I used to work in a car parts plant, saw a degloved finger because a guy kept his ring on and got it hung in a roller chain

It still makes me cringe thinking about it like 11 years later

I stepped on a DIP IC while barefoot and all the legs embedded themselves into my foot.

Worked in a gas station early 80s
Mechanic, tires, pump gas etc…
Watched and warned this idiot trying to bead a 16 inch truck tire on a 16.5 inch trailer wheel.
At 100+ psi it seated alright, exploded is more like it. Ripped his lower jaw off , destroyed the ceiling and light. Fucked up his weekend.

I was sawing up a pecan tree that was blown over by a storm and like a total retard I was wearing basketball shorts. I let it swing down in one hand, the chain got caught up in the nylon and dragged the saw into my thigh.

>>2959389
dude I went to high school with was using a cinderblock as a jackstand and it failed and crushed him while working on his pickup. guy was known for being fucking OBSESSED with pickups in school so everyone who found out had to stifle a laugh.

My sister's ex husband nearly had to have his legs amputated from chemical burns from wading around in wet cement for hours

>>2959389
Old family doctor (this guy came out and shot with us on weekends, worked in the wood shop, etc., family friend basically) told about a guy working on his push mower when he was drunk. Said he was sitting on the floor next to it, adjusting the carb or some such. When he decided it would be easier to pull it up in his lap to work on it, that landed him in the ER.

Guy I was working with did something we all have done before. Instead of unplugging the extension cord at the outlet, he yanked on it from about 3 feet away. It whipped out and stuck into his left eye, resulting in his eye being removed. Something that simple.

When I was a painter guy that was recently hired on our crew, older, trying to keep up. Decided to "jump" ladders fell about 10-11ft broke his spine. We never did anything like that before so I'm not sure why he did that to begin with.

When I was working for my dpw water, older guy was asked to change grinder blade. Put the wrench to change the blade on it but didn't unplug it, while gripping on pulled the trigger launching the wrench into his cheek breaking his jaw, eye socket and embedding it.

>>2959391
saw this happen at the landfill, guy hit the hydraulics on his dump trailer, pile of trash came sliding down, something caught his ring finger and off it came with almost all of the skin. it was gnarly

>>2959389
Dude that failed getting a Darwin award pulling with the chain hooked to the top link pin.
Poor fergy

>>2959393
I got one that stabbed itself through my thumb and hit the fingernail on the opposite side
Didn't actually hurt and only bled a little but felt uncomfortable
>>2959391
One guy at my workplace had his ring on while sticking has hand between two bus bars for a high power system, melted into the finger. He forgot his ring a few times prior as well for more minor things. Can't imagine he's ever forgotten it again after that, but he got fired so I'll never know.

Guy went trough an industrial wood chipper
His remains got scooped up from the sawdust pile along with some charred up wood chips
His mobile phone was set on fire during the shredding, battery started burning
They put the mush in a large plastic tub, his wife screeching in pain and horror.
He fell in trying to unclog a large board at the enterance of the chipper, a legit retard, he had a button to reverse the feeding mechanism by 10 yards if he wanted but he thought he was rambo or some shit idk
I saw the burning pile on the conveyor belt 15 feet above the sawdust shaker (wood chips and sifted sawdust mix), only later realized what the red stuff was
Absolute moron
From what i heard he went in feet first, so he did suffer for a few seconds, but the knives were heat treated D2, sharp as a razor, no idea how many rpm

That thread is painful to read
One time a coworker stepped on a piece of rebar or smth and perforated his feet
And I hit my thumb with the hammer

This one time i came to work drunk, didnt get to sleep off at all, drank water and tea praying to see the end of the shift.
Had to shit 4 times, horrid beer shits, one worse after another.
4th time the liquid was black, meaning i shit blood, and my asshole and the ass tube hurt when i stood up, constant pressure on the asshole to shit out something but there was nothing to shit out.

>>2960007
Loony toons tier

>>2959389
Engineering class at school when I was 14/15, this fat paki retard managed to stab himself in the fore-arm with a file. He was using the file on a piece of wood that was in a vice and had his arm resting on the work-bench right in front. Positioned like a total retard and obviously going at in like a total retard using too much force because it managed to slip forward enough to so straight in and lodge into his arm.

Fucking idiot then pulled it out and of course there was blood everywhere and the air ambulance had to come and take him to hospital.

>>2960045
>Fucking idiot then pulled it out

Wat? That's always the best thing to do unless you hit a fucking artery or something... Get that shit out of there asap. It's only going to hurt more later.

>>2960049
>unless you hit a fucking artery or something
How would you determine that reliably without going to a hospital?
And pulling it out just risks doing more damage.

>>2960049
Someone has seen too many movies.

>>2960195
There are only a few spots where you could potentially hit an artery easily. Wrists, inside of elbows, inside of knees and neck. The rest of the areas they are pretty darn well protected by meat.

Yeah if you cut your hand off you should probably go to the hospital. If you stab your forearm with a screwdriver you can make that call yourself by how deep it is and whether or not you wanna deal with the hospital staff and the resulting paperwork, insurance, bills, etc. The people that step on a nail and then tape the board to their foot and go hopping into the emergency room are retarded though. Pull that shit out. Make sure you are up to date on your tetanus shot and go on with life.

>>2959389
One time I stepped on a metal rake and it swung up and smacked me in the forehead just like in the cartoons

A few years ago a new guy doing some preliminary training on a milling machine decided to use his hand as a spindle brake. After cutting spindle power, instead of using the convenient brake lever, he grabbed the still-spinning endmill as it was winding down. I didn't see the extent of the injury, but by my understanding two or three fingers were partially detached. The doctors managed to get things put back together tough. Management realized that this guy couldn't run dangerous machines, but since being an idiot isn't grounds for termination, they put him in the tool crib for grave shift. He can barely manage that.

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Worst personal injury picrel. Was using a disk sander with a bad technique. Pulled my thumb in. Had to get three stitches in my nail bed. That was the day I found out that novocaine doesn't work on me.

Had molten steel from Plasma cutting burn through my boots, caught my jeans on fire, left my hammer with a rubber handle on a Plasma cut surface and it melted, didn't realize it until I grabbed it bare handed.

For near misses:

>Was shadowing the water jet operator. We clamp a 4' x8' x 4" stainless plate weighing several tons and rig it to the crane. He grabs the clamps for it, and checks my tightness, okays it. I ask him if there's ever been any crane incidents in this shop. He said there weren't, but in mid sentence, one of the clamps fails and the plate crashes to the floor and smashed the ways on the water jet. Found out the clamps he used had too much screw length and bent under pressure.

>I was working for a major robotics company. We had a two tier system for wiring and plugging in 220/480 robot controllers. You wire it in, and then get someone hired in (we were contractors) to double check you and plug you in. We would put our initials on the quality documents.
Some dipshit disconnected the controller from it's screw terminals with it still plugged in, so live male ends with 3P480v. I saw a bright flash and thought the rapture happened and I got left behind. He got demoted but still has a job there.

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>>2959389
My dad took his right pinky and a good sliver of palm off with a table saw building his house. I don't have a scratch on me out of fear of fucking up like that.

>>2959433
I had to check if this was me. I also saw an IC leg on the back of my thumbnail. Same thing where it surprisingly didn't hurt at all.

