/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Company vehicle.
literally three weeks away from getting a brand new one with cherry picked.
bad accident coming down a mountain road. Roll current cherry picked. Miraculously no injuries or property damage besides the totalled truck

no longer eligible for new truck because I don't have the oldest one in fleet no more.

every time I get into my new piece of shit, I need to kill the feels.

put a router bit in personal bridgeport to finish a wood project, move it around with hands instead of clamping it in vice and using moving mechanisms because delicate artsy shit
removes a bit of thumb, bleeding all over- keep going until it's done

Not had many myself but my dad was a nightmare for accidents.

>sliced his thumb right through the centre of his thumbnail down to the bone
>managed to stick a screwdriver completely through his hand and out the other side whilst putting up a dartboard
>chainsawed off two of his toes whilst cutting up fallen trees

These are only the first ones I remembered and he only went to hospital for the chainsaw incident. Fixed the others up at home.

I bent a piece of aluminum into a "paint stirrer" and attached it to my drill. All was well at low speed but then I pressed the drill trigger too far. The aluminum was flexible enough that centrifugal force flung it straight out sideways and it caught me right in the face. Almost lost my right eye. I felt really fuckin stupid :(

Once got an electric shock from a frayed cord touching metal table. Was holding a project in my hand. Muscles contracted and I smashed myself in the eye with my full strength.

Scarred my cornea. I have permanent vision loss in the eye. I'd have to get a corneal transplant to repair it as well as subsequent lasik to restore vision in it.

Wear safety glasses kids. Sadly I took off my glasses to inspect something more closely right before it happened.

Also I put off going to the eye doctor because it was swollen shut for a week plus and because of my work schedule. If I had gone in right away I probably would have recovered 99% of my vision.

>be a kid of probably 5-6
>helping dad tear down shed
>step on board with nail sticking up
>goes straight through foot
>lift foot up, board comes with
>rip board off foot and run inside
>put bandaids on

I never told either of my parents that it had happened because I was embarrassed. Surprised it didn't get infected.

>>549548
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_gEVILWVUM

go ahead and shake hands with danger.

>>549645
people who get infected wounds are retarded, unless its some hard-to-know-about bacteria that eats flesh. ive cut my feet open in stagnant swamps, fish bones, broken turtle shells and a lot of other shit. never had a vaccine or tetnus (sp) shots

>>549637
Yikes!

>>549660
Yeah, hospital patients who contract MRSA ar retarded. Yes, cleaning can go a long way but there is no sure fire way to ensure you don't get infected.

Also I was 5-6 years old, I didn't know shit about sterilizing wounds. It was pure luck mixed with the fact that my parents weren't retards or hippies and didn't withhold vaccines from me that I didn't get infected.

Picture of when I cut the end of my finger off using a beam lifter in the weld shop. Stupid mistake.... But lots of hours lead to fatigue and fatigue leads to fucking up.

>>549637
Once within three weeks I got pink eye from my kid, flash burned by noob welder (my fault), and had a piece of red hot alumina grit bounce under my face shield to hit me in the forehead to fall in my eye. After it was all said and done and all the visits I've gotten most of my vision back... But your story takes the cake.

I've seen some wicked accidents though. Two men attempted to flip a header of an aircooler that weighed about 2 tons using a single chain. Incorrect rigging meant it flipped off its supports and crushed one guy's leg.

Saw shop foreman have a heart attack then bonelessly fall 7 feet onto a metal saw horse and then concrete. He lived.

Saw forklift go off a loading dock, dump the guy out and saw him get rolled over by it. He was DRT.

Umm...i broke the same fingertip 3 times with an engineer's hammer before i smarten up and started doing the job right.

I was under a tractor once, that just came off a winter highway. A drop of salt water dropped right into my eye, and i jerked my head right into the axle I beam, broke my nose.

When i was a teenager i worked at this oil change place. This guy i worked with drove a jeep onto the 4 post, i jacked it up, was under it. I told him to start it up, he did. It was a stick shift, he left it in gear as he started it. Fucking thing jumped forward, almost came off the lift, and the front diff smacked me right in the forehead, giving me a concussion and a pretty nasty gash. That company got the shit osha'd out of them after that though and went out of business.

I'm sure there's some major ones i'm forgetting.

>>549637
Terrible story. Wearing safety goggles is always worth it.
At least you still have one good eye, I guess.

>>549560
>sliced his thumb right through the centre of his thumbnail down to the bone

In high school woodshop, we had one guy whoe injured himself a bunch of times.

We had this big industrial table saw, the rule was always to have someone on the other side catching your piece, because the saw was so large and the blade was so powerful that if it caught the work board it would shoot it a good ways. The back brick wall of the shop had a bunch of big dings in it from this. This guy cut a piece alone, finished his cut, didnt turn the blade of, and started lowering the blade. Shot it right into his chest, he was black and blue for a month.

Another time he got on the jointer, had his fingers IN FRONT of the board, hold it down, sawed his fingertips off. I still remember some tards in that class going through the dust box and laughing when they found the tips.

Another time he cut his index finger tip in half, right down to the knuckle. I was standing right there, i saw him jump back but i thought he just got a splinter or something. Another rule was to inform people if you're injured, and never wander off alone. he walked out into the parking lot alone, passed out. They found him an hour later and had to life flight him.

he wasnt allowed back in shop next year. A few years later he got really drunk in a park, and passed out in a mud puddle and drowned.

One time in middle school art class, I was looking at something really close to the paper and when I turned it over the paper was more stiff than I though so I got a nice paper cut right through my eye.

>>549712
JESUS

high school. passenger in my friends car. Middle of winter, roads are icy and sludgy. Another friend pulls up next to my friend in his car, and my friend decides he wants to race him. I didn't want to do it because of the conditions, but whatever. We were at a two lane road that merged into one after the intersection, with my friend and I in the right lane, so we would have to get in front of the other car to stay on the road.
My friend did not take into account the loss of traction he had when he accelerated (rookie mistake), and my other friend quickly pulled ahead. For some reason my buddy driving did not let up and his dumbass ended up hitting the curb of the road as he ran out of lane. We crashed through a telephone pole, a fence, then ended up against a tree in someone's backyard. I amazingly enough had no injuries, and my friend also did not appear to have any injuries at first. The car, a Vue, was totally fucked though. No body panels remaining, all the windows broken, total loss. My friend also started bleeding really bad from his scalp and had to go to the hospital. Turned out that a huge 4 by 4 fence post had shot though his window and grazed the top of his head, if he had been leaning a little to the left he probably would of caught all of it with his skull.

using lathe wasnt thinking go to wipe cutting fluid off parting off tip because i thought it was broken, was close to the spinning chuck, finger gets pushed inbetween tool and chuck in blink of an eye, almost severes end of my finger off

I'm fairly safety conscious, my accidents have not been too bad.

My too worst were when I was 18 an and 23.

18: Decided to clean up the drill press that had piles of shavings on it. I started by dusting, then thought it would be faster to blow the metal shavings off. I blew the shavings off the guard and onto my eyes. I immediately held them open and then walked to the eyewash. No lasting injury or impairment.

23: Clocked my face with a 24v drill battery when the self feeding bit caught a nail. Even though I bled profusely from my head, I kept working because I was in an attic in a hard to reach area. I grabbed some insulation and stuck it on the wound to help stop/catch the blood.

When I crawled out of the attic blood was running off my chin, the tenants were speechless. It turned out to be a 2" long puncture across my orbital where the battery smashed against the bone and smushed the skin open. I should have gotten stitches but I super-glued it shut. Bad scar on my face now.

> be 10
> fucking around in a TV
> no idea about the high voltage levels therein
> touch wrong part of live set with hand
> current travels through arms to my legs, who's shins were against metal bar on bottom of work bench
> legs kick forward from power, threw me backwards off the stool
> woke up seconds later with a gash on the back of my head slumped against the opposite brick wall, a good meter and a half from where I was sitting. knocked out and concussed from head impact with wall.

That was the day I learned never to play with live equipment.

Was trying to flex some plastic but the manufacturer had changed a product to a brittle plastic and I didn't know until it shattered violently sending sharp shards into my face.

One hit my eye on its pointy side, hurt like fuck, was worried that it tore the outer layers of my eye. But it was all good after the pain went away

Safety glasses kids

>Grinding the mortar out of brickwork for re-pointing
>Get to internal corner
>Twist grinder in joint
>Grinder flys out the wall, bounces off my arm, bounces off my arm bounces off the wall etc about 5 times in the space of 2 seconds.

Nothing serious but I didn't have much skin left.

My gaffer then came out and told me I was working too slowly and took over, 5 minutes later he stumbled in with a 4 inch gash in his forehead after doing exactly the same thing.

>>549560
There's a reason there's so much safety "crap" on modern equipment. My ol' man was a framer, etc. for about 50 years and neither he nor any of his crew had a full set of fingers.

>>549988
Pro-tip: There are capacitors that'll knock you on your ass just as handily, plugged in or not...

My own favorite (of far too many) is when I first started working with the above dad. I caught a lot of flack from him and his crew for my long hair (70's) but had it in a pony tail and no problem. End of day rolls around and something crashes off the roof and I whip my head around - while drilling a cable feed. Bit catches just enough of my hair to yank my whole head up to the spinning drill. Hurt like hell but not nearly as much as realizing I was going to have to yell for help to get unstuck. Scalp bled a lot, but I got a haircut before work the next day anyway.

When I was 17 I almost cut my hand off with a machete while shaping scrap wood for a sculpture. Luckily I only nicked the top of my wrist.

I-It was my first time using a machete, I swear.

>>549645
I stepped on an embarrassing number of nails when I was around that age, you'd think I'd learn eventually

I've done ots of stupid stuff.

Most recent I was on a 10' ladder removing an old unit heater from a warehouse. The plumbing unions holding it up were really tight. Put some English behind the wrench, the union gave and my hands (wrapped around the wrench) drove forward into the sheet metal of the open exhaust vent. Cut my left pinky about 1/2 way around the big knuckle down to the bone.

Should have gotten it stitched up, but it was late and would have meant ER instead of doc-in-the-box ($1k vs $100). Instead just band-aid and neosporin. It ended up healing very, very well.

Helping my dad on his farm, jacking up a hitch on some piece of equipment with a "handyman" jack (pic related).

Jack has pins that hold it at various levels. Adjusted by pumping the handle and it walks up or down by alternating the pins.

Was jacking up and one of the pins didn't go into place (spring loaded, but hadn't been oiled or I didn't move the handle up far enough). I let go of the handle thinking it was in place with the handle in the down position. Handle flies up and catches me right under the jaw.

No serious injury, I was lucky enough that my jaw didn't break and when it snapped shut my tongue was out of the way. Just bruised chin and my teeth felt fucked up for a while.... Could have been much worse if I was to one side or back further as it was a metal handle and could have gouged up my face or worse.

When I was a teenager (probably 14 or 15), I was driving a 3-wheeler ATV alongside a barbed wire fence in the dark. The ground was uneven and it tipped sideways and went through the fence with me on it.

I got thrown from the ATV but it landed upright and proceeded to roll down the embankment running over my legs in the process.

Deep scratches on my arm and leg from the fence that turned into scars but other than that no injury. Was lucky that it happened between the metal fence posts or I could have really gotten hurt.

Had several other accidents with that 3-wheeler. It was unstable and easily went out of control. Also, I was young and dumb and that didn't help. Never broke a bone or had to go to the hospital though!

>working on vacuum-tube equipment
>parts from an old organ
>building a synthesizer out of it
>250v B+ voltage
>HT wires running everywhere, admittedly sloppy
>get zapped, thrown back off chair
>keep working, get zapped again
>happens three more times
>eventually gave up on synth because the 1955 electrolytic capacitors had drifted so far off value that it couldn't be tuned and there were just too many to replace
I've been shocked far too many times.

One time I stepped on a shovel and took the handle right to the face.

>be shop class in high school
>making the token "stool for mom for mothers day"
>making a cut at the table saw
>it makes a weird sound and i see the teacher look up
>saw launches the board right back at me hitting my hand before flying across the room
>can barely move thumb, limited use of forefinger
>teacher takes me out into the hall
>lectures me for being a dumb ass and cutting when i should have been tearing and the sound it made told him what was about to happen
>brings me into the class to use my dumb ass as a lesson on not paying attention to what your doing in shop class
>tells me to get back to work
>i can barely use some of my fingers, do you think i should go see the nurse?
>nah you'll be fine quit being a pussy, just use the band saw you don't need 2 hands for that

god i loved shop teachers

>trying to cut a piece of wood with hand saw
>"dull piece of shit"
>For some reason I am cutting where if the saw slips it will hit my finer
>It does
>As I am pulling the saw back it comes across the side of my hand and lacerates the side of my thumb
>turns out its sharp enough to cut flesh

And that was the day I learned hand tools can be just as dangerous, still have the scar.

My brother and my cousin where cutting fire wood out the back one day.
My brother was using the axe, my cousin was holding the log.
My brother then proceeded to chop four of my cousins fingers off.

Got them put back on though

Injury stories were always a favorite lunchtime conversation on new jobs.Got a few:
Given a bottle of cleaner and the work trailer and tasked with cleaning it over the weekend. I rushed it, not wanting to waste to much free time. I should have paid more attention to the label on the cleaner, especially when I poured it over the rag in my hand and some fell on the concrete and began to fizzle. It never registered and I managed to finish the job and set back to relax on my day. It started with my hand tingling, then it started burn, then it became painful, then I screamed a few times in to a pillow. I finally staggered downstairs, pale and shaking, dropped to my knees in the kitchen and ran water over it while I begged someone to take me to the ER. I sat in the ER for an hour, grinding my teeth and trying not to scream like a little girl around all the people there. They finally got to me and their solution was to crush up TUMS and mix them into KY Jelly into a latex glove and put it on to replace the vitamin E(?) the acid was removing from my blood. What ended up happening was the acid ate the skin completely off the underside of all my fingers. I could literally lift them all up so they only dangled by a bit of skin. I didn't want to miss work, so I secured each fingertip with electrical tape and waited a week or two for them to heal. Got a nice $2,500 medical bill for their ky glove trick. When I asked them why they didn't give me any pain killers, they said I wasn't vocal enough. Now I know to go in there screaming like a banshee.
Starting a new job, I was carrying a thick steel folding saw horse through the sand to the house. Except I was holding it with my fingers wrapped inside each end with the folded legs facing down, like a dumbass. A few heavy steps and the legs unfolded and buried in the sand, crimping all my fingers. I went into instant shock or something, because I stood there gasping....cont:

>>550982
Eventually I just dropped to my knees and put my forehead to the sand. I eased fingers out and was surprised to see no blood or breaks, just hurt like hell. Took an hour or so to get my hands to stop shaking.

