Injury thread

[Anonymous No.1336234]

Post your best (or worst) injuries from your favorite projects.

Just impaled my thumb with a wood chisel last night and hit a nerve. Waited 5 hours for the doctor to stitch it back up

[Anonymous No.1336261]

>>1336234
bumped my head a little

[Anonymous No.1336353]

>>1336234
>nerve strike
So how bad did you scream?

[Anonymous No.1336584]

>>1336234
Got fucking lead poisoning a few weeks ago. Was down a few days.

I am sure i been hurt worse but im tired

[Anonymous No.1336612]

>>1336234
I was building a shed with my dad once, a hammer fell on the crown of my head.

probs about 9 at the time.

Not a project but just work.
>Ramming a stem extender into a bike fork, no vice
>Crappy small hammer, smashing this exteder like the driver in drive.
>Security guard come from no where yelling. " OI ANON HAVE YOU SEEN PIRATRES OF THE CARABEAN?"
>Get distracted and smash my hand with the hammer and cant work properly for 2 weeks.

[Anonymous No.1336615]

>>1336612
DUH DUH DUN DUN DUH DUH DUN DUN DUH DUH DUN DUN DUH DUH DUH DUN

[Anonymous No.1336852]

>>1336353
No screams or tears, just several loud "OW"s as I rushed out to the kitchen trying to contain the blood because I had hit a vein too. Had to clean up the trail when I got back from the hospital

[Anonymous No.1336875]

>>1336852
You're a stronger man than I
And remember pressure closes all wounds

[Anonymous No.1337457]

was trying to hold a grinder in one hand, and the thing I was grinding in my other hand...grinder slipped and went right into the tip of my thumb

could have been a lot worse

[Anonymous No.1339315]

>Be me, 20, fuckin around behind an abandoned restaurant
>Find an old engine block cut open
>Gears spill out everywhere
>Decide to take one home to make "steel knuckles"
>Cut out shape, drill out holes.
>Decide to test if the size is right by sticking my hand in it
>Instant regret
>Try pulling off fingers, wont come
>WD-40
>Nothing
>Water, soap, ice, butter, KY, some weird automotive lubricant I got from my neighbor, and an hour later all I have to show for it is a couple layers of scraped off skin
>File away at it for another 45 minutes before remembering I have a hacksaw
>Sucessfully cut through gear into finger
>The most important one
>Throw gear into swamp
>Feel better

[Anonymous No.1339318]

>>1339315
Pic of gear. Hope you enjoy.

[Anonymous No.1339321]

>>1339315
This gear is likely under several feet of mud now

[Anonymous No.1339323]

I also once had a screwdriver slip and punched the business end of a sewer snake. The head was such that it left two wide cuts on top of my first knuckle. There is, visibly, slightly less finger on that finger than the same one on the other hand

[Anonymous No.1339335]

>>1339321
cut them finger nails you fucking bum

[Anonymous No.1339372]

>>1339321
Lol, you are a retard.

[Anonymous No.1339381]

>>1339315
You could have used the string method.

[Anonymous No.1339411]

>>1339321
>>1339315
>these are the people giving you advice on this board

[Anonymous No.1339425]

Follow up. Gotta pull the damn things out in a few days and pray that the swelling goes down. Hopefully don't have permanent nerve damage, but gonna have to wait and see

[/sage No.1339447]

>>1336234
Pastor Paul Sellers says to work the blade away from your body. Where you hand holding the wood?
That being said, I'm always slicing my fingers and hands a bit because my blades are soo sharp. I've learned to be careful when working the blades.

>>1336584
How did this occur?

[Anonymous No.1339891]

>>1339411
Geartard here, I dont come to give advice I come to get it lol you can see why

[Anonymous No.1339908]

Got a nice big drop of liquid aluminum in my boot.
That's what happens when you weld in retarded positions underneath a truck bed and forget to check your pants legs

[Anonymous No.1339921]

never again cup small items on table saw
>tfw never felt any pain nor when healing or when actually cut it.

[Anonymous No.1339923]

>>1336261
Walk it off puss

[Anonymous No.1339931]

i had something stuck in my throat

[Anonymous No.1340712]

Long time ago I cut my thumb off with a circular saw bad pic taken with an old phone years ago

[Anonymous No.1340750]

Was trying to cut a drill hole into a branch with a pocket knife - the kind where the blade doesn't lock. I was pushing down hard and rocking it back and forth, and I remember thinking "gee, this seems kinda dangerous" and sure enough, the blade snapped shut and I got 6 stitches in the side of my thumb. When it happened, I only saw the wound for an instant, it was mostly white. Grabbed it, wrapped it, woke up my wife who was sleeping 6 feet from the incident: "honey, wake up I need to go to urgent care". The nurse complemented my flap.

[Anonymous No.1340902]

>>1340750
>The nurse complemented my flap.
kek

[Anonymous No.1341759]

Stabbed myself with a dirty rusty fish cleaning knife. No stitches or Tet shot.

