Ouch!

[KC0KBH]

While running my oil burner that I made involving a computer fan to heat the shed, I was shutting it down because it was not working right. I took the fan out while running, and it hit my right little finger. I saw it was bleeding, but my hands were too dirty to see where. I washed them, and one of them dang little blades got between my finger nail and skin. That really hurts! Like one big paper cut! Second time in 2 weeks that finger has been bleeding due to a little computer fan and the finger getting caught in it. Anyone else get hurt by a computer fan?

[NCHams]

Interesting topic. yes i've never got hurt over that. 2 months i was cutting somthing with a Winchester Knife with some rope to hold a radio antenna. So come to find out i cut my little finger. I thought I lost 2 quarts of blood that night. two weeks later I thoght it was better I had and itch. Then other 2 quarts. Got to love it. I have a nice little mark still their from it. 73 take care

[KC0KBH]

My hands get so cut up. Mainly because I think, "I don't need leather gloves now", or I took them off because I am putting something with little pieces back together. On my right hand alone there must be at least 5 or 6 cuts and scars right now, and a burn on my left hand because I neglected to wear gloves while loading up the wood stove. It didn't get as bad as it could have, since I ran outside and put snow on it.

[N4AUD]

Reading about your accident made me cringe and reminded me of one that happened several years ago when the toddler daughter of a co-worker found a "clothes shaver" and applied it to her tongue! It bled a lot but no real damage was done. It makes me cringe 15 years later.

PS to avoid burns, never try to catch a soldering iron that gets dropped! I have the scar to show you why you shouldn't.

[KC0KBH]

Or pick up a soldering iron by the wrong end. Or test if it is hot with your finger.

This fan incident is not as bad as when I was pushing a minibike back in the shed and the handlebars turned, it fell, and my finger got crushed between an aluminum casting's sharp edge and the gas tank. Cut my fingernail and finger, and half of the fingernail fell off after a few days. My finger really looked gross then. Mainly what really hurts now is that the skin was torn from the nail and it is still bleeding somewhat. Probably wont hurt tomorrow unless I touch it. Another tip-
When jumping off the bottom 3 or 4 stairs to the floor, don't jump high, or else you will hit your head on the trim. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif Learned that one yesterday. ;)

[KC7UP]

Here is the most stupid thing.. Many years ago, when I did smoke, I pushed in the cigarette lighter in the car to light my smoke. When it popped out it didn't look hot---sooo put my thumb on the coil and smoke and stink from burning flesh came up. I was very lucky I had thick calluse's on the thumb or I would have had a problem. As it turned out I caused no injury, just scared me.
Curt

[w5lda]

Ya gotta love it when hot solder drops on your crotch. You tend to learn new dance steps quickly

[wb6bcn]

It is called the "Law Of Selective Gravity"

Fingers get in the path of hammers and fan blades.

My nineteen year old son took his lightbulb out of the socket, and poked his finger in, to test if it was still working. It was!

[WA2ZDY]

Quote[/b] (m3xwg @ Dec. 26 2005,05:25)]My nineteen year old son took his lightbulb out of the socket, and poked his finger in, to test if it was still working. It was!
Ouch, and you folks have 220 mains over there too. #Whew!

KBH - if this is the second time you've gotten hurt by a puter fan you need to reevaluate your work over there. #Once is ok, we all make mistakes. #But twice in two weeks?

Be glad #you weren't a ham 20 years ago when 800 volts was commonly found in most ham rigs. #You might not have gotten a chance to make the same mistake twice.

[KC9ECI]

If I don't bleed at least once daily, I haven't been to work. I've stapled my finger to a table with an inch and a half narrow crown staple, burned myself with hot melt, had my hand caught in a clamp on a horizontal point to point boring machine, had boards kicked back into my abdominal region by tablesaws, fallen through floors, down stairs...that was a good one, I hooked my SCBA facemask and helmet on the handrail and darn near took my head off...the list goes on. I'm one massive owie.

[KC9ECI]

Oh yeah...I fell out of a fire truck one day putting a flashlight away and smacked the back of my head on the cement floor in the station and spent the night in the hospital for that.

[WA2ZDY]

Your job has special hazards though. That's understandable and not carelessness.

[N1MLF]

I gotta nice scar on my forearm to remind me how to properly ground out a CRT. Damn that was +20 yrs ago.

Never work on a live 220 panel with your pager/phone in your pocket set to viberate.. Mr. Murphy is guaranteed to call.

Some wind-up wrist watches sound exactly like something arcing.

An antenna can build up much more static than you think it might.

When you'er up to your elbows in a live circuit something's gonna make a loud noise..wife, kid, neighbors truck backfires.. count on it.

A gun will not discharge without help.. neither will a capacitor.

Each of the aforementioned have cost me some blood and to say the least a few brief moments of sheer terror & panic. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

YMMV

All the best..JW..

[VE1IDX]

Quote[/b] (k1alk @ Dec. 25 2005,23:40)]PS to avoid burns, never try to catch a soldering iron that gets dropped! #I have the scar to show you why you shouldn't.
Oh man I know about that.Several years ago I was in one of our production studios doing some work under the audio console.I placed the 45 watt soldering iron in is stand on top of the console and while crawling back out from under it I knocked it down.Out of instinct I tried to catch it in my arms.I did.The right one.I have the "nice" scar to prove it too.Damn that hurt.I also like N1MLF's comment about working on the 220 v panel with the pager on vibrate.I had my head stuck inside a Gates BC-1J transmitter that would intermittently have an arc somewhere around the RF driver board.I had my pager on vibrate and it was on my hip pressing against the cabinet.The panels really made that little bugger hum and buzz when it went off.Good thing the tX did not arc at the same time even though I thought it did.