Installing an interior door with a finish nailer, kneeling to nail in the bottom of the casing. I went to rest the gun on my thigh and made the mistake of holding the trigger, and missing the magazine. The tip hit my thigh and the gun fired a nail into my leg. No pain, just wide eyed surprise as I asked myself if I really just did that. I felt a coldness spread over my leg and started to freak out a little. I stood up and again with the wide eyes as my jeans stayed scrunched up where I shot it. I pulled them away and reached into my pocket and pulled out my lighter. The damn nail was sticking through it and had released the fuel. Wish I had kept that lighter as a reminder and thanks for saving my from a hospital visit.

I was replacing bulbs in a light overhead light fixture once. I managed to let the ten pound glass and brass fixture fall on my face. I then fell off the ladder and onto the broken fixture.

Another time I stepped on a creeper while working on a car and slammed my sternum into a bench vise.

>>550861
> Pro-tip: There are capacitors that'll knock you on your ass just as handily, plugged in or not...

25 years later, I am well aware of that. When my mother found out about it she buddied me up with a local TV repair tech (who happened to be a family friend) to learn about how to do my shit right. She had no idea about it, but she did her best to put me in the right places to learn, bless her.

>>549730

Lathes..

Came close but I once left the key in the chuck.. while still holding said key I put it in gear.

Thank FUCK it was @ 40 RPM .. brain realised it had to let go in time. if it was any faster my arm would have been ripped off.

my ass hole didn't un-pucker for a week.

>>551117
> dat feel
I left the key in once and sent it across my workshop so hard it embedded in a wall behind me (made a almost full revolution before it came out, at significantly higher RPM than 40). I'm glad I was not in it's lie of fire.

>>551119

The key was bent after.. Before that i was not careful, after seeing the 40 degree bend and connecting the dots with all the gore pictures i've seen from accidents (machine shop accidents) I suddenly became anal about it..

thank fuck is all I can say..

Ok, so one day at school i saw a cool sience experiment where my teacher put a magnesium strip in some hydrochrloric acid inna test tube, shook it a little, then stuck a match down the end of the tube and it made a cool popping sound...fastforward a few days and im trying to replicate this indoors, by seperating water into oxygen and hydrogen using electrolosis (youtube hydrogen generator if you wanna know a little more about the details, im not gonna explain it all here). i was doing it with a D battery, a few wires and a bowl, with a small tupperware container to catch the bubbles.
dad gets home, asks what im doing and says "oh, your uncle wanted me to build him a hydrogen motor for his car once" and pulls out a small brown gas (browns gas is a gas made up of 2 parts hydrogen, 1 part oxygen, and is very explosive and dangerous) generator from a cupboard (he made it ages ago, and had forgotten just how powerful it was).
he then proceeds to get his high voltage transformer out of the shed, plugs it into the mains, connects two cables and plunges em in a bucket of water.
Fastforward again to that evening
we had successfully managed to collect 12-15 cm3 of the gas (ausfag reporting in, convert to " if you must). because we weren't thinking, we just thought that the more gas there was, the bigger the 'pop' sound, so the plan was that dad lifts the container slowly out of the bucket, and keeps it facing down so none of the gas escapes, and ill shove a match underneath and listen to the fruits of our labour
just incase you haven’t figure out what will happen next, ill do a quick summary for you:
>hydrogen, by itself with no other gasses present, is not terrribly explosive, in fact, its only vaguley flammable
>my old teacher only had what could have been 1-2cm3 of pure hydrogen gas in that test tube
>we had aquired ~12x that volume of a ridiculously explosive material
gimmie a sec to post the next bit

>>551131
alrighty, when i stuck the match into the gas filled container, there was a loud bang and a very bright flash. the bucket containing the water, cracked due to the shockwave, and most of the water covered every exposed surface of the room. all three of us (me mum dad) were deafened by the explosion and me and dad were blinded (mum had here eyes closed) for a few minutes. take note that this was still indoors, and seeing as we were next to the back door - which slides, and is made of glass - did a ridiculous flex and looked as if it were to break at any moment. i had a slight bruise on my thumb, which took the brunt of the shock wave, but the worst off was dad. becuase he was holding the container at the time of detonation, he has bruised EVERY SINGLE PAD ON HIS FINGERS.

>mfw we didnt think this through

>mfw we did all this inside

>mfw mum said, quite firmly, that all science was to happen outside from now on

>>550861
I was planning on opening up this old CRT television during the holidays. I have a bit of theoretical background, but am very inexperienced with hands-on work.
1) Do you think this is a stupid/dangerous idea?
2) Any tips on how not to die?

>be a kid
>notice that the lock of my sisters diary and a whole lot of other stuff is the same exact lock
>it was some kind of cheap massproduction lock for kids
>I notice that I can pick this lock just by taking a pin and pressing on a particular point within the lock
>think this is cool as hell
>walk around with my pin and lock everywhere I go, practicing my skill
>be at grandparents house playing around with my pin
>decide to stick it in electric socket
>feel sudden shock, but otherwise bretty fine
Should I have died?

>>552295
Just make sure to discharge the CRT itself by shorting the anode to ground. The rest, just look out for the capacitors and don't manhandle anything until you've checked for voltage.

>>551133
>all science was to happen outside from now on

Basically this whenever me and my dad did science at home

>>552345
Ok, I'll think of that. Thanks.

>>549548
>be a kid
>learning to solder
>leave iron plugged in next to me
>absentmindedly grab it
>grab hot metal
>fuck up my hand
>cold water burn ointment, all that shit
>go back to desk
>grab iron, angry
>burn my fucking hand again

God fucking dammit.

well not really an accident, but
>install gizmo in back of car, want switch in cockpit
>run lead from battery>switch>gizmo because lazy and cannot into relais
>use shitty recycled wire
>isolation rubs off after a few weeks
>wire catches fire while driving

>>551133
That doesn't even need the first part to be the greatest single /diy/ post of the week. My sides, sir.

Middle school wood shop, same guy both times. Drill press both times.

The first time he left the key in the chuck. I tell him this. He doesn't know what I'm saying and he turns on the drill press. Key smacks me in the gut from 5 feet away. Not that bad but I got pissed because I had just told him to take it out.

He does this yet again, and shoots the key across the room, this time the shop teacher catches him and chews him out.

>>549975
>but I super-glued it shut.

>>551117
>Left key in chuck.
>Throws it dead into my shin.
>tfw shin injuries.

>Be parting very close to chuck.
>Work drops down and bounces off carriage and into chuck jaws.
>Throws work through the cinderblocks in the wall.

>Parting with a shitty tool that ins't self gripping.
>Parting bit is about 6 inches, taking a 3 inch plunge.
>Snaps and slings into arm cutting it a bit.
>tfw 3 inch parting bit now.

>Welding.
>6011 on 200A on AC just because feeling like being an asshole and killing metal. (Actually, needed a job done fast and no Oxy-acetylene and plasma cutter shit itself and I only had 6011 and 7018.)
>Big ass quarter size drop of molten metal pops out and down into my boot, burns through pants.
>Brassdance.png
>Hole burned in heel of foot and boot.

>Cutting super thin sheet metal on vert bandsaw. Young and dumb eh?
>Shit grabs and snatches the little plate thing that has the blade run in it. Somehow snatches that straight up and the metal down into the hole.
>Blade grabs on the hardened plate thing and stalls the bandsaw.
>Saves my fingers by a stroke of luck.
>Learn to be safe always from then on.

>Be casting boolits. (/k/omrade.)
>Lose a primer somewhere a few weeks back.
>Sweep off desk and shit into a big pile.
>Don't dump it and leave it there for a few weeks.
>Dump slag from melt onto it.
>As soon as I turn around.
>PLACK! at 150 db.
>Get near molten slag spat on me.
>Ears ring for like 10 mins. (Was in and enclosed garage.)
>Fugg :<
>Reload inside from now on like you should.

In the 6th grade a classmate stuck a strip of staples into the outlet strip on the overhead projector cart. Sparks flew, the lights in the classroom went out, I remember it like lightning shooting out from the side of the cart. His thumb got burned to shit and he got detention for like 3 weeks. I would later see that the staples had melted in the socket and dropped onto the floor, embedding metal 'splatter' shapes into the linoleum tile.

He didn't go to college.

>>549994
>Safety glasses kids

This.

>>550947
>And that was the day I learned hand tools can be just as dangerous, still have the scar.

Also, this. My worst accidents happened with hand tools:

One day when chiseling out a mortise in soft wood I hit a peghole. Said
peghole exploded in a shower of sharp, hard splinters all impacting on my
face. Two days later I had this sore feeling in my left eye and discovered one
of these splinters in there, half-dissolved by then.

As for chisels: The usual advice is to always cut away from yourself. This is
very good advice. Heed it.

A few years ago I did not heed this advice, working towards myself while
chiseling a notch into a beam. I gently tapped the chisel with just my bare
hands (so as not to send it flying towards me with too much force in case it
did slip - thinks I, considering myself clever at the time). The bare hands
precaution turned out to be inadequate: The chisel did slip and sliced a 5mm
skin patch clean off my biceps (luckily it was razor sharp; could have been a
lot worse with a blunt chisel getting stuck and tearing of a lot more skin).
You could see the tissue underneath the skin. Luckily I didn't hit any of the
largish blood vessels in that area (none at all in fact; there was hardly any
bleeding).

This incident left me with a lot of respect for chisels and their sharp ends.
It also left me with a scar that nicely underscores my poin whenever I
introduce someone to woodworking and tell them to always cut away from
themselves when using a chisel.

Another thing, I heartily recommend are steel-tipped boots or sturdy shoes at
the very least. Surprisingly small objects will do a surprisingly large amount
of damage to an unprotected foot. I discovered this the hard way dropping a
pair of pliers while being barefoot. The pliers landed with the business end
down, impacting on a subsequently badly lacerated toe that took four weeks to
fully heal.

>>552364
i still have a giggle when i think back on doing this. glad to have entertained

I got home drunk a little after Christmas last year. I'd got this Swatch for Christmas but it was a couple of links too big, and I was going to take it to the jewellers so they could do a proper job on it and it would be guaranteed. But I come in drunk from the pub anyway and I think "fuggen...I'll do it myself like.... fuck the jewller's, shower of bastards". So I take a craft knife and I start levering apart these links, but it's hard, because Swatches are well made. So I'm levering and levering this side bit off, putting on more and more pressure, and then out it clicks, bob's your uncle. Problem: I have cut off the pad of my other hand's index finger, down to the bone. I'm drunk enough that I'm not in a huge amount of pain, but the blood is a problem, my house has beige carpets, so I pick up my finger pad and I run into the kitchen and run my finger under a tap for a while. Alcohol affects coagulation, I now know, so after about 5 minutes of wondering why the bleeding isn't stopping I think "This is a load of bollocks" and strap the pad back on with a few plasters around the finger and then some gaffer tape over the top so it didn't shift around and I went to bed. Fast forward 3 weeks and I'm drunk again and I pull a load of scab and scar tissue out of my finger and bam, good as new with the caveat of slight nerve deterioration. It never occurred to me to get it stitched.

>7th grade woodshop class
>classmate does something with bandsaw and nearly cuts his thumb off
>later, I use bandsaw, which goes KERCHUNK!! and scares the pants off me
>teacher says its normal, bandsaw blade just broke
>makes no difference to me, I've been daethly afraid of bandsaws ever since

>>549645
I did this once, I was probably 7 or 8 at the time.
>be looking around abandoned mines / wasterock dumbs for pyrite and whatnot
>climb up old cement foundation
>see interesting rock about 50 yards away, on a slag heap
>be retarded kid
>jump off foundation without looking
>land on a board, hear a pop under my right foot
>suddenly, pain
>jerk foot up instinctively
>be free
>realize in horror that the pop was a nail in the board going through my shoe and into my foot
>fail to find aforementioned rock
>not a good day

>>549703
DRT?

buddy wanted to test some pepper spray. So we spray him the face with it. Hey it's not so bad.....AHHHHH. he runs and jumps inro the pool face first. Missed the water and lands on the deck. Here him screaming underwater. Laugh to hard to help.

>>549653
i saw the whole thing, im terrified.

>>552543
Dead right there newfag

>>549645
I had something similar happen to me when I was a kid, except it was a dismantled dresser on my kitchen floor, never felt the nail go in my foot, or come out.

>>552459
On steel toe-caps

I used to work with a fucktard who refused to wear steel toe-caps. He would always wear trainers. One day, he was unpacking a one-tonne pack of five-inch by five-inch by forty-two inch rubberwood, when the pack collapsed. He broke three toes, two of the bones in his foot and very nearly broke his ankle. He was fired for gross negligence (or maybe it was incompetence, good few years ago now). The same thing happened to me when i was wearing high-leg steel toe-caps and all that happened was some pretty hefty bruising.

It's not just the toecap that matters; the whole construction of the boot is designed to protect against those kind of injuries

>>552554
Ouch, I'm used to seeing "DOA"

>>552592
So I suppose FDGB is also foreign to you.

