ouch

YIKES!! Man you’re in my prayers! Get well soon!!

-- Matt, Houston Texas

OUCH! for sure…..so very sorry to hear about this. Best wishes and a speedy recovery.

-- Can't never could do anything, to try is to advance.

Sorry to hear and see, hope you recover soon.

-- "You get what you inspect, not what you expect"

Sorry to hear about your injury. Take care

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

It must have been hard to share this… You are in our prayers!!!

-- Derrel Frankfort, KY

OUCH OUCH OUCH!!!! Hurts my hand just reading and looking at the pics. No how you feel though. I hit myself with a biscuit joiner. That was a new adventure in pain. Sorry for your pain.

-- Rick

My sympathies friend. Wish you a speedy recovery. Cheers.

-- You know.... I think that old wood needs to be furniture.

Get well soon!!

-- My job is to give my kids things to discuss with their therapist....medic20447@gmail.com

I too am sorry to hear about this. Two words of advice for the next few days. Keep the drugs flowing and keep that hand up. I wish you the best recovery. It’s going to take a little time but you will be making sawdust soon enough. Take this time to spend with the family and get that hand working right again.

Sorry to hear about this. However thanks for sharing. Maybe this will convince my administration to invest in Saw stops. Best of luck on recovery.

Sorry for your injury. Quick grips got me through the tougher times in my own injury, well and pain killers… I’ll post some pictures of the screws they put my shoulder back together with, in the off chance that it will help. The typing does get faster, eventually.

Best wishes for speedy healing.

-- P.O.C.

Mate that is a bad one, recovery is a long road but just stick with it you will be on top again soon. I Dont believe a sawstop is the answer they just make people lazy Sorry of that sounds insensitive ,but look on the bright side, having butt hair on your hand is great for scaring little kids and its a great icebreaker at parties Get well soon .

-- if the hand is not working it is not a pure hand

Best of luck healing and to a quick recovery. It is a good object lesson to the rest of us.

Al

-- Al Holstein

Pain is a good teacher. GWS

-- Dan, Sterling Alaska, http://sullcon.homestead.com/ Before you criticise some one, walk a mile in their shoes...then you will be a mile away and you have their shoes!

Been there bud, almost identical thing happened to me in 1997. Tip of middle finger left hand passed over 3/4 dado set and shattered the bone, 2 surgeries later and many years, help but you’ll never forget. The day it happened, I got back from hospital, first thing I did was walked over to the saw, turned it on, and stood there looking at it running. Told the saw, it was not going to stop me, to this day, running the dados brings back the memories, and makes me think safety first, as it should. Good luck in recovery, and prayers are with you.

-- Dan Wiggins

here’s to wishing you a speedy recovery.

-- www.darrylmasterson.com ~ www.darrylmasterson.etsy.com

Hi aldente;

I’m sorry I didn’t get to welcome you to the site before this happened.

What a way to say hello.

I hope all goes well with your hand, and my heart goes out to you.

Again, wishing you the best.

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

Wow, hope the doctors will be able to patch you up.
As somebody that has had three shop accidents, first one with a jointer, not using push blocks.
The next one was with a router and a raibbit bit, somebody else in the shop talking to me, not their fault, mine for being inatentive.
And the last was with a CMS, went to grab the board and move it before the saw blade quit spinning. Was in a hurry and just not being smart.
Now I stop working on machines when somebody else is in the shop, Now I take my time and not get in a hurry. And now I always use push blocks and/or push sticks.

The weird thing for me is that the pain from the injuries was so intense that even tho its been a few years since the last one, at times I get that adreniline rush just thinking about it.

Thanks for posting

-- MISSION FURNITURE-My mission is to build furniture

Hope that you have a speedy recovery and are soon painless.

-- RTB. "dumb animals are not stupid they simply can't talk "

I hope you have a speedy recovery. Your mentioning your dad reminds me of a Paul Harvey story. He mentioned a lady team roper one day who had lost her thumb taking the dally on her saddle horn. She said it was Ok since she and her husband matched again! He had lost his thumb doing the same thing. If it’s any consolation, injuries and surgery are only a 3 or 4 on the scale of 10 for pain. Count your blessings, it could have been so much worse.

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

You’ll still have hairy knuckles if they use your butt skin ? ..HA HA Well… At least you still have a scene of humor. Hope everything turns out better than you expect and my prayers are with you. And please let us know how everything goes.

