I’m new to DIY and finally had my first injury today (smashed my thumb with a hammer, nothing bad, but it’s gonna be black for a couple months). What’s the worst you’ve ever experienced?
sliced two of my left toes off
>>2862630Damn, I’m sorry to hear than man. You okay now?
This last few months pick up a stone without wearing my d ring belt back hurts now.
>>2862629>What’s the worst you’ve ever experienced?Went to /diy/ to read about interesting projects people are doing, but instead found a thread so dumb I permanently lost 20 IQ points.
>>2862629Gouged thumb with deburring tool when trying to deburr aluminiumI also solder, so maybe in 10 years I'll find out I've had elevated lead exposure
>>2862629Framing nailer through hand or nearly slicing off tip of thumb and two fingertips on an aluminum can.Ive had my fair share of electrical bites but those hardly count.
>>2862629>threading using a tap>it gets stuck>push it a bit harder>it snaps and I deeply cut my hand on the sharp broken edge
>>2862629Wasn't actually doing DIY stuff, but as I went in my closet with bare feet for something I tripped, kicked my cordless wet/dry vac really hard, and it lifted the toenail enough to bleed and fall off a couple months later.
>>2862629lost my arm 3 years ago at work due to someone else's stupidity
>>2862629Sliced open the skin on my thumb knuckle while being retarded; I was whittling a door's hinge crevices with a utility knife. Needed stitches because it couldn't heal when my thumb moved. Gushed blood on the garage floor
I now compare the price of the proper tool to the co-pay for an ER visit.
>>2862629>What’s your worst DIY injury?sliced a 1/16 in deep cut in my thumb from a bandsaw when I was about 11.forgot to wear my welding jacket once, and got a bad "sunburn" on my upper arm, smelled like cooked ham for about 2 weeks.
>>2862629Almost cut my middle finger on my left hand off at the middle knuckle with a table saw. Right through to the bone, had to get reconstruction surgery.
Compared to all the other injuries people have listed it was nothing, but about an hour ago, I smacked my eye wicked hard off of the metal J pipe under my bathroom sink while I was fixing it.
>>2862895Show stump or rump
>>2862629slipped and punched an endmill.healed fine but it's constantly itchy and I worry theres a chip in there.
>>2862629Probably the worst was when I got a piece of metal in my eye. I tried using the old matchstick trick to pluck it out in the mirror but I guess it was too deep for that. I just let it go cause every other time it's just worked itself out overnight and I'd pick it out of the corner of my eye amongst those crusties. Nope. Ended up super light sensitive so I finally saw a doctor. He used a tiny dremel thing to grind it out. Definitely can't do that myself.A recent interesting one was a puncture wound on my finger maybe a bit bigger than a staple but pretty deep maybe to bone who knows. No big deal obviously so I just taped it up. After my shower that night I was wrapping it back up and I guess the tightness of the tape made it squirt out like a squirt gun hit my ceiling and all down my bathroom mirror. It wasn't a lot of blood just got a lot of distance somehow. It was healed the next day even.
>>2862629hot chip burn into fingers on lathewrenched back moving a 2500 lb load that was lifted by an engine hoist2nd degree burns on arm from oil quenching and lifting part out too quickly so oil caught fireironically worst injury was standing on a nightstand to install curtain rod and falling through, cutting up middle finger when i reached out to stabilize myself in the fallit made a inch long gash along that finger that opened up wide and exposed a good amount of fat. bled a bit and drove to urgent care for stitches
i died
>>2863967Get well soon.
~16 years ago, cutting firewood, went to set a log on the stump and here's a black widow on a log some 2 inches from my thumb. I'm not allergic to widows, but I am allergic to the anti-venom used to treat their bites. As soon as I saw the little black bitch I slammed the log down back into the pile with panicked retard strength, breaking three fingers on my left hand. Felt real smart after that one.
>>2863800How’s that shiner looking today, anon? Can you even see? Kek
>>2863999Had a family member end up in the hospital for a week because of a black widow. We treat them like aberations of this earth. However, they breed prolifically so we are in a continuous killing spree. We all own bug-a-salts and put headlamps on. My kids have gotten proficient, 5, 7, 10. They go on the hunt without us now. Once I almost shot my wife in the face with salt so we wear cheap plast safety glasses now.
>>2862629i accidentally chopped a huge, clean gash in my hand with a fresh box cutter at the age of 12i was watching some anime while cutting a vitamin bottle, the thing jumped off of the plastic suddenly (i was applying a lot of force) and chopped my right hand, between the wrist and the lowest joint of the thumbthankfully, it BARELY missed the tendoni got used to the stitches and opening in my hand pretty quickly, and now it's a cool scar
>>2864167Lol, no I cannot
I just poked myself in the wrist with a box cutter carving some wood. I was hungry, angry and in a hurry and carved a piece of wood towards my other hand like a retard. Doing THE thing that everyone's dad tells them to not do with a knife. Luckily it went in parallel to the skin right between two bulging veins and only left a nasty looking half an inch gash in the skin. Honestly not that bad of an injury but wanted to share this cautionary tale with you anons. Don't be stupid like me.