Got shocked when making a beige box when I was young and scared the crap outta me. Pretty boring.

Best story comes from a guy I met in the south. He worked as a commercial insulator, installed insulation on commercial stuff like broilers and stuff.

From what I remember of the story...

One place they could only access part of a boiler or something by going through the roof so they borrowed a scissor lift belonging to the client. They were only to use it to bring supplies up to the roof but of course when the bosses weren't around they would also used it to shuttle garbage/old insulation to the dumpsters. OH I forgot to mention, these southern geniuses liked to get stoned on their breaks as well...that parts important.

Well when the boss was out of sight our stoned hero started to ferry waste from the roof to the dumpster...with the scissor lift fully extended.

Hit a power line.
I think someone said he fell to the ground.
Almost died.
Lost both legs.
Lost wife (she was a huge cunt anyway).
Got paid a big chunk of cash from insurance or something...but not as big as you might think.

So yeah don't use scissor lifts when you smoke weed.

Accidentally dropped a large crowbar on a conveyor belt that lead to a wood chipper. Didn't have enough time to run to the control room to stop the conveyor from my end and the guys at the control room were like "uhh...which conveyor are you talking about?" since there were about 20-50 of them in the factory.

Anyway, a friend who was going around doing checks found it (without even hearing about the whole thing) and my ass was saved!

A crowbar in a wood chipper
1) Ruins the chippers blades, badly.
2) Stops the whole production line because there was only one wood chipper.
3) Requires someone to change the blades which takes about 30 minutes.
4) Makes small pieces of metal get to areas where they shouldn't be, causing more delays in production.

Was helping the stagecraft foreman with some final touches to a Inquisition-style rack.
He needed to cut some rope for the rack, he thought the table saw would do the trick.
The table saw is not mounted to the table in any way.
He holds the rope with his hand when he brings the blade down.
Entire thing jumps off the table when the rope is sucked into the back of the blade assembly.
No injuries.

I'm still surprised he didn't lose a thumb.

>>553019
Cutting rope with a table saw? Jesus, that guy sounds like the technical director at the theater I worked at.

>I'm rigging a spot line for a small prop that needs to float in from above
>tell the TD that it can handle like 20# but no more
>he says "WELL LET'S CHECK YOUR WORK THEN"
>now this guy is an enormous fatass
>starts running for the line
>oh shit he's gonna jump on it
>I try to pull it up out of reach but I'm too late
>300 pounds of blubber jumping onto my light-duty spot line
>EVERYTHING BREAKS

Then there was the time he lit wood on fire because he just kept leaning on the chopsaw with a completely dull blade in it, and the other time he lit wood on fire because he was fucking with my welding torch, and the time he thought he could into electricity and there was an electrical fire, and the time where he thought two pieces of tie line would be plenty suitable to hoist a batten with a drop on it.
None of these I consider "accidents" though, just pure stupidity.

>be 8
>diy-ing a hole to China innabackyard with neighbor kid
>digging like crazy, flinging dirt errywhere
>neighbor kid cuts off my nose with his shovel.

>>553026
That's wonderful. Sounds like our old director. Big man. Big temper. Colossal ego.

Lucky me, I'm one of the only vets in our theatre so Kasselbaum (Aforementioned stagecraft foreman) asks me to help out with damn near everything because his crew is a bunch of teenaged idiots. I've helped build the set for every production I've been in while his stagecraft crew sits around and hot-boxes the light storage room.

Three years ago we were building a cross for Jesus Christ Superstar and Sbordone (asshole director) decides that it doesn't look "period" enough, so he tears it down by one of the ropes supporting it up. He rips the rope off and the whole thing comes down on the platform that's about a meter high. The platform comes down and brings down the surrounding platforms while the cast tries to jump out of the way.
The cross landed of one of the actresses legs and broke her fibula.
He never did apologize.

>>553034
Ha, man I miss theater. Somehow television just isn't as exciting.

>>552352

Cutting Driftwood on a beach for a fire ; Drunk ; My Friend and I ; - I had the Bush-saw - he had the 3/4 Axe -
Axe bounced-off the hard driftwood into my right cheek-bone.
Impact spun my torso - but didn't knock me off my feet.
Friend pulled me back to see my face . . .
.
.
.
Nothing : the Axe had twisted and hit me flat-on - Barely even a bruise
Friend spun

Kindergarten ; Kids all had plastic shovels to dig in the Sand-pit;
But I knew where the STEEL shovels were in the Un-locked maintenance shed.
Long-story short : Split my friends head-open right on the top

>>553035
I... kind of want a picture of your face.

>>553130

>>552352
Lawl, dat juvenile rage.
> Also be a kid.
> Building billy cart.
> Nails and shit.
> Keep bending nails because I can't into driving the hammer straight.
> Run out of nails because fucked them all up.
> RageOf1000suns.bat
> Throw hammer at ground.
> Troll hammer bounces perfectly off its claw back at me.
> Hits me in the mouth.
> Front tooth through upper lip.
> Blood fucking everywhere, fortunately tooth not damaged.
> Baddest kid on block because blood soaked into wooden frame.
> Have little gap in mustache where whiskers don't grow from scar to this day.

That was the day I learned not to throw my tools (at anything closer to me than 10 feet)

>>549548
I'll share:

>vocational colllege
>in workshop learning some turning
>getting machine all set up
>get everything set, guards down, interlocks engaged and hit the power
>BANG
>shit myself, hit emergency shut-off
>hear clatter behind me
>bent-ass chuck-key on the floor
>get chewed out by lecturer

>couple of months later
>learning some vertical milling
>doing some passes, getting shit done
>BANG
>shit myself again, shut off machine
>wrench embedded in wall beside my head
>guy next to me left the wrench on the spindle and then turned his machine on at 1000 revs
>realize I nearly died, shit myself again
>guy gets severely chewed out by lecturer

>a few years later
>working in my shed
>got the angle grinder out
>somehow drop it
>lands on thumb and takes out a chunk
>amazingly it heals back perfectly

I have more than my fair share of luck, it seems.

Used to work on boat repairs in a club. Funking instructors were always funking suit up cos they were rich dopes.

So one of my near misses was trying to pull a piece of fuel line over a plastic fitting just a millimetre too big

Tried to lever it on with a nail but not having much luck. Finally get half of it on but the tension's intense and suddenly the whole thing pops and the nail bounces off my glasses (spectacles). Fuckin hell a huge hole right in my line of vision.

Would have been a bullseye with no glasses (well, a Charleseye).

Couldn't afford new specs so kept wearing them with effectively a crosshair in front of me.

Safety goggles ever since

>>552352
>be soldering a few weeks ago
>everything was fine, finished up and left
fast forward two weeks
>have to solder more
>soldering iron has been on for two weeks straight
>the metal has turned purple/blue
>whatever, don't need to wait for it to heat up
>grab it, handle is warm as fuck too
>drop it on the floor
>hits my foot and pants
>nylon.jpg

now I have a huge scar on my leg. 2nd degree burns suck

>12 years old
>using a wood chisel to carve out a channel for a ball to roll through
>some stupid school project
>no vice, just holding the work in my hand
>pressing hard and the very sharp chisel skips out of the work and buries itself deep into the flesh of my hand
>so much blood
>bandage self, parents never ask what happened

Still have the scar, and plenty of others. I didn't learn that lesson about properly securing my work until about age 25. Luckily no eye injuries, though. So much cringe from this thread.

>be me, last weekend
>building 8x6 backyard greenhouse
>out there stapling plastic
>one year old wandering around somewhere
>idksheissomewhere.png
>climb up ladder to staple plastic to roof ridge
>wind and plastic all in my face
>drop staplegun
>falls eleven feet
>lands directly next to child's soft, beautiful skull
>safely in the dirt
my face when i avoided murdering my only child.

>>553276
No kids on the worksite

>>553130
I'm not gonna post a pic, but It doesn't look like much. Tbh, it didn't sever it completely, there was still a quarter inch flap of skin right on the bridge of my nose. Luckily, it cut it cleanly right where the nose meets the face. A half inch further in and it would've ripped my lip and half of my face off. Half inch further out and I would've lost the tip of my nose.

It's a little crooked, and my septum is badly deviated to the left, but unless you really look close, you can't notice it. The most " noticeable" aspect is that the crease between my face and the side of my nostrils goes all the way up to the bridge. If I push my nose to one side or the other, you can see the stitch scars. 27 stitches inside and out.

>be me, 14
>chopped down tree
>driving wedge to split into lumber for awesome fort
>hitting iron wedge with fucking framing hammer with retard strenth, skill
n00bastits.swf
>chunk of hammer comets off
>buries itself in forearm
>bubbles twice, bleeds
>i keep working, go to wrestling practice later
>feel like boss

still have a chunk of metal there 23 years later. I can hang supermagnets on my arm.

Never finished fort.

>>553276
Builds character

>dicking around in my room making shit
>decide that I need to cut the bottom off a plastic tub
>plastic is decidedly thicker on the bottom and I can't quite puncture it in a safe manner
>decide to try an unsafe manner
>hold tub in between thighs
>grab knife with both hands
>drive it through bottom of tub
>great success, knife is driven through up to the handle
>waitaminute, why does my leg suddenly feel warm?
>big stain appearing through jeans
>release tub and knife to investigate
>knife and tub don't drop to the floor but instead remains attached to inside of my left thigh
>ohshit
>slowly pull tub/knife off my leg
>about an inch of knife comes out from my leg where it punctured through the side of the tub
>still no pain
>take off jeans
>leg is covered in blood
>oops
>patch myself up with creative use of bandaids
>never mention this to anyone out of embarrassment
>injury heals up without a fuss and is a nice, neat little scar that is hidden by my leg hair

Nothing too bad. I was changing out an RTD on a machine, I had to crawl down in a hole to get to the thing, so I wanted to sit the new one down while I broke the old one loose with my pipewrench.

Not thinking, I just stick my arm behind me to lay it on a flat spot near by and laid my fricken arm across a steam line. Touched it for all of a second maybe and it took a layer of skin off and bubbled out. Had to get some silvadene and bandage my arm up for a while...

>>553371
Knives into insides of thighs is major bad news. Jab in the right spot and you can bleed out in ~5 minutes.

>>553394
Indeed. It's the one time when me being fat was actually a good thing.

have seen someone accidentally go phase to ground with 2.4kv. resulting flash knocked him unconscious and burnt his face ( eyes saved by safety glasses) - scary as fuck getting him down and out of the bucket, luckily as it happened there were police about 200ft away and they immediately called the ambulance which got there by the time we had the bucket down.

im reading a LOT of really dumb stories. anytime you suffer head trauma you should go see a doctor. I will tell you my clients story to illustrate why.

client is mid 20s male at a show (band, drinking, dancing) with his friends. after the show, as everyone is slowly leaving, a fight breaks out in which my client is not involved. a partygoer was on top of a security guard punching him, and my client goes in to pull him off. being overly defensive, the security guard thought he was getting ganged up on. despite not having the proper license or training, he had an asp (a police baton). he whipped it around and it caught my client in the back of the head. he was unconscious for 5 minutes.

when he came to, a police officer indicated that emts were on the way and told him to stay laying down. however, because of another fight, the officer had to leave him. my client ran away because of an outstanding marijuana charge, and refused treatment. he went home.

several hours later he woke up in excruciating pain. his friends rushed him to the hospital. he was in hospital for 4 days, at which point he died.

>Time to learn how to weld
>Buy welding machine
>Rig up in my shed
>Middle of heat wave, work shirtless
>Weld like a boss
>Sunburn on my chest

>>553575
Head trauma varies extensively. Catching a punch to the jaw will hurt but will most likely not lead to major issues without the person knowing.

However if you ever lose consciousness you need to go to the hospital. Same with any symptoms of a concussion.

I've worked in the construction industry for 9 years and not had a bad accident yet or witnessed one ,however

>be 16/17
>shoveling sand out of 1 ton bag
>bag nearly empty
>yank bag to tip sand out
>back twinges and pain shoots down 1 leg (siatic nerve)
>in pain for about 2 weeks can barely walk or lie down without being in pain

This is where i made a big mistake I kept on working and didn't stop or take time off because I didn't know any better,my back has never been the same since it's really weak.trust me be careful when lifting heavy shit take your time and prepare yourself for it and if you have a bad injury stop and don't work till it's healed.

This year :

>grinding out 1 course of mortar on a brick wall
>don't bother with glasses because it's a 5 minute job
>later on I notice a black dot on my eyeball when looking in mirror
>no pain but it's bloodshot
>go accident unit
>they flick it out with a pointy cotton bud/q tip

Always wear goggles you only have 1 pair of eyes

>>549548

I had the hot soldering iron out on the table because I was working with it. I wanted to jot down some notes and do some quick calculations. so I reached for a pen.

the pen was hot. I had a scar for about 2 years.

>>551117
I left the key in the chuck. It threw my hand behind the machine into the metal backing.
I hit the stop button.
The key never came out.

>>552300
You weren't properly grounded. You only got 5v or so. Unknown amperage.

>need to fix leaking hot water tube in bathroom
>tube is behind ceramic tiles mounted on thin drywall
>first try with hammer, tiles break quite easily
>fuck this, just use my hulk-fist
>fist goes through tiles, satisfaction
>suddenly blood everywhere
Sharp edges cut me pretty deep, still have scars.
I stained whole bathroom in blood, and when my mother saw my bloody hand, she nearly passed out.
Still I regret nothing.

Art school fuckups:

In ceramics, lots of minor run-ins with fire. Burned the hair off my forearms, burned eyebrows, burned winter gloves (they disintegrate when they burn--nothing remains).

In sculpture, using a large, high quality wood chisel in my right hand to remove bark from a stump, sliced open my middle finger of my left hand. Scar remains. Still not sure how my hands got into those positions.

