Ouch

[onedash]

I knew a kid who cut off two fingers with a circular saw. He seen em fly across the room. Didnt feel a thing.

I picked up a box once and there was a big old treble hook stuck on it. My finger then was stuck to the box and extremely painfull. You think my wife would have came to assist with all the shouting but no. I got the box back down and managed to rip the hook out of the box.
I then proceeded to try and remove it from my finger. It was only in to the barb. Well I tried to numb it with ice and pull it out. I had my wife try and she couldnt. Had to go to the emergency room who sent me to acute care who then sent me back to the ER. A shot wiggle and yank and it was out.
Glad im not a fish.......couldnt imagine it in my mouth......

[Pappy]

That sounds painful. Don't do that again!

[meika123]

I am really sorry to hear about your injury. Now can we see some pictures?

Sorry, but a picture would never do it justice. It hit at the rear of the thumb nail, splitting it, and barely glanced the bone on its way through my thumb.
Even in this I can see something positive. If the nail had hit the bone dead center, I would've really had a mess.
Used the same nailer yesterday, but it certainly did feel strange.

Dave in NC

[Ed62]

The Extreme Makeover folks were in Columbus recently. One of the crew ran a circular saw across the palm of this hand. It took about 6 hours of surgery to repair. I still can't figured out how you can do that. But when your building a house in 5-6 days accidents can happen

I know one way it can happen. Another of my sons was, get this, ripping a 2X4 while holding the end behind the kerf. A kickback cost him 1 finger, and part of another. It was just about this time of year (early Dec.). and he had a very miserable Christmas.

Ed

[Mrs. Wallnut]

Glad that there wasn't too much damage done do your thumb.

Now here is a similar story but not about me or Mark. My dad was doing construction with my uncle and they were nailing the ply to the roof of a house and using 16 penny nails that were about 3.5 inches long. He was in a "groove" so to speak and when he let go of the trigger of the nail gun it didn't stop , was jammed so in his trying to get it unstuck he kept moving it and ended up putting a nail in his big toe THROUGH HIS NEW BOOTS. So to get him off the roof my uncle went into the house and beat the nail up through that wood and got him down from the roof and down to the ER. Nail didn't hit any bones or anything and he had a heck of a bruise and a hole in his toe. Now he was mad at the nurses in the ER because they cut his new boots off of his foot.

[Stan]

Thought I'd throw another 'watch out' in the mix here. Ya know how whenever your using a brad nailer you keep your fingers away from the exit side of the stock to make sure you don't get hit by a brad that angles into the stock rather than going straight in?

Well, was using the brad gun with 2" brads attaching some Hickory face frames to cabinets. Shot a brad and watched in amazement as about 1-1/2" of the brad came right back out the top of the face frame.
The brad did a complete 180, and sure surprised the heck out of me. Lot of times I'll have my thumb fairly close to the head of the nailer holding things in place -- that ain't gonna happen any more.