3 reasons to be careful

[Steve77]

I read posts here constantly but rarely post. Most folks here make my experience seem rather humble. I enjoy the advice around here from the well seasoned. This time I have some advice founded in a hard lesson learned.

I injured a few fingers pretty badly about a week ago. I consider myself a very safety conscious person. I worked many years in the construction trades and never had any serious injuries. I even worked 4 years building log homes and running a chainsaw sometimes while balancing 40 feet in the air on icy logs. Some of the jobs I've done are inherently dangerous, but I have always done them with safety in mind. I have had a few close calls and witnessed some others over the years, but they have caused me to be more cautious and watchful.

Last week, I bought a cheap used lawn tractor to fix up for a friend. The deck was in bad shape, so I found some parts and repaired it over several over several days as the parts came in. I had noticed that the safety switch for the mower deck engagement had been disabled by some previous owner. That was during one of the first days I worked on it. I planned on fixing it later, before using the mower. Big mistake! I work on lots of projects at one time and sometimes the details slip my mind. I should have fixed it immediately. Once I had everything assembled, I test drove it and noticed the tiresrubbing on the mower deck while turning. I left the mower running, got off the seat and grabbed the deck to see if it was loose! That spit second of complacency cost me 3 fingertips. I know some will think it will never happen to them and that I was just careless, I understand. Many of my friends were shocked that this happened to someone as cautious as I USUALLY am.

I'm doing well, I really haven't missed a beat with the exception of doing most things very slowly while trying to adjust to having 3 fingers heavily bandaged. Obviously I can't do everything I'd like right now, but once things are healed up I will hardly notice.

I will post a couple pictures showing the fingers after medical treatment. Also I'll post links to the aftermath before they tried to patch them up. My fingernails are white from spray painting a welding project. I wish I had cleaned them up with some paint thinner before the accident, now I'm stuck with it until it wears off. And it ain't wearing off fast enough under the bandages. Kinda like when mom said to put on clean underwear in case you were in an accident, and someone seen your dirty skivvies.

Take care to make things safe as soon as possible while doing the things you love. I was lucky, I am right handed and injured the left, and I missed the index and thumb. It could have been far, far worse. Thank God, it was nothing more serious. I don't take it lightly but I have a sense of humor about it. My friends and I have laughed about every joke and pun about stubby fingers that we could come up with!

Without further ado, some obligatory photos!

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[Steve77]

If you have a weak stomach or are eating lunch, don't click these links, they are somewhat gruesome. These are from before surgery.
http://s1310.photobucket.com/user/andrin77/slideshow/Sale/fingers

[M-Tecs]

Thanks for the reminder safety first!!!!!!!!!! Hope they heal OK.

[Steve77]

Thanks for the reminder safety first!!!!!!!!!! Hope they heal OK.
That is my biggest concern. I want them to heal up with no further amputations. Right now they are almost full length, but an infection could lead to cutting them shorter if not taken care of quickly. The trouble is that it is hard to keep them clean and washed without living in a bubble.

[smoked turkey]

Sometimes I have to learn things from the school of hard knocks. This time I have made a mental note to myself to learn this one from someone else. I sure don't want to go there! So sorry about your mishap. I know it was bad but I will be positive like my wife, and say it could have been worse. I pray you will heal up quickly.

[Steve77]

Sometimes I have to learn things from the school of hard knocks. This time I have made a mental note to myself to learn this one from someone else. I sure don't want to go there! So sorry about your mishap. I know it was bad but I will be positive like my wife, and say it could have been worse. I pray you will heal up quickly.
Thanks! I am really surprised at how little it hurts(as long as I don't bump it). It really hasn't been that bad, I would have expected it to be more traumatic mentally, but I never got stressed or upset about it. Just a bit disappointed in myself for doing something stupid.

[runfiverun]

I don't think that is gonna buff out.

your gonna feel those for a long, long time.

[starmac]

I feel for you, and they will be tender for a long time, especially in cold weather.

On the bright side, this would probably win the prize if you posted in the (what not to run over with your lawn mower thread).