In metals, a few times I had a jeweler's saw or a coarse metal file slip off what I was cutting and into my finger. Aggressive files cutting into your skin is one of the worst small injuries. Another time, applying super glue, the cheapshit made-in-china glue tube split where I was pressing, and I didn't realize. Three fingers were glued to the tube. I spent an hour with an exacto filleting my fingertips loose.
Also I had some minor finger-smashing with hammers. But a guy my first semester crushed his finger really well once. Finger split open, fingernail fell off.

>>553943
Yeah, broken ceramic can be extremely sharp and should be feared.

>>553958
>I spent an hour with an exacto filleting my fingertips loose.
Christ man, use acetone!

>Be me
>be sanding door in old ass apartment building in downtown san francisco - about 80 years old
>sanding vertical (with grain), door knob off the door
>door knob hole lets loose into the sand paper
Here_comes_my_hand_at_mach_1.png
>lead paint encrusted 1" splinter just at thumb joint pad (between palm and wrist)
>Pull that fucker out, match to door face
OHFUCK, OH FUCK, OH FUCK!!!
2 3/4" MISSING FROM DOOR FACE!!!
Pic relooted.

>>554725
Door face.

>>554727
Just as a note, that 1" section was 1/2" in my hand - where witch pushing the 2 1/4 inch piece 1/2" in -- all the way up to my index knuckle.
>Surgery was scalpel and surgical grade pliers, me=poorfag

>>554728
Extracted pieces.

>>552600
DOA refers to EMT's bringing a corpse to the hospital.
DRT is when they skip 9-1-1 and call the county coroner and the persons emergency contact.

Fuck it I really like what I have read in this thread.

>>549653 = Tits
Working with heavy machinery now; backhoeloaders, dumptrucks, tractor w/pto and one with 3point - one fuck up around this stuff and thats it, anyways.

>be back in 2006, working in hot dip galvanizing shop in seattle.
>asshole cajun shop super babbles at me angrily all the time, can't fucking understand him.
>Pushed me out of forklift AS I'M DRIVING WITH LOAD!!! <Fork crashed into flat surface, stopped without catastrophe>
>Few weeks later angry cajun is tugging at two hangers full of parts that got tangled over the sulphiric acid tank, hangers come loose, parts splash H2SO4 all over him - I mean at least 5 gallons worth (parts on rack are skyscraper window washer platform anchor plates w/welded posts = 45lbs per part, hanger rack of 30 dislodged 2 feet over 25,000 gallon tank of SA.
>Strips clothes off.
>I'm spraying a old fat man with a garden hose, laughing inside.
>he was laid off and replaced the next morning.

This thread should be stickied so all the newfriends who come here seeking advice can learn about the shit that can go wrong before merrily bounding off to their potential doom. I have learned all sorts of shit about how not to do shit, and i'm 40 years old.

>>554755
ART is by far the best acro for emts.

Assuming Room Temperature

>>554777
Yea but thats water cooler jargod, DOA and DRT is friends and family friendly.
I,e,. semi professional terminology - or at least generaly accepted terms.

took a lighter to my hydrogen dry cell electrolyzer, didn't realize the bubbler was mostly empty which means it had room to accumulate hydrogen, i tried to test the gas production by lighting the gas line and a flashback occured causing the whole thing to blow, luckly most of the force was directed upward, and only knocked off the flashport, could of went down much worse, i didn't have to pull any PCV out of my torso, and just caused a loud bang.

>>549645

>Get home from school ( Grade 2 )
>Mother had dropped a glass and it had shattered
>Mother is in basement getting dustpan and broom
>Cold day so glasses blind me
> Walk into living room still blind but know way around house
>Step on glass and manage to cut middle left toe off

Only other accident is when I had been building some stairs at my cabin that go along the outside of the house and had used some cheap indoor screws to secure the stairs. 5 years later they had all rusted to shit and ended up breaking off the wall well I was walking down them. Broke my nose and leg from that one.

>>549548

>Working up north as a Heavy-Duty Mechanic
>First time using a u-joint puller
>Get under this Peterbuilt
>Get the joint caps unbolted
>Setup the u-joint puller and impact gun
>Pull trigger
>Suddenly I take a spinning u-joint puller to the face
>Get knocked out
>Come to seconds later
>Had to go to the hospital to get my face stitched up

Thing is like 20 lbs of steel that spun around in the socket of a massive impact gun, flew off, and hit me directly in the face. I haven't felt a hit like that since I trained in martial arts. The problem was I didn't realize that the thread was reverse-threaded, so I used the gun like you normally would when taking out a bolt. This caused the puller to instantly lock up since it was all the way out.

Here's a video of the puller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUA3MFRB9UU

>>549710
that guy was born unlucky... I mean drowning in parks mud puddle? Come on..

>>550982
That would be hydrofluoric acid that did the burning. It preferentially bonds to calcium, mucking up both bones and metabolic reactions requiring calcium. A guy here died after dropping some lab strength hydrofluoric acid on himself, despite immediately running outside and jumping in the swimming pool (mineralogical lab at a private home)

>>549637
Safety glasses, thank fuck for them.
>Highschool DT
>Completely shit at this stuff
>DT teacher has to go out alot, so kids everywhere aren't wearing safety shit
>Sawing a piece of wood with an electric saw
>Saw suddenly snaps off
>Sawpiece rebounds off my safety glasses
>Proceed to scream "DUDE DID YOU SEE THAT?"
>mfw I look back on that day and realize I nearly lost/damaged an eye
Probably the main reason I hate being near any type of metal/woodwork equipment today.

>>554774
hory shit
HORY MAFFUKKING SHIAT

>Driving the sweeper in slag reduction works
>Sweeping around the furnaces
>Sweeping around the piles
>Fuck yeah that's a well swept yard
>Furnace workers often take shortcut across slag pans, when it's cooled the crust is like concrete, still got to be fast though or you'll melt your shoes
>Some new recruit furnace worker follows them out across the pan on the way to break area
>Steps on a bubble
>Puts foot straight into molten metal
>Pulls leg back
>Foot gone

That was about twelve years ago now but holy fucking shit I'll never forget how he screamed. Grown man just fucking screaming and screaming, workers dragging him off the crust because it's too hot to deal with him where his is, don't even have time to put out the flames on his jumpsuit.

>>554882
>Furnace workers often take shortcut across slag pans

Duh FUQ?

>>554894
For the most part it is basically a few inch thick metal plate, aside from it being very hot it's not a huge risk.

No, the danger is the bubbles that sometimes form which may just be flaky shit that crumbles at the touch. Avoid them and it's just a brisk stroll across a heated path.

Not that I am recommending this course of action or anything and I certainly wouldn't do it myself but the workers all knew where to step and had been doing it for years.

As far as I'm aware it is now impossible to access the pans while in use at that plant.

>>554896
>the workers all knew where to step

Apparently at least one of them didn't.

I don't care who's doing it, that shit is dumb, as proven by the now footless worker.

>>552436
oh god leaving the key in the chuck, ive seen that go pretty bad involving someones jaw and loss of so many teeth

he didnt die at least

>>549637
Do you look like david bowie?

>>554814
Nah, he was a massive stoner. Except he couldnt afford weed or anything, so he'd do shit like huff laquer thinner. We had a stain room in that woodshop, with a bunch of fans in it to take the fumes out.

He went in there one time and opened a can, and didnt turn the fans on so he could hotbox that shit. He passed out of course, banged his head off a table, we found him at the end of class at clean up time like an hour later. That was one of his minor injuries though.

>>554882
Steel workers are a special breed of stupid. I used to hear a bunch of stories from them, and it always involved doing something massively stupid and injuring/killing themselves.

I was in some OSHA class once with a bunch of them. One guy was bragging that at lunch time they just put their lunches over the steel ladle to heat them up. The instructer is like "Thats smart, and all that shit boiling off the steel is going on your food, great."

dude is like "Nah dude, we put them in ziplock backs".

Instructor is like "Wow, thats good, because ziplock doesnt block air or fumes though does it?"

Entire room silent.

>>549710
In my wood shop i learned that most everyone totally ignores safety advice and notices. Before everyone used a machine for the first time, the teacher would explain to them what to do and not to do. 80% of the kids totally ignored him, and would immediately proceed to do exactly what he just said not to do. I'm sure most of these guys grew up to be the typical "I'M A MAN WIFF A JERB TO DO, I AINT GOT NO TIME FOR NO LEARNY TALKY BULLSHIT. OUT MY FUCKING WAY!!!" who ended up breaking their spine at age 23 and spends the rest of their life popping oxys and collecting disability.

I remember the teacher was showing us how to use a lathe and he's like "Ok once you get this thing pretty smoothed down with sanding....you're really not supposed to but a lot of guys like to run their hand up it to feel how smooth it is. Again, it's not recommended, but up to you if you want to do it. BUT NEVER TRY TO GRAB A PIECE THATS JUST ROUGHED OUT, OK!? NEVER!!"

Few guys even laughed like "Huh huh huh, who be dat dumb huh huh huh"

Sure enough first time one of them used the lathe, he grabs the piece he just roughed out with a gouge. Six inch splinter of wood goes right through the palm of his hand.

>>554882
Was looking to debunk this, but it is confirmed.

>"I recall accounts of a large smelting company which used to pour molten slag (excess by-product of the smelting process) into a large outdoor pit.
>"The top layer of the slag would cool and harden, becoming solid enough for a person to walk over the surface, However, the slag underneath the top surface would remain molten for an extended period of time.
>"The pit was open to employees as they walked from one part of the site to another, but they were aware of the policy that they were not to walk across the hardened surface, Unfortunately, this was the shortest route to the staff canteen from the main worksite and the policy was routinely ignored, Management also ignored the policy in their failure to enforce the policy.
>"Inevitably, one day, a worker was walking over the top of the pit when the surface crust broke, dropping them into the molten mix, Their body would have been vaporised in an instant.
>"The company made fencing off the pit area a high priority, ensuring that the “human factor” would no longer present a risk in this situation.
From http://www.careerdiagnostics.com/articles/46/1/What-is-an-Occupational-Health-and-Safety-OHS-System/Page1.html

I felt compelled to debunk this because the molten zink in hot dip galvanization operation does not act like you would imagine 860° molten metals would, its not like a cup of coffee, anything you can think of to put on the surface with intention of pushing it UNDER the surface, does not work out too well, think about it, this is metal only other metals are going to sink under the surface, the liquid metal gives non metals incredible buoyancy, and a metal part with ab air pocket of even a few cubic centimeters will pop with a report equal to a shotgun blast.

>>554945
Rant cont'd

I tried to submerge a glass coke bottle, a bit of wood from shipping pallet, while they immediately started smoking, the wood instantly burst into flames, the bottle sluggishly melted into the consistency of crayons in the desert neither were submergible (shovels are alwase tankside for shoveling escaped zink slag back into the tank, the metal shovel handles are with steel handles rather than the store bought wood/fiberglass type)
I watched one of my coworkers shovel a rat that had gotten its spine broke by a pallet skid into the liquid zink; fist the fur instantly incinerated, within 30 seconds there was a pile of charred bones - the yes tha rat was alive, yes this was pretty much a cruel thing to do even to a varmint but it was interesting.
Molten metals are really interesting, though technically liquid they retain most of their physical attributes of a solid dense material.

>Making wood things on bench top lathe in home shop and going back and forth between using live center and chuck for different projects
>fail to tighten chuck to headstock spindle fully and operate at highest speed
>Turn off lathe
>Headstock spindle and chuck slow down at different rates because physics
>ENTER BULLET TIME
>hear weird sound and notice chuck is unscrewing itself from spindle
>Male reflex mind says, "Catch that shit"
>Chuck comes off.....I attempt catch
>5lb solid steel chuck spinning over 5000rpm smashes hand onto lathe bed and jumps up over shoulder( thank neptune I always stand to the side of workpiece when powering on and off)
>hits shelf behind me and falls to floor.
>Drives itself to wall because its still spinning at high speed and climbs up about 18" before finally losing all its angular momentum.
>EXIT BULLET TIME
>middle finger feels numb but no blood.
>notice mangled tip
>Cue blood

I washed it off in the sink and it tuns out a huge flap was pulled up nearly down to the bone. It was a clean flap though and I just folded it back down and bandaged it up. Healed perfectly with no loss of function or scar. A friend of mine who is a nurse rebandaged it a party I went to a few hours later. I noticed the chuck had actually took a few chips out of the cast iron bed near where my hand was. I always double check the tightening and have no more reflex to catch anything that flies off of a tool or work piece.

A quote from a scene near the beginning of the movie Hamburger Hill when the Platoon Sergeant was talking to the newbies came to mind:
" This is Hahn. Those of you who are foolish will think of him as gook, slope, slant or dink. He is your enemy..... If you meet Hahn or his cousins you will give him respect and refer to those little bastards as Nathaniel Victor. Meet him twice and survive, you will call him Mr. Nathaniel Victor. People I am tired of filling body bags with your dumb f**king mistakes."

