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mick

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I joined the "I did something stupid in the shop today and ended up in the emergency room club" today.
I was reaching and getting a skew off the rack when I dropped it. I grabbed at it with my right hand just as the butt end hit the top of the workbench and stopped it's descent to the floor. I "caught" it right at the base of my thumb. Unfortunately the part I caught was the freshly sharpened end! I thought to myself,"Crap that's gonna need some CA!" Needless to say upon examination I decided CA wouldn't do it and headed in to wash it up. Upon further examination I decided "washing up" wasn't helping and reluctantly headed off the the emergency room. By the time I got there I thought about heading back home as the bleeding had stopped....but it did look really deep so in I go. When they finally looked at it still no bleeding but they sent me off to Xray to make sure nothing was inside the cut. The xray tech took care of the no bleeding issue. By the time she got through placing my hand in all kind of unnatural positions there was plenty of blood. I ended up with three stitches and a Tetanus since it'd been awhile since my last one.
The next time I drop a tool I'll let it hit the ground...although my luck it'll probably cut my leg or go through my shoe...lol
Y'all be careful in the shop...don't join the "club"
 
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Sorry to hear about the mishap Mick. Hope it doesnt keep you out of the shop. If it makes you feel any better, I had the misfortune of pulling down the new overhead door on my garden shed and managed to pinch all eight of my fingers between panels and had to push them in farther just to get the door to go up and unstick me. Funny, I usually just pull the darn rope.
Hope your feeling better soon.
 
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Thanks for posting this. We all need to be reminded of the hazards from time to time. I'm glad that it wasn't any worse than it was. Three stiches is bad enough.
 
Mike,
Sorry to hear of the new club member. Let it hit the floor? I did that back in June and the skew bounced, did a flip and ended up stuck in my leg and gravity dragged it back to the floor and made a nice 3 inch cut. It wasn't deep and didn't need stitches but it may have gotten me into the"not bad enough for the ER but stupid anyway" club.
Do I really need to use a 1 1/2 inch skew on pens? I hope you heal quickly.
Do a good turn daily!
Don

mick said:
I joined the "I did something stupid in the shop today and ended up in the emergency room club" today.
I was reaching and getting a skew off the rack when I dropped it. I grabbed at it with my right hand just as the butt end hit the top of the workbench and stopped it's descent to the floor. I "caught" it right at the base of my thumb. Unfortunately the part I caught was the freshly sharpened end!
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Mick, sorry to hear of your mishap. Just be glad that was all the damage done to your thumb.

Somebody here on the Forum said they used magnets to hold their tools OVERHEAD so they were within easy reach.

That still sends shivers down my back since things do slip off due to vibration, weight, etc.. Can you just imagine where one would end up IF a skew hit you in the top of the head or down across the side of the face ... sharp end first! I doubt that any tool in the head would be comfortable ... might make wearing a hat difficult too! :eek:
 
All you had to do was post something like "Don't forget to be careful when you toss around your newly sharpened tools." You didn't have to actually . . .

Well I'm really sorry you got hurt.

Is the skew okay? (It's late)
 
Ouch, that doesn't sound like fun. The tetanus shot was a good thing, I think it is good for seven years. Hope you heal up quickly.
 
Tetanus booster

Actually CDC recommends a tetanus booster every ten years. Since I had a hard time remembering when my last shot was, I started doing "Tetanus on the tens". So when I turned fifty, I got a tetanus shot. The previous one was 7, 8, maybe 9 or so years earlier. I am using my age, but you could use the calendar year, i.e., 2000, 2010, etc.

Hope you heal quickly.
 
3 stitches only qualifies you for the "Junior" membership. Full membership requires either visible bone, complete separation or a minimum of 10 stitches. Please head back to the shop and get yourself qualified! :biggrin:

I have a back door to my shop so I can sneak out to the doc's without the wife spotting any dripping blood in the house!
 