>>2959389
story from my fathers hunting and farming friends, not the worst but just funny. its real.
>one guy working his saw at home
>cut off finger
>oh fuck better wrap it up and drive to doctor
>on his way there remember he forgot to bring his cut of stub..
>call neighbour, explain situation, ask him to find it and bring it to doctor
>neighbour finds it, but what to do with it to keep it healthy and clean?
>he had heard putting it in your mouth is the cleanest healthiest enviroment for a cut of finger so he does
>puts his filthy bloddy farmers hand finger in his mouth and drive off
>first guy drive straight up to er reception at doctor, gets taken in that way
>other guy arrive 10 min later through main door
>ask receptionist
>"hwwm im dhhh ghhh mhhh mhghh..
>fuck it
>removes bloddy finger stub from his mouth..
>where is the guy who just lost his finger?
>receptionist faints over desk...

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>>2959389
Used to work as a finish carpenter on commercial projects during my summers in college. One dude cut a small piece of trim just a little bit too long. He went to go shave it down on the mitre saw despite the piece being well i side the fence. The saw immediately pulled his thumb into the blade and cut it to the bone. Hospital sewed him up nice and saved the thumb. He got arrested for groping a kid in Walmart a couple years later.

had a neighbor that lost both eyes when a chop saw blade exploded. He was mid 30s when it happened. must've sucked pretty bad.

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>>2960308
I tried to do the "step on the end of the rake" thing with the intention of catching it like Harry Potter with a broomstick, halfway into its up arc, just so I didn't have to bend over to pick it up.
So of course it got me right in the face and I felt like an idiot but nobody saw lmao

I was working a stuck log in the log splitter and it sprung back and crushed the end of my finger. Meat came out. I probably should have gone to the hospital. I taped it up and three weeks later it healed back almost perfectly somehow.

>>2959389
>Worst DIY accident you've had
I got my hair caught in a drill.

>or seen?
I didn't see the accident, but one friend chopped her left hand in half with a miter saw. Only has a pinky and ring finger left.

>>2960481
top kek I chuckled

>Dad cut through his knee with chainsaw when I was a kid. Wasn’t super deep but it was nasty as fuck.

>Met a disabled guy that severed all the tendons in his right arm. He was carrying something - maybe AC or HVAC related, don’t remember, and it slipped. Sheet metal edge sliced him from elbow to wrist down to the bone. Whenever I see someone carrying something by like.. putting their hand in a hole and grabbing it, I cringe thinking about that.

>Worked in a burn unit for a summer. Saw lots of fucked up shit, but not sure how much of it was really “DIY”. Although I guess the guy that installed bars on his windows and then couldn’t get out when there was a fire might count. Pretty much every campfire or grill accident involved alcohol or gasoline. Like historically too - I did a bunch of research something like 95% of campfire or grill related burns for the past decade were alcohol related.

I’m terrified of lathes.

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When I was a kid I was helping a neighbor put sheet metal on the roof of his shed when a piece slid off and cut the tip of of his nose off. When it happened he just stood there and blankly looked at me. I started screaming then he started screaming too. Idk why but I still laugh when I think of that, it was like something out of a shitty comedy.

Once his nose healed, it had a permanent flat spot of smooth skin.

>>2960622
these guys are both dead now but that specific story was used in media to explain how much harder country folks are, it was the doctor who told it then. its not really true people are not harder here than there, is just city folks dont mess with saws and dont cut of their fingers at random. but i give it to them thoose two boomers where the good ol hard style. if he had cut of his leg he would have driven to the doctor himself, if he had cut off his dick the neighbour would have taken it in his mouth to keep safe.

>>2960304
what do you mean up to date you're supposed to get jabbed for it regularly like some pet? only people who are at a risk of getting metal in them right like tradies?

>>2959391
>>2959413
can this happen with a watch?
casio bros...

Guy got stuck in one of these.
Cut up his back and sliced his legs. Poor dude bled out which took time.

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>>2960903
Forgot the pic

>>2960007
>going dick and balls first

My dad accidentally sliced his bicep wide open with a cordless circular saw. He had to get skin from his ass grafted on to his arm.

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>>2960896
>what do you mean up to date you're supposed to get jabbed for it regularly like some pet? only people who are at a risk of getting metal in them right like tradies?
I think most people get one when they're in high school or something like that. If you have an incident where you get stabbed with metal they'll probably give you a booster at that point in time.

>>2959396
Post scar.
>>2960481
That's legit a good friend. I don't know if I would be that committed.

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I guess it was when I was trying to DIY my dishes into a clean state in college, my heroin addict roommate had put a hairline crack in my drinking glass and left it in the sink.
that thing burst while I was sponging the inside and I noticed both sides of my sink quickly full with blood. Then I wrapped in in a towel and fell asleep with my weight on it. When I woke up the ER doc used not a lot of stitches because she was dumb and thought there was no hope of it healing correctly. Well it did and now it really blends in nicely with the rest of the skin

>>2960929
I think tetanus is good for 10 years. It might be worth getting even if you’re not in the trades, I hear lockjaw isn’t that fun. I got one when I got hit by a car like 10-11 years ago, primary care doc often asked at my annual physical, and my current job made me get tetanus and hep A/B vaccines, but that job is a trade job where tetanus makes sense. The hepatitis is just in case we share needles maybe?

>>2960601
Jeeez

>>2960896
Tetanus is absolutely terrifying which is why anyone who works on construction sites or similar should get a TDAP shot every 5-10 years
They're free
Not getting them and risking death for some retardedly skewed version of masculinity would earn you a spot ITT

I haven't had much shit happen but one thing that stuck with me. I was helping my dad putting up wallpaper in a small office. At one point my dad was cutting off the bottom edge of the paper and I walk behind him, his attention shifts to me and he just stabs the knife in his wrist in his moment of complete distraction.
Blood was spraying everywhere, it was really messy, I reckon I was more nervous about it than my dad but I was only 16. There was quite a bit of blood on the wall and floor as we tried to find towels, it's amazing how the blood just jets out of there.

In the end it was fine but I did feel like it was my fault for the longest time.

>>2960007
Is he ok now ?

>>2960481
I’ll take things that never happened for 100 Alex

Utilities company guy laying under a truck working on pto. Long hair got sucked into the spinning shaft
Scalped him

After reading circular saw stories on here I'm going to say with my hand saw for another decade.

>>2961314
>Utilities company guy laying under a truck working on pto. Long hair got sucked into the spinning shaft
>Scalped him
Wtf. Why would you have the pto on?

>>2961328
Didn’t ask him….

>>2961316
Been using one for 40+ years, no problems
Go gotta be smarter than the saw to use it

>>2960007
I used to work on one of those, still have nightmares that the fucking thing is somehow loose and chasing me.
Im from serb side of bosnia, worked at one after hischool. We sent some packed up scrap logs and someone 10 people took a shit in a plastic bag and sent it because they knew it was going to a lumber mill in croatia.
Half a year later, i'm back working at the same chipper and we are no longer sredding scraps that we put on the conveyor belt by hand (the loading platform and belt start before the metal detector) but put it directly, same type and parameter packaging type they sent a bag full of shit in, directly on the wide direct belt, bypassing the metal detector because the chipper went troug nails as trough butter.
Then the ground shook and the chipper started roaring like a dragon in video games.
I pissed myself a little but i ran so fast i got out of the industrial zone and almost ran into the highway.
When i came back, we learned it was croats that sent us half of the packages but one had an axe in it, wrecked the shredder.
Instead coming clean about the bag of shit, we complained to the boss that he made us bypass the metal detector and this is result, we cannot risk this for sake of speed, now we have to repair the chipper, thank fuck we had the technical drawings and a week later some machinists made the exact same things, got new bearings and it was running better than before.
So we notified another lumber mill in another town on the other side of the country that they ought to put a concrete log inside their package for croats, it goes trough the metal detector easy.
Our driver was in charge of the prank, was his idea was the shit bag in the first place, he made sure the same lumber mill in croatia got the concrete one and their chipper was bigger and they had to use the metal detector no matter what.
It wrecked their chipper as well and they didnt complain either.
If it was any other country, i believe it would make the news

>>2960304
>and the resulting paperwork, insurance, bills, etc.
That's exclusively an amerimutt problem though.

