   

[WoodsDuck]

I have my Mechanix gloves in my EDC bag most the time, along with some rubber gloves for emergencies. Though I don't generally feel like I need to suit up in protective gear to use a multi... 

[Grant Lamontagne]

I have my Mechanix gloves in my EDC bag most the time, along with some rubber gloves for emergencies. Though I don't generally feel like I need to suit up in protective gear to use a multi... 

This is my feeling entirely.

Yes, safety gear is better than no safety gear, but the vast majority of multitool related injuries can probably be chalked up to user error, or using a tool in a way it is not designed to be used.  If you are already using a tool improperly, you probably aren't the kind of person that is going to  wear proper safety gear when using it.

You are suggesting use in ideal situations, but muktitool excel in being useful in non ideal circumstances.

Def

[zoidberg]

Don't forget to wear sturdy shoes, safety glasses and ear plugs  as well as safety gloves when using a multi-tools and perhaps knee and elbow pads as well.

Helmet is optional though advisable if using multi tool in over head situation   

You've missed one vital area.   

[yud]

Can't remember any really bad injuries, but then again I walk around in plate armor.

Did stab myself in the lag with an exato though

[SteveC]

Don't forget to wear sturdy shoes, safety glasses and ear plugs  as well as safety gloves when using a multi-tools and perhaps knee and elbow pads as well.

Helmet is optional though advisable if using multi tool in over head situation   

You've missed one vital area.   

Well , I didn't want to go there   

[yud]

Don't forget to wear sturdy shoes, safety glasses and ear plugs  as well as safety gloves when using a multi-tools and perhaps knee and elbow pads as well.

Helmet is optional though advisable if using multi tool in over head situation   

You've missed one vital area.   

Well , I didn't want to go there   

That's what she said

[Teofilo]

Please be careful in using Vic knives. Same with the knife in the crunch. It caused me deep cuts on my fingers.

[Grant Lamontagne]

Don't forget to wear sturdy shoes, safety glasses and ear plugs  as well as safety gloves when using a multi-tools and perhaps knee and elbow pads as well.

Helmet is optional though advisable if using multi tool in over head situation   

You've missed one vital area.   

Whatever you do, DO NOT Google "Leatherman cod piece."

Def

[zoidberg]

Don't forget to wear sturdy shoes, safety glasses and ear plugs  as well as safety gloves when using a multi-tools and perhaps knee and elbow pads as well.

Helmet is optional though advisable if using multi tool in over head situation   

You've missed one vital area.   

Well , I didn't want to go there   

That's what she said

 

[jerseydevil]

Don't forget to wear sturdy shoes, safety glasses and ear plugs  as well as safety gloves when using a multi-tools and perhaps knee and elbow pads as well.

Helmet is optional though advisable if using multi tool in over head situation   

You've missed one vital area.   

Whatever you do, DO NOT Google "Leatherman cod piece."

Def

[yud]

Don't forget to wear sturdy shoes, safety glasses and ear plugs  as well as safety gloves when using a multi-tools and perhaps knee and elbow pads as well.

Helmet is optional though advisable if using multi tool in over head situation   

You've missed one vital area.   

Whatever you do, DO NOT Google "Leatherman cod piece."

Def

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[SAK Guy]

I'm the foot guy Rico was talking about in the OP......

http://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,66258.msg1268293.html#msg1268293

[parnass]

As others have experienced, I sustained a blood blister when the handles of an early Gerber Multiplier pinched my palm.

I cut my finger on the knife blade when trying to open a tool on a Leatherman Blast.   The same Blast had sharp edges on the plastic liner which produced a minor cut.