Your incident very much reminds me of something I did when I was much younger. I was working at a saw mill that also did custom molding work for tongue-in-groove paneling etc. The owner of the mill had just completed grinding four custom molding knives and mounted them into the molding head. As he turned, he bumped the molding head and it fell towards the concrete floor. My instincts kicked in and I grabbed at the head which weighed about 10 pounds with four razor-sharp three inch long pointed blades. As luck would have it, I caught the molding head about a foot off of the concrete floor. Three of the razor sharp blades slipped neatly between my open fingers and the forth pointed up. I did not even receive a scratch. As everyone knows, God often protects fools, drunks and babies and since I don't drink and I wasn't a baby, I guess you know which category I fell into. The owner of the mill must have agreed with this assessment since his only statement was "You're a d%#@n fool". When I saw how much he appreciated my efforts I certainly felt like one.

Jim Smith
 
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Ouch, wait til that Tetanus shot kicks in. they always make my arm ache for a couple of days. sure glad the cut was not worse than it was.
Reminds me of when I first started turning. I was all happy about getting my told set up right at arms length. I made the rack for them so that the business end pointed up making it real easy to find just what tool I wanted. eventually I dropped a piece of sand paper or something and as I net down to pick it up I noticed this skew that looked like it had about a 36" cutting edge pass by. I realized I had been less than a quarter of an inch from having slammed my head right into the skew. It still sends chills through me to think how close that was to a horrible injury. I am really pretty fond of my eyes and the second one is really not meant to be just a spare. as somebody pointed out. God looks after fools. Tools stored edge down. I know this makes it hardt o identify what tool you want next but it really does not take that long to remember which slot holds which tool. and if you cannot do that you can always make a small peep hole at he cuting edge end of the holder so you can see just enough of the tool to tell what it is.
 
mick said:
I joined the "I did something stupid in the shop today and ended up in the emergency room club" today.
I was reaching and getting a skew off the rack when I dropped it. I grabbed at it with my right hand just as the butt end hit the top of the workbench and stopped it's descent to the floor. I "caught" it right at the base of my thumb. Unfortunately the part I caught was the freshly sharpened end! I thought to myself,"Crap that's gonna need some CA!" Needless to say upon examination I decided CA wouldn't do it and headed in to wash it up. Upon further examination I decided "washing up" wasn't helping and reluctantly headed off the the emergency room. By the time I got there I thought about heading back home as the bleeding had stopped....but it did look really deep so in I go. When they finally looked at it still no bleeding but they sent me off to Xray to make sure nothing was inside the cut. The xray tech took care of the no bleeding issue. By the time she got through placing my hand in all kind of unnatural positions there was plenty of blood. I ended up with three stitches and a Tetanus since it'd been awhile since my last one.
The next time I drop a tool I'll let it hit the ground...although my luck it'll probably cut my leg or go through my shoe...lol
Y'all be careful in the shop...don't join the "club"
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Sorry about the accident... glad it wasn't any worse. Three stitches doesn't seem like too much, the wife broke a dish in the sink a few years back.. it actually broke in her hand above the sink and one part hit her middle finger as it fell... when I got home from work.. I was actually on the way when it happened, she had been sitting for 45 minutes with her arm up in the air with a dish towel wrapped around the hand trying to stop the blood.... I dropped dinner on the table and rushed her to ER.... 9 stitches between first and second knuckle... and she still bled through the stitches... 'course she's on about 10 mgs of blood thinner.

All my tools are in a rack at the end of the lathe.. actually between the two lathes, with the handles down and the ends up, so I pay real close attention when I reach for one... so far (Knock on wood.....Knocking on side of head:biggrin::biggrin:) only close call has been a kick back on a skew that went through my hand and across the shop and landed under the work bench... fortunately, I wear a leather glove on my left hand when turning.. may have saved a cut there.
 
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3 stitches only qualifies you for the "Junior" membership. Full membership requires either visible bone, complete separation or a minimum of 10 stitches. Please head back to the shop and get yourself qualified! :biggrin:

I have a back door to my shop so I can sneak out to the doc's without the wife spotting any dripping blood in the house!
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This is good to know. I hope I never make the club! LOL
 
GoodTurns said:
3 stitches only qualifies you for the "Junior" membership. Full membership requires either visible bone, complete separation or a minimum of 10 stitches. Please head back to the shop and get yourself qualified! :biggrin:

I have a back door to my shop so I can sneak out to the doc's without the wife spotting any dripping blood in the house!
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Wow I guess I'm member. I'm glad you only required 3 stitches, take it from me it ain't that great being a full member of the dumb club DAMHIKT
 
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