Bad day at the shop...

[arml]

Splitting some split wood for kindling tonight....had to put an edge on my hatchet that I use for that task
Well damn if I didn't get my index finger caught up in that wheel....for a second I thought it was raining
in the shop...nope....just a nice mist of red...goo. Guess I made a good contact with the grinding wheel ..
gave a holler to my wife to bring a band aide....she came running and damn near passed out for the new red paint on the ceiling. Gezz...was just a scratch as I see it....aww, bleeding will stop if it reaches my reserve blood tank....women....guess not many have been in some real shit. Oh well, love that woman.

 

[jimh406]

I'm glad you and wife survived. Be even more careful next time.

 

[Moose7060]

 

[Lil Foot]

Glad it wasn't worse.

Reminds me of my uncle's story.
He was in the basement table sawing a whole bunch of parts for a dresser he was building.
He noticed a faint red line on the wall in front of the saw.
His gaze followed the red line up to the ceiling, across the ceiling, down onto his left shoulder, & down his body to the top of the saw.
Then he noticed half of his left thumb was gone.
He said he never felt anything.
He went to the hospital and got it stitched up, but never thought to bring the other half, which they said they couldn't re- attach anyway. (late'40s)

 

[D2Cat]

I got a call last night about 6PM. Good friend begin telling me how one of his cows charged him, hit him in the chest with her head, then rolled him about six times. Said he got knocked down and then he keep trying to roll out of the way. Asked him if he needed me to get down there and give him some help. Asked if he was bleeding, broken bones, still in the field.....?

Said he got his glasses knocked off and he couldn't see very good and he was walking around trying to find them. Finally told me his wife was home, so I figured he'd be OK.

He shot the bull on the phone for a while (that's an expression), telling how he got his axx kicked by the cow, and I told him by tomorrow he'll be sore, real sore. Well, this morning .he called and said he thinks the cow may have stepped on his leg, it swollen and badly bruised.

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

I got a call last night about 6PM. Good friend begin telling me how one of his cows charged him, hit him in the chest with her head, then rolled him about six times. Said he got knocked down and then he keep trying to roll out of the way. Asked him if he needed me to get down there and give him some help. Asked if he was bleeding, broken bones, still in the field.....?

Said he got his glasses knocked off and he couldn't see very good and he was walking around trying to find them. Finally told me his wife was home, so I figured he'd be OK.

He shot the bull on the phone for a while (that's an expression), telling how he got his axx kicked by the cow, and I told him by tomorrow he'll be sore, real sore. Well, this morning .he called and said he thinks the cow may have stepped on his leg, it swollen and badly bruised.

Having worked on the family ranch and on the family dairy farm, I learned real quick, critters can kill ya!

 

[Runs With Scissors]

Glad your alright man

I made a similar mistake once at work. I took the guard off the grinding wheel to grind something too stubby to grab onto properly and the wheel grabbed my thumb.

Interestingly enough, the ER Dr. said that "It might grow back, but it might not. Everyone is different"

Apparently the human body has this 're-growth ability" at the ends of your fingers; There is no "magic number" to how much you can cut off and still have it grow back, but apparently my "magic number" is about 3/8 inch.

It took about 3 months, but I'll be damned if he wasn't right, it grew back.

Hope your feeling better.

 

[Yooper]

Of all the machinery I own, I think the bench grinder is the most prone to having an accident. If you think about it, most of the time you have your fingers right next to the dangerous part. And the gap between the wheel and the rest keeps growing if you don’t stay after it. OSHA looks for that on every inspection.

 

[lugbolt]

did similar on one of the first RTVX-1100's. The tips of the cooling fan stick out of the fan shroud under the seat and there is a weather strip in there that was loose making contact with the fan. Being boneheaded and, well, stupid (knowing better and doing it anyway) I grabbed the rubber strip to pull it away from the fan, fan grabbed the strip and pulled it and my hand into the are in a new york second. Before I knew what happened I saw the pink mist go everywhere and then a few seconds later the pain. Figured I'd lost the finger but I didn't--somehow.

And there's more to that story. At the time we got a new kubota service rep. The new rep came in and we were discussing things and he noticed my finger all wrapped up. I told him what happened and he said "huh"? So I took him out back & showed him where the tip of the fan protruded from the shroud, just barely-but enough. I also pointed out that there was no "danger fan" sticker there. I think he called every soul at Kubota, and they swarmed. There were a very few apparently that didn't get a sticker. I knew better that to put my hand/fingers near a spinning engine fan but did it anyway (yes, stupid) and admitted to it. But they made a big deal out of it. I laugh about it now but at the time it was pretty serious. Just another scar on my hands now. Wife was just asking me about all the scars the other night and I was able to explain most of them. 2 or 3 I couldn't remember how I got them.

 

[Lil Foot]

Of all the machinery I own, I think the bench grinder is the most prone to having an accident. If you think about it, most of the time you have your fingers right next to the dangerous part. And the gap between the wheel and the rest keeps growing if you don’t stay after it. OSHA looks for that on every inspection.

I posted this earlier, post #1 gives some background, post #2 is pertinent to Yooper's post.

Safety Police

I didn't want to hijack the Death of Common sense thread, so I thought I'd start a new one to regale you with a couple of Safety Police (Safety Nazis?) incidents. Background: The research group I worked for needed a small but capable machine shop to do prototyping, fixturing, repair work & the...

www.orangetractortalks.com

 

[chim]

Having worked on the family ranch and on the family dairy farm, I learned real quick, critters can kill ya!

I take care of the cows for a nephew when he's away. Not sure what those big black beasts weigh, but compared with them my 260-ish pounds is about like me swatting a styrofoam cup. When they're in the meadows they don't concern me much.

The pens are more confined. When I need to go in the pens I usually get them in a separate area or in headgates before going into the pens.