[bullseye67]

Best of luck with the recovery part. I have done a couple of stupid things....learned some valuable lessons about wear work boots when tearing down a fence, nail in foot. The worst was I had boots on all morning and after lunch loading up the boards just slipped on runners, all the unsafe stuff was done....missed a nail and only one nail....right through the shoe and into the foot. One Tetanus shot later.....and limp for a week. Another was casting. I set the ingots on a hot plate to pre warm them so the pot doesn't loose heat. I was all done casting everything all cleaned up when I spotted the last couple of ingots on the NOW unplugged hot plate....just so everyone is aware lead holds heat for quite a while....a blister on thumb and finger. And. Yes. I felt really, really stupid when I did it. Not as sever as loosing finger tips, but a wake up call.

[NavyVet1959]

A know a few old time woodworkers who have lost finger tips from table saws because of no blade guard and not using a push stick.

I don't use a blade guard either and I'm not as diligent at using a push stick as I should be, but *so far*, I still have all my fingers.

[Greg S]

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That ring and pinky finger are going to be tender for a few years bumping stuff. It'll be magnified in cold weather. Keep them clean and get those aluminum finger splints and tape them on at the base of the finger so the cage extends out past the end to protect them from direct bumbs.

The guard I'm talking about looks something like this cut long so there is a 3/8"-1/2" gap from the tip of the finger to the end of the guard.

[Steve77]

That ring and pinky finger are going to be tender for a few years bumping stuff. It'll be magnified in cold weather. Keep them clean and get those aluminum finger splints and tape them on at the base of the finger so the cage extends out past the end to protect them from direct bumbs.

The guard I'm talking about looks something like this cut long so there is a 3/8"-1/2" gap from the tip of the finger to the end of the guard.

I have custom molded plastic ones from the hand surgeon that I wear almost constantly. I took them off while driving on a long road trip this weekend and whacked them on the gear shift lever while turning. Needless to say, it woke me right up.

[Steve77]

A know a few old time woodworkers who have lost finger tips from table saws because of no blade guard and not using a push stick.

I don't use a blade guard either and I'm not as diligent at using a push stick as I should be, but *so far*, I still have all my fingers.
I honestly have never used a table saw with guards. But I do use push sticks and keep my blade as low as possible to minimize the exposed blade. I built custom trim for many years during my career and have cut up many thousands of feet of lumber into narrow pieces. Made it through all that unscathed, but I was no match for the mower.

[darril]

Really compelling reasons!

[bayjoe]

Best wishes to you man. Just looking at those fingers make me cringe

[44man]

There is a powder, made from pig bladders if I remember. Put on fingers like that and they will grow back to normal. Why docs do not use it escapes me. Sometimes a finger tip will grow back, I have one that hit a jointer blade. It grew back and is normal. No loss of feeling or anything.
They used the powder to grow leg muscles after IED's ruined our warriors.
I learned the hard way too and now use the tools right.

[Lead Fred]

When your butt got off the seat while its running, the engine should have died.
Someone disconnected the safety switch. Someone should not have taken short cuts
now you have short cuts for life.

[southpaw]

Sorry to hear about this. Most of the mowers that I have used have had the switches played with. I always turn the deck off then turn the mower off if I am putting any part of me close to the sharp spiny things. They always concerned me. I know how brain farts work and glad that it wasn't any worse than this.

Jerry Jr.

ps My daughter is going to like your pics ( she is weird like that). Then she is going to call her brother over who doesn't like stuff like this.

[jcwit]

I bet you will know about this for years, this is from someone who lost a finger tip in a punch press, and had 2 fingers sewed back on after getting them ripped out of my hand.

I learned a very good saying after these two accidents?????

Whenever you say to yourself "If I'm real careful I can doooooo this." STOP right there and put your mind into 1st gear.

[robg]

Ouch I bet that smarts .hope you recover OK .we all get complacent but luck runs out .

[44man]

I took the reverse switch loose from my old Yard machine, hated to stop blades to back up. But get off the seat and it will quit. My zero turn does not quit in any direction but just lean from the seat to pick a stick up and it will quit. To get off and keep the engine running means popping the drive lever down and stopping blades.
Machines don't care. Saws don't care. It is up to you.

