Bad day for fingers

[TrumpkinTheDwarf]

Ugh. This is worse than an @Greenhorn troll job. I'm out.

 

[The Hedgehog]

Well since we are playing show and tell my bad finger day was about 6 years ago now. Lost half my ring finger and flattened out my middle finger can’t tell in picture. Luckily they were able to save my middle finger. Mine were crushed in an extrusion mold that was locked in a cam track with an additional 2000 psi of nitrogen pressure View attachment 270326

Shocker!

 

[JDH]

Imagine what happens when the idiot pours the dishwasher tray full of Dawn. Anyone in the house shorter than 6' might suffocate on suds!

I did it once in college. Never owned a dishwasher growing up.

 

[Tussock]

Only a few years ago (about 1975) my best mate and I were bucking out a yard full of feral donkeys on his fathers farm. Mate had hold of this donkey up short by the halter while I had a handful of mane and was about to swing up. The donkey grabbed hold of my mates finger, reared up, shook him like a dog and wouldn't let my mate go. All I could do was grab hold of an ear in one hand whilst using my other fist to try to get the donkey to let go and stop dragging my mate screaming around the yard. The finger let go before the donkey did. It was just about dark but we found the finger in the dust and drove the 45 minutes to town. They couldn't save the finger. We were 15 then and are still best mates to this day.

 

[Pahoundsman]

I’ll add my picture of a bad day.Pulled off at the knuckle.

 

[AvidIndoorsman]

My shop teacher was missing a digit.
I wanted no part of shop tools then.
Go figure.

Same. Mine was missing a digit and had a fake eye.

 

[BrentD]

Same. Mine was missing a digit and had a fake eye.

Same guy that taught my shop class. He gets around! Musta been REALLY old when you had him....

 

[Caseknife]

Working at a gas station while in college, we had this old guy customer that sold firewood. Hadn't seen him for a while, but the next time he came in, the fingers on his left hand were all pretty mangled, all there, but none straighter than a dog's hind leg. Caught his hand in his log splitter, ouch!!! The guy was probably in his 80's at the time.

 

[choc dogs]

Saved it by …. That muchwiring a winch in on a sxs. Arced a screwdriver to the battery and frame. Remember in shop class when they told you to take off jewelry? Would have been a hellova story to have a permanent shocker from an electrical accident.

 

[Lyfter1013]

Shocker!

Haha ya buddy!

 

[nwihunter]

Saw a guy bury a skilsaw in his thigh. Back in the pinned guard days. mtmuley

Yeah that was my old man’s move too. He did the same thing back in the 70’s. His other move was running his utility knife down the side of a framing square to score aluminum coil stock and cutting off the tips of his fingers. He had the tips of the same two fingers sewed back on two separate occasions.

 

[rtraverdavis]

I’m in the club, also a casualty of a rope. This one while lashing a 40 footer to a dock cleat in heavy winds.

Same thing happened to my brother—lashing a barge in heavy wind. Luckily the doc was able to save his ring finger, but his pinky ring game was reduced by 50%.

 

[thusby]

Ropes and boats…. Oof

 

[Caseknife]

Saved it by …. That muchView attachment 272090wiring a winch in on a sxs. Arced a screwdriver to the battery and frame. Remember in shop class when they told you to take off jewelry? Would have been a hellova story to have a permanent shocker from an electrical accident.View attachment 272091View attachment 272092

Gold is a great conductor, cauterized it pretty good. That stuff happens so quick.

 

[Brauee20]

I tried to sever a couple with a table saw three years ago. Got incredibly lucky that one of the top hand surgeons in the area was the on call Dr. that day. Debrided, flushed and stitched it all back together on a rickety table in the emergency room because no operating rooms were available. Lined it up well enough it never had to be pinned.