>>2961314
Baldbros we gucci.

>>2961388
Balkans are wild as fuck.

>>2960195
arterial bleeds bleed in spurts
venous bleeds bleed in a constant seep

both can be life threatening though
a minor arterial bleed (in the scalp for example) can be non-life threatening
arterial bleeds are often more serious because the arteries are generally deeper within your body (more likely to have multiple perforations) and are under greater internal pressure (harder to control bleeding) but its not a 100% reliable rule

>>2961279
You can catch tetanus from any surface that has recently come in contact with dirt as well, it's not just rusty metal
You can get tetanus from stepping on a sharp rock or puncturing your hand on a point stick, walking barefoot with an open wound, etc.
It's pretty rare to get tetanus from any source but the vaccine is so easy to get and has so few side effects that there really is no good reason to not keep it up to date

>>2960903
damn

>>2959393
Anybody who says doing chip repairs on a computer that is a non-combat sport is an idiot

>>2960008
One of my family friends is a school teacher and I rented from him when he moved so that I could go to university and he was a paramedic. In Vancouver's East end, would shift anybody knows anything is one of the most drug infested places in North america. The shit that went on there especially around Welfare Wednesday when the Brewers got their money and started spending it on drugs was outrageous.

He got called to an industrial accident where they were doing a poor on a slab and people were working on the underside of that and one guy got pinned through his pelvis by piece of rebar into the concrete below it and was stuck there bleeding while they were trying to keep the concrete from pouring in on top of them they finally got a guy with a cutting torch to free him up because it wasn't enough room to pull in a chop saw into the space

>>2960308
My younger brother's friend Tommy had a farm accident. Much worse though. The kid was a goof off drunk stupid arrogant I finally beat him up one day and he's forever for the last 40 years avoided me.

Anyway him and my brother were goofing around in his grandfather's Barn full of hand stuff and running around and Tom went and kicked at a pile of straw. Inside the straw was a four-timed hay fork and he punctured his foot up to the middle of his foot almost to the back of the ankle. You couldn't get up because the things full weight was keeping him his foot pinned to the ground and it was too painful to move in the ambulance service had to cut the handle off and transport them with the whole head of the Implement embedded in his foot

I didn't witness this, but I worked as a line cook in college and had a coworker named Stinky Pete. I once watched him take a chicken breast out of the trash that I had just tossed to serve to someone else who had just ordered one, that's the level of stupid this retard was on.
Anyways, I heard from another coworker after I left that he was trying to fix a lawn mover, and somehow it started up while he was messing with the blades. IIRC he lost all the fingers on one hand.

>>2961711
>a chicken breast out of the trash that I had just tossed to serve to someone else who had just ordered one
Man what a waste.

>>2961711
>somehow it started up while he was messing with the blades
This is why you ALWAYS remove the spark plug wire before messing with blades on a push mower.

Nothing crazy but I had to use a grinder to cut something off while standing on a 10 foot step ladder.
It was high up so I had to stretch myself fully, got it done but on the end the grinder swung down and hit me near the ribs. I was wearing a sweater and shirt and only saw later that I had a hole in my sweater.
Lifted it up and saw I had a cut. No bleeding since I guess the grinder burned it shut. After seeing it it started to hurt.

Left a nice scar

>>2961711
>somehow it started up while he was messing with the blades
I wonder if Stinky Pete was just working on the mower while it was running.

>>2961757
Guy I went to school with that is mentally slow (think Carl Childers) does small engine repair. He grabbed under a mower deck while it was running and lost the tip of his finger...

Bullshit. There is no way fucking with a mower blade will make it start. Same with refueling while the engine is hot won’t make it burst into flames. People are devoid common sense.

>>2961773
>Bullshit. There is no way fucking with a mower blade will make it start. Same with refueling while the engine is hot won’t make it burst into flames. People are devoid common sense.

If someone had the brake handle locked down and tried to remove the blade bolt with a drill or something absolutely retarded like that, I could see how it could start it like prop starting an airplane.

Nothing really crazy, but if you remember that toothpick toenail meme from a long time ago I did that recently with a metal pick to my thumbnail and it didn't hurt nearly as much as I thought it would.

>>2960904
Ah, your mom's dildo.

>>2960481
where were the nudie magazines

>>2960372
You do a lot of stuff, that's admirable.

>>2960049
emt here: don't pull out shit. call a fuckin ambulance. if you have to deal with it yourself stabilize the object to the person by carefully wrapping it in place, and then get them to a fuckin hospital.

>>2961905
Oh no! This superficial shit is stabbed into my arm. Better walk around with it stuck in there and head to the emergency room. Would be a shame if the doctors couldn't bill my insurance at a 1000x rate increase for something I could handle in 5 seconds...

>>2961905
>ambulance
for a stick in your hand? Ambulances are only good if you need serious medical attention before you move. You can drive yourself to the hospital with a file in your hand if you really need to.

>>2961914
Don't bully the EMT, he gets a cut

>>2960049
>>2960304
>>2961914
>>2961915
In the story it wasn't a little stick or a nail in the foot it was a fucking 8" half flat file straight into the forearm leaving a massive fucking hole in his arm. A tool with rasp cut, yanking it out is only going to cause more tissue damage as well as reliving the pressure on the blood flow, hence when it then poured out his arm.

Even if it was a flat bladed knife like you might get stabbed with, its better to leave in for the same reasons.

>>2961782
Only an idiot would spin the motor with an impact
If you’re that stupid, you’re too dumb to pull a plug wire. Not to mention. Lawnmowers have a dead man switch. Try again Fenwick

I was in the military. We were in the Barracks constructed to replace the drafty WW2-era barracks. The newer barracks were not allowed to have the windows opened. At night, the carbon dioxide levels went to 200% of the federal occupational limit.

At 3 weeks, feeling like Gomer Pyle, I had guard duty. This is not a real duty, just for training. There are always 2 on it; one behind a desk, one walking around.

I walked, and went around the corner into the hallway where the air register was blowing 24/7. Removing the two maintenance access fasteners with a half-turn, I peeked behind. Even in the dim light, I could see tumbleweeds rolling around, larger than a basketball. I closed it up and decided to go to the clinic the next day.

They prescribed the same big blue pills everyone else had been taking in the first week and beyond: long-term asthma medication.

The entire medical department violated their oaths by seeing that obvious pattern and not correcting the lack of any filter in the HVAC.

No fingers were lost - directly. But many brains were damaged. Hypoxic brain damage from environmental asthma that soldiers had no prior history of. Lowers IQ, inhibits the ability to make good decisions (frontal lobe asphyxiation), coupled with running in formation, calling cadence the next morning first thing.

It went on for at least 30 years.

>>2960372
job sounds cool anyway at least tho

>>2961960
>Only an idiot would spin the motor with an impact
>If you’re that stupid, you’re too dumb to pull a plug wire. Not to mention. Lawnmowers have a dead man switch. Try again Fenwick
Did you read the part about the engine brake being tied down? AKA the deadman switch?

Anyone stupid enough to cut their fingers off with a running lawnmower has already proven to be incompetent enough to not understand how the most basic shit works. Obviously they had to string together a bunch of retarded choices one after the other in order to even get to the point where they could possibly get their fingers into the spinning blade.

Also I said drill not impact, because once again some moron has probably tried it... An impact wouldn't have enough continuous torque to get the engine spinning over and would hammer away at the bolt instead... There's a reason people use a drill to start an engine rather than an impact.

