Accidents

Grant Lamontagne · **on:** March 05, 2007, 02:33:42 PM

I haven't had any lately, but I have coated more than a few of my multis and SAKs with genetic markers in the past. Especially Leathermans. For some reason, they seem to like to bite me more than other tools do...

My most recent was slipping with a SAK and burying it into the meat at the base of my left thumb. I probably should have gotten stitches, but a steri strip worked and the ER was backed up.

Anyone else got any good boo boos from thier tools?

Def

Grant Lamontagne · **Reply #1 on:** March 05, 2007, 03:01:23 PM

You are missing a middle finger? How do you drive?

Def

CQC-7 · **Reply #2 on:** March 05, 2007, 07:55:07 PM

I have had my share of accidents with sharp tools. I have had a SAK close on me while cutting a piece of hose. It caused me to lose some feeling in my right trigger finger. I have also been cut by the machette clean through my carharts and boots and into my ankle. The worst SAK bite I have ever witnessed was when my coworker was whittleing a repair plug for an archaeological screen. The blade traveled through the wood with remarkable grace and skinned 1/3 of the side of his index finger to the bone with equal zeal. I seen this happen and then turned away purging the contents of my stomach.

Then there is my father. I was helping him to replace the roof on our house when I heard him say "Wow, that hurt." He was holding his thumb. I asked what was wrong. He said he cut the tip of his thumb off with a razor knife. We searched the yard for 30 minutes until we found it. He just duct taped it back on and went about finishing the roof before he went to the hospital. His accidental thumbprint removal eventually healed up after a few months.

J-sews · **Reply #3 on:** March 06, 2007, 03:00:31 AM

Quote from: CQC-7 on March 05, 2007, 07:55:07 PM

Then there is my father. I was helping him to replace the roof on our house when I heard him say "Wow, that hurt." He was holding his thumb. I asked what was wrong. He said he cut the tip of his thumb off with a razor knife. We searched the yard for 30 minutes until we found it. He just duct taped it back on and went about finishing the roof before he went to the hospital. His accidental thumbprint removal eventually healed up after a few months.

Hehe, I've duct taped or crazy glued more wounds than I've ever had stitched up at the hospital.

J-sews · **Reply #4 on:** March 06, 2007, 03:07:59 AM

My last knife wound was pretty minor. Some of you may remember it from the New Desk thread. What seemed strange at the time was that I never remembered getting cut! The SwissTool blade was so sharp that I never even felt it. All of a sudden there were blood drops on everything, and it took me a moment to figure out it was coming from me!

Grant Lamontagne · **Reply #5 on:** March 06, 2007, 03:15:57 AM

I had an old boot knife that bit me years ago when I was in high school.

I was delivering papers one cold day and I had pretty well had the routine of pulling out the nylon strap that held the papers together with my left hand and drawing the knife with my right, cutting the strap and replacing the knife all in one smooth motion. As I walked on my merry way I noticed some ink must have run on the papers as there were tiny red spots, identical to the bright red title. This is of course back before full color newspapers (or as we called them, "Nuisance Papers") and the only color was usually the name of the paper.

As I kept going, there was more and more of these red drops of ink on the papers, but I didn't think too much of it. Some time later, I grabbed a paper out of the bag to put in someone's door and there was what appeared to be a potato peeling on it... which confused me as the kitchen was on the main floor of our house and I kept all my newspaper stuff in the basement, so how would a potato peel get in my bag?

A few houses later I realized that it wasn't potato, and the red stuff wasn't ink. I had actually peeled the skin off the back of my thumb between the knuckles when I cut the strap!

Def

J-sews · **Reply #6 on:** March 06, 2007, 03:35:08 AM

Ouch!
Didja ever notice how those sort of cuts that aren't even noticable at first, really hurt like the dickens afterwards?

Grant Lamontagne · **Reply #7 on:** March 06, 2007, 04:27:48 AM

That's because the dominant hand is smart enough to be armed!

Def

CQC-7 · **Reply #8 on:** March 06, 2007, 05:18:44 AM

When I was about 12, my friends and I were raiding a field to gather corn for "corning" around halloween. My knife was sharp enough that the stalk would often be standing as it was though being completely severed. I was using my knife to chop down the cornstalks and carry them to the edge of the large field. I noticed later that my hand was covered in a sticky liquid that must be from the cornstalks. Wrong, corn does not produce red liquid.

I had cut myself pretty bad and because the knife was sharp, I really did not feel it.

Anthony · **Reply #9 on:** March 06, 2007, 05:21:38 AM

Only one cut ever, on my left index finger. Only about 1/4 from the tip of the finger down about a potato chips width in...(mm, potato skins..)

BUT let me put it in context. Cement basement floor, one light bulb, one crooked wooden yardstick, linoleum (sp?) that had been rolled up for 5 years and woulden't stay flat, and a brand new razor sharp...razor..one of the Husky lockback razor holders. I'm on my knees trying to cut out a section of that crooked linoleum with the messed up yardstick for a bathroom floor. I had my left hand on the ruler holding it down, and the right hand holding the razor. I felt nothing at first, but the razor got hung up on something...my fingertip!

I know, not as bad as some you you...but that's it.

I swing razor blades around all day at work, and when I come home, I play around with them (and knives) at my desk, so that little incident was surprising for me.

A more serious wound inflicted by a razor was with a kid I worked with a few years ago...he was in the plant slicing up boxes...I don't know if he had his hand under a box or what this kid was doing, but there was blood everywhere and a ripped up hand. The maintence man drove him to the emergency room and I drove the kids car there and left it in the lot for him. Don't do drugs kids!

EDIT:
And this same kid also got bleach in his eyes while cleaning the bathroom..another emergency room trip. Again, don't do drugs kids!

Dunc · **Reply #10 on:** March 06, 2007, 11:17:10 AM

Quote from: Defender on March 05, 2007, 03:01:23 PM

You are missing a middle finger? How do you drive?

Def

You really dont want to know what body part I've got missing

It did get cut off by a knife ( surgeons scalpel )

Dunc

NutSAK · **Reply #11 on:** March 06, 2007, 05:23:25 PM

Uh, yeah, you're right. We don't wanna know.

I guess the only serious injury I've ever inflicted on myself was when I was (stupidly) chiseling out some wood from the lock hole in a door frame with the small blade of a Victorinox recruit. All of a sudden the knife slipped, and the blade completely disappeared in the palm of my left hand. I felt that one! As I pulled the blade out of the stab wound, I thought about how close the blade came to slicing through my wrist and I nearly passed out. I pulled myself together and drove myself to the Doctor's office for some stitches.