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