[KC0KBH]

Quote[/b] (WA2ZDY @ Dec. 25 2005,23:02)]Quote[/b] (m3xwg @ Dec. 26 2005,05:25)]My nineteen year old son took his lightbulb out of the socket, and poked his finger in, to test if it was still working. It was!
Ouch, and you folks have 220 mains over there too. Whew!

KBH - if this is the second time you've gotten hurt by a puter fan you need to reevaluate your work over there. Once is ok, we all make mistakes. But twice in two weeks?

Be glad you weren't a ham 20 years ago when 800 volts was commonly found in most ham rigs. You might not have gotten a chance to make the same mistake twice.
The first one was on a 120mm fan I was testing on the power supply that slipped from my hands. The second one also slipped. Dang things. I must have gotten hurt by them 5 or 6 times now in which they draw blood.

[AG3Y]

Quote[/b] (wb6bcn @ Dec. 26 2005,01:38)]It is called the "Law Of Selective Gravity"

Fingers get in the path of hammers and fan blades.
Yah, I remember that law! # I had a drop of solder fall off an iron right into the side of my thumb. #It burned its way into the skin quite a ways before cooling off ! #I still have the scar to remind me!

My boy in his youth, discovered that a soldering iron had a cool end and a hot end ! #He still has that scar to remind him, too ! #And that was many years ago !

73, and "thanks for the memories" # #

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Jim

[N4AUD]

I have to tell this after MLF's admonition about loud noises.

Several years ago, I had gotten laid off at an automotive bearing plant. I signed up for an electronics/home electrical/appliance repair class while I job hunted. The class was largely made up of guys like me who had been laid off from various jobs or who were looking for something different, but there was one old codger who took the class who didn't work and probably never had or would. He had missed the hygene classes in school. He was NASTY. I doubt he ever took a bath or washed his clothes. He would go dumpster diving and bring in all kinds of sickeningly dirty stuff to work on. We were allowed and encouraged to bring in stuff to repair but some of the things he brought in had LIQUID dripping off of it from whatever garbage pile or dumpster he had scrounged it from. We tried to subtly and not so subtly get him to bathe and not bring in this nausea-creating refuse to no avail. One day he brought in a TV he had gotten out of a trash pile. It had food and other crap all over it, but he was going to work on it. We had a lunch break, and one of the other students found a LOUD horn, one of those annoying alarm things, and it was deafening. He installed it in the old TV with a switch at his own position. The nasty old guy came back in after lunch, and was head and shoulders into the television when the other guy set the alarm off. The other guy literally stood up with the TV on his head. Fortunately he wasn't hurt. He quit that day, to our relief.
Sounds kind of cruel written down this way, but so was his BO.

[wv6z]

hot solder, silk boxers................. say no more. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

[NCHams]

My dad is a firefighter...anyways one day he was picking up a propare torch to warm up so any ways picking it up the wrong way he had a nice burn their. Just a interneting topic here

[wv6z]

Quote[/b] (NCHams @ Dec. 25 2005,16:27)]My dad is a firefighter...anyways one day he was picking up a propare torch to warm up so any ways picking it up the wrong way he had a nice burn their. Just a interneting topic here
.................. but painfull! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[NCHams]

yes it is....we all do stupid stuff and forget

[KC0KBH]

Quote[/b] (NCHams @ Dec. 26 2005,09:27)]My dad is a firefighter...anyways one day he was picking up a propare torch to warm up so any ways picking it up the wrong way he had a nice burn their. Just a interneting topic here
That reminds me...
A few years ago I was starting a fire with a propane torch. Had the fire almost going, and shut the torch off and rested the tip on a log so it would not get full of dirt. I must have had the torch running 5 mins previous to that. I got up, and pushed on the log I had set the torch on, not looking to push myself up. I pushed the palm of my hand right on the torch tip. Big burn. Here is the worst part-
About 2 weeks later I was running down to the pond, in the morning, with lots of dew on the grass. I wear my rubber boots so much that the bottoms get worn smooth. Our dog, a large German Shepherd was running past me, when he jumped right out in front of me, hit me, and I slipped and fell. The blister was still huge from the burn. As I fell, I stuck my hand out to brace myself. When I landed, the blister popped. That hurt!!!!

[VE1IDX]

I can still remember many years ago when my father was a welder.He was using the oxygen/acetelene torch to cut some plate steel and was in a tight spot half inside some heavy construction equipment and the molten metal dripped down into his workboot severly burning his ankle.By the time he practically beat himself to death to get out and get his boot off the molten metal had cooled and was stuck deep into his ankle.That took a really long time to heal.I can't imagine what that would feel like.Oh yeah,he said it really smelled bad too.

[n0jaa]

I fell UP the stairs once.

[VE1IDX]

Quote[/b] (n0jaa @ Dec. 27 2005,18:40)]I fell UP the stairs once.
That's the only way my mother ever falls on the stairs,is up.Must be the short legs and high stair risers on the basement steps that gives her problems. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif

[NCHams]

To love fire alot but you have to be careful around it. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif Remember that