Try reading with some comprehension next time fuckwit.

>>2961971
>But many brains were damaged. Hypoxic brain damage from environmental asthma that soldiers had no prior history of. Lowers IQ, inhibits the ability to make good decisions (frontal lobe asphyxiation),

Sounds like they were training you to be livestock that follow directions without question exactly like they planned to.

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>>2959389
>early 20s
>working on a smol framing crew
>Basically just me and the guy I was apprenticing with
>High turnover since we didn't half ass and were building hig $$ custom homes
>"Skilled Carpenters" came and went, usually took 2-3 weeks to wash out
>One day "Ronny" the redneck came on
>Looked like a player character from Redneck Rampage
>Tried to roll in swinging his dick like he was the greatest framer that ever was
>Immediately started trying to bully me and the other helper with scoffs and insults about tools and 1UP stories
>Boss man sets him up on framing the garage walls
>instead of unbolting the greenplate, or just doubling the bottom, tries to frame the sections in a "Comb style" with NO bottom plate
>mestandingandheadscratch.jpg
>Me wondering.."That's not how you..."
>"POP!...AHHH FUUUUUCK@!!" shoots an ringshank nail right through his index and middle finger
>10:15 Am on his first day of work
>Boss has to take him to urgentcare, Me and and the other guy finish out our walls AND the garage before lunch.
>Boss comes back ~1Pm with pay and says we're a wash for the rest of today(Friday)
>Good ol' Ronny came back the following Friday a little toned down, but still a fucking cocky asshole..LOL.

The two times I cut myself, One a clean kerf right through the tip my thumb, and the other a fresh blade slice right down to the "Lobster meat" on the pad of my middle finger; were BOTH caused by some jackass; one coming up to me and shaking my shoulder to get my attention while doing tablesaw detail work on bamboo flooring, and the second smacked into me with a 2x4x16 while I was sharpening my pencil.(I was well out of the way, he was just a junkie asshole who kept puppydogging me all day long)

One thing is for sure: Keep your blades SHARP! You can barely even tell those two cuts are even there.

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>>2962000
>>2962000
>One thing is for sure: Keep your blades SHARP! You can barely even tell those two cuts are even there.
This.

Sliced the meat of my hand while cutting 500lb bull calves in a chute. No real way to bandage it, and I was the only one there able to do the cutting, so I finished off the rest of the calves we needed to work that day and it got soaked in blood, shit, and piss the rest of the day. Zero infection, no stitches, barely any scar.

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Don't even remember what happened here. Have lost many nails over the years. They always grow back just fine.

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Look at my pretty leg.

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>>2959393
>>2959433
Just wait... In a few years people will be paying top dollar to HAVE this done intentionally.
That reminds me, I better get on that patent for micro-encapsulated, conductant and liquid crystal tattoo ink.

>>2961312
He's fine, he sloshed it off

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>>2961742
THIS.
Crazy huh?
The retarded things people do to "Save Time"
ALWAYS disconnect the sparkplug, or electrical plug when working on or changing a blade or something.
Yeah, I've done it before, but not for years.
I can pretty well gauge how retarded or garbage a crew is by how they maintain their tools, and by how much they walk on their own cords.
Seriously, it takes less than 30 seconds, And I've never seen a cord that wasn't shorter than 10' on a potentially dangerous tool unless I'd replaced it myself.
My favorite is the Faggot "Bosses" who want you to swap out electrical shit like outlets or lights without throwing the breaker. Yeah, 110 probably will only give you a nasty VIBRO-SHOCK, but why risk it? You can fuck up expensive electricals like that as well.
I'm sure many of us have also used the "Eyelash goggles" as well on occasion, since there are times when that shit steams up and makes the work even MORE dangerous.

Newguys to the trades: Just don't do it. Take the extra 30 seconds and wear the protective gear. Better safe than LUCKY...until you aren't.

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>>2962004
MMMmmmmm
Lobster meat!
>>2962013
I have a pepe for YOU
*(Pretty sure it's a snke or spider bite tho-)

>>2962004
I also should post, Butterfly closures are the hard working man's real friend.
I ALWAYS have at least 3 first aid kits in the truck, 1, a throwaway for retards, since they ALWAYS fuck up, use up, or contaminate them; 2 a Small kit that fits in a cargo pocket with closures, fingertip and knuckles bandages, silver spray, alc swabs tweezers, etc. and a third that has all the heavy duty shit.

I've had to sew up myself once or twice, but a dominate hand injury? Butterfly closures are your friend!
Were you in the /pol/ beef prices thread a couple days ago? I really need to consider checking out Montana.

>>2962028
>I also should post, Butterfly closures are the hard working man's real friend.

Electrical tape and shop towels has always worked well enough for me. I guess I should have mentioned that every bull gets doused in iodine after getting knife cut, so I'm sure my hand got some of that as well as the blood, piss, and shit.

>>2962028
>Were you in the /pol/ beef prices thread a couple days ago? I really need to consider checking out Montana.
No, I don't really get on /pol/ any more. Too much brain rot on there for me to want to wade through.

I did sell 20 head of 708lb steers this week though, and got 3.40 a lb on them. Very happy with that! Probably try and take another 20-30 head of slightly smaller calves in this next week...

>>2962028
>I've had to sew up myself once or twice
Sutures freak me out so I've gotten away with using liquid bandage the few times I might have needed to be sewn up

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>in college, get job in a glass factory
>factory is hot as shit, everyone at our station is drenched in sweat all day
>job is to box up large commercial panes of glass as they come off the line
>two guys use a big rubber roller at the end of the line to swing the glass upright and stack it into the box
>meanwhile six or so other guys stand on opposite sides of the line and shove the glass down the rollers toward the boxers
>the line can't stop, so if somebody spots bad product everybody pulls out their hammers, smashes the glass, and lets it fall through the rollers to the floor
>every few minutes one of us sweeps the glass up into the corner for later
>I'm pushing glass when somebody spots a splotch
>hammers out, smashing time
>a large, oddly shaped piece of glass gets wedged between rollers in front of me
>more glass incoming, gotta go fast
>grab the glass and pull it off the line
>the part I'm holding breaks, the heavy end swings down and smacks me in the leg
>go back to pushing glass
>few minutes later I glance over at the guy next to me
>he's staring down at my legs and looks pale
>look down
>the pants on my right leg are solid red from the knee down
>dagger shaped shard sticking out of my knee
>calmly explain to my supervisor that I appear to be injured
>he goes wide eyed at the glass in my leg, directs me to the first aid box on the wall
>starting to worry about why I'm not in more pain, carefully hobble over and open it
>totally empty box with, no shit, a black window inside
>point this out to my supervisor
>he reluctantly tells me I can go clean off in the bathroom
>wound turns out to be shallow, spend a few minutes pulling glass out of my leg
>still no pain, but amazed how much blood there is
>send my girlfriend some pictures, wait for bleeding to stop, hobble back to work
I could still feel a tiny piece of glass in there somewhere for years afterward.

>>2959389
Saw a dude die. He just tripped off a stairway, hit his head weird and was spazzing out shivering for a while. Me and another dude were there with the hospital on the line, but what can you do.
It's not that bad to die I guess. Kinda wish I was the one who tripped.

>>2962023
>My favorite is the Faggot "Bosses" who want you to swap out electrical shit like outlets or lights without throwing the breaker. Yeah, 110 probably will only give you a nasty VIBRO-SHOCK, but why risk it? You can fuck up expensive electricals like that as well.
I've done wiring on live circuits on 240v because I didn't want to interrupt the download running on my computer lmao.
Would never do that to satisfy some faggot boss though. Only for myself.

