Wrenching Injuries

Working in a sealed computer mainframe room (doing building work) on my own . The fire prevention guys fitting a triple Argon gas room flooding system off to lunch ,I some how managed to trigger the 3 systems above ceiling ,in room and below computer floor. The warning bells that give you a few seconds to escape did not go off, Some instinct told me something was wrong and I strolled out . Whats the panic??. Big trouble. Not a wrenching injury ,I have had so many its hard to Know where to start. Cetainly I'm not safe to be around,workmates can come off worst.
 
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A friend, while helping a guy load a bike into a pickup truck, grabbed on to the front fork to lift when he somehow stuck his finger through the brake disk. As the bike rolled forward it neatly snipped off the tip of his finger.
One less nail to trim.
 
Last week I was up in the shed doing a job cutting a steel table frame to make it narrower for a project I am doing and using a grinder with a cut off wheel, well of course you can guess what happened, been working with steel and grinders all my working life without any accidents, but now retired the grinder decided to attack me, got me on the finger on my left hand, didn't even feel it till I saw all the blood, man did I bleed, the wife was visiting a friend up the road when the daughter phone her its the quickest she ever run in her whole life, I wasn't to concern, just a flesh wound I said, well she took me to the hospital, xrays, it was a big cut and the blood vessel was cut but missed the bone, 7 stitchers later one for the cut blood vessel and 6 for the finger and a numb finger from the needles to numb everything and a tetnis shot and a numb fingers for over 24 hours, and the wife just shacked her head and said "just a flesh wound hey" stitcher come out Friday and I still got to finish what I was doing, think I wear my welding gloves while cutting next time lol.
The nurse that did the clean up and stitches said this is the second one today she done from a grinder and is one of the most common home workshop accidents to happen, grinders and fingers, and I am always so carefull, can never let your gaurd down when using workshop tools.

Ashley
 
Been there. It happens every time that rooster dozes off and becomes complacent….Done this a bazillion times, what could go wrong?
You were lucky this time. Wait until you nick an artery and get to watch the spurts. The wife will ban you from the workshop for that one.
 
jbruney said:
Been there. It happens every time that rooster dozes off and becomes complacent….Done this a bazillion times, what could go wrong?
You were lucky this time. Wait until you nick an artery and get to watch the spurts. The wife will ban you from the workshop for that one.
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No she stays right away from me when working up in the shed, maybe she thinks it might be one way to get rid of me lol.
 
Guard, what guard, no it did have a guard on, it was the top of the grinder that got me, just had my left hand and finger in the wrong place at the wrong time
 
Pulling out an old door frame ,a shard of window glass came down on me and I did not notice. But I did notice a strange pattern on the walls and ceiling that followed me around. Blood squirting from the wrist!!.
 
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