-- - " If you want square work, You don't cut corners. " - -- Tom Goodman, Santa Maria, CA. woodworkertom@gmail.com

Sorry bud. I haven’t been bit yet and I hope never to be, but…... if I do I hope I am as strong and humourous like you. Best of luck with your recovery!

-- "Safe woodworking isn't just about avoiding injury, it is also about avoiding extinction." CKG

Best wishes on a speedy recovery, and a big THANK YOU for posting this.

Even though we all know this can happen, we all need reminders from time to time. It could have been any one of us.

Me – I’m saving my pennies for a SawStop… and I hope it DOESN’T make me complacent once I get used to it.

Rodd, wow, sorry to hear about this…a sobering reminder to us all. I hope you recover quickly. Take care.

-- Martin, Kansas

Sorry about your accident. I had a similar accident 15 or so yrs ago. Taught me a good lesson and I consider myself lucky. Since then I am super carefull and have added a few steps that make sure I’m concentrating on the cut properly and think about what can go wrong before starting the cut.

Unfortunately I still don’t have any feeling at the tips of a couple of fingers on my right hand. I hope you fare better.
Now I have a full set of feather boards and push sticks!!

That is a hard way to learn safety. Hope your hand heals well enough to be nearly fully functional. IT IS A GOOD REMINDER TO THE REST OF US TO BE CAREFUL!

Pictures like that always remind of the old “sick” joke about sliding down a banister and having it turn into a razor. Just makes you shudder to think about it.

-- Les B, Oregon

Sorry to hear about this accident! Would a push stick of prevented this accident? I’m not criticizing, just trying to learn from your troubles. Would a push stick or block prevented this do you think?

-- "That which has in itself the greatest use, possesses the greatest beauty." - Unknown Shaker

Get well soon…

-- /\/\/\ BarryW /\/\/\ Stay so busy you don't have time to die.

Sorry to hear about this aldente. It is an unfortunate reallity, that in the shop accidents (preventable) do happen to the best of us. Anyway if on your road to recovery you need help in the shop gimme a call, i should be able to give you a hand…(sorry cringeing it was a bad joke)
peace out!

-- mwm! Before you criticise walk a mile in their shoes, and when you do criticise you will be a mile away and have their shoes!

Sorry to hear about your accident. Get well soon and get back in the shop.

I have a Sawstop and it does not make me complacent. The extra step of switching it on and waiting on it to run it’s safetly checks before starting the saw reminds me to think and pay attention to what I’m doing.

-- Darell, Norman, Ok.

I just want to know if you hollered “Golly I wish I hadn’t done that”? I know when I do something self destructive and stupid thats what I holler, usually loud enough for the preacher next door to hear.

All kidding aside, hope your the last on this site for something like this to happen to.

I read somewhere recently; tablesaw accidents “at home” send 30,000 folks to the emergency room each year!!! Please everyone be careful. I know I harbor a real terror of mine. I think I’ll start calling it the mangler.

-- Measure three times, cut twice.

I hope you recover soon.

-- Héctor-----Me rio yo del de bricomania ( es un programa que dan en españa)

think positive good luk

I feel so sorry about your accident, & I wish you a rapid recovery.

Let this be a lesson for all of us!

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Rod, you have my deepest sympathies on your injury. OUCH is certainly an understatement!! I just hope that you get back in the shop soon. Your post will undoubtedly serve as a reminder to help prevent this from happening to several of us here but I agree with your Sawstop recommendation wholeheartedly.

Thanks for sharing this and I wish you a speedy recovery.

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

I`m sorry to hear about this. I wish you a quick recovery.
This reminds me to slow down and pay more attention.
All the best.
There is no telling how many responses you will get. This hits home with all of us.

-- ''Carry on my wayward son''

Ah Man, sorry to read about your accident. Hope you heal soon!

-- Pie

Been there. Done that! Luck was with me howerver and I still have all 10! These are hard lessons to learn and most folks think…. It won’t happen to me…. It’s the other guy or gal that’s gonna get hurt. Thanks for posting a much needed reminder. Wishing you a speedy recovery and safe returns to the shop.

-- I love the smell of sawdust in the morning....

Heal quickly and good luck with your surgery.

-- Ron,R.A.Shepard Woodworking,Massachusetts

So sorry and I vaguely feel your pain.

I’ve seen a lot of accidents and everytime I read something like your posting the memories flood back.