>>2962296
also should've mentioned that I wore a thick rubber dish washing glove while doing this, which is pretty effective. I was touching the live wires and nothing happened. I used my other non-gloved hand to do delicate work that didn't involve touching the wires, like holding the insulated part of the wire while using wire strippers with my other hand.

way back in 2018, i was trying to make one of those squishies out of a balloon and tooth paste, so i got all of those and decided to use a syringe. HOWEVER, i didn't think it was an option to take the needle out, so when i was doing it, i dropped the syringe and it just pierced my thigh (basically it stabbed it and the syringe was standing like a cactus).

IDK about worst but the funniest I ever saw was a video of our mexican janitor refilling a propane floor sweeper and catching himself on fire.

It was just a flash fire so he wasn't hurt, but he was missing most of his hair lol

>>2962302
>way back in 2018, i was trying to make one of those squishies out of a balloon and tooth paste, so i got all of those and decided to use a syringe. HOWEVER, i didn't think it was an option to take the needle out, so when i was doing it, i dropped the syringe and it just pierced my thigh (basically it stabbed it and the syringe was standing like a cactus).
Did you pull it out? Or did you have to tape it up and call the EMT/amberlamps so he could tell you you did a good job by justifying his existence?

>>2960497
>He got arrested for groping a kid in Walmart a couple years later

Haven't we all

>>2962248
Jesus Christ.
I would've refused to go under there, and would've probably reported the whole mess to OSHA. I would have guaranteed reported it if management gave me shit about refusing to risk getting shanked by glass.

>>2961314
Honestly he got lucky.

>>2962248
Knees of glass.

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>>2962296
(same anon)
Yeah, I've done the ol' hotwire thing too on my own and on family's houses, especially when I don't feel like tracking down the breaker on my parent's BADLY wired house,(No seriously, Not even the plug-in senders don't get the right breaker in the wrongly labeled and re-labeled breaker box.)
110 really isn't that bad, I just refuse on principal.
>>2962248
Fuck, man. At first I thought you were a guy I knew from college who worked at a glass factory. His was a bottle factory though, so they were working around molten glass being rapidly "Snipped off of the glow" and into press forms.
He said the most important thing when you were below the hopper, was to not have ANY pockets on your shirts or open top pockets uncovered on your pants. He said one guy made that mistake once and a glowing orange blob dropped right into his shirt pocket...I can't imagine that was pleasant

I haven't had any serious accident but once I was fucking with a screwdriver trying to lever something and it slipped and went towards my eyeball. I was wearing prescription glasses and it left a deep scratch.
I've always found that pretty funny. Like I can't complain about having shitty vision because if I had better vision then I'd be half blind now anyway.
>>2962844
>He said one guy made that mistake once and a glowing orange blob dropped right into his shirt pocket
3rd nipple

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in july a 9x15 plate glass bay window broke when i was trying to remove it with help
turned into a waterfall right infront of me.
looked down and there were massive shards of glass in my right arm and it was spraying everywhere
passed out from blood pressure/blood loss/shock like 10 seconds later
severed my radial nerve
they almost had to amputate it
6 hours in surgery, almost died on the way to the er
i woke up 2 days later on a ventilator
76 staples
im almost completely healed now, only some numbness in my pinky.
pictures dont really do it justice

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>>2962863
the other side

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>>2959408
oh fuck, that wire eye shit is brutal
a mason who used to work with us left to go to another contractor, and a few weeks into working with the giy he asked to come back
turns out the foreman/boss was setting a stringline for height on a ratslab and nailed one end into the block, went to draw the line tight and from 60 feet away the concrete nail came out and shot all the way across the room directly into his right eye
same deal, he lost his eye completely
i took my glasses off one time when a builder was trying to show me a print on his phone to set up the next job; when i was in the middle of fixing a fuck up on block exterior stairs
i handed a bucket of mud up, took my glasses off, and went over the print
i get a "yepp, were good here" and half turn and grab the bucket and put it down
a 3 inch glob of cement flew up directly into my right eye. it looked like i was shot with a paintball gun
immediately try to flush it out, ended up going up the road to er. by then the lime in the cement had already done its damage
5 hours of them pulling chunks of cement out of my eye from behind my eyelids andnsone was unreachable, behind my eye.
excruciating pain. unbelievablely awful
i can see out of it now, but it took a surgery and 4 months of healing
i couldnt go in the sun for weeks, i would immediately start vomiting from the pain
took this after they put the eye flush on.
that thing was uncomfortable as fuck

>>2962867
Jesus. For me eye pain is the worst kind of pain...

I have extremely dry eyes and everything sticks to my eyeballs. I have gotten chunks of metal stuck in my eyes from taking off my safety glasses after grinding and the metal shards falling into my eyeball. I don't have enough tears to flush things away to the corners of my eyes like most people. A lot of times I can pluck them out with a magnet but sometimes they just burrow right in and stay there...

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>>2962863
>>2962864

>>2962863
Hey, it's the Abomination from Warcraft 3! We need more Vespen gas!

>>2959389
I was playing in the park with my neighbours son when we were children. I found a wasp nest in some tall bushes and told him to hit it with a rusty pipe laying around. He missed the bushes and hit me on the face. I started bleeding, the sharp edge of the rusty pipe made a hole in my lower lip through which i could get my tongue out
Breddy fun overall, just messing around. I beat up that kid a few days later for some reason (i often did this)

>>2963231
Hey, it's Illidan from Warcraft 3! This city must be purged!

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Hired on as a drain cleaner/plumbing tech, we run big industrial-sized drain snake cables to cut out roots from sewer lines. Basically a 125ft, tightly wound metal spring that's mounted to the inside of a spinning drum, you feed it down the sewer pipe by hand until it hits something and then you have to let off of the power when it starts building up tension.
Guy who quit the week before I started was running the machine down a line and got the claws on the end stuck at a crack in the pipe, cable instantly lodged to a complete stop which is unusual. Rather than fighting with it for a minute and pulling it out of the split, he thought he was hitting the blockage so he just stood on the switch and kept spinning the cable thinking it would cut thru whatever he was hitting. Some length of the cable shot out of the drum and immediately all the tension kinked and folded the cable around his hands, on/off pedal got lodged underneath the machine so it just continued spinning and wrapping tighter and tighter. Broke like half the bones in his hands, fingers and palms turned purple and black from the crushing damage. Pictures looked horrific. Saw him like a year after and he said he still has nerve damage from the accident.
Thankfully all of my workplace injuries have just been gouges and slices from tools.

as a northerner fag in norway the only hope for a future was either fishing or music. i got to know a pianist/hammond organ rapist, this way i think it was his brother i actually worked with at the fish factory but whatever. he cut off his thumb and some leading fingeres pretty crucial to his job and he was back again in a few months. not shure if he is the guy doing the keyboard here but he played for this band.
https://youtu.be/6JVqHKkSliI?si=SDLdmesFrJCt07b3

>>2962863
Fuuuuuuck

>>2962867
I DON'T LIKE THIS

>>2963320
Based sensibility enjoyer

>>2961952
don't you just love when people tell you about your job <|:^)

>>2963002
my personal favorite wss telling all the younger kids when i was helpy a buddy with a new landscape crew how important good sunglasses sare and 4 minutes later first cut of the loppers on a branch it swings back and jams my eye with my glasses on my hat not wearing them

>>2963294
god damn!

>>2959403
DAFUQ

Nothing major. Both back in school. One idiot lit himself on fire with a torch while cutting. I'm not sure who was to blame more about it, the idiot who work jeans that were frayed at the cuffs or the teacher for allowing him to use a torch wearing them.

Then a guy near lost a finger.
>using snips
>tiny sliver of metal about 3" long remains on a piece of 22g sheet
>fool thinks he could just pull it off with his fingers (no gloves)
Went as you might expect.