[Hardcast416taylor]

A friend of mine was unplugging a full discharge chute on his snowblower 3 years ago. Luckily he was wearing a very heavy leather mitten. When he dug down to the thrower paddles he was struck on his left hand fingers since he left the machine running to save time. He only lost his index fingertip the feeling is very slowly returning in the other 3 fingers struck. He hasn`t used that snowblower since the accident.Robert

[white eagle]

Ouch man just shows ya you have to be on your game
at all times
sorry that happened to you hope you healing goes well

[Steve77]

I bet you will know about this for years, this is from someone who lost a finger tip in a punch press, and had 2 fingers sewed back on after getting them ripped out of my hand.

I learned a very good saying after these two accidents?????

Whenever you say to yourself "If I'm real careful I can doooooo this." STOP right there and put your mind into 1st gear.
I know exactly what you mean. I typically stop everything if something seems unsafe. I have shut down job sites until safety was at acceptable levels. I guess we are all human. Good reason to stay humble.

[opos]

For many years I've restored and run and displayed antique farm engines with the big flywheels, open gears, no safety features, etc. I'm older now...I don't mess with things that I can't "get away from" any more...Got a number of friends that always say "I didn't this or I didn't that"...I remind them to add the word "Yet" to the sentence...there is always next time and I'm old enough and sight, etc is marginal so I've changed many of my hobbies to things that probably won't bite as hard///"yet".

[Fergie]

Was working on my vehicle a few years back and was using a grinder to cut out some bushings on the rear suspension. I had ear plugs, welding gloves and a good face shield on...all the PPE I needed. The wheel caught, kicked back, and kit the tip of my finger. Cut through my gloves...I thought I was in for a filleted finger, but lucked out.

You can see the notch in my nail and how close it came to being a bad accident.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/bergferg/grinder%20nail_zps8uhtr1td.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/bergferg/media/grinder%20nail_zps8uhtr1td.jpg.html)


Sometimes, even the right gear and forethought can still be outmaneuvered by power tools.

[Steve77]

Was working on my vehicle a few years back and was using a grinder to cut out some bushings on the rear suspension. I had ear plugs, welding gloves and a good face shield on...all the PPE I needed. The wheel caught, kicked back, and kit the tip of my finger. Cut through my gloves...I thought I was in for a filleted finger, but lucked out.

You can see the notch in my nail and how close it came to being a bad accident.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/bergferg/grinder%20nail_zps8uhtr1td.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/bergferg/media/grinder%20nail_zps8uhtr1td.jpg.html)


Sometimes, even the right gear and forethought can still be outmaneuvered by power tools.
Grinders are pretty dangerous even when using properly. A cutting disc that comes apart at high speed sends shrapnel everywhere. Face arms and neck are hard to keep covered well enough to completely protect from the fragments. Some jobs are just plain dangerous.

[Hamish]

I give this thread one and a half thumbs up,,,,,,,,

175477

The ONE time I violated safety with a table saw.

Steve, you got off easy.

[NavyVet1959]

I give this thread one and a half thumbs up,,,,,,,,

175477

The ONE time I violated safety with a table saw.


Well, I see what your problem was... Pretty obvious... You're a *Mason*, not a *Carpenter*... :)

There have been way too many woodworkers with similar injuries.

[Harter66]

Knock on wood I've missed all the saws and mowers to date . I've been pretty fortunate with the nail guns too.

I ruined a good pair of pants with a chainsaw . I cut the wrong limb another popped and the saw went for my knee , the chain brake worked, it only took 14 stitches to close it up .

I load shipping conveyances and too often to close to fork lifts on too small spaces . Twice in 22 yr I've had a fork on my toes and twice good boots have saved my foot .

It is not just ourselves we have to watch out for , I have done enough things that half way through I was ya know this looked good on paper but umm no , you have to look out for that other guy whether they are 6" away or 6yr away because it's more likely that the last guy will hurt you than yourself . Look at all the bypassed switches here and all the lost balls through windows that are found with mowers .