Good Luck

-- http://www.furnituremann.ca/

WOW! That was hard to even read. I pray that all will turn out fine and you’ll get back to making sawdust. I sometime get to relaxed around the saws. Things like this keep me aware of how dangours these are. Thanks for the post. You must be a pretty good right handed typer.

-- Watch live video from our shop. http://wwbeds.com/live.htm

hope you heal up fast

-- Joe, Ga

Thank You all for your concerns. It is a very costly lesson. And yes push sticks and blocks would have prevented this from happening. I was just in a hurry, talking with my wife (she was standing right there when it happened) and had already become complacent. You know, been in a shop since I was little, “awe I’ve never been cut in the shop”. What a fool I am. One good thing my wife says we’ll need to take a good look at saw stop. She knows I won’t let this keep me out of the shop. Once again Thank You all for your concerns and as Norm says, “let’s take a minute and talk about shop safety”. I’ll post the outcome as I have the results. Anybody know the best way to get blood off the table saw, Without hurting the top?

-- Rodd, Texas grandpa

Good luck this morning at the surgeons.My prayers are with you.

-- Dustygirl..Hastings,Ontario.. How much wood can 1 gal chuck if 1 gal can't cut wood?

Ouch that had to hurt. Take care of yourself. Get well soon.

-- There is no such thing as a mistake. Its called a design modification Rick Kruse, Grand Rapids, MI

Been there. Glad to see you’ve still got a sense of humor about the whole thing. That’s what’ll get you through. As i recall, the vicodan was fun…but the pain lasted WAY longer than the perscription did!

Now you have joined a pretty elite fraternity you know.

There are lots and lots of idiots just like me (and you) who have lopped off a piece or two. You’ll be walking through the grocery store, or whatever, and see some guy with fingers that you need decimal points to count. You’ll make eye contact and smile knowingly, then raise your hand a smidge and say “table saw”. He’ll smile back and say “Metal stamper”, or whatever. You’ll both shake your head and smile.

Sometimes, if you’re sitting on a bench outside of “Bath and Body Works” FOR LIKE A WEEK while the Mrs. gets a new tub of arm pit grease or whatever they buy in there, it’ll even make you a new friend. It happened to me!

Besides, my 7 year old thinks it’s hilarious when I SIMULATE picking my nose with the stump. It really looks like i’m itching my brain. LOL

-- POST NUBILA SOL - After clouds sunshine

Sorry to hear about your injury. Best wishes for the coming surgery and much-needed healing!

My last ‘close-call’ was very similar (last weekend). I was cutting a thin strip on my TS and the piece shot backward from under my hand embedding itself in a cedar post. Knew it was too thin not to use a block but my “invincibility’ gene had taken over. A graphic reminder helps send the message home, at least to me. I think I want to be able to use all my fingers to hold my new grand-baby (2 wks old).

Push-sticks, feather boards, stand to the side, TS off, wait, repeat as necessary.

-- The name is "Splinter"... I'm the son-of-a-son-of-a-carpenter

I’m much like Woodbutcherer except I also lost about a third of the middle finger. It was also a tablesaw kickback. It really slows down the progress of playing fretted instruments.

I pray you heal quickly.

Charlie Mullins

-- God makes the wood beautiful--I simply rearrange it to make it more useful, hopefully.

I lo t pa t of my middl fing r also. Now wh n I type I le ve out a lett r here or th re.

Good luck with the healing, hope you have a speedy recovery. You are now an
EXPERIENCED Woodworker.

ouch, I bet that hurt…...is the purple heart OK? I’m sure all the others are wondering…...I’m fortunate to have all my fingers, but I’ve had to look to make sure a few times. Speedy recovery….........yoda

ouch ouch ouch….. sorry to hear about the accident, but glad to see you’re taking it well.

hope you have a quick recovery, and thank you for sharing this with us all. as always, it’s important to keep reminding ourselves what these machines can do.

peace, and health

-- When in doubt - There is no doubt - Go the safer route.

This is my biggest concern when i am using the saw. i have had some kick backs and they where not fun. My prayers go out to you for a quick recovery.

-- Nick , North Carolina

Get well soon, god’s speed.
Thanks for the reminder.

Been there, my first project after my accident was to make 4 push sticks. Three of them I use and the forth one, after inscribing the date of the accident, hangs ion top of my saw/router area as a remainder.

Get back on the horse as soon as you are of the drugs…even if it is hand sanding some old project. Get better.

