Bloodiest Shop Work Story Ever

[Steve C]

Hi

I’m always leaving a trail of blood around the garage.

Three things come to mind, ever been welding or grinding under a car and had hot slag or metal go down your ear? It hurts.

This one was scary, I was cutting some metal out of the back of a bug I was wrecking, the car was just a shell, I was laying sort of kneeling on the right hand side floor of the car, cutting out the rear luggage area with an angle grinder, grinder bit into the metal, it jumped out of my hands, went past my face and landed on my foot which was near the pedal area, went through my leather shoes cutting the top my ankle and big toe, then ripped my jeans, the grinder didn’t have a dead man switch, lucky I was wearing leather gauntlets and face mask.

Tried removing the moulded rubbers from my 944 spring plates with a cheap steak knife, cut tendons in my left index finger, my finger still doesn’t work right.

Steve

[thelazerviking]

i guy i used to work with got some slag in his ear while he was grinding and went deaf in that ear for 2 months or so

[ericglooker]

last fall in HS metal shop I was grinding welds on an aluminum part I was fabricating with an toothed air powerd grinder called "the ninja saw," without gloves ,and once I was done grinding, I went to set the grinder down with out looking and before it had stopped spinning I set it on my lef index finger and cut from the tip to the second nuckle (halfway up my finger), through my tenden and nail bed. This happened at 9:30 AM and I didnt have surgery until 7:00 PM that night. I passed out twice that day from shock. After surgery I spent six weeks with a stainless steel pin in my finger so that my tenden would regrow properly.

today I have a pretty nice scar up my finger and I have two little finger nails, but I still have complete use of my finger.