Stay safe everyone :)

I accidentally my whole head once, but then there was the whole thing - phone rang so i got off

I have a few stories/scars to share...
First: Be cutting wood during winter with circular saw, for the woodstove. Cold as fuck, wearing entire second set of clothes over regular ones. Few minutes in my hands are going numb, saw slips, jumps into my leg and jams. It's a full second before i process this and release the trigger. Cut clean through the first pair of pants and sock, caught in the second pair. It still cut through the second pair of socks and took 3 perfect little gouges out of my leg. One less layer and it would have been easily down to the bone, the cloth jamming the blade is all that stopped it.
Second: Have just bought cool little knife, spent the morning getting it nice and sharp. Using it to eat cheese in the van as we're moving furniture (I have no idea why this seemed like a good idea) and set it down on the door handle. Cue furniture shifting as we turn, we stop and I go to secure the load, putting the knife (which was point outwards and braced against the doorframe) down to the hilt in my thigh.
Pull it out, some blood drains but no real bleeding, yay hospital time. get ultrasound, no internal bleeding but the knife gouged the bone and traveled over an inch dull-edge first glancing off of said bone. left nearly invisible 1cm scar, couldn't walk for 2 weeks, muscle simply gave out when weight was applied, but the bone hurt for months.
(cont'd)

>>557201
Third: Be woodcarving at home, small fiddly piece of applewood so am holding it in hand. I have on wire/kevlar glove and leather glove under it, taking no chances. V-gouge slips, penetrates all of that nonsense and goes straight through my left pointer finger's knuckle and out the other side. Put it out, superglue+tape and all is well (disabled that finger for a couple days though.)
Fourth:Be working at McD's, coffee machine is borked. Turns out one of the water feeds has a jammed valve, little tab f plastic is supposed to pop out but is stuck. Being genius, I decide to pry it out with new sharp pocketknife, ignoring the fact that it is a wet greasy surface. It slips and I cut my pointer finger, left hand down to the bone less than a centimeter from the above scar. Put some tape on that shit and finished my shift, never went to hospital like a baws. Still have nerve damage in that finger.
Pic related is scars, first is nearly invisible line across knuckles and second is curved line on the right.
(cont'd)

>>557205
Fifth: Riding a bike to town on a rainy day, I decide the best idea ever is to bring an umbrella and hang it off my handle bars. One high speed turn later I am face down in the asphalt, with my chin gouged open and bleeding from both wrists where I tried to cushion the impact with my hands and skidded. Shrug it off and walk the rest of the way to town, clean out the gravel and bandage it when I get to the bank because they are hesitant to serve me until I do. The scarring keeps hair from growing on the front of my chin anymore.
Other notable scars include: A matched pair on the outside of each pinky finger (one from pinching the skin off the side when it got caught between a big sheet of plywood and a stud, the second from reaching into a waste bin and having a can lid slice right through...),
A permanent grey stripe in one fingernail from putting a screwdriver bit through it, two notable burn scars (Alkaline high-temp griddle cleaner and boiling caramel), putting a darning needle clean through my foot (had to remove it with pliers), and almost being eat by shark, though I wasn't actually injured there.
More stories Y/N?

>>557201
>>557205
>>557215
u sound like a rite silly cunt m8

>>557220
Well, I grew up on a farm. We were poor and over an hour from any kind of hospital on a good day.
That said, yeah. I've done some amazingly stupid things in my time.
/shrug

>>557234
after reading that i can only imagine you put the darning needle in your foot while you were darning a sock that you were wearing. had a chuckle. best injury i saw was a guy using a tungsten carbide cutting disc for alluminium 5" in a 1200w metabo grinder. grinder in onwe hand and work held down on the bench with the other, it caught and got thrown into his face ran up his jaw line from chin to ear nearly to the bone. the guard on the grinder was full of pussy flesh looking crap. pic related

>>557249
It was actually sticking out of a carpet I was cleaning, but I prefer your version.
Also, speaking of saws and flesh, I once had to use a chainsaw to get a horse to fit into a grave. It's one of the most gruesome things I have ever seen or done.

>>557253
>"I'm fucking tired of digging, get the chainsaw"

>be 18
>milling some Aluminum in my Dad's friend's shop
>milling machine is old but new to the shop
>not properly or safely installed
>motor starts up slowly
>decide to helps the motor get up to speed by turning the milling bit with a monkey wrench
>foot long metal wrench gets stuck in the milling bit and starts spinning quickly at gut level parallel to the ground
>power supply is sitting loose above the machine
>mash the tiny PCB mount button on the front of the power supply
>button is almost worn out but connects and the machine slows down

i was scared as hell afterwards, told no one

the owner of the shop bought an emergency switch too but it was not wired into the power supply yet

>>557263
>turning the mill bit with a monkey wrench
you wot m8

>>557266
If no one did retarded things "Because it seemed like a good idea at the time" This thread would not exist. Just saying.

>working on riding mower with coworker
>"Here, hold this starter fluid soaked rag over this intake"
>Do so
>yanks pull start
>lose all the hair on one arm, half my facial hair, and a few inches of head hair


>>549630
Oh shit. I do that with coat hangers all the time.

>>552295
If you have to ask either of those questions, I'd recommenced not doing this.

>>552459
>>552579
>steel toes
I'm jelly of people who can wear these and not be scared shitless, but I have heavy machinery around, and that's a good way to lose toes.
And I wouldn't trust steel toes to hold up to more than body weight.

>>557421
>And I wouldn't trust steel toes to hold up to more than body weight.

>>557421
fucking watch myth busters episode on steel toe you dumb fuck. They will save your foot in many many cases and if they don't, you had no fucking hope anyway.

there is almost no case where you are worse off for wearing steel toe

>be 13
>sharpening $5 dollar knife, swiss army knife replica
>edge bends backwards and slices ring finger diagonally across the nail bed
>fingernail grows in 2 layers but fused together with time

>be 14
>chopping wood into small flinders
>chop off 1/3 of the tip of my index finger
>everything grows back naturally

>14
>weird kid at school climbs a tree
>lol look at me this is fun shit i'm gonna jump lol
>foot slips, falls through branches
>both lips pierced shut by a branch with a tiny leaf jiggling on top
>all of my lels

>>557471
>>557475
Miss the heavy part?
Or the not be scared shitless? I currently have steel toes, but my next pair wont be.
Forklifts/loaded trailers/etc make short work of toes, id rather just have the crush injury.

>>557589
i can't see any logic in what your saying. i'm not sure if your a troll but 7/10.

>>557589
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UZrnM8fBuk oh look the first fucking result is exactly what you're ignorantly afraid of.

http://www.ehow.com/about_5385169_define-ansi-steel-toe.html


withstand a 75lb object falling three feet. Like if you were holding something and dropped it. You're nit lifting more than 75lbs comfortably all day.

withstands 2500lb crushing force.

Misconceptions
Testing has proven that a compliant steel toe is much safer than the alternative. The misconception that extreme weights will cause the steel toe to crush and amputate the wearers toes is categorically false. The weight required to crush a steel toe would also easily crush an unprotected foot, effectively amputating the toes. In most cases, the engineering of the steel toe causes the impact force to be redirected.

if it is enough to crush the steel toe, your foot would be totally obliterated without it.

wear your fucning steel toe. Fuck. Fuuuck. Goddamn. Wear your fucking steel toe. Not wearing it is also a get out of workers comp claim for your employer.

>>557649
>logic
Very well.

In theory, a car running over your steel toes would be fine. I'm certainly not going to test this, but lets go with that. (And my basic idea, like I said earlier, is I don't trust them for shit, which is smart. They're a safety backup, not something to rely on)

But let's say your typical car, three thousand pounds or so, can run over your toes just fine. Awesome, go for it.

Now lets take that 10,000lb forklift. I'm not feeling it. Seems a little sketchy. Or a loaded truck/trailer at almost 30,0000 pounds. Sure, it's just one tire, but we're expecting quite a bit more now.
Move on to the seriously heavy machinery:
Backhoes, front end loaders, metal refuse boxes just full of shit. Gets a little hairy.

I'll stick with composite. Lighter anyway.

>>557657
>The misconception that extreme weights will cause the steel toe to crush and amputate the wearers toes is categorically false.
I've had crush injuries. I'd agree, I can see how in most cases you're done either way. To a point. Because broken and crushed bones can mend. But not if they are locked in steel or removed from the foot. And all quality of shoes are different.

Like I said, I'll stick to composite.


>Not wearing it is also a get out of workers comp claim for your employer.
Not at all.


I really don't understand why you guys jumped on this so hard. I do not feel comfortable with them, composite will handle my needs. And based off what's been said, by the time steel toes fail I'm screwed anyway, why bother?

>>557662
I've had my foot run over by a car multiple times. Luckily the weight is dissipated evenly by the tires so only ~750 pounds is on the foot. the tire also has more surface area than my foot and they are designed to evenly dissipate weight. It was probably equivelant to a couple hundred pounds on my foot. It hurt but didn't even bruise badly.

Do the same math with a tractor trailer and that's less than 2000 pounds on each wheel.

I work freight and you wouldn't catch me dead without steel toes on. I've watched people's toes be crushed. There are injuries that they won't protect but there is no injury you can sustain to the toes that your foot would have been better off without a steel toe.

Even if the back end magically acted like a guillotine and cut off your toes, you'd still be better off because if they're not totally crushed, they can be reattached. If they are totally crushed and severed at least you won't be poisoning your blood stream.

>be doing a chemistry lab in uni
>accidentally stab myself in the hand with scissors
>leaves a neat scar
>TA in charge of lab just sighs at me as she passes over the first aid kit

>be biking on my way back from uni
>there's a downhill part just before getting to my house, it's a welcome break and pretty fun
>suddenly a dog runs out right into the path of my bike
>I hit it, I go flying
>next thing I know I'm on the ground
>I was wearing shorts so pretty much the entirety of my left leg is scraped to hell and covered in blood
>pick myself up, the bike is alright
>the dog is alright, it's just sitting there looking at me
>this old lady comes running from across the corner
>it's her dog
>I tell her what happened
>she bitches at me for hitting her dog as if it's my fault I hit it going downhill on a bike on a low-usage thin sidewalk
>I have neat scars on my left leg and patches where leg hair doesn't grow back

>be on public transit
>accidentally stab myself with my mechanical pencil
>in my reflexes, my hand draws itself further across and deeper into the pencil tip
>leaves a stinging flesh wound across almost all of the top of my left thumb
>not deep enough to need stitches or anything other than a muttered swear and a bandage
>leaves neato scar

I'm sorry I'm not hardcore, /diy/. I'm just retarded.

>>557662
it sounded like you were advocating no safety footware. Composite caps meet the same safety standard so, sure go ahead. That's fine. I thought you were like the dumbass earlier who was all hurt no safety toes for me. I'd rather have crushed toes than the toe cutting them off

>>549645
hahaha i have something so similar
>be like 7 or 8
playing on the monkey bars of my playgym thingy
>dumb child brain for whatever reason told me to put a rusty rake under monkey bars
>back to hanging, right when im over the rake i let go
>rusty rake goes almost through my foot, look down and can see the spike poking throuugh the top of my foot, but it didnt break the skin, just a bump there
>mom was on the phone while watching me
>the second she sees ti she says i gotta take my son to the hospital
>she comes over and takes the rake out
>here comes the pain
>here comes the blood
>at the hospital have to get a tetnus shot right up the whole
>dr asks if i can stay still and i sya yea
>he goes to do it and i start squirming, needed three nurses and my mom to hold me down
>didnt even get stitched up, was like a solid 1/4 in hole
>had to walk around with a whole in my foot for two weeks

You stinking cuntbags will argue about anything, then at some point some asshole brings up fucking mythbusters - shesh . . .

Anyway, >be a week ago
>limbing felled tree
>24" tomahawk
>all leather military boots
>Tomahawk deflects, slice boot (Just sharpened)
>Foot barely scratched
Everything_went_better_than_expected.jpg

>>557662
I don't know if that b8 & switch was intentional or if you're just dense. When you say "no steel toe", no one thinks "he must mean that he'd rather wear composite". They think you mean Converse.

Other than that, I pretty much agree that steel has drawbacks, like when working in -15°C. They may save your toes from crushing, but what does that matter when you'll freeze them off instead. I haven't used composites, but I'd imagine they would be a bit better.

>>557789
>lolmythbusters
It's like some people think they use special effects or something. Sometimes their conclusions are too far reaching, but if they show a flying lead balloon, that means a lead balloon flew. Deal with it.

>>549630
>centrifugal force
THERE IS NO SUCH THING

on

>>557923
Hue

Not an accident of mine, but back in school during a physics class the teacher was teaching us to wire a UK 3 pin plug. I'd already wired plugs before so no problem but this was a private school and some of the kids had lived quite sheltered lives. So anyway, I wire up the plug, cut a bit too much insulation off, not the best job in the world, but the lamp turns on.

So I'm sitting there waiting for the lesson to continue when BANG, all the lights go out and one of the bench sockets at the back of the room is smoking with two of the poshest kids (genuine toffs) looking really sheepish. Turns out they hadn't bothered paying attention or even read the work sheet, they had stripped about 4 inches off the insulation, couldn't remember what to do next and had just mashed all the wire into the plug top, closed it up and hoped for the best.

Next week we come back and find out that they had welded the plug top to the socket. This scorched socket is now on a wall mounted plaque in the physics department with the caption "Pay attention in class".

>>554882
I work with a guy who used to be an electrician in a steel works 40 year ago. He told me exactly the same story.

I've cut into my thumb trying to use a knife to clean fibers off a vacuum roller.

It as my uncles vacuum repair shop, many many years earlier he drilled THROUGH HIS HAND. Not battery powered. He has no insurance or anything so just bandaged that fucker up and went about his business.

Also, all those soldering iron burns and electric shorts. I don't like them.

>>557662
forklifts can weigh up to 20,000, a fully loaded tractor trailer weighs 80,000. you clearly dont even know what you are talking about.

>>554948
>the bottle sluggishly melted into the consistency of crayons in the desert

The other day I suppose. I was soldering and got a call from my girlfriend so put it on speaker. I moved my hand instinctively while talking to gesticulate, and brushed my eyelashes with the iron. By the time I smelled it I had burned an eight of an inch off the tips of all my eyelashes.

Steel toes are for robots.

>>557681
Closer to four thousand per whwel with one load we do.

Maybe im skewed cause ive healed well from crush injuries. They cant reattach crushed and severed.

>>557703
No, i jist dont like steel toes in certain situation.

>>557901
Not my fault they think that. To me that would mean hard toes.

>>557968
Yes, they cam weigh. But they range in size, some weigh barely more than a car.
And i never said tractor trailer, should have been more clear.

>>558008
Problem?