It good to see a guy own up to that moment of lapse and be willing to remind us all to pay attention .

Good healing .

[Steve77]

[QUOTE=Harter66;3761798]Knock on wood I've missed all the saws and mowers to date . I've been pretty fortunate with the nail guns too.

I ruined a good pair of pants with a chainsaw . I cut the wrong limb another popped and the saw went for my knee , the chain brake worked, it only took 14 stitches to close it up .

I load shipping conveyances and too often to close to fork lifts on too small spaces . Twice in 22 yr I've had a fork on my toes and twice good boots have saved my foot .

It is not just ourselves we have to watch out for , I have done enough things that half way through I was ya know this looked good on paper but umm no , you have to look out for that other guy whether they are 6" away or 6yr away because it's more likely that the last guy will hurt you than yourself . Look at all the bypassed switches here and all the lost balls through windows that are found with mowers .

It good to see a guy own up to that moment of lapse and be willing to remind us all to pay attention .
A year or so out of High school I was working for a commercial construction company. On one particular afternoon I was building some small trusses with a nailer that started acting up. It would often fire an extra nail after the safety was released. I realized it was unsafe and asked the boss if there was another nailer to use, he told me to finish out the last half hour of the day with what I had and drop it off for repair on my way home. Well I didn't make it a half hour, within a few minutes, I shot my index finger to my middle finger with a 16 penny nail. That was the moment that taught me to trust my gut and work on anything that seemed unsafe.

[Plate plinker]

Sorry about your accident I had one to recently the NG at work smashed my finger tip with a 3lb hammer. :oops:

Almost over it after two weeks but still tingles when I whack it on something.

BTW those photos are cringe worthy. Bet you made fast time to the ER.

[DerekP Houston]

A know a few old time woodworkers who have lost finger tips from table saws because of no blade guard and not using a push stick.

I don't use a blade guard either and I'm not as diligent at using a push stick as I should be, but *so far*, I still have all my fingers.

Im uhm...guilty of removing the blade guards. This is making me rethink some of my safety precautions though. Hope the OP feels better as much as possible....wicked injury.

[kmw1954]

Steve77 sorry for your suffering.

I worked many years in industrial production maintenance, during that time we would have weekly safety meeting and yearly safety testing so it was pounded into us. Lifting, Fall protection, LOTO, HazMat, Safety Evacuation. Some of the systems we worked with was ammonia refrigeration and steam generators. With all that training 3 years before I left the company suffered a catastrophic fire and we lost 70% of the facility. Thankfully all that training paid off in that no one was injured and everyone got out. If interested look up Echo Lake Foods fire.

My worst accident occurred there while we were trying to repair a wall in a production freezer that has ice damage. We were trying to push a wall back into place with a 20ton porta-power jack. The jack and the push bar gave way under pressure. I was working the jack at the time. When it let loose it came around and hit me in the face sending me right to the floor. When I picked myself up to my knees I had blood pouring from both sides of my nose and was having trouble seeing. They rushed me to the ER and thankfully no broken bones and only a slight concussion. To this day I still have a red mark on the end of my nose where I was hit and that has been almost 5 years ago.

Good luck and heal quickly.

[NavyVet1959]

Im uhm...guilty of removing the blade guards. This is making me rethink some of my safety precautions though.

When I bought my "vintage" cast iron Craftsman table saw, it came with a blade guard in the box of extra parts, but I never bothered to install it. It just gets in the way for a lot of things that you need to do. I try to be extra careful and not get my hands near the blade. So far, I've succeeded and still have all my fingers.

[southpaw]

Showed the pics to my 6yo daughter. She liked them but the one that still had the parts hanging of she said was gross. She kept looking at it tho. She called her brother over to look at them but fell for that too many times already. I am hoping she becomes a doctor.

Jerry Jr.

[charlie3tuna]

Steve77 sorry for your injury. At the same time your humility in reporting this will serve as a warning to us (me) not to ignore "stupid" safety equipment.

