After 30 years of quickly de-burring countless holes with one of these I had a fast accident.

I was holding a small part in the palm of my left hand cutting a burr from a 1/4" hole when the curved blade broke in half. This happened as my circular motion with my right hand was swinging towards my left wrist....

Broken shank....straight through the meaty part of my lower thumb/palm

I couldn't get the leaking sob to slow down so it was off to the ER.

7 nice blue stitches and back to work!



Un-broken cutter and the broken lil bastard sitting under it

Shit happens, BTDT.

damn it , sorry to hear

Ouch,
Like Craigster said $hit happens. Got the scar from the carving tool I rammed into my thumb. Glad it is on the other hand away from the scar from running my trigger finger over the table saw blade.

Best you can do is learn from it.

That is terrible!

Last year we had some friends here shooting.

One visitor shot the Desert Eagle 44 Magnum, pressed the magazine release button and handed it to me.

The magazine did not fall out, and I held the pistol by the action and barrel ahead of the trigger.

As it this the magazine fell out, and the action closed.

cutting a channel in the front of my palm almost an inch long, and a quarter wide!!

There was blood everywhere, and bloody painful too!

I'm impressed! This is a gentleman who documents everything, and with excellent photography, too.

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Originally posted by Brice:
I'm impressed! This is a gentleman who documents everything, and with excellent photography, too.

No not at all....my 50 hour work week of sparks and chips is normally to boring to "document" or photograph

Just a pass along to be aware as I have yet to have one of these tools break on me

But the again....after 30 years most jobs were old hat a long time ago.

Well, if it's a special event, I guess you're doing pretty good Ted. I know some fawkers that seem to rip chunks off of their carcasses almost daily. And I know other guys that can casually wander through a running wood chipper and never get a scratch.

I don't think being careful and safety conscious have a lot to do with it. Its simple three dimensional thinking all the time that keeps you out of trouble. (If I do this, whats gonna happen?) But everyone gets caught sooner or later. LOL

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I don't think being careful and safety conscious have a lot to do with it. Its simple three dimensional thinking all the time that keeps you out of trouble. (If I do this, whats gonna happen?) But everyone gets caught sooner or later. LOL

I've found that my two major accidents were both at the end of the day. I was tired and just wanted to do that last little step and didn't take the time to think it through.

Also found that now at my age my skin is so thin that I can cut my hands with a marble.

Just glad your hand wasn't worse.

Won't use them as over my career in the shop I've taken approx 5 guys to ER for exact same results & after seeing them + the ones that just pulled back together with a bandaid a 3 sided file sharpened to a point became my deburring tool of choice.

m4220

Of course, I know what everyone here is really either to polite or too scared to ask. Of course, having fallen down frequently as a child and having been bonked on the head repeatedly during many marriages, I no longer have any fear of neither man nor beast and damned few women.

So what is the story for that scar going to be in 20 years Ted? A knife fight with 20 heavily armed drug runners? Choking a wounded cape buffalo to death with your bare hands? Going into a triple salchow followed by a double axel and catching an edge? Or trying to take a lollipop away from a mean little, teething kid?

I just know it's gonna be a good one.
We're waitin ? ! ? ! ? !

LOL

99.999% of our tool shops minor injuries are fixed with a band-aid. We have yet to have a single lost time accident in nearly 40 years.

The most dangerous machines in our shop has to be the lathes.

Anyone who has ever ran one hard with high RPM, high feed rates knows what I'm talking about.

For those who have never seen a chuck through a brush pile of chips at 1600....you ain't livin!!

As for a story.....I'm not sure on that one

The triage nurse did ask me if I had any thoughts of hurting myself or hurting anyone else today or ever before.

I told her no.......but the day ain't over yet

And like probably the majority of machine shop injuries, you succumb to nearly disemboweling yourself with a petty, hand tool worth $4.00 on EBay. Yeah, your grand kids will sleep right through that one.

Don't be a boring drinking companion or a bad Grandpa Ted. Always start your stories with some large and unpredictable, sentient beast! Then try to end with: "And that's how I almost cut off my hand!"

LOL

".....And the split second the cobra lunged at her neck, I made a wild grab to catch it. Unfortunately my timing was off and the snakes fangs went into my hand but at least it was not deep into her neck. Right away the world started getting dim but fortunately the native trackers carried me to a nearby village where the Pygmy witch doctor healed me by cutting open my palm and sucking out the poison. It is very interesting as the Pygmys make one cut across both bite marks and not the little X's that we do here in the States. If you look closely you can faintly see the holes left by the fangs, though they have faded over the years....."