>>549548
had a circuit with potentiometer and led, no resistor between the two. was trying to determine which lead was which on the pot. slid the pot down to zero. led burned out. found it.

i almost lost an eye because of a girl with a dremel, i was working next to her she didnt have glases, y didnt had mine´s because i was doing other working with glue. she was using the wrong head for th dremel i guess and a red hot metal shard jumped to into my eye. i yelled rabid from pain and anger she drop the dremel and started crying.
i realized i was a big angry dude yelling to a small size woman(in college), so i try to calm her down still with the shard in my eye telling her that maybe it was nothing serious.
they took me to the hospital they checked my eye, they had to cut part from the melted eye that was caused by the shard and take out the shard.
i got lucky and didnt loose the eye.
and we ended being friends, she paid the medical bill as well.

Last Wednesday I got a replacement lamp for my dlp projection TV. I had replaced it and turned the TV on to test it. I then decided to get a computer duster can and spray around and get the dust away from the lamp ventilation fan. I didn't think. The lamp was so fricken hot that it ignited the propellant from the duster can and a small fire ensued within the ventilation vent. I pulled the TV plug and let it burn out and vent out. TV still works like a champ.

happened last week
>have old 20 foot tall one piece steel spiral staircase that has to go
>make a game plan to take it down
>decide best route is to cut off railing from loft then unbolt and cut at base 3/4 of the way through and pull down slowly with rope while my brothers support it and walk it out
>everything going smooth so far, got it down, now to cut it up like a fallen tree
>cutting, cutting, cutting with grinder and cut off wheel
>BANG
>slightly deafened
>searing pain in forehead and rest of face
>turn off grinder and see blade shattered
>feel blood running down face
>rip off safety glasses and run to bathroom
>bleeding from 4 spots
>largest on forehead
>1inch long by 3/4 inch long piece of cut off wheel embedded in my forehead
>pick pieces out with needle nose pliers
>clean with handy jar of whiskey
>put super glue on them
>back to work
>don't have any other cut off wheels
>break out saw-zall and metal blades
>begin cutting
>cut entire piece off
>next cut
>half way through
>saw-zall goes wild
>shoe broke and is flapping wildly
>shit trigger lock locks saw-zall into on position (AKA kill mode)
>blade snaps
>shrapnel hits safety glasses, puts giant gash into it
>piece goes into arm
>rinse with whiskey, seal with super glue
>give up for the day
>go watch Modern Marvels and polish off the jar of whiskey

Only really hurt my self once, got a hobby knife most of the way into my thumb.

I did have one bad day at work. They had just finished building a useless sunshade over the vehicle cleaning bay. The thing didn't hold up the shades, nor would they have blocked any of the sun. The shop charged the office $15k for it. Anyway, ran into it when a 70ton excavator. About an hour later I ran over a 3 inch water hose. No one would let me borrow a pair of snips, so I spent 2 hours trying to get an old hose clap off with a screw driver. About a week later, I was climbing into a wet bulldozer, boot slipped off the track and almost broke my shin on one of the blades of the track.

There was a guy that used to come into my store. At first his arm was all bandaged up to his shoulder and in a sling. Month later, the bandages are down to his elbow, can almost use his fingers. Bother asking him WTF? He was a chef for a catering company. End of the night he went to unplug a heating rack, he got zapped and his arm clamped down on the cord. Had to kick himself off the wall to unplug it.
It was another few months before all the bandages were off. 3 of the biggest, nastiest frankenstein scars from his hand to his elbow and a really cool tattoo.

>>558381
fucking wimmin man

The part of the cord attached to the soldering iron I was heating up (Almost done) was the littlest bit separated from the actual iron; A small drop of water in my leaky shed fell on it, and with the shock of the reaction, I drove the burning soldering iron almost through my hand.

>>557589
Speaking from watching what happens when a two-tonne pack of timber lands on someone's foot WITHOUT steel toes (steel toes here being taken to include composites with the same level of protection), I can fucking guarantee you don't want the crush injury. I'll take his screams to the grave.

>>557958
I've noticed that in Industry, these stories become a standard. For example, three that I heard:

>Dude working on a spindlemolder
>Hasn't made his jig correctly
>Timber snatches
>Throws his hands into the cutting head
>knucklesfirst.jpg
>Looks up at the wall
>"What's all that red on the wall?"
>Guy stood near him freaks
>Slams machine off
>Red was remnants of the guys fingers.

I've heard that in four shops i've worked in. The other three, I told it.

round two:
>Dude working on a ripsaw
>Ripping 2x2 into 2x1
>Igotthis.jpg
>Timber snatches
>ohshit.jpg
>Pierces him
>Pins him to the wall
>He died there

Again, heard this/told this in most of the shops I've worked in

Final:
>Dude working on a dimension planer
>"Nah bro, my baggy sleeves are cool!"
>Timber gets stuck in machine
>Reaches in to free it
>Sleeve gets caught
>Ohshit.jpg
>Machine pulls timber and his arm in
>Only manages to free his arm after machine's cut 3/4 off it.
>Screams
>Demscreams.jpg

Again, most shops i've heard/told this.

Surprisingly, the ones where these stories are traded on a weekly basis are the ones with the highest safety record. It reminds you what the machines are capable of. Then, not long back, we picked up the papers twice to see two incidents similar. I'll regale them in another post.

was doing kung fu in the stock room. punching on the cardboard boxes. watch got hooked on a metal shelf and snapped off. pick up watch and put in pocket continue doing kung fu, then realise blood splat here n there. investigate pic related.

>>558960
Continuation. The two stories in the newspapers:

Story one:
>Dude working on a ripsaw with (surprise surprise) 2x2 going to 2x1
>Timber snatches
>Pierced his stomach
>Hospital says the only thing that saved his life was a weightlifting belt around his waist that slowed the timber down
>Lucky bastard
He got fired for gross misconduct, if I remember rightly. Using the machine wrong or some shit.

Story two:
>Kid working on a metalworking lathe
>Killed
>Story was vague on how
>Speculation: Loose sleeves+chronic stupidity.

Don't fuck with heavy machinery kids...

I have a few more stories similar to
>>558960
if anyone wants to hear them

shaving hair off arm with new knife to test sharpness, wipe hair off blade with finger, super fine cut on finger, let the blood run for a bit then took a pic. pic related

>>557953
Had a similar thing happen. One day we were one extension cord short, so I've told one of my guys to make one from the scrap we had. Ten minutes later he comes back with it, puts it in the socket and BOOM it goes. After I've inspected it, it turned out that he had merged both wires and then split them up somewhat evenly in the fork. Had a good laugh.

>Talking with good friend at college
>"Yeah they called me Pikachu at my last job because I was fixing someone's computer and apparently the mains was exposed so when I grabbed some random power cable I got shocked and so they started calling me pikachu"
>Me: "Yeah that's a great story you wanna see how inductors work? Take this low-turn high-gauge inductor and lemme apply a voltage via the battery to show you how it becomes a magnet. Here hold it for me."

He doesn't wait for me to breadboard up some resistors to limit the current to somewhat-safe levels and attaches leads directly from the rechargeable batteries to the inductors

>Friend: "OH! GODDDAMNIT YOU BURNED MY FINGERS"

After he flung the inductor half-way across the room I stop laughing and say "Well I guess we're gonna have to call you Charmander"

Goddamn we were so cool

So I get one of my wisdom teeth pulled out and the dentist gives me vicodin. I've never used vicodin before; and in all honesty I've never used any prescription painkiller before.

So I get my tooth pulled and go to my afternoon classes at college. In the big break between classes I go hang out with the other electrical engineering nerds and decide to breadboard some super simple circuits.

I tell everyone that vicodin is pretty boring and that I don't feel anything.

5 minutes later I try to light up multiple LEDs from a signal supplied by some logic chips and nothing happens.

I ask one of the more educated people around me to help and they say "have you ever used a breadboard before? You just burned out the LED. You can't put all your LEDs on the power bus they'll just burn out since they all receive the same voltage."

In my drug-induced confusion all my LEDs were on the Vcc and Ground bus and I just killed 5 bucks worth of RGB LEDs because I was too high to know that wouldn't work.

The moral of the story is that drugs rule do them all the time.

>>558962
stories hey. i've got a couple similar from printing industry. very simple stuff you know, how to win a darwin award.

>guy using guillotine
>guy uses guillotine
>guy did not have his fingers clear of the blade
>tada

and the nastier one
>clever man has long luscious locks
>operating press
>hair is not tucked nor tied
>hair enters rollers
>takes scalp along with it

i think he died from shock

>>558963
Now you know how to clean the hair off a blade. I've done worse though.

>sharpened kukari
>"better clean and oil cheep steel"
>cuts hole in rag, removes finger tip

>>558977
Yeah, those are the stories that constantly get passed around. They're hilarious to tell to office-jobbers though, they go all pale around the gills and look like they'll throw up

>>549653
the sad thing is that someone died during the shooting of that

Nothing too major with me. Only one worth mentioning out of the hundred or so scratches, burns, scrapes, and cuts, would be me trying to cut up a bunch of bacon.
Daydreaming, fatigue, and a misplaced thumb meant losing a milimeter off the tip.
Went to hospital to get it cauterized because it wouldnt stop fucking bleeding. Must have nicked a vein or something.

Still, I've learnt my lesson. Now I find it almost impossible to cut my fingers while doing rapid knife work.

>>558977
I got one, passed on to me by my robotics teacher:

>massive pressworks
>lots of stamping and cutting going with these huge sheets of steel
>shift work in effect
>guys get paid on piece rate - the more they make, the more they get paid
>night shift workers figure that if they remove the interlocks that stop you interfering with the sheets while the press is still moving they can remove the waste steel from the machine and have a new sheet ready to be stamped in half the time
>every night these asshole would bypass all the interlocks and crank out twice as much as the day shift
>until one night
>guy wasn't quite quick enough and got his entire torso squished flat
>died, obviously
>entire factory shut down for six months, huge investigation went on
>factory gets up and running again
>machine gets refurbished, they reface all of the pressing tools on it
>can still see print of squished guy's torso where the blood stained the steel slightly

>Biking through a crosswalk
>get hit by car going 25+ mph flip onto hood
>jump off tell the stupid bitch to get the fuck off her phone and learn how to drive

a couple hours later after my adrenaline rush my entire left side felt...well like it just got hit by a fucking car

>>550910
>ATV
>barbed wire

There was a guy who was riding ATV's with his buddies in my local area a few years back and ended up severing his head clean off because they were going extremely fast and he ended up taking a taught wire straight to the throat at high speeds that he hadn't seen because it was dark.

>>551133
This takes me back. I always was interested in electrolysis since I read about it in elementary school. I'd sit and doodle rocket ships, jetpacks, etc powered by it.

Freshman year of high school I decided "Fuck it, let's make some and get it to pop"
>fill bucket with water
>take into garage
>shut doors - Don't want anybody seeing!
>make sure mom won't come home, and keep a close lookout through window
>ok, now add salt to water
>sure thing, increase conductivity
>ok, take a car battery charger
>insert the clamps into the water
>Shit... I don't want it corroding or anything
>get some metal plates to act as the submerged parts
>ok, turn it on!
Bubbles galore and I lit them with my mom's candle lighter. In retrospect, I'm fucking lucky I didn't blow anything up or suffocate.

>>558381
You better have had her pay you back in pussy.

>forged 4 sets of hinges
>pin is slightly to small
>"Fuck this, I'll just ream it out with the drill press"
>can't clamp the fucker
>hold it with one hand while I crank it down
>drill catches and spins the hinge, pulling my sweatshirt around the drill

I lost a sleeve, but I did figure out that using a vise and hand drill is much safer.

>>559381
Another one, this time from someone more idiotic than me.
>forging with friend all day
>using the O/A torch to heat small segments to bend and twist
>friend stops and fiddles with the torch a bit before going to diner
>Work for a few more hours before going to use the torch
>turn the acetylene on
>notice the pressure gauge reads 0psi despite plenty of gas coming through
>look at the gauge more closely
>the needle was behind the catch and was actually starting to bend around again
>instead of 0psi it was 150+psi
>wheel tanks outside and light torch hoping to burn off the acetylene before I went boom

It was an interesting few hours, not very much fun though.

>>559227
You see the same kind of marks in lots of old wood machines. Odd splatters across the surfaces; it's clear what's happened but you just don't ask.

>>559384
O/A newfag here, whats the thing here? He turned the gas off at the tipo but not the bottle and pressurised the line or something?

>>559400
The gauge must have stuck and when he fiddled with the valves to get a higher pressure he must have forgotten to turn it off. He must have also opened the tank most of the way.

>>549645
I stepped on a nail at work once. I felt it go in between my big and second toe, and stop against the bottom of the boot's steel cap.

>>559400
acetylene >15psi is unstable

>>559429
>>559461
noted. thanks for that.

>Britfag
>Bonfire Night
>5th of November
>Teenager
>Be at sisters house
>Showing off fireworks to nephews indoors
>attempt to demonstrate how the fuse works
>using a lighter on a firework
>demonstration very successful
>actually light the fuse
>oh shitt
>attempt to demonstrate how to extinguish fuse
>using wet fingers
>demonstration unsuccessful
>firework goes off
>first and second degree burns to hand and arm
>lesson over

>>558954
>I can fucking guarantee you don't want the crush injury.
I stated I prefer composites, not that I wear converse at the job site.

>>559318
Which one of you blew the stop sign/light?

bump because this thread should be a sticky

Grabbed a hot soldering iron.

>One of my keys on my laptops keyboard was going bad, the s key
>try and fix it myself
>only make it worse but it was already broken mostly
>end of making it far worse and have to replace entire keyboard
>individual keys are 5 bucks a piece from manufacturer

I am loving this thread. Pictures soon of 10 year old self with a one inch wide, one inch deep stab wound from a shower handle. Yes, a fucking shower handle.

Also, my girlfriend cut off all her finger tips in highschool metals. Was loading 4 foot by 8 foot sheet metal into cutter, some idiot wasn't paying attention and jumped onto the lever that closes the shears and cuts the metal.