I know a farmer who had a scissor lift fall down onto his neck as he was leaning over the base to do some work on it.
Hes paralyzed from the neck down now.

>>2959389
As a kid I had an interest in how things work. I was like 6 okay. I would take apart spark plugs and shit to see what went where. Well I got a padlock once and was messing with it and decided hey let’s put this on the ground and hit it with a hammer as hard as possible. It flew up and hit my eyeball causing a clot. I spent next few days in a hospital with eye drops going into my eyes at all times of day and night that stung like hell. I then had to wear a fucking eyepatch for a month.

>>2963546
Also worked as marine rescue and had to jump from one boat to another on rough seas hit the water once and almost got pinned between both boats.

>>2960481
I've worked with enough farmers that I 100% beleive this story, kek.

>>2963548
where youd have beencrushed?
marine rescue sounds like youve seen some shit. any crazy stories?

>>2963554
This isn’t sea tow this was help me I’m at sea get here. Usually this is in the bay here so water sucks when you try to get from boat A to boat B you jump literally. Which can suck because if I wave crashes against the boat it rocks it anyway I jumped from our shitter landed in water bobbed up wave hit our boat and almost pinned my head between the two boats LOL. Ehh there were a lot of days like that I became a cop next then got in trouble and had to go to the butt hut for a while. Most of the people you had to rescue were literally blackout drunk and floating into the gulf LOL.

>>2963556
Samefag anything water based is nuts. My uncle was on a ship doing oceanography in the day told me he saw a guy get owned by moving desks and chairs and shit during rough sea. Anything sea based where there’s rough waters will have injuries. I did lines for a bit but that was gay and boring and hot.

>>2963554
Injuries were mostly people getting moronic shit like stung by a stingray I saw one guy I think he stepped on a catfish and it’s sail was up and it literally went straight through his foot.

I got stung by a ray fishing wasn’t bad just dunked my foot in a hot bath and got the barb. And stung by a man o war which was fucking awful a lot worse then the gay stingray

>>2963560
Funniest diy accident was as a kid my dad was trying to change this light on a stairwell. His ladder was busted so he took a dresser and put it down and stood on it. He went straight through the fucking wooden dresser. At the hospital they were scrubbing the wound ripping out pieces of wood and shit lmao

>>2961388
>still have nightmares that the fucking thing is somehow loose and chasing me.
Keked and checked. Kaže sad si gotov, trčiš ko da u guzici imaš motor?

>>2959389
>had
I think that time I was unscrewing a live terminal with a piece of shit wood screwdriver, the first 10th of the handle is metal. I held this screwdriver in my right hand, my left hand was rested on the metal meter cabinet, which is earthed. Earthed quite fucking well at that.
Of course one of my fingers was touching the metal part of the screwdriver so I got quite a shock but it was not enough to end myself.
>seen
Grandad chainsawed (230v mains powered piece of shit chainsaw though) into one of his fingers, scraped a little bit of bone. I think he wrapped it up in a tissue and took the bus to the hospital, kek. They put all the shit in the finger back together and it healed perfectly.
I mean I didn't exactly SEE it as I was chilling in the living room at the exact moment.

I once worked at a place that had some big band saws.
Inch and a half blades.
They'd tear through a two by in 0 seconds flat.
Anyhow, a young man stoppped off at the beer store on his way in one morning.
At about 0700 he purchased a six pack of 5% pints.
At about 0730 he arrived at the production facility, having ingested all of them.
A little after 0800, he stuck his hand in the saw, the webbing of his right thumb forward.
It was almost up to his elbow by the time anyone realized what was going on. He'd apparently fallen forward upon it.
Horror flicks don't do lots of blood justice.

>>2959389
I worked with an old (true) master carpenter who did OP's Picrel by absent mindedly feeling under a board he was cutting with a skillsaw.

Even though it was a top tier literally billionaire client supposedly he didn't get jack shit from the also supposedly top tier contractor because he used his own (not fucked up like all the company ones) Skillsaw so under "Union Rules" that instantly became a "side job" and he was an "independent contractor" and probably ding him 6 months worth of pension.

>>2963441
Cement is highly alkaline. It'll eat you like acid

>>2959389
I didn't see both of these accident, but they are worst ones I personally know of.
1 A guy I worked was using a chainsaw to cut some wood, it jumped somehow and it gave him a cut on top of the forehead. He stayed in the hospital for a few days, after a week or so he was back to work.
2 One new worker had his finger broken by a press, how did it happen I don't know, but it gives me the hebbey jebbeys.

>>2962004
Worrying how similar the whole thing looks to a pork cut. The contrast between skin and that underlying meat colour
>>2962028
>Butterfly closures
I should get some of these, sliced the tip of my RH middle on a sharp edge and it was annoying af typing busting it open to bleed again for days
tldr first aid essentials?

>>2962005
Damn nigga, you’re turning White! It’s a Christmas miracle!

>>2963774
super glue
electric tape
small bottle of hydrogen peroxide and isopropyl alcohol
soft bristle toothbrush, break off the handle(cleans dirt from wounds quick, learned that from old guy)
guaze
cloth bandage
family pack of bandaids
if you really want, saline solution bubbles
paracord, sling, and splints
vaseline for burns
maybe at least a single pack of surgical gloves
really just buy a premade medkit and add to it since sometimes they are a little sparse

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>>2963833
>Damn nigga, you’re turning White! It’s a Christmas miracle!
I put some electrical tape on my mashed finger and it kept my skin moist and covered so it didn't absorb all the grease and oil I work in. It's not like I'm normally black and decided to stop stealing...

>>2961252
One time I cleaned a wine glass, and I guess it was made out of cheap weak glass because putting my hand inside to clean it popped it into two big dagger shaped shards and I narrowly avoided what happened to you.

>>2961252
This seems to imply you passed out and bled all over the sofa and your roommates took you to the er

When I was a teenager I was splitting wood with an old PTO driven screw type log splitter on the back of dads john deere 3020, and did the big no-no, let it get ahold of my coat. I couldn't get out of it fast enough and it rolled me over and crammed me against the support bar. I thrashed and managed to squeeze past and as I went under the screw my shitty ragged out $30 generic farm store coat ripped at the seams and released me. I crawled away on my belly like a beaten dog. Had I been wearing a carhartt, I would have fucking died. We rebuilt the braces around the screw to make it safer after that, added a lever to squeeze the logs in without needing to manually push against them.

>>2964117
not the sofa... on my own bed in my own room thank you very much

>>2959389
I saw my neighbor fall off his roof and die while trying to install a satellite dish. Dude fell 2 stories and landed on his head, broke his neck and died instantly.

