MT injuries

[Jmora]

this is what my farmer did to me (again) tonight:

damn awl...what did I do wrong this time? these knives never simply say what the problem is...they get moody and then they bite you.

We love our MTs and knives, but is the love always reciprocated? Do your blades bite you for no good reason? How have your MTs hurt you over the years?

[Zack]

I have a nice little scar on my left thumb toward the base.  I has cutting open a clamshell package with my Pioneer and it stabbed me to the bone.  DIn't hurt for about 30 mins and then it throbbed for about 3 days.  Now I have a scar of the profile of a Vic blade on my hand.

[Charger]

blisters on the palm from charge handles and pliers.

[Pacu]

i pinched the hell out of my hand a few weeks ago with my wave

massive bllod blister

[Millhouse]

The last time I was bitten badly was several years ago on the serrated blade on a LM Wave.

I was closing the blade one handed and it somehow closed on my middle finger. I don't know how it happened as I had done the same procedure hundreds of times. It left quite a deep cut.

[Mercury]

I tend to close my tools with one hand(my left, cuz that's where the sheath sits) and when I do so I pinch the fire out of myself.  My wave got me last week and my pulse did it today.  I am also bad about forgetting the small blade on all my SAK's when cleaning and it tends to slice pretty deep. 

[Threeme2189]

Two days ago, while oiling my ST200, I was opening all of the tools on one side.
And while pushing the straight edge blade out with my thumb by pushing on the tang, it slipped forward and the blade sliced a nice line into my thumb...
 

[Mr. Whippy]

A lil' SAK saw souvenir from about 25 years ago...



Sawing plywood, using my other hand as a guide.

[Shane769]

I was very determined when I got my Tenacious to not fall victim to it's apparently legendary bite. Well, I failed, and the damned knife cut me deep down my left index finger. Sorry no pictures.

Also have pinched my hand several times very badly with the Surge handles flopping closed too fast.

[parnass]

i pinched the hell out of my hand a few weeks ago with my wave

massive bllod blister

I did the same thing with the original Gerber pliers multitool -- then sold it.

[Deere Man]

The awl on my farmer got me too not that long ago.  It's not a good thing to fiddle with, as that sucker's freakin sharp.  My Surge also pinched the hell out of the palm of my hand one day.  That little tab on top of the blade exchanger will get you when using the pliers.   

[BlueDot]

I got a nasty blood blister last winter with my skeletool. 
Trying to cut through some coax cable (in the dark), and man didit throb!
Of course the skeletool was up to it- just the operator not taking his time and using one of the many lights I get ridiculed about.   

[BIG-TARGET]

To quote Jamie Hyneman:"Pain is your friend!!"

And so is neosporin and bandaids!

[nuphoria]

I think it's mostly saws that have bitten me badly but I had to sell my Artifact after having a rather vicious fight with it 

[Turnstone]

Worst thing I can remember is when I was a teenager. I got a cheap grindstone and sharpened my Vic (I don't have that one anymore). After I had finished I dropped the knife with open blade and instead of just letting it fall I grabbed it and of course didn't catch the scales but the blade. Cut through three of my fingertips. I still remember the feeling how the sharp (but quite rough) blade cut through the skin and the flesh  Wasn't that bad in the end, no scars left and the cuts weren't so deep, but quite bloody, and something I will never forget. Lesson learned. When you drop a knife, let it fall, just jump away so that it doesn't hit your feet, too 

[Reinier]

I just cut myself on my Cybertool's can opener. Don't apply too much force when you use it's screwdriver, or at least make sure it doesn't snap shut on your finger

[Pacu]

When i was a kid i put my weight down on a SAK super tinkererer blade cutting into a limb ...of course it closed right up on my finger. I remember i could pull back the skin and see pure white bone underneath.

I also ran the blade of a minichamp under my thumbnail straight in also being a stupid teen. That hurt so bad i thought i was gonna pass out at work. Every time my heart would beat i could feel the pulsating pain in my thumb. The blade wasn't exactly clean from scrapping clean urinal cakes all night and i got a nasty infection in my thumb. Viscous green ooze flowed like guinness on tap from the gapping keratin trauma site. My hand looked like Wikus from District 9's alien apendage hanging down..gangrene coursing through every vein. I told the sawbones to take the hand off before the infection spread like the gap in Madonna's teeth. As the doc put me under visions of Willy Wonka and pedobear filled my head as i drifted off in la la land.
As i awoke i noticed the surgeons had replaced my hand with tool clip fingers and a crunch thumb.......sweet!



not really...i did run a minichamp blade under my thumb and it hurt alot.

[Turnstone]

I can remember opening a bottle of beer for my grandfather back as a teenager. Used the bottle opener on my Vic and slipped off. Cut the thumb and the nail of the thumb, not on the knife but on the cap of the bottle 

[markn951]

Mine isn't as crazy. I was cutting cardboard, and of course, being stupid, was cutting towards myself. Well the knife (Leatherman Freestyle) was stuck one second and free the next and I drove the tip straight into the flesh of my palm, perfectly placed on a vein. Thankfully I knew to apply HARD pressure until it stopped bleeding but man I'm going to have this scar for a long time.