>>554725

WHAT THE FUCK I FEEL YOUR PAIN AHHHH

Didn't happen to me, but to a friend of mine while I was at work.

> About seven years back, working in dog grooming
> One groomer was working on dog
> My friend walks by said groomer
> Said groomer's dog tried to bite her
> Groomer pulls her 8" shears back away from the dog and stabs my friend in her face right below her eye
> Friend passes out and we have to call an ambulance
> Friend gets stitches, is fine

I've seen all kinds of gruesome bites. There was one girl who got her finger all lacerated from a Malamute and I helped her clean out the wound before going to the hospital. It was pretty gross, you could see tendons and muscles.

>>559752
I was bitten by a lumberyard guard dog that had escaped and was roaming my childhood neighborhood when I was 3 or 4, and it then proceeded to maul my father.
The lumberyard had a hole in it's receiving gate fence that the dogs could push through on either side to come and go as they pleased.
We ended up suing the lumberyard for negligence and damages, and won the case. My arm was messed up for awhile and my dad had to get hundreds of stitches and be off of work for around 6 months to recover.

Not exactly a /diy/ accident, but related to being bitten.

I've only got a small one

>General Chem 1 in college
>working with crucibles and Bunsen burners
>get up to a few hundred degrees
>obvious safety rule is to not catch a crucible or its lid if it falls
>start working and of course my lid falls off
>instinctively grab it
>sticks to thumb for a few seconds
>probably lost my fingerprint for a week or so

I've got one from my teacher
>manager for a chemical plant
>workers are working with Sodium Hydroxide
>some falls into a guys boot without him noticing
>doesn't burn because it kills the nerves first
>guy goes through the whole day like normal
>finally takes his boot off at the end of the day >his entire heel is missing except for the bone

I climbed up onto my kitchen counter and fell off of it.
I broke my left arm.

The absolute worst injury I've ever witnessed was when a kid cut half of his finger off in the art room. He was playinch Chicken between his index finger and the giant paper cutter, so he'd hold up the cutter with his finger under it and drop the cutter. Eventually he wasn't quiet fast enough and it cut straight through his finger

>>559765
lel what
Don't they have special shortbuses filled with kids similar to him that all go to the local public high school and are generally separated from the rest of the student population?

>>559765
lel.
only guy in this thread I don't feel bad for.

>>559318
why are you biking on a pedestrian path? Asshole

>>559754
>We ended up suing the lumberyard for negligence and damages, and won the case

Now see, I kind of get this, but it depends how far you take it.

Something like that happens, and sue for time missed from work, medical bills, etc, sure.
But shit happens. If you aren't permanently bothered by it (IE, more than a scar) I really don't see the point.

>>559790
They knew about the hole in the gate, yet refused to fix the gate, and denied having more than two guard dogs, when they had 5 total.

Kinda difficult to deny it after one of their dogs escaped, attacked two people, and left my yard at the time looking like winter came early and spattered with blood everywhere.

I don't remember too much of what happened after, though what my dad tells me about it, the dog that attacked us got put down and the lumberyard was forced to both fix the gate more permanently and get rid of 3 of the other dogs they had on top of what they lost in the lawsuit.

>>559793
>yet refused to fix the gate
Unfortunately, everyone is human, and make bad decisions.

>Kinda difficult to deny it after one of their dogs escaped
Oh, I never speculated they could. I was just commenting that I don't really get it when people are awarded large sums of money past bills/lost pay (etc) for a little pain and no lasting damage. (If that is the situation, obviously I don't know the details)

>>559793
reminds me my neighbor is an asshole. His dog has dug into ourbyard twice and killed chickens both times. He's totally unreasonable to talk to, denies his dog is doing it, there's fucking the hole in the fence, I can look over the fence and see the dirt on your side man, and here's the dead chicken over here, and oh yeah, ibsaw your fucking dog in mybyard and chased him back under the fence.

gave up and called animal control so hisbdog can get marked as a dangerous dog, next time it cones over, I can restrain it and get it euthanized. Just drop some bricks on your side of the fence, fuck.

>>559796
I'm not even certain how much money we were awarded in the lawsuit, though I am pretty sure it's long gone to miscellaneous bills over the years.
The incident happened around 1995, so it's been just shy of 20 years since then.

>>559799
Of course. I was just commenting.

>>559798
>dangerous dog
>restrain it
Best of luck?
Thank god I live in Texas.

>>559336
oh i know that feel all too well. me n dad added a bit of salt, and some dishwashing liquid to make a fucktonne of bubbles

>>559755
Reminds me . . .
>Working for car dealership
>German owned
>says; resurface the shop floor
>100 or so gallons of muriatic acid
>Me wearing shitty boots with cracks in soles
>end day in excruciating pain, minor but painful acid burns on feet.

>>559798
Yep, texas here too, we shoot at strange encroaching dogs here.

Try and get ferocious with us on our property, squaring off and snarling
>POW
d.e.d.

>>559911
California dog guy here. We're in an unincorporated area and pretty wild west, but my one neighborhood is like a mini suburb so it would be dangerous. I have a couple enclosures I should be able to scare it into pretty easily. Its not bad around humans, or for barking, its just the digging into my yard and eating chickens.mm

>>559755
Your teacher lied to you, sodium hydroxide hurts once it gets past the dead skin layers.

On the subject of not being a retard and ALWAYS Wearing steel toe footwear in any tool/construction scenario -

>be me
>be 18
>working with brother in law
>labourer or apprentice type deal
>sub contractor to him
>assisting with digging up road
>first day on job
>bro in law unloads one half of manhole cover from truck (pic related)
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>I don't know what these weigh, 30kg+?
>his grip slips
>I watch, as the pointy end of the triangle slams into his foot with a crunching sound
>he's wearing fucking running shoes
>he hops around for a while with tears in eyes
>I ask if he is ok over 9000 times while I stand there like an idiot
>he eventually whimpers 'NO.'
>cue accident and emergency
>half his leg in a plaster cast
>lost his job
>I lost mine because he pays me
>Out of work for 6 months
>on disability
>No insurance, sick pay or severance because no steel toes worn
>mfw I lasted about four hours on my first job through no fault of my own

>>561149
Also,

>be me
>working with few guys helping to guide a pallet
>pallet is being pushed by 3 of us on a pallet truck
>pallet is loaded with bags of cement
>over a tonne
>pallet truck driver forgets to check all feet are clear
>other guy is distracted
>pallet fully lowered by driver onto other guys foot
>crunching sound
>other guy is wearing regular shoes
>he shouts and slams hands on pallet
>I tell driver to jack it up quick, his foot is stuck
>he does it
>guy hops around with one foot the size of Sideshow Bob's
>Mfw his foot is actually flattened and enlarged
>looks surreal
>work colleague starts singing 'Here Comes The Hotstepper' while guy hops around
>cannot help but laugh even though the guy is in agony and clearly has a totally crushed foot from arch to toes.

had a run one weekend.
>Put 2" staple through finger, thing bent out the side of the piece I was working on, in through the flesh, out through the nail
>Next day I was working at my grandfathers trimming the hedge, stop the trimmer, and lower it, blade was move just enough that when I moved my left hand, it went into the blade and got sliced, six stitches between two cuts.
Other issues
>Trimming flash off a PVC pipe, slip and get my finger pretty bad six stitches across the knuckle
>slip off a trailer, 18 stitches in my knee, 9 inside, 9 outside
>slip in mud, grab barbed wire fence, nice long cut on top of my hand, and a couple underneath, proceed to drop it into a cow pie trying to catch myself

I have a lot more I could go into as well. Most just stupid shit.

I got one I read somewhere. Probably here.

>be security guard at shop type place
>new woman engineer is working late
>making rounds later
>hear flap flap flap flap
>look in workshop
>apparently woman got wrapped around lathe
>it's woman's remains flapping against the wall
>tomato sauce sprayed everywhere

>>559332
Did he die?

>>561152
>>561149
I don't know the first case, but the second one the steel toe might just be crushed and guillotine the foot even worse, i think mithbusters did something about the subject once.

Not accident but

>be me
>shop class
>wire outlet at light
>teacher comes by with palm sander to see if it works
>powering sander on and off turns the light

>>549712
But on your eye

>>561332
they proved it was fake
the amount of force to crush a steel toe would take your foot off either way

>>558071
does that make me a cyborg?

>>561311
sweet god

>>557761
>still like 11 or 12

The tetanus shot you get after you do something stupid is for the next time you do something stupid. It doesn't go in the wound.

Friendly reminder to anybody reading (especially on this board) to keep up with those tetanus boosters. The shot they give you after you wind up with rusty metal in you does not protect you from what you just did to yourself.

>>561347
HRNGGG WHY

>>561466
if you have no vaccine history they will give you tetanus vaccine and tetanus antitoxins.

>>549710
I don't even know what to say to all of that.

>>553747
>The key never came out
oh god

One time I was trying to cut a power cable off of an old CRT monitor. I was using a shitty MTech knife and cutting TOWARDS myself (stupid...I know). I built up alot of tension and started sawing at the cord when the knife slipped, and went right into my sternum. I ended up with a few stitches, antibiotics, and a tetanus shot (the CRT monitor was from the trash).

tl;dr don't ever cut toward yourself, EVER...and use a sharp knife when cutting

>>549548
When learning about transistors and voltage regulators, I touched the metal part of one of those without any heatsink. It instantly created a gap in my thumb about 3 or 4 mm deep with the shape of the part I touched. Took a week and a half to completely fade.
pic related

>stabbed myself in the bone of my elbow with a box cutter
>cut open the back of my hand with a 5-in-1 (got to see tendons)
>split a fingertip to the bone with an angle grinder
>got cut on the cheek by a sanding drum that blew up on a dremel
>lit myself on fire several times
>dropped half of a 500 lb iron beam on my knee (two man carry, I dropped my end like a dumb ass)
>put my hand through a pane of glass, spent an hour surgically removing bits of glass with tools I had to make to do it with
>various smaller burns and cuts
>several electrocutions
>minor bout of forge fever before I knew the dangers of zinc

>>559752
I don't understand, why did the groomer stab her?

>>561722
the dog wouldnt bite a dead body.

durr.

Not diy, but here's an accident. Like >>553394 said, leg accidents can be dangerous.

>riding bike at around 12-13
>it's my sisters mountain bike, the suspension was really squishy
>my friend had one of the cheap-ass plastic ramps from wal-mart
>I decide to jump off of it
>pedal as fast as I can
>hit jump
>suspension bottoms out, I fall onto the grass
>feel like I just hit the pavement, maybe a couple of scrapes, not too bad
>look down
>my shorts are soaked with blood

Long story short, the brake levers on the handlebars went through my thigh, and missed my femoral by about 3 millimeters. I'm very lucky I didn't die that day.

>>554776
Honestly, common sense is really important but sometimes lacking.

>>561679
yeah and don't cut power cables with a KNIFE

>>561711
How old are you?

>>550935
>stop being a pussy
To this day, this sort of behavior gives me a man-boner.

Only shop related incident I've ever been subjected to happened to me while I was 16.
Was working in some place that strapped palettes of goods to be shipped to Kuujjuaq (Northernmost of Quebec).

I was holding a long piece of wood while this very old dude was using a nailgun. It wasnt a toy-r-us sort of nail gun. it was an oversized piece of screaming nightmare that landed 0.5mm by 15cm nails of pure hatred.
So, the guy got distraced at one point for a second and put a nail right over another nail. The nail went flying right into my left arm.

The god of teenagers wasnt smoking weed that day so it landed flat on my bicep. No ruptured skin but I had a kickass nail tattoo for three weeks.

>>549548
I dropped the scissors on my toe once, when moving house. It didn't hurt, but my nail was kinda purple when I got to my g.p. for a checkup.
By then I had no idea any more about the possible cause, but when the word melanoma fell my memory was suddenly refreshed.

>>553575
True, head traumas, no matter how benign they may seem like, should be checked.
I'm not saying you should go sit in an overcrowded room for three hours because you slapped a mosquito off your temple, but yeah...

>>554730
[quotefinger] unknown [/quotefinger]

That's rather unnerving.

>>554814
Most drowning occurs in less than 5cm of water.
Yep, like that dude, most drowning are drunk dudes in parking lots.

>>561738
>>561722
But seriously, the groomer either didnt see or didnt take into account the friend walking by.
The dog moved and the groomer took shears away as to not destroy the grooming.
Jerking motion + tool = someone need stitches.

Speaking of jerking motions, I had a teacher whose main superpower was to remain calm and unruffled no matter what happened. Never overreacted or jerked. I wonder if he had some sort of brain problem. You could stab him with a piece of white-hot metal and he would not react quicker than if you had called his name from across the room.

Cool guy still.

Stabbed myself through the palm when constructing a slingshot and electrocuted my self a wee bit on an unlabeled capacitor in labs

>>549712
>>549712
Ohgodwhy

Luckily I don't work with heavy machinery or anything, so usually it's just small cuts and burns.
To not ruin my desk I have a wooden plank for soldering and hot-gluing, on which I made a metal support to rest my soldering iron. One time I had to turn the board a little bit, I've always been very careful with the iron, so as usual I paid close attention to where it was before turning the board. So I avoided the iron, and grabbed the metal support I was resting it on seconds before...
And my friend told me a similar smart move of his, he put is iron on the desk, it rolled off, and in a reflex he grabbed it right on the tip, lol.

The most 'serious' accident I had was at work, assembling a computer... I had to pull out a metal covering to put in the DVD drive, so I wiggled it around a bit to weaken the joints, and started pulling on it. It broke off on one side only, and my hand slid along the inner edge, resulting in pic related.

>>549994
Made me remember something, a few years ago I was using my dads' angle grinder to cut through something, I was wearing my regular glasses but not safety glasses. A few days later I notice a spec on the right glass, right in the middle, I'm suspecting a tiny piece of metal hit it right where my eye would've been...