My lawn mower almost got me once. Grass was wet and clogging up in the chute. Reached in bare handed to clear it. The blade just "kissed" my fingers, never broke the skin. I've carried a stick in my back pocket thereafter....charlie

[smokeywolf]

Steve77, thanks for jogging our consciousness of safety around moving/rotating machinery.

I'm a career engineer/machinist. Can't tell you how many times I've pulled a stuck part out of the collet in the spindle nose on a lathe, only to have it suddenly release and I stab my hand on a drill sticking out of the tailstock chuck. Every machinist knows that you remove the drill from the tailstock chuck before pulling a part stuck in the collet in the lathe. You know you're doing wrong, but tell yourself, "OH, the tailstock is backed off far enough. I can get away with this." Famous last words.

[leeggen]

Man I can feel your pain. I had a pair of electrical rubber gloves on and got my fingers caught in a peice of power equipment. Tore my little finger off at one of the joints. They sewed it back on but it is stiff at that joint. Glad you didn't lose any whole fingers, cuts sometimes wake us up to not do that again. We all do dumb things in the spur of the moment, most brain farts don't hurt but some do also. Lesson learned now move on and thanks for the wake up call.
CD

[Steve77]

Thanks for all the comments! I ran my brushhog today. I'll be honest, I had a hard time being anywhere near the PTO and the deck even when they weren't turning. I bumped and bashed my fingers on the steering wheel way to many times. They are pretty tender tonight.

[Geezer in NH]

Learned long time ago when the motor is running do Nothing to the machine.

Also a big hint do not pick up the push mower to trim the hedges bad idea, had that run, we did not find the fingers to take with the patient to the hospital.

[buckwheatpaul]

Steve you are so lucky....it could have been much worse and this lesson is well learned....I constantly warn people to wear chainsaw chaps when using a chainsaw as well as eye and ear protection.....thanks for the safety training brother.....Paul

[osteodoc08]

Prayers for a speedy recovery.

[Echo]

Makes my loss of a slice of index finger to my mandolin seem pretty trivial...

[woodbutcher]

Hi Steve.Wishing you the best for a speedy recovery.
Leo

[NavyVet1959]

Makes my loss of a slice of index finger to my mandolin seem pretty trivial...

Wow... That's some pretty hard core pickin'...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandolin

https://www.hixbrosmusic.com/Content/Images/uploaded/mando.jpg

And for some gratuitous eye candy...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auCYxVJ0w_g

[Ballistics in Scotland]

. I'll be honest, I had a hard time being anywhere near the PTO and the deck even when they weren't turning.

Does credit to your judgment. It looks like you will have all but one finger fully functional in time, which isn't too bad, considering. These things always look far less recoverable at the time than they really are.

When I poured hot tar over my hand they taped me into a glove with Flamazine ointment, and for three weeks I had to open it from time to time and pour out clear fluid. But I am convinced that it was to that kind of antisepsis and shrinkage-free healing that I now have only a faint tracery of scars, and no impairment of function whatever. It looked liked a washed-up shipwreck corpse when the time came for removal, but I have never seen anything heal so fast.

I was up all night running cold water over it before driving to the casualty department. It hurt like fury until I had removed the coating of tar, and a lot of skin with it, which constrained the blisters. Once that was done, though, it never again hurt in the slightest. Even the casualty department staff didn't believe that, and thought I was being tremendously brave.

During my two years of high school teaching in the mid-70s (we all make mistakes), I had a student drop something, and he said his fingers were numb where he cut them on the back of a bandsaw blade in the workshop. That sounded like circulation, so I told him to go back to the doctor, and they found that circulation was impaired by a cracked bone, and he had been saved serious trouble later. In a story he would be a model student and grateful to me forever. But he was an objectionable little brat with the finer feelings of a giant clam.
There is a special corner of the afterlife waiting for anybody who would sell a machine like this with a disabled switch, at least without giving the clearest of warnings to the buyer before he commits.

