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