[Anonymous No.1341763]

Stripped bass have bony spikes on the fin on their back. Took one in the palm side of my left index finger. It slowly worked it's way through and came out the back side... 2 1/2 years later.

[Anonymous No.1341892]

>>1341759
>No stitches or Tet shot

Tetanus needs an anaerobic environment to thrive. Rusty metal alone, penetrating the skin, is not enough to worry about. If your knife was buried in soil and rusting, then you'd for sure need to get a tetanus shot.

[Anonymous No.1341933]

>>1341892
Still a good idea to keep up to date on your tetanus booster, though.

[Anonymous No.1341980]

>>1341763
That's mildly chilling.

[Anonymous No.1342038]

Doctor said to get the stitches taken out in a week, so I did it myself with a picket knife, some nail clippers and a pair of tweezers. Bleeding has stopped and I'm waiting for the gash to heal.

Don't stab yourself with a wood chisel.

>>1339447
>Where you hand holding the wood?
Yes

[Anonymous No.1342059]

>>1342038
Looking pretty good, can you move it?

[Anonymous No.1342315]

Use gloves.

[Anonymous No.1342365]

>>1342315
holy fuck

[Anonymous No.1342660]

>>1342315
How are you still alive

[Anonymous No.1342674]

>>1342315
Umm.... This is a blue board Anon. Reported

[Anonymous No.1342789]

>>1342038

I guess this is thumb injury season.

>go to cut the top off a bottle with pocket knife
>plastic deflects stab into finger
>think I just poked my hand really hard
>shake hand in pain
>friend says I am pouring blood
>"haha, very funny assho- oh..."
>tell doctor to skip the lidocaine because gotta go to work and I need my dexterity
>regret it fast

[Anonymous No.1342801]

>>1342789
Stitch it up yourself with alcohol hand sanitiser and a piece of rope in your mouth next time.

[Anonymous No.1342810]

>>1336234
>Be me
>Devise pipe bender with 6T bottle jack
>It's shit, but kinda works
>Stiff plate with ribs. 2 horseshoe shaped 2" flats hook onto plate. Jack in the middle
>I wonder if it will bend box section too
>It does
>keep pumping in the interests of science
>Flat bar slips, runs over my thumb which was holding the box steady
>Not enough clearance for thumbnail though
>Drip white death sweat engaged

Another but no pic
>Welder of 30odd years (Guy that taught my teacher)
>Doing a bit of stall maintenance on a pig farm
>Pick up a small scratch during job
>Feel a bit peaky next day
>Septicaemia
>Wake up in hospital 3 weeks later
>Both legs are off below the knee
>Doctors tell him it's a miracle he survived

[Anonymous No.1343587]

>Helping a friend to prepare some steel plaques
>Need to clean them up using a very corrosive chemical.
>”Be very careful anon, wear double protection on your hands”
>Clean that shit, it’s all shiny and looking brand-new.
>”all right, no accidents with the chemical, we were extra careful!”
>Remove protective gear, Take off the gloves and see pic related.
>WTF?!
>”Anon! Why didn’t you said something?!”
>I honestly did not feel a thing until about an hour after the burn became exposed.
> Now i have a chemical burn scar on my wrist.

[Anonymous No.1343593]

>>1343587
>>Need to clean them up using a very corrosive chemical.
What did you use for cleaning?

[Anonymous No.1343625]

>>1343593
Possibly just a very strong oxidiser like a permanganate, but that would etch the steel itself.

[Anonymous No.1345198]

>>1336234
Got 3rd degree all over my hand when I spilled molten aluminum

[Anonymous No.1345203]

>>1342810
>cringe pic

[Anonymous No.1345255]

>>1342365
>>1342660
>>1342674
I was touch and go for a bit. My obama care helped, but I had to wait a day to see a part time practitioner with a stained white jacket. He also, works at the Jiffy Lube Express. I think he got the two jobs confused because he said he has to order parts.

[Anonymous No.1345357]

>>1339321
HAHAHAHA YOU FUCKING IDIOT!

[Anonymous No.1345387]

>>1345198
me too. The plaster i was pouring it in was not dry enough and vaporsploded

[Anonymous No.1346041]

[Anonymous No.1346044]

>>1346041

[Anonymous No.1346046]

>>1346044

[Anonymous No.1347073]

>>1345198
>Got 3rd degree all over my hand when I spilled molten aluminum

aren't you supposed to wear special protective clothing when casting metal?

[Anonymous No.1347102]

The emergency doc was really cool and even posed it a few weird ways like this before doing temporary sutures so i could get some pictures.

[Anonymous No.1347113]

>>1347102

[Anonymous No.1347131]

>>1339931
When did you notice it?

[Anonymous No.1347134]

>>1347102
That's a neat doc.

[Anonymous No.1347148]

>>1347073
What a stupid question.

[Anonymous No.1347150]

>>1342810
Jesus, that second story is fucked up.

