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Post by Big Blue on Feb 15, 2022 0:13:13 GMT
I’ve been building a walk in closet at home, so some wall alterations and a pocket door. This has involved a fair bit of plasterboard cutting. Every time I picked up the Stanley knife I reminded myself not to be an idiot, slip and injure myself. I wore gloves. All the boarding is done.
Today I sliced the tip of my thumb off using a vegetable slicer whilst preparing some lunch.
Fucking idiot doesn’t begin to describe it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2022 0:41:47 GMT
Sounds like it stings more than a bit, how much did you lose?
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Post by Boxer6 on Feb 15, 2022 5:51:14 GMT
Ouch!
I did the same thing last year and, because I'm on blood thinners, it took us nearly an hour to stop the bleeding! Dinner was ruined too .. .. ..
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Post by humphreythepug on Feb 15, 2022 7:41:09 GMT
My left thumb on the top left kind of goes down straight from the top centre line of the tumb as opposed to being rounded like the normal shape of a thumb, as I've sliced it so many times, usually whilst preparing food.
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Post by Martin on Feb 15, 2022 8:07:28 GMT
Ouch!! Thanks for not sharing any pictures....  |
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Post by Blarno on Feb 15, 2022 8:48:13 GMT
I did a similar thing years back, before we had kids, trying to make crisps with a mandolin slicer. Made some great thinly sliced crisps, but ruined them with big piece of fingertip and a lot of blood.
I also managed to slice a fingertip off whilst cutting plasterboard. Brand new blade as well, so it went through me like butter and the first time I realised I'd done it was when I saw the bloodbath on the floor. The worst part was I had a gig that night, playing guitar,and the injury was on my left (fretting) hand. About halfway through the set, I broke a string and it destroyed my makeshift dressing, gushing claret all over the stage of the bar we were playing in. Fun times.
Oh, then there was the time I sliced the top off a new tube of silicon when I was modifiying Graham the Vectra and the knife slipped, new blade again, and cut an inch long deep cut into my little finger on my left hand. Had to go to A+E for that one.
I have form in this department.
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Post by Big Blue on Feb 15, 2022 8:54:27 GMT
I think the issue was I was taking such care with the building knife that I let my guard down in the safety of the kitchen.
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Post by Big Blue on Feb 15, 2022 8:55:15 GMT
Ouch!! Thanks for not sharing any pictures.... I‘ll share pictures of the closet when it’s finished. |
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Post by Blarno on Feb 15, 2022 12:15:12 GMT
I've also lost chunks of fingers because of a turbo, a glass tumbler and a breadknife.
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Post by rodge on Feb 15, 2022 12:31:35 GMT
I’ve cut lumps off my fingers but nothing too serious.
I did almost lose a finger in a machine back in the 90’s and still have the scars to remind me.
I’ve probably been more careful with knives since then!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2022 12:59:18 GMT
We had an old guy in OT many yonks ago, he had used a circular saw without it's guard. For the second time, first time ten years prior but the second time he lost most of all his fingers on the left hand but he brought the fingers in with him in a gag of frozen pea's. He was expecting reattachment but the fingers were long past that and he had a Biers block, having to listen to the medic trimming the bones and oversewing skin flaps etc.
Luckily all I have managed to excise is bits of flesh.
Hopefully it will heal quickly.
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Post by ChrisM on Feb 15, 2022 18:23:56 GMT
I think the issue was I was taking such care with the building knife that I let my guard down in the safety of the kitchen. Ouch ! I believe that the domestic kitchen is one of the most dangerous places to be, as far as personal injuries go |
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Post by LandieMark on Feb 15, 2022 18:36:56 GMT
Had a ladder resting against an Acro Prop while I was removing a board from the prop next to it. The props were supported on concrete block piers about 4 blocks high at 2 foot spacing.
I got the board out, but it took out the prop my ladder was leaning on too. How I landed on the floor without breaking bones on the block piers I have no idea, but I ended up dislocating my middle finger on my right hand.
I got up calmly, put the finger back in and went for a cup of coffee.
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Post by PG on Feb 16, 2022 19:48:06 GMT
Ouch, ouch, ouch. Blood everywhere and I bet there was much swearing too. I believe it is a well proven scientific fact that swearing loudly in the most rude way possible actually helps with the pain. At least I follow that approach whenever I do something daft / painful.
My worst experience was working in a laboratory between school and university. I was putting rubber bungs into glassware and a piece of the glassware shattered. An extra nice jagged piece went straight through my left thumb and half severed the tendon. Apparently the cleaners had to wash the blood off the walls that evening - I wasn't there to see it as I was carted off to A&E. Still can't bend my left thumb properly to this day.
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Post by scouse on Feb 21, 2022 20:52:58 GMT
I chopped off the corner of my ring finger (including a chunk of nail) last year cutting up dog treats after I’d just sharpened the kitchen knives and repeatedly warned everyone in the house to take care with them..
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Post by Tim on Feb 22, 2022 9:11:27 GMT
I sliced a big chunk out of one of my thumbs years ago 10 seconds after I took a tin of corned beef off my mum and told her that only an idiot would slice themselves on it......
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Post by franki68 on Feb 24, 2022 12:54:34 GMT
Stop moaning ,such accidents never stopped Tommy Iommi
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