-- Zipsss

The only good thing about pain you can’t remember it. If you could remember pain there would not be any more children born.
Get well soon.

-- Dominic, Trinity, Florida...Lets be safe out there.

So sorry about the accident. I hope the recovery goes as easily as possible for you.

-- Check out my new website! http://www.blakeweberwoodworking.com

Best of luck on your recovery.

Any pictures without the bandage? (They are more convincing of the fact you should use safety appliances.)

-- He said wood...http://hickbyassociation.blogspot.com/

Ouch. My heart goes out to you. Been there myself. Lost the top half of my left middle finger to a regular TS blade 12 years ago. Take care and know we are all thinking of you.

Mart

Hang in there buddy. I just got a new table saw for Christmas, so it definitely makes an impression on me. Get well soon…

Have a speedy recovery, and thanks for the reminder.

Ouch, I hope it will recover quickly.
You can’t be safety enough, but if it has to happen, it will happen.
You told about your dad he also had an accident, and now it’s your turn.
My grandfather lost 50years ago 2/3 off his right index-pointer finger on a panelsaw.
My father lost 6 years ago on his job a part of his pointer finger from the top to the knuckle on a mitersaw when he was cutting aluminium.
And 4years ago (is was 22 then) it was my turn on my job. I didn’t lost any fingers but I hit with the top of my pointerfinger and middle finger the blade on a panelsaw when I was sawing veneer. When the blade was a little bit higher, I certainly lost the tops of those two fingers.
I hope you’re not scared now of using a tablesaw or any woodworking machine that can hurt you badly.

Oh Brother! You are in our prayers. Hope you are back on the horse soon.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Best wishes and a speedy recovery and thanks for sharing with all of us what could happen when not focusing on the job at hand, no pun intended…Blkcherry

This and your comment brings up an interesting point. I understand how the saw stop works, been through the videos and demos and such. Has anyone tested such a setup with a dado blade? Would it actually stop a dado (I’m sure it would still yank the blade down, but how about stopping that much greater mass)? Is there any chance that it would be scattering lots of shrapnel (from the aluminum block that stops the blade) with a dado blade?

-- "Find out what you cannot do and then go do it!"

Wow, what a reminder to all of us…....... thanks for sharing and best wishes on a quick recovery.

-- Gene, Majestic Eagle Woodworks, http://majesticeagleww.etsy.com/, http://www.flickr.com/photos/majesticeagle/

Wow, that has to hurt, get well soon!

-- //FC - Round Rock, TX - "Experience is what you get just after you need it"

EEngineer, Saw Stop actually has a cartridge for use with a dado blade. It does do the job just as the single blade cartridge does. I work for woodcraft and we’ve done both cartridge demos. Now all I have to do is buy one for myself. I do believe there was some divine intervention at work here. This could have been so much worse. And again I thank You all for your comments and concerns. It’s comforting to know there are people who truly care about a total stranger. And as my wife says I am totally strange. LOL.

-- Rodd, Texas grandpa

I hope you have a speedy recovery – that can’t be a picnic. While using his dado blade, my brother did a similar thing to his left middle (driving) finger and lost two phalanges.

-- Measure twice, cut once, bang into place

AAAAhhhhhheeeeee! I just became alot more safety conscious.
Dado blades seem to be the one of the most dangerous TS accessories I hear of alot of accidents from them and victmis all seem to say the same thing; it happened so fast there was no time to react. Best wishes on a full and speedy recovery.

-- DocK, WV

I just remembered a kick back many years ago. I don’t remember exactly what I was doing, but I know it was a rip cut and I was concerned. I made sure to stand to the side. That was a lucky move!! The board ejected from the table saw with unbelievable force and slamed into the work bench along the wall.

I bought a Dado blade for my saw 5 yrs + ago. I’ve never had the nerve to use it. I probably never will now. Two rips and a good chisel or a router will probably be the way it gets done around these parts.

The wedding band in the pic reminds me of a plumber who barrowed my dikes to cut one off when i was a 1st or 2nd year apprentice. He had hung up on a nail. He wanted to cut it off because the Dr’s would stew over it wondering what to do before they reset his dislocated finger. I took my ring off and never wore another, but I’m out in the world every day, not in a cube going out to the shop once in a while.

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

Ow, thanks for posting, this and your other thread… hope you heal well. Makes me want a sawstop as well, just looking at them.