[Anonymous No.1347154]

>>1336234
>be me
>15 at the time
>safety manager of a dad gets me a carpentry job doing demo work for his golf buddy.
>young and stupid
>No safety glasses
>demoing a bathroom
>Peice of title cuts open my eye.
>14 stitches later and I'm good.
>pic related

Wear safety glasses

[Anonymous No.1347192]

>>1347154
Wow that's pretty freaky looking. Think you can get a better shot with better exposure and focus? For educational purposes.

[Anonymous No.1347195]

>>1339321
Fucking moron, you're supposed to have a flat side that presses against your palm or thumb muscles. Otherwise, you just break your fingers

[Anonymous No.1347211]

>>1347102
I can feel this, in my rectum

[Anonymous No.1347524]

>>1347211
that can be arranged

[Anonymous No.1347586]

>>1347154
does it obscure your vision at all?

[Anonymous No.1347739]

>>1347192
That's the best pic I could get.

>>1347586
And yeah it does. I'm nearsighted and can see better out of that busted eye because I had a prosthetic leans installed. Still burly tho. Kinda like trying to open your eyes underwater or when you get a bit of water in your swimming googles.

[Anonymous No.1347741]

>>1347192
>>1347586
This is another pic. Also the Dr said it is a merical I can still see yet alone have as good of vision as I do out of that eye because I had some of the worst damage to my eye she has ever seen. If anyone is in the Chicago area and needs eye surgery Dr Kernin is the lady who fixed me up. She is a goddess with a yellow jeep in my eye.

[Anonymous No.1347744]

>>1347741
Mate you fucking lucky son of bitch
Do not try to push your luck next time

[Anonymous No.1347745]

>>1347744
Checked

And yeah ever since then I'm that asshole who's always reminding you to put them safety glasses on. I got lucky and wish this on no one.

[Anonymous No.1347755]

>>1347739
you're so goddamn lucky bro

[Anonymous No.1347762]

>>1339315
>hacksaw
>not using a dremel

[Anonymous No.1347844]

>>1347741
freaky

a little wider and you'd have goat eyes

[Anonymous No.1347854]

my dad was cutting a slab of aged oak on a mitre bench in the late 80's and hit a non visable knot in the world, it tweaked and pull his hand into the blade and cut 3 fingers and his thumb to ribbons.

doctors repair it, but said he wouldn't be able to use his hand properly ever again.

he keep pumping his fist for months and his hand/muscles and nerves worked again.

[Anonymous No.1347874]

>worst injury
I wear PPE so I don't have any.

[Anonymous No.1347878]

>>1336234
Had a 10mm bolt from my car frame go into my left index finger when the frame fell on it.
Snapped the nerve.
It's grown back now but my finger is crooked from scar tissue and cant bend.

[Anonymous No.1347881]

>>1347878

[Anonymous No.1348143]

>>1347741
>Dr Kernin
Kim Curnyn?

[Anonymous No.1348187]

>>1348143
Yuuup. My dumb ass spelled it wrong.

[Anonymous No.1348251]

>>1339921
What were you cutting?

[Anonymous No.1348272]

>>1348251
13x13x60mm piece of wood, it god caught in blade and since it's was small piece I was holding tight, also pulled in fingers.
left thumb shaved skin to last skin layer 1x1 cm area, right thumb hit a lit bit nerve and somehow didn't cut tendon, but doctor could fit both his thumbs inside mine.
also while waiting for doctor, guy next to me, had cut off 4 his fingers with angle grinder wood chain disk, but they reattached them and came to check in.

mfw come home and first new video in subs is Matthias Wandel building push sticks and I find they are a thing.

Experience is important, never cup small pieces on table saw.

[Anonymous No.1348437]

>>1339321
Those would have been kinda cool though, had it worked out.

[Anonymous No.1349544]

>>1336234
ITT: People who shouldn't be doing anything more than drywalling with a dull putty knife.

[Anonymous No.1349713]

Stitches on the thumb suck, mine took forever to heal and it still hurts over a year after it happened

[Anonymous No.1349794]

>>1336875
Well... Not really. Pressure stops bleeding for most wounds.

Many wounds require stitches or adhesives to close them.

[Anonymous No.1349799]

>>1340712
How's the mobility in your hand?

[Anonymous No.1349892]

>>1336234
I was cutting a piece of black rubber piping for some project I was working on. I was cutting from the top down. Somehow, the blade slipped and it ended up twisting and cutting out of the rubber and into my fucking hand. It sliced from the top of my nail down to almost the first knuckle. Luckily, I ran and grabbed the superglue and patched that shit up. Healed up right and quick, no scar and no infection while healing.

[Anonymous No.1349893]

>>1349892
This was the tool I was using. I thought I was going to lose the nail, especially when I saw the blood coming from the cut IN the nail but I ended up being OK.

[Anonymous No.1350125]

>>1349893
of course the finnish tool will cut you