(May 27, 2019 at 8:22 am)onlinebiker Wrote: My worst one was as a machinist apprentice - I had a free floating drill press fixture grab and spin (850 rpm) and bash the shit out of my left hand. No broken bones -  but you can still see the scar - it caught the ring finger and pushed it outwards so hard that the flesh split backwards from the webbing almost an inch to the base knuckle.

Workmans comp for 3 weeks....

Other fun one - stuck my left thumb into a bandsaw blade - cut down to just nicking bone. Taped it up and went to my birthday party. No stitches. Left nice scar. Good party though. Worth the scar.

At work, I am always weary and paing attention to the machines. My first real employer told me "It is not when you are a newbie that accidents happen, it's when you develop trust in the machine and divert attention."

Saw blades, machined drills, etc... No talkie using those.

My husband has been working on machinery since he was a kid...from lawn mowers to mini bikes to cars to tractor trailers. Then he moved to factory maintenance. He and I together could not count all the injuries, particularly to his hands, he has had. He has fingers with little to no feeling in them any more and an X-ray of either hand reveals little bits of metal and gawd knows what else.

He left Pepsi after 25 years last fall and started at another factory. In pretty short order he was at the ER getting stitches to try to keep the end of one finger from falling off. Not long after he came home bleeding profusely from his other hand and said that I needed to fix it because he hadn't been on the job long enough to take the risk of another worker's comp injury. Super glue and some serious bandaging got him through that.

This doesn't include back injuries, burns, scrapes, bumps on the head, and a burn on his eyelid from some slag that flew off something he was welding.

(May 27, 2019 at 9:17 am)arewethereyet Wrote: My husband has been working on machinery since he was a kid...from lawn mowers to mini bikes to cars to tractor trailers.  Then he moved to factory maintenance.  He and I together could not count all the injuries, particularly to his hands, he has had.  He has fingers with little to no feeling in them any more and an X-ray of either hand reveals little bits of metal and gawd knows what else.

He left Pepsi after 25 years last fall and started at another factory.  In pretty short order he was at the ER getting stitches to try to keep the end of one finger from falling off.  Not long after he came home bleeding profusely from his other hand and said that I needed to fix it because he hadn't been on the job long enough to take the risk of another worker's comp injury.  Super glue and some serious bandaging got him through that.

This doesn't include back injuries, burns, scrapes, bumps on the head, and a burn on his eyelid from some slag that flew off something he was welding.

Many a 9 fingered machinists.... Punch press operators too.

I still have 10.

Yeah, I've also ground off a piece of finger (it grew back) in a disc sander, and had welding slag in my armpit. I have so many scars on my hands that the part number of a Volvo exhaust manifold that was accidentally branded into the back of my right hand is no longer legible. I was soldering some copper pipe under a house one time and when I rolled over to get out from under it, I brushed my arm against that tee, with the flux still sizzling. I spit on it and blew on it to cool it off, because I had to crawl 20 feet under the house to get out to cold water. Good times!

Most memorable burn - MIG welding - slag went into my left ear and burned a hole in the bottom of the eardrum. Painful and LOUD.

Weird feeling - air going in and out of your ear. It did eventually heal - some hearing loss....

(May 26, 2019 at 3:12 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:

(May 26, 2019 at 2:54 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Inappropriate touching?  

Tackling.

That's inappropriate.

(May 27, 2019 at 12:41 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:

(May 26, 2019 at 3:12 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Tackling.

That's inappropriate.

He enjoyed it.

(May 27, 2019 at 1:27 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:

(May 27, 2019 at 12:41 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: That's inappropriate.  

He enjoyed it.

♫Young love, first love...♫

(May 27, 2019 at 3:07 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:

(May 27, 2019 at 1:27 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: He enjoyed it.

♫Young love, first love...♫

Proper mating rituals end with more than just a broken finger...

(May 27, 2019 at 11:22 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Most memorable burn - MIG welding - slag went into my left ear and burned a hole in the bottom of the eardrum. Painful and LOUD.

Weird feeling - air going in and out of your ear. It did eventually heal - some hearing loss....

When I was in school (the school before highschool?) I was learning to weld with electric arch (old school with electrodes). I was doing it without mask and the teacher told me to wear it. I stibbornly said it was no problem. Boy what lesson I learnt! At night it felt like I had sand in my eyeballs!

So yeah, wear masks.