Safety - Warning - Dont view if uneasy with stitches!

ouch.!!

-- making sawdust....

Nasty!

-- Eric, www.themorningwoodshow.com

That’s gonna leave a mark!

Get better soon.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

YEOOOO. Man thats gotta smart. Get momma to kiss it and make it all better.

-- Adrian ..... The 11th Commandment...."Thou Shalt Not Buy A Wobble Dado"

ouch again

-- making sawdust....

Good luck healing.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Was it a pull the hand away accident?

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

That is a real bummer. At times we get complacent about the tools we are using. Too often we take the expedient route rather than one which is safer but more cumbersome.

You will be in my thoughts and prayers.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

Yea it’ll leave a mark,,,,been there done that. Mine had thirty-seven :o(

-- Les, Wichita, Ks. (I'd rather be covered in saw dust!)

Ah, it’s just a flesh wound. All kidding aside, though, how did it happen?

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

I can identify with table saw accidents! Almost cut one of mine off, too! Thank God it healed fine!!

Now ia take all the time to make sure all my safety equipment is in place before cutting. A lost finger is a huge price to pay for 30 seconds of laziness!

I am glad you will heal with all 10 fingers. I truly hope you get back to cutting soon, though!

God Bless,
Hawg

-- Saving barnwood from the scrapyards

thanks to my chisel i still cant feel my finger tip, im feelin your pain! or at least was feeling it….

-- the journy of a thousand miles begins with a single step " Lou-Tzu"

lesson one: don’t touch the table saw blade when it is spinning

lesson two: ......

lesson three ….

that had to hurt ! ................. ouch !!!

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

This was a job for “Saw Stop”....that definatly looks like it hurt!

-- David, South Windsor, CT "I love the smell of sawdust in the morning"

And what did we learn from this?

No joking around here, you got off lucky. I’ve seen too many guys with nubs and wicked scarring that proves their insouciance around power tools makes them all too eligible for a Darwin Awards nomination. I have had close calls BUT have been essentially saved by answering a basic question before hitting the on switch.

~ Where are my hands? ~

And besides, no, and I mean NO “safety” device can make up for poor/bad working habits. Handyman Dan, you have my sympathy with the following story as caveat.

I worked in a small cabinet shop as a young adult and saw first hand what can happen when your mind isn’t on your work. A coworker was chatter-boxing while feeding boards to a 12” jointer. He broke his form and swapped hands during a pass and before he could grab the board it shot out from underneath his grip and he fed the palm of his hand to the jointer. I had the dubious honor of driving him to the hospital and then cleaning his blood from the machine as I was the chucklehead he was chatting up.

After a years worth of visits to the skin grafter he returned to the shop whereby the boss called us both into his office and explained that there was a zero tolerance policy against stupidity while operating ANY of his machines. It was simply too costly to keep people on that didn’t have more sense than to feed their appendages to machinery. He fired us both.

I should have saw it coming as he only allowed me to sweep up and do heavy lifting during the time of my coworker’s absence. He even canceled the Christmas party that year due to the increased workload of being shorthanded and in hindsight I think the deductible on his insurance was probably pretty severe as well.

The bottom line is this, we only come with one set of each of what our maker gave us. Our current medical technology is not at the replacement level that Luke Skywalker enjoyed after losing a hand to a light saber.

So till then, take care and be aware.

-- "Imagination is more important than knowledge" -- Albert Einstein

I’ve got one of those but it runs across the thumb. Not quite as many stitches. You sure will not do it again. Makes for memories. Get well soon.

-- Thos. Angle

Well, that is a great advertisement for the “Saw Stop” Take care and cut the wood – not the flesh.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

My bonehead mistake that taught me to respect the tools: I needed to adjust the depth of a router bit. I reached around behind the router to unclamp the motor. Oh, did I mention I hadn’t let the router come to a full and complete stop? Instead of grabbing the clamp my finger went into the area of the spinning bit. I was lucky in that it went on the side that was pushing instead of pulling. It pushed my finger out, but only after peeling back about a 1/2” long piece of meat. Didn’t need any stitches, my wife, an RN, put some butterflies tape across it to hold the skin down. I have a nice little scar and a bit of numbness at the site. Moral of the story: alway wait till anything turning comes to a full and complete stop before putting any vital body parts near it.

-- Owen Johnson - aka IowaWoodcrafter

That is a definite ouch! Proof of experience, isn’t it?

-- "Give me your poor tools, your tired steel, your huddled masses of rust." Yep, I ripped off the Statue of Liberty. That's how I roll!

You know, I was always told that there are two kinds of woodworkers – those that have had a stitches accident…..and those that are going to I guess after 30 years, I’m initiated now!

-- Dan

OUCH! Heal quickly, and let us know how it is going.

-- Al Navas, St Joseph, MO, http://sandal-woodsblog.com

Oh man..owwwwww! Get well soon.

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

Dan, That is a pretty ugly reminder to think about safety everytime I use a power tool.

Mend quickly and get back to making beautify things of wood.

Dalec

I can feel it throb from here. Ouch

-- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them

OUCH.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Got one of those also years ago, but not that bad. Mine was helping a neighbor, I was tired, end of the day, end of the project, using his old dull table saw, hurrying to finish, What more can I say. All the signs were telling me to stop.

-- Ron in Osseo, Minnesota