>>2862629sliced my pointer finger near to the bone while whittleing a santa figure for my Grandma two years ago. almost cut my tendons but was able to make a full recovery out of it with four sitches.there's still a nice scar running though to this very day!
>>2862630Pics?
>>2863947I caught a wire brush bristle to the eye one time. I panic pulled it out and everything ended up being ok, but since it was at work and I was out of the country they had me fly home to see a US doctor. The worst part was the light sensitivity tho, that’s why your story reminded me of it, that can be brutal. Had to wear sunglasses on bright days for years after that. I’ve been told I still subconsciously squint/close that eye a lot.
>>2862629I had the corner of a tree limb clock me in the forehead a couple years back, the wife spent the whole afternoon trying to convince me to get stitches.She bought me a better ladder after that.
>>2862629I clipped about 1/8" off the end of my thumb on a circular saw when I was 12 reaching for a cut off instead of using a pusher stick. Mostly scared me more than hurt me. Bled like a bitch, but healed up fine.
>>2862629In the most glorious display of highly intelligent decision making I decided to wear sandals when a fat brick decided to come apart in my hands after lifting it. Smashed my foot real good, bloke in the ambulance was laughing the entire time.
>>2862629I got pummeled by a falling board because a wall wasn't fasted at the bottom >Building stupid 2' opening for storage in apartment building >Going from the in line with the hallway side wall to the stubwall adjacent the coin washing machine >Cut header board long so tension holds it so I can adjust the jack stud (only on the one side)>Kneel down to tap jack stud flush onto bottom sill plate of the existing stub wall>Bottom sill plate of stub wall not fastened down>Whole bottom sill moves 3/4" from light tap>Header board falls >Corner into top of head>Blood everywhere >Die>Posting this posthumously before astral form struggles to affect physical world
>>2862635Why do you need your dick ring to lift heavy objects?
>>2862629Burned my arm on the exhaust while cleaning my motorcycle. Didn’t blister or anything but there’s a large scar and it won’t go away.
Was sawing 2x4 aggressively. Last stroke broke through and my knuckle hit the 2x4's corner, gouging a chunk out of my knuckle skin.
Never anything specifically diy butSchool shop class they give you a square of plastic and a hacksaw and you make a keyring, had a cough for about 3 months from the dust.Didn't tidy up stood on a screw, had to unscrew it out of my foot to get the shoe off.Helping neighbor move, lifted something too heavy and put my back out. Now maybe every couple of years I sit the wrong way or sleep funny and I'm out for a week. Last time I tried to just push through it, pulled a hamstring getting out of a car, in bed for a month couldn't move couldn't sleep for the pain. Laugh about it now but that nearly got me. Just relentless agony.
Impact driver with a drillbit skipped and went right through the webbing on my hand between my thumb and index finger. A lot of blood
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got AIDS working on a job the same time as a carpenter...must have been airborne
>>2862629I'm pretty safety focused so I've been fortunate. But here are the 3 worst. >Rust got into my eye whilst under a car after our dropped from above and went past my safety glasses. Ended up slicing my cornea and had to go to the hospital to get the rust removed. Fortunately no lasting damage. >Grabbed a 6 in 1 decoraters multitool and ended up catching it by the blade. Giving me a pretty deep cut on the meaty part of the thumb. Healed though. >The worst that didn't end in an accident but could have was when the car slipped off one of the jackstands whilst lifting on a surface I knew I shouldn't have lifted on. Fortunately not under the car but scary how you can do fucking nothing once it stops moving.
>>2862629From yesterday>Doing a table in my wood den>Full of cardboard boxes from shit I keep forgetting to mail away>Put my trusty crayon red I use to edge where I need to make my cuts on top of a box>It rolls to the side and falls inside the box>Watch it go away as my neurons fail to fire>Tard rage engage>Punch the top of the box>Turns out there's metal pipes in there I had forgotten>Pipe digs into my hand>Rips the skin away>Bleed like a bitch>Can see the skin of my middle finger disconnecting from the muscle/tendons underneath>Panic>Waste several band-aids and toilet paper until it stops bleedingI prided myself for not being stupid around my power tools, but nothing can overcome my innate autistic urge to punch anything that annoys me.
I was prying on something with two flatheads, the one in my left hand slipped and ripped my right thumbnail offI puked and nearly passed out
I remember myself of another occurrence, not mine specifically>Be working construction>Working for a dodgy guy who wired us for a job>All fine and dandy>At the tail end of another regular day>Working the plumbing of a small garden while some other dudes work on the rooftop>Ears perk when I hear some metal screeching>Hear the most mexican DIOS MIO from some of the dudes in the roof>Some old spic falls from the scaffolding along side a bucket of concrete>Luckily for him it was just a story fall and landed near a left over sand mound>Turn out he was too old for the job and possibly too drunk too
As a dumbass 20 year old I was trying to save money and replace some component in my shitty fridge like a motor or a compressor or something and clearly out of my depth. I got my ass electrocuted to fuck and back and somehow dislodged naturally before I died. My roommates found me on the ground
>>2865724were you guys making glory holes by chance?