>>2964213
Damn.

not really diy but growing up my babysitter’s husband was a truck driver who delivered deli meats. he drove his own truck which he took home at the end of the day. one day when he came home he opened the door and jumped down from the cab and a ring he wore on his right hand got caught on a hook on the side of the cab and degloved his index finger. worst personal diy injury is when I was installing a tow hitch on my car. had to cut away part of the exhaust heat shield for clearance and a sliver flew out into my eye. this was spring 2020. I went to an ophthalmologist who turned me away because I failed the forehead temp scan. I was in bad pain and temporarily blinded in the right eye for a few weeks. slowly felt better with just some occasional irritation when blinking. eventually went to another eye doctor in 2023 and had the metal removed. she didn’t believe I had it in my eye for so long and assumed it must have happened recently.

was talking old war stories with my entire dad this weekend, he brought up a good one from 1985~ish
they were on 8foot jump scaffolding finishing the entrance face of a block wall for a garage and were about to set the lintels(2 @ 14 feet) and trying to brainstorm how exactly they were going to get them up the wall to lay them
the idea was 4 people load on onto the bucket of the excavator and then raisr the bucket and two people brace it while the bucket tilts a bit and it just kinda slides in place, no heavy lifting off the ground
well it rarely goes as planned when these things are considered
apparently dude had been trying to brace the lintel incase it started sliding with one hand and when the bucket was tilted forward the beam shifted forward about 4 inches to the very lip. severing every finger on his left hand
personally the worst injury ive seen involving crushing was one of our laborers trying to clean the mixer without putting the augur break or even just turning it off(real simpke shit takes 3 seconds, retards i swear.)
so he reaches in with his trowel to scrapr the mud back off the barrel and as he pulls back the corner of the trowel gets jammed in one of the blades on the return and it pulls his arm in because he thought he could pull it out. he got EXTREMEMLY LUCKY. the trowel handle caught him between the bucket and the mixer blade and more or less deleted his left thumb completely. i mean pancaked, paperthin, completely gone
also had a non osha board on a 4th flight scaffolding give way under bear and drop a fuckton of brick next to one of our laborers, he quit that day

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actually this is the job i had my eye injury on
each one of those windows are 30k, the corner pieces are 65
the porch wraps all the awaybaround and between the two homes under the skywalk is a pool
when we were setting forms to pour the slab for the porch on the street side one of the guys above us setting the windows dropped one of those suction cup grabhold handles whatever theyre called and it fell right infront of my face. those things would.not be pleasant to get hit with
that whole job sucked, the sun was insane, it was completely mirrored because of the glass.

also saw a guy digging a trench for the feed service line from pole to panel and a carpenter dropped a beveled 2x6 @ 11 feet from third story and it hit him bevel down square on the head, peeled back his scalp like an onion skin, that was pretty gruesome as well. the gc came back with hardhats for everyone

I got a splinter once.

>>2964977
lmao structural glass? or just cantilevered concrete floors?

>>2965309
>I got a splinter once.
I got one from some post hole digger handles yesterday. Fucker buried deep in my finger. Had to Cut in from the side with my knife and ended up using a hypodermic needle for cattle to dig it out of there.

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>>2965312
yea structural
the entire house except for roof and piers are glass
they had to wait 2 years for the neighbor to sell his lot for the second part of the house to start
they offered him 3.4 mil at the beginning and he held out, some pitiful(abeit sound and tight) brick one story home with sizable lot.
he ended up selling for 850k after he realized he couldnt afford the home insurance(home had to be liftrd up after hurricane sandy; he lost his home insurance)
he got bought out and they had the demo crew on stand by waiting for the check to be signed. brutal shit. he took a few brick and walked away. 3 hours later the entire lot cleaned. should have taken the initial offer. but then i understand; these people, they arent homes. they are assets.
one of the saddest things ive ever seen was a demo on ventnor ave for a pool house. whole family came out to watch their grandparents little beach home torn down just so their neighbor could put a 1 bed +loft basically a shed in
ah well
$$$$$$$
pic unrelated random slab

>>2965315
brutal. worst ive seen was a newbie laborer manhandle and curl a creasote piling cut with no shirt or gloves despite warnings.
dude looked like a full hive of wasps.stung him up within 40 minutes
also reminds me of a mexican who didnt believe asphalt off the dump bed was hot, and toucjed his hand to it. immediately burnt into his palm. he said "that hot?? nahh" then just screaming.
good times

>>2959389
Dad goes "okay hold this down real hard", turns on the circular saw, and cuts through his thumb and half the tree branch.

>>2960897
I think some plastic watch would snap apart before doing serious damage.

>>2966150
people put them on nylon straps which is pretty tough more than skin anyway

>>2960897
I work on boats, the mantra has always been "no watches, rings, or dangly things," when you're working. I always take them off, sometimes even take off my silicone rings.

>>2959408
I am NOT reading that! Fuck you!

>>2959389
True that I've witnessed, a kid was using the sheet metal cutter while it's grades were getting a instructions by the blackboard, he was working unaccompanied, and managed to cut off the tip of his middle finger and tiny bit of his index finger went running out of the room my friend went up to investigate why she ran out of there and he said there's a piece of a finger over here. Him and his dad and mom ran a family Delicatessen in town,Youdel's.

Another was a kid who was being a smart-ass and moving his middle finger in and out of the empty but spinning Jaws on a metal working truck. Yep ripped his fucking middle finger out and part of his tendon in his forearm. Few years later, he's throwing snowballs at my sister cuz she gets pissed knocks him down, meals on his chest and gives him a face wash until his face is bloody and he runs home to tell his dad. He comes and talks to my dad who goes and asks swerve I heard that name before, and I remind him all that's the kid that got his middle finger ripped off and metal working class and he goes. Oh yeah right that kid. He later went on to work in Canadian Armed Forces so I guess they hire all kinds of fucking idiots.

Threads like these and rekt threads on /gif/ is probably why I still have all my fingers, both eyes and not too many scars.
I specifically remember advice like >>2961742 and being extremely autistic about unplugging angle grinders before swapping blades. I even made it a habit to always double check by trying to turn on anything before working on ANYTHING. I think I recall a post a long time ago where the device got power from earth from another device which was shorted to ground or something. The earth was floating or the GFCI was bypassed or some other extremely retarded shit which is why it went unnoticed.
>>2960304
don't EVER write this kind of bullshit ever again, jesus FUCKING christ. holy shit.
>>2961773
See >>2960304. You are retarded as fuck.
The blade is directly connected to the crankshaft. Turning the blade, turns the engine over. If the ignition is badly designed (meaning that you short the ignition to kill the engine) you can supereasily start a push mower that way. Or any gas powered implement with a similar setup.
>>2961782
If you have a good mower with a good spark plug and properly tuned carb, you can usually start it with less than half of the pull cord. ESPECIALLY if it is hot from running.

>>2960908
conservatives ruled it as troon suicide

>>2959389
ITT: the reason I'm quitting before I turn 40. Post COVID inflation means risking this shit isn't worth it anymore. No accidents yet, but given my luck, something bad will happen eventually.

>>2965319
>he realized he couldnt afford the home insurance(home had to be liftrd up after hurricane sandy; he lost his home insurance)
America is such shithole holy cow, everything if fucking designed for the ultra rich and corporations to walk all over the middle class. Truly a country built, owned and ruled by jews.

>>2960497
Well if he’d lost the finger like he was supposed to them he’d be better off, since he wouldn’t have been able to grope and then get sent to jail for groping

>>2965319
I can't figure out who you mean with 'he' and 'they' in your story.

>>2963659
You write stories like they’re an analysis of some crime scene, which is weird but a hell of a lot more coherent than the average workman who starts a story by saying stuff like ‘my dad told me a story about my dad’s friend Rick who is a plumber now but at the time was a welder and’ etc

>>2968314
Superglue is an unsung hero. Makes hand and foot injuries significantly less bothersome at the very least.

>>2961312
Patrick Starr question

>>2959403
This is him right ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=glyi8Obj-lg

Never knew that such thing is even possible, I've been meddling with concrete my whole life.
For anyone interested jump to 1:01:10

Doctors told him its the lye but idk...

>>2961312
Kek

>>2959403
Anyone remember Fight Club?
Same shit.
Vinegar to neutralize the burn.

>>2963852
>vaseline for burns
WRONG
WRONG WRONG WRONG

For superficial and partial thickness (1st and 2nd degree) burns, cool (not cold or ice) water for 5-10 minutes followed up with a hydrogel burn pad is the best method; vaseline is actually worse than doing nothing at all. It's the same tier of burn treatment myth as putting butter on it

Full-thickness/3rd degree burns get absolutely nothing put on them, not even water. Antibiotic burn ointments do exist, but putting that on a burn with debris/clothes stuck in it just creates more work for the people who have to treat it long term. 3rd degree burns are for the burn ward to mess with, not some fuckwad with a first aid kit.