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".....And the split second the cobra lunged at her neck, I made a wild grab to catch it. Unfortunately my timing was off and the snakes fangs went into my hand but at least it was not deep into her neck. Right away the world started getting dim but fortunately the native trackers carried me to a nearby village where the Pygmy witch doctor healed me by cutting open my palm and sucking out the poison. It is very interesting as the Pygmys make one cut across both bite marks and not the little X's that we do here in the States. If you look closely you can faintly see the holes left by the fangs, though they have faded over the years....."

Not bad Mark. But I almost nodded off when you ended up with a slight scar and two tiny puncture marks. Not with: "How you almost lost your FREAKIN ARM!"

Work on that a bit. lol

Wow- that really sucks, Ted. Kinda the way it is sometimes that hand tools can be pretty dangerous. De-burring is one of my least favorite tasks, just because I always think this sort of thing is going to happen.

Mend well!

Bummer Ted that's a sore one. It will heal nicely being on the pad. I had similar on the right hand, being a lefty,with a faint white scar the only evidence. Do try keep it clean.Bestjc

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Originally posted by speerchucker30x378:

Not bad Mark. But I almost nodded off when you ended up with a slight scar and two tiny puncture marks. Not with: "How you almost lost your FREAKIN ARM!"

Work on that a bit. lol

Oh darn did I leave out the part where the arm swelled up as big as a hippo's front leg, and had the whole arm had turned grey as an elephants trunk? You could even see the upper arm turning grey where the poison was working its way under the tourniquet. The bone-white contrast from the fang marks was striking, but when the arm healed and shrank back to a normal size the fang marks shrunk too. Plus the witch doctor was using this medicine he made from herbs and scorpion venom. It did a good job of neutralizing the snake poison but when the witch doctor was applying it (he would chew it up in his mouth and spit it on the wound while muttering some ancient pygmy spell) it burned so bad you felt like you were dipping your entire arm in molten lava.

Some of us are more dangerous in the morning. Five stiches from lathe chips last week. That is one nice step mic.
Bill

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That is one nice step mic.

Thank You
I made it nearly 20 years ago...same time frame I made the dial depth gauge also.

Ouch.... Bet that's going to be sore.

Like my daddy used to say "it'll feel good when it stops hurtin".

Lots of scars on working hands for sure mine have many.

Took 80 stitches to the tongue once.
Not a good day.

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Originally posted by brad may:
Took 80 stitches to the tongue once.
Not a good day.

Suffice to say, you never put your tongue in there again !

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Originally posted by speerchucker30x378:

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Originally posted by brad may:
Took 80 stitches to the tongue once.
Not a good day.

Suffice to say, you never put your tongue in there again !

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Originally posted by ted thorn:

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Originally posted by young bill:
That is one nice step mic.

Thank You
I made it nearly 20 years ago...same time frame I made the dial depth gauge also.

It is a shame this is a thing of the past. I am amazed at some of the tools I have purchased from older tool makers. Now it is considered "government work" and most times forbidden.

We had to turn in an itemized list of our tools some time back for insurance reasons here at the plant to HR. My replacement cost topped 25k.....some of the stuff I thought I just had to have or couldnt live without now gathers dust in many many Kennedy tool box drawers.....WISH I could get fifty cents on the dollar for a lot of it

I have made everything from 3R 20mm tooling, vices, angle plates, V blocks to magnetic parallels that hold in any direction.

All on my own time....on my dime

Thank you for posting your experience. I hope you heal quickly. Will you get rid of that tool now, or just use it differently?

Also, I'd be interested in hearing about your favorite tools and the tools you use most. I think others would be interested as well.

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Originally posted by jpl:
Thank you for posting your experience. I hope you heal quickly. Will you get rid of that tool now, or just use it differently?

Also, I'd be interested in hearing about your favorite tools and the tools you use most. I think others would be interested as well.

My most used tool is my Noga magnetic base and Brown and Sharp black 1 1/2" faced test indicator

But I doubt anyone cares to see drawers of Mold Makers tools

A thread of its own might be interesting to show neat or useful tools for tooling....

I could start one if there is enough interest

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Originally posted by ted thorn:

A thread of its own might be interesting to show neat or useful tools for tooling....

I could start one if there is enough interest

By all means Ted, that would be quite interesting and informative.

My worst accidents have occurred on days when I got up thinking: Today I'm really going to kick butt. So, I say, hasten slowly.

I love the EDM'd name plates on the tools. Classy!!

I'm impressed. Even the wounds look professional.

Back when I was in the construction bus. I learned that most accidents occur toward the end of the day, when people are tired. So we scheduled safer work and clean-up accordingly.

Blood is Gods way of reminding you that you still have a pulse