-- Ned - 2B1ASK1 http://nedswoodshop.blogspot.com

Thanks for posting and I’m so sorry for your loss and pain. I’ve been concerned around tablesaws for 20 years now. This past year I finally bought a workshop topped off with a house. I didn’t think twice when it came time to buy my very first cabinet saw. Bought the SawStop, it was very expensive and I’m no less cautious using this saw than any other. I really think that it’s possible for any of us to make a mistake that costs fingers or worse. So my first and probably last cabinet saw has that secondary safety feature to put an additional layer of protection between me and my future mistakes.

Be well and heal well.

-- Greg, CT

Just like the fatal car wrecks that happen within a couple miles from our house. Respect your tools because they could care less if you have the needed fingers to use and abuse them. Just ordered a Grizzly saw tonight and this makes me want to cancel the order for the saw stop. I watched a youtube video earlier and those machines are amazing, but expensive. Get back at it and if you end up with a shorty, maybe you can retro one out of curly maple (my preference) or your choice of lumber. Don’t forget to charge the customer for the offset fees. LOL.

Regards

Ouch! Get well soon.

-- Mws

That sucks. I had something similar happen to me, but as luck would have it not even a scratch. I run the scenario through my head time and time again and recognize there were 2 or 3 things I should have done differently that could have prevented it from occurring. Fortunately it only ruined the project and not my hand(s).

Good luck with the recuperation.

-- Just 'cause a cat has kittens in the oven, it don't make 'em biscuits.

I’m really sorry about your accident and I hope your recovery goes smoothly.
It does remind me I should be using my safety equipment more. I’ve started to get my hands closer to the blade than they should be – rushing too much.
Roger

-- Roger Gaborski, http://www.gaborski.com

Quick Recovery my man. Hope the surgery goes well and you heal quick. Thank you for posting this. We all need saftey reminders.

Good luck! Hpoe you get better quick

-- projects dont pay,pieces are profitable,production is painfull

Thanks for sharing. It’s important to have reminders like this every once in a while. Recently my fingers have come closer and closer to the blade of my mitre saw. From now on, it’s one foot or more. Promise.

Hope for a speedy recovery for you!

-- Carpent! And thou shalt be saved....

Just saw this. I hope you are well into your recovery and the pain has subsided. I wish you well.

OUCH…..... brings back vivid memories of 32 years ago. Can’t believe I missed this post. Hope your surgery went well and you are getting along fine. Keep us posted on your healing and hope you get back to the shop soon.

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

i just watched the sawstop clip. all i can say is WOW. i think it should be mandatory that all table saws being manufactured today have this technology, it would save a lot of fingers thats for sure, i once let go of the triger on my electric hand plane and for some reason i put my hand in under befor it stoped spinning and took a chunk out of the top of my finger. so i know how easy a mistake can be made(what was i thinking)??? i wasen’t! it only takes a second of lost concentration on what you are doing to pay for the rest of your life.

get well soon Aldente

and to all you other jocks play safe

-- a truly wise man never plays leap frog with a unicorn

Very sorry to know this and wish you a speedy recovery.

I too had an incident like Tyson’s and even though only nicked my pinkie, it hurt for almost 2 months.

-- - Ajay

Aldente, I hope you are recovering, please post a new blog to remind us to be safe. I have two fiends with hand injuries and I know it takes a long time to get back to the point that it is easy to work.

-- Garysharp "When sharpening woodworking tools, good enough,...isn't" “Your life’s complete only when your knowledge passes on”.

I’m a nurse that has seen these type of injuries. It has been a while, what does it look like now? Hopefully a lot better!

-- Skillet, Louisiana

Peroxide works on clothes when getting blood out, Never tried it on the saw top. Thank God I haven’t been cut yet with the power tools, NOW hammers on the other hand. L.O.L. It’s a wonder I still got any fingers left. One accident that always comes to mind when I hear of someone else’s misfortune. I was on a ladder and trying to drive a header into place with a hand sledge hammer and swinging in an upward motion as hard as I could swing it and on the last swing I missed the board and nailed myself right between the eyes, split my pumkin right into, blood everywhere the wife was freaking out But being a hard headed Irishmen I told her just pinch it together and put some gray majic on it but first get me a beer I’m done for the day L.O.L. So accidents do happen everyone just needs to be careful, Good luck and a speedy recovery and keep them thar fingers in tact and keep making that saw dust.