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...where the moment you wake up you know the day is gonna be :ped! I was 15 min late to work to start off my morning... Oh and i very seldom work fridays as it is i normally work 4 10 hour days... So today was all OT for me... Well nothing goes right at work finally get things going in the right direction and i'm on the manual lathe making a spacer and a chunk of stringy metal that i just peeled off gets hung up in the chuck on the lathe whips around and smacks my hand... no biggie i thought its happened before never got hurt till now... always just a lil scratch and no blood... Well i got the blood today and a lot of it. It caught my left pinky finger and ripped it wide open... Took a chunk of meat about .5 inches wide an about 3/4 inches long off of my hand... Just barely hanging there... Never noticed it at first as it didn't hurt that bad... Finished up what i was doing looked at my hand and was like oh shit... Wasn't bleeding though so i thought that was odd... Walked over to my bench i work at turned around and noticed the trail of blood i left all over the floor... Musta lost a quart in the matter of a couple min... Went ot he first aid kit got it bandaged up got light headed about fainted which is odd for me blood don't bother me think i lost just enough my body could sense it... Drank a bunch of water and felt better about 15 min later so i kept on working... Was cool though i could flip the meat back and see the muscle under there....lol That wasn't even the best part boss walks up to me at 4 i get off at 4:30 and tells me i have to work on Saturday for 10 hours.... Needless to say tonight is a Beer Night for me!!! <burpppp>

Im a Tool and Die maker My present job has me working on LARGE lathes and grinders nothing under 10 inches in diameter and usually about 20 inches long up to 22 feet in length. I have had the same type of day many times.Also being the only one who knows how to run all of the machines I end up being their 8 days a week

Now the worst day i ever had.Setup an automatic screw machine.Had it running perfect.Reached in to grab a part as it was coming off and forgot about the last drill operation.Watched as a 1/8th drill went thru my hand and held it there untill it backed up because i didnt want to screw up my setup;( What made it even worse is the only other person working with me at the time didnt havea license and couldnt drive me to the hospital.Talk about a bad day!

Anyhow i just got off of work tonight and plan to drink 12-=18 beers myself As long as you still have ten fingers two eyes the day could not have been that bad

We don't have any machines that big... Biggest lathe will take up to 12ft long and the hole in the chuck is 5 inches diameter.... I mostly do manual stuff with the mills and lathes Haven't done much CNC but slowely learning... I was lucky i was on the small lathe but it was turning at 1200 rpm's so i'm sure that didn't help matters... lol We've got 2 manuals lathes 1 manual mill 4 CNC mills 3 inclosed 1 open for the real big stuff 1's a Haas and the rest are Mazak's... The newest one costs upwards of 650,000 dollars i think... Its a 4 axis and does some cool trick stuff... Very fast our boss is scared of that one cause its so fast. 3 CNC Lathes all Mazak... The big one is real old but it does its job. Have a big Quicky that will turn 5k i think... I've never played on that oen but all i know is it flat hauls some bootie. I am glad i have both eyes and all 10 fingers still it could have been worse but thank god it wasn't.

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I'm sure you know the drill, keep it clean, keep covered and soak it in cider. There's a diry joke in there somewhere. If you don't get it I'll tell you.

Yeah i'm gonna soak it in cider later d_b Well i'm gonna try at least... lol

What's strange (to me) about more serious injuries like that is that apparently pain is not really a factor, possibly a reaction due to shock?. Several years ago (like 7 maybe) I had an wedged exhaust pipe that I was prying on slip and it cut my hand bad between my thumb and finger. I looked, saw that it was very deep and several inches long so I knew I needed stitches right away, threw a rag over it holding pressure, walked into the managers office and told him I needed to go to emergency right away. I felt no pain at all until they stuck needles into the area to apply novicane before cleaning and stitching it up. After that I was OK but even the people at emergency looked squemish (grossed out)about it which seemed strange to me as you'ld think they must see worse things? My hand was bandaged up, wrapped up (at work) for a month after that as it's not easy trying to work on cars and keep a hand clean at the same time.

Dang man, be more careful. That really sux bad. I'm sure you were careful though.

Yeah i always play with safety with these things.... When you have a chuck thats the matter of a couple feet from ya spinning at 1200 rpm's there isn't much between you and the chunk of steel that your machining on... Evil i know what you mean its like the time my buddy ran a Oxy/acetylen(sp) torch across my arm.... I didn't know anything had happened and i had skin peels and bare flesh exposed. didn't feel nothing until i seen him turning green all he could do was point couldn't even say oh shit look at your arm he was speachless... I was like cool ran to the first aid kit grabbed the burn cream and mile of qauze and off to the ER we went... felt nothing till they was poking at it and cutting away the dead skin then i felt that... Just one of those days... The beers done its job tonight and i'm going to bed My fingers sore but not seriously in pain now... now in the morning when i pust out the antiseptic spray and wrap it again.... You might just hear me screamin' like a lil bitch! lol I'll just be glad when tomorrows over and i can die for the rest of saturday and all day sunday! And someone better post some good stuff in the FS forum i'm gonna have 30 hrs OT on this check and won't know what to do with the spare cash... Klipsch 5.1's and a GTXP are sounding very good right about now hehe or maybe a GF4 ti4200....

I was just kidding about soaking it cider. I did that once and got a yeast infection.

My dad just broke his finger on a lathe at work. Don't know exactly what happened but he hit something where it smacked his finger, bent it around his other fingers and nearly broke it off, right below the knuckle. He had to get plates and shit in it and he doubts he'll be able to use it again...

LOL d_b...

is that nething like slaming your pointing finger in a 92' chevy s1500 ? that sucked big time when that happend to me


i have cut my hand on a lathe before ... was nething like what happened to you all though



its funny how antiseptic sprays and all that med stuff hurts more then the actual gettting cut or whatever lol

At the urging of my sister I stuck my index finger in an electic beater once. My dad had to cut the beaters off my finger. It was pretty cool, the skin was indented to the bone but not cut. Now my index finger curves in towards the middle finger.

Soooo , what are you saying ? You're pointing at your middle finger

BTW, I'm still here

Originally posted by d_b_Stalker
Soooo , what are you saying ? You're pointing at your middle finger

BTW, I'm still here

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!! Wanna see my shiney white butt in the window? I heard theres a full moon out tonight.