>dad worked in wholesale for construction
>giant steel bars etc
>one time, working alone
>bar weighing a few ton slips, crushes his arm
>he luckily is within reach of the crane control
>lifts it off himself, home for a few weeks
>still a pretty ugly scar

>he also told me a story about some compressed air cylinders they had
>one was put away uncorrectly or something
>it slipped off the rack and fell on its tip
>launched right through a thick bring wall

>uncle has worked for several big companies
>this one time, a job in a big firm where they make scanner equip for hospitals
>in case you don't know, these are electromagnets of several tesla
>someone left one of those little forklift thingies too close
>as in, within 40 meters
>magnet activated, it flies across the room
>pierces a coworkers leg and pins him to the magnet
On demo days they put a big nut or bolt on a thick cord, and turn on the magnet about 10 meters away. It slams through a 3cm piece of wood as if its made of foam.

>>549712

Only thing I did was I was using a Dremel, and one of my bits was picking up some paint, so in done bright corner of my mind, I thought I could clean the bit by turning on the dremel, letting it spin, and pressing a cotton ball with acetone onto the bit.... Needless to say, I got acetone in my eyes, and cotton everywhere. I felt pretty dumb

>open ps3 for the hundredth time
>had bought it ylod but fixed it with the normal heatgun fix, the fan however was still loud as a jumbo jet so I was trying everything I could to troubleshoot/fix the problem
>the only thing I hadn't done at this point was to remove the cpu heatspreader and replace the thermal paste
>heatspreader is in the most awkward position in relation to all the other pieces on the mobo, try everything I can to lightly and carefully get it off but it turns out sony are a bunch of dicks and fucking epoxied it TO THE FUCKING MOTHERBOARD
>after exhausting all other options, decide to try slowly cutting away at the epoxy with my favorite knife (which just so happened to be the perfect size to slip in there correctly)
>start cutting away at the epoxy
>noise
>pull knife out
>tip is gone, hadn't twisted it or bent it or stressed it in any way
>literally just fucking gone
>get pissed off, cut away at the epoxy some more for like an hour, gently pull it off with a hammer end when it is all gone
>one tiny piece I had missed was still there and it pulls off a small piece of the motherboard
>dead ps3
>stare at it for awhile
>come to about half an hour later with torn up ps3 pieces all over the room, hands hurt and have cuts in them, blood on jeans and shirt
It was a really weird day.

>>562050
This is called a psychotic break. It might be wise to seek the opinion of a mental health practitioner.

>>562050

Back in '09, I had an Epson printer that had been a faithful friend to me. It broke, so I spent a whiles fixing it. Got it all back together, with two new shiny cartridges. Cost me a whole bunch. First print, cartridges clogged the nozzle, printer said it was out of ink, then the carrier jammed.

So I smashed it with a hammer. Several times. Then invited my friend to also join in smashing it. Then it was a pile of shattered components and I felt slightly better.

Then I bought a new printer. That worked. And life was better.

>>562052 which brings me to this; probably not a pyschotic break, more the point of absolute frustration consuming you entirely. Either punching a PS3 to custard, or deconstructing an Epson printer with a claw hammer, sometimes we just have had enough of technology taking the piss.

>>562070
I've been there. I recall an incident from long ago involving dialup internet, a sound card, and 27 different variations of ~30mb driver packages. None of those 27 packages worked for the variant I somehow came to possess.

Do you know how hard it is to break a high-quality PCB in half?

>>562050

I know your feel on that one. I fixed a friends ps3 that had the yellow light, and it took me forever to figure out how to take the damn thing apart. I finally fixed the ylod, but after returning the system to the friend (after testing it, and fixing an issue with the blue ray drive), it got the red light error within a few hours of him getting it back.... Can you make a recommendation for fixing that?

>>562070
blacking out and waking up covered in blood surrounded by destroyed property is more than just frustration. Lucky it wasnt a human body torn to pieces there.

>>549548
Ask your mom.

Man all these accidents are gnarly as fuck. I wish I had some good stories.

>stripping bark off a staff for wifes tai chi shit
>also watching TV
>usually nick myself here and there on my fingers but w/e it happens
>just finish stripping off a long peice when her cat jumps onto the back of my chair, simultaneously startling my and jostling me
>drop knife
>lands point down in my ankle an inch deep
>fuck
>stare at it for about 10 seconds then pull it out and hobble to the bathroom dripping blood everywhere
>put foot in tub and reach under sink for hydrogen peroxide
>not there
>hobble back out to desk where the peroxide is
>hobble back
>slip on blood in the bathroom and fall on my ass
>whyhaveyouforsakenmegod.jpg
>finally, FINALLY get foot in the tub and pour the peroxide on it
>pic related
>wad up tp and put pressure on it until I get get my first aid kit
>do a bang up job of sealing it with medical tape and gauze, then wrap it with an ace bandage so I don't use it
It's scarred now, but oozed blood for a few days and was still sore for about 2 months. A medic friend told me I nicked a tendon and I was extremely lucky. Half an inch to the right and I would have needed some sort of surgery.

>>562136

Could be worse.... Buddy of mine told me about a time where he stepped on a nail while doing some farm hand work, I think. Went completely through his foot. But that's not the worst of it, sadly. They had to clean it, obviously. Best thing they had on hand? Bourbon, I think he said it was. They poured it on his foot. He said he never felt so much pain in his life.

>>552436
>primer
I destroyed a vacuum cleaner that way

>>549548
incredibly fucking stupid was me.
>be in wood tech
>use oscillating spindle sander on a small piece of wood
>wood slips and I sand the knuckle of index finger
>teacher told us to tell him if we fuck up
>"I was being a dingus and sanded myself"
>"nice. just get a bandaid or something."
>made music stand with adjustable angle.
>still use to this day.

>>549548
>working with my dad
>installing baseboards
>piece is a little too big
>he punches it in to make it fit
>punctures the webbing of his middle and index
>I only notice from the trail of blood he leaves as he moves on
>"dad your bleeding"
>takes wet caulking covered rag
>wipes away blood with it
>areyoufuckingkiddingme.gif
>make him clean his hand
>pour rubbing alcohol on it
>make bandage from gauze and electrical tape
>everyone asked what the black X on his hand was for week
>that's what you get for bleeding on new tile

>>561790
Just shy of 30.

>working with drill press
>changing out bits frequently
>flip on power
>immediately realize I didn't take out the chuck key
>RUN

Seems like a common mistake in this thread.

>>562136
>putting peroxide on a cut
Do you guys even first aid?

Peroxide and alcohol should only be used in circumstances where the wound was in contact with something dogy, because it's going to slow the healing process by quite a bit.
Warm water and soap is the key for most things.

I was in the trades for the last 10 years - carpentry, roofing, concrete-coring, fencing, and some other misc - and have a bit of a reputation for nearly killing myself. Some highlights:

- Cutting metal angle iron on concrete form system with a demo saw. Sparks caught my frayed hoodie on fire.
- Screwing in siding system. Bottom-most drip edge was razor sharp. Drilling with one hand, steadying myself with the other (standing on railing of scissor lift). Drill slipped, I fell forward, steadying hand slid along drip edge severing several tendons and a nerve in my hand. Blood everywhere.
- The fucking head-ache ball. It is named that for a reason.
- First time framing and one of first experiences in construction. Set up extension ladder to sheet side of two-story house. Set ladder on stray plywood on the ground. 15-18 ft up and ladder slid. Luckily I had a death grip on a rung and not the sides.
- Roofing condo. Ice and water shield (black, fiberglass, adhesive underlayment) can be slippery as hell. Sitting down to start shingling bottom row 3 stories up, 7/12 pitch. Nail my fucking glove to the roof, freak out, start sliding toward edge. Nail saves me. Heart rate: Resting->Maximum in 0.000001 sec. Did actually have a rope and harness but fuck swinging and hanging.
And lots more...

>>562222

...and right on the quads.

>>562239
I've always used peroxide, and even with that, small, clean cuts heal entirely in under 6 hours.
Stuff that goes down to the bone takes a week or so, though.

Also, I don't know of a single tool or material I work with that I would even eat off of. I'm just going to assume it's ALL contaminated with something I don't want in me.

>>562340
Peroxide is worthless as an antiseptic. You might as well just pour water in.

>>562356
>powerful oxidizing compound
>worthless
I have no interest in your armchair medic shit.
As many times as I've put myself back together, I'm inclined to believe my own experience over your words.

>>554929
>Wow, thats good, because ziplock doesnt block air or fumes though does it?
that's kind of their whole selling point.

>>562239
It's perfectly find to clean a wound initially with those. Cleaning with them during the healing process is where they slow down occurs. After that rinsing with water, no soap. Dressing the wound with honey and gauze does wonders.

>>562239
peroxide has always been my go to stuff. I never use alcohol on wounds though.

I was looking over my hands and got another story

>inna army a year or two ago
>voluntold to be concert crew for zz top concert on fort bragg
>concert finishes, we're moving those retarded black boxes around full of equipment in nearly pitch blackness
>my hand is all wrapped up in the handle since it's heavy as fuck and the ground is rough
>push it off an unseen ledge
>tangles my hand up and scrapes a square inch of skin clean off
>didn't notice, didn't hurt, didn't even really bleed
>end of the night,wash hands, suddenly HORRIBLE BURNING PAIN
>back of hand looks like some medical .gif
>think i can see tendons and shit
>go to ER and show the nurse my hand
>kicked out of ER and told to put a band aid on it (what the fuck right)
Took a long time to heal and it is still tender.

The concert was okay I guess, best part was hanging out near the trailers and seeing a woman sucking off a guy from one of the intro bands
>mfw she leaves the trailer and is wiping her mouth

>>562361
According to current understanding, it really is quite worthless.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/19/health/19real.html?_r=0

>>562361
Its better than nothing, but it isnt a proper anti-septic.
Rubbing alchol or soap and water would be better...
1. Thoroughly rinse out the cut
2. clean with soap
3. apply disinfectant
4. apply topical cream(Bactroban, neosporin, polysporin, etc...)
5. bandage firmly to keep edges of cut as close together as possible
6. seed medical help if you think the cut is bad enough to require sutures.

I split my thumb open while camping a few years ago and did that(ended up making it to the hospital 1 hour after the incident. Was in the waiting room for another hour) and the dr said that since i had bandaged it so carefully and made a point to line the skin up and apply pressure, there would be no benefit to opening it up and suturing it up.

Ok guys, I'm ready to go to work.

>>562511
Not without this you're not.

>>562513
Oh and don't forget these either.

>Dad bought a small piece of land outside the city
>Clearing the terrain with him
>"Ok son, let's set these branches and shit on fire"
>"Shouldn't we drag it over to that area that has no vegetation?"
>"Lol, no."
>No more than five minutes later we are battling the flames
>I'm getting first degree burns just by standing there
>I throw water over my body, it evaporates alarmingly quickly
>My dad is on one side of the fire and I'm on the other
>See him fall into the flames
>Run across the thick bush as fast as I can
>Desperately try to pull him out of the fire, barely manage to pull him for two meters or so
>The look on his eyes as he realized that I was too week to save his life by myself
>Neighbor comes and pulls him to safety
>I sit to the side of the land, my father laying on me
>20000 square meter terrain goes in flames like it was nothing
>70% of my father's body is 2nd and 3rd degree burns

>He just completed a month in the ICU and his second month in the hospital
>Every time he makes progress he falls back into a coma, or his kidneys start failing.
>I started lifting because I know that if only I was a little faster, a little stronger, he wouldn't be burned as badly.

He's taught me everything I know about DYS, and I'm not sure he's gonna make it.

>>562532
he didn't teach you fire safety thats for sure

>>562533
Yeah, he never did take safety seriously

I guess this is one of those times where you are supposed to do the opposite of what you father tells you.

>>562532
at least you saved some time clearing the land

>>562532
Damn dude, just damn.

>>562537
yeah, it'll save him some trouble when he inherits it soon.

>>549548
>making a snowboard with plastic bags and cardboard and nails
>jump on snowboard
>nail goes into foot
>took 2 years for wound mark to go away

snowboard didnt work in the end. broke half way through first test run

Sitting in my underwear, getting drunk off scotch, and soldering.
Was drunk and my balls were kinda peeking, who gives a fuck its my house i do what I want. but then out of nowhere I'm tinning a wire and it all just drips off and hits my sack, in a hot flash of agony.

Oh and a concussion while cutting a piece of plumbing and the person holding it down let go and it became a fulcrum of pain.

>>562595
>hot flash of agony
>fulcrum of pain
/diy/ poetry

>be at industrial school learning to use lathe.
>teacher says how to do.
>"My" lathe just been under repair.
>setup everything and starts. >everything is going well. until spindle starts wobbling and flies across room hitting some toolstands on the way and makes a small hole in opposite wall. >whole class shits bricks.
>teacher calls repairman and yells the shit out of him.
>no injury but close as hell as i was standing next to it as wheel flies away.

>>562595
See... that's why I always put the good underwear on when I do shit

>>561314
No, hes fine now. They just chucked his head in a jar of Gatorade (its got electrolytes) and they pour fish flakes in every now and then.

I fell 10 meters.
Im not fucking kidding.
All i got was scratches.

Never done anything severe, only a few shocks, touching hot things after I solder them, plenty of cutting myself with knives, and occasional heavy tool falling on my toes.

My wood shop teacher told me this story.

>be new wood shop teacher
>hear stories about old wood shop teacher

>one day he is on a bladed machine, working without any guards on because yolo
>sees wood got stuck in between two active blades
>attempts to remove the piece of wood
>goodbye middle finger and ring finger

He goes to the hospital and returns four months later almost fully healed.

>students be like "yo how'd you fuck up your hand like that"
>the man has the great idea of showing how he lsot his finger the my sticking his pinky in between the two active blades that ate his other two fingers
>goodbye pinky finger

I wish this was a lie. I had it confirmed by like 14 other teachers.