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>>2868357https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbGchfT3yMs
>>2863772oof. I touched the blade once with the side of my fingertip and my whole arm launched out of there fast as a sawstop before it could do real damage. I'm still probably a bit too careless but I make damn sure there the blade doesn't stick out of the material more than a tooth width.
>>2862629sorry to hear that m8, wish u a fast recovery.>What’s the worst (injury) you’ve ever experienced?burning my eyes with UVC while making a UV exposure box for PCBs which isn't even the right UV for what i was trying to do, photokeratitis is kinda scary to have especially if u don't know what is going on...the pain is akin to putting sand and soda (NaOH) into ur eyeballs and inside ur eyelids then rubbing it vigorously, but the worse part is slowly losing ur vision as the pain intensifies, true horror i tell u!!!my eyes were out for a month and ten days, the pain lasted for the first two weeks, sleeping is torture, going out into the sun or any bright light is suicide for almost two months.don't be retarded, KNOW UR UVs!!! ALSO LIMIT EXPOSURE AS MUCH AS POSIBLE!!!
>>2865101That really explains the quality of your posts.
>>2862629no injury, but it was probably pretty close yesterday>see an einhell promo with a 2.5Ah battery and a charcher given for free with selected tools>all my stuff is from makita, but decide to get another battery system to check out what oscillating multitools are all about, because it's only 60$, in case it ends up gathering dust>it arrives and it turns out the blades are installed with a hex screw, nonetheless everything seems really straightforward, just a power button and a RPM knob>screw in a wood/aluminum blade, pretty hard, but try not to overscrew it, in case it's cheaply made and something bends, considering the price>turn it on and it's really fucking loud>the second the blade makes contact with a piece of wood, the screw holding the blade starts unscrewing itself instantly, the blade then disconects from the magnet and starts to bounce along the screw while still spinning like crazy, milimeters from my fingers>managed to turn it off milliseconds before the screw gets completely loose and comes flying together with the spinning blade
I made a work-out machine but didn't think it through.It was a bench with attached weights that you can increase/decrease with a pin, and I tried it which got me in a position where I either hold the weight forever, or let go and the weights get down on my head.Had to balance 80kg of weight on my forehead in order to get out of the contraption which almost burst my head like those rubberband-on-melon videos.I have no pics.
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>>2863947Hot metal burns itself into your eye and sticks in there real hard. I've had a doctor scrape those out a couple times. The funny thing about those are that it can "embed" itself into the outer layer of your eye, stay in there rusting away and eventually the rust will fuck up your eyesight. Actually did have the doctor scrape off a tiny ring of rust off my eye once.Not using goggles is just plain stupid even if it's "just a quick job" tbqh.
>>2870062I always throw one of these on for any kind of metal cutting/grinding.
grabbed the wrong end of a soldering iron like 9 years ago. it was funny tho, you could make out the shape and direction of the cylinder from my fingers. healed up pretty well.
I was young and retarded, and I watched the wielding without any protection while helping one dude at the army. Couldn't open my eyes the next morning, and the pain was fucking insane, I scared shirtless that I'm gonna stay blind for the rest of my live. It healed all well but taught me a really good lesson.
>>2870166>shirtlessShitless, lol
>>2870167https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=qvFzizAoul4>He's trying to swear outright, but his translation implant was screwed with so others only hear G-rated versions
>>2862895Damn, story?
40,000$ down the drain when I DIY-ed a kid with my cheating whore wife, who left me soon after for living with another man.
>weld shit>glows>stops glowing>huh, guess its cold now>touch>burn handturns out metal is still hot when its not glowing, but i propably huffed too many fumes before to realise
>>2872669Steel starts glowing at 900f, for reference.
>>2862630My dad got a few off of his right foot, always swims in circles.
>>2862629Was messing around a TV in the 90's; got a big zap from the CRT that WAS discharged before I had taken it apart, but I plugged in in and turned it on for a few seconds to see if I had fixed the picture.So yeah after my left hand was numb for about 10 minutes and my heart probably skipped a few beats I decided that maybe I shouldn't fuck around with high voltage.
Chemical burn from skin contact with maleic acid. Must've contaminated myself somehow and only late in the evening, I suddenly felt an itch. As I scratched, I noticed what felt like a fat nipple growing out of my lower arm. It popped as I scratched it, and when I looked at it, it scared the shit outta me. Rushed to the bathroom, took a shower, changed all clothes, and applied cream to the area. Fortunately, it was only a small spot.
>>2864194>while cutting a vitamin bottlelol were you trying to make a homemade fleshlight or something
>>2865101*BONK*
>>2868411lol
>>2869721didn't know there were /fit/ posters here
>>2872806>at the age of 12>watching some animeof course he was
Working on an old cyclone gate, I put my hand on the top rail to move it to the side a little without looking. Ring finger popped between the pulley and top rail. Never would have thought there was THAT much flesh in one little finger tip.