[A pause for the COZ]

Many things we do are inherently dangerous. Even the most cautious people can get in a hurry and a quick brain fart can cost them and their family dearly.
Lawn mowers and snow blowers are some of the worst brain fart body part collectors.
Just this weekend I met with my cousin who lost three fingers on his right hand trying to unplug a snow blower.
A couple years ago we lost a family friend in a horrible way. Husband was out baling hay most of the day. When he did not return to eat dinner.
The daughter was sent to go collect dad from the hay field. They found the baler running but no dad.
He had tried to clear a jam and got sucked into the machine. Had been running for hours.
Cant think of a worse image for a child to walk up onto.
The tools we use to make our lives easier can also end it in a instant.
Be careful out there! Some times you dont get a do over.

[Steve77]

Things are healing up slowly. The pinky isn't showing much progress, but the other 2 are visibly better. The pinky was pretty much burger though, so I am not surprised.

[725]

Sorry to read about the accident. I feel your pain, well, kind of. I lost part of an index finger to a radial arm saw. Luck a flight surgeon was on call and was able to gather the remaining parts into a pretty good functioning finger. My fault, really. Instead of doing what I should have been doing, I was stone cold sober making molding at 0100 Saturday night (I guess actually Sunday morning). Teach me to try and be productive. When the dog brushed by my leg I turned to look and WHAMMO. It was my trigger finger and the next day, Monday, I re-qual'd with shotgun, M-16 & revolver. Good I could shoot left handed! Hope you heal quickly.

[NavyVet1959]

When the dog brushed by my leg I turned to look and WHAMMO.

When I'm working with my table saw, I don't want *anyone* (or any animal either) around. Unfortunately, *sometimes* I need another set of hands (e.g. when ripping a long board) and I'm forced to ask for help. Unfortunately, when that help is my wife, she insists on making suggestions that I should do it some other way. Of course, she's always wrong and I just end up wasting 5 times as long explaining it why her suggestion is bad than it would take if she would just shut up and do what I tell her to do. And *then* she has the nerve to tell me that the "quick help" that I said that I needed ends up taking too much time! Aaaaauuuuuggggghhhhh!!!

[Whiterabbit]

Speedy recovery, Steve. A good reminder to us all, so thank you for swallowing pride and being the subject of the Safety Event you're highlighting.

Since you say you are taking it with humor (at this point), and have exhausted your "stubby" jokes..... looking at the images of your left hand...... any wedding ring jokes in the works?

[Steve77]

Speedy recovery, Steve. A good reminder to us all, so thank you for swallowing pride and being the subject of the Safety Event you're highlighting.

Since you say you are taking it with humor (at this point), and have exhausted your "stubby" jokes..... looking at the images of your left hand...... any wedding ring jokes in the works?
None yet. I was happy that the Doc got the ring off in one piece though!

[jonp]

Man, good lesson for all. When I whacked my fingers off with a chainsaw it was over before I knew it. Im not recommending this for you but I put Bag Balm on them every day after they were sewed back on and the therapist said she never saw anything heal so fast.

I also modified her finger bending contraption to keep the ligiments stretched with a few things including braided ice fishing line. She is still using my invention. I should have gotten a patent

[Plate plinker]

+1 bag balm is good stuff.

[jonp]

Wow... That's some pretty hard core pickin'...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandolin

https://www.hixbrosmusic.com/Content/Images/uploaded/mando.jpg

And for some gratuitous eye candy...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auCYxVJ0w_g
Kid at home made one of birdseye maple I think with cherry for his high school senior woodclass project. It was epic. Really unbelievable skill and beauty. Wish I had a picture.

[NavyVet1959]

Kid at home made one of birdseye maple I think with cherry for his high school senior woodclass project. It was epic. Really unbelievable skill and beauty. Wish I had a picture.

Peter Buck of R.E.M. played the mandolin in their "Losing My Religion" song. You can see it at 00:26 in this video:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLhD-h1LRQs

Maybe you were talking about a "mandoline" instead? :)

[lightload]

Thank you for sharing this experience. Let me say that I regret that it happened.
All of us can benefit from reminders. You are in my prayers.

Bill

[Steve77]

Still healing slowly. A few more stitches were removed, but then it opened back up some.

[koger]

Best wishes man, hope you heal up, will put you in our prayers!