Rest of the list is very good. I'd suggest adding a tourniquet if you have space, and if you're packing a sling/splint then you definitely have space for a small modern tourniquet.

>>2963852
>>2968889
Also, sterile packaged tweezers/forceps, and some really fucking nice trauma shears are a godsend for cutting clothes to access an injury or clean up the edge of melted synthetic fabric stuck to a burn.
A space blanket (as with the tourniquet, only for the medium to larger kits) is very useful for dealing with both hypothermia and heatstroke.
For the giga size packs I'd want some sterile water for irrigating wounds.

>>2964094
I'm happy you were spared the injury. it's hard to comprehend how quickly these things happen. I almost lost my mom today to something sudden like that. I can't stress enough to always be conscious of the dangers of your current activity, regardless of how mundane it seems or how practiced you are at it.

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Saw a kid who had taken a finger off all bar the skin on one side with one of these.

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I fell off my roof a few weeks back, that was my gnarliest so far. Needed stitches but could have been way worse.

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>>2968931
Many moons ago my brother and I were working on a monitor barn (picture related) at our grandparents place. We were working on the roof, which was corrugated metal and had a steep pitch. Someone had nailed 2x4s into the roof to act as a ladder. We were using that ladder to access to the second story of the barn. We dutifully checked the 2x4s and confirmed they were not rotten and they were firmly attached to the corrugated sheet. When we were just about to the wall of the second story when the entire corrugated sheet started sliding off the roof. The nails holding the corrugated roofing to the structure had rusted through and our weight (we were carrying a few corrugated sheets of roofing) sheared them right off.

My brother hit the ground first and I came right after and landed on him. Luckily we only fell a story but he landed on a bunch of old metal bullshit that had been laying around the barn. I cracked a few of his ribs and knocked the wind out of him. I was mostly unhurt. He had landed belly first on the ground and the metal stuff shredded him. The only other family members out there had run into town with the only operable vehicle that could seat more than one person and go more than 15 miles per hour. This was before cell phones. We were proper fucked.

So, we did what we could. We washed his wounds with soap and water and covered everything in a layer of Wonder Dust. Its like Quikclot but for cows. Luckily nothing was too deep but fuck did he bleed. Used most of a bottle. The bleeding stopped and we drove him into town when the senpai returned with the truck. They x-rayed him a few times, wrapped up the cuts (leaving the wonder dust in place), gave him some pain meds, a tetanus shot, and sent him home. He spent a few weeks in a barcalounger only getting up to piss and shit but he recovered. The scars were fucking epic though.

>>2968957
>senpai
Huh. There is a wordfilter on this board. That should have been the first 3 letters of the word family.

>>2968957
oh shit that's hectic.
a friend's dad died falling off a single story roof. if you land badly that's lights out.

>>2959389
I worked in a prison for a while. It's kind of DIY since he was getting a spider out of a window to sell back in the dorms. The window was heavy af so he lifted it, tried to grab the spider, and the window fell down on his hand. Middle finger smashed, ring finger BIG smashed and a pinky dangling. The surgery to get it fixed was gnarly, they drill these long ass drills into your hand that go down into your arm to hold all the shit together. He was fine afterward, still slinging spiders. He couldn't bend his pinky afterward.

>>2968958
It was a meme like 10 years ago

I need to go up on my roof (shingled) soon, and I never have before; how do it while not die?

The worst injuries I've ever had were from a kitchen knife and a power washer, separately and unrelated.

A few years ago I was cleaning the house with a gas-powered pressure washer, and when finished I leaned over to turn it off using the spark plug disconnect switch on the side of the motor. As I was leaning over, I braced myself with my non-dominant hand... directly on the hot exhaust shroud. This obviously stung only just a little bit and I did not scream like a girl, yanked my hand off the exhaust, but to my surprise (and concern) after about 5 seconds it pretty much stopped hurting - for about a minute. Then, it started hurting worse than when I first touched the exhaust and wouldn't stop unless I dunked the hand in ice water, which also eventually wasn't enough to stop the burning despite my hand being numb and probably frostbitten. Eventually I couldn't freeze my hand anymore and when I pulled it out it hurt even worse for the rest of the day. My entire left palm and the first joint of each finger became one giant blister for over a week. After a desperate trip to CVS that night buying every burn product in existence there, I found that Equaline burn pads are actually made of Ice Elemental dust and black magic because holy shit they work better than water or opioids for making a burn not hurt. Funnily enough, the exhaust shroud had the word "HOT" stamped into the sheet metal, and as the hand healed you could actually clearly read the word "HOT" from a part of the burn that wasn't as severe there, as well as see the 4 recessed hexcap bolts holding the shroud down.

Never went to a doctor for it, hand healed so completely you literally can't even tell there was ever an injury. Those Equaline burn pads are fuckin magic; get some for yourself.

kitchen knife story is less severe, only 4 stitches that I probably didn't need, but it was painful. post only if anyone cares

>>2969090
Depends how bad the pitch is. Like most roofs in California or Texas you don't even need training for. You're just standing on a very slight incline. If you've ever been on a hike you'd be fine.

If it's actually steep you need to rent a fall arrest system that you put on the other side of the house and gived you climbing gear. I wouldn't fuck with it

>>2969099
Northern IL, angled to shed heavy snow
I really don't want to have to pay someone just to drive 2 bolts in to hold an antenna :/

>>2969101
Mount to wall?

https://youtu.be/VVlV2-9-ncw

>>2959389
i took apart a phone and was holding the circuit board when someone called.

also i made moonshine but didn't wash out the copper tubing in the condenser first, and drank the foreshot. still dont know what weird solvents or heavy metals went into me

Pulling out bushes in my late 20s, felt a pop in my back. Didn't even hurt that bad at the time. That night I could barely walk and my back has never been the same. I'm 40 now and still have a fucked up back

>>2969103
it's a starlink antenna
due to low obstacles around the house, the only real option for location is on the ridgeline. installation is literally 2 bolts, takes 5 min tops
wall mount puts it too low

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>>2969119

Nothing happened to the guy I'm going to mention but I hope he reads it. My one roommate had a tendency to invite suspect randoms over to our place without telling anyone. Get home one day and some jackass is parked in my spot in the garage with his car jacked up, I forget how but he might have well been using twigs. He was seating his ass off laying right under the wheel with the tire off using a long jack to pry something loose with the force of an ape. The whole car was wobbling and if it tipped (which looked like an 90% chance) this retard would have died right there in the garage. I told him dude what you're doing is insanely dangerous. I got dismissed and he kept going. I hope you see this and haven't darwin'd yourself you goddamn moron.

I'm from ohio, I live near the three brothers that passed out instantly when they opened a manure pump and drown in the pit of shit. Hard to beat that
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/3-brothers-die-after-passing-out-fumes-manure-pit-n1276631

>>2969448
Some local kid fell into an open septic tank and drowned a few years back. Or that's the official story, not sure I believe it fully.

>>2968958
I miss roodypoo and candy ass. Those were the best filters

a friend's father in law managed to tip with his ride mower and his foot went into the knives. on looking at his injury and his journal the doctor was like "you're a farmer, right?"
my neighbor was cutting down trees for firewood and got smushed by a sliding tree so bad he heard his ribs crack and he started coughing up blood
>>2968858
>$250,000 hospital bill
do yanks really?
>winter concrete with CaCl2 makes it way more dangerous
good to know
>>2960007
>he went in feet first
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA