smig4373 Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 Got a really nasty paper cut last Thursday...... oooooo...there the worst.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 Nothing as bad as those above thankfully,but the timing of this thread is spot on as only last Friday,after over 10 years of Tradis panel building for housing/schools,I nailed myself.Was using one handed a DuoFast 90mm nailer while trying to hold a noggin in place with the other hand.Hand slipped up the beam just as gun fired,and nail must have hit a knot as it exited noggin out the side and into the top of my thumb,behind the nail,and exited that just above the cuticle.Mate offered to prise it off with his Estwing,but I declined the offer.Don't know what was worse,the penetration or the extraction. X-ray showed it missed the bone. Have also stapled myself to roofshield in the past,once.You don't do it twice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 You bunch of pussys ,. I was peeling the potatoes the other night , slipped and cut off both legs , gave the Mrs a shout to bring her sewing tin , she had them back on in a jiffy but the daft bint sewed one on back to front and I have been going round in circles ever since !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digger Posted October 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 Blimey, googled "nail through hand" to see if I should bathe it etc and this topic came up on page 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clakk Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 managed to catch my hand in a poultry skinning machine and yes it skins humans too.when i saw the bones of 3 of my fingers with no skin on cos it went in the chicken soup machine i went wobbly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonwolf444 Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 Not on site, but when i was seven or eight building a tree house i stood on a bit of 2x4 with a six inch nail in it wearing rubber wellies. Felt this thing slide into my foot panicked and shook and flailed my foot around wildly until the plank and nail came free. When i removed my boot i found i had made the hole much bigger in the process. Similar age trying to connect a caravan to house mains, ( seemed a good idea age 8 ) stripped all the wires back and began screwing them into the box, to get to which i was standing on a bucked that was balanced on the sloping roof of a coal bunker. Well it was a great idea except the screw driver shaft was rolled over at the end to keep the grip on and my hand was directly touching it. Anyway got electrocuted by AC, the only thing keeping me on the coal bunker was the fact that i couldn't move away from the box that i ended up shorting because of the AC current. My friend couldn't see or hear anything unusual and thought i was faking until after a minute he ran and shut the electricity off. Dazed and shaken i was alright after, but sometimes i do wonder if it had any lasting effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ME Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 I stepped on a piece of Lego once and a 3 pin plug another time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victorismyhero Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 @ you guys with the "nailer" incidents......to think they let you loose with a shotgun ....eeeeeeeek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 I stepped on a piece of Lego once and a 3 pin plug another time. You win, the 3 pin plug jobbie is worse than childbirth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team tractor Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 Any one else use one if those blue and white forward weight ergonomic Estwing hammers with the square head. Give a hell of a black thumbnail and split fingers when you catch something on down swing. Figgy Stop using mine as its horrible plus as said stupid square head hurts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team tractor Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 I was working on some fishing stages on the m6 toll when the hammer landed on my thumb and broke the tip of the bone. My dad come over to check I'm ok after leaving my hand in the lake for 10mins :( X ray showed break :( this was on Friday and raced a 2 hour moto duro on the Sunday because I'm hardcore:) I've broken both elbows at work .first time I fell off scaffolding and second I elbowed the spindle moulders bed :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeds chimp Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 broke and dislocated my finger at the same time....now its fused and cant put it right....loads of other scars tho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxus77 Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 can put a cracking pic up of my mates leg, fell off ladders five months ago from about 8 feet (not sure if i can use spoilers on this forum to hide pic ??) it looks like a really bad shark bite gone wrong when i was about 10 year old I got a 3 inch gash in back of my head after cutting it on a train hook messing around on some carriages, never realised had cut my head as was too busy trying to get my tongue of my teeth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team tractor Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 No injury but I was riping out an upstairs window once with out removing glass. I went out with it and landed on the Conifers while my mate held my feet still Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team tractor Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 screen shot tool Never made it as far as work on that day :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxus77 Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 this was after the skin graft a week or so later, wont put the really bad ones on Warning do not look if ya go green at the gills http://s382.photobucket.com/user/mobileman999/media/S410%20Classic/aftergraft.jpg.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 Ouch!, what did you do there Maxus? Had a bamboo splinter removed from my Iris when I was 11...... That hurt when it went in 3 pieces Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted October 18, 2013 Report Share Posted October 18, 2013 Jesus Beat me to it! Not fair I was stuck at work till 1am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_R Posted October 18, 2013 Report Share Posted October 18, 2013 I stabbed myself in the forearm with a tank cutter after the pilot bit broke out. A trip to A&E sorted that though what got me the most was it all took so long that I was feeling sick through hunger more than anything. I know a carpenter who had a slip while building a bar or counter and the end result was he shot himself in the chest with a nailgun. In both these cases, veins/arteries etc were just missed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dead-Eyed Duck Posted October 18, 2013 Report Share Posted October 18, 2013 Before I retired I worked at a large packaging factory at Preston. They had an operation there making wooden pallets. This guy managed to nail himself to a pallet using a nail gun, and the only way they could get him to hospital was by sawing off the corner of the pallet, and so off to A&E he went with corner of pallet attached to hand. When he came back to work 3 weeks later one of the guys asked him how he managed to do it. "It was easy he said", demonstrating with the nail gun. "I put my hand where it shouldn't have been, and accidently pressed the trigger of the gun. Like this ........" He hadn't put the safety on the gun, and so off to A&E he went again in a taxi with part pallet nailed to his hand. Forever afterwards his nickname in the factory was Jesus..... :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent Posted October 18, 2013 Report Share Posted October 18, 2013 Before I retired I worked at a large packaging factory at Preston. They had an operation there making wooden pallets. This guy managed to nail himself to a pallet using a nail gun, and the only way they could get him to hospital was by sawing off the corner of the pallet, and so off to A&E he went with corner of pallet attached to hand. When he came back to work 3 weeks later one of the guys asked him how he managed to do it. "It was easy he said", demonstrating with the nail gun. "I put my hand where it shouldn't have been, and accidently pressed the trigger of the gun. Like this ........" He hadn't put the safety on the gun, and so off to A&E he went again in a taxi with part pallet nailed to his hand. Forever afterwards his nickname in the factory was Jesus..... :lol: One very dumb guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCat Posted October 18, 2013 Report Share Posted October 18, 2013 Hand threw a window, cut 3 tendons an artery and a nerve. Not my best day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filzee Posted October 18, 2013 Report Share Posted October 18, 2013 The Estwing hammers take no prisoners we used to call ours Thor. I have been walking through a loft space on a job when i tripped on some cables which the sparky had left looped up and plummeted straight through the ceiling while the other lads were having a brew underneath. They found it quite amusing me just "dropping in". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zx10mike Posted October 18, 2013 Report Share Posted October 18, 2013 not bad but a 22lr through the foot and chainsaw into the shin bone gives it a run.pleaser don't ask years ago with pics i believe that gives me the lead so far sir Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted October 18, 2013 Report Share Posted October 18, 2013 I don't know whats worse...that gash in the shin or those elasticated bottomed trousers! Can't beat that I'm afraid...nor do I want to.Both look very sore,but not as bad as the opened calf muscle on a previous post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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