TexasTimbers

My RN wife said do not pull it off. Say's they should have told you what to do and to call your doctor if you do not know what to so. Say's that it will come off naturally via showering/scabbing etc. but that it can be removed and changed if need be, but you need to have that done by your med personnel.

This does not constitute advice and is for informational purposes only.

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Robocop

I had finished a gazebo in the garden and decided to paint the wooden roof with black rubber paint, and on reaching the 5th step of my ladder i slipped and broke my leg and bones in my foot, a nasty break and as a result i lost it 6" below the knee! That was a year and half ago i'm now back on 2 feet bac in my woodshop and turning and cutting. BE Careful on ladders! I spent 25 yrs roofing and fell 4ft in my back yard and ended up with one. On the bright side i can still do woodwork in my shop.

Gus

gknight312

In 1951, my Dad was working on an industrial insulation job in Alabama. It was winter and the job was outside in the weather. The crew used a bandsaw they had sheltered under a tarp to cut their material as needed.

It was cold and windy and Dad had on some cotton work gloves. As he pushed the material into the saw, the blade caught his glove and pulled his hand in. The results were catastrophic. His fingers were severed and he was left with only his thumb and forefinger on the right hand. After he recovered, he returned to work and continued his trade until his death from asbestosis in 1981.

I worked as his apprentice on and off when I was in high school and prior to leaving for military service. Many times, I witnessed him taking a fresh pair of cotton gloves and cutting three fingers off of the right one before he used them. With no fingers to fill the glove, the empties just got in the way.

Of the many things he taught me by example, one in particular has stayed with me for the past forty years. It’s what he did after cutting the glove. No matter what site we were on, he would take the three fingers and find a bandsaw on the job. There most always was one, but if there wasn’t, he would find a radial arm or table saw being use by the craft workers. Then, he would methodically tape the three fingers up on the top wheel housing or the beam of the radial arm, etc, in plain view of anyone who used the saw. This served as a silent, but graphic, warning that the men should not wear gloves while operating a saw.

As I progressed through apprenticeship, I traveled to jobs that my Dad was not on. Occasionally, I’d see a bandsaw on the site with Dad’s three glove fingers sticking on it from a previous job.

His thumb and forefinger were unbelievably strong, since they served him as all five fingers. They became somewhat of a lethal weapon, enabling him to deliver a stinging thump without warning. It was on more than one occasion, I received the dreaded thump behind the ear for wearing gloves while using a saw.

Today, even though I have my ten digits – so far, there are three fingers of an old glove taped to the upper wheel housing of my bandsaw in my shop.

Rest in peace, Old Man, I still remember.

jaguar75

Very simple solution to this that the nurse at the hand surgeon's office had to use cause the idiot nurse in the ER placed untreated gauze over my fingertips (See previous post from my table saw injury - Photos included for your enjoyment). After 2 days the blood had dried into the gauze and started to scab over and "Heal"... When I went to the hand surgeon to make sure that there was no permanent damage the nurse "pulled" off the first bandage and it ripped away..I have NEVER felt pain like that before and keep in mind that when I was playing football I broke more bones than I can remember and have been under the knife several times so I am no stranger to pain...So to sum up this long winded story she filled a bowl with peroxide and I soaked my fingers in it for about 20 minutes eventually it dissolved a significant portion of the dried blood and softened up the rest enough that she AND I were able to slowly peel the rest of the gauze away...I am not saying its still not gonna hurt but it significantly lessened the pain...I would also suggest a bottle of wine or spirit of your choice...lol...

The most obvious thing though is to contact the doctor that did the work cause apparently the intended result did not occur.

Danno

Thanks for the reply guys. It is starting to come off on its own now, and I'm actually starting to be able to use the thumb again. I'll post some pics soon.

Sleeper

Wow, this is a long thread. I don’t think I want to read that far back, but I guess I’ll add to it.

It happened about 50 years ago when I was 10. My dad gave me a band saw and the deal was that he had to be there when I used it. My dad used it too, so I guess it wasn’t really mine. Oh I forgot, the other part of the deal was that I wasn’t supposed to tell my mother about the saw.

Anyway I was making a box while he was at work and I discovered that my box was not square after nailing on the bottom. I decide to make it square without taking it apart and cut it as a box. Well I end up cutting the tip off my thumb. It was just a hunk of meat hanging by a small piece of flesh. I panicked and taped it back together without telling anybody for fear of having my saw taken away. I cleaned up all the blood and told my mom that I was tired and went to bed without dinner so that she would not see my thumb. I managed to avoid everyone for about a week until I noticed that the thumb was healed enough to take off the tape.

Neither my mom nor my dad ever found out and there is barely a scar. The only way that I remember is that I severed a nerve and every once in a while the nerves touch and it feels like a shock.

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"I do what I do well, but I still like to dabble in what I don’t do well"

Av8rTx

Working in my attic, re-wiring the bathroom light fixture, been up there alot, was familiar with the ceiling joist etc.....or so I thought. I looked down at what I believed was the top plate of the bathroom wall, stepped on it and in a flash was hanging into my bathroom suspended by the ceiling joist. Minor scrapes and a really nifty 2x6 shaped bruise across my back. My wife nonchalantly calls from the living room "are you ok?" and all I can do is mumble "No"

about 13 years old, trying to burn trash atthe farm, when that was still the thing to do. I had seen my grandfather pour a little diesel fuel on it and light it with no problems. So I poured some reddish colored fuel on the trash, it was windy, cant light the match, so I lean down into the brarrel, strike the match and sudenly a horrific "woosh" and blinding light as the gasoline, not diesel ignited a huge fire ball into the sky! I fell back into a barbed wire fence sans eyebrows or bangs.

So far only close calls and creepy unsettling feelings that make me stop and rethink what Im doing when it comes to power tools.

I did drop a small floor jack on my toe, had a stack of rims fall on my foot and break a toe though.